Jenjie

its one of the poilte ways of doing things over here. My impression is that its something to do with when you reach a certain age, to show your maturity you have a partner rather than a girlfriend or boyfriend. doesn't bother me either way to be honest, it just seems excessively formal to introduce someone as 'my partner'

you seem to know alot about these!!! :stunned:

Looking for something else, I stumbled across this quiz. Found it quite interesting so thought I'd share. http://www.beliefnet.com/section/quiz/index.asp?sectionID=&surveyID=27 Apparently, I'm an Old-fashioned Seeker -- Happy with my religion but searching for the right expression of it

they live on the top shelf

churching as a verb is a term that was used in the middle ages. After giving birth, a woman was considered unclean until she had been churched. wikipedia has an interesting description http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churching_of_women

He's fractured a bone in his foot and needs approx 6 weeks to recover. World Cup is 6 weeks away........... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/4957970.stm

Sorry Billy, I'm not taking the mick out of you, more the media and their millions of articles about unusual baby names. Source of quote - http://www.starpulse.com

that reminds me of a random question I asked someone 9 years ago. :confused: it was kind of linked to a conversation we were having at the time, but you have to bear in mind that my brain tends to wander off on tangents which most other people find weird! :stunned: We were on the way to Wales and talking about the last time we were there, when one of the girls walked up to a cow at a gate and it licked her face. Which naturally led me to the question: Do cows french kiss?

(I temporarily moved this thread to the mods area last night whilst I considered the above post. I wasn't sure about the best approach to take. As we don't believe in censorship, I'm moving the thread back into the forum and am re-opening the debate. The below comment is nothing to do with the forum or any of the other mods or admins, its my personal view.) I find that last post extremely offensive. To compare the situation in the Middle East with the Holocaust is such an over-generalisation. During the Holocaust, Hitler set out to exterminate the entire Jewish race. He targeted every Jew in the coutnries his forces occupied and succeeded in killing 5 to 6 million of them. To compare Arabs to Nazis and suggest that they are now trying to carry out a similar thing is not backed by the events happening in the region. For a start, the Arab population of the area consists of Jews, Christians, Muslims, etc. The Arabs do not belong to any particular religion or country. The term is effectively the same as European. Its a general term. Secondly, its not an attempt to wipe out a particular people. It is two groups of people fighting over land which, as in a lot of things, is linked to religion. There are people being killed on both sides as each tries to gain the land that means something to them. Part of the problem is that both religions are based on the same foundations, feature similar characters, and have events which occured in the same places. Each considers the other to be an occupying force in its religious areas. Just reading the Wikipedia piece on "International Law & the Arab-Israeli Conflict" shows what a huge mess the whole thing is, and how difficult to untangle. I don't see that either side is right. Both sides have legitimate claims to the land going back thousands of years. They need to sit down and work out a solution that is as agreeable to both sides as possible.

Ice Age 2 - 6/10 Was quite funny, and enjoyed the story. hadn't seen the first one, but don't think it really mattered. loved the prehistoric squirrel to bits and think he should have a film all of his own

Have just started reading "We Need To Talk About Kevin"

dunno about kinky. call me traditional, stick-in-the-mud, whatever, but I thought Christmas was about the birth of Jesus, not bringing your Christmas presents to church and boasting about what you got.

That Sun page no longer exists, but this one is there instead http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006190735,00.html

16 months ago, went for the first time in ages, it was Christmas Day, and never again am I going to a family service. There's something morally wrong with a vicar in his cassock riding up and down the aisle astride a hobby horse.

Surely the Titney Spears boxset is better?

amazon.de aren't listing it yet :angry:

Congratulations pesky Chelski! Premiership Champions 2006

Its an absolute monstrosity. The closer you get to it, the worse it looks. The glass doesn't match, and isn't in any sort of pattern. Its one of the ugliest buildings I've seen in a long while.

Almost finished re-reading Theo's Odyssey, but in the meantime have read The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Euginides

Bon Jovi have become the first rock band to make it to number one in the US country music chart. Their song, Who Says You Can't Go Home, is a duet with Jennifer Nettles, lead singer of country band Sugarland. The track from Bon Jovi's album Have A Nice Day was inspired by the group's work with US homeless charity Habitat. The song recently won a Country Music Television award and has been nominated for an Academy of Country Music award for vocal event of the year. Bon Jovi have just returned from the Japanese leg of their world tour. The band have sold over 100 million albums worldwide over the past two decades and their Have A Nice Day tour has been on the road since November 2005. Their London gigs in June have been moved to the Milton Keynes Bowl because of building delays at Wembley Stadium, where the concerts were due to take place. http://www.bbc.co.uk

Oh good! today we reached our highest petrol price ever. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4950680.stm

I quite like this one, brings out my competetive side!!!!! :smug: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19846

Here's another reason to envy Gwyneth Paltrow: She just had another baby, and she's slimmer than ever. "Last time you saw me, I was out to here," the 33-year-old mother of Moses told friends at the Food Bank for New York City's Can-Do Awards dinner Tuesday honoring REM front man Michael Stipe. She put her hands out a foot in front of her - then patted her perfectly flat tummy. The lithe Gwyneth, in black slacks and jacket, sported open-toed heels with a matching dark maroon manicure-pedicure and a freshly highlighted ponytail. "He's so cute, he's so great," Moses' mom gushed while her husband, Coldplay's Chris Martin, posed with Stipe and kissed him on his forehead. "We have to get home soon," Martin told the honoree. When the It Couple had arrived at Chelsea's Pier 60, Martin asked Lowdown, "Could we sneak past?" on their way to an inconspicuous table, just as Stipe was accepting the award for his work on behalf of hunger relief. "Ooh, Michael is giving his speech," Paltrow cooed. Stipe seemed a tad sheepish about all the attention. "I come from a Christian background, and a lot of what I do I don't advertise or boast about," he told Lowdown. Before the program - which featured a musical tribute to Stipe by Patti Smith - he'd paced nervously in a hallway and did some calming deep knee-bends. The crowd included Jimmy Fallon, Helena Christensen, Thom Filicia, a mellowed-out Jann Wenner (just back from Bhutan with Bette Midler) and self-promoting moviemaker Michael Moore, who refused all photo and interview requests, apparently to enhance his air of mystery. Fallon was much more cooperative, getting temporarily blinded by television lights while a charity auction was underway. "I got lost, and while I was back there I bid $40,000 on a big bin of toilet paper," he quipped. http://www.nydailynews.com

tell me about it!!! we're at some of our most expensive petrol levels ever, and have some of the most expensive petrol in the world. its likely to go higher as well http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4941262.stm and poor BP only made £3bn of profit last year, which was 4% down on the previous year. boo hoo! Interesting article on "Oil & Conflict"

Two suicide bombers attacked security personnel and foreign peacekeepers in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, but did not cause any injuries to their targets. The first bomber blew himself up as members of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) were passing in a car. A second attacker on a bicycle tried to detonate his bomb near a police car which had gone to the scene. The attacks come two days after a triple bombing on the Sinai resort town of Dahab, which killed 23 people. The MFO is an independent peacekeeping force which has been stationed in Sinai since 1982, following the Egypt-Israeli peace deal. The attacks took place near the MFO headquarters at el-Gorah, about 35km (22 miles) from the Mediterranean city of Arish. Multiple attacks Two international observers, one from Norway and the other from New Zealand, were on board the first vehicle with an Egyptian customs officer and an immigration office, officials said. The second attack, targeting a police vehicle, occurred about three-quarters of an hour after the first, officials added. There has been no claim of responsibility. The Dahab attack resembles past bombings blamed on Sinai-based militants who have bombed two other tourist resorts in the last 18 months. The same group is suspected of a bomb attack that injured two Canadians near the el-Gorah base in August 2005. There are also unconfirmed reports of an incident at a police checkpoint on the mainland in the Nile Delta region. Unidentified gunmen reportedly opened fire on a police post north-east of Cairo, a security official was reported by AFP news agency as saying. http://www.bbc.co.uk