Rick_B

It's not just me or members of the moderating team, others are getting increasingly pissed off that every thread is hijacked by a little clique posting the same self-indulgent crap. There isn't much point in making nominations if every one degenerates into abuse almost immediately.

Even by the standards of some of the posts here it was racist. Now how about we leave the inter-member acrimony to the Open Corner and cut this crap, which has nothing at all to do with the original nomination, out. Sorry if this this curtails your "hilarious" sense of humour.

Don't blame the drivers though, blame the fact that Uber seems to be able to circumvent May's phoney "living wage" and exploit the self-employed loophole.

You are Paula Radcliffe and I claim my five pounds.

Presumably if he had mushrooms with it as well it would be a breakfast of champignons.

Whatever you think of Corbyn I believe he is a genuine socialist and really does care about what is happening to so many people in this country right now. Unfortunately he has become party leader at the wrong time, too late really. With the electorate obsessed with the EU and immigration and the Tories having pulled the same stunt with May that they did when Major replaced Thatcher, sadly nobody is listening to his message. I really don't know what he can do to be heard right now, but those who think that all would be well if he were to be replaced by another Blairite are deluded.

Heard on train in North Wales American tourist to fellow American tourist "Wales is my favourite part of England".

It's worth pointing out that iranpoliticsclub.net, which is where that comes from, is an extreme right-wing anti-Islam site. As such the authenticity of that photograph is questionable.

Bradford?

Almost certainly not, the research by Dr Andrew Wakefield has been pretty much discredited. A substantial drop in children getting the MMR vaccine in the UK was down to that master of obfuscation The Reverend Blair who refused to confirm or deny that his own kids had received separate vaccines privately rather than being given the NHS jab.

Yes, Mark Brzezicki, Geoff Whitehorn and of course Gary Brooker.

Guantanamo Bay is a gift to terrorists like ISIS and should really be renamed the Islamist Terrorist Recruitment Centre. Nobody knows how many of the people put in this revolting modern day concentration camp really were a threat to us, but it's a pretty good bet that some were and some weren't. You can't claim to occupy the moral high ground when you torture people held without trial and you can't call your country the land of the free either when freedom can be taken away on a whim, not even if bizarrely you rename chips Freedom Fries. Obama was unable to deliver fully on his promise to close it because of the way the American political system works, and with the Orange Buffoon in charge it isn't going to happen any time soon. We will all pay the price.

Feeling better now?

I like the fact that it takes both his arms and a leg to counterbalance his gut.

I've not done that since the days of the old forum, when nuking a load of the spammers that plagued the site at that time one Saturday morning I accidentally did just that.

I think mine is about 15 years old.

You're all jealous of my luxury bottom of the range Casio chronograph. http://s7ondemand4.scene7.com/is/image/Signet/2492806?$detail745$

Yesterday's press conference was astonishing and embarrassing. I mean what a clown, everything is going wonderfully, there are no problems, anyone disagreeing with me is lying.

Fixed.

Brings back memories of Birds Eye's short lived mini-pizzas. In my microwave using their timings they actually caught fire, but were still frozen in the middle.

I often wondered what happened to Siouxsie Sioux.

The prof is banned, her rather obvious alter-ego isn't and just seemed to stop posting suddenly. I don't know why.

Certainly the hard right like to pretend that this country has been run, and indeed ruined, by successive left wing liberal governments. Quite how they convince themselves of this is unclear. I mean: Thatcher - sent the country lurching to the right, mass privatisation, virtually destroying trade unions, tax cuts for the rich etc. Major - continued Thatcher's work, albeit ineptly whilst being stabbed in the back by his own party. Blair - promised change, delivered more of the same - privatisation, war etc. Brown - good at making speeches at the Labour Party conference, rubbish at pretty much everything else. Cameron - a government of privately educated millionaires screwing the poor and sick whilst looking after the well off. May - intent on turning us into the pro-Trump capital of Europe. Or ex-Europe as the case may be. Those bloody lefties eh, time to take our country back from them.