Well slap me round the face with William Wallace's sweaty sporran!! I do wholeheartedly apologize to you Juliet! Thank you very much for your sweet reply. I appreciate the nice words. As for what you Canadians wish to do with your future well I will support you fine folks whatever you decide. It's your business after all and the majority wins. Same with Australia. No doubt in time when both countries have even further history between being a British colony and being their own independant nations, you will find yourself eventually becoming a Republics. LOL, probably as soon as Prince Charles take over the monarchy.

Hehe, good one mate. Forget what I said earlier. You're ok. Hehe this is what should be done to Mel Gibson. Big Dan will like this too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RCvdm8-vTM&feature=related

Yeah you're right. I tried to not be too harsh to him after as he didn't seem to be saying anything bad. It was just the 'I saw it in a movie' thing. Quite right. I don't think there is any country in the world without any skeletons in the closet, although I'm not so sure about Switzerland. Good to hear that. Those in the minority tend to shout and scream the loudest unfortunately so you can get a wrong perspective when you listen to them. I say scrap politicians and let rock stars run the planet.

Amanda Lamb (English t.v presenter in her late 30s).

I thank ye, my friend. I couldn't agree more. I was trying not to be too harsh on the other poster but the minute I hear "I saw it in a film what so and so did" it gets my goat. And though an entertaining film I guess, Braveheart isn't exactly reknowned for sticking to the facts. Even many Scots who like their history don't care for it much. Hehe, bit of cold steel for the fuzzy wuzzys (joke). Seriously, it would seem that all the crap the English (or those in the land that is now England) have had to take over the centuries is ignored. The Romans, the Vikings, The Normans etc etc all tried to rampage and pillage their way across England long before the English hid poor Paddy's potatoes. It's as if the Celts like to have the monopoly on being hard done by and have convinced themselves it's a fact. If you yourself haven't been hard done by then it's irrelevant what happened to your ancestors. If not, then how about I start feeling aggrieved about the Danes and Swedes because of what the Vikings did to my ancestors? I agree totally. I am part Welsh, a smaller part Irish and have had many good times in Scotland on holiday. I have nothing against any of the other nations which make up Great Britain/United Kingdom. I don't even have any kind of grudge whatsoever towards the Germans. In fact Mrs Mangani is one (a German). Here here. 100% correct. It wasn't the 'Crown' who did all that. That would be the fault and responsibility of lying and cheating POLITICIANS. In my opinion the world needs more monarchs and less scumbag politicians who lie and cheat their way into getting their votes by default. Arses kicked but conveniently forget why they got their arses kicked. Deep fried Mars Bars, it's horrendous I tell you!!!!!!!! Ok, back to the Canada talk and why the 'Crown' isn't anymore archaic than the idea of organised religions.

Oh for cripe's sake. Braveheart was a movie. It was a bastardisation of history. What about what the Scots did to northern England before? Northern England suffered centuries of rampaging and pillaging by those from the land now known as Scotland. Who makes films about that? Nobody. Mel F-uckin' Gibson. Anti English, Jew hating, drunk driving religious nutcase. Next thing you know he'll be appearing in films which make English Redcoats in the American Revolutionary War act like Nazis. Oh wait........................!!

Ok then get rid of the Pope as well while we are at it. Isn't he (and religion in general) just as archaic and as medieval as the 'Crown'? Part of the reason why this damn world is in the mess it is is because of archaic folks with archaic beliefs. The 'Crown' is the least of them. It actually does little harm.

I had the same feeling here a couple days ago. I saw the moon coming up over the sea and it looked orange and glowing. It looked weird. I thought I was looking at the sun at first but seeing as I had just seen the sun disappear beneath the opposite horizon I quickly came to my senses. Awesome sight. I had never seen it that colour before. It quickly changed to it's usual light colour a few minutes later though.

Sunny and still mild and not very autumnal at all.

Liverpool beating Manchester United 2-0. Come on you Reds. Nice to get one over on the old enemy (again).

Not a big fan of Pink Floyd but respect to them for going to Liverpool F.C's Anfield stadium in 1971 and recording the Kop (Liverpool fans) singing You'll Never Walk Alone and including it in their song Fearless on Meddle. Thumbs up!

But he has no problem with gun tottin' buffoons. He's weird.

Madness at Carisbrooke Castle (Isle Of Wight) just over a month ago. Stonkingly good gig.

Sunny and warm. Still t-shirt weather. It's supposed to be autumn. The leaves on the trees haven't even begun to turn brown yet, nevermind fall off.

What a goose. Buddy Rich really said that??? Sounds like he was an old fogey not able to comprehend anything outside the staid jazz concept. Bonzo didn't really even have a big drum kit. I suspect ol' Buddy was a bit out of it at the time and his recollection is off.

Well Bonzo did kinda OD...........on booze. Quite frankly if you don't 'overdo' it then you don't puke up. It's as simple as that. I love booze and get drunk often but I never puke up because I never 'overdose' on it. I only used to puke up when I was a kid, when I drank too much.

I've forgotten which ones they were. Were they something like this?: Lydia Fixel.

Too many scrawny half starved little GIRLS in this thread. I thought it was supposed to be about "beautiful WOMEN." I give you the one and only Liz Taylor.

Hmmmmm, what by letting terrible things happen in the first place?

Coral Watts was amongst the worst. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Eugene_Watts Also, that Aussie called Ivan Milat who went around killing backpackers did so in a very very nasty way. http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/famous_criminal/23/home/1/Ivan_Milat.htm

Wow, you're going back a bit. I remember that episode. I think I have that on an old VHS somewhere. The Young Ones even had Motorhead doing Ace Of Spades one time, as I'm sure you know.

BASH will probably occur at around 11.30 p.m tonight when I trip over the coffee table. I'm already not looking forward to that.

More than ten but less than twenty, slave. Babs, you are welcome to have one on me. Oh and I forgot. I'm going to see the band Madness on Sunday. I used to be a big fan in the 1980s. Great fun band. Very much loved in England. I'm also happy about that too.

The knowledge that tonight I'm gonna get as pissed as a fart.

LOL, maybe we should swap partners and go out with each other? I'm surprised though. Usually it's the guys who want to camp and hike. We are going on a hiking/camping holiday to the Bavarian Alps in September though. That's why I'm not badgering her to do too much here on the weekends. She works hard all week and likes the weekends to relax and do nothing. She has a 12 hour working day (from when she leaves to when she comes home) so I do understand.