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P.S. You Rock My World - Eels

I think it's a necessary attitude to counter the ridiculous perception that some women have that they need to be size zero before we (guys) even look at them. Let's face it, far more women are unhappy because they're overweight than because they're underweight. We need to put across the message that a natural, curvy look is just as good as a naturally skinny look. As long as it's not a response to some false media image, and as long as it's healthy no one should judge you. But if you're a girl who makes themselves sick to try and lose weight, then I will judge you and your idiotic vanity.

If You See Her, Say Hello (Alternate Take) - Bob Dylan

Re: the title, very few of them have ever really made much sense. Live and Let Die? Octu[kitty]? They're all fairly meaningless. And the title was taken from an Ian Fleming short story anyway. I agree the song is a little different, I like the sound Jack White brings to it but I don't think Alicia Keys does it justice.

My deepest sympathies for anyone who has a family member who suffered or is suffering through cancer, I know what you're going through.

For those of you unaware (living under a rock?), the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, is being released soon (31st October in the UK and 14th November in America). The story starts where Casino Royale left off, with Bond tracking down the people responsible for Vesper Lynd's death and goes from there. Here are two of the trailers: And the (slightly controversial) music video, by Jack White and Alicia Keys: Personally, I'm very excited about this. Casino Royale is one of the best Bond films i've seen, and I think Daniel Craig is a fantastic Bond. The trailers look very promising. Any thoughts or opinions?

Funny you should mention these, I have to make a decision fairly soon about my choice of experiment for my A-level physics coursework. So far i'm thinking about looking into the Bernoulli Effect (how does velocity affect fluid pressure) or Boyle's Law (heat). I was looking at maybe doing something about turbulent flow within fluid systems but I don't really want to be solving second order differential equations for coursework.

Mojo Pin - Jeff Buckley I love the lyrics to this, they're so enigmatic. Uh precious precious silver and gold And pearls in oyster's flesh Drop down we two to serve and pray to love Born again from the rhythm Screaming down from heaven Ageless, ageless and I'm there in your arms......

I think this is an excellent list of some of the greatest speeches in history. When I get a little more time, I plan on reading one a day, or listening, preferably.

My copy of Seasick Steve's latest album (I Started Out With Nothin' And I Still Got Most Of It Left) arrived on Monday, it's pretty damn good. On this album I actually prefer his slightly slower songs (Walkin' Man, My Youth) as well as his gritty, fast paced blues stuff.

Asset liquidation? Interesting choice of words for financial institutions laying off thousands of people. Besides, half their assets now are in credit default swaps that no one wants to swap and toxic loans that are (at the moment) practically worthless. How do they liquidate those and start again? For a start, it's not rich bankers and politicians playing their cards right when they say they want the bailout passed. In fact, the reason it probably failed is because it's so unpopular with voters who'll be voting for their representatives soon. The bailout makes economic sense, nearly every economic analyst that I've read over the past few days has said that in some form a bailout must be passed if we want a solvent financial system. I take your point that companies going bankrupt isn't the end of the world, it's a natural consequence of risk taking in the free market system. But I'm talking about more than a few companies going bankrupt. I'm talking about nearly every major financial institution being nationalised (in the UK) at huge cost to the taxpayer, and every major American bank failing. If they're taken over by the government, the shareholders have their shares wiped and people lose confidence in investing in banks. Once people lose confidence in banks wholesale, what provides solvency for the financial system? Banks are forced to charge extortionate fees for any kind of loans to stay anywhere near profit and as a consequence Aggregate Demand plummets and we have recession, coupled with inflationary pressures as people move their money to things like oil. We not only have a recession due to the house market bubble bursting but a deep depression. I'm sorry but that's utterly, utterly false. If the financial system starts to collapse the consequences will be felt at every level. I can't quite distill what your argument is. You seem to be in favour of supporting those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder, but have little sympathy for those who've lost their savings on the stock market? I'd like to clarify what you're saying before I say anything, I wouldn't want to be setting up strawmen.

I tried it, and didn't notice the difference. In fact, listening to music on my computer through the Phillips wireless headphones that I have is slightly inferior in quality to listening to my iPod with Bose earbuds.

Silver bullet? No this is far from it, like I said it's far from desirable, but the alternative scenario that would occur if the bill is not passed needs to be avoided at almost all costs. Hopefully the bill being passed second time round will mean that it's in better shape when it's actually passed, but this is not the time or way to punish greedy bankers. Remember it's innocent shareholders who are hurt just as much as the risk takers when the value of their shares is wiped out such as with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Sorry for not replying sooner, however, i play fullback. Ive also subbed in for 8man on occasion. Ah, my old position (including the occasional number 8). :) I wouldn't worry about bulking up too much unless you're playing in the forwards regularly. As long as you feel confident going in for all the tackles that you'll need to make at the back I'd say speed and endurance were more important for a back.

I really don't think we should underestimate just how badly not only the world's financial sector but also many other industries will be hit if the bailout is rejected entirely. Once every large American bank starts failing (which they will) the stock market will crash further, millions of investors (average Joe's with a few shares) will lose their savings. Larger companies, Ford, General Motors might start going under taking thousands of jobs with them. And all for what? Some nicety about moral hazard? I don't see how you can think that the rest of the world's economies are so insulated from what would be the almost complete collapse of the financial sector. The bailout is currently the lesser of two evils.

Forgiveness - Yeasayer

Zox, we probably have a fairly similar metabolism. So i'm just telling you that no matter how much protein you eat don't expect to pack on the pounds over short timescales. It's not that you won't gain weight if you're patient and consistent, it's just that it might not be particularly noticeable and you'll never really "bulk up". Just workout for the sake of your health and enjoyment and you won't lose motivation when you don't see insta-results.

Haha, sorry I'm not trying to be snobbish, I just found your logic really quite amusing. I'm sure you were just being tongue in cheek.

It's not just about restoring confidence, the money would be used to buy the toxic assets which would free up the liquidity of a lot of the major banks, allowing them to function normally again. Granted, confidence won't be restored overnight, the last time this kind of thing happened it took months for the trust to be set up that could start buying up the bad assets. Some form of bailout will be passed. If not, the only alternative is that every major US bank will fail and every British bank will be nationalised. It's time to put aside niceties and hypotheticals about moral hazard and do something about this crisis. He talks a lot of sense, but most of it's simply with hindsight. I think he's underestimated just how bad this crisis could be if some sort of a bailout isn't approved. I agree that in principle, the taxpayers bailing out financial institutions (and Henry Paulson's) mistakes is far from desirable, but unfortunately it seems to be entirely necessary.

Personally, I think very few men can get away with long hair. Of course it's up to them, it just doesn't look particularly smart or gentlemanly.

I don't like horror films, so I certainly won't be watching it.

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Obama didn't rush to Washington on a warpath designed to make him look like he was the one prioritising the economy and brokering the deal. It doesn't take a genius to see that what McCain did was a rashly thought out political stunt that's backfired. If anyone's playing political games here it's the Republican nominee and the obstructionist Republican rebels who set the negotiations back with their poorly thought out insurance style alternative to the bailout.

Stranded Pearl - Giant Sand

^^ What position do you play in rugby?