Does the Dalia Lama have any special powers? I mean we know he smiles a lot, but that's not a

[Berni]

special power like the Pope has, is it? I mean, the Pope can make saints, send you to Hell, talk to God and explain exactly what it is He actually thinks about stuff, decide whether babies go to heaven - all that stuff. What does the Daley Lame do, exactly?

[Snin]

http://truedalailama.com/

[the splendor of antigone]

[Berni]

Molly does not like this...

http://a2.tvspielfilm.de/imedia/1892/2121892,aOF8WaofIk1dHYO8LUQtWn5II9xf1jn544DHHqZW6E 94yH5dzGfraQSztuop7g8E2nGELzdyrhtIXcIJJUmZxQ==.jpg

[7evens]

[Berni]

Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!

[the splendor of antigone]

from a Protestant.

[Classic Jorge]

Oh, hang on, that doesn't work, does it? Bloody iconoclasm

[Ashberto]

Him, not you.

Oh, wait.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

HHDL merely imbues us with a sense of inner peace and allows us to reject the pursuit of fleeting corporeal pleasures.

Without his influence, I for one would be runnig around like a blue-arsed fly seeking gratification in worldly goods.

I'd look quite a mug, wouldn't I? HHDL keeps me on the road to Nirvana.

[Ashberto]

ruling over the heads of kings and governments who would quiver in servility to his empire. Through a network of professional torturers and mind-controllers (called nuns) he would manipulate the minds of his subjects to inspire fanatical loyalty to his cult, even from the ones that didn't actually believe in god.

I had that Henry VIII in the back of the cab once.

[Ashberto]

He finds the images soothing.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Berni]

This one. Can you imagine what they get up to? Can you imagine them locked in the throes of Sapphic passion as poor little Jack submits to the fleshly desires of this woman mountain? :-(

You can, can't you?

https://oursouthend.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/20140526-162748.jpg

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Funnily enough I was wondering about rural Cumbria during the war. No bombing, plenty of food available off the ration... they must have had it well cushy.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The big 'un does her with vegetables, doesn't she?

Cheap ones.

[Berni]

Yes, I reckon it would have been a good place. Think they put a load of munitions factories up there, though.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I rather enjoyed the guitariness of it, to be honest.

[Berni]

Jack is clearly her bit of rough.

Honestly, I find this whole lesbian thing terribly confusing.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

A farming community would, I am sure, have quickly set up a gentle black market in bartered eggs and milk and so on - and imagine when a farmer killed a pig! I'm guessing the ministry didn't get 100% of the carcass, tbh.

Different in Carlisle, I'd imagine.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It did strike me that the fat pig might want to try eating it occasionally, then.

Now, back to the vegetables...

[Berni]

Can you imagine her and Clare Balding at it?

I can.

God help me, I am! :cry:

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Musically they did nothing for me and I even suffered the pain of seeing the live. Bizarrely given their reputation in the pantheon of rock music I find the only thing I ever really liked by them was the so-called if you will Unplugged album.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I wonder if you'd excuse me for a few moments while I pop off and slake my cornflour?

[Berni]

I think they're remarkably ugly.

[redgunamo]

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

an undeniable element in the essential fantasy that is rock and roll. Elvis Presley's career wasn't damaged by his look, I don't believe.

I like the Unplugged album best, also. I like the way he says, 'This is a song by The Vaselines', in a voice which clearly demonstrates that he is off his tits on smack.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The hotel and restaurant staff were all French or Scottish. Do they talk like Yorkshires or Geordies or something?

[Ashberto]

Scaryport. I was actually a little worried for Sir C that he might stumble out onto the A595 and find himself in Workington or Whitehaven.

You namby-pamby suvverners what can't even take a bit of Coventry definitely need to give West Cumbria a swerve.

[Berni]

You didn't experience the real Cumbria. You haven't seen them in their true environment until you've been dragged out by your father-in-law(ish) to watch Speedway in Workington.

Workington. Now that, my friend, is a ****hole. It's so bad, Ash probably likes it.

[Berni]

Even the nice bits - like St Bee's - are slightly spoiled by proximity to Sellafield.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Had a truly excellent lobster lunch in a pub which didn't appear to have changed since 1932.

[Ashberto]

there today.

There's something about standing on a mountain and watching a jet fighter thingy tearing through the valley beneath you that adds a certain excitement to a day. Slightly less fun when perched on a ledge or narrow ridge in high winds and one of the feckers blasts unexpectedly round the corner at you though.

[Berni]

[Ashberto]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

News filtered through to the bar in the Haringey Irish Cultural & Community Centre in Tottenham and to be honest we just carried on regardless.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

a pair of Hercules doing it in formation.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It was peculiar.

[Snin]

cars and groups of hikers imo ..bet they even make the machine gun noises and explosions imo ..its pretty cool when you climbing over a ridge and suddenly you face to face with one about 100 meter away hovering :-)

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I wasn't pinting in Tottenham when I was 10.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Ashberto]

one day. When we eventually got back to the inn we ended up having a few drinks with a couple of blokes from West Cumbria who were working in a local quarry. This was their night off which involved getting as pissed as possible. We managed to extract ourselves from the situation in time, and hence got away with our lives twice that day.

[Ashberto]

with images of T34s crashing around and whizzbang noises in the background.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Anyway, the chap cleaning the lavatory offered to guide me up the mountain. A 5 hour round trip, apparently.

Strange sort of lavatory cleaner.

[Supermac1976]

:hehe:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]

I swear the feckers were trying to blow us off the mountain.

[Supermac1976]

[Alexism - Atheoist]