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ABOUT THIS RESEARCHER

Created: 7th January 2001 
BureauGris - le Pleine Histoire et Pics

Oi! You! Yes you, Unknown Visitor1. I see you're lurking around here again!2

Quelques Citations Aléatoires:

The pictures were much better on the original radio version.

- james-hamid

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who are hungry and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

- Dwight Eisenhower WWII US military leader, later President

And if that upsets you, then I suggest looking around this great big world we live in, and shutting your fncking mouth.

- Bill Hicks

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful - and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people - and neither do we.

- George W. Bush

Fighting for peace is like fncking for virginity.

- Unknown wall somewhere

Aren't religious wars just a fight over who's go the best imaginary friend?

- Lucky Star3

Hey ho. Pavestones on the path to hell, I guess. Mine is made of rather fetching bricks. They are yellow.

- agcB4

To be or not to be. That is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

Or to put it another way...

In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten




And finally...

Eine Weltmeisterschaft, und zwei Weltkriege, dooo-dah, dooo-dah
Eine Weltmeisterschaft, und zwei Weltkriege, do-dah do-dah deh
run football

Ainsi pourquoi le nom?

As I have been asked numerous times about my name, I suppose I ought to give the reason, if only to save me time in the future. The truth is that the desk that my computer sits on is grey. Its made of two grey steel filing cabinets with a bloody great big steel top linking the two together. Actually to be fair the top is covered in black plastic, but I'm sure you will all agree that calling myself "GrisAvecLeBureauSupérieurEnPlastiqueNoir" is rather silly.

Ainsi vous voulez savoir plus?

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1 ... and that includes you, shagbarkmonster
2 So much for the so called 'Big Update', eh.
3 Lucky Star wading in against Justin the Preacher's rantings.
4 Ben having a stab at what a nasty piece of work Saturnine turned out to be.


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Last posted: Oct 14, 2009
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Making the break
Oct 14, 2009

Yeah, I know I've scarcely been here in the last year, but I have been thinking about you in the meantime.

Well time has now come to make a break. It's been good fun over the years, and I've got a lot out of the site and the people who I've met here. But now it's time to go.

Cheerio. Have fun, and look after yourselves.

Discuss this entry - 19 replies - Latest reply: 3 Days Ago

I've just punched someone
Oct 11, 2008

I've just punched someone.

I was coming back from the offie with a couple of cans and some smokes when I was accosted by a drunk student type.

He asked if I had any rizlas. I said no I hadn't got any. He asked if he could have a cigarette. I told him to go buy his own. He called me a **** (that's the one beginning with a 'c') as I walked past him.

I turned on my heel and said, "What did you say?"

He threw a useless punch in my direction. It missed and he overbalanced and sort of fell towards me.

I pushed him back with my left hand. I dropped the lit cigarette from my right, made a fist, and punched him hard on his left cheek.

He span around, and staggered, and fell face first to the floor.

I told him to, "Show some respect in the future." Then I left the area sharpish as I didn't fancy being a star on CC-TV.

I've been wracking my brains to remember the last time I hit someone, and I honestly can't remember when it was, it was so long ago.

Discuss this entry - 10 replies - Latest reply: Dec 11, 2008

Well that's delightful, thank you. But I'm not gay.
Aug 2, 2008

Three times in the last 18 hours or so, a slightly tipsy young woman has come up to me and wished me a 'Happy Pride' for today.

That's really sweet of them. Lovely smiley

Sadly I have to point out that not every Brighton based skinhead in his early forties who's wearing a slightly too tight white t-shirt is actually a homosexual. It is normally a good indicator, yes. But in this case you've made a mistake.

Discuss this entry - 10 replies - Latest reply: Aug 23, 2008

Slugs & Snails
Oct 9, 2007

The slugs are back yuk

There are slugs that patrol my kitchen at night.

I've no idea how they're getting in. There are no trails from the back door, nor from either of the two kitchen windows. The only place remaining is the hole in the wall where the sink outlet passes through. But that would mean that they have to negotiate around the back of the cupboard under the sink-unit, and I'm sure that that is sealed.

Anyway, I stepped on one last night. Fortunately I was wearing socks, so we didn't have a skin on skin contact. Also I recognised what I just stepped on before I put my foot fully down, and so could recoil from it with out the full on squelch experience (though it was terminal for slug none the less).

I'm going to have to start sprinkling salt around the kitchen surfaces again sadface

So why the mention of snails? Well it's to do with my opposing reactions to two species that are to all intents and purposes very similar. Slugs revolt me. I feel sick having to pick them up and flip 'em out the window when I get rid of them. Snails on the other hand, I regard as adventurous souls; chaps who carry their world on their back in their quest to find new things to slide over and investigate and munch at. I really like them. And they taste good with garlic butter smiley

Discuss this entry - 28 replies - Latest reply: Feb 27, 2008

All I want for Christmas - the shopping experience
Sep 24, 2007

At the weekend I was walking past this shop in town that sells retro football tops(*), and what was in the window?

Yes, that's right: a Dukla Prague away kit biggrin





(*)In fact actually that's all it sells. So that's another example of the rich and diverse tapestry that makes up this fine city, and a further reason as to why Brighton is way cooler than where you live tongueout

Discuss this entry - 10 replies - Latest reply: Sep 24, 2007

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Kelli - 61/61 pre-t'Other weight reached. 27/28 to pre-t'Boy weight
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broelan - can't decide between ice cream and beer...
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Tefkat. I called the dog "anathema" so I could say "anathema sit"
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Parrferris - Clot
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2legs- So, this is reality?- I reject this reality and replace it with my own.
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Kelli - 61/61 pre-t'Other weight reached. 27/28 to pre-t'Boy weight
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