Keith Houchen

I've stopped watching Eastenders becuase of crackhead Phil

 

Why?

Because he touches himself at night.

All that education and you still double post

All that education and you still double post.

All these children's programs with poor grammar and madeup words are bad IMO. When I was a kid Floella Benjamin used to read proper fucking stories and lo and behold my language use is vastly superior to most kids growing up nowadays.

O RLY?

I'd wager that your private education was more of a factor than Auntie Flo.

Yeah there were a couple of intervals. I thought he was a brilliant speaker and says from the outset that he doesn't really care what anyone thought.

He had the same songs playing before he came on. "I'm Still Standing" by Elton John and Boyzone's "No Matter What". Oh, and Children Of The Revolution. Every time I hear them now, I think of Cov's ex goalie. Personally I thought that a hell of a lot of what he said regarding the 9th of November attacks on the WTC was also said a few years later in Farenheit 9/11, but of course you are allowed to agree with Moore

Would it surprise you, Duane, to learn that I've been to two of his lectures? First one was 8 hours, second one was 9.

I bought "How I Escaped My Certain Fate" by Stewart Lee today. Well I actually bought two copies and started reading one on the bus home. Then I got off the bus aaaaahhh.

There seems to be a strange placation of Duane and his crazy and idiotic system of beliefs on this forum, it's bizarre

Not just Duane to be fair.

The only comeback will be the "keep an open m1nd" the letter I is used to represent lizards or something

I watched some Dawkins programme or other and he said something along the lines of "It's good to keep an open mind but not so open that our brains fall out"

As for what they're about Keith, it's basically a game where a group of players sign up, the mod (in this case me) gives out the roles randomly and the town players have to try and rid the town of the scum, while the scum players group together and try and screw the town over to kill off the rest one at a time. You should read through the UKFF Mafia Scum 2 thread, it's a good bit of fun trying to work out who's scum, or trying to pretend you're town and conspire to kill people.

Cheers.

Why does that Mafia game deal need four seperate threads?

Not been on for a week, what on earth are they all about?

Did someone just mention realism in a post about Eastenders?

The European Championship on Bravo is to be presented by Dave Gorman and...

 

JAMES RICHARDSON!

 

This is going to be fucking spectacular.

That's fucking great news.

Butch, remember my mate Scott Rand? Taylor has been talking to him on the circuit offering him advice. Ain't spoke to Scott since he played in Vegas but I'll see him at my wedding in 3 weeks and see what was said.

Because the content is utter gash and adds nothing to the forum. It can easily be kept within the confines of a chat room.

Too bloody right, good fucking arrows for the week suspensions that were dished out.

There was a good piece by Barbara Ellen in The Observer this Sunday

Two significant people featured in the sentencing at the Old Bailey of Jon Venables last week. The first, obviously, was Venables, appearing via video link for his own safety, receiving two years for downloading and distributing indecent images of children, some as young as two, one showing the rape of an eight-year-old girl. Venables had also posed online as a mother selling her daughter to a paedophile for cash.

 

Terrible as all this was, the fact that Denise Fergus, previously Bulger, was also back in court, to watch, listen, "patrol", seemed positively heartbreaking. We all know who Denise is – the mother of two-year-old James Bulger, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by two 10-year-olds, Robert Thompson, and Venables – known initially as "Child A" and "Child B" – in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993.

 

Her attendance at that trial was no surprise. Nor were her objections to the killers' 2001 release, and their false identities. However, with respect, these latest crimes were unconnected, and a solicitor represented James's father. Why was Denise sitting in the Old Bailey, with a "Justice for James" badge on her lapel? There is an impulse to think – go home, get some distance, please stop torturing yourself. But then you understand that, for her, standing lonely sentinel over her son's case may be the only way she has of not feeling powerless.

 

Questions are being raised about Venables now – from that ill-judged decision to make two children stand trial in an adult court, and the seemingly failed therapy, to Venables's non-convictions for assault and drugs since his release and his use of child pornography while under parole licence – the last discovered only when Venables reported that his identity was exposed, and police found him trying to destroy his computer hard drive with a tin opener.

 

A squalid series of events, but frankly I feel the onset of compassion fatigue. Venables is no longer "Child B", peeking pathetically over a dock that's too high for him. If anything, he's "Man X", for whose rehabilitation much effort was made, including a new identity. Now the best that can be hoped for Venables is that he accepts how disturbed he is, and refuses to be freed until he is genuinely better.

 

At least Venables will be dealt with, fretted over. What of Denise and other victims of crime, who are left mainly alone to flail in the aftermath? While the Victim Support charity does its best, a new government scheme to get offenders to interact with their victims does not sound suitable for serious crimes, and, in the main, talk is of less prison, not more.

 

Which is fine: most of us would prefer it if offenders were given second chances. However, something's very wrong when, 17 years on, James Bulger's mother still feels compelled to fight her late son's corner. Clearly, here is a woman who has lost faith in the system, and feels she must stand eternal panicky sentinel. Talk about a "life sentence". It's as if Fergus is suspended in the amber of her child's murder. But if she is, is it purely of her own doing?

 

It seems that with James Bulger's family, and other victims, there are still too many instances of them being abandoned, fobbed off, pushed aside. And people wonder why they go to the press. While Denise received considerable media and public attention, this is not the same as solid ongoing victim support, and rights.

 

Indeed, while Venables is being discussed, maybe we could also reassess the situation of the victims of crime – where is their government-sponsored intensive therapy-cum-support, their right to a fair hearing, and help to "move on"? Which seems to be the point. Jon Venables was given a new identity and will probably get another one. For Denise Fergus, James's death is her identity; her fight for "justice" is more than a badge on her lapel, it's her whole life. It seems high time to ask: would it have to be like this, if people like her believed they were served properly by the system?

Anyway, she was not exactly fit, was she? Not so much Megan Fox, more Megan Hound.

Keef, was it you I stole the awesome "first touch of a rapist" line from? I believe you may have been referring to Dele Adebola or Ade Akinbiyi.

Yeah, it was Adebola when he played for us. He turned it around though and became rather good. Then again it could have been Akinbiyi as they all look the same.

(Not saying I made the line up though, sure I heard it off a mate describing John "Postman Pat" Williams when he donned the Sky Blue)

I wonder when this thread will be closed and moved to off topic gold

If it goes gold, it's down to the Midas touch. The exact same touch that sex pests and Emile Heskey have.

I bet he cries into his wank as well.

it's kinda sad.

That's the pot calling the kettle an fat ugly cunt if ever I've seen it.

Does Megan mind you posting details about her private life on a message board?

Round of applause for whoever subtitled this thread (I'm guessing neil).

Aye, good arrows indeed.

Fuck your rules Rick. What you gonna do about it?

Fuck Megan, probably. Seems like everyone else has, well not everyone but not through lack of trying.

That pink vest story was too funny,

Not as funny/sad/pathetic as wearing a Def Leppard T shirt of your own free will.

What we have here is a classic case of the 'Cock-Tease' as soon as a bloke ( she wants) comes along Mr Midas, its all over dude!

 

not really, she's dumped boyfriends because they couldn't handle how close we were, so, I already know whats what.

 

Ah, you're the 'handy excuse'.

Or she just likes her blokes to be able to work the reversal system on No Mercy.

There's a very slim chance of me getting to meet Willie Nelson before his gig in London next month, I shall duly report back if it happens. I'm so fricking excited.

Holy fuck, that would be the coolest thing! Good luck man.

Isn't Amanda Mealing the one who was stalked on Twitter by some fruit loop from Coventry?