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[liadnan]

"I don't advise a haircut man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight."
If you can't place the quote, the firing squad can probably fit you in this afternoon.
Wiser words never spoken. Well, perhaps a few, but not many. But I am shorn. Also Sean, but that's an entirely different matter.
Whatever. More depressing was the discovery, on inspection of the back, that I shall shortly effectively have a tonsure. It therefore follows that I shall never pull again, and should start drowning my sorrows now. Perhaps I should have become a monk after all, though the agnosticism and the slight problem with chastity, though sadly not with celibacy, would probably have become a problem in the end.
Mugshots for the Chambers website now taken. Depending on how bad they are I may tell you where to find them once they're up.
I thought I had no work today, but I seem to have become involved in co-writing a paper on the effects of the Enterprise Act 2002 on the law of corporate insolvency and recovery. I doubt any of you will appreciate this, but I honestly find this stuff fascinating. Shortly put, the Act is supposedly an attempt to make our equivalent of Chapter 11 proceedings more popular and effective. I'm not convinced.
Tomorrow and Monday is my mini-holiday, and on at least one of those days I shall be off to WimblyDone. Apropos of which, caught most of Hantuchova (or the future Mrs Liadnan as she is also known) - Asagoe last night, possibly the best match I've managed to catch so far this year. And bye bye Greg. I do think the umpire should have called a lett on that point, but a large part of tennis is the ability to get over things like that, he could still have won after all.
One final thought.. in whom do we place more trust, the BBC and in particular the Today programme, or Mr Alisdair Campbell? Go on, surprise me.
(For the record, no I haven't changed my opinion on The War, but since my somewhat limited support never had anything to do with "WMD" -a vacuous acronym which neatly elides the distinction between Very Nasty Weapons and Fairly Nasty Weapons, and completely fails to raise the issue of effective delivery mechanisms for those weapons- I think I can just about be on the other side on that one and retain intellectual coherence and consistency. Possibly.)

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[eccles.livejournal.com]

Bad news about the hair mate, as long as you don't do a comb over you should be fine.

Steve Bell has a great cartoon in the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/0,7371,337484,00.html) today

in whom do we place more trust...?

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

The BBC of course.
I am not sure what was mentioned on the Today programme but trusting Campbell shouldn't be a requirement even if an alien landing was reported.
And from what I recall of your reasons for supporting the war [*grumbles* though most of that discussion was when I was unsubbed and on vacation], there shouldn't be any conflict between distrusting Campbell and your stance on the issue.

Re: in whom do we place more trust...?

[liadnan]

The BBC reporter, Andrew Gilligan, received a tip from someone in MI6 that the intelligence services were unhappy with the way their assessment had been souped up in the two dossiers placed before Parliament. Campbell is the main identified culprit. The whole issue of the "WMD" assessment is currently under investigation by a Parliamentary Committee which examined Campbell yesterday.

[liadnan]

I don't think a comb-over is going to happen. When it starts getting that bad I currently think I shall just have a grade 2 and leave it at that.

[eccles.livejournal.com]

Very wise!

Re: in whom do we place more trust...?

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

I missed Campbell's testimony yesterday and haven't come across any news reports about it so far.
I haven't seen a newspaper or visited a news related site in 4 days. :)

[sshi.livejournal.com]

"I don't advise a haircut man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight."

The scary thing is reading this having being watching the very same film, um (checks watch) about twelve hours ago.

/me rocks off to sound of All Along the Watchtower...

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

[random] Every once in a while, I get it into my head that I want to just chop all my hair off. Not in a complete Sinead O'Connor sort of way, mind you, but still. Then, of course, I take a peek at the massive long mess of wavy blond stuff sitting on my noggin and I chicken out. Anyone who therefore gets a haircut of any sort is quite brave in my book. [/random]

[liadnan]

I am very sad and go and see the wolves in Regent's Park (now back after several years absence) every so often... though I resist declaiming Hamlet. Except very quietly to myself.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Short hair is convenient. I used to have hair so long that I could sit on it [not that I ever wanted to, of course] but when all-day sickness hit me during my pregnancy, I chopped it all off. It barely touches my shoulders now. And it is *so* much easier to take care of.

[liadnan]

Hmm. I think if you've got long blonde hair and are inherently unlikely to suffer from male patter baldness cuttingit all off would be an irredeemable mistake...

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah, that's what all the boys say. ;)

[liadnan]

A prophet is not without honour save in his own country... (gdr)

Re: in whom do we place more trust...?

[liadnan]

You missed very little. Campbell did the Campbel thing, God I hate that man. Before there's been a thing on Today where various (eminent) people listed the questions they wanted to put to him, but he wriggled out of the real toughies. Mike Mansfield (senior QC) said he'd do the cross examining for free if they'd let him, but of course it's only MPs who can...
Campbell used to write hard core porn incidentally.
In other news, Denis Thatcher is dead (just) and Greg Rusedski said fuck several times to an umpire. That should bring you up to speed for the UK, the subcontinent I leave to you...

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses. (DP)

[liadnan]

More fool them I always say. Get them to take the glasses off and they're marginally less likely to observe the man's physical failings.

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

This is why I wear contacts.

Re: in whom do we place more trust...?

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Ah thanks. I just read a bit about Campbell's testimony and he was certainly himself. We seem to be innundated with endless reports on Musharraf's meeting with Bush. I am not terribly interested right now - maybe when I am less tired.
So what do you think of Tony Blair? :)

Re: in whom do we place more trust...?

[liadnan]

I'm not going there again... it's a nasty place.
Actually in all seriousness I find him something of an enigma, still.

[liadnan]

Always one step ahead, that's what I like to see.

[sshi.livejournal.com]

*laughs*
I have a distinct memory of spending more than one wet afternoon wandering around Regent's Park looking for the wolves (and a certain park bench) and completely failing to find them.

[liadnan]

They're at the north end of the main drive (about five minutes from my flat in fact), part of the zoo but visible from outside. There were three, years ago, but at least one died, and it certainly wasn't a pair left, so they took them off to Whipsnade. But walking in on a strike day recently I noticed they were back.