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I'm a headhunter. For anyone who wonders what that actually entails, there is a fantastic article on the subject here. I would strongly recommend it as a career choice for anyone who is looking for a life-long challenge, as it's interesting, complicated, and if you're good at it you can make...

I do martial arts, which is a hell of a lot more fun than the gym and every bit as good for your fitness. Saying that, I can't count the number of injuries I've picked up this year and one trip to hospital... Still, I can't imagine anything more dull than spending time at the gym...

That's fair - as long as it's served with bacon.

See, I could put up with that if they get the beers in now and then.

Nah, that's because the bastards never get a round in. :|

Should it be illegal to wear a burqa (or anything else for that matter)? No. Equally, said community have no right to complain when they get ostracised by everybody else for alienating themselves from the society they chose to come to. "People hate Muslims". Well, then don't distance yourself...

I don't mind a bit of cold weather, but in the UK it's cold most of the time - not cold like it gets in Canada or the US of course, but somewhat below the body's comfortable temperature zone. Generally, it's only consistently warm (ie. can relax outside in a tshirt) from mid-May through to...

If it were summer all the time, I'd be very happy! I hate cold weather. And wet weather. And overcast weather. And windy weather. Begs the question of why I live in Western Britain, but there we go! November through to March is just cold and miserable for the most part.

Glad you're ok. Considering the number of people you encounter on the road every day, you're bound to run into idiots and just plain psychopaths with surprising regularity.

Krav Maga? Supposed to be a good bet. In Belfast though do they actually have martial arts that don't involve the use of explosives? :) Cheers. My secret is out. :( Yeah you could say that! Apparently in the black belt gradings in the V they attack you with chains, baseball bats, knives...

It's not a benefit. :)

Karate seems far too sanitised and form-based for me. Pretty much everything we practice is on/with someone else, and relatively open to interpretation. And jiu jitsu definitely isn't for everyone, it's tough, it's intense and injuries are common. I like that about it (at times I hate...

Just felt like sharing. I had my jiu jitsu yellow belt grading today, a culmination of four months' hard training... Probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do (physically at least). A two hour ordeal which starts with a brutal warmup leaving you knackered for when you actually have to...

You wouldn't drink ale cold, in the same way that you wouldn't drink lager warm. I'm guessing you don't really have ale over there, in the same way that you can't seem to get proper cider outside of South West England, so have never had the opportunity to try. It tends to be more of a local...

Guiness is definitely served cold! You're probably confusing it with real ale, which is served warm. Yes, we drink warm beer. It's much better than lager. Luvverly.

My point is that the current arrangement has little to do with the votes cast, and more to do with political horse-trading. It could have worked out in a multitude of ways. Four pints and half a bottle of wine is preventing me from being able to answer this part coherently. :(

I think it's great. If for no other reason than it should a) dispel the popular myth of idiots everywhere that the Conservatives are the "party of the rich" and "against the working man" and b) give the Lib Dems a chance to prove themselves and hopefully replace Labour as the left-leaning party...

It would certainly seem that way. That we can affect the climate on a local level is without question - cities being 3-4 degrees warmer than rural areas for example. MMGW is a different matter. I don't know whether it's a load of shit or not, and neither do you - we aren't even remotely...

I don't know whether climate change is a real issue or not. I suspect it's a complete crock of shit, and that, even if that wasn't the case, it probably wouldn't matter that much anyway - there are plenty of periods in history when the global climate has suddenly changed quite drastically...

It's because "green" is just a convenient excuse to tax and control the population. Environmentalism as it exists today is about ideology, not science.