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How depressing. I really don't know what to do about it anymore, i just despair. My only shining light is the idea of getting Corbyn into power in my country.

I live near to a place called Preston; in my neck of the woods doubly so.

27 years after revealing Echelon, Duncan Campbell now has a piece out on PRESTON, a surveillance centre in your neck of the woods.

That's the corner of Bell St and St Georges Rd, Preston, in Melbourne - https://goo.gl/maps/0YqGp

In Streetview, face east on Bell St. The google car was on the other side of the road going west, but it's unmistakably the place.

Approx 20 mins drive from me.

Let me guess, after a full investigation the officer in question was reprimanded and apologised to the couple?

Oh no, from what I can Google up Officer Preston denied wrongdoing and a judge threw the case out. GG.

Wes Anderson is the new Preston Sturges. Love it. And him.

Who is the fourth member of the Kingsguard present during this scene? Sandor Clegane, Ser Meryn Trant, Ser Arys Oakheart and ... Ser Mandon Moore or Ser Preston Greenfield?

and Andrej Preston doesn't use spell-check.

Who says Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Kelly Preston and Kirstie Alley are smart people? Why? Because they're famous actors? I never knew that acting = intelligence. Maybe they're not dumb, but not dumb does not automatically equal smart. Obviously the cult of celebrity has adherents in the news biz.

Iceland is a frozen food store, not a nightclub...making the whole thing somewhat more mysterious

abe: looks like the Iceland shop in Preston town centre is in the same building as (or at least next door to) the "Market Tavern" - which probably explains the mystery.

http://themarkettavernpreston.co.uk/

Preston's books are undoubtedly the most terrifying things I've read in my entire life. Primarily because they're -not- fiction...they're fact, or at worst, novels based almost purely on fact. Ebola, and the other level-5 viruses are just one little mutation away from quite possibly wiping out the human race. All it takes is for a human-infective Ebola bug to mutate into an airborne form...which has already happened with a version that infected monkeys. Thanks to our wonderful worldwide transportation system, such a bug could blanket the world in just a few days.

Me and my friend used to always talk in jest about who we'd get in our film 'when we made one'. We'd add to it over the years. Almost exclusively hard asses/ass kickers from history to the present - kurt russel, the rock, bruce willis, arnie (of course), dolph, terry tate, terry crews, richard dean anderson, stallone, statham... i can barely remember the entire list because we had a cast of probably approaching 50.

Of course as the list grew we rapidly discussed and immediately turned aside the notion of a plot. We decided as the list reached over 20 that we'd probably be able to start the film off by having a random guy walk past and say something, and then have all the cast quip back and forth between each other, quipping their way to the end of the film. We both love them for the one liners so we thought, you know, the whole film could be one liner after one liner.

Now... there's a pub in preston, lancashire, england where all this used to go down. I never specifically saw anyone there, but i'm almost certain that stallone was sat nearby with pen and pad, because i'll be damned if "The Expendables" isn't what we came up with brought to life.

I might as well take a gun and one bullet into the cinema with me, because if the expendables isn't awesome ...... well.. life isn't worth living anymore.

Cheers, blankman

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That's some *quality Genius right there.

I saw Billy Preston with George Harrison and Ravi Shankar (among others) at the Los Angeles Forum, which will tell you how old I am (roughly). Awesome.

HOLY SHIT! Was that opening number from Billy Preston (one of many "Fifth Beatles") and the Genius himself ever FUCKING OUTSTANDING!!! Haven't been able to watch this whole thing yet, but will do so when sweetie gets home.

I know Sifty's gonna' be pissy, but this is some *quality stuff!