backgroundbob

Exactly - if I was an amazing footballer, or an amazing actor, that's what I would want to do: play football or act, because it would be fulfilling and enjoyable ...

Indeed: welcome to Nineteen Eighty-Four : make your people feel threatened, and they will follow you anywhere.

So, the point of having nuclear weapons without being prepared to use them? Absolutely zero. When Grif talks about 'people who are willing to use them' that has to include ...

"Jesus" I'm not sure whether it was a curse or a prayer. I've just finished watching Hotel Rwanda.

'Backgroundbob' is from a band I used to be in (one of those high school things - never went anywhere, but loads of fun) called Backgroundnoise; it just kind of ...

Iran's leader is democratically elected, therefore he represents the people. Let's not forget that there have been plenty of threats made on both sides of this conflict.

Considering that the Earth was once all one landmass, and humans probably all started out in one place, I don't think we should really be bothered.

"Goodnight."

Actually, I must say I would join the Scientologists just for joke: it would be the most amazingly stupid thing I can actually imagine. It's physically painful that people don't ...

The point is that the media will continue saying what we want to hear as long as it makes them money: in the end, the only way to stop media ...

But let's say that the death penalty is put in place in England. How do we decide who should be killed and who shouldn't be? How can we tell which ...

With the Tom Cruise thing, I'm actually not too much against that - it's his belief (albeit a really, really stupid one) and so he's got a right to say ...

I really wish everything was as black and white as you'd like it to be, bob. I really do. It would make life remarkably easy. Unfortunately, things just aren't that ...

There are all sorts of people in society - we'll take two opposing characitures, your average Joe Bloggs-small-businessman-taxpayer and Dr. Hobo who's living on benefits. We all like Joe because ...

It's not about contributing as such, it's about participating - whether we judge people by how much we think they contribute or not, that's our own personal choice: it doesn't ...