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He doesn't give a fuck, man. Does that explain the decline a bit better?

"Ash!!!! (ahaaaa!).......He saved every one of us unprofitable non-core activities!"

I like to have a kebab from a place in Wallsend every few months where they're not bad, the chilli sauce is lush, the salad is fresh and the meat is wrapped up in foil with the pitta on top for you to make up yourself. Only sober mind.

Got up in the loft yesterday to get our Christmas stuff down. Left the house to Christmas songs being played as Mrs HMHM ably assisted by the daughters of the Casa. Came in after seeing us beat west brom a bit drunk to see all the decorations up and the tree looking great. First proper Sunday off as well since my switch to Mon-Fri work and it feels good getting up having breakfast and not having the black cloud of going to work on a Sunday teatime not hanging over me. Nice.

He also said....... 'Whoever neglects learning in his youth loses the Past, and is dead to the Future.' - Joseph Kinnear 'Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth'. - Joseph Kinnear “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Joseph Kinnear 'Veni, vidi, vici' Joseph Kinnear

"Beans? Marshmellow?!"

If he's not in, leave a message with the robot.

This 'Black Friday'. How? When? Where? If you put an 'eyed' in between the two words then you have a local tradition/saying but as for the former? I'm going to take a wild guess here and say it's another American tradition that we've now got to adopt over here?

How was the Thanksgiving, then? Seeing the word 'Thanksgiving' has given me a bit of a laugh though. I work for a company that is truly 'global' and which has an intranet type thing which you see when you're entering in process results. I sometimes have a look as the posts on it are unintentionally funny, especially the foreign ones, (ok, mainly the American ones ). There was a thread that simply said 'Thanksgiving' so I had a gander at it. The OP basically said happy thanksgiving, what are you grateful for? Some sadsacks said they were grateful to work for such a great company , some said their families/loved ones etc, but there was a few that were proper 'God bless America' types who were thankful for the 'freedom' of their country, thankful for their constitution, forefathers etc, you get the drift. A couple of people posted questioning their constitution mainly the guns bit and fuck me, how touchy did the 'God bless America' types get! I basically learned through the GBA types that America had guns and it was a good job they did as the rest of the World came crying to America for help all the time as nobody is strong enough to fight for their own country other than the Americans. They seem to be the only country that has freedoms in their lands as well other various stuff I can't be arsed to write. Truly funny reading their craic but also slightly worrying that people who are generally pleasant, polite and a canny bunch can be so brainwashed and one-eyed when it comes to anything that might be a slight criticism of their country, (as well as their* wholly ignorant views of the World). *The God bless America types.

I'm going to be completely honest here with you, Fish, I just saw 'computer tv game show' and thought you meant a Family fortunes type show with no humans on. Now I've actually read your post I catch your drift and wonder how the fuck I drew that conclusion? I thought there is/was television shows about computer games as it happens but will take your word for it that there isn't. As for the kids only liking computer games that obviously isn't the case especially the games now are a bit like films in their own right however you've got to admit there's something a bit teenager-ish about spending hours playing these games for working adults, (particularly adults with other halves and/or kids). That's just the way I see it though and I don't claim to be in the majority. (I'd rather play a computer game than watch x factor/coronation street/geordie shore/soccer am though so I'll give you that!)

aye, you need to grow up.

Just to clear things up for you, Gloomy, CT never claimed to be 5"6 and under 12 stone, what he actually said was his waist was five foot six inches and weighed under twelve stone.

Written by Desmond Tutu I see.

Aye read it, canny enough read from memory.

Charles Dickens 'Lean Times'? (got all muddled there!)

And the other side of the coin under sweaty top lip Smith, (including that depressing 0-3 against Notts County where on a very rare occasion I was in the Leazes end next to the few Notts fans)........... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSSqQXbzCOo Charles Dickens 'Lean Times' was a prelude to this season.

By the way, it wasn't ALL bad under Jim Smith, here's us putting Sheff Utd to the sword in a promotion game, (Budgie celebrating at the end with Auld Stevie). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnqhOuarFI4&list=UUSmnYSUTz1Dyu9DsBGoeGDQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v78-ftcqpNw "Oh Jeez those backing vocals, man! They crack me up every time."

What's that you say, you silly-sits-and-drinks-coffee-all-night-on-the-ward-looking-at-toontastic-instead-of-working-cow?

Was at both those games you mentioned and remember them (fairly) well baring in mind I was drinking at the beer bars by then. Haven't a clue what the editor of that Blackburn game did to the sound as the Speedie chants went on for ages and were very loud at the time. I agree about the Derby match, probably the best support I've seen in such adversity, proudest I've ever been to be a Newcastle Utd supporter, quite simply, and I may get some stick about this, some of our younger support who think they're a bit zany could do worse than study their younger counterparts from twenty plus years ago because they couldn't hold a candle to them in my opinion. Steve Sutton was the Derby keeper I think and I think he spent more time watching the stand behind him than he did the pitch in front of him and applauded our fans at the end, not his. David Kelly threw his shirt to the crowd and looked genuinely devastated that this support and this club was very much looking like going down to the third division and possible oblivion, he's right up there with my all time NUFC greats for his extremely important goals and superb attitude when real men were needed at the club. (His goal against Pompey, man, if you weren't there then it's hard to put into words what the emotion was like for the vast majority of the crowd, no half disinterested fans that day). By the way Stevie, pretty sure that Coddington was from Grimsby.

I was just having some tea and toast. You utter twat.

Read half of this as a lighthearted read on the plane inbetween the novel I was reading at the time and forgot to get back to it until last night. Ex-NUFC player of the seventies, Cannell wasn't a great player but was a bit of a boy and this book is worth reading alone just for his career in the USA. Genuinely funny stuff in here as well as him exposing Jimmy Hill as a bent owner who had to leave the States as he had a warrant for his arrest as well as 'Whitey' tales, shagging, getting paid Nike sponsorship in the US and agents trying to convert it into cocaine to avoid him paying tax over there. Just had a look and it's £1.53 on kindle. Worth it at that price, definitely.

I'd avoid The Pig and Whistle if I was you and also The Beehive.