adios

dorty!

I think I love you.

It's a brain-melting recreational chemical, popular amongst the youths of today.

He had a tendency only to turn up for the big matches (Ron Atkinson had a more colourful way of describing it) when he was a player, hardly going to make the effort for this.

What is that?

Not a clue; the Wikipedia article doesn't shed much light on the matter.

Souness, Roeder, or the seats weren't comfy enough? This really is a nothing story...

The match was a bit boring, Wilkes' goal was pure class and Damien Lewis was impressive. Gullit proved he wouldn't know tactics if they gave him a funky haircut. Not fit to manage a charity team tbh.

That's why I have faith in this whole thing going horribly wrong for Chelsea in the not so distant future, I can't even see how they're going to pay back Abramovich, let alone maintain the wages if/when he pulls out. No-one within that setup gives a flying fuck about Chelsea in the long term as far as I can tell. At least Freddie cares about the club, which is why, I guess, we've been the fifth best club in the UK over the last decade.

We're not worthy tbh.

4 in his last full season, 2 in the half-season before he went to Chelsea: http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/fo/profiles/500...0000010988.html In fact, 9 goals scored in his entire Charlton career!

Sounds more like you've just stopped caring. Next stop pottering.

She hasn't found a desk she likes for the new place yet, so not at the moment, but usually yes. As for the other bit, if I catch wind of anything like that going on, there'll be trouble.

She'd no-one in mind, but he'd want to be blessed, he wouldn't even be in the same country.

Is that for Craig's benefit? 141849[/snapback] I think the industry is aimed at more than one person, unfortunately.

What was your excuse, were you a bit hoarse? 141663[/snapback] I don't geddit. 141877[/snapback]

Fucking hell, I'm straining at the leash not to get into that one with you. may have to revisit this thread with a nice dose of wine and sun-stroke later on.

I'm nothing if not peculiar. Wearside Jack is a poor demented fool, we disagree about wasting police time in that investigation, which is a discussion we shouldn't get into on a Friday afternoon, I have to order HDTV World Cup and go and sit in the sun. You've made some bloody good points above, though, in your response to Gemmill. Would be an interesting discussion to have.

That one piqued my interest a little bit more than the others, thought they all sound good. By the way, did you mean brevity or levity?

I never used to, can't really think why now... EDIT: By the way I don't see it as punishment, not some of this sick, salacious,sadistic shit that goes on in the Middle East or the US; just a way to dispose of something that really is beyond redemption.

Banks' real world stuff is easy to get through without being trashy. He's a fucked up puppy, though. That's why I thought it might be worth giving his Sci-Fi/Fantasy a go. I'll add those recommendations to the list, quite a bit to get through at the moment!

First of all I stopped reading completely for several years once I went to college and when I went back not much fantasy fell in front of me. The last fantasy I read was the first of the Philip Pullman trilogy, beautiful world he created, shocking writer, he may have got confused between writing through the eyes of a child and writing like a child, or maybe his daughter wrote it? I think years ago he would have been told that he had a solid story but to work on his writing, now the publishing houses see movie deals. I remember reading the about the arduous journey of Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance getting published - ten years or something like that - well worth the extra time, I would guess. I'm sure I've read other fantasy in recent years - I just can't think of any off hand, terrible memory. Actually, you might be able to tell me, Iain Banks Sci Fi/Fantasy stuff, worth a go? Keeping in mind my tastes - I like philosophy or anything a bit mind-bending, emotional stuff tends to bore me, unless it's really top notch.

That's me, but don't tell anyone. They need to patch BF - voice comms is one of the many issues - but if you take the bull by the horns (especially if you have a few on the team) and communicate, others will respond. I'll see very little of it once the World Cup starts so as long as it's patched for the end of July I'll be happy. I have COD but I found it a little too claustrophobic - don't think I;ve touched it since I got BF. There's also alot of strategy with the c4, vehicles etc which I felt was missing from COD. I know what you mean about the Arcade - I spend a thousand quid on a tv for this thing and I'm playing 80s arcade games.

I have no prejudice against fantasy, and yet I don't like the movies. They were, from what I saw and remember, fairly faithful adaptations, technically impressive and nowhere near as badly put together as Star Wars. But it was an empty 3 hour sleigh-ride x3. When I was young I read Lord of the Rings, felt it was a bit childish at the time, and went on to read fantasy for 10 more years. In fact, Lord of the Rings has got huge plaudits, so who are you talking about?

Plenty, Pirates of the Carribean off the top of my head. I wouldn't assume that because I'm critical of poor scripts and terrible plots, that I don't like all of a certain class of film. I'm by no means a film snob. I understand why Star Wars is in the top 10, although maybe not for the so postively crafted reasons you give, I was really just getting at you about your earlier argument about them being for kids - most of the stuff made for adults is worse than the kids stuff, if we give them crap they'll graduate to crap. You're the one who's trying to oust Michael Bay.