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Handy tip for people going to Sweden, that! ...oh.

Still, never mind - at least the same edition of the Sun was reporting on serious news stories alongside the sensationalist front page headlines. http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2007040776,00.html

Don't know if they still do it now, but back in the day the sponsors frequently got a meet-and-greet with the man of the match afterwards, so it was often a case of who (out of those who hadn't played atrociously) they fancied rubbing shoulders with the most...

Goodbye Catalonia's rose...

J69 told me you don't have to drink to have a good time anyway. You do if the option is hanging out with drunken Swedes while sober.

This is true. Mind, I'm coming from a London perspective, so it's more the OURAGEOUSLY POOR QUALITY BEER that'll be an issue. Though every single pub in Jönköping seems to sell Brown Ale, so there's hope yet.

Off to Sweden on Friday, and I've just been reminded by work that I asked for tomorrow off as well. Beer anyone?

Then when the hake is it?

See, I told them introducing a transfer window was a bad idea.

If you insist...

Mangrove snapper rainbow trout Atlantic Ocean perch, Pacific whiting rock sole starry flounder? Haddock!

Marvellous!

Never mind GOLD, can we have a RAINBOW forum for this one?

Gemmillist!

Well the Lib Dems thought it'd be nice to let one of their lady councillors take the job for a year... and then they looked at their pool of lady councillors and realised, well, that's about the best you're going to get

Oooo, hello About time we started to even up the Ugly Gap in the squad. Reckon we can still farm Milner out to Villa?

I'll bet it actually pained you to write that sentence So true.

Yeah, I don't remember getting homework until middle school and it hasint effected me in the slitest.

That makes more sense now. Besides, who wants Altona anyway?

I've got it in my head that Altona, at least, was properly Danish at some point or other.

Trying that Joanna Newsom's album. Nice enough, but I don't understand why it's got a reputation for being so "difficult", it sounds pretty standard to me.

"But ain't half of them Pakis?"

A casino in Middlesborough. The very thought is absurd. Indeed. What's wrong with lottery scratchcards?

"HSV Hamburg" just reminds me of when German commentators say "Arsenal London"