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And no sharp edges.

Just so long as they don't involve any fucking stupid big glasses.

And she still let you visit her in America?

She was the looker in the band, I'll say that much...

I'll often use Wiki to get an overview of a subject and as a springboard to more reliable sources, so it serves its purpose well in that sense, just like I wouldn't write an academic piece with Britannica as my only source. I'll also often use Wiki as a way of turning 2am on a weeknight into 6am.

I prefer Aqua the band. Their videos always portrayed a sense of understated majesty.

I love that argument, it's straight out of the "I bet you couldn't write a better song than the rubbish guitar band I worship!" drawer. If a player can't hack a bit of abuse on an Internet messageboard then how'd you imagine they cope with playing in front of tens of thousands of abusive fans every other week, genius?

Naah, it's not because I believe a word Gemmill says that I call you a fatty, it's because it clearly winds you up.

It's nowt special or anything, just the kind of comprehensive book of standard recipes every kitchen should have. And it has pretty pictures in it.

Just make sure you don't accidentally use Rice Krispies. According to the kid on that fucking advert, they're so difficult to tell apart from normal rice.

I sometimes get wor lass to talk French She's got French A-level like Pour aller à la gaaaaaare, s'il vous plaît!

I'd hope not as you wouldn't fit through the door, etc.

Sounds positively Partridge-esque. Do they have a carvery?

The quarter-finals of the 2006 Lithuanian Eurovision preselection

After protracted "negotiations", we've come to a mutually acceptable solution (with happy finish).

I'll buy a copy off you if you like. Be glad to get it off my hands, it's either that or taking it back to HMV and claiming I've lost the receipt. Next piss-up you're at, I'll buy it off you. How much do you want for it? Time to take this to PM I think.

10PM?

I'll buy a copy off you if you like. Be glad to get it off my hands, it's either that or taking it back to HMV and claiming I've lost the receipt.

The entire 1987-era team at the Rupali in the Bigg Market, celebrating Darren Jackson's birthday. (In 1987, I hasten to add.) Ahh, the curry and beer school of nutrition...

Aye, I was going to say, it's not bad value for what it is. Especially when you get two copies for Christmas. Anyone need a spare?

Describing her talent as "modest" is already pushing it.

Aye, I was saying (in that whole other thread about the same subject ) that one of my new year's resolutions, insofar as I have any, is to cook more stuff from scratch. I actually bought a nifty little Kenwood food processor with some Eldon Square vouchers my rellies got me last Christmas, then managed to not use it at all for the best part of, ooh, 12 months. But now that I've started, I'm a soup-makin', gratin-bakin' machine. Yer Jamie/Ainsley-type books are fantastic, particularly the meals-in-minutes variety, but for the more basic stuff your mother would have taught you if (a) you were a girl, ( you lived in the 1950s and © she didn't spend all her time in Wetherspoons, this one's an absolute godsend: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Housekeeping-...TF8&s=books