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All "zero" drinks are rank.

Everything computer-related is a "file" for my mother. So she'll have an e-mail problem and tell you "I sent it from my file". Or "There's a picture in my file that I want to send." Inevitably, this degree of accuracy makes familial tech support an absolute joy.

Certainly m'dear, I'm doing the former on the weekend after the Frankfurt UEFA game and the latter a week later. Pick your poison.

Ditto. Will probably have an online splurge (as it were) at the start of December. Off to Cologne and Hamburg to do the Christmas markets, too, which'll cover a few of the twee parental gifts.

Ineligible I think. "in the picturesque Italian island"?

Now that's the best insult I've heard yet on here. I'm just not sure who should be more insulted.

Fucking hell.

Nowt wrong with wanting a fella who fills a pair of jeans nicely on both sides. But then I'm basically with Toonraider. I also have something up top that makes me outright unable to find anyone attractive beyond the level of "well, I suppose he's objectively good-looking" (spot the gay nerd ) until I actually know them properly. Which makes me something of an outcast on the 'scene'.

Absolute bollocks if some people are to be believed tbh Exactly, why would anyone living outside Newcastle have a clue what people outside Newcastle are saying about the club?

Oi, surely that's my line?

So I see

What kind of cruel parents would you have to have? Genghis... Attila...

Speaking of minging, be sure to avoid anywhere Smooth Operator's worked.

I'd be more worried about your pending lawsuit if I were you! I also have some good contacts in The Federation Against Software Theft................... I remember them from back in the day. "Copy this £1.99 Spectrum game on your hi-fi and we will come round and kidnap your parents!" Aye right.

I love how Slovenia generally didn't bother with the whole "let's decamp to the UK" thing after EU accession. What were the figures again? Something like 250,000 Poles, 70,000 Lithuanians, 50,000 Slovaks... and about 300 Slovenes. Talk about a snub.

Don't know if this lot'll help at all, but I know someone who got a decent job from there. They might be more focused on finding positions abroad though. http://www.eurolondon.com/ Can't hurt to fire a CV off with a list of requirements, at least.

Volha Satsuk - Tantsui Feel the Junior Eurovision goodness.

Aye, belated Glückwunsch and all that

Fuck, that'd explain it.

The story from 'the palace' is that it was removed as it was interfering with her head scarf. She and Chuck are in Pakistan (visiting Aimaad22 perhaps?) so I guess the headscarf was for that reason i.e. muslim state. Respecting living forruners over plucky-but-dead British heroes? Clearly asking for trouble tbh.

There are days when I want to pack most of the British population into a WWI trench and mustard-gas the fuckers.

Quite right, Gemmill, that will be her reaction when she sees your pic Tongue out and panting tbh. After running a mile.

I went there for a day in '98, when we were in Budapest for the European Athletics. Canny place indeed, superb coffee and cakes, and it was nice to be somewhere where the language wasn't completely disorienting (even the way they insist on speaking it). Though my abiding memories remain the look I got from the sales assistant when I bought the Guildo Horn single and the flap-opening-out-onto-the-tracks toilet on the Romanian train back to Hungary.

Aye, not looking forward to the procession of local brats tomorrow night. Will probably just draw the curtains, turn off the lights and hope that the flickering of the telly doesn't alert them to the presence of someone just a window-smashing pumpkin's lob away.