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it does mean your alcohol tolerance is shot to hell though..... 156433[/snapback] ho, ho , ho - you wish 156537[/snapback] SANTA!!! I want a Bike and a Fireguard and a Monacle and a Frying pan and a Potato and a Garden centre and a Disused warehouse and a Superpower and an Armadillo and a Quark and a West Side story dvd and an Epistology book and a Ringworm and a Tryst and a Zinfandel and X-Ray vision and a Concubine and a Vestibule and a Nine inch Nails murder kit and a Haribo factory and a Jalapeno pepper and a Killing spree and a Liger and an Indigenous People to call my own and a Unicycle and a Yacht. 156594[/snapback]

Could have had a Jap's eye out tbh

600+ votes for Scott Carson.

Metalwork O-level? A night class in IT literacy? A Media Studies degree? Do tell!

Only the third stanza ("Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit...") is protected as the proper national anthem and sung on official occasions these days - the "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles..." stanza variously fell out of use/was banned/etc. after WW2, more because of what it was associated with than its content (the aforementioned line being less inflammatory than it initially sounds to the foreign ear). So he's not totally wrong, insofar as "Deutschland..." is still the first stanza of the original song - but it's most definitely not part of the anthem. I reckon you can safely claim those Aussie pesos!

Happy Girthday!

You sell winks to kiddies? Porvort!

Superb game. Nice to have something to actively enjoy for once!

Not to be pre-emptive or anything, but apparently Wacky's heard from me that Smooth Operator likes a hot meat filling in his chocolate.

Big fan, aye. Really ought to get my hands on JPod. 155822[/snapback] Aye, it's the only one I haven't read now. Well, of his fiction stuff anyway. Have you read any of his non-fiction stuff? 155830[/snapback] Nope, I haven't either, would be curious to know if it's in the same kind of territory. Of course I could just buy and read, but that'd be too easy... 155849[/snapback] Just started reading that last night, haven't read any of his stuff before but it seems very canny. Is it worth digging in to the rest of his back catalogue? 156296[/snapback] In my experience, if you like one Coupland novel you'll tend to like them all, more or less. That's not to say he's predictable, but he does have a certain style.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/5144300.stm Stroke gives woman foreign accent A Geordie woman has apparently developed foreign accents after waking up following a stroke. Linda Walker awoke in hospital to find her distinctive Newcastle accent had been transformed into a mixture of Jamaican, Canadian and Slovakian. The 60-year-old may have Foreign Accent Syndrome, where patients speak differently after a brain injury. The former university administrator says she hates what has happened to her and now feels like a different person. Mrs Walker said: "My sister-in-law said that I sounded Italian, then my brother said I sounded Slovakian and someone else said I sounded French Canadian. "But the latest is that I sound Jamaican, I just don't know how to explain it. "Everybody is obviously hearing me differently. "I didn't realise what I sounded like, but then my speech therapist played a tape of me talking. I was just devastated." Researchers at Oxford University have found that patients with Foreign Accent Syndrome have suffered damage to tiny areas of the brain that affect speech. The result is often a drawing out or clipping of the vowels that mimic the accent of a particular country, such as Spain or France, even though the sufferer has limited exposure to that accent. The syndrome was first identified during World War II, when a Norwegian woman suffered shrapnel damage to her brain. She developed a strong German accent, which led to her being ostracised by her community. Different sounds Dr Nick Miller, a senior lecturer in speech language science at Newcastle University, said the condition could occur in patients who had suffered a stroke or other brain injury. He said: "The stroke has affected the coordination between different muscle groups like the lips, tongue and vocal chords. "The balance has been changed and certain sounds get distorted so vowels and consonants take on different sounds. "Intonation is also affected so sometimes it will fall at the end of a sentence and sometimes it will rise." Mrs Walker added: "I've lost my identity, because I never talked like this before. I'm a very different person and it's strange and I don't like it. "It's very hard and I get very upset in my head, but I'm getting better."

Before the snip?

Dad? 156217[/snapback] Pipe and slippers for that man!

The line I heard was "evil bastards from Italian TV sent the footage to FIFA and insisted blah blah blah". Love it.

Aye, but what about buying some coffee?

No, it shows him blowing his whistle.

You think we had it bad with Sven - we could've gone abroad, looked at managers' records and ended up with Berti Vogts

Aye. Bad few days for British sport really.

Depends. Should be busy for another half-hour or so on this translation. Hopefully work won't send me anything more before the end of the day and I can watch Wimbledon in peace.

Big fan, aye. Really ought to get my hands on JPod. 155822[/snapback] Aye, it's the only one I haven't read now. Well, of his fiction stuff anyway. Have you read any of his non-fiction stuff? 155830[/snapback] Nope, I haven't either, would be curious to know if it's in the same kind of territory. Of course I could just buy and read, but that'd be too easy...

There's some decent arguments being made on both/all sides here: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/worldcup06/200...me_ronaldo.html Need to get some work done today, though, so no chance of reading it all...

BOLLIX to ye. On a triple-word score.

Big fan, aye. Really ought to get my hands on JPod.

iLiKETRAiNS - Terra Nova

Pff, who doesn't?