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The main reason we're leaving London in a couple of years is the knowledge that I need to be "on the ladder" (urgh) by 40, otherwise the system won't work for us at all. I'm grateful to be in a position where a two-salary household means we can actually afford to own somewhere sensible (that isn't in the south), but in the wider sense it's hugely depressing that I even need to feel like that's some kind of victory.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/13/under-35s-in-the-uk-face-becoming-permanent-renters-warns-thinktank

http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/17/newcastle-united-offered-shock-ronaldinho-transfer-deal-5697056/

All the single lads fans All the single lads fans All the single lads fans All the single lads fans

Classy board

Georgia are sending this to Eurovision. Not sure they got the memo.

If you had their history of being marched into places, you'd want to march as slowly as possible.

Hoyed this together today. Lush. #WomansHour http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/01/2008_28_fri.shtml

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/494143/Paul-Merson-predict-Aston-Villa-beat-Liverpool-Sunday

,,,,but.you.can't.teach.him.to.type,,,

I'd hope so, chum

Maybe their wives got up to this kind of stuff with people twice their age too. I reckon they should ask them, just to be sure.

Don't worry, Noelie used to stream 15-year-old Boy Seamen so it must be OK.

Harsh on CT, but fair

"Reading"

My excuse is I nicked that from Twitter. (And I'm sticking with it.)

http://www.tvm.com.mt/en/news/maltese-visit-less-porn-sites-during-eurovision-but-watch-more-porn-on-election-day/

I've certainly never felt particularly at home there or wanted to stay for any longer, but then I'm very much a northern type when it comes to Germany too. So I'm sure there is fun to be had in Munich, I just find it quite... artificial, I suppose? As for the esteemed Ayatollah's questions: There's loads of smaller but less appallingly busy beer halls around, you won't have to look too hard - every local brewery seems to have one or two, and there are tons of local breweries, so just look for a Biergarten sign outside. And! Most of them will do exactly the kind of authentic Bavarian scran you're after too, so no need to venture any further afield. Plus the one advantage of it being a touristy city is they all have menus in English... (For what it's worth, from my very loose memory I've been to the Augustiner Bräustuben, the Augustiner Keller and Paulaner am Nockherberg before, but they're all much of a muchness in terms of what they do - surely the only reason for my vague recollections - so I can't really recommend any one over the others. ) And get yourself to the Viktualienmarkt for lunch/daytime food, it's a foodie market with lots of stalls selling stuff from the vaguely posh to the "slabs of pig in a bun" type of thing you'll be needing to mop up a brutal hangover. And obviously they'll happily provide you with the hair of the dog too.