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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21502937 Any idea as to why Dear Leader is wasting his time on things like this that don't concern him in the slightest?

Ohhh yeah

Nar. Plenty of good stuff that's happened to me wouldn't have happened otherwise.

Poppins is over-long imo - too much banks and Banks - but obviously the main setups are classics and rightly so. The one time I watched Mamma Mia I felt genuine embarrassment for everyone involved. Can you imagine being at one of those cinema screenings where people supposedly danced and sang in the aisles? There's a fine case for mass human culling right there.

Surely one from the CT repertoire:

If I were a crueller man, I'd point out that you could have said "like they used to give the players at half-time" rather than "like they give you with the hot towels after you've gorged on the Emperor's Banquet at the Ming Dynasty". But I'm not.

Stephen Fry knows what's what: https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/303815551413784576/photo/1

I've not been to get my hair cut since 1994. I am now clearly winning this thread.

Aye. A lot of that kind of thing comes down to what you're brought up with, I suppose. My fella's grandad always used to ask for his veg well cooked if we were out for a Sunday roast or whatever, until he had someone else's by mistake one time and realised that a bit of bite and some actual flavour are better than a mouthful of watery mush with the memory of a vegetable floating in it. Mind he happily orders spicy dishes nowadays too, so it could just be that his tastebuds are fucked.

Aye, the city centre might be a bit optimistic! From the map, the airport's not too far from the sea and somewhere like Pendik looks like it might have a nice enough marina/seafront that you could get a taxi to, but whether there'd be any bars open in a fairly residential area at that time of day...

Only if there was a towel nearby for afterwards. I'm not a monster.

That would require a German who understands puns.

I'd call that pretty manly insofar as it's exactly the kind of thing I'd expect you blokes to do. Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, am I right sistahs?

McDonalds in Germany now do a McCurrywurst.

Well if you will elect a bunch of boarding school buggers.....

Bastid. Anyway, I'd say there's nowt I'd allow up there, but the last time I did that I got told I wasn't a proper gay. Going back to the original post, if being overweight and never spending money on clothes unless unavoidable make a person "manly" based on the criteria of this thread, then hear me fucking roar.

On a train to Frankfurt, heroically hungover. The trio of old dears opposite have spent the last hour complaining about a "vibration" in the carriage and are showing no signs of stopping.

I'm celebrating Valentine's Day by buggering off to Germany for four days. I've left him a giant lasagna in the fridge though (not a euphemism) (not that I have any idea what it could be a euphemism for, anyway).

Saw Brandi Carlile tonight. Genuinely the most fun I've had at a gig for years. Amazing voice and great entertainment.

I remember some Le Tissier-esque "too far norf" quotes being attributed to Salako at the time, but that might just have been the Chronicle being the Chronicle

Wait, what's whoopee?

Given how quick you are to equate "women" to "gay men", I do wonder what goes through your mind when you're banging your lass.

The only common ingredients are the garlic and soy sauce.

How is that even......whu.......hnhhh......