Meenzer

Made a frankly heroic sausage casserole tonight. Nothing flashy, just dead good ingredients - quality meaty Cumberlands, piles of slowly caramelised onions, and carrots and spuds from the local wanky farmers' market. Autumn? What autumn?

They're showing Germany-Sweden on ESPN now. Fun fun fun.

No you won't. No you wouldn't.

A little something to while away the minutes of waiting...

Not true!

So they can make megabuck$$$ from lucrative movie franchises.

Every single dinnertime at wolfy's house:

That's your biggest porky pie yet.

That's exactly what THEY want you to think

Roger Milla (I know you mean current players but I firmly believe he's still scoring 30 a season somewhere)

Because you pick and choose your battles. Real sceptics would reject you, and rightly so.

Hypocrite.

You have no influence over the ingestion, digestion and excretion processes taking place within your body. All you see is food going in one end and a turd curling out the other. What do you think/believe/"know" happens between those two events?

Among anti-Semites and paedophile giants?

Brilliant trip, that one. "Shake a tail feather" at half-time, "Happy Birthday" for Sir Bobby, fucking off back to Cologne as soon as humanly possible and getting on the weird 200ml beers.

Just out of interest, what was it that changed your mind?

Bump, just in case this got forgotten on the last page.

aka the John Terry defence

Yeah they are, they're just different people to the ones you tend to encounter on here. You're a sheep.

Damn. Shatter my illusions, why don't you?

That's exactly my point, you wonderful, irony-averse thicko. You see "us" as one entity, The Group-Thinking All-Accepting Enemy, when "we're" nothing of the sort. You just need a big bad straw man to rail against otherwise your entire worldview would fall apart.