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Heading to Lanzarote on Saturday morning and it couldn't come a moment sooner. Sink a few pints for me in the meantime, I'll catch up at the weekend

BBC Sport headline: "Barton apologises for sending-off" Barton's actual comment: "Right, enough about yesterday, I apologise to everyone offended by it."

As for the lovely man in question, as long as he's not a proper Cath-word about it (and he wasn't), I'd far rather see a bit of indignant passion in our players than not. Besides, the kid was ginger, he's going to face worse things in life.

Racist

Ah right, got you. Euros finish on July 1st so hopefully that should be plenty of time for a bit of a rest though.

You drongo.

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Just booked a weekend trip to the shores of Lago Maggiore in July. Couple of friends/former housemates from my German days go there every summer, and it's about time I joined them.

Ach, that's basically German with the flag the wrong way up.

Excited. Engelbert's on Graham Norton in a few minutes. (Not literally.)

It's not avoidance, it's just awareness that there's no point in even discussing it. You think there's no comparability between Germany and the UK, I think comparing them is absolutely vital. Ergo: impasse. Besides, it's Friday night and you and I would both be better served by kicking back with a Hefeweizen, another fine German export product.

Nice

http://ignorehitler.tumblr.com/

Again, the point is that "cheaper" isn't everything. Bloody long last word on the matter, btw.

Every time I look at this thread it's got new extensions.

FYP

I've got that on audiobook, looking forward to getting stuck into it on holiday later this month.

[wry comment about filling the right holes so that going-down occurs, etc]

I was thinking about the concept earlier, actually, after seeing this: http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/05/the-tide-turns.html I've known a few couples in "open relationships", in a "the odd fling here and there is fine" kind of way, and that's already pretty alien to me (though it seems to work for them) so I really can't imagine having two or more partners who are ostensibly equal.

I grew up in the '30s with an unemployed father. He didn't complain about his lot on an internet forum. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking 'til he found it.

A. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibQZLHo7JAQ

I wouldn't wish her dead, but I'll happily celebrate the symbolism of her passing with a jar or five. And obviously when she does go, I hope it's during the football season just to see what happens if they try a minute's silence.

That era had its drawbacks too though. Their "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album had a massive cigarette burn right in the middle of "The Only Living Boy In New York".