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"You show me yours and I'll rub it better" was always a favourite.

There's no point in being a reviewer if you're not a bit of an arrogant sod too, mind.

Totally misread that at first and thought "bloody hell, his workplace gets Greggs deliveries? From a tractor?"

"Your order is on its way and will be delivered to you by Yodel. Soon after this email is sent you will be able to track your delivery by clicking on the link below." The item in question arrived five hours ago.

I've sort of grown tired of Coupland after jPod and The Gum Thief were so underwhelming, to be honest. Will surely check it out sooner or later though. I know what you mean but this friend of mine reckons it's a return to form. I actually respect their taste in books as well, which is unusual I'll let you know what I think if I read it before you do. Took me a while ...but aye, "return to form" is the phrase, definitely. Enjoyed it a lot more than his recent efforts. Some of the characterisation and cute tricks are the usual fare, but even then, a lot less hackneyed somehow. While we're talking "about time too", I've just polished off Empire Of The Sun. Very taken by the fact/fiction/unreliable narrator/descent into chaos of it all. Never seen the film but as it's Spielberg, I imagine it isn't anywhere near as surreal or nuanced.

Zath = ledge

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Fuck me, that's a find.

1. I'm drinking a generous hot toddy... 2. ...and eating prawns... 3. ...while looking through photos from last weekend in Vilnius. Cracking city and cheap as chips. 4. I actually laughed out loud (once) at an episode of Outnumbered just now. 5. I've just ordered a new netbook after heroically falling asleep and spilling Coke into my old one.

But mine has a terminal illness. And no legs.

And there are more kids dying of famine than there are soldiers dying in wars. It's just such a stupid argument to even make.

maoam maoam maoam maoam maoam maoam maoam maoam maoam

iRIP.

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Shame. Like what I know of his a lot. Strong output across the years too:

Omm nom nom.

PLEASE GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Bollocksed it up. Was doing OK until halfway then cramped up something evil and had to half-jog, half-PowerWalk™ the rest of the way for a 2:36 finish. Running further than 6 miles in training might be a good idea next time. Great experience, all the same, and I'd happily do it again/recommend it to anyone.

At the risk of being politically correct, male-to-female gender reassignment ≠ drag queenery.

Something tells me cwarr07 was expecting a Bond movie.

(sorry)

Enterprise is the (only) one I've used too, largely because it's the closest to here, but they've never given me any reason to grumble.

Smashing. Two encores, gorgeous acoustics, pretty decent support act too. Random cover of the Smashing Pumpkins' "Disarm" in the middle of the set and all.

Had free cinema ticket voucher thingies with an expiry date of 30 September so we toddled along to see Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy tonight, as it was the best thing on offer at Vue Croydon (we were sorely tempted by the remastered Jurassic Park, mind you). Mine's a similar reaction to many expressed on the previous page - generally liked it, thought the pacing and visuals were interesting and there were some nice touches. It did feel like they were trying to cram in a bit too much at times, but I suppose fans of the book/TV series would have complained if there'd been too much plot tweaking. Could have waited for DVD really, but not at all bad as reasons for visiting Croydon go.