Meenzer

Oh hello, mate of yours now, is it? Rule change.

I put it through Google Translate and got "I live in a dog-ugly, run-down part of London, hence my natural affinity towards Sunderland", if that's any good to you.

Sunderland is in the north of the country, Titus. Did you turn the wrong way out of Wigan? na i was born in durham but live in london where I be chillin n gettin jiggy wiv me bitches yeaaaaahhh dog livin it up in lewisham u kno wat i mean Seriously? I thought there was a strange smell in the air, but I just put it down to the SELCHP plant.

The only defence the Lib Dems can call upon is "what the hell else could we have done?". I think that should hold some sway come the next locals, in light of how they would have been slaughtered by the Tory media if they'd refused the coalition, but it won't. And maybe that's fair enough.

You can burn most formats to audio CD these days. Store them in whatever format you want.

What next, Phil and Kirsty have a vested interest in house prices rising and Ainsley Harriot isn't white?

Roger McGough is turning in his grave.

It rhymed for the first couple of lines, so I assumed he fancied himself as a modern-day Roger McGough. Turns out he was barely a modern-day Northern Uproar.

Been there yourself lately? It must be hard to find the time when you're trying to work out how long your mp3s are.

So essentially we just need to "have" Thatcher, then.

"ARGH!!!"? Always been my lucky syllable.

Aye, he could be a right cunt. It's one of those things I suppose, if it was a team sport like football then you'd want him on your side rather than playing against you, but when it's individual (and let's be honest, the constructor's championship matters to nobody other than the constructors themselves), it's far dodgier. You probably either have to be a Schumi-style robot or have a few screws loose to properly make it in motorsport though, so it's horses for courses I guess.

Spending more time on Old Compton Street then Fish? Nah, Meenzer assures me it's no longer the place to meat new people. Too right. Old people, on the other hand... I heard you like them "gummy" and infirm It makes a change when you wake up in the morning, they can't remember who you are and it's not because of alcohol.

Typical liberal left-wing Jew-hating BBC bia...oh wait.

Spending more time on Old Compton Street then Fish? Nah, Meenzer assures me it's no longer the place to meat new people. Too right. Old people, on the other hand...

Yeah, that was Roland Ratzenberger. Decent piece, obviously, but I'm buggered if I'm giving anyone credit for noticing that Senna was quite good at what he did. I think the fact that was being pointed out Martin is that we're a generation on and those that are too young to remember Senna, or weren't even born when he died have little or no appreciation for his talent - he was just 'that driver who died'. No, Craig, I think you'll find the point was that I'd had a glass of wine too many and was in a bit of a strop.

Genetically modified so that Smooth Operator had somewhere to rest his beer while spunking into Donna Air's ample hair. Or so I've been told, possibly by an unreliable narrator.

You were posting here at five years before Kevin's age , and no you weren't quite. But then you weren't [a] a pisshead and crippled by Irish genes. Have some empathy for the afflicted, man.

(by which I mean the adjective, not the dwarf)

Wacky!

Yeah, that was Roland Ratzenberger. Decent piece, obviously, but I'm buggered if I'm giving anyone credit for noticing that Senna was quite good at what he did.

Absolutely don't buy that, I'm afraid, and I'm about the furthest from a Ferrari apologist you can get except when Badoer is involved - couldn't stand them as a kid (and I maintain that's when your views are set in stone when you're an F1 nut), quite aside from the Schumacher era of sheer boredom which I could only bring myself to follow from a distance. The simple fact is that the matey banter among the BBC gang (frustrated former team owner, frustrated former driver and, erm, Jake Humphrey) about "Ferrari International Assistance" and the general sense of ZOMG ITS SO UNFARE wouldn't be happening if the roles were reversed and the British drivers were in the pwetty red cars this season. Or, I suspect, if the previous most famous incident of this kind hadn't involved Schumacher (rather than Ferrari). Not saying a national broadcaster should be inherently unbiased given the audience it serves - though we're mercifully without the James Allen orgasms these days - but there are times when it's desperately transparent.

Unless they could have found a way to punish Alonso instead. I exaggerate, but it's interesting all the same - the whole McLaren vs. Ferrari vs. The Powers That Be narrative does seem to be providing ample smoke to cover up Red Bull's many transgressions. The post-race BBC coverage pretty much came from Red Bull's catering tent, so you have to wonder about the impartiality of it all. And of course Webber's an Aussie, so there's double the British media hypewank if he wins the Championship rather than Vettel.