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That's fair enough, they're a lot tastier.

There once was a man from Nantucket...

Tomba La Bomba!

Bagsy not sharing with Noelie.

Speaking as someone who came through a university course with a 9:1 female:male ratio and now works in an industry with a similar statistic, I couldn't agree more.

2003 or 2004? What you on about? Craig invented everything on the Internet several years before anyone else first saw it, basically.

That point has already been Brocked.

well i suppose snow white does need help in panto season Bastard Paddy, it's not big and it's not clever mocking the not big and not clever FYP.

Was it him that was the cheating shit in the San Siro or was that some other Portuguese cheat? Are you not thinking of Conceicao? Or the referee? (Not bitter... absolutely not bitter...)

No, I tend to agree. There's no point in having a game that takes a ridiculous amount of time to play unless you revel in every last detail of it.

Reminds me of http://durrrrr.blogspot.com/ from a few years back...

Haha! "I'm the one you thought was a bloke then thought was a lass then thought was a bloke again" isn't the most conventional of chat-up lines, mind.

Aye, count me in.

Aaaand that's why some people live in London and others don't. Now be quiet, both of you.

Bit of both - I'm here because my fella was still studying here when I moved back to be with him. He's done now, but there's still more opportunities here than elsewhere in the charity sector he's landed in, so it's London for the time being. Neither of us bears any illusion that we'll be here long-term, but as something temporary to make the most of, we're making the most of it rather than being miserable. Trust me, I am too. On the flip side, the music scenes we're into - country/Americana, for one - often see people playing London then buggering off to Ireland for five days before flying back to the States. And for all we may have the likes of Stevenage and Dartford on the doorstep, there's also dirt-cheap flights to every corner of Europe to the extent that you don't get from Newcastle (unless your vision of Europe is limited to a dozen cities tops), so...

Really? My fella and I have a joint household income of half those magical six figures, yet it's still more than worth our while being here. Music-wise, every global tour worth its salt ends up here, which in itself is enough to keep us here for the time being since we hit the live music scene two or three times a month as standard (and obviously there's the added bonus of S'oH'o being Ghey Central, though I accept that even the old Pink Triangle isn't too shabby these days). I really don't get how anyone earning a decent penny - and I suppose I mean by average UK standards here, not the inflated proportions of the City, but still - can't get by as long as they apply the basic principles of standard, adult-issue financial management, just as long as they actively want to be here while knowing (like us, at least) that the Great Settling And Becoming Old Farts will ultimately take place elsewhere.

The Kinnock thing in 1992 pretty much gave them carte blanche to determine the mindset of White Van Man for the foreseeable future really.

It's horrible. Mind you, so's most of that neck of the woods. There's some canny pubs/bars down a few of the Soho side-streets (and no, I'm not just talking about G-A-Y Bar and its ilk ), but otherwise I'd happily avoid anywhere within a stone's throw of Tottenham Court Road tube for the rest of my days.

No senior politician is ever going to get away without being eviscerated by the press at some point. That's just how we work these days.

Wouldn't argue with that for a moment. I only ever take visitors along the South Bank, the rest is best left ignored. In a word, no. Where's that like? (Other than along the river, obviously. ) It's beside where all those little rent boys play on their skateboards. I think there's a pictures near by too. Oh, some of them don't charge. Part of the concrete hell that used to be Cardboard City then? The whole thing is some kind of brutalist virtual reality nightmare so I suppose it's appropriate.