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I don't really have a lunch break, I tend to work through it so that I can doss more throughout the day as a whole.

Mongooses. Basic pub quiz knowledge, that.

We've just moved into a "purpose-built" () flat with buzzers on the doors and you still get the Jehovah's Witnesses coming round. Surely the whole point is that they get you on the doorstep and try to browbeat you into talking to them? It doesn't work quite as well when you don't have the eye contact and you can just put the entryphone down on them. As for the Mercury Prize, I suppose it was about time for a token nod to what the Germans call Bläck Music, regardless of whether it's actually any cop or not. The rest of the list was pretty arse - I like the FloJo, Bat For Lashes and Glasvegas albums to a greater or lesser extent, but none of them are exactly revolutionary. Mind you, you can't always trust the Germans to get it right.

This one? http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/38/...rown/Bloomsbury That'd be fine aye. Or if we want to be more Strand-side, there's the Lyceum Tavern which is also a Sam Smith's. Don't mind either way really!

I hope so. We've started a thread specially for him. Come back, Craig!

that's almost funny Even older than you though.

Stevie, I've never known anyone else quite so capable of giving with one hand while taking away with the other.

Being entirely selfish, Covent Garden would suit me brilliantly.

What happened then like Stevie? Haway man, don't you remember? btw Mackem ?

What happened then like Stevie? Haway man, don't you remember?

or fewer serious words Word.

Thursday this week? Well it's Eurovision night at the Retro Bar near Charing Cross if you fancy it. And in all seriousness - it doesn't start till 8.30, so give us a shout if you fancy a brew somewhere a bit more normal before I nip off for my night of camp glee. As for further meet-ups between us soft southern lot, nowt planned, but any televised game (or London-based away match, not that there are many in the near future) is fine by me. Can't do Ipswich due to being in Lanzarote at the time, mind.

I avoid Ryanair where possible, but sometimes the only airlines competing on a given route are just as bad in terms of hidden "extras" and lack of service - we looked into Aer Lingus for Gatwick-Dublin in November, say, and they were asking more for basically the same level of brutal indifference towards their customers. So we're flying Ryanair. To be fair to them, aside from one horrendous delay in Lübeck about eight years ago, I've never had a real problem with them - it's just rare to find a company where you feel unclean at the very prospect of using them.

which one ?

Jim would be devastated though.

Pedantry hat on again, but wouldn't it be a bit difficult for the 23 non-EU members to vote for more far-right MEPs?

Chance would be a fine thing. I hadn't seen the thread until now, wouldn't have done either but it came up on the front page as the top thread. "Haway" was the first thing that caught my eye. (Not bothering to click on the Newcastle forum until there's pedantry points to be won - now that is Newcastle United in 2009 for me.)

I just dreamt about her the other night, actually. She was appearing on Gladiators as a last-minute stand-in for Nightshade.

I'm boycotting the correct spelling of the word "boycott". (Please remember me for future translation jobs and don't hit me sorry sorry sorry )

Clearly insecure that the suspiciously similarly-named Richard Herring has had a better Edinburgh than him this year.

Strawmantastic.

What they all said mate, glad it's good news!

Well yeah, I didn't think it actually would be Badoer. But yeah, don't see why it wouldn't be Liuzzi since he has recent F1 experience and all.

My parents have a fairly expensive pedigree cat that they basically keep under lock and key. They even have this cage thing so she can get some fresh air in the garden without actually having any semblance of freedom. It's kind of warped.