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Lazy foreigners. When I was freelancing in the 'Burg, I made a point of meeting a journo friend for lunch on a regular basis. She was fine company, but it was the subsidised meals - a main course for less than a euro, for god's sake - that really made it.

I'm listening to the A20 pouring its vehicular bile in the direction of Lewisham as I type this, so I have to ask: whyyyyyyyyyyy? (And where? I fancy a giggle.) It was has a Housing Association there on the high street, possibly the dullest weeks of my life. Glad to hear you've managed to partially escape that particularly fine part of the world. Likewise! I love central Lewisham though, it's a fine place to go and get your cheap fruit and veg and Primark goodies, just so long as you know you can escape afterwards...

I'm listening to the A20 pouring its vehicular bile in the direction of Lewisham as I type this, so I have to ask: whyyyyyyyyyyy? (And where? I fancy a giggle.)

Not that it's any consolation but I think that's an age thing I maintain it's a fucking twat thing.

OOH EEH OOH AHH AHH TING TANG WALLA WALLA BING BANG

God I hate everyone.

Wait, you weren't working there? Firstly, apologies for my sieve-like memory, and secondly, why the hell were you living there of all places? Mind you, if the alternative was Finsbury Park...

Never had you down as a muslim. Say that again and I'll put a fatwah on your head. I'm not Muslim but working in Saudi Arabia at the minute so have to observe Ramadan when in the office. Heading home tonight though. And I thought you were a bit exotic for working in Canary Wharf.

Oh no, absolutely. I don't mind the German approach at all, it's not like it stops white people from listening to it. Quite the opposite in fact. It's just a strange sensation when you ask someone what music they're into and they say "Bläck Music".

It's like being back at school. "No I'm not giving you dinner money, you can come back home and make yourself a sarnie instead." "But muuuuu-uuuuuum...."

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.