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It'll be #2 tomorrow apparently. Outsold 5:1 though. Ho hum.

William Gaillard wishes you a thoroughly rules-compliant birthday.

OK. My no-brand German running shoes are finally giving up the ghost after several years of me giving them a damn good pounding, so I'm after a new pair (preferably with a tasty pre-/post-Christmas sales discount, but that's not vital). Only trouble is I don't think I've ever bought a pair of functional shoes in this country. Anyone got any recommendations? (I realise that these things are brutally subjective, foot-shape-specific and all the rest of it.) I'm not looking for serious running gear, more something that's suitable for the three-times-a-week jogger.

There's already a pretty comprehensive thread on favourite albums. Or are you after specific "tracks", daddy-o?

There's nowt better than drinking at your desk legitimately and without having to sneak a bottle of Not Exactly Pure Coca-Cola out of your desk every so often and all.

Bill Haley And His Comets

Oh look at Mr. Lah-di-dah London over there, receiving a blowjob indeed. What happened to good old-fashioned getting?

Well, yes and no - my landlord, like so many, has a buy-to-let empire of properties that could easily collapse any time soon, so future security isn't exactly a given. But obviously in the grand scheme of things, anything that brings houses (rather than plywood boxes) back into the realms of the sensibly affordable has to be positive.

Well if they wanted a crash but they're trying to get a mortgage now, when there's still a good 30-50% to go, then they weren't really in it with their heart and soul in the first place anyway.

Well that's it. If we could just persuade everyone to take the hit now, rather than stringing it out, we could start recovering sooner. But instead we get measure after measure to prolong any kind of positive movement, so the downside will be even longer and tougher than it needed to be. Ho hum.

And you bought EDS, you buggers. They used to be our customer. HP bought us. I used to be your customer. A-ha.

And you bought EDS, you buggers. They used to be our customer.

The phrase "Magma chamber" does have a certain "Monroe transfer" quality to it.

Exactly - and if the end consumer can't finance their "buying" with cheap credit any more, there's a trickle-down effect that ultimately fucks the entire economy.

I just commissioned a survey of 1 person. 100% of those surveyed said that you need to learn how to use sentences.

Happy stuff and that.

We had to laugh as my dad is 1950's serial killer, Ed Gein. © Viz

German TV still shows "interesting train journeys" in the middle of the night (or at least it did when I was living there). In real time, no less. Burma was a particular favourite, for some reason, even though the trains travel at a crawl and they'd only show 30 minutes or so a night. And there's some travel channel up in the mid-200s on Sky that has a regular feature called "Swiss Railway Journeys". Never was a title more promising.

Well I'm completely lost.

I should have mentioned that I needed Milan to win too. Bugger.

My Paddy Power account could use a goal for Deportivo round about now.

Well now aren't you familiar for a newbie.

You're a braver person than I, If they throw their knickers at him I hope they take the tena out first!! eugh, I bet the stadiums stink of piss for days after. Open air I should think. I'm actually speechless.

I reckon he probably is. And for all he's getting on a bit, if I could fill arenas with tens of thousands of screaming ladies of a certain age year after year, I'd probably do it. Even if they are scary as fuck. EDIT: Gay, that is. Way to give a yes/no answer to a hetero/homo question.