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Nah, you only have to spend a bit of time in the Balkans to realise that they're way past anything we could ever manage in terms of festering regional/racial/religion-based divides. Of course, once Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Macedonia are all safely incorporated into the EU, alongside Turkey... anything could happen.

You have to laugh, though this building obsession about us being the same person is vaguely pathetic. You'll get used to it.... Me and Gol have put up with it for years And you're unanimous about that.

Oh man. Primary school dinners. Stodge topped with custard or, if you were very lucky, brown custard.

'Twas ever thus in politics. Besides, when you've got places like Germany/Benelux etc. with their kneejerk "OMG AMERICA IS SATAN"-spouting populations involved, even an ultra-corrupt EU will survive for decades simply on the "better to be in a flawed bloc than none at all" argument.

Do you fraternise with any of the Newcastle lot? There's a canny lad called Dave (particle physicist with a ponytail) who usually props up the bar in Finnegans, though when our games were on Five all the time in our UEFA Cup Group Stage glory days we'd spend many a Thursday evening trying to teach the addled barman in Titanic how to change the channel on the landlady's dodgy satellite system...

Aye, to paraphrase Thatcher, any man who finds himself still using Internet messageboards in his late 20s can count himself a failure in life.

Aye. Upload them to YouTube.

Small butt-ist.

Hurrah, the countries represented by the Grauniad's two best bloggers are in the final. My middle-class leftie heart beats happily tonight.

I hope you're being sarcastic. Then again, it won't affect the city your team are from, where employing anyone would be a first. Move to the modern age, this law has been in place in Europe for years ... you island monkeys (as you are commonly known as in Europe) are so far behind it`s unreal. Only in German-speaking countries I'd have thought?

Saw her/them in concert in April - works much better live than in studio IMHO, it comes across as far more playful and vibrant. Still a canny album though, as you say.

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

That seems reasonable enough to me really. If they have a "no nudity" policy then you're not going to risk your job by going against that, no matter how innocent the request. Other Cake Shops May Exist...

Blanket on her lap and a hipflask of gin hidden in her knitting.

Makes sense. I wouldn't risk having a mob of Portsmouth chavmothers descend on my doorstep brandishing "PEODOPHILS OUT" placards just for kicking a ball back in the park or something.

I always love it when Stevie posts his MSN conversations. Besides, Newcastle's figure of 19.53% isn't exactly anything to write home about.

I always knew that Lahm kid would come good, even as he's become more angular and less jailbait.

Fuck's sake.

Macs never go wrong </geektwat>

Aye, howay the Jormans. Finish them off in 90 minutes and I'll be a happy bunny.

There'll be more than a few people who had money on Djokovic to win the whole thing mind. Cracking result for Safin.

Could be worse, could have been Country House. Aye. I suppose ultimately Blur won the battle, Oasis won the war, then Blur enjoyed a successful period of demilitarisation, peace and prosperity while Oasis remained entrenched. Or something.

Doomed to forever be the sound of sunny days in '94 and '95.

No. I can just imagine how funny the rest of that sites content is I agree as scenarios go it is the worst case one, but don't imagine for a minute the Americans haven't evaluated that one. Unfortunately they likely used the GPS coordinates for Mongolia, or Peterborough. And how would anyone notice the effects of a global military campaign in either of those places?