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You do attract the wankers, don't you?

Do real people really do that? Never mind menstruation, that's a straight-out punchable offence.

Exactly. I've got standing orders for three charities and I'll give if friends are doing one-off events, but anyone who approaches me on the street brandishing a clipboard can fuck right off. Particularly since they're getting paid for it.

Cheers.

You have a very similar style and you log on at the same time. Are you school mates? I'll admit that our posts have something of a similar style at times, but that comes from being two of the more loquacious posters on here. ...sorry, did you say something?

Post naked before and after pics?

Anyone got any recommendations for his "albums" à la Hicks? I know they rarely capture an artist at his best, but I could use something for my mp3 player and there's tons of stuff out there.

Christ almighty.

Nah, never heard of them. They haven't had much press on this here island over the years.

Ballboy Craig used to help his idol in all kinds of "special" ways. Opponentus Incapacitandum!

I'd rather Spain won, but I don't mind either way. And I think it'll be Germany.

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... One or two I've met are at Airbus. Is Dave at DESY? One of the Spurs lot is from there. I'll pop into Finnegans and see if 'Dave' is around. I know a Dave from another 'lab' here and when drunk he is liable to write down state secrets on a napkin. I think he's at DESY, aye. One of those places anyway. I try to tune out whenever the conversation turns to anything with words of more than four syllables ("Foluwashola" aside).

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.