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I couldn't agree more.

It's the abortion of a football match you could expect with Rehhagel sending a team out tbh. Oh, I don't know. Turned out enjoyable enough Masochist? Rehhagel makes Allardyce looking like an advocate of attacking football. Really painful watching and even Gunter Netzer looked angry in the post match chat. Isn't that his natural state? I him though.

Embrace - Drawn From Memory An improbably enjoyable romp in the middle of a career of persistent mediocrity.

It failed on the "power" front. And the "nap" part was somewhat lacking, unfortunately. I'm now attempting to zonk myself out with a bottle of Leffe and a 40-page translation of accountants' job descriptions.

Bollix.

Marvellous. Learned a new fact and the day is only an hour old. G'night, by the way!

I have an impostor Is that how you even spell "impostor"? It looks... wrong.

It's not, but damn that's eerie, right down to the pattern of the receding hairline.

Fuck me, is it half-term already?

So he focused on neither? Cockend.

Good on the lad Kubica. The Polish and German anthems played back-to-back in two very different places within a few minutes of each other. Cute...

Canny match too. Portugal look solid.

I only realised last time I was in Hamburg how many Portugese are living there. A couple of very good restaurants though... Great food allround. By the Hafen especially. Couple of years back on NYE me and the Mrs had a great meal and I'd left all me cards at home...They just let us off. One in the Schanzenviertel was really brilliant. La Sepia? Sim. That's the one. Excellent. Love it, right down to the black-bordered photo of the (deceased) head of the family with the accompanying text that rattles on about "ETERNA SAUDADE" and all. So very Portuguese. If you're ever back in that neck of the woods again, the Greek place next door (Olympisches Feuer) is awesome too.

Meanwhile in the wacky world of non-food conversation, goal.

I only realised last time I was in Hamburg how many Portugese are living there. A couple of very good restaurants though... Great food allround. By the Hafen especially. Couple of years back on NYE me and the Mrs had a great meal and I'd left all me cards at home...They just let us off. One in the Schanzenviertel was really brilliant. La Sepia?

I love the way they plugged the DVD release over the end credits. It's like they know their target audience is sad fucks with nothing better to do than stay at home on a Friday night then trade Peep Show quotes with their mates on an Internet messageboard. Hm.

We have a first-round results prediction competition rather than a sweepstake. Bloody Germans...

I couldn't be bothered to read all that, but UEFA = GAY regardless.

Ah, but surely one is better than the other? Wait, I feel another thread coming on... in a manner of speaking

He was alreet

So Alan Coren and Humphrey Lyttleton are dead, while Russell Brand and Big Brother survive. This country is dooooomed.

Assuming we're not including alcohol and ventolin, I don't. I rarely use my spray these days, but I do know from experience it opens things up a treat just before a long hit of ganga. Hah. We picked up a bunch in Serbia because they're non-prescription there, maybe I should start an import business.

Having exhausted the mechanics of the subject I think a philisophical debate around when standing becomes sitting. If a person in a cubicle sits down to wipe their arse and there's no-one there to see it, did they actually sit down? Depends. Are they civilised or a barbarian?

The U.S. singles chart is largely worthless anyway, since it's predominantly airplay-driven. Although things have improved a bit since digital sales came in.

Wait, so raising one buttock from the seat to make room for your wiping hand counts as "standing" now? Don't tell me this whole schism stems from a basic misunderstanding like that?