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How fucking smug are you two?

Ooh, sorry. It's nice to know you care though.

Obviously the risk with doing it later in August is that we might be playing away that weekend (), in which case a few people might be on the road. I guess. But there are enough of us non-real fans that I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem.

The new £20 note is already basically a Euro for my money. If you look, the '£' sign is blatantly an 'E'. Thats just my two cents. Is this really an appropriate dime for money jokes? I'd already done one so I just thought in for a penny in for a pound. You dinar have to go that far, to be franc.

Well I suppose it's one way of preparing us for the aesthetic "qualities" of the euro.

I have a soft spot for unashamedly romantic-era piano concertos (Chopin, Rachmaninov and the like). That and doomy stuff à la Sibelius.

Well, bits of it are. Madrid's about level with Newcastle IIRC.

Happy birthday old boy! One for old times' sake:

A crushing blow for all involved.

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde. Sadly overshadowed by its predecessor's many merits.

Dates it a bit, mind.

¡Perrea! ¡Perrea!

We were channel-hopping late last night and caught a few minutes of "Happiness". Fella turns to me with this look on his face and simply asks "You bought the DVD of this, didn't you?". I came.

I don't believe you. Especially the bit about you having a lass. I hear he "conquered" her on a brief sortie into Polish border territory.

Alright, so just for interest's sake at this stage, would the first weekend of August (a) be doable for any of those who can't make it on the last weekend of July, and (not be doable for any of those who can make it on the last weekend of July? EDIT: Bloody emoticons.

I was going to say, if there's that many peeps can't make it...

Gareth Southgate?

Wigan just missed a pen.

"1616: RED CARD Birmingham And penalty to Man City. A howler from Rob Styles. An absolute stonewall howler. Franck Quedrue hauls down Benjani in the area - but Styles shows the red card to Radhi Jaidi. His linesman eventually sets Styles straight and Franck Quedrue is sent off." Papa Laz, the floor is yours...

Flights to Belgrade.

This: http://download.yousendit.com/974224257E08C4AC If I've had to suffer, everyone else should too.

Do you even have an excuse for that at the time? As you would have been early 20s/late teens. Cheeky fucker. Erm, my dad bought it for me?

I fully accept that there'll be some fuckups on the first day, including for reasons of "familiarisation" (there's only so much you can derive from trials with willing volunteers rather than actual dumb/harassed/tired/etc. passengers), but something on this scale is quite quite silly.

We need to introduce "Staggering Incompetence" as an Olympic sport, it's our only hope of a gold in 2012. (Well, that and the freaky diving boychild.) That's assuming the Games actually happen, of course...