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I'm sure we can manage at least three pages taking the piss out of "F.O.A." alone.

Yeah, there's no point getting anything small really, larger drives aren't proportionally more expensive and everyone's data storage needs are only going to keep going through the roof anyway. There's a terabyte of external HD space in this flat now. 2x250GB and 1x500GB, Maxtor and Western Digital respectively - have never had any problems with either brand, though both have some shockingly bad online reviews as well as plenty of excellent ones.

Says the woman who has 17 posts in here. To be fair, if it wasn't for people going "xx pages ffs, get a grip", this thread would probably be about 4 pages shorter

Just finished Will Aitken - "Terre Haute". Standard-issue gay coming-of-age/older male seduction scenario. Reasonably atmospheric but nowt special. Now in the middle of JT Leroy's "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things", which is about as disturbing as I'd expected so far. Meanwhile, the book mountain in the corner currently includes Brookmyre's "A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil" and that "All Played Out" book about Italia '90 that everyone says is class. Oh and I've just ordered this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Onions-Our-Dumb-Wo...0814&sr=8-1 Flicked through it in HMV the other day and made a right twat of myself giggling every few seconds, so I had to really.

Thank god. I know nothing about the fella and I'm still sick of hearing his name.

I meant to gloat about beating the Fish at Facebook Chess the other day, but I forgot. He's sulking and won't take his turn at Scrabulous now.

I remember when Keegan finally relented and reinstated Pav at Hooper's expense. Some street cleaner bloke accosted us on Gosforth High Street during our lunch hour and told us the happy news. You forget just how mad the city went for any scrap of football news back then, even compared to now. Come to think of it, it might have been the same fella who told us that Labour leader John Smith had croaked. Strange chap.

Ah, I've just read up on beerintheevening and the aforementioned Cock & Lion is where "most of the former Barley Mow Newcastle United fans now come", so that's probably a better bet. Ignore my last post then.

I went to the Barley Mow on Duke Street (near Bond Street tube) for a few games last season after being told the place was Toon-friendly, and it basically is - a group of lads/lasses with Toon shirts gathered at one end of the bar and general indifference from everyone else, which is probably about the best you'll ever get in London. Stopped going there after they unexpectedly decided not to show one game (Chelsea (h) in April I think) and found a friendly boozer out near me instead, mind, so I can't guarantee they'll actually be any cop...

"Cum fae" Aye thanks, got a new chair.

...for every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows... Count me in on the bandwagon. I've become so disillusioned and cynical recently that a dose of mid-90s-style rollercoasterism is probably just the tonic.

Spot on with your post (and everyone else's) though.

Pint to drown your sorrows? A swift visit to SE14 should give you some perspective on life.

Surely someone must have said the same about Pearson after Saturday...?

so did we score?

God, you can tell this fella was raised on Vic and Bob and just wishes he was as wacky as them.

He was stupid to get wound up by the challenge on him and retailiate, but you must admit the first challenge was rough too. Oh of course. Probably only deserved a yellow though... but for it to not even be a foul is abit weird. Yellow for both I'd say, but then I didn't see an angle on the Beeb that showed Emre's challenge to be anything more than petulant. Then again, that seems to be enough these days, and he should have known that. I'd still love to see it from the ref's perspective.

Shearer: "It remains an ambition of mine to manage [Newcastle] some day, when that will be I don't really know." On Keegan: "It'll be exciting." Then Hansen repeating the "they get 6, we'll get 7" fallacy. Great.

He was stupid to get wound up by the challenge on him and retailiate, but you must admit the first challenge was rough too.

Just saw the half-time highlights on BBC. Emre was a bit daft, but - for all the Beeb's commentator wailing "where's the consistency??? was a bit cringeworthy - he's got a point. Uriah Rennie as we know and love him, basically.

Only if he gets the funds

Reluctant as I am to align my opinion to that of a smelly student :nufc: , he's got a point. People would have been sniping at us regardless of whoever we'd signed up. Let's just enjoy the nostalgia value for now and see what happens along the line.

Saves me having to say it. "...and oh, how we wish we could summon up the ghost of Ronnie Radford for a bit of a story now. John Motson, jumpers for goalposts, isn't it?" OK, maybe that's just me.

Not sure how much better Keegan is than Redknapp, tbh. What I'd say to that is that I feel like I know all I need to know about Redknapp's capabilities. By contrast, for all Keegan never truly excelled after he left us, what I don't know is whether he's just a second-rate manager who rode a wave with us, or if it's the combination of us and him that made the whole thing special in the first place (and will do so again, even if it's to a lesser extent than previously). Which is why I reckon Keegan's worth a pop, whereas Redknapp isn't, never should have been considered as such.

And to think we rip it out of the New Monkey.