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"Glenn Roeder doesn't need people who want to help Glenn Roeder"

I would support the idea of a Beatles reunion after they're all dead. That could be quite entertaining.

I don't know about separately, but simultaneously, that would be the greatest show ever.

I like that too. You can be pretty sure that The Verve will write their new album though and perform it with instruments themselves. Significant differences tbh OMG R33L MUSIK LOL (That said, the Spice Girls had co-writing credits on all their hits IIRC. Whether you believe they had much input is, of course, an entirely different matter...) No but gram has a point, The Verve are making new music so as a band they are contributing new material, the Spice Girls are just travelling the world miming to their old hits, they're not taking the trouble to create anything new. I read his point more as "songs are automatically better if you hold a guitar while singing them". Mind, I'm biased since I think the Verve's post-split output is about as good as that of the various Spices (i.e. not very), so both comebacks have the potential to be seriously tedious rehashes of something that was vaguely relevant ten years ago. I may change my mind if Ashcroft wears a sparkly Union Jack dress though.

is that not true of most urban areas? Probably aye. I've only lived in three cities in the UK, though, so I don't have much basis for comparison. Particularly since one of them was Birmingham, and I wouldn't dare draw any conclusions based on that place...

I like that too. You can be pretty sure that The Verve will write their new album though and perform it with instruments themselves. Significant differences tbh OMG R33L MUSIK LOL (That said, the Spice Girls had co-writing credits on all their hits IIRC. Whether you believe they had much input is, of course, an entirely different matter...)

Central London in particular can be horrific like. It tends to be a bit more well-mannered out with the hicks in the sticks.

TBF what the fuck did he expect us to do? Resusitate the bloke from our keyboards? Go round and do his wife up the wrong 'un

Ahh, good stuff mate. Glad it worked out for you.

Well, as the Mayor of Hamburg is in fact gay... Well I'll be. Is it the German version of San Francisco? The Berlin mayor's raging too. It's the north's way of countering that Bavarian conservatism (where they all bum each other behind closed doors but keep schtum about it in public).

Well, admittedly, my colleague who'd just turned it down started his sales pitch to me with the words "How's your gay-o-meter today?"

watch it you Not too big to be put over my knee and smacked Even I can't bring myself to go down the "I might enjoy it" road on this one. Could be a decent idea for the evening entertainment at the summer piss-up though. I'm sure they can find us a suitable table and chair at the Trent if you fancy it.

To realize the value of TWENTY SECONDS, ask the person who just skim-read that rubbish to see if there was anything worth reading in it.

So my company was looking for an interpreter for Barbra Streisand's concert on Saturday night in Berlin, which would have involved English-German-English interpreting for the diva herself and her entourage at all the official engagements before and after the concert, as well as (naturally) attending the gig itself. And they turned to me, as everyone else within the company who's vaguely qualified is already busy. Only thing is, the useless office management mob managed to completely mispriced their tender, so - after taking last-minute flight and hotel costs into consideration - I would have basically been doing the job for nothing. Plus I've already got plans for this weekend and I'm trained as a translator, not an interpreter - I have zero experience in that field, least of all when it comes to dealing with a weekend's worth of diva-esque demands and starry strops. So I said no. I can't decide if this has ruined my gay street cred, or sent it through the roof.

Just like public school. Another character building activity The Fish missed out on ! no I didn't And if you'd stop subjecting your potential housemates to the same treatment, they might finally say yes to sharing with you. I made it part of the interview stage... was this a error? That and dressing like Colin Hunt

Just like public school. Another character building activity The Fish missed out on ! no I didn't And if you'd stop subjecting your potential housemates to the same treatment, they might finally say yes to sharing with you.

Is that the version of "You've Got A Friend" where they chop bits of it to squeeze it into 30 seconds so that each line has a different number of beats and barely resembles the original? And more importantly, is it only me who gets wound up to an entirely irrational extent by that kind of thing?

Not bad for someone with a budget of £0.

Male or female? Railway.

h4ppy b123h44y.

Spectacular. Really sorry to hear that Cath, the whole thing fucking stinks.

Spirit of fair play, that's us.

Come on Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi!