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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. If thats the standard of your interpretation then you did well to knock back Barbara Striesand I can interpret things that you don't even know you're thinking. I'm too good for that bitch.

All the best arguments (have more stuff inside the parentheses than outside, because that's where the important stuff is kept)

Although now they know exactly where to find you.

He can hear the sound of fucking Frosties hitting his fucking plate.

G'wan then, I've just put a whole 50p on it E/W. Last of the big spenders, me. There's a half of bitter in it for you if it comes home.

6-6 in the final set between Tipsarevic (who is Brock's long-lost brother, I'm sure of it) and Gonzalez, a crucial break point, and someone in the crowd hollers "C'mon Tim!". Fantastic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIX6gh5r7eM About the same standard of singing, to be honest...

Meh, the first season of German Big Brother had one of them too. Stereotypical boneheaded Balkan male, didn't know anything about Shakespeare (or anything else), got voted out fairly early, had a #1 hit single and a brand of beer named after him ("Shakesbier" ), made a film that never got released, failed to get voted as the German Eurovision entrant a year later, disappeared back to obscurity. You can't beat that kind of entertainment.

To ask whether people want a 1p or a 3p carrier

I'm basically done for the day, which is nice. Fingers crossed for tennis-watching weather for the rest of the afternoon. Meanwhile, my colleague who couldn't be less interested in football if he tried is busy translating a video script for Pele. Between this and Streisand, it's been a strange week in the world of (allegedly) financial/business translation.

"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.