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Show your lass what you just wrote.

Good man yourself. Now quit. That's the kick in the teeth...I'd never had a sober tab for the previous 8 days. I wonder if there'd have been further action if I didn't buy 4 season tickets every year.

linkage?

Just got back from a stern telling off with my season ticket safely in my pocket.

Someone is in a bad mood today. It was meant to be a hoyty toyty smiley to ridicule my own snobish view. Not indignation or owt. But the stadium is getting uglier....started so well with the animated boards and discreet clocks.

I don't think it's anything to do with the players being unfamiliar. We're just being turned into Bolton http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?showtopic=16528 Get into Europe and I won't complain. But it's not just on the field. The huge Sports Direct boards around the stadium are tacky as fuck. They belong in the JJB. St James' Park was lush and they're making it ugly. They'll change the seat colours to incorporate crappy sentiments and pound shop adverts next.

Didn't he deny any knowledge of what was going on in interviews?

Did you see Mike Ashley ripping the piss while sat next to Paul Kemsley (I think) when a Spurs shot went wide. Legend.

We've had a piss easy start to the season tbf.

Was that you being escorted out The Corner by the polis, just after half time ??? Nar. No police involvement. Of course, the constant string of racist and homphobic bellowing that went on around me in the first half was allowed to pass without a single steward attempting to intervene. Not excusing what I done, but their priorities are way out.

Nice one.

Sorry for the vague one line and fucking off to bed. The stairwell is always full of people smoking at half time. I went for a tab just as the second half was kicking off and got accosted by 5 stewards (if someone were to fall over and smash their skull on the steps there'd be no-one to lend a hand ). Offered to pay a £50 fine (isn't that standard?), when 3 of them buggered off tried offering the 2 that were left a bit of pocket money, but they weren't having it (they actually said that was a crime as if they're lawmen or something . Took my season ticket and hoyed me out the door. watched the 2nd half in the strawberry so now I'm hung over as owt. I'll pop into the ticket office today and see what's what. Smoking is bad for you.

The biggest dissapointment being that I got banned from SJP tonight.

Seen Alonso's comments? I agree about the sport becoming an embarrasment, it already is.....to a large degree due to this little fucker himself. Sat there and flat out lied about his involvement in getting info on other teams. He's got some face.

FYP OMG WTF ETC. Got on my tits when his fatha's getting interviewed after and kept saying what "we" did during the race.

Magness is hard to define. I give our lads a 7 to start off with, although I haven't given Barton anything yet since he hasn't played. Do you think he deserves less? i have no idea what magness is, or why it's important It's a sickly tasting cider. Might be Bulmers round your way.

He was hardly being shit on.... had he been allowed to overtake Prost in France (who he finished less than a second behind and was shitting all over), his engine not blown at Silverstone and a tyre blown out at Hockenheim (both times when leading comfortably late in the race), he'd have been World Champion in his own rookie season.... Whey Des finished within a point of winning it today. Damon was 30 points off. No reason to be gloomy is all I'm saying.

So has formula 1 now officially overtaken heavyweight boxing as the biggest laughing stock in world sport? Investigations pending, here's your champion...

How were the rugby team in '93? I know we were one nil down to San Marino in 8 seconds and missed out on the world cup while Damon Hill was getting shit on by Prost and Senna, so it's not as bad as all that.

Finally got round to buying Dead Mans Shoes on Friday and watching it tonight. I thought I was impressed by This Is England, but this blew it out of the water. I'm going to watch it again later on, but I already know it's going to be a long term favourite.

Agree with that, It's difficult to know how people who aren't familiar with that set of characters will pick up the relationships and I did think they left Venom, Brock and JJ Jamieson's characters a little unexplained. Hate the "moody" Peter bit.. it's bollocks and nothing like the conscious-less, amoral Peter Parker that we see in the comics. The end fight scene was terrible, in no way should Parker fight two villains, nor should he fight with one. At the end of the day it strikes me as a film dictated by focus groups rather that a director having free reign Had a read through a few of the other posts on here and seems I was just repeating what's already been said. Not one positive comment.

Melinda and Melinda Woody Allen compares comedy and tragedy as techniques in storytelling but can't make his film come to the same conclusion as his characters. They come to an agreement that any story can be told as comedy or tragedy, it all depends on the teller. But his two versions of the same story are woefully unbalanced. Every second of the tragedy is interminably dull, you can't wait for Will Ferrel to come back on screen and start comparing his sex life to politics.

Spiderman 3 I loved the first 2 Spidermen, but this one is all over the shop. Its length was obviously a concern because they've cut bits that are referred to later to keep it as short as possible, which is a strange and confusing thing. What they could have done is cut out the entire Green Goblin side of the story that it starts with, because after his accident, recuperation and realisation of what went on in the past, his character and his relationship with Spidey hasn't moved a jot since the end of the last episode, but it's taken an hour to get there. But then you couldn't have had their exciting fight so early on...and Hollywood dictates that an action film must have an early action scene to satiate the impatient masses that crave fast cutting, loud thuds and special FX. There's other problems like the lack of explanation as to what on earth the black goop was, where it came from, who sent it, why did it go straight after Spidey, why did it make the other dude look like Jack Frost, isn't it a coincidence that these 3 all arrived independently on the same day, what the hell sort of experiments were they doing in that sand bunker etc etc. These might be obvious to fans of the comic, but without knowing it you feel a bit lost. You could cope with all these unanswered questions, but then there's the attempt at a comical interlude that just fucks the whole thing up. I remember the Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head sequence from the first one...and it worked. It was kitsch, but PP was a good guy just having fun with his super power, the funky James Brown section in this one is inexplicably bad. Apparently Toby Maguire can't do dark, angry and brooding....so an emo fringe will do the job just as well. For some unexplained reason this fringe makes him irresistible to the opposite sex and turns him into an uncompromising arsehole who takes everything he wants. The film sort of suggests it's his black suit making him be like this, but I don't see how that could affect other people’s reaction to him, so it had to be the fringe. It's all topped off by a horrible sing and dance number where PP gets a whole bar dancing with a performance of Fever I was agog at the end of. There are good things. The sandman is well developed and his first appearance as he learns how to take shape is superbly done, but this contrasts horribly with the aforementioned Jack Frost who is as weak a character as you will see, he's hardly got any screen time to become the bad guy he does, and whereas all the other 'baddies' have legitimate axes to grind with Spidey his qualm seems to clutch at straws. I'll still buy the DVD like, once it's cheap, I just want to hear Raimi explain himself.

Daft Punk's Electroma On the one hand it's a ponderous, pretentions and self indulgent film with no dialogue whatsoever, that's willfully slow going. On the other hand, I'm afraid to say, I really enjoyed it. The first half hour especially is rather funny. It owes a huge debt to Fata Morgana (another ponderous, pretentions and self indulgent film that's still brilliant) while not quite forgoing narrative altogether. As you'd expect from a Daft Punk film, the soundtrack is lush (Rundgren, Eno, Mayfield, Chopin) and the last scene is absoloutley stunning. While nothing else in the film matches that one shot there's lots of other interesting stuff, the scenes in the desert that (to my admittedly perverted little mind) are shot to look like a female body are particularly arresting...especially when the camera makes a slow zoom up her snatch. The version I watched was only 69 minutes and checking IMDB there seems to be various cuts up to 94 minutes long, I could imagine an extra half hour testing the patience of even the most forgiving viewer given that the last 40 minutes of the one I saw consists entirely of walking.