luckyluke

I should change my avatar though.

I'm off to Paris on Monday as it happens. Couldn't get it that cheap for the dates we wanted but £209 return for two of us isn't too bad.

Fair enough, they're still just films about people in spandex hitting people. I suppose the Nolan Batmans are the leading light in 'character development' - whilst I on the whole enjoyed them I found this aspect a bit heavy and that they took themselves very seriously. If you want character development then watch grown up films, not teenage wanking fantasies.

It's not his fault he's in our first XI in his thirties when he's been third or fourth choice throughout his career.

You will soon.

Does anyone else picture this thread title as the Tom Jones song "what's new pussycat?" completed by singing in their head "whoa-a-whoa-wo"? Just me then? Well not anymore!

I thought it was ok. Anyone who takes these films as seriously or expects as much from them as your post implies needs to have a word with themselves tbh.

My dad has finally outgrown his habit of calling DVDs 'discs'. He continues to persist with his own attempts at colloquialisation though - asking the butcher if he had any 'pigs' [in blankets] the other week, for example. Anyone's dad a complete mad bastard?

I recently narrowly avoided working in Hull (and the rest of East Yorkshire - Scunthorpe, Grimsby etc) for the next five years - relieved doesn't come close! Several of my friends have found themselves doing so - so whereas I sympathise with your plight Fist, it could be a lot, lot worse!

Agree with this and the sentiments of Alex etc. I've sort of accepted that the odds (Ashley, the league, the wealth of City etc) are stacked heavily against us prospering, so there's little point in getting upset about events like this occurring, because the writing's on the wall. The best we can realistically hope for is moments or a good run to enjoy, because we're never going to achieve anything substantial or sustainable without billionaires willing or able to throw buckets of cash at us.

The Hobbit - pretty good actually. Saw it in "normal" (no IMAX/3D/48 frames).

I guess when it's all consuming like that you just have to tell someone. Pity it's you.

Happy new year one and all. Saw it in watching the fireworks over the Thames from Lambeth bridge, then big roast dinner today and a walk on the Heath. Great.

Pass my final exams for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Really slacked off the gym of late - get back on it.

Fuck off. It was quite far in, the surgeon struggled to get it out. He nearly ended up with a laparotomy (an abdominal incision) which could have resulted in a colostomy.

I've never fished anything out as I do the dreammaking, I leave the bottom fiddling to the surgeons. Well I do at work anyway.

It was a bloke!

Saw Midnight in Paris which my mum got for Christmas. Brilliantly written and performed, can't wait for my holiday to Paris in ten days.

Vibrator. No, it wasn't turned on.

Similar, but with more things in bottoms.

Guess what I've just anaesthetised someone for.

This stupid cunt doesn't know the rules

Fairly standard Christmas for me, albeit in strange surroundings - my parents found a buyer for their house just before my grandad died in September so have moved into his. Weird to be staying in his house at all (the only other time I did so was to help care for my dying grandmother three years ago), let alone at this time when I've spent the last 18 Christmases. But life goes on. Just glad I can be here at all, God bless Muslims. Driving up to see relatives in Manchester today before trundling over the Pennines back to Leeds. Be careful on the roads everyone - see that story about the crash on the M6 yesterday?

Dry bumming

Q. How many NRA members does it take to change a lightbulb? A. More guns.