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Back on topic, as 'twere: Congrats David :)-D

mussels and chips for me is all about the Belgian approach: big pot of steamed moules in their shells, nice crispy chips, chased with what will, post "in bruges", forever be referred to as gay beer. magic.

I'd like to add that the "it's all about yuppy incomers" tirade is getting a little tired. People got mugged before the bug-a-boo invasion too, y'know, and the "i'm used to it" bollox is just as annoying. Crime figures have gone up since '76, one imagines, and each terrace in ED is no longer home to a single family, but 3 flats. Population expanded, crime rates increase roughly proportionately, or thereabouts, at the very least. Lets not make yet another potentially interesting thread about bloody class-wars/blow-ins/whatever you kids are calling it these days when (*dramatic pause*) a person moves house, but you don't like their job/education/accent/parental income, or whatever other shitty criteria you use to define whether or not someone has the right to live in your manor.

Sorry, H, I'm being a bit slow and I'm not the best at picking tone from posts - we are happy that Goldacre has brought the spotlight on to this issue, or we aren't?

afternoon, brendan - i wondered when you'd be along ;-) not a bad idea about o'callaghan as a post-half time impact player, starting hines or shaw. only front row cert for me is gethin jenkins. will take everyone else on merit. back row seems to point towards Williams at 7 and Powell at 8, 6 up for grabs. for the backline i'd like to see Ellis-o'gara-monye-flutey-o'driscoll-halfpenny-byrne as a link up of exceeding gas (maybe phillips for ellis) in an early provincial game. just to see. That's one of the things i love about the lions: if you agree with even part of the squad, it becomes like pub-talk fantasy-football type stuff, and you get to try all the options in the midweek games!

I'm sure I'm not the only fan of Ben Goldacre on the forum, what with the high incidence of Guardian reading tendencies about these parts (and, I hope, some of the raw common sense that he alludes to the need for), and so I thought I'd share the good word, so to speak. So here it is.

the place kicker concern is covered, i think, but just 2 fly halves doesn't seem enough. lions tours are becoming notorious for a spot of back-nobbling in the midweek game before the first test (par example) and one similar incident leaves us having a test game-plan that involves a no 10 wrapped in cotton wool. the forwards appear to be a pack of bruisers, plain and simple. certainly likely to keep the traditional dirty springbok shinnanigans at bay, but if the boks decide to forget dirty fouling at the breakdown and break from the fringes, we could be in trouble. I think O'Connell and O'Callaghan can hold their own in the engine room, with a big scot on the bench if it needs more bulk, but the back row is the potential weak spot: agree that Croft is conspicuous in his absence, as is Ryan Jones, where as Worsley may have had a great 6 nations but his inclusion as a big-bosh merchant points to a gameplan not based on a mobile backrow - the same goes for Andy Powell, who I've personally never been a massive fan of. Any blind-side break of decent quality will involve simple man-for-man numbering off and then has Habana in waiting as the last man, and with any space at all I don't see lil'williams stopping him. Still, McGeechan won the last tour to South Africa in '97 and took what looked like a strange squad at the time.

"Just going for a couple. Lots to do at the weekend. I mean, I'll be sociable but I'm not up for a late one..." Words uttered yesterday afternoon. So why did I get home at 2am and where did this hangover come from? fantastic work from Georgia, as always, many thanks: Another top night courtesy of EDF drinks. Barely managed a lap of the room and hardly said hello to anyone. See you all next time?

Touche moos. Many thanks. Actually, have deliberately held off getting into yet another addictive American legal type show as I'm distractable enough as it is and I ned to get a bit of work done at some point! (note increased posting rate of late as representation of how much reading I should be doing ;-)) (The Unit is a 99% crap, proper guilty pleasure but strangely addictive; what's not to love about a show where the special forces wear jeans when everyone else is in full combat gear, kill some damn enemies of the US of A, then go home to their lovely wives, with whom we have enjoyed scandalous subplot activity?)

ah, crime drama with a moral dilemma... deep.

So, the Stewart Lee thing... Smug, knowing, obvious and not awfully funny. Is this some sort of cleverpostmodernironictypefing that shot over my head? Sorry SMG, but I feel our taste in stand-up now parts ways... (but bugger, didn't realise it was ep1ser1 of The Wire: have never seen this show and since you all bang on about it, I thought I should start at the beginning. ah well, i'm sure freeviewBBC9 will oblige at some point ;-))

Is this the "what if derren brown used his powers for good?" show? have yet to see it, but when i was at school "mentalist" was used as the possessive case of to be mental, so simply the name of the show makes me snigger.

congrats to the buggies x

Carnell (the voice of politics) Keef (the voice of reason) Moos (the voice of "pah-ha!" when needed) Annaj (the voice of understanding) MacGabhann (just the voice) Much shorter than the list of "Who Talks Shite?": I see 1 or 2 of whom have volunteered above without prompting...

Louisa, you seem to be outraged at a few people here, yet if i understand the posts above, you have accused annaj of never saying anything of substance, and PM'd a threat to tillie. Your complicated sense of humour may just be too intelligent for the likes of me, but both of those things appear to be plain nasty, not funny. Perhaps it is possible for even an accepted forum humourist such as you to find a way of doing your thing without being cruel and unpleasant on a personal level? (edited for unforgivable to/too typo)

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is a personal pc Different to a PC.... tautologous at the very least...

If only MrJ hadn't taped over it last night with the new series of The Unit... ...sorry I think it's repeated on FiveUS on sunday night.

LOL. Busted...

So how is a saffer different from a New Zostralian? Do you tolerate trees there?

Sorry, quite right...

On the face of it, it seemed a bit mickey mouse, but something to do with looking at her various friends addresses and spotting her near the shops, or something. Like I say, not 100% plausible and the logistics don't quite add up, but worth considering the implications of if one had less honest intentions and were able to visualise any location from their laptop. I'm not entirely sure that I see the intended point of it. I suppose it could be useful for planning a difficlut journey (what that awkward junction looks like etc) but otherwise, it seems fairly unnecessary.

Twas claimed in one of the free train-rags yesterday that a woman fleeing domestic violence was located by her abuser with the aid of streetview. No idea if it's true or not, but if it is then to say that google owe a recently beaten woman an apology doesn't quite cover it...

Oh, come on Bren, sporty people from countries with an abundance of nature: it's all part of the same rant. You saffers are next up against the wall. Presumably a precursor to nuking the entire southern hemisphere before the global takeover by the jrusselites (an unstoppably lardy army in manmade fibres, hailing from urban fortresses across the clearly distinguished nations of the northern hemisphere)

Was just going for general mockery of your objecting to gyms. I don't, you see. Shall now disengage with tail between legs. (similarly, that should not be taken entirely literally as I don't have a tail)

Sorry to high-jack a thread briefly, but charliecharlie - is it always strictly necessary to clog every thread with pictures? The joke, such as it was, was clear after the first picture. Old sunnies. Get it. But please can you stop loading threads with arbitrary images?