mockney piers

"Remember irony is not always the easiest thing to get across in text." ...or an australian accent.

I've experienced pretty much a sine wave of quality over the years, it improves, it gets worse, it improves....etc. I've not been to the restaurant recently but managed to get a roast downstairs a couple of weeks back that was jolly nice.

It's not about being cliquey, its about having spoken to each other we: a) hopefully have an idea about each others limits and b) hopefully get on well enough that you can be a bit outrageous to each other. Good friends often call me Pedro, by I wouldn't be happy if some total stranger thought it ok to do so. So I'm with you that if it had been a new poster hot on the heels of 'too many middle classes/kids in pubs/is there a golf driving range' post who thought it ok to say something near to the knuckle I would be raising my voice in defence. or shorter version, basically what Lozzy and Tillie said.

*bob* I think I must have sort of nationality-chimeric quality, as (european) people tend to assume I'm from their country. I've had "are you sure you're not x?" from Germans, French, Italians, English, Spanish, Israelis.... The only time people get confused is when I tell them my Mum's West Indian. ...and come on lighten up people, a bit of obvious outrage among people who know each other in a thread about political correctness.... if we can't poke fun at attitudes we couldn't have stuff like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4tEEntsTgE

I'm always sad to see a place fail, but they really did themselves no favours. If you can't fix the basics over such a long period then it can come as no surprise.

They ain't subtle but I've had many a laugh out loud moment thanks to them.

As I've absolutely no idea where I'm from or what I am it's usually other people who regret asking me where I'm from, as I launch into a long and confused soliloquy.

I'm always sad when a place shuts down, it's a tough old industry and people risk all for a labour of love. That said they consistently got it all wrong; in a hugely competitive market that just won't cut it.

Apparently the steering wheel is only available on the GLX version

No plot spoilers huh? Even a mention of a name is enough to make an inference. O now know that Marlo isn't taken down as I get through series 4 currently, cheers charlie. An innocent enough conversation with Mr McGabhann revealed unwittingly the climax to series 3 for me. It's easy to do.

It was the plough, who knows now.

Clearly an East Dulwich spider, tsk, no doubt with millions of little spiders running around under his 8 feet.

and there i was thinking it was overpaid pony tailed idiots watching slack-jawed glassy-eyed zombies kicking a ball into the net. Perhaps I should stop watching footie on Foxton's big screen.

are flies edible?

new macro lens for crimbo perchance Lozzy?

I was under the impression it was Cathy Dennis *sigh* and Wikipedia backs me up: "[Cathy's] highest-selling composition, "Can't Get You out of My Head" (recorded by Kylie Minogue), spent four weeks at number one in Britain, rekindled interest in Minogue in America, where it hit #7 on the Hot 100, and sold over three million copies worldwide to become the world's second highest selling single in 2001."

See my Baby Jive by Wizzard*. Trust me to be born just before punk! Eeh gads, in the states it was My Love by Wings. Clearly my b'day will live in infamy. *I can see where Lordi got it from now.

A good list. Any list worth its pop salt would surely have to include Britney's debut. Purest pop gold!! And has anys song in history been more hook laden than T.A.T.U. considering it's a song almost entirely made of of a chorus a hideously catchy chorus? Pop's heyday must be 1979-1985 discuss.

Private eye is far and away the best newspaper this country has to offer. Yeah pretty sickening isn't it. He should be in a jail, not a boardroom. I have to say, getting him in to advise on the international scene is not unlike hiring a bull to advise on china displays isn't it?

At least Sean's a Humpty rather than a N... ;-)

Totally with you on that one Dave. I'll never know whether the samsung was dreadful or just the Vodafone developers. Mind you, it can't be that hard to make a phone ring AND vibrate, rather than ring THEN vibrate. I moved to O2 in the end so sick of those awful interfaces was I.

Ha ha, that might be my fault. Sorry about the chilli kezzathelezza :-$

get yourself down a shop and have a bit of a play with both of them. Absolutely key for me on any phone is the interface. I started with Nokias but they went a bit awry interfacewise and I found them next to unusable. They may be great now, I've no idea, but SonyEricssons for me have been the best (I'll refrain from mentioning my Samsung *shudders*). Currently on the P1i, camera is ok, but nothing to scream about.

I didn't spot anything selfish about that. Unapologetic for his opinions perhaps (totally with you on the record store), but selfish?

If you've never done so Blinder then that's very prudent of you and I applaud. The ivory tower reference was due to quid's heavy implication that noone else ever need incur a charge regardless of one's own prudence. It was that that riled. As 20% of the nation hasn't enough to live on and 5 million are on the breadline, then I thought it a rather arrogant tone to take. Plus I struggled badly my first few years in London and was sometimes hit by unexpected costs that forced me to soak up a charge from the bank to avoid harsher penalties elsewhere. I always swore during those times that I'd never forget them no matter how comfortable life became later. I stand by that.