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Didn't take long for the claret & blue rat that lives up your arse to start gnawing through your Chalfonts did it doc? Were you disappointed in love by a Hammerette? I think your close attention to all things Boleyn betrays a secret love that dare not speak its name. For your info (and anyone else who gives a f^ck) the booing only started very near the end after a shed load of chances had gone begging (Amalfitano you numpty!) and the Maltese had had a few near things on the counter and then some WH players started to back-pass. It was a kiss on the cheek compared to the stuff BFS got and was a form of 'encouragement' (as we say from the comfortable seats of the West Stand). Sakho definitely missed and we need some striker back-up pdq.

Great to see England on the front foot again - win or lose. Root, Ali, Stokes and Wood are great to watch - Ballance, Bell and Buttler battling through difficulties, a real fighting team - even Broad seems to have woken up a little.

ciaraann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We are trying to make a short documentary > about someone in the local area who has an > interesting story to tell ... If you have any suggestions or know anyone who > might be interested in sharing their story please let us know! I will let you know... when he gets back from his holiday.

...see now you've got me doing it. It's all gone 'Iceland'.

Well, precisely Ots, my original post was a kindly gesture meant to administer a coup de grace in a gentlemanly fashion; some folk can never leave well enough alone... noses out-of-joint, etc...

I've gone rogue. I may even strap on my shin-pads and saunter into the Family Room...

A few words of advice handed down through the generations to make life a little easier for young couples starting along life's pitted pavements... 1. Don't match. It only takes a moment's check in a mirror before leaving home and whilst his 'n hers sunglasses, sandals and bandanas or tops in exactly the same shade of mauve or things-you-bought-at-the-same-stall-on-holiday-but-have-not-had-a-chance-to-wear-until-now may seem innocuous, they can be as fingernails down a blackboard to the more sensitive denizens of the burgh. And if you find you are both wearing the same brand of camo-cargo shorts, toss a coin to see who gets to sport a skirt or colourful sarong. 2. If you are a more old-school/traditional (let's not be perjorative) family unit and Mummy is the hands-on practical sprog-wrangler with Daddy a ham-fisted office drone blinking in wonder at the sunlight; make sure he has a lesson or two with your chosen baby-carriage before expecting him to slalom through the crowds. Also - give him a clue as to the day's itinerary to minimise the meandering and the anxious peering from twixt Ray Bans and Jipi-Japa Hat accompanied by the plaintive "Er, where are we going now darling?" 3. If your kidlets are too big for the chair and you set them on scooters to cut down on the bored whining it goes without saying you should NEVER accompany them on a similar vehicle, nor wobble clumsily after them on a bike smiling apologetically at the snarling pedestrians you incommode; and though tying a bungee to each may be impractical, and a smack 'round the ear with a stream of loud invective may give you uncomfortable childhood flashbacks, a gentle nudge as the fly along will leave themn with grazed knees and a healthy respect for the speed limit on Britains highways. There is, of course, the potential for more serious injury but no one said parenting was easy. 4. Finally if you meet your own kind on a narrowed section of the veld, pull over line-astern - like caravanners in a lay-by - rather than stop-up the progress of your fellows. It makes for a more awkward chatting position but avoids the 'accidental' elbow in the kidney and scrape down the heel.

100 and out.

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have to say - The Who look fooking brilliant. "look" maybe - but the sound was a tad ruined by the Paul-McShane-club-singer spewing of a knackered Daltry - someone should show the poor old fecker the tape of McCartney at the Olympics or Ray Davies on Jools's Hootenanny - do go gentle into that good night - and go now. I am making no comment on the 'SpringWatch-Lite' presentation skills of the Beeb's front-people, clearly aiming this 'festival of music and art' (sic) at people who enjoy a Blue Peter Special is a triumph.

I realise that Jezza but having not posted for a week or so and sensing a drift towards the whinge, the maudlin reflection and the abusive/dismissive criticism of late I thought I should make a constructive contribution. Did i miss? Never used to... Not back in the old days... etc...etc

The rot set in a long time ago. It is hard, i mean HARD, to make a profit/earn a living running a pub. It may have started with a deep fried seafood substitute masquerading as scampi and office workers liking to pretend to be ploughmen but the truth is that you can not make a decent living running a boozer without offering the salivating morons punters something to eat. The problem is that the pub culture changed. The stay-at-home dads who think a pub should exist so they can exercise their once a month right to have a piss up have all but killed it and yet they're the moaning f*ckwits who bang on about pubs being community assets. Drink in pubs. Do so regularly. Or shut the f*ck up.

So, this thread boils down to those who say that giant invisible pixies exist and that anyone who says this is bollocks is being disrespectful or bitter and is challenged to 'prove' this non existence. You couldn't make it up.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Unfortunately beloved do get forgotten because we > all die do you have to be realistic - how can you > be beloved of you great great great grandfather > when your parents never knew him ?! > > However true the "you're just dead" bit is, > there's probably less harsh ways that could be > said ! How 'bout Victor Landa - "In our tradition, people die three deaths. The first death is when our bodies cease to function; when our hearts no longer beat of their own accord, when our gaze no longer has depth or weight, when the space we occupy slowly loses its meaning. The second death comes when the body is lowered into the ground, returned to mother earth, out of sight. The third death, the most definitive death, is when there is no one left alive to remember us."

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The question that needs to be answered is why does > Sterling want away from Liverpool? It's the > perfect place for him to develop as he is only a > kid. If he becomes as good as he appears to have > the potential to, he will make more money in a few > years than he could spend in several lifetimes. > ?100k a week isn't bad to keep you going in the > meantime. That's kind of the nature of greed though isn't it doc? Those parasites that live on his wages will do anything they can to up them, including manipulating him into believing that he is worth ?200k a month - and young footballers at his level have a seemingly inexhaustible store of self-belief so I'm sure HE's sure he will continue to improve wherever he plays - and that whoever he plays for will be lucky to have him. ETa- sorry should have read your second post too, maybe thick is a bit harsh - if I was told what he's being told at that age - and if I also could see it happening to others around me - pretty sure I'd think I deserved a slice of it. Wisdom comes late to all of us. What he does AFTER the move will be the test.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Excuse me Loz but I am NOT a blow in. > > Louisa. a blow hard on the other hand...

robbin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Next to a butchers? I won't be going there! > Imagine sitting outside on a nice warm day having > a coffee with the stench of death wafting over > you. Oh come now, some of the people in the queue for Rose's are quite young.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Try it. You might surprise yourself. You twat. And Iceland has its new tag line.

Carlton's on his bike (again), along with Guy Demel, Jussi Jaaskelainen and Nene; shame Dam Potts didn't work out - clearing the decks in preparation for the arrival of Bilic.

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think Foxy's meds are finally kicking in Is he being innoculated?

Exactly - and I'm sure a version is engraved on every new New-New Labour member's party book "Don't scare the middle classes" - end of tutorial. Never mind Degsy - there's always UKIP/Respect/TUSC or look, the Lib Dems are lookiong a bit limp, worth a try?

StreetCred and ED are like matter and anti matter - if they were ever to meet it would lead to annihilation* *a.k.a. West Norwood, more specifically that little bar just up from the Crem.

New Labour - New Degsy? Tories licking their lips and Harriet quivering at the knees "Keep him out, keep him outttt!!"

titch juicy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bogies > Ear Wax > Bum Fluff Unless you have never eaten in any kind of restaurant where the food is prepared out of sight and/or eaten any prepared sandwich or airline meal you should almost certainly add "knowingly" ... but not push your luck by adding "at the same time".

Just to clarify Loz - I think higher education should be free to all students regardless of income and an integral part of the welfare state - just as free as it was when we were young. But maybe I'm a bit of a 'lefty howler' (surely that was a blues singer?).

Nah, okay - a tad vindictive where that prick's concerned maybe. I'm sure there are one or two ex Spurs players you would be less than tearful to bid adieu to.