SeanMacGabhann

I think I have 2 or 3 copies of floodland knocking around - I'll dig one out for you

I LOVE the third Portishead album...

Does this need two threads? discussion here

I would make a big case for the Sisters of Mercy sophmore album being their best - "Floodland" ditto Fatima Mansions and "Viva Dead Ponies" Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible" was well received but a bit of a wobble after the fantastic "Funeral" Then you have bands like Massive Attack who cruise the first 3 albums (from an quality perpective anyway) with nary a wobble - sophmore be damned

There wasn't just one breathy singer tho - there are loads of them. The joke does wear thin after a while too

Nouvelle Vague

I synched my old bonus with google contacts and back down to the iPhone

I know, I was just teasing I thought Stoke were great today - they did fight well as expected but they were clever as well and played some decent balls Arsenal were far form Carling-Cup-Weak as well, just didn't have it...

Piers.. what was it Rod Liddle said in that article? oh yeah

When used sparingly it can be alright, and it became the main vocab of the quiet room It has become overused tho - if we want to express ourselves maybe we should use words a bit better like? And I say that as someone who has often used the darn things in the past. Like smileys and sigs... it's a phase best in the past

By "no reception" do you mean a message saying "satellite signal not received" on some stations but not others? Common problem, particularly with Thomson manufactured sky boxes - summat to do with power supply. If it's out of warranty your best bet is to seek out a replacement box and get sky to pair up the card with the new box - 2 minutes over the phone

Brendan, who hasn't reformed is the better question To which my sad reply is Fatima Mansions....

lemme see you got yer monthly drinks and curry nights. Then there is scrabble nights arranged by mogs, many and various book club meetups, a jogging group. I'm sure there is plenty more. The Lounge, and What's on sections tend to get refreshed with updates on these things fairly regularly Drinks are the biggest crowd - between 15-30 people usually.

Hmmm "coitanly" that was either an attempt at New Yawk pronunciation, or something any camper should be worried about But by all means fall in with the group - might be wise to attand a monthly drinks or two beforehand to assess "things" tho

recorded in an hour with a makeshift band for the liveaid thingy (I'm offering as SOME mitigation) But yes - the 80s Bowie, mostly horrible - my point being that there was a solid 10 years of proper good stuff from 1993 until his heart attack thingy

does this wearisome routine have to happen every other day?? behave

True, good point I wonder if those stories about us loving to watch these shows whilst eating frozen food is true tho?

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I'm blaming the Genoese thing on my iphone Yes geneva is lovely, I've been there many times for work and whilst it isn't crime free at all (someone tried to mug me once, something that has yet to happen in SE22) if I was told I had to relocate I wouldn't cry or anything. But it's dullness is well known and there will be no stampede As for traders? well, their merits/otherwise have been discussed here many times. it does take a certain type of person for sure. But I'm not cut out for drug dealing either. You make a good point about their attributes but? they have weaknesses too. And it's not just them alone who lives or dies on their daily performances. I agree with you too that the tax is, in itself, useless and plays to the gallery. But I disagree that it risks much. I know you are worried about it and I won't dissuade you of that but that's mere disagreeing. there are bigger risks in this world to worry about the difference between Mail-type rabble rousing and this is.. well? the Mail picks on weak and easy targets who have little or no comeback. The banking situation however, whilst misrepresented across all media, is something that was borne out of the very system and ill-regulated environment that the banks fought HARD to achieve. So blowback is inevitable And booing from the sidelines at the people who got us into this mess seems entirely appropriate. It won't achieve anything, and some will worry it carries risk but compared to politicians who get booed at every opportunity and never get to use the "but we need to attract talent" argument it's small beer

Hi ellie depending on how sociable ye are feeling there is a curry night on tuesday coming where anywhere between 6 and 20 forum regulars go for a monthly curry and chat

ah yes, the downside of posting on a public forum ;-) Strict no-felice-brother-around-the-campfire policy tho

from The Fiver When the FA threw a spanner in the works of Premier League plans for a 39th game to be played abroad, the administrators of The Best League in the World silently went about putting their fall-back plan into action: staging it on another planet. Their first port of call was Bizarro World, the cube-shaped planet where everything is the exact opposite to Earth. Up is down, down is up, people say goodbye when they arrive, hello when they leave, Gary Neville is not a tw[Careful now! - Fiver Ed] and daily tea-time football emails are filled to the gunnels with giggles. So it came as no surprise when, in the aftermath of the first Premier League match to be played there, Bolton Wanderers complained about Arsenal kicking lumps out of them and Ars?ne Wenger admitted to seeing an incident. "I'm sorry if the tackle was not good. Really, I am," said Wenger, in the wake of a William Gallas lunge into Mark Davies that Bolton manager Owen Coyle said was "akin to assault and changed the game". Indeed, so late did Gallas leave his calling card, play had moved up the field for Arsenal to score the second of their four goals, which prompted more boo-hooing from Coyle on the grounds that the ball wasn't put out of play. In Arsenal's defence (coincidenteally, where the incident happened) such were Bolton's time-wasting tactics after racing into a two-goal lead, that referee Alan Wiley could have been forgiven for presuming Davies was feigning injury, when in fact the player was badly knacked. The good news for Bolton is that a scan has since revealed that the damage to his ankle is not as bad as first feared. The good news for William Gallas is that he will not face retrospective action because that's not how the FA rolls

I wonder if the quality of the independants improving has more to do with Ryanair and easyjet tho? Seriously, more people travelling abroad has surely meant they have seen what small local shops CAN be like and have driven the demand for improvement as well

Maybe they should adopt a Wenger like, train em young and don't pay over the odds policy? This idea that people who work in banks are irreplaceable is palpable nonsense. This idea that the talent was too great to lose demonstrably so Why is all this stick-shaking, passive-aggressive bluff not being called.? Trust me, no-one wants to go and live in Geneva. Not even Genoese. Governments aroudn the world are looking at banks more carefully and the environment for laissez-faire, hands-off treatment of financial institutions is going away. And it's nothing to do with thinking banks are "evil". I do wish quids would stop with that line of argument... The media and the public are enjoying a bit of Schadenfreude is all . Are these well paid people really not big enough to suck it up?

Start me Up Waitin' on a friend although both of those were written back in teh early 70s I believe As for Bowie, long term readers will know my thoughts. A couple of decent 80s tracks aside (Absolute Beginners esp) the 80s were a nightmare for him - but from 93 onwards he has made at least as good music as his 70s incarnations. And I get Quite Cross when people compare him to the Wonders and MCCartneys