El Pibe

"So far as I know, two highly respected dogs..." There's something wonderfully Alan partridge about this statement.

Chelsea 2 Everton 1 Liverpool 2 QPR 0 Man City 2 Norwich 0 Newcastle 0 Arsenal 1 Southampton 1 Stoke 1 Swansea 2 Fulham 1 Tottenham 3 Sunderland 1 West Brom 1 Man Utd 2 West Ham 2 Reading 1 Wigan 1 Aston Villa 1

Delilah-Old Testament

I miss concorde

ADT? Adrian De Latouche? He hasn't been up 'ere for couple of years. Last time I saw him, he were; he were with his son.

so what next? I gather he's dropping his estuary for r.p. Playing centre [stage] for Leyton & Wanstead perhaps?

"To this day, one of my proudest achievements is captaining my country. I knew every time I wore the Three Lions shirt, I was not only following in a long line of great players, I was also representing every fan that cared passionately about their country," said Beckham. And to be fair generally played as if this was the case, though too many of those it was more 'able' than 'willing' that was at issue; thanks Sven you twonk. Same sentiments couldn't sincerely be be expressed by a depressing number of his contemporaries.

And another season for ENgland begins, huzzah, we have the toss and, until I literally started writing this, the sunshine. I'm there tomorrow so fingers crossed the rain continues to hold off a while longer. Apparently there was ice on the rollers at lords this morning, will this winter ever....ad nauseum....

10 million quid and I retire baby!!!

Excellent report on changing attitudes within and regarding the EU http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/05/13/the-new-sick-man-of-europe-the-european-union/ It's a long'un so settle down for some bedtime reading I really liked this gem from it though Brits still have it in for the French and Italy has tipped over into going in the garden to eat worms.

Pity them woody, don't hate them. Actually, it's hard not to isn't it.

ah bollocks. If there was a tribal identification with neighbourhood then there'd be no gentrification. No one is being cleansed, they're cashing in and buying nic big properties in on the Medway and the Thames estuary. Same with the facile arguments about village invasions in [lots of nice places around britain] Don't torch the house of the person who bought it; beat up your mate who sold it for a big fat profit and moved out of his crumbling ancestral home to a jolly nice little 2 up 2 down in Swindon and finally got a proper job. I'm getting a bit sick of hearing it, change the fecking record Lousia, just 'cos all your mates abandoned you, don't blame the blow-ins.

Don't get me started on regex validation of emails, telephones, postcodes etc NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Aah a common software designer's dilemma, do the right thing or the pragmatic thing? It kind of depends on the context of the website, but usually there is a demand that websites are geographically neutral, which makes sense in terms of the internet as global phenomenon philosphically. So sometimes the pragmatic approach gets pooh-poohed by regulatory guidelines or idealists, software owners keeping in mind some hypothetical and misplaced future globalised sales, or all of the above. You _can_ do some interpretation off the request object, ip lookups and so forth to go to a country on your list, but they're clumsy and unreliable and involve calling some sort of function which could annoy someoen on a slow connection even if ajaxy. There's a halfway house approach that sort of has a popular list, say US UK Germany France etc ----------- everybody else but this tends to alienate everyone who isn't where they perceive themselves to be, so alphabetical just ends up being the safe option. If the site is quite clearly uk centric, then I say just have a damn text box to stipulate country if you aren't uk and don't cause the bother in the first place.

Whilst I totally agree with you in general terms MM, football isn't exactly the real world. At ?5 million odd a year top contracts are worth, I wouldn't give a toss if the grandees of football added the invention of perpetual motion in my contract, let alone winning the treble, I'm taking the role!!

woo hoo, clambered off the bottom, maxxi doesnt count ;-P

My best poor guess was me convinced I was in S Korea when it turned out to be southern brazil. I still got about 3 points though.

Now that I've realised you can move about to pick up a couple more clues I'm definitely improving http://www.geoguessr.com?v=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%3D%3D

Bloody hell I'm rubbish at that. Nice idea though

I keep playing this song by brummie popsters Swim Deep, very lovely lots of influences, Slowdive and Notwist via The Stone Roses leap to mind but looking forward to more from them.

This is really good stuff. what facebook tells us about us http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/04/data-science-of-the-facebook-world/ mostly that young people have fake ids and we die more as we get older, but there's some less predictable stuff in there too.

I think the trend started with small scale producers in the US, but I think these days the term really just covers anything that isn't coors, bud et al. I think there's an element of an intentioanl break with traditional beer methods and a lot more experimentation, something that has really begun to take off over here to, with, as I said, mixed results.

yep, you might try compressing those photos somewhat!!

Lord's - Test Vz New Zealand A mate has given me a free ticket for the friday woo hoo!!!!

UB, i realise a kid is a young goat, but no need to confuse the two as you sit under your bridge.