El Pibe

Was the Popular Front of Judea there too?

I have curry sauce in a squeezy plastic thingy. THat can't be posh

"Woy Betide England"

RH's appointment might bring up some interesting dynamics with some of those who may not have seen eye to eye with him during his tenure at Liverpool. No great losses in my book. If he's any balls it's goodbye JT too. Truly my heart weeps..ooh a shiny penny. I'm feeling more positive about this manager than any I have for a good long while. In fact it's been a horrible time since, well, since Venables left. Admittedly I was optimistic when Keegan took over, a misplaced optimism that pretty much lasted until he announced his first squad. Oh, tired old dinosaurs and regressive tactics then, did we learn nothing from Hoddles reign?! And things only got worse. That we're ranked so highly under Capello is laughable and a facet of the weird FIFA weighting of our trouble free qualifications against the likes of Lilliput, Legoland and Hobbitonania. Woo!!! As I've said before he's got a good track record of getting small teams to punch above their weight. If he can get the mentality in to the team (and selection is crucial here) that we are no longer natural heirs to the biggest stage and have to damn well work for it then we could go all the way, or at least maybe further than a meek exit after the group stage. But not in this tournament.

I tend to feel that the more locally focussed the election the less concerned about broader party partisan politics one should be and the more focussed on specific issues. Either way the above site tells me not to touch Boris with a barge pole, and though the buffoon is weirdly lovable I intend to be true to that advice. Ken ranked second on the web test but he's actually behind UKIP for me, odious little turd. So gay, pot smoking rozza it is! Not that he has a cat in hell's chance.

chicken salt?!?

Didn't Major say we're all middle class now? It must be true :-/ I'm with woodrot (as usual). Be who you be and vive le diff?rence!

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Underhill Village, Friern Village, Bellenden Village....

Denmark Hill Village, Bellenden Village, Choumert Village.......

Is that review by the Conrad Black? So no axe to grind regards US justice there then ;-/

Brixton Larder, Pantry, Cupboard? (momentarily vaguely serious) Brixton Market II?

No, seriously, village is wanky. As a term it has been purloined by the evil estate agents and ruined its use for everyone. Pueblo would have been bad, though at least there's a fine colombian butcher there that would add authenticity. We could try patronising, how about Babyxton And Ting?

village is pretty wanky though isn't it. Especially given the lack of a church or duck pond.

By the Plough. Lordship lane goes all the way up to Sydenham Hill turning (ish).

"are they throwing themselves to the ground.." if that was the cause of injuries surely Chelsea would be waaaay out in front and Drogba's career would have been over ages ago (if only)!!

Swedish is hot hot hot at the moment. I'd go for a crime drama/novel or swedish horror, publishers will lap it up!!!

net curtain man?

El Pibe offered his huguenotship hearty congratulations. (Actually spaniards do talk a little bit like that. Well, latin americans at any rate.)

El Pibe is finding people referring to themselves in the third person a little unsettling.

Wasn't there a bit in Office Space where you ahve to sit back and think what you'd lke to be doing right now if you weren't in your office, and that's the career you should pursue. Sadly I, like Peter in the film, dream of doing nothing, so I'm screwed. To be serious though, I guess whatever path you choose will involve some retraining and if it's a structured career, stepping down some rungs. Maybe you should consider working for yourself? Decent plumbers are booked up til the next millennium and do pretty well for themselves. There's a chronic shortage of decent software developers and it's a piece of piss!!

actually maxxi, back in the pre-mobile-ubiquity age of 1995 my then editor was late to work because a chap had collapsed in front of him on the pavement. He stopped to help the guy and a small crowd quickly gathered to gawp make sure he was ok too. One of them talked loudly into a cell phone (as we then knew them, one of those rather unwieldy things) about what was going on. When my editor turned to him and asked him politley to make rather better use of it and contact the emergency services he turned a special shade of crimson and had to admit that it was actually a fake!! It happens, it really does.

That more or less tallies with my childhood memories. Remember when you looked forward to christmas because there would be a James Bond film and a couple of Carry on Films late at night too? Having said that, it's difficult to think that the seachange in our experiences is down to Murdoch and Sky and not just a facet of technological progress. Hat's off to the man for seeing the future and getting in there early though. I am virtually footballed out mind (not quite enough to truly enjoy watching Ronaldo screw up Real's passage to the final mind, sporting *banned word* gold!!!!!) *ETA tele-visual is a banned word apparently *

The Chinese supermarket just up the road. Cheap as chips. Plus they chop up kingfish heads for me for stock for next to nowt.

I'm not saying he didn't, and I'm certainly not saying we needed it, but we certainly lapped it up. I think to a certain extent society has benefitted. The kow-towing respect for the establishment was unhealthy, but we most certainly have gone too far in the other direction. The establishment is in fear of the gutter press and panders too much to those base instincts, plus we now have NO respect for the establishment and we tend to assume a lack of credibility on the part of its representatives. Healthy skepticism = good, total lack of trust = bad. I don't think it's any coincidence that our beloved leader and deputy leader both hark from PR!! Actually I don't recall having that much football on the telly. Match of the day was longer highlights of fewer games, and I'm pretty sure live games were limited to the odd cup game weren't they? Again though, the hype and expectation has sullied the beautiful game in many ways, I'm always reminded of that mitchell & webb sketch that perfectly parodies the sky coverage.