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tsk now Ant: milky pallor may be a wow down the Lit and Deb society, but not such a hit at the beach volleyball (also if we all adhered to this maxim, ladies would never wax and my hair would be a dowdy shade of mouse. Nowt wrong with a bit of aesthetic enhancement)

can I be cheeky and ask why you want it? I'm intrigued as to your professional reasons.

how many times have you guys all watched it? I love the Wire. I love it love it love it (although I'm not sure how much more I can take after series 4: I'm emotionally battered). but I don't think I can quote scenes in this way. is this like the way boys know the entire script to Withnail and I and the producers of rare 60s b-sides and, you know, the offside rule?

you should you should - then i could bimble in and you would throw books at me, and those would be the ones I'd buy. i've just been into Waterstones - i didn't know what to do with myself with all those gaudy covers - how are you to tell a Marian Keyes (only 411 days since the last one!) from the latest Dostoevsky when they're all in pastels with "interesting" typefaces n that?

http://www.abd.org.uk/know_your_speed_limits.htm - is this not taught in the old driving lessons anymore?

I've always liked the idea of Chener. Being a huge fan of Dylan Moran and Black Books, I see it as being a little bit like that, only marginally less dusty. No sense of welcome (I know, I know, others have had different experiences) but fabulous books on the table and me all hung over, meandering a bit and bumping into the table and not being able to choose anything, and when I've tried to catch someone's eye because my wits are too dulled to work it out for myself they've examined the undersides of their fingernails as if the answer to the Da Vinci Code were writ thereupon, and then bumbling off to buy some cheese instead from the warehouse because they let you taste it first. what I really want is claret-fuelled abuse from the wild-haired one and I'd be throwing all my disposable cash at him. come to think of it Steveo (I'm assuming your name is pronounced Steve-o rather than Estevio, which I rather fondly fancied) excellent book plugging. I need a new book, will check it out

Quite so, a couple more things: - if you are new to fake tan, you might not realise that it doesn't offer any sun protection (in the way that a real tan does) so you still need the same high factor as if you were milk bottle white - i find St Tropez can be a bit full on for really pale people - don't know how pale you are but I heartily recommend Clarins if you're fair - i really would pay someone else to do it. It's tricky to do your own back (all well and good if you have someone to do it for you, but do you really trust them not to give you streaks?) Embrace your metrosexuality and ignore the naysayers - you'll be looking gorgeous and lithe

Sorry, so head f@cked i'm not even sure what you mean.

Haha, that'll learn me to pay more attention to the dates and stuff eh? Second time i've done that this week - must do better - apologies for such sloppy posting. Blame PWC (and also my company for the numbers not adding up)

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sorry Macroban, but it appears that people are > more happy discussing the pros and cons of clothes > rather than the imminent (or not) demise of the > retail sector. > > Head in the sand and all that jazz. David, spending my Sunday working on a client budget in preparation for a Price Waterhouse audit, I look to the forum for a little light relief. Because the imminent demise of the retail sector is of interest to you doesn't mean that other people want to chat about it. "Head in the sand" could be considered a rather self-important way of looking at the fact that other people prefer to talk about skinny jeans

Edited this because my blackberry took me to the first rather than last post. No doubting the worthiness of the cause, just sits uneasily with me.

Don't think these are proley tart shoes, some are around ?200 a pop, and Longchamp bags are decidedly not for the scummy mummy And actually i'm going to eat humble pie. Having slgged it on the basis of the website, i decided to do the right thing and look inside the shop. There ARE some nasties in there, but i saw a couple of pairs that i really liked and am contemplating a purchase - i'd get the bag too, but is a bit pricey for me....

Hear hear Sean. I normally try to be diplomatic on here and see both sides but FFS this really winds me up. You don't want a parking ticket, then don't park illegally. If signs aren't clear you have the right to appeal. They can't fine you and make squillions of pounds that would be better spent on jeremy clarkson dvds if you are parked where you're supposed to be parked. Is it really any more complicated than that?

brilliantly not - I've only gone and done it. f*ck knows what I'm going to do now (apart from go home that is) but i've got 3 months to work it out. if anyone knows of any jobs going...

ahh, brought a tear to my eye - brings back heady memories of dancing with Barney Sumner at the Hacienda

JDI people, JDI

well it's half past ten and I'm still in the office, so actually not "instead of working", but "as well as" - I HAVE RESIGNED (er, with no job to go to) am so thrilled that I'm not going to be working 70 hour weeks anymore, that I just had to stay back and finish a presentation...

no northerners on here? the legendary Hacienda man - every Saturday, unless I was going to: Sankeys Soap - Manchester Quadrant Park - Liverpool Shaboo - Blackpool Konspiracy - Manchester then I came south to uni, and all my friends were rockers - hard times indeed - was a semi-regular at the Milk Bar though and Bass Clef I was very sad recently to see the disgrace they have made of the Hacienda, turning it into very cheap looking flats

and how are their croissants, any good? so many croissants are doughy - tricky to find a good english baker that does them well

God, my worst thing was leaving an Eat lp on a train from manchester to bolton when i was about 16. I was gutted as i'd been looking forward to it for ages and couldn't afford a replacement, but it kind of feels insignificant now. ?300,000 - christ! That's some going

Claire was robbed - am gobsmacked

Tightly argued Nero, good call. I hate litter too, and agree her actions were intriguing. And i say more bitching. Apart from sniping at each other (or, you know, the undesirables) we all play terribly nicely on here

Kettle Chips in the UK since they were bought out by private equity also don't allow unions. I don't know for sure, but i would imagine mcdonalds do as they have investors in people accreditation and i would imagine a ban would be frowned upon (or maybe i'm naive). Sean, didn't mean just to repeat your point earlier - only had a couple of minutes and hadn't read back up the post. My point wasn't though to shrug and do nothing - it was more that anyone telling jimmytwotimes to consider his responsibilities should make sure their own were duly considered first. As for health, don't think there's a whole lot of nutrition in a happy meal, but so what? No one goes in there thinking they're getting a well balanced meal - still better with an egg mcmuffin than a starbucks muffin though. Personally i don't want a mcdonalds because i'm selfish and i don't particularly like their food and i don't want lordship lane to get any busier than it already is.now If you said nando's on the other hand...

I'm inclined to agree with JimmyTT's comment about lighting up a fag. Of course there is such a thing as personal responsibility, but how far does that go? McDonalds is very far from being alone in not being whiter than white: anyone who's ever eaten a KitKat or a Philadelphia dunker, drunk a Bacardi and Coke, taken coke, lit up a Marlboro while sporting Primarni, bought non-fair trade flowers from Mexico or Kenya is equally open to question. The list goes on and on, and I suspect there are few of us in our glass houses who can throw stones only at McDonalds And personally, I thought they tasted better before they took out all the salt and sugar - cursed be the health lobby

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So anyway....oh yeah I mentioned on another thread > "to all intensive purposes" I like the idea of intensive purposes - it sounds kind of serious and Sandperson, your post has pleased me no end by reminding me of a song that used to drive me nuts - Moonlight Shadow - "4am in the morning, carried away, by a moonlight shadow" warming to my tautologous theme, I can't stand Omar's There's Nothing Like This - "take a sip of cold champagne wine" - da doobie oo-ee (really makes me want to rip off my own ears and beat him to death with them) but Eminem makes me laugh with his "eating their food and their baked beans" - good for the cross trainer at the gym