citizenED

People who should use cars: disabled people, elderly and infirm, people with young children. At a stretch, young women travelling at night. (see Kerri's post) People who shouldn't use cars. Healthy men. Look at the buses - the wrong people are using them. Look at the roads. How many single male drivers? Kerri out "at 7am and you're out all day until 2am" Jeez girl, you getting by on about 3/4 hrs sleep.

Snake Oil!

"Plus the dark haired girl (the boss's daughter?) is hot." OK if you like your meat pre-cooked

How about *Barry*?

Drogbaesque melodramatics aside, perhaps if referees interpreted the rules properly for a couple of seasons and stopped defenders from kicking chunks out of skilful players there would be less need for those players to "simulate". I actually don't mind a bit of simulation when it means that after an hour of fouling an oik gets his marching orders.

Barry-on-the-Road

The reason why I sing the praises of the current Arsenal team is precisely because they have proved you can get round the idea that you have to be a "real man" to play football. They understand that the key act in football is the pass. Move the ball quickly away from your opponent and you don't have to worry about some heavyweight bruiser chopping you down. I hate the fact that in this country we have promoted the hard men over the artistes. On a previous post Atila suggested that it was the reason the national side has not got anywhere. I agree. I knew a young lad recently who was a magician with the ball - skills you would pay to see. He was at Crystal Palace for a while as a schoolboy. Then he was released. Why? He was "too small" Sums it up.

When the popular butcher was rude

No, faux is just what a posh git calls a fox

Slosh?

Thought not - Liverpool just the home of all the best folklore...

For a few years now I've promised myself I'll discuss withh all my relatives the possibility of limiting cost of pressies, you know, one of those smart agreements where you only buy for other people's kids or you spend no more than a fiver on everyone. You'll never guess...

Impressed Tillie, half done and it's only the end of August..... *glances at calender*.....AAAARRRRRRGG!

Lovin that one Anna, - it surely makes it into the premier league of urban myths....;-)

There was a young Mockney called Piers Who fancied the Sainsbury's cashiers Once at the checkout He asked one of them out Her reaction just brought him to tears

Sean, I undertyped you - started my message at around half one and only just got round to posting it. In the meantime five new postings - I'm so ponderous!

Like others on here, I get a tad nostalgic about the "good old days" when the local lads played for the local team (and it still rings beautifully true when a liverpool player is interviewed on TV and he has a scouse accent) but then I wake up and realise that things have moved on. Football is international and that is that. I find it a very positive thing. Atila rightly says that "We in this country are still banging on about the physical side of the game, which has got us precisely nowhere in the international arena" This is entirely the point. I love the football that Arsene has got Arsenal playing because it proves that you can coach a team to win playing attractive stuff. If you've got several players who are creative, the opposition can't beat you by just targeting one player. If it means that the players are foreign for now, so be it. having said that, Arsenal reserves are largly English and Arsenal have provided many English players that are doing well at other clubs - Sidwell and Bently to name two.

OK so I can do the link thing, but how do I do the image thing?

Radiohead OK Computer

"Reading 1 - 3 Arsenal" top prediction atila - but only 1 - 3, so easily could have been more. Pure finesse.

"I work with a lot of elderly people, and visit them in their homes. It is common for them to mention something about their carer who happens to be black, and to say some thing along the lines of "she's a nice girl, dark skinned, but lovely". Now some people would call that person a racist, and I can understand why. I however would call them a person who grew up around Woolwich in a very different time, and who is actually trying in their way to show that the colour of a person's skin doesn't make a difference." This comment Slosh is most poignant. The point is that people from that different age simply aped the acceptable lazy language of the time to describe something. You rightly say they should not be accused of being racist for it. That is the whole thing with political correctness - it's a process of making small corrections to language so that when our generation are being looked after by carers we will say "she's a nice girl, dark-skinned and lovely" citizen

Please excuse my innocence here, but what is crack cocaine?

Thanks to Michael for arranging the food. Was it the winning smile, the fluttering eyelids, or did you have to do something else? Great to meet up with all - and lovely to meet first-timers, BM, LL and PeckhamRose (very glad to hear it's worked out with your play) Your short cameo was one of the most dramatic, and tragic, little scenes we have had. Citizen

Albums? What are these "albums" you speak of? downloads surely.

No, Brendan, that's only if you are one of those people who turn the map round in the car so it is facing in the direction of travel.