chrisp65

Even now, HMV is still in an absolute mess and apparently not seeing what the problem is. I'd say a phonecall from HQ telling branches to run themselves and set up the store as they see fit would have to be better than the current strategy of looking like a closing down clueless mess. I was in the Hammersmith Westfield HMV a couple of times recently, I was amazed the shopping centre hasn't stepped in and reminded the HMV store of the basic store layout codes they'd have signed up to. The place was a jumbled mess. The payment area was so crowded there was nowhere for the girl that served me to put the stock down and scan. She had to move piles of mints and 1D postcards and other crap just to have space to put stuff down. Real shame.

A few years ago my little local club played Millwall in a pre sesason friendly, being quite close to Cardiff and having no fan segregation the police suggested two things that the club had to do for it to go ahead. no away fans to be allowed no pre match publicity This was agreed and the game allowed to go ahead. It was a great success, all the locals knew the game was happening so we had a good turn out, plus Millwall brought a total of around 250 freelance sports journalists, most of them in their mid twenties and sporting those lovely little burberry hats. I'd have to say, the club and the journalist were a class act on that particular day and we raised a fair bit for charity.

today I'm rocking Sainsbury own brand deoderant / anti perspirant it's so floral and pretty I've had to check the bottle, it says MEN in big letters so I'm reassured I haven't made some terrible cross dressing error

So ya should be! I don't imagine it being a very long album.... (I'd have said it about any 'best of', you enjoy your guilty secret)

Trump is the absolute opposite of my father in law, the guy was lovely, but he had the thickest mop of jet black hair and it used to look like a ridiculous wig or at the very least, dyed. Got to the point where he actively considered having grey put in it so it didn't look so 'fake'. Then I came along, married into the family and he went grey soon enough.

the people buying the ice cream, how did they look to you?

I was watching a proper piece of non-league a few years back and there was a player for Carmarthen that was clearly out of place, clearly and literally a different league. So much so that I suggested he was either a ringer or had problems that made him unmanageable at a higher level. Turned out it was neither, it was just strange luck with not getting scouted or picked and not getting the breaks. It was Mark Delaney. Leon Jeanne was probably one of the most naturally talented players I ever saw. On his day he was simply unplayable for good reasons, he was international standard. Unfortunately, 'on his day' proved spectacularly rare.

PSG took just three fans to Ajaccio today. Three. Now I know it's a long way (Ajaccio is on the island of Corsica and the only practical way to get there is to fly, but it does have it's own airport and direct flights to/from Paris) but three away fans for a league game? Could you ever envisage a situation where a Premier League team, even Fulham, would take as few as that? 968 French wives have queried why their husband isn't in that photo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZACBEW_B8s

We are slipping into a world where rather than women being liberated from sexist stereotypes and roles, men are being convinced by advertising and shallow media that they need to pluck, preen and generally titivate themselves in order to be tolerable and not a pig. Clean up, have a shower, get a presentable haircut, apply deoderant / anti-persp and you're good to go. If it's a big night, squirt on that stuff the missus bought you, which for me is currently that Hugo stuff in the picture a few posts above. I've put up shelves today, I'm going out for chips now, I'll be watching a war film later.

tonight's viewing will either be Vanishing Point or Apocalypse Now 'Redux' I have to confess, I don't know what the Redux bit means.....

yeah fairplay, as soon as it was announced on the radio I thought, ah booger it, a winner this early it's all for the minor placings now

on a technicality, he's really been dead a few years I mean, he was never going to build another house on someone else's land any time soon was he....

Tuco, it's a bit embarassing, but that's actually one kid. Terrible heart rending story. You must have seen it on Channel 5? Vills tried to sign him, but would only pay a single salary.

the new hi tech shelving system I've installed in the garage has passed its loadbearing test

Messing about with teaching standards is a great way to look busy, politicians need to look 'tirelessly busy' which is quite difficult to achieve as most things are out of their control. The hard working people of Britain need to know their MP's are working tirelessly on their behalf. What better than another review of a big thing. Big things are trains, schools, hospitals and the army. I've often thought that a great strategy for a party at any one election would be to come up with a pitch for votes along the following lines: 'Hard working people of Britain. We know you, we know you view our ideas with scepticism. We know that money saving reviews cost a fortune. Vote for us and we'll promise to change nothing for at least 4 years. Whatever crappy paperwrok you have to do, whatever structure you work with, whatever private or public funding. We will fundamentally not be tinkering with it. Whatever the system is today in the NHS outpost or school or cheese factory or ticket booth that you work in, we will not be blundering in with new performance indicators or streamlining strategies. You've got four years to just carry on and not worry about tinkering arseholes that have never had a proper job so stick their noses into yours. Thank you all. Carry on.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSif77IVQdY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1VWoSDl_rQ

ah, I can see the first school report now A promising start, but Aston Villa must try harder, I notice the parents have stopped sending in dinner money since the incident with that Irish lad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APSCPAAs6LQ

the kids won't be taxi'd in my car unless they are allowed to put that on crazy kids think all the stuff I already have in the car is poop

always the same I was snagging on site on Tuesday and one snag I had to write up was that the urinals were not yet plumbed in but had clearly been in use for a few days.

meant to pick this up a while ago and remembered it today and it's sumptuous missed them playing Bristol recently which was a shame

Many years ago I got my wife tickets to go see Les Mis in the West End. Obviously it would be off to send her on her own, so I went along. What's the worst that can happen, I thought. If it's truly dull I can just sit there for 2 hours mentally plotting and scheming my world take over. Bloody show just blew me away from start to finish, loved it. Many many years I pulled the same trick again and bought tickets for Blood Brothers. What a pile of trite crap that was, awful.