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villa win just to confuse randy

ah the Young Ones, a really good breath of fresh air at the time. I remember waiting to see who the band would be every week and sometimes they were absolutely bang on. One week it was Nine Below Zero which resulted in me turning the telly up so loud it popped something and that telly always had a buzz or a crackle after that.

Reminds me of. A man asks his colleague "Do you know where you and your wife are going in America?" "Alaska." he replies. "Nah don't worry, I will" My favourite joke for years! My wife's gone to the West Indies....... Jamaica? No, she has gone of her own free will.

BBC4 Classic Albums: Primal Scream's Screamadelica too wasted to stay awake and watch it though

Ended up working away without much notice, so for the first time I can remember, didn't vote. Anyway, the question was rigged by the politico's. Why was there no third option: 3: we are interested in change but not the one offered, so go away and come back with another option, not just this crappy little 'choice' between two poor systems. Oh, and whilst you're at it, add the option 'none of the above' to all voting forms so we can exercise our right to vote without having to endorse someone from a list of four party affiliated cretins. right, I'm off down stairs for a couple of pints, then back up here to explore the outer reaches of the interweb

Had a conversation a few years ago in Pizza Express. My mate asked for a ham and pineapple pizza, the waiter responded by saying that they didn't put pineapple on the menu as they wouldn't put it on a pizza as 'this is an italian pizzaria, not some americanised variation'. My mate pointed out very quickly that 'this is actually just a jumped up pizza franchise in Manchester so get the stick out of your arse' causing spontaneous applause from the rest of us. Ten minutes later we were in a Chinese eatery.

Used to go to quite a few Super Furry gigs. End of the evening was always a rousing rendition of 'I feel like chicken tonight', if you're gonna cover someone else's work you may as well make it a well known one!

yeah heights in general and in particular ladders and scaffolding are a pain for me some days I'm fearless, some days, just can't do it

they say women lack 3D spacial awareness, yet, to add to the general moan above, they always know the narrowest part of any entrance door / corridor / escalator / car park exit etc.. to stop, check unknown content of purse and generally consider life before setting off again

computer? desk clock? desk landline phone? tv scrolling news channel? radio 5 live time check every 3 minutes, slightly more often during drive with Peter Alan. but you can wear a watch in the swimming pool where mobile phones often aren't so handy

I think watches are a 'habit'. You're absolutely right, if you're in the car, have a phone, sat in your living room, or stood outside a supermarket there will be a clock. But you go out without your watch on, and you'll be staring at a slightly hairy but empty wrist every 10 minutes. For me, I've got a £20 upper limit for watches. My current masterpiece was about £16 from Marks's. It looks like a watch and tells the time.

I think there's a little more wriggle room on the definition of British than the definition of Britain. You could be born in Britain, of two Dutch parents that were working here or visiting, you are not necessarily going to consider yourself British. Saying that, if it turns out you were good at footy a few years later, welcome home!

The Maltese have a sort of extreme version of the British Q system. Pedestrians queue very politely for buses with a real set of mores, you can queue out of line, people will scan the area, see you leaning against your tree, accept that you were there before them and stop the queue for you to get on the bus at about the point people judge you to have been in the area. Then there's Maltese car driving, and it's everyman for himself, drive in the shade as fast as you can, fwk the law, I'm late for church! A slight generalisation of a lovely bunch of people.

basic disadvantage: you are short of money for what you desire. so you buy it on credit. this proved easy and convenient. paying back for the thing you couldn't afford leaves you short of cash. so you buy a higher proportion of your desirable shit on credit. this increases your payments. this reduces your available cash. some people high up in financialism shout 'hey! the emperor is naked'. the world gets fwked over for several years.

well, not sure if it's supposed to cheer you up, but I went to a really good funeral today! the old bugger was in his 80's and had lived a great old life, grew up in Jamaica, blagged his way into the forces under age, fought in the war, moved to the UK, was good and respected at cricket and tennis and boxing, 2 wives, 5 kids. Bit of gospel singing from a choir, couple of good speeches and all up the golf club for a session with everyone taking the mickey out of each other and having a good giggle and too much to drink good sign off imo

yeah, but I'm on a Raleigh Chipper. I think the most I've done for work was back in February where over the course of a week I visited Swansea, Plymouth, Brum, Sheppey and London in a random unplanned order. Think I managed just over 1,000 in 5 days with meetings or work on site included every day. Most I've done for 'pleasure' was Cardiff to Glasgow (with a quick trip to Oban to say we'd been there) and back in 36 hours with a game of euro qualifier footy to watch thrown in the middle. Got the rental car back and it had 999 miles on it, so we drove around the car park until it pinged 1,000 exactly. Ha! take that you unlimited mileage feckers! worst journey? Portugal (Porto) and back by bus again, to watch footy that was a long few days

420 mile round trip with a start at 5:00a.m. and the line between choice and necessity blurs. Clackett Lane Services, M25 always got a bargain bin full of bizarre cd's. This week, £2.99 for Northern Soul Floorshakers!

It's all about the Costa Coffee at Strensham (so says my mrs who insists on stopping there for Hot Chocolate en route to every damn Villa game). Yes, Strensham is a good shout. Especially when the Portugese crew are on. I love doing the old expenses receipts at the end of the week and seeing I'm claiming £30 for coffee. Perhaps I should buy a flask!

I've got to the sad sad point in life where I know which services along the M5 / M4 / M25 / M2 / M20 are capable of serving a decent franchise coffee. Winner for me is Costa at Newbury. I need some new interests.

tsk, Wife Swap USA on Discovery turned out to be a bit disappointing.

trouble is, you go too far back and you're in the danger zone every time we get a free kick.

District 9 in a nutshell. Superb movie imo. well, having seen a bit of chatter about District 9 I then ended up in a 24 hour Asda in Sittingbourne..... Bought the film, checked in at the hotel, stuck movie in office laptop and watched the first hour..... then the bloody laptop threw a hissy fit and stopped and won't give me the dvd back! a) I have to hand laptop in to office tomorrow a.m. and announce I've bust it. It could have been a lot worse!

As a sort of illustration of the above, I'm mid forties, I have never listened to Led Zeppelin. However, I've been to see British Sea Power twice. Courtney Pine, heralded as the saviour of British Modern Jazz. Went to see him and the only thing that stunk worse than the music was his stage presence. After three pieces he got mildly heckled with 'call it off' and others gave a mooted cheer.

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