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. just burped much much louder than anticipated...

I guess these would be the same sort of people that don't understand what CASH ONLY / CARDS ONLY / TAG ONLY written in red illuminated flashing letters a meter tall above various toll booths means.... Personally, if I see a toll booth with a sign above it that says TAG ONLY, what I tend to guess, is you need a tag to get through that one. I tend not to think, hmmm 'tag only' I shall queue here and attempt to pay with varied coin of the realm.

OK, we must have had several Berlin threads I'm sure. But this one was kinda sorta for historical walks and middle aged stuff. My recent visit I got very very lucky with the weather. I stayed over at the very west end of the Tiergarten, minutes from the zoo, and walked through the park every day on my way in to town. so, interesting things to see on a walking tour: first advice - pre book a visit to the Bundestag Dome & Restaurant cuts out hours of waiting for clearance and gives a great view out.

@mjmooney @lapal_fan We should really shuffle over to the travel section. We went to Berlin a few months ago. I got lucky with some work coinciding with a half term. Mike, there's plenty of 'old' stuff to see, from the rejuvenated Brandenberg gate, the walk through the Tiergarten, the Prussian Victory Column, passing plenty of statues and monuments is fascinating. There's plenty of history, much of it with shrapnel damage. The Bismark Memorial is incredible and strangely chilling, it includes Mother Germany with her foot firmly on the head of a defeated lion. No idea what that symbolised! Then there's the preserved Russian Memorial in it's 50's communist splendour. There's even a tacky remnant of checkpoint Charlie which is a bit touristy, but walk two blocks and it's all there to see. The Berlin Wall and the various museums I had no itention of visiting, I'm so glad I did, just amazing. The zoo is spectacular. Stunning city and super friendly.

Chilcot Inquiry report to be published 6th July.

So that'll be no kids in restaurants, at the cinema or in the garden then. Bunch of pensioner ukippers on 'ere.

Cameron's speech today: PM Speech 09.05.2016 There's plenty more of the same if you want to read it. Given his words, surely he should resign, now? Either he doesn't believe his own speech, he's lying. Or, he has recklessly endangered the future of this country. He's an idiot. A dangerous idiot. Shirley?

Nostalgia's not what it used to be back in my day.

Imagine if you didn't report her and she went on to crush the bike of teacher, over here on a cycling holiday, from their native France. Would you want that on your conscience?

Curds!!!!!

Well fair play, watching from afar, but what a way to bow out. From the march before the game, the inflatables, the banners, and getting a point that might well put Newcastle down when they strangely thought they were coming for some half arsed 'revenge'. They can now be relegated by Sunderland next week, so I think we've just made some friends up there! But then catching up on other news, I see not only did Sunderland beat Chelsea, but they got Terry sent off and now he'll miss his own final game for Chelsea. He'll have to sit in the stand with his kit on under a coat. As a shit weekend, that's quite good.

did he miss?

To be fair, they can have him. Other than having his body odour pretty much under control he's about there, yeah.

67-73 was a bit golden wasn't it. I suspect a heady combination of technology and drugs helped. The ratio is up for debate.

Barnet have now said that if you were turned away earlier and can't get back you can 'possibly' get an emergency proxy vote if you re register before 5:00pm. Somebody has then asked if it's legal to be altering the electoral register half way through an election day and have been tweeted the response 'probably'. At it's most banal, it's just an admin error that could happen pretty much anywhere. But it does give people the opportunity to dial their indignation up to 11. At it's most serious, there will be people that have been denied a vote today. Imagine if any of the results are anywhere near being close. The fact the Chief Rabbi was told he couldn't vote as he wasn't on the list, and that it was Barnet where part of the process was outsourced just add to the fun.

I know that if I had a choice of Premiership and Champions League experience, or a portion of a season at a Championship club in chaos, working for my old boss, it would be a no brainer.....

Yeah I stumbled across that programme too. Very interesting character and by the sounds of it very much 'of his time' with a lot of his views. Funding his scatter gun excavations by flogging off the finds, was the m.o. as far as I could tell. Must have been a hell of an exciting time. We find a piece of broken crockery on a building site now and we all have to stop work, put neon bibs on and get a gazebo over the find until Neil Oliver and his hair can get there.

Yeah, I'm in and out of Swansea a fair bit at the moment and you do tend to see students doing the long walk to that campus. It looks fantastic, but a little remote right now. I'd guess that campus will drive a fair bit of development in that area though. I'll toot toot next time I pass. Be sure to wave and strike a VT gang pose if you see a balding bloke in an old Merc beeping at you.

Shiny new science and tech campus out of town, or the one by the cricket ground on the seafront? Seafront, always looks like a pretty funky place to be in Uni, access to the beach almost literally on the doorstep. Did a tour of a few Uni's with the nipper a few months ago. Brum and Swansea were the two clear faves, but a few staff and lecturers in Brum gave the impression of being a bit up their own arse with how great they were, whilst at the same time, giving out duff information.

To be fair, the double dream sequence in American Werewolf was by a country mile the most scary thing I'd ever seen. It was a proper state of the art movie at the time and one of very few I've got on DVD. But to chime in with Mooney's point earlier about not having great film memory, I was going to add 'The French Connection' to the list as it's one of my absolute all time faves. Turns out on a quick google, it's 1971.

I bought my first house at the tail end of the 1980's. It was terrible, I needed to buy a house right at a spike in house prices. £30,000. If I'd been buying 6 months earlier houses in the same street had been £25,000. Crazy crazy end of days prices, but we managed some how.....