Gene_Clark

it's all to do with the changing nature of social interaction in the world isn't it? also, the fact that messageboards are microcosmic by their nature; hence you get people who believe in X ranting hysterically at people who believe in Y, as they somehow imagine following the same football team makes it more likely you'll agree about everything else in the world. rationally, that is plain daft

Maybe it's because I don't rate Hitchens that I identify with the clownish, yet eminently quotable in this instance, Galloway on one particular topic. Have you ever considered that?

not quite of the same depth as the final interview with Dennis Potter was it?

Who is CT? Monkeys Fist brother. errr, i know both Monkeys Fist & his brother very well - is CT his alias on here? as those surely aren't his initials.....

wasn't there someone from Skunkers who died of carbon monoxide poisoning?

mackems who died included Laputian, Hazey (both cancer), Gary Rowell (car crash), the legendary Blep just this week & a young lad whose dad i worked with many, many years ago, who drowned in the River aire on a stag do in Leeds (i believe his brother is the spennymoor goalkeeper)

saw Teenage Fanclub supported by Veronica Falls there in may 2010

Next door to O'Neill's? I've seen Patti Smith there you should have gone to Cafe Rest next to Goldhawk Road tube..... only place i've ever seen a shop that is car spares & joke stuff; weird business plan

I'm with Gorgeous George on this one; Hitchens was "a lying, opportunistic, cynical contrarian; a drink-sodden, ex-Trotskyist popinjay," not to mention "the only buttefrly who changed into a slug."

Bizarrely there have been something like 5 weddings from OTB, plus at least half a dozen deaths; unlike the disparate on-line Newcastle United communities (a good thing IMHO), the Mackems are all on the one forum.

Who is CT?

What's the difference between a tramp on a unicycle and a well-dressed gentleman on a bicycle? Attire!

I am available for conversation and social interaction pre and post match; invitations can be sent by PM. I'll consider them all on their individual merits

"Baby Lee" by Teenage Fanclub, the best band in the history of the world

Medina was from Surrey or somewhere & came from a family who didn't like football. However his dad's mate was a Mackem, so Medina adopted them & moved to Durham, aged about 18, never having been up north before & started going to mackem games with the ALS bus & joined the SMB messageboard (aka On The Buses, OTB). Through this he met & wooed this enormous & hideous bird called Sarah, who he got engaged to & after about a month they split up, he went back home & became a trainee accountant. The Mackem Boozer was a short lived rival to OTB, set up to protest about OTB's strict moderation.

very interesting; sad & uplifting at the same time. i actually know 1 of those photographed

Ersatz GB - The Fall; easily their best album in a decade

Zorionak

"Ersatz GB" by The Fall or "Abandoned Love" by Trembling Bells.

If the concern was genuine as opposed to a mere catalyst for argument the word 'poppy' needn't have been brought into the debate at all but no it was there to spark a grief war.

An absolute tragedy. RIP to a fine, fine footballer who served his clubs and his country with honour. Thoughts to his family.

Bratislava is supposed to be mint. Not many people realise it's actually in the same connurbation as Vienna, but it is, it's not much further than Newcastle to Sunderland with population in between. it is a great city; always flew newcastle - vienna to get there. didn't often go to austria - very expensive compared to slovakia, even on ex pat wages while i was there, my season ticket resided with the brother of monkeysfist, boringly enough

Prior to WWI, Polland hadn't existed since 1795

When I lived in Bratislava, it was pointed out to me that the city had been known as Poszony when under Hungarian rule, until 1918, Bratislava between 1919 & 1938, then Pressburg under German rule until 1945, then Bratislava again. The country's official language had been Hungarian, Czech & German, but never Slovak until 1989!!

it became Foundation & is now unlet office space. missed oasis gig in 94, on holiday