Meenzer

To be fair, Australian comedy (and, indeed, Australian culture as a whole) pretty much starts and finishes with Kevin Bloody Wilson.

Ongelooflijk!

Now that's what I call advance planning. Giving yourself plenty of time to chicken out again? Sounds grand though. First round of white wine spritzers is on me.

Now don't get me started on how much I miss Hamburg or I'll really be in a foul mood. We should meet up and drown our collective sorrows with a J2O or three. Pencil in the Chelsea game the weekend after next if you're around - it's televised and should bring with it sufficient misery to distract us. And that's just the joy of having to watch it in a Cockney pub.

Though if you're stuck on the wrong side of the train, your first impression tends to be more one of "Bugger me, I'd forgotten how ugly the arena is." I miss genuinely relaxed pubs with good craic (much as I hate that word) (other than [cue comedy arse references]), the fact that the city centre's so compact you can bomb around the place with ease, summer sunshine that isn't inextricably coupled with smog and breathing difficulties... I can't really think of many tangible things really, yet I imagine I'd be straight back up to the region if there wasn't anything holding me here. Oh well. That's my mood fucked for the rest of the day.

Eating Out Utterly, utterly, utterly awful.

T3 gains plus points for featuring Nick Stahl's nostrils of doom.

inhibitive didn't look right I got excited and added a syllable, ssm So shave me?

American Idol? What? I don't watch that shit, someone e-mailed me with it Presume you didn't watch the clip either then Fuck off, slack arse It's not even American Idol, it's "Nashville Star" That was my point in the first place, Einstein - it's "Nouvelle Star", hence the French TV ident and all. Honestly, if you're going to try your hand at pedantry...

Because it was a cuntish thread from a boorish poster really. You're just saying that because Shints looks like one of those dodgy blokes who hangs round the gents at Halfway II Heaven and you're getting flashbacks to being molested by Jonny.

American Idol? What? I don't watch that shit, someone e-mailed me with it Presume you didn't watch the clip either then

I'd gladly go back to Germany if the circumstances matched. Other than that, I reckon Aussieland would be worth a pop (despite the natives).

American Idol?

Hoddle & Waddle - Diamond Lights

Just got a call from the German office and I'm getting a small but perfectly formed pay rise.

I was thinking stuffed olives.

Greek salad.

Oh bah. Maybe I'd be better off just tossing a salad instead

Spectacularly rookie question here from someone who claims to know his way around the kitchen, but does anyone know if it's safe to prepare a lasagna now - brown the mince, layer it up, whack the cheese on top - then put it in the fridge and cook it this evening? I'm trying to cut a few corners but I don't want the result to be food poisoning or thoroughly soggy pasta sheets.

You HAVE to? Really? This is how he gives back. No, I have to because otherwise my fella will come back from Serbia and see that I've been living in squalor for the last few months. Totally under the thumb, obviously.

Not a vast amount of work on today, but I do have to clean the flat from top to toe.

Whats that in your avatar Meenzer? The Meatsafe Murderer. Only he never done it! And Mr Hoppy. He only said he done it so they'd take the jump cables off his testicles.

...but to our very own, inimitable Brock Manson. May your beard ever be twirly and evil!