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  1. Meenzer

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    Lordy, this is worse than the squabbling over the last white wine spritzer at G-A-Y Bar.
  2. A good nap is never a waste of time.
  3. Meenzer

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    Anyone with 28.349523125 grams of common sense can see this thread is going nowhere.
  4. Just completed yet another Brookmyre, so now I'm moving on to "Nul Points" by Tim Moore. I'm orgasmic with anticipation.
  5. Perhaps the capitalisation is her way of stressing the fact that she didn't write "me are" this time?
  6. Meenzer

    Co-Op

    Village People tache and all.
  7. Meenzer

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    You got in the way and the comedy moment was lost. I thought of something funny to reply to it, and then you deleted it, but it was the usual one-dimensional ha-ha-homosexual fare, so no loss really. Or something.
  8. Meenzer

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    You got in the way and the comedy moment was lost.
  9. Ultra Bra - Tyttöjen välisestä ystävyydestä
  10. Happy birthday mate. Do I get to come to your party?
  11. Meenzer

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    Besides (assuming everyone else's UK passport is the same as the one I was issued by the consulate in Düsseldorf a few years back), it only has the words "European Union" in fairly small letters at the top, then "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" in bigger letters underneath and a massive royal coat of arms taking up the rest of the front page. It's not as if we're being asked to roll up to passport control and hand over our biometric data imprinted into a Belgian waffle or something.
  12. German understatement at its finest.
  13. Oo, that really is a bit middle-of-nowhere. Nearest top-flight club as the crow flies is probably Eintracht Frankfurt, but Isegrim will kill you if you start supporting them. Bet all the locals are Bayern fans anyway.
  14. Depends how middle-of-nowhere the German opportunity is. For all the rail system's great, you don't want to be stuck in a total backwater (and/or having to shell out for a car) in the autumn/winter months when all you're likely to think about is what you've given up in the shape of Petersburg and the bright lights. I imagine the latter is probably about the safest (i.e. most patronisingly "safe" and "western") way to do Russia for a while, too. That said, Germany is basically solid and reliable, and if you're within striking distance of a big city, there'll be plenty to keep you entertained without any of the unpredictability of Russia. Well that was helpful.
  15. Jormany................................ worse than Aberystwyth Aye, they've only managed after-4pm-on-Saturday opening in the last few years (and for most shops, that's at the expense of early-morning opening during the week). If you're stuck for a pint of milk on a Sunday you're basically limited to the shops at petrol stations, train stations and the like. It's largest-economy-in-Europe-tastic!
  16. Meenzer

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    Incidentally, was just googling this and came across the following: http://travel.independent.co.uk/uk/article357743.ece Not a bad advert really.
  17. Meenzer

    Co-Op

    Argh. You might well be right though. Wonder if the Council will (or even have the right to) stick their oar in and insist on certain types of use. Then again, it probably says it all that my first reaction to Noelie's post was "shame, my gran used to shop there".
  18. Meenzer

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    If "British identity" means "inability to evolve and keep up with the times", then yep. The Newgate Street building is really nice, mind. Hope it doesn't get bulldozed Gate-style.
  19. Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - All The Roadrunning k.d. lang - Hymns of the 49th Parallel Neil Diamond - 12 Songs Maudlintastic tbh. The musical equivalent of a hot toddy. Or something.
  20. I love deluded wannabe popstrels.
  21. Meenzer

    CROATIA

    cheers, Im not sure where abouts in croatia Im going yet as I have just found out now from the girlfriend that her mums kindly booked it for us and is paying for the whole holiday. How sweet Thanks, so I've got to try and avoid Albeit? ..... Sure, why not?
  22. I've always thought of Denmark, Norway and Sweden as constituting Scandinavia itself, with those three plus Finland and Iceland making up what you'd call the Nordic countries. I'm sure there are no hard-and-fast rules though, same as the "is Cyprus in Europe or the Middle East?" argument and all the rest of them. You get used to this kind of thing when you fraternise with Eurovision fans. Stockholm is a lovely place and you can do it on a reasonable budget, but yeah, I'm not so sure November's the time to be visiting.
  23. Never had any problems in Budapest in '98, other than persuading my old man not to accept the 4000-forint taxi fare quoted by the dodgy fella who accosted us on the train platform after we got back from a day in Vienna. Same journey ended up costing about 1000 in an official taxi from out the front. I reckon you can generally get by fine in these places as long as you've got your wits about you, though I must admit I'd have reservations about going to Moscow (and isn't Petersburg meant to be more tourist-friendly and have just as much going for it anyway?).
  24. Meenzer

    CROATIA

    Haven't been, but my fella was in Dubrovnik for a few weeks last summer and said it was brilliant, albeit packed with Germans.
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