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Was she fit? 167421[/snapback] Doubt it if she couldn't even hold on to a branch for a few minutes

ought to be aware that, at London prices, Wetherspoons is about all I can ever stretch to In all seriousness though, whenever I've been eating out in central London it's always been with a big group, and GroupThink tends to equal Generic Chain Restaurant - ergo numerous visits to Caffe Uno, Pizza Express or Strada, and not much in the way of actual local fare. Whereabouts are you staying? (I'm not saying that'll help, but...)

Today I will be translating a piece about a legal dispute over the delivery of herrings. This must be a Monday.

should know I charge extra for special requests

had better pop in to the Meenzer love shack and say hello

Off to the athletics at Crystal Palace tonight, then a Thames boat ride tomorrow. Dodge the toxic fumes!

Who is whey yu knaa anyway? Bastid.

I take back what I said, apparently they do have an airport but it appears to average something like 300 flights a year. I guess people will be flying into Riga after all...

Oh, and we seem to be away first leg, which is canny.

It's on the coast, it has an airport, and it hosted the Latvian national final for Eurovision in 2003. That's about the full extent of my knowledge.

The "sermon" at the wedding I went to a few weekends back was given by one of those types. He rattled on about the happy couple learning to understand each other's laaaanguage of loooove for about 10 minutes - which apparently boils down to the groom not playing Playstation every night and the bride telling him how great his work is - then raised his eyes to the heavens, summoned down a beatific smile and somehow managed to tie it all in with "living for God just like Jesus did". Fiiine...

If I wasn't scared before...

God created evolution. Easy.

True, it's easier to pin a dog down whenever you feel the urge...

HTL wants EVERYONE hanged... or burnt... or stoned to death........... a REAL conservative that lad..... 165915[/snapback] In the "chopping people's limbs off and conserving them in bottles" sense?

Any breed of people who can somehow pronounce the word "now" as "nigh" with a bizarre question-like upward inflection at the end deserve some kind of grudging respect tbh.

Ahh, fond memories of Portsmouth mothers leaving their devil-spawn toddlers unattended to stand on the street waving signs saying "PEODOPHILS OUT IN IT"... It was the Paedo Summer that made me first want to leave the country, actually... the whole place felt oppressively reactionary around that time, what with the petrol protests and everything else going on. People seem to have chilled out a bit more now. Or found less high-profile targets for their bile, I don't know.

...is pronounced "aitch", not "haitch". Surely?

Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract Fucking classic.

I see what you've done there 165819[/snapback] A triple-typo?

I'm still using the PC I had made up for me when I moved to Germany in mid-2001, with German-language Windows and all. Some of the terms are completely different and impenetrable, and then you get the comedy couldn't-be-arsed translations. "Systemadministrator" anyone?

But would he come to Newcastle?

It's one of the things that attracts me, when people find out I know a bit about computers I end up sorting out their various computer problems, so I've had to sort out a fair few German versions of Windows, compound-tastic. Everything about Germany appeals to my sense of humour, perhaps unsurprisingly. . 165807[/snapback] Technical documentation, bureaucracy-speak and legalese are the way to go. Apparently something like 60% of the world's tax literature is published in German. No wonder the economy's fucked.............. </robw>

I'm trying to decide which language to learn next, German is very tempting. 165802[/snapback] You'd better like obscenely long compound nouns. It's no wonder translators working into German bill by the character and not the word.

I'm still putting it through my German-manufactured humour processing machine (Humortiefanalysenanlage), which should provide an explanation as to why it was funny within half an hour or so. Then we can all nod and say "ah yes, I am seeing it now. This is being very witty."