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Especially when this is the alternative elsewhere in the country

http://www.loonyparty.com/3012/2067/south-shields-by-election-may-2013/ Seems reasonable

A game that features a winning move called the "Color Bomb". Suddenly it all becomes clear

That's the brilliant thing about the BNP and their ilk, isn't it? Even if you do subscribe to the theory that brown people are inferior, the idea that this lot are supposed to be our great saviours...

So that's why the kiosks are so popular!

Kebabs are so much better in Germany like. Probably still made up of all sorts of horrible stuff, but the pitta breads are thick and don't fall apart at the merest contact with sauce, and the "meat" at least looks like it might have once belonged to an animal. No foodstuff should be served as slivers.

I'd say watching it is far more likely to make your kid start talking with a lisp than prolonged exposure to a nursery nurse.

Me too.

Spent two hours shopping for luggage this afternoon. Two hours.

In German "lubricant" is "Schmierstoff".

Ah!

The country song from the country singer.

Beyond the two powerhouses, it always feels to me like there's a lot of Wigans and Southamptons in the Bundesliga, decently set-up clubs trying to play positive football with a ragtag mixture of locals and second-level foreign players. Keeps things open and fairly interesting for the neutral, if nothing else. It probably helps that the standard of coaching/management is generally higher than it is here.

There's some aftershave in the bathroom cabinet, whatever I last got given for Christmas, but I never think to use it.

Who am I?

Doesn't merit its own thread, but this'll do - repeats of Armando Iannucci's terrific Facts And Fancies are happening right now on your actual BBC radio. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007jrlb/Armando_Iannucci_Facts_and_Fancies_A_Life_at_the_Opera

In Serbian, your wife's sister is your svastika. Awkward.

Hey, it's the only time of day it's safe for me to do so without running the risk of turning ginger. I'm in the middle of Eurovision 1982. You'd approve of some of the disco grooves, CT.

Sat out back (with a hoodie on, it must be said), listening to music, sipping a not-so-fine wine and watching the trains roll by. It's springtime!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFro7RlKzE8

"crout"

I'd forgotten about that smiley, love it