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21 million, mind. Fuck me, life was rubbish back then.

My mood was fine until I read Geordieracer's post.

I guarantee it did - there was a sense of "these people don't need our help". Plus there was the slight aroma of ludicrousness emanating from the "NewcastleGateshead" brand.

Such bastions of culture, I mean what an achievement beating a city like Birmingham famous for it's Bullring Shopping Centre (which has no bulls), Britain's biggest civilian nuclear bunker and ermm the www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk website (this is a real website, no really it is). Aye, it's called sarcasm and self-awareness. It's true mind, the competition wasn't exactly mind-bending. They actually have adverts on the Tube for visiting Birmingham with the tagline "Shortlisted for UK City of Culture" as if that doesn't sound incredibly desperate.

How would you know?

http://bit.ly/1U8gP

yes, but if its the same as my email ?? I'll have to change the passwords for all my football sites etc, what a ballache It does it by site, not by password. If that's what you mean.

:yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Now let's see if it's as funny when Jake Humphrey severs a McLaren brake cable next weekend.

Oh Alex. And I made your bolognese sauce last night and everything. Enough of the euphemisms already. Well I did stir in a spoonful of pesto for a change. Swapped the quorn for sausage meat? I saw some word beginning with "q" in the original recipe and figured it must just be a typo for "mince".

Ghey

Oh Alex. And I made your bolognese sauce last night and everything. Enough of the euphemisms already. Well I did stir in a spoonful of pesto for a change.

Oh Alex. And I made your bolognese sauce last night and everything.

Danny made a gay joke!

Why are you interested? Exactly. I'm interested because Kevin is my teenage MSN bitch, and if it turns out you're 10 years older than him then it'd be a pretty dire state of affairs if you had nowt better to do with your time than argue with him on another club's internet forum. At least I get him to whip it out on cam as compensation for bothering with his shite.

For real?

Just out of interest, how old are you, Danny?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8825280.stm You mean this didn't happen 8 years ago, arf, etc.

Replacing Webber in 2012 then. Would be 2011 if there wasn't the outside chance of Webber ending up as WC.

Fuck's sake, I've had this as an Ohrwurm for the last two weeks, don't tell me it's going to happen again in 20 years' time?

What you on about? A single BBC reporter has taken a load of the blame for the entire financial collapse for his reporting on the shit-storm that was coming. The finacial press were talking about the bubble crash back in 2006. Keep up. Parky, keep up.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7914421.stm I've tried man. He's never heard of him. Why would he have?

This should pretty much be in your signature to save anyone from having to reply to your posts.

Setting aside the ranting grandad parts of that post, I'd have to say that Peston, for example, has been right on the button about a lot of aspects of the financial crisis. And they've given him plenty of leeway to do so. But then I seem to recall the "funding" issue being something of a red herring when it comes to Hamburg-based people anyway. As for the "evil empire" shebang, if the BBC took an aggressively and virulently anti-Murdoch stance, they'd be destroyed within months.

BBC3 is shite, obviously, but it has to serve that audience if it's going to claim to be an all-purpose, licence fee-justifying institution in the digital age etc. Even when there were two channels you/I'd still have been uninterested in 80% of what they put out, so I suppose it's just an extension of that really.