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"Young players are a little bit like melons. Only when you open and taste the melon are you 100% sure that the melon is good. "Sometimes you have beautiful melons but they don't taste very good and some other melons are a bit ugly and when you open them, the taste is fantastic. "One thing is youth football, one thing is professional football. The bridge is a difficult one to cross and they have to play with us and train with us for us to taste the melon. For example, Scott Sinclair, the way he played against Arsenal and Man United, we know the melon we have."

It's fair enough really - you're paying for the experience of sitting in the pub/café/etc. far more than you are for the product you consume. At least that's how I always see it. Don't really get the point of getting takeout coffee from somewhere like Costa if there's a cheaper local equivalent nearby though.

Sun's shining, windows are open... Bob Dylan - I Want You, obviously.

Internet duuuuude.

It's all a cunning plan to make you nostalgic for the General Random Conversation thread.

Bottomless cwaps o' cwaffee.

Just a little something for your mantelpiece. The laydeez will love it.

The weird thing is I don't actually mind Bewick Court (i.e. the one in the picture above). At least it's not as brutally grey as some of the surrounding lower-level buildings.

Does your milkshake bring all the boys to the yard?

To be fair, your average Talksport listener (no offence ) - ie white van man - would find Manning's 'humour' right up their street imo. Having said that, I admit I don't know that the late-night shows attract the same audience as the rest of the stuff they broadcast. Well, I'm a talksport listener, and I wouldn't describe myself as a racist or a bigot, the folk I heard ring in tonight were not refering to his act, but were refering to the man himself and the acts of kindness, generosity and sacrifice the man made outside the public eye. At the risk of immediately losing the argument under Godwin's Law, Hitler made some bloody good motorways too.

Good summary of Liverpool's motivation in helping Sheff U there

Bit of a cunt at times, but RIP anyway.

The distant sound of a penny dropping. ...into a piggybank labelled "Month-long solo journey through desolate American landscapes". D'oh!

Completely redeveloped within the last few years I think? I never have reason to pass by that way - sounds daft in a city centre as compact as Newcastle's, but it's true - so I know they were working on it but still haven't seen the end results

It used to have black flooring. Does anyone remember the pencil sculpture/play thing outside Bainbridges, or is it just me? Aye, I remember that too. I didn't use my arse to "sharpen" it like you did though. That's so gratuitous I can't help but

That's "Mikey Cobblers" to you.

My memories of being dragged around town by my adoring mother as a small child are strangely dark. I'm sure Eldon Square used to be much less bright inside (though it still has those low ceilings in places, which don't help), and then you had the bus concourse and the pervading greyness of the buildings and stuff, I don't know. I'm definitely proud to show the city off to "outsiders" these days, anyway, whereas I don't know if I would have been back in the day.

That horrible concrete thing on the corner of Northumberland Street and New Bridge Street wants to be next, mind. Pearl Assurance House I think it's called? Made all the worse by the fact that it's diagonally opposite the really ornate Northern Goldsmiths building.

Met a friend outside Trillians () when I was up the other week and the library building was basically all gone already. There's a gap in the fence where you can look through at the foundations and stuff.

The backlash begins! "Typical Brit, cutting corners and doing things by halves..." Just like the fact you're only half gay. I'd forgotten that. The shame of it, being "inned" by J69.

The backlash begins! "Typical Brit, cutting corners and doing things by halves..."

So he's found his level at last.

I was about to write "Funnily enough, that's exactly how I feel about bollocks", but I decided against it.

Does it have to be M&S beetroot like? Otherwise the whole tone of the snack is dragged down? Waitrose breaded cod fingers, Marksy's beetroot and Tesco Value beans. A contrasting combo lovingly referred to as the "I Know My Place".

Who says he'd be on the receiving end? He's s already got a website on which to leave a video note if he ever does decide to indulge. Hell, he could even soundtrack the whole thing himself. Actually, that'd be an interesting twist on the whole Marilyn Manson/evil video games/violent movies line of scapegoatism, wouldn't it? "KILLER SAYS 'I WAS DRIVEN TO IT BY MY OWN MUSIC'"