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I read in the Lonely Planet there's about 600,000 people on Crete and 1m+ guns I've been to Crete like, went to this place for a trip called the Samarian Gauge, beautiful place like but fuck me, I saw this scorpion, and shit mesel, easily the claimed size of J69's cock. Murder for creepy crawlies the greek isles. Was going to do that walk when I was there until I realised it was a four hour drive and the trip was heading off at 4 am to miss the worst of the heat. I did a smaller, much quieter gorge walk though that came out at this beach (Ayiofarango or something - it means Holy Gorge). It was amazing. I did it on my own as wor lass wasn't having any of that when she could be sunning herself. It's a really beautiful place. The inland mountains look a bit like the Lakeland fells, although they're a canny bit bigger. I love how everywhere you go they give you a shot of Raki and have one with you. We went to this place at about tea time for a coffee / ice cream and as it was quiet (think the lass working there was bored) the waitress had about 3 shots with us in the space of half an hour. I'm definitely going back. I was just 11 years of age when I was there like but I remember how class that Samarian Gauge was it hasn't really got a comparison in this country, felt like being on Raiders of The Lost Ark well the last one I forget its name. As for where we stayed I think Chania was shite, and Heraklion was too built up for a beach holiday was pretty shite, was nee Paphos or Ayia Napa that's for certain. Heraklion was bombed during the war which is why it's such a clip now. Only really explored a small bit of Crete though as I was only there a week and it's so big / difficult to traverse with it being so mountainous. I stayed on the south coast. I've read about other places / seen photos that look amazing though. Elafonisi for example. I think in general in Greece it's best to get off the beaten track like. Aye there's a few modern monstrosities there like. There's a NUFC connection to Crete do you know what it is? Nah, unless Georgiadis or Dabizas are from there (just guessing). That's where we signed Papavassiliou from, he looked mint against Hartlepool pre season.... Was at that game. Lovely summers day, good following of Mags down there, Papavassiliou got the ball, held off one of their players and put a canny pass through to one of wor lot. This bloke next to us was mortalic, he gans, "Geddin nicky Papa-lappa-wappa-woah-ya-fucka" as he struggled to get his name. Was funny as fuck at the time. Anyone remember them playing Zorba the Greek before the game when it was his birthday? One of the more surreal pre-match tunes I've heard when standing on the Milburn Paddock.

Seriously, I'll never understand why anyone bothers with other toon forums.

pmsl You know what, that was my fault, I was insistent the lad was Paul Wyn, and fair play he proved me wrong. However, when that pic went up, after everyone posting something every 30 seconds in the thread the pic went up, and nobody said anything for 8 minutes. If they were like me it will have been cos they couldn't breathe for laughter. The back of my head was hurting so fucking much with laughter. One of my favourite toontastic moments that like. The thing is with this place, even when people get it wrong the crack that results is class. Sometimes it's even better as a result in fact. I was actually crying laughing at some of them photoshops. And as you say, fair play to the lad for taking it in such good jest so early on in his posting. Not seen him since mind.

I hope you all realise that in a parallel universe this scenario ended with CT falling through the loft on his hands and knees and his missus discovering him after Eastenders clutching an old bank statement in his cold dead hand and a look of triumph and terror on his face. As he never posted in response, Gemmill went away congratulating himself on rooting out a scurrilous liar and a cheat, never to have that Scrooge like error-of-his-ways reclamation that he so badly needed.

Post a photo of yourself with the statement and the words "I am not Paul Wynn" scrawled over the top. Then we'll let it lie.

England just gone 2-0 up. To be totally fair the close ball control and some of the touches are technically very good indeed. Pass selection over anything more than 15 yards tends to look a bit naive though.

Boooooooo!!

Ah right, wasnt sure whether you meant a cynical motive or a commercially astute one (though sometimes theres not a huge difference). Could well be the case mate. Not a bad strategy if so!

Happy Birthday and welcome to your thirties you Blazer wearing salad dodger!

Can they legally cancel it? Is it just a really good deal in order to generate talk as a form of viral advertising? Tom, I should imagine they could legally cancel it at any point up until the item is dispatched, as with distance selling arrangements/online sales its far more about the individual T's and C's and (without looking into that) again I should imagine that they've got numerous clauses which ultimately say that they retain title in the goods until point x (which will be a very advanced stage of the bargain and thus as favourable to them as possible). If it was deliberately done in bad faith (not sure if that's what you're implying...?) then they wouldnt be able to rely on those terms, but obviously it's unlikely that could be proved.

Stop ruining our fun That was just in response to Tom's/Idioteque's anecdotes about retail shop based price discrepancies and the queries they posed. As far as the Zavvi deal is concerned, fill your boots. I have.

Basically, if something's advertised for sale in a shop at a certain price, you can't insist on them honouring that price just because the advert/price tag says so. A binding contract for sale only occurs (and must be honoured) when an offer is accepted. The advertisement doesn't amount to an offer, it's known instead as an 'invitation to treat'. You only make an offer (to buy) the thing by taking it to the checkout and if that offer is then accepted (ie by the shop accepting payment) then at that stage its a binding contract and you can legally force them to honour the agreement even if they'd advertised at the wrong price. If they realise at the checkout that it's the wrong price before they've accepted payment however then they don't have to honour it. Some shops will honour a wrongly advertised price even if they do spot the mistake purely as a gesture of goodwill/policy however. Just in case anyone was wondering about the basic legals behind it.

Silence. I've seen you in Crocs with Bermuda shorts.

Overall a disappointing reaction to a truly showstopping pair of Claire Rayner's. For shame.

I think I'd just finished limbering up the last time I saw you.

High time that people stopped buying tabloids tbf. Fucking disgusting.

You even get spikes and a key for adjustments/showboating down the pub. What is not to like?

Are you having a tin bath? Check out the bottom of these rude boys ffs:

What is it with the Scouse trend of wearing nowt but pristine white trainers with everything btw? Looks proper snide.

Zip it Brogues McDuff.

I've had them from Aspecto (they're in the sale now which made me wish I'd never clicked on the email I got the other day). The red ones arent in the sale and ideally I could do with replacing them cos theyre scuffed to fuck as they're suede. You can't wear them anywhere really though so I spose I shouldnt bother and just save my cash.

Currently looking for a deadstock pair of these in size 11 but can I fuck find them. Nearest I've got is a lightfooted size 9 ffs.

Call me a victim but the red ones are just choice.

I get that you like to pluck player signings out of the air at random, but what the fuck is the point in doing transfer fee calculations too? It suggests you think there's an air of inevitability about us landing whoever we go in for-if you do honestly think that I reckon you want to prepare yourself for disappointment.