Gemmill

Translates roughly as "top boss", I think.

Have you seen The Ladykillers or Intolerable Cruelty? I don't think The Man Who Wasn't There is as good as their best, but it would probably be one of the best films to get a wide release 50 out of 52 weeks in the year. I've got Intolerable Cruelty to watch (really looking forward to it now like ) and I've not seen the Ladykillers either (I want to wait until I've seen the original). It wasn't a bad film just when compared to Millers Crossing, Fargo, The Big Lebowski etc I was just left disapointed. And I don't think I like Billy Bob Thornton much tbh. Billy-Bob is a legend tbh. "Heavens to betsy Birdy" Bad Santa? MWWT is fine, love the photography. He's quality in Sling Blade too. Plays a spaz.

FWIW Leazes can and does talk sense some of the time, and his heart is in the right place re NUFC, but after all the shit he has given me and others about Souness, he deserves what he gets after that quote was discovered. I think he genuinely doesn't remember posting that though, and really believes that someone has altered his post. I think he's pretty much convinced himself that there's no way that he ever thought or said such a thing about Souness, even though he obviously did.

What time you on then? Cheeky twat. I bet your boss is on a message board somewhere talking about watching yours bounce around on your squash lunches.

I always quite fancied one when I lived in San Francisco. Had no car, and it would have been class for whizzing around up and down the hills - walking anywhere in that city is like being on a stairmaster - but I couldn't get past how much of a tit I'd look on it.

Lass at work - comedy enormous, like Lolo Ferrari comedy enormous. She's only a young lass as well, but she's gonna suffer with them in years to come.

Speaking of tits. The advert for This Morning on telly today was quality: "Later on this morning.........Man Boobs - they're a growing problem. We meet a man who's suffered with them since the age of 14."

I think some of the "I'm not buying shit for the sake of it" stuff is cobblers anyway. He doesn't have the options because he lacks a scouting network, and he doesn't have the balls to make a decision when he has one to make. That's the bulk of the reason why he can't make signings imo.

Bombing about on a scooter if you lived in a big city would be quality. Unfortunately I think you've got to be the right size for those sort of things - I would look like I was on one of those mini motor-bikes you get for kids, and feel like a total penis.

Were you working at Nike or Arriva or something, Stevie?

Amazon are great. Except at Christmas they fucked up with some stuff that I had to cancel cos it wasn't gonna arrive til January.

Well my mam, who was previously on basic - no sports, no movies, no V+ - got all of those added and her broadband upgraded with a sizeable discount on what she was previously paying. She did quote the stuff on the mackem site and was told that that deal was impossible, so I think you're right, there's some exaggerating going on there, but there are definitely advantages to ringing up and telling them you're leaving.

He's right about failure being engrained in the badge. It's as much a part of NUFC as fat blokes with their tops off.

Next season they're going to see a fall in average attendances for home games I reckon. I reckon you might get around 10-15% not renewing, and that won't be made up by people buying on the day. I reckon the average for next season will be in the low to mid-40s. If they could encourage people to renew by lopping 10-15% off the ticket prices, they could probably break even on it in terms of season ticket sales, then if we did have a good season, make more on top of that on general sale tickets. When you factor in the increased TV money, the correct business decision might well be to cut the prices for the coming season. And that doesn't even take into account the goodwill factor with the fans.

Is he fuck man, he hasn't released anything listenable since the 80s. Too busy sleeping with bairns I imagine. Class act.

Christ, he's a tit isn't he. I think there's some merit in what he says - giving reserve keepers a cap from time to time, but it's hardly Shay's fault the manager keeps picking him. What's he meant to do, refuse to play for his country so that the reserves get a go. Engage brain, Roy. Then speak. There's a good lad.

Wouldn't Anthea be better off writing about something she knows about. "How to be a vacuous tart" for instance.

When I rang up to cancel the tv just now the bloke was adamant the SSN would be back soon. Told him I didn't give a toss since it's on freeview anyway and I currently seem to be paying £5.50 a month for E4. I've not seen it anywhere, but are Virgin upgrading everyones internet for free in may? Everyone I know who's rang up has been bumped to the next package....from May. Why not straight away? When we complained about the loss of the Sky channels they gave us a 20 quid discount to stay with them, and this is a permanent deal! So for £39 a month we get all the channels except the Movies, boadband, and the telephone. Seems like a good deal to me. Best of all if they get Sky one and SSN back we'll get this too. Did you get V+ too? You should have - they gave it to my mam for nowt. No, but I'm paying less than 40 quid and get the football etc. How much is she paying? Hopefully if I upgrade to it I can take my 20 quid discount, which is itemized on the bill. What she pays is complicated slightly by the fact that she has two extra phonelines etc - they have a home office that they run a business from. I think they're paying about £80 for three phonelines with the talk anytime thing on, 10 meg broadband, and full package TV with V+.

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When I rang up to cancel the tv just now the bloke was adamant the SSN would be back soon. Told him I didn't give a toss since it's on freeview anyway and I currently seem to be paying £5.50 a month for E4. I've not seen it anywhere, but are Virgin upgrading everyones internet for free in may? Everyone I know who's rang up has been bumped to the next package....from May. Why not straight away? When we complained about the loss of the Sky channels they gave us a 20 quid discount to stay with them, and this is a permanent deal! So for £39 a month we get all the channels except the Movies, boadband, and the telephone. Seems like a good deal to me. Best of all if they get Sky one and SSN back we'll get this too. Did you get V+ too? You should have - they gave it to my mam for nowt.

My mam rang up and got their VIP package, V+, the sports and movies and a broadband upgrade. And all for a chunk less than she had previously been paying. They've had to delay the installation of V+ by a month though cos they've run out of boxes.

Everyone knows you can only get good food in London from the foreigners. To be fair, the same applies to the rest of Britain. You're from Switzerland! Your national dish is the cuckoo clock!

I'm not in love with Roeder or anything. I just feel that there are always alternative viewpoints, and the board would be one big circle-jerk if someone didn't point them out! Circle Jerk? Are you actually American? It's a wank-wheel man. A merry-go-wank.

Or McClaren. He got the job on the back of 3 flukey results in Europe he has never looked like emulating. That's the top and bottom of it. Clawing back deficits against sub-standard European sides using the subtle tactical approach of ZOMG 4-2-4 FOR DA LAST HALF HOUR!!!1111, and they gave him the England job. A cursory glance at the league table would have shown them that Boro finished 16th that season, and that they were doing the club a favour by taking him off their hands. I don't think Allardyce is England manager material, but he'd be getting a LOT more out of this lot than McClaren is, and without any PR gurus on the scene. Apparently McClaren is picking up £2.5m a year btw - wtf?!

North Shields to Felling. About half an hour. I used to do North Shields to Billingham - twice a day through the tunnel. That wasn't much fun, and it cost a fortune in petrol!