Tom_NUFC

'The Camel'. 'The Camel' was made up by my dad and my Uncle, and it lived in my Grandma's outhouse. We used to go to my Grandma's every Sunday and I was told the Camel would 'get' me. One time, they put me in the boot of my dad's car and told me the Camel was in there as well, and then drov around the block. I was shitting myself. They thought it was just a laugh like, but realised the joke had gone too far when they found me in tears. Dogs. When I was a small baby, my parents had a dog, but had it put down when it tried to go for me. When I was three, a dog nearly took my hand off when I stroked it - after being told by the owner that it was OK. So I was shit scared of them for a long time. My dad got a dog when I was about 13 (the bloody thing's still alive 14 years on) and he's OK for a dog, but I still get wary of some. Plus I'm allergic to them if I'm around a dog for more than half an hour or so, so I'm not really a dog person.

The Tree goes up about a week before Christmas and comes down on January 6. Its a real tree mind, not an artifical one. We don't go in for a load of decorations. Just the tree and its decorations and lights, some lights in the dining room and cards in the living room and dining room, and that's it. I can't stand OTT decoartions. If people want to put a few lights in their window, fair enough, but all the tack outdoor decorations - horrible.

Yeah, it's a great book. I love it. That was a great season, and I love how it starts off with the last two games of the previous season (91/92) the Portsmouth Home, and then the Leicester Away. I was at both and they were as emotional and as serious as he depicts it, and all that madness at Filbert Street, all true - even the nun. The nun was the row behind me, and it was bizaare seeing a proper nun, jumping up and down going mad. Cracking times that year. He didn't mention the Hot Dog fight at Tranmere away though, which was quite funny.

I'm not the greatest fan of vegetables myself. I'll eat Potatoes, Turnip and Cabbage - and Onions and Garlic (do they count as veggies?). Carrots, Lettuce and Cucumber sometimes. Parsnips at Christmas. I'll eat Sweetcorn if its mixed into something else (eg Chicken and Sweetcorn sandwich). But peas - no way. Same goes for Broccolli and Cauliflower. I can't stand them.

I might know of someone thinking of getting rid of their car (not because its particularly crap, just that they don't need it).

The Crows Nest at the Haymarket does cracking burgers and Steak and Ale pies. However its always busy and always full of Rahs from Newcastle Uni.

Very true. I can remember about 1991 - when Jim Smith was in charge, I used to go to the games with my Mam and one day we were walking up the steps from St James' Metro and I said to her "Why do we bother?" and she said "You enjoy the good times even better if you've been there through the bad times" and I just thought but we're not going to get the good times to enjoy. There just wasn't any expectation, just resignation that we were crap. You sort of accepted it and got on with it none the less. People used to laugh about it. One time, it was just before Keegan came in, we were buying a copy of The Mag before the game and the price had gone up, and my Mam commented on that, and the bloke selling said "nothing ever goes down does it?" and then realised what he'd said Nah, maybe not."

I'm convinced of it. We ARE going down. I'd have a bet on it as a bit of a consolation, but the odd will be that crap now that it wouldn't be a consolation in any way.

protestants

Fighting on Russian TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRcyd4oB9gU I've posted this one before, but here it is again. Old men Fighting on French TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BaAku4TDq8 Romanian TV Presenter punches and kicks guests. Lennox Lewis v Hasim Rahman - in the TV studio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bEUlscm8iU Czech Ministers Fight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhIUksO3sA

I was worried that I was going to have the piss ripped out of me when I saw Ross Noble. We were sitting in row G and for some reason row C is the front row at the City Hall. There was a lad sitting two rows behind us and only a couple of seats along, and he had the piss ripped out of him all night. Mind, once he'd said that he drove a miniture steam engine, it was inevitable.

Not a big fan of Jimmy Carr. I saw Ross Noble at the City Hall on Monday Night - he was great.

I love it when parents and grandparents get hi-tech stuff. My gran drove around for years in a car with a mini-disc player in it as she had to have it the minute it came out. She's now got a 30GB iPod with a Bose Soundstation, got Sky + installed last week, and now my mam informs me that she's just this past week got a laptop and wireless internet. She's 79. Aye, well I've probably let myself in for months of showing her how to use it. She hasn't got around to grasping how to text on her mobile - infact anything apart from making and recieving calls has her baffled. It took her ages to get to graps with computers - especially the internet and e-mails. A couple of months ago she was having difficulty using powerpoint.

I've started early this year, and got some stuff off Amazon. I got my Mam a 1gb Creative Zen Nano, as she's been thinking about getting an MP3 player for a while. I was going to get her the 500 odd mb one, but the 1gb one was only 5 quid more. Not bad for £45. I got my Dad the Bob Dylan encyclopedia and a Dylan DVD that was offered with it in one of the Amazon deals. I got him a book about the Stones recording Exile on Main Street and another Stones book in a deal. He's got his birthday on December 1, so I'll give him one lot for that and the other for Christmas, and I might get him one of those world beers packs you can get as well. Fortunately, I don't buy a lot of presents, I've only got 5 or 6 pressies to get now.

Tonight's tea. I tried out one of Leazes Mag's curry recipies. Chicken Korma. It was good.

Instead of happening in the afternoon coming home from school the accidents would just happen in the morning on the way to school. They were talking about it on the radio and the spokesman from ROSPA wasn't convinced by the idea. I believe there was an experiment back in the 60s and it didn't work, hence it went back again.

I'll happily admit to being shite at DIY. Absolutely no interest in it at all. Changing Light bulbs - nee bother, I dare say I could remember how to wire a plug if I had to, but you don't have to do that so much these days, I can paint - if I have to, but that's about it. I know nothing about fuses - because I've always lived in a house with the fuse boxes you just push back in - Fusewire? I haven't got a clue about all that shit. Putting up shelves - nee chance. I don't get how some people have DIY as a hobby. Mind, I don't get the fascination with cars either.

There's a cracking Indian on Heaton Road - Khans. Its not at all bad price wise. I've been in a few times and its always busy and has quite a nice atmosphere. The service and food is really good. A down side is that it doesn't have a licence to serve alcohol, but you're more than welcome to take your own along, and most people do - so I suppose you don't get whacked with the higher prices restaurants charge for a drink. I really recommend it.

Aye me too please, if you have time. I'm quite a dab hand at making curries.

happy birthday

Aye

Not particularly funny or anything. I found this by putting Newcastle in as a search.

Eh? Not quite sure what you're on about. According to Five Live this afternoon, the reason why Man City didn't take up their full allocation was that Wigan were charging £37. That is a bit steep.

old stuff, but I still find it funny.

Dark Continent. Mark Mazower's assessment of 20th Century Europe, in which he argues that Europe - often portrayed as being a cultured and civilised continent was actually a barbaric and bloody place, hence the title, which was often used as a term for the 'uncivilised' Africa.