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That scene was shot in a dry dock 50 yards from the office I work from at Portsmouth Dockyard. Crowe nipped out for a bike ride during a break in filming one day and was rude as fuck to everyone he met, which I quite admired in a strange way Not going to bother with the film. Musicals smchmuziacals Saw The Hobbit last night accompanied by the worst behaved cinema audience I've ever had the misfortune of being sat with. The tosser next to me discussed with his missus which tv programs the various dwarves had previously appeared in, all in his normal speaking voice. I was going to say something but I think he may have been a bit disturbed in general and didnt want to be seen to be picking on the afflicted. The noise of other people eating fucking sweets and just generally having no basic cinema ettiquette was equally bad. Bah humbug. The film wasnt as good as the other 3, but canny enough. Gollum remains one of cinema's greatest ever character creations.

Hmm....think I may get someone going on holiday to get one for me. This is what am thinking.......the surface pro does seem a good bit of kit which wont need up grading (for my uses anyway) for a good while.

Murray loses the 2nd on a tie break after playing like a god for most of the set...then gets treated for blisters! We'll see if Murray can put it up to one of the greatest ever players now....cmon Andy!

Been reading up on it this week....its a bit of a minefield. Am not the most IT savvy character, but Mrs PL wants a purple Surface "cos they look cute in the advert" this was quite illuminating... http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2013/01/24/can-intel-based-windows-8-pro-tablets-ever-come-close-to-the-low-power-and-long-batteries-of-arm-based-devices.aspx

DHL packages are checked by customs?.... Does that mean there aren't any real techy drawbacks then?

Am being tempted by a Windows 8 pro surface tablet, which runs full windows 8 instead of the one available in this country at the moment which runs the rather more limited Windows RT. Theyre being released in the US on Feb 9th, but no news on any other countries at the moment. Sister in law is a yank so its not a problem getting one shipped across, only trouble is will it work properly in this country?...

True enough. Good post that, gets to the heart of what Ashley is trying to acheive here. We'll see. Looking forward to seeing how all the new lads play.

Hes trying to force a move to QPR....wouldnt touch him with a bargepole

Again, look at the clubs theyve joined. Am not saying its scientific. Bergkamp Overmars and Van Persie were brilliant players at the peak of their games with the right brilliant coach. Look at the level below manu and Arsenal over the years and theres not many that have gone on to better things eleswhere. Maybe its bollocks. But theres not many below the top level who spring to mind who have been even "ok". Andy van der Meyde went on the piss for 18 months at Everton Kuyt was another "English" Dutchman

Yeah, but look at the clubs they signed for.... theyve got better scouts and more money than the the likes of us also rans which makes a fuck up less likely. Van Nistlerooy wasnt a "Dutch footballer" anyway...his style of play was very,very English. Beckham on the other hand was a Dutch footballer though, lovely pass, couldnt tackle, graceful runner, nice hair

We can play 3 or something per tie if theyve played in the champions league already this season but theyre cup tied of theyve already played in the Europa. I think. There was something on this on .com but its gone now.

Djok 3-2 up, 1st set....the 6th game is phenomanol, break point Murray......Murray serves an ace, Djok appeals, fails. Murray breaks him after Djok plays some unbeleievable tennis in that game. Nailed on 5 sets this.

Is Bony short for Boneparte? What was that fuckin waster Boro signed from Heerenveen who looked like Gerd Muller in Holland but couldnt hit a barn door here?.... Am I right in saying that this is could be viewed as a sort of "rule of thumb"?.....strikers from the Dutch league are a bit diasppointing if they sign for English clubs?...Kezman springs to mind. Van Hoojdonk was a good player but a bit of a shitehoose as a person....any more?...

not really much colder than here at the moment Sergei....it was around freezing here most of last week... http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/706483 About as cold as it was when we played in Leverkusen a few years back

Gall bladder removal? See Howman, I can talk shop with the medics Dead clever me like etc etc.....

Fuckin hell At least 3 managers turmed that job down last summer when they found out what the player budget was. Randy Lerner shit himself financially 24 months ago and this is the result. Same as when Ashley shit himself financially.

Let us give thanks for being not being blessed with that particular affliction Davide

If doom and gloom means: a. seeing last season for what it was, during the season itself, leading to b. not being overly surprised at whats happened this season, especailly after correctly predicting that Ashley wouldnt strengthen the squad suffciently for a European season, which means c. not carrying on like a bigs girls blouse on here "wah! sack Pardew hes shit this season...btw forget all the good stuff I said about him and the club last season,pretty please" for the past 5 months Then I'm happy to be "doom and gloom"...

If you tell me its got the umbro diamonds on the sleeves am buying it.....always wanted a shirt with them, but by the time I could afford to buy one theyd dropped them from the design The Bukta one is a classic too, but the first game I saw at SJP they were wearing the umbro one....got to have it, which, lets face facts, is sad as fuck ....don't care!!

We play them in their close season....its generally why Russian and former Soviet clubs have never won the European Cup/Champions League, despite having some cracking sides over the years. This gives us a fair bit of hope of getting through iyam.

Seeing as thousands of Engalnd fans were there in the summer and got along fine with the locals I think I'll save my cash and just drink the local grog, shouting loudly at the natives v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-i-y when I want another beer

Speak for yourself mate http://www.toontastic.net/board/topic/32493-nufc-summer-transfer-activity-thread/page__hl__%2Btransfer+%2Bactivity

Why no real criticism of last summer then CT?.... because what you've posted is unmitigated fuckin shit tbh, seeing as a lot of the mess this season is as a result of last summer's chronic mis management. How the fuck can you honestly say that it's impossible for Pardew to fail when you think he's spent the whole season fuckin failing???!!!! He's no time to blend the new players into the side and you personally know less then fuck all about them. And yet you're sat theyre saying Pardew can't fail with players you've never seen to be able to make a judgement on in the first place. Fuck me, I try to give you the benefit of the doubt but I swear you're on the wind up because even you cant be that stupid as to completely contradict yourself yet again. Its the same as "sack Pardew, dont ask me who to replace him with though"...how do you know if any given manager or player is any good to make the statement that things will improve? You may say "time to move on" but posting unremitting praise of the regime has about as much point as completely annhilating them for their every move. This isnt Football Manager, anyone wanking themsleves off about the players we've signed this week needs a good look at the league table. One of the dildo sellers at West Ham said in May 2011 that he'd thought he'd spent enough in Janauary for them to stay up. Demba Ba was one of the siginings and he got 7 goals in 12 games. Still not enough to keep them up. They signed Wayne Bridge and Thomas Hitzelsperger too, experienced international players. Still not enough. See what I mean? its very, very tricky what we're attempting here for the remainder of this season and nobody should underestimate the size of the task. So if you want to praise the board would it not be better to wait until May and see if we're still in the division? Its certainly not a foregone conclusion that we will be.

http://www.toffs.com/Newcastle-United-1980-1983-Home-Shirt/productinfo/1596/ Did you get one of these in the end Davey?.....a month of night shift is leaving me with a slighlty surprising cash surplus in late January....