Illuminati-R-Us

Lianachan wrote:However, I've always been a big Brazil fan. I even went to see them in the 1998 world cup.

I understand their first game that year was a classic.

Löw's team showed everyone how the game should be played§. HAH! HAH!! I liked Ekstrabladet's (from Denmark) comment best: What has the world come to when it's actually fun to watch the Germans play football?" :D And Der Kaiser criticising England's style? Even better. Last night's weather was ...

Halcyon Dayz is keeping a low profile before the lunchtime game . . .

And now we do. :D I thought Germany looked very good, though it is hard to tell given the opposition and the Cahill sending off. I thought it was justified but the english media were outraged that an Everton player could be red carded. To go back to an earlier discussion, that looks like a young, mu...

Yep, and that was their reliable goalie. :D

Peugeot were fast because they are fragile, the fourth one has just blown its engine. AUDI heading for a 1,2,3, our boy in the third one.

Germany shouldn't have any trouble with the Diggers tonight.

Gregory's Girl

That is rugged, hopefully it will turn out well.

8 hours in, 4 hours watched . . . A late night beckons.

Scotland managed to beat Argentina, finally, in Argieville.

Le Mans 24 Hours this weekend, in practice the Peugeots seem to have the speed to beat all comers and should be reliable as it is a development of last year's car. The Audis are talking tough but were well beaten for pace yesterday. Both are running diesels again this year despite rule changes to gi...

You could be right Superluminal, Leuchars is a toilet, though not too far from St Andrews.

The planes had gone last night but the train was paralleled by a black helicopter as it crossed the bridge.

Ok not helocpters, but still. If I commute by train it goes past the perimeter of Edinburgh Airport near the commercial hangars. There are usually a couple of cargo planes and the odd passenger plane parked up. This morning there were two BAE Hawks parked up, one black and unmarked the other in full...

Your silver wedding anniversary is later this month.

What! I go on holiday for two weeks and suddenly Moosedoom is getting married? No-one tells me anything.

A guy in Cumbria went postal yesterday. It seems the cause was a dispute with his family and lawyer over a Will, with the first person he shot being the lawyer. Now, as I am I private client lawyer my colleagues are suggesting I work from home more, or meet clients in the coffee shop accross the roa...

Ah Nena, the acceptable face of punk. I remember ARTE from my old analogue satellite system, more than a few wtf? moments from its programming. You could generally tell which country programmes originated from based on the level of casual nudity. I had the system mainly to watch sport on DSF which w...

I might not be able to watch as (Icelandic Volcano Gods willing) I'll be in Spain, but I should be able to follow it somehow, even if only on teh interwebs.

Staggies > Arabs, as my teenage nephew would put it.

Well we have a coalition for the first time since the 1940s, not necessarilly a bad thing but we'll see how long it lasts before it goes south. Once again Scotland is dramatically under represented in the government, but the English argue we were over represented in the last.

Lianachan wrote:Could I be the only person here who's been to zero US states?

I suspect you might be, Halcyon Dayz is the only other regular poster I can think of who might not have been.

Don't know so much about Alabama. Been to Bayminette, or is it Bay Minette? I see it is the latter. Spent a few days there on business, as a matter of fact. Oh, and I am familiar with "Why don't you go back to your double-wide, and fry something?" The Deep South is odd if you live in a ve...

I have sort of been to Arkansas, I was driving in Memphis got lost and ended up going over the bridge into Arkansas. We drove for about a mile until we could get turned and back over the bridge. I was there for about five minutes but didn't get out the car. I have been to DC and 23 states (excluding...

Easy Rider

Still patchy cancellations across western europe; hopefully all clear on saturday morning for our jaunt to southern Spain.

I suppose a ninja candidate would have to put their real name rather than their ninja serial number, which might be the problem.

My brother-in-law has voted for a pirate.

I think we need a clue, though it is familiar.