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by Dave Sutton's barnet
Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:32 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: That was my bank...
Replies: 17
Views: 1863

Just out of curiosity, since I left before 1974, where does the boundary between Greater Manchester and Lancashire run. I know Bolton is in Greater Manchester (boo! hiss!)and Rivington in in Lancashire (hurray!) but I don't know where that leaves Horwich in general and Winter Hey Lane in particular...
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:35 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: TW Caption Competition Part 2
Replies: 4327
Views: 502790

Sorry all I am rubbish I have told myself I am bad...

Get your Laughing Gear around this beaaauuuuuuuty

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Fly Emirates. Downwards.
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:52 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: What is a big club?
Replies: 37
Views: 4963

Little Green Man wrote:If you listen to 5Live, it's whoever Steve Claridge decides is a big club.

:roll:
There's a lesson there, centering around your "if"...
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:51 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: just for gertie...
Replies: 44
Views: 4234

While househunting (snagged one of the buggers eventually!) we were sent details for a property at Butts Cottages, Feltham, Middlesex. Dick Emery would've loved it.
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:19 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: What would you buy TW for Xmas??
Replies: 58
Views: 6078

DSB : A good nights sleep. Oh and a razor. Got a razor, SotWA. That office pic of me (to which I assume you refer!) was a few days before the kids' Halloween/Scooby Doo fancy-dress party, which I attended as Shaggy, necessitating a little chin-strap beard, to which I whittled down from the goatee-a...
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:03 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Crimbo
Replies: 48
Views: 11169

Lennon wrote:
Little Green Man wrote:Do her a stocking - never fails - you can put the ring as the last prezzie in the toe then. (Although a clementine would be cheaper.)
The ring is for her birthday, but good plan anyway.

I didn't realise TW could be such a good source of advice.

8)
Careers advice, relationship advice...
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:10 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Some advice from wiser heads.
Replies: 106
Views: 22990

Which is nonsence because quite frankly some of the stuff I get from graduates and undergraduates shows me they should be back in school learning who to construct sentences and add up. Errors in here intentional, surely? :wink2: If my memory serves me right, there is a law (named after some bloke, ...
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:39 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Kramer goes Krazy
Replies: 24
Views: 3957

The hecklers are suing? :roll: Really the States have a surplus of lawyer population. They won't be suing because he had a blast back at them; that's life. He'll get deservedly sued for unacceptable racial insult. Man must be a real plonker. Racism is a disgraceful think, but taking somebody to cou...
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:21 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Kramer goes Krazy
Replies: 24
Views: 3957

James B wrote:heard richards has given a grovelling apology since
Adjectives I've seen tend more towards "shallow", "unconvincing", that sort of thing. Almost certainly career death.
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:07 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Kramer goes Krazy
Replies: 24
Views: 3957

Kramer goes Krazy

ex-Seinfeld star Michael Richards is presumably no relation to near-namesake Micah Richards, given his recent racial tirade at a couple of black hecklers...

http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/20/kramers-r ... t-on-tape/ (and many a YouTube)

...the hecklers are suing.
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:42 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: M&S
Replies: 17
Views: 1824

As always I'd prefer it if she was honest. "This isn't a mince pie. It's a mince pie for which we're going to charge you through the arse." Insist on honesty in advertising, and that's the whole industry down the pan. Not a bad idea is it? Could be quite good - Stella tried it with Reassuringly Exp...
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:38 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: M&S
Replies: 17
Views: 1824

As always I'd prefer it if she was honest.
"This isn't a mince pie. It's a mince pie for which we're going to charge you through the arse."
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:01 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Some advice from wiser heads.
Replies: 106
Views: 22990

Most jobs now ask for experience, and you can't get that from 3 years getting pissed at uni . There's the reason to go though!!! I don't need a degree to do what I do - it helps and if you want to go to a big firm you'd have neeeded one, but i wouldn't giive up the 3 years of getting leathered ever...
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:58 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Some advice from wiser heads.
Replies: 106
Views: 22990

Warning: long and potentially boring post. Some excellent points being made here. Too many qualified types for not enough jobs – we've just had more than 1000 applicants for a Staff Writer post; graduate earnings trailing behind 16-leavers; lots and lots and lots of joke degrees; and crucially, peo...
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:15 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Some advice from wiser heads.
Replies: 106
Views: 22990

Gertie wrote:Take advice from people on here, friends, or people at your college… But if you opt for something and it’s not for you, there’s a chance you can still switch so go for it Daxter and
Don't leave me hanging Gertie!!!

(Real answer comin up Dax)
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:02 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: SMACKDOWN NEWS
Replies: 271
Views: 42665

TANGODANCER wrote:Must confess I was delighted to get through but it would have been no disgrace to lose to DSB as he's been great this year.
Commiserations amigo. Thought you were going to edge that one.
I can think of no greater gentleman to be bested by. Good luck TD!
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:24 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Your Christmas Do.........................
Replies: 28
Views: 4287

Look forward to it - we get feck all else free at our place. Well, not from the gaffers :mrgreen: That said, the buses back from the venue are the eighth level of hell - full of methanol-fuelled ad-men either bellowing in wounded sexual frustration, necking furiously with some girl whose name they'v...
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Sat Nov 25, 2006 3:51 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: SMACKDOWN NEWS
Replies: 271
Views: 42665

Soldier_Of_The_White_Army wrote:Image


Ok, to answer Monty's question, here are the catagories for the next round:


Threadmaker -
Does this person create threads, or just post on everyone else's?


Cue more new threads than a Mod night out... :mrgreen:
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:52 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Ref rules change
Replies: 21
Views: 3183

communistworkethic wrote:SH a ref? Explains a lot really.
I avoided that temptation :twisted:
by Dave Sutton's barnet
Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:54 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Ref rules change
Replies: 21
Views: 3183

Players treat the ref like shit, but only because the ref lets them get away with it. In the laws of the game, dissent is a yellow card, foul language is a red card. If a player runs over and shouts, "Your a joke mate", that is dissent, but 99% of top refs do nothing about it. "Your a fecking joke ...

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