Where are you going tonight?

[CAPSLOCK]

Ahh, the old 'let him down gently' routine

[Gooner Girl]

Ahh, the old 'let him down gently' routine

For once Caps and I are on the same wave length.

When I was at secondary school I had an imaginary boyfriend for at least a term - made up entirely to put off this boy I didn't like who was after me. Me and my friends would talk loudly about him whenever this lad was in the room and how big and strong he was etc etc.

Girls can be horrid to blokes sometimes, can't they?!

In your case Bruce, I'm sure these ladies were batting for the other side and weren't acting up to put off the old drunk that didn't even know where the bus was going. Probably.

[Bruce Rioja]

In your case Bruce, I'm sure these ladies were batting for the other side and weren't acting up to put off the old drunk that didn't even know where the bus was going. Probably.

Oh trust me, we spent most of the journey discussing one of them's tattoos. I think the point at which I blotted my copy book worst was when I asked one - how can you be called Elizabeth and still be a rug-muncher?

But yeah, they probably couldn't wait to get rid of the drunken old gimmer on the wrong bus

[Gary the Enfield]

In your case Bruce, I'm sure these ladies were batting for the other side and weren't acting up to put off the old drunk that didn't even know where the bus was going. Probably.

Oh trust me, we spent most of the journey discussing one of them's tattoos. I think the point at which I blotted my copy book worst was when I asked one - how can you be called Elizabeth and still be a rug-muncher?

But yeah, they probably couldn't wait to get rid of the drunken old gimmer on the wrong bus

Are you sure it wasn't when you asked if you could watch?

Saturday night was my friends 40th birthday party. SHE booked the evenings entertainment consisting of a crappy bog standard d.j............................................ and a BURLESQUE DANCER!!!! Oh yes.

I found myself in the (un) fortunate positon of being sat on a chair at the edge of the dance floor and was therefore her target for the first set.

I have to say she was a very talented dancer and her 'Bastille Day decadence dance' was a sight to behold.

I won't post on here as I'm at work but if you google Amber Topaz you'll see who I am referring to.

[Worthy4England]

With a name like "Amber Topaz" I don't see the need to google anything, to conjour up the picture.

[CrazyHorse]

Shirley if you call your daughter Amber Topaz you really can't be surprised when she ends up becoming a burlesque dancer?

[Bruce Rioja]

Are you sure it wasn't when you asked if you could watch?

I was just about to deliver that beauty but I then realised that I was in unfamiliar surroundings - on every level.

[bobo the clown]

Off t'o the Jubu'lympics today.

As Mr. Boyle seems to haave lost my VIP invitation to the opening ceremony, I will mooch around Londinium late looking at exploding pyrotechnics & hoping none of them are the Ground-to-Air missiles set up nearby and then tomorrow early I will sustainably park up at a mates in Windsor (thus avoiding the ludicrous excesses of the park 7 rides which may as well be in Stratford (upon Avon) to watch the rowing at Eton and wondering which dorm Will-the-White used to live in whilst fagging for Tango.

I'll let you know how it goes.

[thebish]

Off t'o the Jubu'lympics today.

to watch the rowing at Eton

toff!

[Wandering Willy]

There'll be some serious upper crust tottie at the rowing.

Pictures please.

[William the White]

Off t'o the Jubu'lympics today.

As Mr. Boyle seems to haave lost my VIP invitation to the opening ceremony, I will mooch around Londinium late looking at exploding pyrotechnics & hoping none of them are the Ground-to-Air missiles set up nearby and then tomorrow early I will sustainably park up at a mates in Windsor (thus avoiding the ludicrous excesses of the park 7 rides which may as well be in Stratford (upon Avon) to watch the rowing at Eton and wondering which dorm Will-the-White used to live in whilst fagging for Tango.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Deeply hurt by the suggestion that I went to Eton. Though I do know that Tango is one for the fags.

[Verbal]

In a park getting drunk watching the sky light up. Standard night in East London, to be honest.

[thebish]

There'll be some serious upper crust tottie at the rowing.

Pictures please.

[Worthy4England]

[Bruce Rioja]

Off to see Jason Byrne this avvo.

[clapton is god]

MEN tonight for Morrissey. Its a wife thing.

[Worthy4England]

MEN tonight for Morrissey. Its a wife thing.

Lucky bastard, I got to do the Human League on the same basis.

[William the White]

Two days in stratford on Avon. Two new Shakespeare productions. One brilliant. The other a true car crash - fascinating but a dreadful mess.

The brilliant one is an all-Asian Much Ado About Nothing, which gains additional force when set in a culture where the obedience and 'honour' of daughters can turn a loving father into a near-monster... Meera Syal (brilliant as Beatrice) makes the point, in a programme note, that 50% of complaints registered with the Indian police concern domestic violence...

That said - the play is a comedy (albeit one with teeth) - and the production is hilarious and life affirming...

The carcrash is Troilus and Cressida, in a production so far up its own arse the light is absent and the odour repellent... As self-indulgent a production of Shakespeare I've ever seen.

To get a taste - the Trojans are depicted as Apache Indians of something like the 1600s, and played by american actors from New York's Wooster Group. The Greeks, are played by RSC actors as British army of something like the 1960s. Don't try to make sense of this - no one involved in the production has, why should you try?

Achilles is a camp transvestite. All the Trojans speak in a ghastly monotone with mics. There is an incomprehensible playing of some barely discernible film on three tiny on-stage screens. About 20% of the audience disappeared at the interval. There was desultory applause at the end. No second curtain call.

I bet they enjoy themselves on stage a lot more than we do in the audience - and, you know, I'm not absolutely convinced this is the right way round...

To be as kind as poss - this was a self-conscious experiment in collaboration between two very different drama producers. Experimentation in art is to be welcomed. Not all experiments work...

[Bruce Rioja]

That's a shame, William. I detected that you were really looking forward to that!

[General Mannerheim]

Public transport get some stick but I really enjoyed travelling up to the O2 last night for the bball. Boris bike down to Monument, DLR train through Canary Wharf, then on the Emirates sky ride cable car thing over the river. Then coming back it was about midnight and we jumped on a thames clipper that zaps you back along the thames to London bridge in about 10 mins, then tube back to Old Street. was faultless. Especially enjoyed the boat ride, never been up the thames at night before, its pretty spectacular.