Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Casalima]

Or were we all watching football?

[Paul T]

Some of us are here. 

[ranunculus]

At least we can go to Switzerland this summer and be spared the alcohol induced antics of those fine English 'supporters'....and didn't Andorra put up a splendid fight against the might of the Russian offensive?
Hey ho, perhaps we could try table tennis again?

[ranunculus]

......or deck quoits....

[Paul T]

Cliff,

Maybe you could train Johnny Wilkinson to save England in other sports than Rugby?  He might be the key to world sports domination!!?? 

[ranunculus]

You could have been mean Paul and said; 'Bring back Torville and Dean' (but you would, of course, have been skating on thin ice). I believe we have an up and coming rugby team in Tonga whose great great grandparents all hail from Middlesex....just need to sort that damn paperwork out!!

[ranunculus]

.....Anyway, let's get back to something interesting.....have you seen those beautiful images from the Chatham Islands?

[Paul T]

Cliff,

When have I been mean?  I'll admit to some sarcasm on extremely rare ocassions, but not "mean" (unless refering to temperatures .

The Chatham Islands stuff is brilliant isn't it?

[Martin Baxendale]

Some of us are here. 

I'm here but I'm hiding 'till my hair grows (see, no avatar!)

[Lesley Cox]

So the seed list is out? Hope it doesn't take too long to arrive down here.

I've been without internet since 9am Tuesday and am almost SUICIDAL with frustration, or was until 30 mins ago when it was finally sorted. Apparently there was an outage in the nearby splashbox (what an odd name) and in the process of fixing it, Telecom somehow lost my username and password from the system. OK for everyone else, disaster for me. It has cost about 4 hours on the phone to Telecom and I have been harbouring murderous thoughts, especially to the computerized moron who answers every call and whose throat I'd like to grab (if it had one) and heave it/her from a tenth floor window. It was only when I used an absolutely filthy obscenity, a word I've never said before, that I was finally connected to a human being.

[ranunculus]

You didn't resort to that dreaded word; 'Englishman', did you?   No wonder you got a rapid response!
So sorry you have suffered the biggest frustration of our age, 'No internet connection'....it's a bummer!
At least you have got lots to catch up on with a glass of something amber and a chocolate hobnob?
Seedlist not arrived here in Outer Mongolia either.

[Martin Baxendale]

Now my hair's grown a bit I can come back out of hiding. Amazing what a few bottles of hair tonic can do. Haven't been shaving either, just to enhance the effect. Let's see Lesley make fun of this forum pic!

[Lesley Cox]

That's brilliant Martin. How could I make fun of that? You look exactly like the young man who works for me at the Market each Saturday. I'll take a pic if he'll let me. I hope you have a patent on that stuff. At least half the male Forumists could use it profitably.

I certainly don't wish to suggest you have any other area due for slight improvement, but the pic almost gives the impression of your having crossed eyes. This impression could be the result of my own failing eyesight, so PLEASE don't take it personally. I can't enlarge the avatar for a better look.

[ChrisB]

Looks a bit like John Lennon in Yellow Submarine to me.....

[Anthony Darby]

Look's like you should be playing for Croatia with a style like that . My sister in law sent me the following:


TRIBUTES are being paid to Scotland this morning after the entire country laughed itself to death.

The alarm was first raised at around 10pm last night as thousands of phone calls and text messages went unanswered.

Small groups of volunteers from Berwick-Upon-Tweed and Carlisle ventured north just after midnight only to find houses full of dead people gathered around still blaring television sets.

By dawn, as RAF helicopters flew over deserted city streets, it was clear that the whole country had suffered a catastrophic abdominal rupture.
Wayne Hayes, a special constable from Northumberland, said: "We went into one house in Dunbar and found three men sitting on the sofa with huge smiles on their faces, still holding cans of 70 shilling. They seemed to be at peace."

He added: "In a house near Edinburgh we found a man face down on the living room floor with his trousers and pants round his knees.

"It seems he may have been showing his bare buttocks to the television when he keeled over."

Roy Hobbs, a civil engineer from Northampton, said: "I got a call from my friend Ian in Stirling at about 9.50pm.
"He was already laughing when I answered the phone, but after about 25 minutes of the most vigorous and uncontrollable hilarity, everything suddenly went very quiet."

Moving tributes are already being placed along the Scotland-England border with many mourners opting to leave a simple bag of chips or a deep fried bunch of flowers