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in fairness, you can do that without being drunk.

no. we saw it as a perfectly natural thing to do. there was no active thought; no conscious decision. left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe in, breathe out, break into funfair and start it up.

that's that fucking organic cider for you. seriously. it's like absinthe (only without the hallucinations). here i am, mere moments before i fell from the fence onto my arse, hard.

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enrique, i am glad you enjoyed yourself. i feel bad that by a couple of hours into the night i had melted my brain. i'm normally a little more coherent. i blame stet. for everything.

actually, no, i do nothing of the sort. forget i said that.

My new drink of choice for the summer is Brothers' (yes, them from Glastonbury) strawberry + pear cider. Mmmmm. Boozy fruit punch served by the half-litre. Mmmmmmm...

Stew, strangely, that's not the first time I've been recognised as a legend of Sinister. Did he realise there was a proper real actual legend of Sinister sitting across from me? (I can't remember if I pointed this out to him, but in my defence I'd been in the pub about five hours longer than Grimly)

Link to that one Madchen!

(I've just realised there's some sort of poetry in me claiming a moral victory in something clearly rigged by people off Sinister doing multiple voting shenanigans. I am Pete Waterman and I claim my five pounds)

o, right! i had a bottle of that too, on aldo's recommendation. it's lethal-ish, but doesn't come close to that westons stuff. [flicks Vs at stew.]

hmm: talking about crushes and who drinks the stronger cider. this thread has become fourth year at school.

Success - overall, probably Rangers. Both have progressed to the latter stages of European-wide competitions in recent years, they take year about of winning/throwing away the league title. Both were a bit shite in the Scottish Cup, though Celtic won the League and the League Cup this season just finished (the latter of is the least "important" domestic trophy).

Popular: depends where you are. Honestly. It's probably about 50/50 in Scotland, but Celtic have the wider world-wide following, or at least the most vocal.

Fun fact: when Celtic reached the UEFA Cup Final in Seville in 2003, it was estimated that 1% of ALL AIR TRAVEL ON THE DAY OF THE FINAL was Celtic fans. Given that not everyone flew, and that some people were there for a week, that's not a bad travelling support. Estimates at about 80,000 people (though there must have been more, judging by how many were in the stadium alone, not to mention the thousands watching in pubs, big screens etc) with not a single arrest (this is good for travelling football fans, believe me). I won't mention how when Rangers were in Spain last season, their charming travelling fans broke a window on the Villarreal team bus, because that would be churlish. Oops. Oh well.

Anyway, yes, go. It'll be good.

If Adam Virgo is playing, point at him and laugh. He's rubbish (see also Alan Thomson).

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Alisa, ooer, I remember Nakamura from my days in Japan. Glad to hear he is doing well. (Surprised to see that Nakata retired by the way.)

glasgow - population = 629 000

We're better than this, though.

I wonder if Mike and Pam fancied each other. If so, I am going to tell Ava one day.

Keith, we were at the top of the Most Frequent Posters list. It had nothing to do with being fancied, although I think, as a side effect, it made us more attractive, and continues to do so.

Though we were at the top of the frequent posters list too.

hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry

fix,

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the

starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the

supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of

cities contemplating jazz