Yes. On balance, I think yes.

I don't believe you.

He's Benny! I didn't know that until googling it just now.

I went on a train-based real ale pub crawl between Manchester and Leeds at the weekend. Many pints of many different types of ale were consumed. Sadly I don't remember many of them.

Muppets theme tune.

Yes, exactly this.

The Onion's coverage on this is excellent.

Newcastle is actually a very attractive Georgian city and we (I lived there 'til I was 18) only claim it's rough as all hell so we can keep all the beer to ourselves and the Scandinavian tourists.

Heh. We're on a mainly American website, complaining about temperatures in the mid-high 20s. What's that in US money - about 80F?

Are you kidding? It was like a meat party in my mouth!

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Actually, probably pretty cheap at this stage to get an X-box (original vintage, right?) and copy of KOTOR2.

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You'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola Corporation for that!

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(Conscious this might not be helpful at all… )

Unlike!

If it's anything like the mass participation races I've done, they'll send pretty clear instructions on where you need to be, how to get there, where you can leave your stuff, etc. And once you're nearby you can follow all the other people in running gear.

Here's to communist subversion of our precious bodily fluids!

Dear god! This has been up less than an hour and we're already near the end of the fourth page of comments.

Oh dammit. Swear I started typing my comment to this effect before you posted.

Well on the subject of things for middle-class people to worry about, the story of a paediatrician being driven from her home by angry, illiterate tabloid readers is largely an urban myth.