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ShinyDiscoBall

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    My dad was funny once. He got his first few junk mails and called me in when I was there and asked "what does this mean"? He had opened up a mail for some drugs or something and the content was nonsense - you know the type lots of words strung together seemingly at random. He wanted to understand it but could not get that it was nonsense. It's kinda hard to explain but it was quite funny at the time me trying to say to him that yes it is nonsense and that doesn't really matter!

  2. if they say such nice things about me.

     

    Barclays bank is ditching pens on chains and re-branding ATMs "holes in the wall" in a £7m branch revamp.

     

    The bank said it wants to move away from confusing acronyms and jargon, using "more colloquial" terms instead.

     

    Uplifting window displays and signage will also feature in the bid to make branches more customer friendly.

     

    Customers will be beckoned into branch with a sign in the window reading: "Through this door walk the nicest people in the world".

     

    People waiting in the personal banking area will be invited to sit down with the sign "Take the weight off your feet."

     

    Customer service will have new signs asking "Can I help?", while the Bureau de Change will simply be called "Travel Money" in future.

     

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4674548.stm

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    Arsene Wenger complained that the "sun had got in the eyes" of his team when it was really Everton who had got up their noses.
    Nice one Arse! Good one Everton.
    Everyone really is making it easy for us this season aren't they?

    One of my mates from Hull is into Huddersfield - they're 5th in CC Leauge 1 at the moment... unlike the Premiership it looks pretty tight up at the top there.
  4. Parrot squawks on woman's affair

     

    A parrot owner was alerted to his girlfriend's infidelity when his talkative pet let the cat out of the bag by squawking "I love you Gary".

    Suzy Collins had been meeting ex-work colleague "Gary" for four months in the Leeds flat she shared with her partner Chris Taylor, according to reports.

     

    Mr Taylor apparently became suspicious after Ziggy croaked "Hiya Gary" when Ms Collins answered her mobile phone.

     

    The parrot also made smooching sounds whenever the name Gary was said on TV.

     

    New home

     

    Mr Taylor, 30, a computer programmer, confronted the woman he had lived with for a year who admitted the affair and moved out, several newspapers reported.

     

    He also gave up his eight-year-old African Grey parrot after the bird continued to call out Gary's name and refused to stop squawking the phrases in his ex-girlfriend's voice.

     

    "I wasn't sorry to see the back of Suzy after what she did, but it really broke my heart to let Ziggy go," he said.

     

    "I love him to bits and I really miss having him around, but it was torture hearing him repeat that name over and over again."

     

    Ms Collins, 25, said: "I'm not proud of what I did but I'm sure Chris would be the first to admit we were having problems."

     

    Ziggy - named after David Bowie's former alter ego Ziggy Stardust - has now found a new home through the offices of a local parrot dealer.

  5. Mahmood's other victims

     

    Freddie Shepherd and Douglas Hall, April 1998

     

    The Newcastle United directors called northern women "dogs" and their £15m signing, Alan Shearer, "Mary Poppins", and bragged about brothels and prostitutes. They resigned only to be reinstated by the club.

     

    Johnnie Walker, April 1999

     

    The Radio 2 DJ was filmed cutting cocaine at the Grosvenor House hotel and offering to hire prostitutes for the fake sheikh. He was fined £2,000 after pleading guilty to drug possession.

     

    Countess of Wessex, April 2001

     

    Prince Edward's wife met the fake sheikh over a business lunch at the Dorchester. Indiscretions included calling William Hague "deformed", Cherie Blair "horrid" and Gordon Brown's budget "a load of pap". The incident led the countess to quit her high-flying PR job.

     

    Diane Abbott MP, May 2004

     

    Mahmood posed as a member of a Kashmiri terror group and was invited to the Commons by Abbott. He tried to lure her to Dubai and offered a donation to aid his cause; Abbott refused both.

     

    Carole Caplin, June 2005

     

    Cherie Blair's former style guru told Mahmood, posing as a potential client, that "Tony's in dire straits", calling him "overweight" and suggesting he drank too much. She also criticised Nigella Lawson and Delia Smith and called Gillian McKeith "ugly as ****".

     

    Princess Michael of Kent, September 2005

     

    Mahmood posed as a property buyer to lure the princess, who suggested that Prince Charles had only married Diana as "a womb ... somebody to give him children". She also defended Prince Harry's choice of Nazi fancy dress. "He will never live it down," she said.

     

    "But I believe if he had been wearing the hammer and sickle there wouldn't have been so much fuss made. And yet what does a hammer and sickle stand for? Russia, Stalin."

     

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  6. What on earth kind of hold does he have over the FA??? It must be something big

     

    "While Eriksson made a round of contrite calls to his players to head off any dressing room tension, senior figures at the Football Association conducted a flurry of telephone conversations before letting it be known that his position as England boss was not in danger."

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