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Alright tiddlypeeps?
Enjoying any good books at the moment? Looking for something new. I tried "Tooth and Claw", which is pride'n'predijust only with dragons, apparently, but i'm feelin' it.
Last book I read, that I really enjoyed was The Tooth Fairy by Grayham Joyce.
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I can't read :(
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PsychoChomp, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:02,
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Oh, it's to late to post it in that other thread now, but i'm with you on PIzza Express.
Not for their food, but because they're really good for having clean nice toilets that they let non-customers use. I used to have to nip into one that was on the way home at my last job, and they were really good about it.
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They do have good toilets.
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PsychoChomp, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:16,
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I'm happy to eat anywhere with a dyson airblade
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glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:46,
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I'm reading The Satanic Verses.
It's good.
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dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:02,
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whats it about?
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pakis
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:08,
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I thought it was about their filthy wives.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:10,
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Very hardworking though /noel
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:22,
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novel about two Indian immigrants who are on board a plane which gets blown up.
Both actors, one who is a Muslim who plays Hindu gods. The other is a voiceover artist who disguises his Indian roots in his work. On the way down from the exploded plane, the godless Muslim becomes an angel and the other guy becomes a devil. Etc etc. Typically complex Rushdie, themes of Indianness, language and the position of immigrants in society.
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dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:14,
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Sounds like a right load of wank
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:23,
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Yeah, I've already watched Slumdog Millionaire.
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:23,
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It really is a shame the Ayatollah Khomeini didn't tear him a new arse
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:27,
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it's no Game of Thrones, I'll give you that
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dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:27,
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Sorry Dozer, it just sounds like wank
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:28,
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^ fact
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:32,
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Actors? Voice over?
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G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:35,
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I've just started reading Game of Thrones
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:04,
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Do you want a massive spoiler?
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PsychoChomp, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:05,
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[pick any character] dies?
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glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:06,
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I accidentally read about the *** ****ing
and I was all like OMG that changes everything.
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PsychoChomp, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:07,
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oh shit that was spoiled for me too
at least something with a similar number of letters was :(
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glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:11,
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I love the telly show, I might give it a try.
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G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:07,
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last book I read was flowers for algernon
it was pretty sad :(
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glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:05,
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OH, that looks good. Reminds me of this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchers_(novel)
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G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:08,
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Tis wonderful, also I normally hate film adaptations of SF books but the one with Matthew Modine in it was pretty good.
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:34,
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Was it
Oooooooooooooooooo-kaaaaaaaaaaaaaay?
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:58,
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I keep intending to read that again, proper made me do a TEAR
Just one cos I ain't no gay
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Theoban What of it, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:30,
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I'm about to start Peter Ackroyd's
"The History of England: The Tudors", which is obviously good because it has a sub title. Also Foundation was pretty good. I've recently finished The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:07,
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Akroyd's history books are absolutely brilliant.
His 'London Under' I read recently and manages to make drainage etc fascinating, no mean feat.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:09,
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I'm not familiar with that one
I think I'd rather just go to Pizza Express, if that's alright with you?
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:15,
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I want to go to Nandos. One more meal, and I get a whole cooked chicken.
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Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:17,
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Oh yeah?
Did they give you one of those cool stamp card things?
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:20,
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Someone else did.
Nearly full.
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Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:22,
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You sound like me after three courses at Pizza Express
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:24,
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Top yourself up with a bottle of wine.
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PsychoChomp, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:31,
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I can't afford one :o(
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:32,
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Why would you want to read the good book I've recommended
when there's a Dan Brown twofer offer in your local WHSmiths?
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:23,
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Oh no, it's not about the twofer,
it's just that I'm already familiar with Dan Brown's work and find it good enough.
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:25,
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Well you've enjoyed Dan Brown.
Reading anyone else would be fucking retarded.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:27,
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Especially since the library is further away than Smiths.
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:28,
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That's settled it.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:29,
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This is some kind of Deception Point, isn't it?
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:29,
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Totes getting this joke
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:31,
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No sorry the other one
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:35,
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Shut the fuck up both of you,
I'm not going to go to shitty kensington to a unnammed italian just because some pricks on the internet say I should instead of the possibility of going for a fucking pizza and a free bottle of wine sometime in the next two months.
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PsychoChomp, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:29,
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^Blobbing^
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:30,
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hahahaha
wooOOOooooOOOOooooo
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:30,
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pleb
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localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:32,
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Alright, alright
there's no need to start flailing at people with your handbag.
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:33,
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Haha, have a snickers.
I wouldn't trek from your yard to Kensington just for a pizza either. Nowt wrong with pizza express, it's local for starters (and mains and deserts too hurhurhur)
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Sorry, do you want the name of the Italian, then?
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:41,
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Oooh yes please!!!!
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PsychoChomp, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:44,
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You sound a little sarcastic.
I think maybe Bear Pookie ought to give you his nearly full Nando's stampcard instead.
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:45,
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I'm reading this at the moment:
www.amazon.co.uk/Folk-Song-England-A-Lloyd/dp/0571245471That's not really a recommendation, unless you are interested in the folk music of England, in which case it's really good.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:10,
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My grandfather was an expert on Scottish folk songs and ballads.
He was the editor of the Oxford Book of Ballads.
And he managed all that without smelling of tofu.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:21,
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What did he smell of then?
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:31,
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Peaty, I suspect
depends which side of Scotland he was fromzzzzzzz
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localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:33,
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Pipe tobacco.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:33,
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Arousing.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:33,
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He sounds like an interesting chap.
Pity we only get his grandson.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:34,
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Sounds like the Scottish folk scene owes him a great debt.
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localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:36,
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I've just got one from the library about the UK role in the Cuban missile crisis
Things even Parliament weren't told at the time, nuclear bombers on instant readiness to go, etc. Sounds worrying.
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localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:11,
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I'm not reading anything at the moment.
Apart from the newspaper and a couple of magazines I get in.
Need to get in to a new book at some point soon.
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Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 15 May 2013, 13:16,
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Last one I read was an SAS autobiography.
The guy went from the Paras, into the SAS, into the South African Recces and finally RUC, Then bacame a lawyer. Just looking for the title now.
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Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:16,
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Bravo Two Zero?
I believe he also slept with a supermodel.
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:17,
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and owned a fleet of Honda Accords
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:21,
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No it wasn't Andy McNab.
I think they fell out badly over that book,
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Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:23,
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I like them, haven't read one in ages though.
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G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:33,
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Sorry to be a one-man stereotype
but I am on
this
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:16,
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You should totally read that at work.
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localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:18,
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or a nice bit of David Irving
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:20,
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Odd fellow,
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Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:24,
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Yeah, why would anyone want to deny the Holocaust?
It was fucking great, take the credit.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:25,
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I got "The three musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas
free on my HTC, the spelling was fucking Atrocious
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:27,
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Dumas? DUMB-ASS MORE LIKE!!!!!
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:31,
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The Prestige, it was excellent.
Never saw the film but reading a synopsis of it on wikipedia it sounds like a load of old shit.
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:35,
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Somebody just called up the IT desk to ask what month it is.
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:37,
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n
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localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:38,
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well did you tell him?
We need to know the exciting life of an IT spod
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Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:38,
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Sorry, I didn't think that needed further elaboration.
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:39,
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that's really... quite tragic.
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Poppet some assembly required., Wed 15 May 2013, 13:42,
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Battered's drinking is really beginning to worry me
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:43,
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lol
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:51,
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what time of the month is it?
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glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:49,
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Hammer
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Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:57,
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Dictionary might be a good place to start
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:42,
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I love Pride'N'Predijust
I don't know what you're on about.
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:43,
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I'm on your mum and about your bins
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:46,
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I know a nice little Italian place on Ken Church St.
Want to double date?
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Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:48,
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jesus christ, will you stop trying to get "people" to come to kensington?
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:49,
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Halfway through "A Dance with Dragons"
Feel like hell. This is unrelated
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Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:45,
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what's wrong darth?
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Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 15 May 2013, 13:45,
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AIDS
he is dying of ignorance (80's advert lulz)
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Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:49,
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These threads always expose you lot for the tragic fantasy loving, board game playing, pint of mince wanking, greasy faced sacks of lardy luminous flesh that you really are.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:46,
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www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1963468
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:49,
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Fuck off. I'm hard as nails.
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Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 15 May 2013, 13:49,
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God, but you're a smooth talking bastard.
Must be beating them off with a shitty stick.
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localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:49,
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Hey look everyone, a man who can barely tie his shoe laces is acting superiour.
We all feel very ashamed Nakkers.
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PsychoChomp, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:50,
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Not acting
is
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:56,
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hang on a minute
i don't do fantasy
board games are ok, on occasion, eg with the family at christmas
i am vegetarian
clarins keeps my skin fresh, not dry or greasy
pasty not lardy
luminous - imma take this as a glowing compliment
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:52,
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Most not all, you seem to be fairly normal on the dungeons and dragons front at least
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:58,
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I wish she'd stop gazzing her magic missiles
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glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:01,
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isn't that kroney?
his sig says something of the sort
oh typical, the rancid little bastard has only gone and changed it
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:02,
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the only computer game i do is "sing star"
after a LOT of vodka
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:01,
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So you're a bigger games nerd than me then.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:12,
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I bet you keep a charity shop copy of war and peace with a bookmark a few pages in on your coffee table
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glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:55,
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I've pasted beano cartoons in from page 100 onwards
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:57,
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Expose?
I don't fucking hide it
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Theoban What of it, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:29,
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i'm reading the new lionel shriver (she wrote "we need to talk about kevin")
it's better than her previous ones, but she does love to use 20 words where 1 would do
i'm thinking about game of thrones, since everyone is yammering on about it, and also ordering the full set of oz books, as i only read a few of them as a kid.
apparently 50 shades of tedious shit is overwhelming charity shops as people keep giving their copies away. who was sad enough to read that?
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:48,
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Women who are unsatisfied with their sex lives with their tedious husbands
and have been conned into thinking its some sort of mummy porn release...
essentially my wife
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Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:59,
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i honestly don't get why anyone would want to read that shit
if you want porn, watch porn.
otherwise it must get pretty dull after 3 pages of the same thing, surely.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:01,
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Hilarious strikethrough alert
pages = inches
*pats self on back for a job well done*
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Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:03,
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The kilospoons are strong in this one
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:03,
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I'm about halfway through my "Complete and Unabridged Compendium of Sherlock Holmes"
It's fantastic.
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Poppet some assembly required., Wed 15 May 2013, 13:48,
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I like this.
Most of the Holmes books are free on Guttenberg, too.
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localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:51,
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MAHOOOOOOONNNNEEEYYYYYYYYY
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:56,
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hahahaha
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:22,
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very good
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localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:29,
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it was a 21st present from my friend who works in a bookshop out of town.
It's this big, thick, red, heavy book. Makes me grin.
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Poppet some assembly required., Wed 15 May 2013, 13:56,
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do they not allow bookshops in town over there?
or do they have to be in basements with blacked out windows?
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glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:59,
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Thanks Eamonn Andrews
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:00,
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I like the way there's lots of ejaculation
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PsychoChomp, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:52,
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I have that on my Kindle reader
By Jo Guest
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:52,
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I bet she is looking dog rough by now
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Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 15 May 2013, 13:56,
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Mmm

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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:00,
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ARGH!
Is that really her?
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:00,
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Oh God, it is
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:01,
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*slices off penis*
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:01,
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Ah the modern Van Gogh eh sporters
I am not sure she will accept it via post anymore
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Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:02,
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I think she's had more than a few posts in her time
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:04,
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a simple yes would have done
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Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:01,
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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:18,
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Apparently she has a mystery bloating illness
I've dubbed it Bethitus
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:22,
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Sunny now, before It was rainy and windy
Weather eh?! What's it all about?
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:20,
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YO G POPS
I'm reading SISTER ALICE by ROBERT REED at the moment and it is WELL SHIT
I haven't read owt for ages, tried reading the Brothers Karamaramrarmarov for pretentious reasons but just kept bouncing off it. So I'm back reading me beloved sci-fi books, except this one is shit yo.
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Theoban What of it, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:26,
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Someone on qotw seriously needs a waaambulance.
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localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:31,
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Let me guess...
ringofyre?
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:32,
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not this time, no
www.b3ta.com/questions/mysaviour/post1963046
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localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:35,
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I am rather enjoying
Charlie Brooker's Scrren Burn though i think Weaveworld is due another reading.
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Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Wed 15 May 2013, 16:32,
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