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romavillan

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  1. As Katy Price once said, "you're never too old to get your ringpiece smashed in by a rich man".
  2. "I believe" then the praying hands at the end, Tayls inside exactly saying it's nailed on is he?!
  3. Well still on 0 points after 0 games, everyone OUT.
  4. Shane Warne back on the crack?
  5. You've got 3 years till your boy will "need" school and travel when they are very young is very good for them. New experiences are as good for them as they are for you, woudl massively recommend moving to somewhere with a decent climate for top time with a young family. Can't beat throwing your kids about into lakes and the sea of an afternoon, they love it and it's free
  6. Yep, only reason to invest in us now rather than when we were in the prem is because you see the potential of us as a club making money for you over and above the price paid. That's either as a 142 year old advert for whatever it is you sell or because getting us back in shape and in the prem means we would be worth over £200m, which if you've paid £75m gives a bit of margin for investing in the squad to get us there. No scenario would see us sold to make an immediate profit, any profit can only be made if we get back into the prem and stay there.
  7. Shame if not true, Wang is bound to drum up some more female fans for us.
  8. We were 80% there under MON I'd say, switch Gabby and Carew for Vardy and Mahrez and we would have easy been top 4 not top 6. Unfortunately MON's idea of sorting this out was Heskey and Harewood.
  9. Totally agree, Ranieri has them doing the basics extremely well, look at their shape under the cosh away at old trafford, yet they still carried a threat on the break. Classic Italian mentality, if you can't outplay them, soak it up and score on the break, make sure you don't concede easy first and then see what you can do up the other end. They don't panic, they know they will make chances. Reality is they are doing this better than anyone else in the league, there are better footballing sides, teams full with better players but Leicester are set up amazingly well to win football matches. On topic: No takeover news?
  10. The thing I find hardest to accept in all this, is the deliberate falsification by later alteration of hundreds of statements. It was a systematic cover up which massively saps faith in the police.
  11. He keeps all his money in a big brown bag.
  12. Well that rumour died all alone and got buried along with it's name.
  13. Same, had a quick trawl of twitter, google results from last hour to see if there was some breaking story.... Everyone is still chewing over the telegraph article though by the looks of it. oh well.
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    Ubuntu

    I haven't been able to try it out properly yet, too many probs on my nvidia cards in the lappie and the desktop with nouveau and only the open source drivers work with gnome-wayland. X will still be around for a good while yet I should think. Only way legacy apps will run on the new converged devices on Mir/Unity 8 is in little X containers that get sandboxed to meet the security model of the host. So even on phones and tablets X will still be alive in some way for ages yet.
  15. Sounds like we're ready to come screaming back into the big time in no time!
  16. A massive toss? I'm sure he'll find that very romantically nourishing.
  17. I'm not sure he could take that kind of mass romantic nourishment
  18. Just do it, get enough money together for a few months rent, give yourself at least 6 months to be really shit at the language but have enough to get some kind of work. I was lucky in that I had a contract and worked remotely, I only had money for 2 months though when I came so needed the wages once I'd paid the deposit and a month up front! Took me a year to get italian down to a decent level to open up a whole other world which you can't experience if you don't speak the language. Never looked back after that, here 11 years in May. Seriously you will not regret it, even if it doesn't work out you will find out a shitload about yourself that you otherwise wouldn't know.
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    Genoa

    Napoli has an unduly bad reputation. I've always had great times there, if you aren't trying to score in Scampia or being a dick in the suburbs then in the center of town I have never had a problem. It's an incredible city, the food is way better than Rome or the more tourist destinations. The people are **** hilarious, incredibly generous too. Only good times for me there. I'm not an idiot though, if you are getting off a cruise ship wearing a rolex and speak 2 words of italian and no napoletan, you may well be getting back on the boat without your watch. Same can be said of a lot of the UK though ay. Also, from either Napoli or Pozzuoli you can get a ferry out to places like Procida and Ischia, prefer the former myself, for cheap and takes an hour or so. Procida is gorgeous. Hire a little motor boat for like €50 for the day and if you like yourself a swim with a mask and a snorkel you'll be in heaven. Then there's Salerno, which is massively underrated but has a stunning old centre with tons of good bars and restaurants. Further south still you get into Cilento, punta licosa is amazing, Paestum has the best preserved hellenic temples in mainland europe, it's cheap and great food too. All doable if you have a few days in Napoli and have a motor.
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    Genoa

    Genova rules, it's the Napoli of the north. Way different vibe to the rest of the north. Stayed in a great central B&B if your interested, everything doable on foot from there. The old part of town isn't huge, tons of teeny streets to get lost in. Good food too if you avoid the tourist menu shit. Fried octupus for €2 in the old port but you have to eat it standing up, there's a few good places under the arches that you have to catch at lunchtime or 4pm when they are frying to get it fresh, stupid cheap and straight off the boat into the pan. Awesome. If you don't hire a motor or a scooter, you can get to some nice private coves on the bus, I think the 38 if I remember right takes you south out of town to a nice bit of coast, volcanic (black) rocks and sand so careful in teh summer co that gets stupid hot. You have to pay for access in the private coves but the north is like that unfortunately. Been quite a few times, had a deposit down on a flat years ago but the landlord weirded out and I ended up staying in Rome. Great city, pm me if you want the B&B details,
  21. Yeah they stated that all those involved right from the get go sign an NDA and complete a form giving details of the bid and their finances, which goes to Squire Patten Boggs the big fancy pants law firm. No chance anyone actually involved in the process will be able to say anything about it publicly without getting massively screwed.
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