Xela

Just having a quiet weekend makes me happy.. had a horrible week at work which followed a great, but busy, weekend in Denmark and Sweden. I'm grateful to be doing absolutely sweet FA!

Just come back from Copenhagen and thought it was a lovely place. Very pretty and lots to do. The Danish people are so friendly. Good nightlife as well and its not as expensive as people make it out to be.

This man, Mako Vunipola is 21 years old. No, really!

Does he get his passport from the same company that supplies them to Nigerian footballers?

I get this too.

I have a friend at work, female, we're really good mates so I go out with her and her friends a lot.

Her sister also comes out with us and has a thing for me. She's ok looking, I'd bang her, but I wouldn't go out with her. I'm just not attracted to her enough despite recognising she's attractive and a nice girl. Sometimes people just don't do it for you.

BUT, the friends of these two drive me up the wall whenever we go out. It's basically a night of questions about why I don't want to go out with this girl, what's wrong with her, what's wrong with me, you're both single so why not, blah blah blah as if she has some divine right for any bloke to fancy her.

I actually went home early the last time we were on a night out with that lot because it pissed me off so much.

'This'

I have the same as well. I am friends with a fair few women but I don't fancy them. If I go to lunch with one of them, its always the same childish comments back in the office along the lines of "what you two been up to" and "why don't you two go out properly" and "oh aye, romantic date was it *nudge nudge wink wink*" and all knowing nods and glances etc. Just **** off!

central news tonight main headline

"we've found a woman in the midlands who suffered from the same thing as kate middleton"

"it wor orrible"

is that seriously considered news?

She's been **** by a Royal?

I have an Asian friend who flew with them and was just looking at the pictures on facebook ... the sick bags and evacuation plans are Hello Kitty style , it even has hello kitty self service check in counters .....

It's just so wrong .... and yet they fly to Guam and I've fancied going there so something keeps telling me i should book it ....

I think only a small handful of their fleet (maybe 2 - 3 planes) are decked out in the Hello Kitty style. The rest are just bog standard Eva Air (777's I think). I've been close to flying with them to Bangkok a couple of times as they are only one of a handful of airlines that fly there direct from Heathrow.

Edit: just looked in more detail and there is a Taipei - Guam flight in Hello Kitty livery!

Girls who smile at me and constantly message me on Facebook, then when I ask them if they want to hang out they say they're not looking for a relationship. What the ****

Just tell them that you aren't looking for a relationship either... you just want to smash their backs doors in! Regain the upper hand from the cock teasing woman! Be an alpha male

I've taken a day off work today, I've got quite a bad cold. I feel as if I could still go to work, but it would be disgusting for everyone else, and I didn't sleep at all last night, so decided to take the day off. My nose is streaming and I feel pretty groggy but I could still work, I think. I feel damn guilty for not going into work because I know that someone else will have to cover my workload today.

Anyone else take a day off work for a bad (man flu style) cold?

I went out about 5 years without a day off ill but i've been off twice in 6 weeks! First was 2 days with some bug I picked up in Egypt. I was shitting through the eye of a needle. More recently, a couple of days with a cold/flu. I usually hate being off with that but it really knocked me about. Someone picked my work up but I pick theirs up when they are ill so it evens itself out. Don't feel guilty.

Smooth radio. /discussion over.

I'll see your Smooth and raise you a Magic FM. Its got Dr Fox FFS! Broadcasting legend and true rival to Martin Jol in having the biggest head in the Northern Hemisphere.

Watched Crash last night, the first time i've seen it since watching it at the cinema.

Still an excellent piece of film

€500 note or GTFO

Advice required (again)

Met a girl a while ago, knew her ex husband was an abusive word removed, we decided to meet up. Went for drinks, all going well then towards the end she told me she was seeing a guy who was a childhood friend but she "wasn't in to him, he was the first guy that gave me attention following my marriage ending".

She said she really likes me, that the other guy knows she was meeting up with me and she can understand if I want to run a mile etc.... I told her she needs to sort things out that's best for her and to give me a call if she wanted to see me, gave her a kiss, got her on a train then I went home.

She hasn't stopped texting me since so I thought I'm in with a chance but just need to be patient, but this other guy keeps posting on her wall about how they spend all day together and what not and it's driving me mad. She's properly in my head and I really like her, on the other hand I feel sorry for this other chap as he ain't done anything wrong.

All the signs say I should completely back off, leave it and see what happens. How do I get in these situations?

Says a lot about the girl that she spends all these days with the other bloke but texts you all the time. Doesn't sound like girlfriend material to me pal. Sounds like an attention seeker. If she really wasn't into this other bloke she's had binned him off ages ago. Probably the sort of girl who craves constant male attention.

If you do like her, just tell her that what she's doing is not on and not to contact you unless she dumps the other chap. If she can do it to him, she can do it to you further down the line.

Sorry for the harsh words but that's my opinion.

Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones

At 33, I am way too old for the childish tripe that R1 peddles. It's all Flo-rida, Nicky Minaj and other such shite. Its as bad as Galaxy (now Capital) whose target audience is wannabe gangstas and bacardi breezer sluts.

Radio 2 for me... I do enjoy the Simon Mayo show driving home from work.

I am turning into my Dad.

It would have to be a seriously life-changing amount of money.

and no £1mill is not seriously life-changing, i wouldn't do it for that much.

£10mill+ and i'd be considering it, £100mill and i'd definitely do it.

Don't agree with Stevo that someone who would do it for £1m would also do it for £500k.

by that logic if that person would then do it for £500k, they would also do it for £250k.

and if they'd do it for £250k, then they'd do it for £125k, and so on.

If someone finds £1mill life-changing, doesn't mean tey find £500k life-changing.

So, you wouldn't do it for, say, £5m?

I find it hard to believe. I think there is a certain amount of machismo demonstrated in some of these posts and what you would write on here and what you would do in private is completely different (not singling you out ender4, just a general comment). I think most peoples thresholds would be a lot lower.

Another scenario; would you do it once a month for your monthly salary, if it meant you didn't have to go to work? 10 mins a month... or 140-200 hours a month in a job you may hate for the same net reward?

The Departed is on film four tonight at 9pm. One of my favourite films in the last ten years.

Being a man of leisure makes me happy! No work until December 10th.

There was nothing wrong with the old formats; European Cup (for Champions), UEFA Cup and Cup Winners Cup.

The proposed reform is just another nail in the coffin for the game, in my opinion.

Not a lot really... only get my parents and grandparents something. Have no other family. In terms of friends, we just tend to buy each other pints at the German Market!

May treat myself to something this year... like a tablet or a new laptop.

Spanish women. Outstanding! The quality in Malaga nightclubs was breathtaking. Vast majority were stunners.. there were so many you stopped looking as it was the norm.

At the same time it depresses me compared to what we have in the UK

(yes, i'm sure UK woman say the same about Spanish men as well!)

I can't upload her picture, it wouldn't be right

Though, 24 hours on and I've still not heard back. Not that I'm sat here watching the clock or anything like that...

if you send a message to someone you are not friends with on FB it doesn't go into their main inbox. It goes into their 'other' mailbox and they don't get a notification. I can have messages in there for weeks before realising. Drop her a friend request instead...

We're never going to find out who did it, and there's no appetite to reopen investigations into IRA bombings that will likely never be solved.

Sometimes you just have to move on.

I think the authorities and powers that be know exactly who did it, but, as mentioned in this thread, there is no desire to reopen old wounds.

Not back at work until December 10th! That makes me very happy

Infinite Gangnam Style would drive me to mass slaughter

I hope it ends, got a load of reports I need to do before the end of the year and I don't want to do them!