Mark Albrighton

Still outside the drop zone, but it’s another game they probably looked at as a strong potential for points and another failure. One point from their last seven games. Play off chasing Preston next followed by faltering Leicester.

True (well, I assume you are correct re the coefficient stuff). I want fourth.

Only watched the first two series. I often think about the people who won the first series of Hunted, watching subsequent series where the winners had up to £100k as a prize.

It’ll come down to whether Spurs will be more Spurs-y than Villa are Villa(-ry?).

Correct. Unfortunately, while I can infer what you mean, the comparison with Star Wars Christmas doesn’t really mean a great deal to me (along with the franchise as a whole). It’s the cast of the sgt pepper film that interests me. Anything that features both Aerosmith and Frankie Howerd must be worth at least a cursory glance.

I keep meaning to investigate Frampton’s collaboration with the Bee Gees (and George Burns). Just to see for myself if it really is as bad as it supposedly is.

And there’s the possibility the videos that don’t provoke a sufficiently angry response simply don’t get posted.

I guess we don’t feel like you do.

Could have easily gone in the cheer you up thread… Guardian

Any public place where the gents toilets don’t have urinals.

Well I suppose some may do so because they might feel a bit “Who gave him the right to paint that? I’ll do some painting too…” Which, y’know, I guess I can’t really argue against. But if graffiti is inevitable I’d rather have “good” graffiti not defaced by less talented folk. Last time I was there, I noticed some of the better designs around Digbeth have been tagged and kinda blemished. So maybe there’s the “who gave you the right…” crowd and there’s a few individuals who take the view “Huh, you’re clearly better than me at this graffiti lark…I’m not letting you get away with that…”. I am guessing, but that’s what I’d say.

A bit of the former, mostly the latter I would say. Seems to be the case that they don’t last too long which will only add to the exclusivity of being able to say you’ve seen it in situ.

“Oh, naughty! You’ve combined metric and imperial!”

14 pounds in a stone. I typically have to use imperial for a person’s weight to get a sense of things. Kilograms I always have to take a little longer, I typically associate it when I see a maximum weight a lift can hold and it’s usually, I don’t know, 800Kg or 10 persons, or something. I also run in miles, well I think of them in miles. Mainly because we calculate speed in miles (not that I’m bothered about my speed) and a marathon is in miles (not that I’m running a marathon).

What is the proportion of people who have read Jekyll & Hyde who didn’t know what the twist was before they started the book.

They must think you’re looking off-the-scale stunning today, matey.

I suppose it might be expected that they’d look at things in chronological order. So they might go “Check for offside, draw lines…oh no he’s on. Ok now let’s have a look at the handball.” My only guess is that they originally thought the handball would be more obvious than the (possible) offside so it would be easier to come to a conclusion based on that. To be honest, watching it I thought it was all fine, it seemed to work and made sense (the club I support benefited so there is that conflict of interest in my opinion there). It’s just how long it took.

So when the Sheffield Saudis were hammered 8-0 by the Geordie Saudis earlier the season and Gordon (?) handled it and then set up a goal (I think the opener)…that wasn’t considered deliberate? Or has the rule changed since then?

On those rates, how much to get Sleeper to turn up and play “What Do I Do Now?”? 50p or something? If so, I have £89.50 left.

Evangelos Marinakis unhappy with the premier league? But he seems like such a reasonable, non temperamental sort of chap

They’re all like that though. And unfortunately I suspect a lot of football supporters have it in them to be that blasé over that level of success. I remember watching a bit of Arsenal fan tv and I guess they were talking about Wenger (or maybe it was Arteta) and whether he should be in charge and in the pro column was a recent FA cup win, to which Robbie (the main guy) said “Yeah, but the FA cup…”. And it was said in a manner that was akin to the level of enthusiasm and appreciation one might display having received complimentary water at a restaurant. Like it was a given. **** ‘em.

I don’t think it’s been mentioned on here but the red lion in the jewellery quarter has been bought by Joules. Last time I was there it did feel like it wasn’t quite reaching its potential. Pleased that Joules have a spot in the area, nice to have another good option.

I know I’ve said before but I’ve been in pubs, jukebox already blaring, so I take charge and if I choose “Make Me Smile” it really does the trick. I’ve watched women in their twenties suddenly realise that, actually, they know this song and go giddy for it. A solo, the pauses in the song, the ooh la las. A winning combination.

Can’t remember if I’ve posted the thought on here but I often wonder, if I had the choice, would I rather live to 80 - guaranteed to clock out then, but also guaranteed to be very healthy both physically and mentally (let’s say I look and act like I’m 60, when I’m 79). Would I choose that, or would I rather a guarantee of living to say 105 but I’m going to age normally - when I’m 98, man do I look and feel like I’m 98 - and no guarantees of avoiding dementia or whatever. Basically a simple hypothetical of quality of life v longevity of life and how much I would sacrifice the one for the other.