Juju

Ok, I dabbled with Dungeons and Dragons 20 years ago. Briefly. And used to play text based MUD's occasionally. I guess its like a cross between the 2. Will I like this for £25, with an old 1.2g pc, or should I try harder to get a life?

In my book, your not properly sad in terms of multiplayer games over the internet, until you load up a flight sim, such as IL Sturmovik and any of its successors such as forgorren battles and pacific fighters. My pc wont even run the latter, but I am saving for my next hardware upgrade as the same team are working hard on a "Battle of Britain" simulator.... yay! And as for my silent hunter II - now, a realtime submarine sim.. thats really sad... a week can pass in real time without anything of note happening whatsoever...!

My fathers has a passing interest in Norwich. I dont think Bentley impressed anyone up there.

"topless sweating disgusting fat morons" So you met my last girlfriend then?

Actually, Ive always found women to be like my cars. Neither of them ever seem to go far enough. Actually, I like my women like my coffee. On street corners and I never pay more tha £4 !

Smaller squad, after the gaffer moaning for a year about the small squad. Releasing an England international (the only one ever likely to be picked.) Filling the squad with "oldies but Goodies" aka Berger and PHillips). Buying a defender from one of the leakiest defenders, and the third choice keeper from a club long critisised for its poor first and second choice keepers. Net spend of £750,000 - less than well, frankly any second rate championship side. A manager who realised he wont be cacked. A club in limbo with its major shareholder il at home A club with no responsible board. A club in limbo awaiting a possibly non existant take over. The possibility of an unknown asset stripper launching a bid. No left back of note if our only choice hasnt shaken off an injury. No replacement centreback of experience if our injury prone signing breaks down in training as is likely. No recognised replacement if our other centreback who carries the defence gets injured. A midfiled full of journeymen without any creativity. Strikers. A kid, a pensioner, and someone who only fancies it 1 year in 4. A crap kit, expecially away. A stadium that needs a new away end. A club that needs to overhall its pr. A stadium with no sodding parking. Oh, its going to be another great season.....

No Josef Venglos? Bah.. call this a poll?

I think Daffy Duck ranks up there with the finest. His personality is so "human" and shallow. You can recognise so many emotions within his plotlines. He is small minded, greedy, proud, cowardly and probably even invented the bicycle kick. Or Tazmanian Devil, when he was in the Bugs Bunny toons, before he got his own series, when all he used to do was rage,spin or look confused in a rather fetchinly childlike way. Or how about the Hair Bear Bunch? Or Muttley (with Dick Dasterdly) from Wacky Racers.... Or Wylie Cyote from Road Runner. The odd thing is how all the villains are so much more interesting than the "nice guys". And who could forget Pink Panther. A real adult cartoon that kids could watch. There was some clever stuff going on there in some of the stories.

Just a question. Would you be so upset if he'd arrived say 2-3 seasons ago, rather than being "one of us"? Isnt it that we would all loved to see Vassell succeed, but he has become almost the new "Tony Daley" of our generation, ie fantastic natural athlete, but never made the step up to become a world beating player. I think we all remember Tony flying down the wings, blasting past defenders, before crossing the ball into the Holte...... I think Vassell will be remembered as much the same. Bring in Baros. The only thing that worries me is that DOL is playing "favourites" again, a game he has been accused of in the past. (Just to annoy JC) Crouh for example, when he arrived at Villa, seemed dreadful. I saw him play away at Southampton where he looked so inept that he looked 2 divisions above his natural level. Couldnt trap, shoot, tackle pass or head the ball. Always in the wrong position, but still managed to contrive to miss sitter after sitter, when t would have been easier to score. Then he went away to Norwich, came back. Had 3 successive very good games, and was then out of the picture for good. Why? Yet Angel has a mare of a season, as does Cole, and they get played game after game. Ok, we flogged Allback, who tried bless him but other than a crucial goal against a Sunderland team dead and buried containing Sorenson, Mccann and er, Phillips, failed to do much. But was Crouch a sale too far? Was Crouch just not a favourite? Well, he started to look the player Taylor signed when he returned from Norwich. And most pundits who know more abouth the game than I felt £2 million was good business for Villa. Its a game of two halves Brian, but if they cant get the best out of English internationals, is there something amiss in the coaching?

What about Fish and Chips? Its take away isn't it? (mental image of Bicks munching on Donna's kebab.)

Financial Times. Because I've got a pink bathroom.

Sometimes I get a huge buzz out of my job. Getting to prove I am brighter than my opponents, and engaging in sarcasm, one upmanship, brinkmanship and a little cockyness do keep me entertained. Now that I've moved into a quazi fraud role, I enjoy investigating and exposing wrong doers. However, the mononony of the work, the bleating of "its not my fault" brigade, and the need to make frequent decisions potentiall costing thousands of pounds each time can take their toll I swing from highs to lows hourly. I work in insurance.

Just saw this quote and did it make me laugh...... "This is a great opportunity for me. Villa are a big club with big ambitions and I am glad to be on board. " Hello? Kevin....? What's Stride been saying to you?

They were both cheap. I liked the look at Berger last season, he was the best player on the pitch when we played them away last season. But he's not exactly long term, nor is he going to push us on towards championship football. As for Hughes. Well, its just at £1.5m a squad filler. Part of a leaky defence we put 6? goals past, and thats with our strike force!

If it meant that we were likely to be in the market for players like Wayne Rooney, seeing chamionship league football, and about to embark or be on the back of a decade long period of being at the top of the domestic game, with kids from Carlisle to Cornwall wearing Villa shirts, and making huge profits, then it's not such a difficult one really is it? Especially if "they guy who knows nothing" can afford all sorts of advisers and is only in for making the club bigger. Lets face it, Glazer isnt the ultimate man city fan is he? He hasn't spent all that cash to see the club wither and die. When Manu were strong and winning things, they kept hold of their manager, not let him go down the road to the rivals, and backed him financially.

It soes seem simple. Were the players available for selection? If the club registered them with the FA as being available, and with a squad number, they were available for selection. Cole was available for selection, and now isn't. Ditto Drobny. If Cooke had a number and was available and registered, then his leaving the squad leaves a further place to be filled. The fact that the manager didn't fancy him, is not a reason to exclude him. It's also putting a subjective value into an entirely mechanical count.

So Chris Moyles is a scab... so whats new...?

Actually, my shirt has been washed a few times now without a problem, and it was not one of the early batches. I think part of the problem is they demand to be washed at a very low 40c, and I don't have any other clothes that need to be washed that low, so the shirt goes in on a 50c setting with my socks and pants. Ahh, the joys of being a single man. Ruining your own washing. I was more concerned that i tore the short open very easilly on a couple of bike rides against bramble and overhanging branches, and can see why they get ripped open on the football field. And I am also incredibly disapointed we have gone back to yellow. how traditional.

Yeah, imagine, he's only started more games than almost anyone else in the squad. He's only had more games than Davis, and a season at Charlon before to try and make the grade. You'r right, he really needs another 26 odd games and a spell with Fulham before we can consider him alongside the likes of Davis with this award!

Selfish. West Brom's ground is the hardest for me to get to. Although I won't be sorry if I never go to Selhurst Park or Fratton Park ever again.......

It was worth double that! More if boxed. Funnilly enough, I used to have a "Flag man" which was a small lcd game. It was based on "simon" the game where you have to remember sequences of numbers. I saw one in a second hand shop in Croydon. For £170 ! Unboxed! It was only a tenner new, but was apparently one of the very first electronic Nintendo toys, before the game and watch series. If only my dad could find the bloody thing....

No no no ! Burgertime on the intellivision. Or Nightstalker. Or who could forget B17 Bomber with the intellivoice. But Biplanes on the triple action cart still makes my mates demand I get it out when they come round!

Get yourself a Vectrex from gamestation. They're about £140-180 sepending on condition. Then tell me "Minestorm" isn't the best version of Asteroids ever.

wHERES THE OPTION FOR "NONE OF THE ABOVE" ?

And you still probably wonder why the silly old sod doesn't take you seriously? Even if my own business was not being run well, I'd probably decline to take business advice from an inarticulate 15 yo in a baseball cap who wants to sing silly songs who's witty punchline is "who the fock is Ellis". Awaits inevitable bile spilling forth from the green eyed ellis haters. Who still dont see the point. Or just accuse me of not caring because I dont want to sing your silly songs. Do your worst.