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We used to play this game called Auntie Marmite. I think that's how it was spelt? Basically, it was like hide and seek, but in the dark. One person would go out the room while the others would hide inside. The one outside would count and then then turn the light off and enter the room to try and locate the hidees. This evolved into something a bit more violent when in our early-mid teens in that the hidees would attack the person outside the room when they entered. All good fun. Used to play Kick the Can in the school play ground. Basically tick with a can. Anyone who was struck with the can then got battered. We also had a golley pit in school. It was at the bottom of a set of stairs which led to a basement underneath the woodwork block. If your bag went down there...

Anyone ever go there? Anyone know anyone who's been? Anyone know what the criteria is for getting your kid in? Is it an intelligence thing, or intelligence + money?

Ta la. Will look at/into them.

Yeah. Trying to do the right thing... Cheers anyways!

Is there one available for (legal) download that anyone has used and can recommend, please?

Can't believe that stopped just as it looked like it was getting interesting. Like that racist woman vid. Not good.

Finished watching this at half 12 this morning. Very good film. Only thing that let it down to me was Affleck's accent. Just couldn't take it/him seriously. I've no feelings about him either way, but he's never stood out. Thought his brother was brilliant in Gone Baby Gone, though.

Maybe not the time or the place, but...I heard from a massive bloo, about 8 years ago, that Adrian Heath - ALLEGEDLY - tried it on with Speed. Speed forcefully spurned his advances, Drunken got involved and threatened him for the way he had reacted to Heath.

Anyone know where I can get the Real game from a few seasons back? Would like to give this another viewing.

So....did he?

When ET finally fucks off: [YOUTUBE]75M1XXEZciU[/YOUTUBE]

Well, not quite. Some of the posts in the 1996 Cup Final thread about opposition fans being in our end and being 'filled in' got me thinking about the times you have gone in the opposition's end, and what your experience was like. Went in with bloos loads of times at Woodison - mainly standing up in the old Gwladys Street - and, while it was never as pleasurable an experience as the media made out, I never felt threatened or in danger, as many who have been in among the home fans there will have felt in recent years. The only other time I have been in among the home fans was when we played the mancs in a night game at OT in 1993-94. My Norwegian mate got 3 tickets in among the mancs in the South Stand, for himself, another Nord and me. We did our best to get rid of the tickets, even going to scummy touts to try and do a ‘tickets + cash = away ticket’ deal (one scumbag tried to get us to have 3 K Stand home tickets, saying these were away ones), but to no avail. The tickets were for Row AA. I'd previously been to Oldham and their rows went from (start to back) A to Z, followed by AA, BB etc. We feared we'd, therefore, be in the 27th row - right in the middle of the mancs. As it turned out, row AA was the front row. This was good as it meant we were only surrounded on 3 sides... We'd discussed at some length beforehand what we would do if (1) we scored, or, more likely, (2) the mancs scored (we were in the middle of a run which included the Bristol City cup defeat which, mercifully, cost Souness his job, saw us concede 4 at Southampton, lose at Leeds, Blackburn, Arsenal, at home to Sheff United and Newcastle, tamely lose the last game in front of the standing Kop to Norwich, then lose the last game of the season at Villa). We'd decided we'd have to stay sat down if we scored, and stand up if the mancs scored. When we took our seats, we found there were another 2 Norwegian Reds next to us, also playing it very low key. Not quite safety in numbers, but felt slightly better. Things went well until before half-time when Ince headed the mancs into the lead. All plans to stand up went out the window as you just couldn’t. This drew the attention of some OOT mancs who, intelligently, realised we couldn’t be United fans, but thankfully nothing came of it. It wasn’t a deliberate, conscious act of defiance; we just couldn’t move. Well, 4 of us couldn’t. One of us could. To this day my mate still gets stick about the time he ‘stood up when the mancs scored’! Second half and Thomas gets pulled down in the box. We’re up claiming for the penalty and the ref duly obliges...at the Stretford End. However, after a timely reminder from the linesman of where he was and who he had just given a penalty against, he changed his mind and awarded a free-kick to the mancs. There were no other scares in the game and we made it to the end of the game, out of the ground and to the coach without any hassles. It was an experience, but not one I’d particularly enjoyed or could recommend to anyone else. Anyone else got any similar stories?

I had 2...one from 88-89 and one from 89-90. Gave them to these: The Hillsborough Justice Campaign Shop - Hillsborough Justice Campaign I think you should consider it too. I think motty on here may (still) be involved so try sending him a PM.

Beautiful. We had one like the red one above, but it was two-tone white and black, with black vinyl roof. My uncle had a 1.6 Laser like this. Love the Capris:

Is the right answer. You eat the paper. Like Chewits.

For the obvious reasons, despite being at the game, had wiped all of it out of my memory. The only things I remembered were the suits and the goal. Oh and how horrible I felt afterwards. Saw a bit of it the other day, which appeared to be the move which led to the corner...and we all know what happened from that. The build up involved McManaman shitting out of midfield 50-50 with Butt (as was his way) and Babb screwing a clearance off the side of his left foot for the corner (as was his). James' Superman impression and what seemed like 4 or 5 players failing to stop the shot. All in all, a bad, bad day.

Love old cars, me. Reckon if I ever won on the lottery I'd spend much of it on old cars. Some of my faves - many of which me arl man had: Hillman Hunter Morris Oxford Morris 1100 Hillman Imp Morris Marina Ford Capri Ford Escort Mk 1 Hillman Avenger And my all time favourite Vauxhall Viva Anyway...good luck!

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That's one helluva nose piercing she's got there.

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I know you're all concerned...missus went into O2 shop in town. She told the woman about the problems we've been having, and continue to have. She guessed we lived in L6, said they'd had loads of people complaining about it and that they're carrying out mast improvements in the area. Should be completed in the next 48 hours. You can all sleep now...

Toy Story 2.

Yeah. That's what I'll do. Ta la

Rainmaker - watched again today. Quite lightweight considering the subject matter and the length of the film, but I'm a fan of Matt Damon and he's good in this. 8 jurors out of 12.