Babb'sBurstNad

He featured in a question on Only Connect this week. Outstanding.

It's fantastic, well, other than the short controller cords. Hopefully the fact it's proving popular will mean we'll get a Mini SNES too at some point. Nintendo fucked up the release though.

I never really understood the appeal. I always thought it was music for the end of office parties, put on just before some Lighthouse Family and big Sandra from accounts starts crying.

I've built up quite a backlog recently, but one benefit is that I can wait for games to hit a lower price before jumping in. Deus Ex, Tomb Raider, Mafia 3, Dishonored 2 etc. will all be played when they hit sub-£20. I still haven't got into Witcher 3 yet.

I prefer their Smoked Ham and Pickle. The only good Walkers crisps are Worcester Sauce flavour. Their Salt & Vinegar Squares aren't bad, but I'd still choose Hula Hoops over them, as you can put them on your fingers. I don't credit them with Monster Munch, as they bought success there.

For maximum effect it should be accompanied by a raspberry.

When Downing was playing for England, it was the first time I'd really thought that the claim from some fans that England favour players from big clubs had merit. He was shit for us, shit for England, and yet still got picked regularly. He didn't become better, nor did he become worse when we got rid of him, but his England career was at a peak when he was playing here. Same with Carroll really.

Kyle Walker. Whenever I watch him I'm reminded of when Dwain Chambers tried his hand at Rugby and American football. Walker, to me, is just a sprinter who can kick a ball without falling over; athletically impressive and equally as thick, he's the pinnacle of modern fullback fuckwittery. Aim him in a straight line like a wind up toy and release him. He races the length of the pitch only to run it out of play, put it into row Z or - more often than not - pause for ten seconds and pass it backwards, defeating half the point of running to get there in the first place. One time out of ten he'll put in a half decent ball and that'll be seen as justification for all the failures. Even Rose and Moreno have more brains than him. Plus, he gives me flashbacks to watching Glen Johnson.

Can't say I've had any similar problems with any specific mode.

Liverpool 2 - Scotland 0

John Stones' decision making makes David Luiz look like Baresi.

I like the small nations idea.

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Nah. Good player, but elevated above his level by the myth of the hard man. As far as the PL era goes, Scholes, Gerrard and Vieira are all above him.

Like Icarus, he flew too close to the sun. He went for the audacious double lean, and it all went wrong from there.

Make our kits great again.

What if his hair is actually really fashionable, and we're all behind the times? It could be the new geek pie.

I'm sticking with my prediction of a poor season, then a league trophy, then implosion. I was shit scared of them getting Pogba, but Zlatan is another story. I thought Mourinho would block the progress of the talented, mobile young attackers they've got to accommodate him, and as long as he scores in bundles against the shite like Swansea they'll stick with him. It's almost becoming too predictable, how he goes about things. Shift the youngsters out wide or to the sidelines, use older players who have one or two dependable seasons left in them, find a scapegoat or two, moan, pick up trophy, get stabbed in the back, exeunt stage left. That squad, with an attacking manager, would be top four right now, if not challenging for the title. My only hope is he does enough damage and convinces them that it's shit enough that he can fill it full of pensioners on Jorge Mendes' books looking for one last pay day. He'd win a title with them, but leave a worse mess than Moyes.

I like how the snowman's arms are in the air, as if it's yelling "Aaaandball!"

It all reminds me of Father Dougal seeing the red button in the plane that says "Do Not Press". Some times, people just want to see what happens if they do something they're not supposed to.

Whenever I hear the term "strawman" I think of Worzel Gummidge. I found that show genuinely terrifying as a child.

Return of the Jedi. Funny ewoks and ghost jedi all having a party; the re-release made it even worse by putting in a young Anakin too.

Getting to use the stop watch function on my Casio Data Bank watch, then getting the dinner out the oven like I'm counting down to a shuttle launch.

You can't make dick jokes with Lovren though.

What's going on with Julian Draxler these days? I always assumed he'd end up at Arsenal for some reason.