Barky

Been on the look out for that for a while, where did you find it?

Watching the one show waiting for the game to come up and Russel Brand being on it, the pretentious cock. Who actually likes this guy? How does he get on tv?

The 2% only applies to the portion of the price between £125k and £250k, the first £125k of the price is at 0%, so on a £150k house you'd only pay 2% on £25k which would be £500.

You might be able to whack the stamp duty on the mortgage. Also £3k stamp duty means the property must cost about £280k no? Buy something cheaper?

I've got no issue with triple fried chips tbh. Although anyone who knows what they're doing with a fryer shouldn't need the third fry. I like nice food. Melting chocolate shells sound alright, maybe a bit gimmicky but at the end of the day melted chocolate is a legitimate ingredient and adding a bit of theatre to your presentation is fine as long as the food remains the focus. Tall burgers though, just serve no purpose. If you can't get a burger in your mouth top to bottom then it's not a burger, it's a stack of food. A stack is a shit way to present food because it just falls over and all you're left with is a mess. You lose all the flavour and texture combinations, you lose all the feel and satisfaction of biting into a proper burger. Frankly it's a disgrace, an embarrassment to the burger profession and the only people who would enjoy such a monstrosity are those for whom the eating of the burger plays second fiddle to its instagram potential. Those people more focused on the superficial and the gimmicky; motivated only by the desire to gain some sort of recognition for having posted the picture - a desperation for a quick shot of gratification above all else. What you're really saying when you post a picture like that is, "I'm lost, I have no idea what my values are, I'm worried that I might be wasting my life but I'm desperate for that not to be the case. I'm trying to convince myself that my life is worthwhile; that i'm enjoying it; and that it means something. Please help me achieve that by providing some sort of positive response to this picture of a burger. I need to feel like I'm doing things correctly. Help me."

Don't see the point in burgers that tall. If you can't take a bite without bits of burger falling all over the shop then take that thing away from me, please.

Well that's what I mean. Why get involved in silly stuff like that when he could make a serious career out of applying facts to issues ordinarily shrouded in political correctness. There's a lot of space in the market for someone like that. All he achieves by being controversial for the sake of it is giving his opponents an easy and compelling diversionary argument. In doing so he weakens his own position on the more meaningful issues.

Always had time for Milo after I saw him destroy the gender pay gap nonsense. Don't know why he bothers being controversial for the sake of it though. I think he could be a lot more popular if he just stuck to applying facts.

The Cobbler - an Adam Sandler 'comedy' that slides easily into the small list of films I've seen that are so utterly, unforgivably terrible that they've genuinely prompted a bit of an existential crisis. There is not one redeeming feature. It is awful from start to finish and by the end I just wanted to die.

Inclined to give this a go but the trailer is really off-putting.

Guy in some poncy baby white BMW SUV pulled out from a roadside parking space right in front of me and I had to swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid collision. Luckily no harm done, I got back in lane in front of him, only to see him making a willy puller sign at me in the rear view mirror. A little bit further along the road splits into two lanes at the traffic lights and that gave him the opportunity to pull up next to me, which he did, and then he wound his window down and said "you ****ing **** why didn't you let me out", to which I calmly replied "you pulled out right in front of me, you're supposed to wait until the road is clear before pulling out, you weren't even indicating", and then he said, "**** you, you ****ing willy puller" while at the same time dropping his clutch to speed away aggressively. Only problem was the lights were still on red, and there was a little Citroen or something sat about 5m ahead of him. As soon as he realised he slammed his brakes on and started a skid which planted him beautifully right into the back of the Citroen at about 2mph. The lady in the Citroen seemed unharmed and I couldn't help but piss myself laughing as I drove past. Now I'm wondering if I should call the police as a witness to make sure he takes the blame, what do you think?

Be careful riding that cat down the motorway.

I suppose the question is how good is our academy compared to other clubs. According to this we are ranked 67th in Europe at having produced players who currently play in the top 5 leagues in Europe: http://www.football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/rk/training/en/phone/index.html If you just look at English clubs we're there or there abouts with the likes of Southampton and Everton. Most English clubs in fact haven't produced a single player currently in the top-5 leagues, so on that basis we're not doing too badly. I don't know how people expect us to be doing much better than anyone else. The talent pool is not massive and the competition is fierce.

Had similar problems with PC world staff, once they outright refused to sell me a computer without some back up service they wanted £15 more. They must be making no profit at all on the computers themselves if they'll walk away from a sale worth hundreds over a £15 back up service.

Would love to say it's all fine foods and ale but in reality is just from sitting on my arse at work all day eating Lidl custard creams.