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You've three years experience of being a mascot? If it's not impolite to ask, which mascot(s) were you?

Me too. That's why I joined in

Sorry to hear this. Have your tried opening the windows and firing the heating on full blast?

Is that 1,000 cucumbers behind them? I think I've seen it all now.

My contact at Joma headquarters in Toledo just texted me a pic of the home strip. If I was going to try and describe it, I'd say it's far-fetched but clichéd. Some will love it, others won't.

Just seen the home strip, it will definitely divide opinion. Initial thoughts: understated but effective. Well-defined, assertive. Will disappoint those hoping for crescendo-like rootiness. Could post pics, but won't.

Some since the start of the year: Raymond Carver, Cathedral (amazing short stories) Albert Camus, Le Premier Homme (the novel he was writing at the time of his death, really nice, autobiographical) John Fante, Ask the Dust (a great love story set in 1930s Los Angeles. Fante was Charles Bukowski's literary hero) Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine (novel set in Russia and South America, a top yarn from a maestro who scrawled left-handed after losing his arm in WW1) Henry Miller, Sexus, Nexus (brilliant, funny, autobiographical novels) tbh, anything any of those people wrote is worth checking out.

Great that Besiktas stuck to their city centre location, just by the Bosphorus, rather than disappear to some distant, out-of-town industrial estate like (I think) Galatasaray and Fenerbahce are.

this never happened.

Mathias Pogba features in the BBC's "Making of Riyad Mahrez" video - the two were room-mates at Quimper. The bold Mathias appears (wearing his Thistle gear) 35 seconds in. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03lglf4

"It's in our DNA. Health, equality, learning, poverty." wtf does that even mean? Can one of 'ra Hoops please explain?

Last photo is v mad indeed. Like the Truman Show.

I'm a salt and milk (but not too much) man. When I visit the parents, they serve it up with maple syrup and blueberries on it. Quite dece. But once I'm home, it's back to the salt and (not much) milk.

"Dundee... a place that contains all that is best in Scotland... quality of living that is difficult to match elsewhere." As the camera pans over a bleak vista of grey tower blocks. Presumably this is some sort of joke?

telt.

[takes break from shagging] Good, now f**k off. [returns to shagging]

Sure I wrote this on another thread, but ESPN's Mike and Mike Show is top-quality sports journalism. Fantastic rant yesterday about the water quality at the Rio Olympics. http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/espns-mike-greenberg-challenges-olympic-officials-to-swim-in-polluted-rio-waters.html http://espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/archive?id=2445552

For those who appreciate a scam, David Mamet's House of Games is worth watching. As well as the daddy of scam films, The Sting.

Much more. Locke needs 5 more months accumulating failure. Then bin him and get McCall in for the playoff with The Rangers. Offer him a crack at redemption. Everyone wins.

Well, pragmatic's one word for it.

It took him an hour, from waking up to leaving the house? Tell him to go to sleep in his work clothes, shave/shower last thing at night, and sleep in a sleeping bag, wedged up against the front door. He needs to arrange his alarm so that it rings at 5 and simultaneously triggers the door opening, causing him to fall out the house. You just saved him 60 minutes.

Seaside league forum for this pish.

Damn, that sounds tasty.

Envious - some crackers there. Bitburger is the king of lagers. I used to be able to buy it here (only German pilsener I've ever seen in a French supermarket), not seen it for a year Bitte, ein bit!

Tynieness, clear this up for us when you're talking to him.