Liverpool...European City of Culture, 2008.

[sensaes]

And the place to be for getting one of your nadgers* ripped off by an insane ex-girlfriend, apparently:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4253849.stm

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"...if any of these didn't actually street in 2007,

Comments

[spyderfyngers]

Best. headline. ever.

Agreed.

[sensaes]

I didn't even know about this story - it must've slipped under my radar in '05 - but it came up in conversation earlier (in the context of disproportionate amounts of public money being optimistically spent on "dead zones"...hello, 2012 London Olympics), and I found it hard to resist.

(Also, it's a convenient distraction from puzzling over how Warners are going to spin a dead Joker in the marketing for The Dark Knight.)

[tx_cronopio]

Nadgers, huh? Hey, I learned a new word! (speaking of culture)

[sensaes]

I am on a strictly educational mission this week.

;o)

It may not be love in the air after all

[perpetua_redux]

Interesting juxtaposition of headline and music choice. Nadgers is a new word for me as well--and all I can say is...ewww.

Re: It may not be love in the air after all

[sensaes]

I was tempted to go with "Another One Bites The Dust" by Queen, but...you know. There are limits.

;o)

[hobbitblue]

Now, now, that was back in 2005 when we were city of Barbaric Stuffs. Its all changed now we're Cultured, you know..... :>

Scally housebreakers reject poncification, demand more market stalls for pirate DVDs. Stop.

[sensaes]

Sorry, but it's going to take more than one Beatle and a few licks o' paint to convince me, y'know.

;o)

Re: Scally housebreakers reject poncification, demand more market stalls for pirate DVDs. Stop.

[hobbitblue]

But but but.. we have *football* ::wince:: Um, and some very nice architecture actually (if you close your eyes to the non-classical bits surrounding). And a hell of a lot of roadworks and building sites still, we're city of culture in 09, aren't we? Might be ready by then..

You're absolutely right.

[sensaes]

I was entranced by Sunday's Antiques Roadshow, which was the second of this current series to be recorded in that fine city, and filmed in St. George's Hall (resolutely restored, and completely lacking in the faux stone cladding one might've expected).

I especially liked that chap's collection of slavery-related ephemera, and was on tenterhooks waiting for the expert to suggest how much it might fetch at auction...

;o)

[shizaru]

if he "rejected her advances", how is it that his underwear came off when the nugget did? he was left completely naked and severly injured... i think there was a lot more going on there, seeing as how he was down to his y-fronts before she assaulted his nuts.

don't hate! someone was going to say it anyway... so do you think she spit it out because it was too salty? sorry... i shut up now.

[sensaes]

Never has my use of this icon been quite so intentionally ironic.

And yes, there's undoubtedly some serious effing backstory to this one...

;o)