h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A phrase I picked up from a fellow researcher recently

Manchester United's takeover by Malcolm Glazer.



What's making you ?

still being tired

Any soap opera, any conversation about soap operas.

sport and talking about it

Yawnorama it like a dramatic yawn e.g. drama or it is so boring it makes you yawn

Yawn o rama

The idea that a football team being owned by one person and therefore taken off the stock market is important.

The implication given by adverts that my life is meaningless because I don't read Heat magazine nor do I care about what's in it.

I like that last one; adverts peddling crap like "find out who Posh (it's always nicknames isn't it, as though we're supposed to think we know them) is friends with at the moment".

As a football fan I'm quite interested in the Glazier business. On one hand I think it's a shame that the club will be owned by someone who probably hadn't heard of them five years ago and probably refers to them as a 'soccer club'. But on the other hand there's a touch of schadenfreude creeping in because Man Utd have shamelessly put business before football. For example, when Alex Ferguson won't be interviewed by Match Of The Day after a game because they want revenue from their 08 high-premium phonelines.

Mind you, most of their glory-hunting supporters from London probably support Chelsea by now anyway.

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Techncially that is the correct term. 'Soccer' was first coined in Victorian England as a nickname for association football.

Oh. Gosh.

One thing that makes me laugh about it all is when fans say they have 'ripped up my season ticket'. Good job he didn't take over at the start of the season then.

Soap operas 'Reality' TV sport on TV/RAdio and A double yawnarama for talking about any of the above

What joy, the schadenfreude is tangible, watching the beginning of the tumbling of the tower of Babel that is professional football. At last the financial pigeons are coming home to roost. Did anybody seriously think you could go on paying educationaly challenged brats £50k a week for ever.

Did anybody seriously think that TV would continue to pay top dollar to flood peak viewing times with a sport that has only a minority following.

And how pathetic do those fans look, we're going to stop Glazer and the rath of Bob will be called down on Cubic. Grow up, get a life. I wonder who's next. Will the anti laundering authorities start asking questions. Watch this space because if you think it's going to be footie on the box you might be in for a surprise.

Yea the death of Footy on TV, and a chance for Trashy Vampire, Zombie Horror and action moovies to take their correct place on our screens

'the financial pigeons are coming home to roost.'

That must have been after Glazier's boardroom coo.....

Yawnorama? The Michael Jackson trial. And the jokes about it by people lack the imagination to find humour in anything else.

(By the way, what exactly is a financial pigeon? And how does it differ from a wood pigeon? It must roost in a vault in Threadneedle Street or something I suppose!)

Yawnorama??

Anything to do with

Anyone talking about

Maybe Glazier will set a trend. Buy up a couple for a few million, then sell the land for affordable accomadation, clubs, bars, and decent shops, and make it somewhere that people can actually enjoy.

Imagine how many people could live in the building site that is currently Wembley, and how much cheaper modern housing would have been!

Let's leave to those that can play it... i.e: Not us and do something useful with the land instead.

Nature reserves anyone?

The BBC radio 2 afternoon political phone in bit. Yesterday's was about a woman who dropped a cigarette butt and got fined £50 for littering. Oh diddums. Even when there's a sensible topic up for discussion you just get the same comments over and over again because no-one pays attention to what's already been said.