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Here's another watch that might be old hat to you, but is news to me: The question is: watch or wrist toad?! Parmigiani Fleurier: Bugatti Type 370

It's a reputation I hope to maintain by not unleashing my inner hopeless poet! Is the world ready for my eighteen stanza masterpiece entitled 'porange'? That said, maybe I can be enticed to make up the numbers... BTW did A Current Affair really ever have a poet/dickhead/singsong on once a week, or was that just an invention of Frontline?

Wee wullie winkie!!

lol! You got me! I'm thinking, gawd, what kind of hardcore football knowledge do I not know here? Feckin' beans!! BTW I picked beans because they're funny, but I still think one tin of baked beans (including the tin) has the energy of 80 million barrels of crude oil (used as, well, oil)....

Yup I think you're both right that one of these African teams will give people like me (that bet all their money on the usual suspects) a good kicking. It's usually about this time that I become very fearful that England might actually win the feckin' thing! Deep breaths... Gerrard is amazing. (Up there with Chic Charnley for sure. ) But after they breeze through the group stage, it gets tough for them very quickly.

Now that's James Bond!! Is that r11co in the middle there...?!

Are you angling for seven crap entries?! I must say, for someone who is not keen on verse (I was 'damaged' by Shakespeare, Milton and Chaucer at school - rhyming words they made up, when they do it =genius, when I rhyme orange with porange = fool) these entries were reasonably pleasant. Perhaps most of all for the lack of words like 'porange'. Keep up the good work

If any of you are gambling people, I hear that putting money on France to win (Netherlands are the next best) is a good bet. Meaning that their chances are better than the odds at the moment. Cisse has just broken a leg which, frankly, can only improve things! Almost as interesting - I wonder who the "surprise package" will be this year - this year's Cameroon, Croatia or South Korea. Hmm.... Australia?!

There's only been one post mentioning this brand on the forum, so I was intrigued to see that they have such a big range. Not necessarily my cup of tea, but some interesting watches nonetheless. "Repable"? de Grisogono FG ONE (Blackened-Steel / Black / Leather) $14,000 FG ONE (Blackened-Stainless Steel / Black / Leather) $14,000 Uno Grande Seconde (Steel / White / Leather) $10,000

Proof, if ever it was needed, that any conversation on slaughter in the middle east can be turned to talk of Scottish football, via baked beans, in only 51 steps

That one was tested on Marianne Faithful, clearly. Presumably by someone called Henry.

Earlier tonight I made a huge Swiss purchase mistake... I went to the supermarket to buy, you know, crap. Thought I'd buy the missus Toblerone... Big mistake. Apparently she told me in 1998, and again once in South Korea in 2003, that she doesn't like Toblerone very much and WHY WON'T I LISTEN, etc., etc..... I was confused because I distinctly remember her eating the 2003 Toblerone, but apparently THAT WAS BECAUSE THERE WAS NOTHING BETTER IN THE MINIBAR. Now I have TWO Toblerone's, which is highly selfish. Obviously I had to get back in the car, drive back to the supermarket, in order to buy - you might say - a cheap Asian chocolate bar, although the Toblerone was probably made in Asia too. I selected this bar: And she is now MUCH HAPPIER. In fact, so happy that if I play my cards right I may get LUCKY. Except, I pointed out, tonight is the start of the WORLD CUP. Why this tale? Just to give all the soon-to-be-married members an insight into the rock 'n' roll world they are entering!!

And what about all the petrol that these cars run on? How many bombs can you buy with that? And what about all the timers for those bombs? Need I say more than.....Trans Arab Group?

@r11co: and you want your missus to miss out on this!

Oh, what!! I've been going around Tripoli telling everyone that the Union Jack now proudly flys over the Arc de Triomphe....

Hmm, wind or gas. I'm not sure you can have a roaring 490,000,000,000,000,000 joule fart and still call it a 'botty burp', put it that way. I mean, it would be a conversation stopper.

I heartily agree. That is why it is so nice to see us Tunisians and Lybians united in support! It would be "unbarable" if this was overlooked! More seriously, great post! Thank you! Oh, and while I'm here, what's the best PO?

And I've just found where the Trans Arab Group are hiding all their weapons...

This is amazing stuff. But all is not lost, as time progresses the economics of oil and other fuels change, and the 'proved reserves' figure has quite a strict meaning which gives it a lot of scope for growth in terms of actual oil. But the point stands - oil won't be around for ever. As I said, though, all is not lost - the technology just isn't quite there yet. Things would change dramatically if we could find ways to store and transport electricity more efficiently. I believe (and I'm no physicist) that the daily 80.1 million barrels of oil is equivalent to the energy contained in one tin of baked beans.... (assuming 440g of baked beans + weight of tin 105g (guess) = 545g)

Seller ccampfield was good in his day. I have noticed that the sellers with reputation seem to have moved on, I suspect to running their own websites or other things. A great deal of watches (and Tif%any) seem to come from sellers with no reputation or sales (sure sign that your money may disappear down a hole). Cheers!

Tried the sampler - not bad! Cheers!

I think Saudi Arabia has enough oil to supply the world for three hundred years. Great for oil, not so great to have it in one place - the world will be fighting over this patch of sand for generations to come. Oil prices are high on market speculation, not actual supply side shortages. The US has a gigantic stockpile of crude oil (that's not the same as refined in the short term though). So when there are fears over Iran's nuclear ambitions, oil prices go up, even though there has been no limit in actual supply. Indeed the oil speculation market has taken on a new nature in the past few years - becoming more of an investment vehicle than it used to be (more like gold than a commodity like sugar). At the moment the price is in a bubble; oil companies have also taken the opportunity to double their refining take; and in welfare state countries like the UK and Australia the government's taxes on top have soared too. The US did and does want to control Iraqi production - it wanted the cheaper (and secure) oil supply to ensure US productivity. The reason it hasn't worked out like that is that it didn't go to plan. They have also taken their eye off the ball in South America, where there is also oil. They were busy looking east. As TTK said - Iraq is an inherently unstable country. It was before Saddam became a dictator through assassination and fear. And through the natural order of things, it would have become again when he died or whatever. The problem is that it is now the US is stuck holding the baby. Even their own State Dept (Colin Powell) told Rumsfeld & Co that if you break it, it's yours. The chances are though, that the US would not have sat by and watched Iraq descend into civil war with all that oil there (nor Russia nor France for that matter). Their current predicament is all the more ironic for it. The biggest problems for Iraq's stability are its neighbours. The easiest way to 'fix' Iraq is not to - break it into three bits. Oil in Iraqi Kurdistan's hands would be great for the west - Turkey would go absolutely apeshit (Kurdistan is unacceptable to them for fear that their own country will break up). Screw them. The south would have oil too, so they're happy. The middle bit would be totally buggered without oil - they're the problem. And the fear is that 'Iran' steps into the void. I say 'Iran' like that because Iran has by far the biggest pro-western population of the middle east's major players. That may surprise some people that don't recall the heydays of the Shah. But it is run by a religious fundamentalist regime (some could say the same of the US until the next congressional elections). The current Iranian president is a populist - and you end up with the same daft policies of other populists - jingoism, patriotism, sabre rattling. Sound like any other presidents we know? The Iranian fundamentalists the 'problem' - my point is that they always were going to be the real problem. The US, UK and Australia (yes, Australia - they sent a cheese toasty machine) charged into Iraq with such enthusiasm because they knew it was going to be easy. Iraq had no air cover. The north of Iraq was already autonomous. The south of Iraq didn't like Saddam. And it was a breeze. But they hadn't fixed the problem...

Too bad for Alabamians.... Alabama health warning

"Never before have I seen such a blatant display of poofery!"

I have just seen the future.....some comedian will one day pick this as my retirement watch As for 'pulling off' nice watches, I've never come across anyone who knew what a Lange was. The day I do I'm in deep shite!!