Verbal

Why? What have you done now?

It bodes well that you have spelled Bysshe correctly, lending authenticity to the quote itself.

Anyone got a receipt for the Saintsweb laundry bill?

Excellent news. The idea that the niqab is worn out of women's 'choice' is in many cases absurd.

You are Paul Whitehouse off The Fast Show and I claim my prize.

Bite.

Bakary.

Not a coincidence - it simply (sorry) is. And it's meaningless to say the acronym is 'first'. An acronym can also be a palindrome, just as any word can - but we don't say the word came first. These is a deep philological issue. But with this sorted, we should be free and clear to win at Anfield. Don't thank me.

This changes EVERYTHING!!!

Nice feature on JR in The Times today (sorry, Murdoch's damned paywall means I can't link). Not even a hint of a desire to leave in that either..!

It is closer than that - in some subjects it's better than Oxford. Oxford remains the only place I know of in British HE where you can't study for a politics, philosophy or economics undergraduate degree as single subjects (the closest is economics which you can combine with history). Some claim there are advantages in this, but the only one that matters is it's a feeder degree for the British political classes. UCL and LSE are probably better in all three subjects than Oxford. In the sciences and engineering, Oxford is outdone by other universities in many subjects - not least by Imperial College. Bottom line: London rules. But (to the OP) Birmingham University is very good.

If anyone's going to end up in that part of the world why not go to York? Better university (Russell Group) and much pleasanter city (understatement!). York also has a now well established law school.

And 'comprises' rather than 'comprises of', or 'an historic day' rather than 'a historic day'. Hang on, I'll be back with more (and I'll only shut up if they make the damned announcement).

Yes, Les Reed was sent out to deliver to fans a message that was a pack of lies - because that's how the club has acted ever since the Liebherrs took over. Jesus Christ. What would the body count be on here were a scooter to have a minor backfire?

Yep. How about you? (*question may be interpreted as rhetorical).

We kidnapped him?

No offence intended, but I find it reassuring that you're the one saying this.

Made me laugh. So true though.

So that's that then. Sherwood it is.

There's no helping you if you can't tell the difference between a training ground and a training gronud.

In round numbers? (Or round number singular?).

John Smith is funny.

Why the uncertainty?

Outed. Well there’s an interesting choice of term. My ‘2004-2007 work’, as you put it, included a film about American Airlines 11. One particular story within that, about a passenger called Daniel Lewin, led to my being accused of being – I quote – an ‘Israeli psy-ops officer’. My home address was published online and my family and I received some very disturbing threats. These people, just like you, saw it as important to ‘out’ me – that is, to make false and libellous allegations that I was in the pay of some inner government ‘ring’...in their case, the Israelis (trans: dirty Jews). You are prone to exactly the same impulses. This is why – despite the fact that a few people on here know who I am – I didn’t want you to know. I find you very strange and irrational. And as we’ve seen recently, there’s good reason for concern about this kind of behaviour. The conspiracy theorists who were making the ‘psy-ops’ accusation were also, of course, vicious anti-semites. You take more care to disguise it, but I suspect you are too – as your truly nasty, and thankfully deleted, post about the Holocaust showed. Your only saving grace is your utter hopelessness - your disengagement from anything that remotely resembles reality.