I saw "Scott Pilgrim v The Rest Of The World" yesterday.

We went to see it knowing nothing about it at all, and that's probably what I recommend. You can go on Wikipedia and find out the plot and storyline, but that's rather like reading the last chapter of an Agatha Christie and then going to Chapter One. Don't do it, you'll ruin it for yourself.

The first 30 minutes are a bit of a "mess with your brain" and then the story becomes clear. The moment that happens is great.

There are some enjoyable characters in there, the story develops really well and the film has a unique style about it that once you pick up on it, you really enjoy.

I have been reading some really heavy stuff lately and am desperate for something fast and good.

Have a go at "Paperboy" by Christopher Fowler.

Quick & easy, but possibly best enjoyed by someone who grew up in the 1960s and remembers a "Mivvie."

Funny & sad in equal measures. Jeyes Fluid, Arthur Askey, Dixon Of Dock Green & Maltesers in a box.

For Theno. Hope you enjoy it, there's nothing argumentative from me in this one.

http://www.youtube.com/user/timminchin?blend=2&ob=4#p/a/u/1/KVN_0qvuhhw

Just sent with fun in mind. OK?

Back up again.

I offer you "50 People Who Fouled Up Football" by Michael Henderson.

A shotgun while sat in a revolving chair approach; but hugely enjoyable.

Roman Abranovich; Joey Barton; Ken Bates; Didier Drogba; Alan Green; Peter Risdale; Ian Wright. It just keeps on giving.

Sam Allerdyce is in there too.

The new Tugay

Let's just quietly maintain that we are the only club to have won three FA Cups in succession.

There's no one from "The Wanderers" about any more. They don't exist. So let's just get on with the gentle statement that we've won the FA Cup three times in a row and let the opposition pedants have a go.

It was 120 years ago, so it's a bit of a thin boast in 2010.

AS,

I’m sort of in agreement with you, I don’t suppose the Jack Walker/ Kenny Dalgleish bust-up at the end of the title winning season will ever be explained for a few years yet. Once Kenny walked away we went downwards fairly quickly.

It’s been 15 years since and we still haven’t been told the story why Dalgleish walked away.

BUT for those few glorious years we were brilliant, we won the league and I was there at Anfield on the day. I cried with happiness. I pretty much filled up at Cardiff when we won the Worthington Cup.

But now we’re back with the also-rans. Stoke; Birmingham; West Ham; Bolton.

But for those few glorious seasons we were immaculate. I think we should live with that, just as much as no one alive now lives with the time that we won the FA Cup three seasons in a row. (Which has yet to be equalled.)

I feel sorry for younger supporters who never saw that 7 - 1 drubbing of Norwich; nor the title win; nor the Worthington Cup. But I did. I’m enjoying the memory.

Blackburn Rovers are now back in the “remainder bin.”

All the media concentrates on Arsenal. Chelsea; Manchester United; & Liverpool. We just make up the numbers. I just suppose we’ve got to live with it. Screw the media & let’s get on being supporters of Rovers.

We could be Stanley fans or Rochdale fans or Bury fans or Oldham fans and be completely ignored

That’s me being philosophical. I thank you

Colin

Rovers 7 Norwich 1

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1992. At the start of the game we were second & Norwich were top.

Anyone else there?

I had the chilli Haddock pakora starter

Blimey!

Was it halal?

Frank Sidebottom has died.

Now that's something.

Chris Seivey was a lovely bloke. I'll miss him.

The new "The Fall" CD released today - "Your Future Our Clutter"

Are you reading this Adopted Scouscer?

It's another good one.

David cameron in a Rovers Kit

here

Back up to the top

"Pies & Prejudice" - In Search Of The North

Stuart Maconie.

Absolutely brilliant

Anyone ever go to the Plaza in Upperbrook Street Manchester.?.Its gone now and is sadly missed

Good lord, you go back a long way. It was the original "get rat-asred" and them go for hottest curry you could (not) eat.

I remember going there about 30 years ago after several pints and tucking into a curry that involved (on reflection) nothing but halepeno chillis and sod all else bar some filler grunge that didn't really matter as you couldn't taste it anyway.

Still, we were drunk and full of machismo and there was this bloke who owned the place called Charlie (if memory served me correct) who had hit a niche market in serving us and making money out of it. I think the place got closed down eventually due to rat and cockroach infestations. Probably further proof that when the human race finally becomes extinct the rats & cockroaches will take over.

If they could live off the dietrius of that place they could survive anything.

It used to serve a "Suicide" which just about sums up the place. It was cheap though.

Speaking of eateries in Whalley has Breda Murphy's place been mentioned?

I've got a couple of her frozen meals in the freezer.

That's not very helpful is it?

Any chance of this going back to where people say where they have had good and bad grub? It was quite good for that.

Yup, Keith Andrews came in pointing in another direction.

This place has dropped off a few notches recently. (Apparantly.)

marmalade Whalley

Well, give it another go in a few weeks and see if it's perked back up to its perky best.

Bon appitite tout le monde

Why do people who eat meat need it to be 'humanely' slaughtered and butchered? Does it taste better?

Apparantly yes.

The humanely "butchered" is a bit late in the process as the beasty is already dead so it doesn't really matter.

There is a big market for meat that has been raised in a decent environment & so that the meat actually tastes of something rather than intensive factory, full of growth chemicals.

What do you think you are getting when you buy a £2 frozen chicken at your supermarket. Do you think you are buying something that will taste of anything? Do you think that that animal had a life worth living (you probably don't care)

Right, that's me off for now. I've just done my bit.

Cheers

Colin

.....so why are you so happy to condone cruelty and make the process much much worse than it is by refusing to support the use of humane slaughter methods?

Please, for the love of god, tell me where you get that from. If you can, I'll buy a season ticket at Turf Moor for 2010-2011.

Back to eateries eh? This is a food thread. Let's not get it diverted by Theno's Islamaphobia, nor his habitual vaseline rogering of pigs

See what I did there?

temp

I m up for the game Saturday and was thinking of going to the Eagle at Barrow Saturday post game for a bite to eat

Anyone been? How is it?

Cheers

A bit dark and a bit expensive according to my Mum.

I'm taking her word for it though as I've not been.

12 of us are off to Chinatown in Manchester in May for the wife's 60th Birthday do. Any suggestions for a pub pre/post meal, within say - 10 mins walk from China Town?

Don't want stupid prices, but do want a bit of life in there. Good atmosphere more than anything.

Seven oaks

Is this any good?

We did "The Calves Head" in Worston again

http://www.calfshead.co.uk/index.html

Recommended.

Just wished I wasn't driving as it has some decent ale on the pumps

Mark Linkous died a couple of days ago

here

What a totally naive response,

Are you going to stop buying all those products and pay top dollar for everything so the farmers can make a living?

If you want to stop these production processes stop buying the products and pay the price

Yoda,

Not a naive response at all

I don't buy those products. It's not difficult, nor is it particularly expensive. You could do it too.

It's just a matter of being particular and, dare I say it, actually "giving a damn."

Perhaps too many people don't.

Quite right too. It seems that the French have more about them than us these days. The French wont be bullied and duped like we are.

Perhaps many animals are quite "glad" to be given a sharp knife to put them to death given what the British Factory farming industry does to them.

Factory farming cows

Factory farming hens

Factory farming turkeys

factory farming ducks

Factory farming pigs

It's not the death that's cruel, it's the life.