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...and Breaking Bad features some truly great music.

Thanks to Netflix I finally got aquainted with the US Office and have ploughed through the first 6 seasons. Very well written and Steve Carrells take on David Brent is sublime, an exuberant man-child. Its a tad more sympathetic than the Gervais original without surrendering to the american tendency for schmaltz...bugger all else on Netflix though barring Breaking Bad & Sons of Anarchy.

Nobody watched it and it cost HBO a fortune...still, while it lasted it was peerless.

...oh and the late lamented Deadwood. Great writing(even if it does get a little hard to follow at times)and one of TVs most enduring characters in Ian McShanes Al Swearengen.

Boss starring Kelsey Grammer. Sons of Anarchy. Justified.

Anyone whose suffering withdrawls from BB could do worse than giving Boss a go, Kelsey Grammer is awesome as the all powerful mayor of Chicago recently diagnosed with a degenerative neurological condition. Series 2 is airing as we speak.

mid season break my arse!

That vile slug David Mellor was defending Terry yesterday...with friends like these eh?

TTC. Trust to chance.

Innit.

Exactly.

Radio 4 cant get through the morning without a few freebie plugs for the latest Iphone and they even neglect to mention that "Other smart phones are available". The world is truly going to hell in a handcart.

Good riddance. It'll make supporting the National team a bit more palatable now.

Re the pre-match handshake farce, a cycnic might think that its inception had more to do with highlighting the Premierships sponsor than any sense of corinthian sportsmanship...just saying.

Is this at last a definitive answer? Thanks for the collective brainstorm, we got there in the end.

Ah, I love The Times on a Sunday and was thinking of taking up their subscription offer but then read the small print that stated that it sent you vouchers that you then took to the newsagent to exchange for aforementioned rag. Bit rubbish really...but if you know better I'm all ears.

That scabby louse kelvin MacKenzies been shaken loose of whatever putrid crevice hes been infesting of late to issue a statement along the lines of "I printed in good faith, it wasnt me Guv, the dog ate my homework etc". Cnut.

Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Use the computer that you are posting from. Think > of the rain forests that produce paper... > > ... and the Octopae that produce ink. ... maybe when computers are powered wholly by renewable energy resources I'll forego my Sunday indulgence.

Thanks for the info womanofdulwich. I'll leave the rest of you to your fevered imaginings. Oh, and silverfox my question was do paper-delivery-people still exist? not the intricacies of ordering a regular delivery. Still, thanks and keep up the good work.

I'd rather rupture my spleen but thanks for the considered input.

After a few too many ales last night I woke up at 7am feeling like somebody had cleaved the back of my head in with a claw hammer and the prospect of crawling to the newsagents for the papers seemed disproportionatley daunting. I whimpered in vain for a return of the late lamented paperperson and was struck by the notion that I cant remember when they ceased to be. How did this appalling state of affairs come to pass and how can we institute a return to a gentler more civilised time when a mans Sunday morning rituals were no more demanding than creaking down the stairs and peeling his rag of choice off the doormat then skulking back to bed for another 4 hours?

Hows about this for a ripe old slice of cheddar, "Coming soon on Fox Soccer..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyugtgmcwak

I still think The Division Bell is when they really hit their stride.

Ah, that bloody cycle lane. I dont think a lot of pedestrians know that its shared use. People will walk out from behind buses straight into your path meaning you really have to be alert. A strange idea and far from a success.

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