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You'd need to take some pretty powerful binoculars for that. The Man with the Golden Gun was filmed around Phang-nga in Thailand, about 2,000 km from Halong Bay...

Yes, I left in a huff. Or was it a minute and a huff? I can't remember.

Did I mention that run-down fleapit in Freedonia I once frequented?

Good to see from the second picture that what they'll be stockpiling most is Bombay Sapphire gin and Bailey's. So they're obviously prioritising a nutritionally balanced diet for everyone

She looks mostly all right, but I do find the little tiny people growing out of her shoulder a little disturbing.

The Black Coffee Hotel in Chengdu, China. A former bomb shelter, it was built in underground vaulted rooms with no windows and no ventilation. Once inside you lost track of time, and you got periodically concussed by banging your head on the low ceilings. Humidity was around 100%, so everything...

No he isn't. That's Xi Jinping.

You'll never put a better bit of butter on your wife.

For what it's worth, when I renewed my UK passport via the "fast" online service last year (from the Netherlands) it took 3 weeks, and that was with paying the premium for courier delivery. But I had to post off previous passport to the UK first to have it cancelled, so the point is valid that...

Many great songs, but this is the one I keep coming back to: 2EaflX0MWRo

Poppycocu, surely?

Nirvana, 1991. They were the opening act at a festival in Belgium (the only festival they ever played in continental Europe) and we had never heard of them and couldn't be arsed to rush out of bed (this was a few months before Smells Like Teen Spirit). Arcade Fire - couldn't arsed to drive one...

As compared to most of the global beer companies, Heineken generally has a good track record of keeping its hands off the brewing process with companies it buys into, so long as the company concerned keeps making money for them. What they bring to Beavertown is a virtually unrivalled global...

Saw Deerhunter last weekend and also enjoyed them a lot. I did think the lead singer/guitarist looked like the oddly lanky lovechild of Ric Ocasek and Vini Reilly.

Terénne Vozidlo, anyone?

If England can bowel us over with their movement of the ball, they may have those watching in the pubs on the edge of their stools.

England first and last and always. But of the teams with any realistic chance of winning, then Belgium.

You are overlooking the hundreds of French, Brazilians and Nigerians who post on NSC.

Will 'serial failures' Derby prove to be an angle-poisoned chalice for Frank?

Just one of many... :thumbsup: