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At one stage there were three pubs with Haymarket in their name there, the Haymarket Inn which has now gone, the Haymarket aka the Haymarket Bar but also Ryries which had Haymarket Tavern or something written on it even although everybody knew it as Ryries. A crowd of us sat in different pubs waiting on each other through unspecific instructions. Does anybody remember what Ryries' official other name used to be? Edit - found it.

Edit - OK it's off-topic but if you've never heard Mad Mick, listen to this. Add this to the rest of SteelJag's experiences and it was some day.

Better in your armpit than your cockpit.

Your grandad or the 3210?

To continue the tangent, they used to sell two versions of a scientific calculator at vastly different prices but in fact all the functionality was still there on the cheaper one and they just hadn't printed the extra functions on. A cottage industry was set up by a friend of mine, converting cheapos into the dear ones.

I have no idea what they look like now. I just Googled that. I honestly can't remember if they had £ signs in earlier versions and maybe they left the currency off so it could be international but I see that there are £ signs on the board itself.

You can buy some serious real estate with that.

Most "movie stars". I read and hear the names but don't watch enough of their stuff or read enough Hello-style mags to know them.

I'll second David Walliams. Everybody loves him for his charity work and for the humour of his pretending to be a straight man who is pretending to be gay (or is it the other way round?). I don't. No valid reason. I'll raise you Jimmy Saville. Before all this broke I couldn't stand the guy yet there was nothing obviously outwardly wrong with the goofy deejay who was always in the news for his charity work and general do-goodery.

Just looked at the lyrics to that song. It's getting late have you seen my mates Ma tell me when the boys get here and I may use a little muscle to get what I need Your Mates are in your back pocket, Elton.

Yes, when one pushes his teeth into the other's shoulder.

You won't need half an hour. You can kill someone in an instant.

Don't you just love those scenes where two guys are roaring at each other to step ootside but neither of them will take the first step?

Nope. I'm the OP who said he always avoided fighting where he could. I am susceptible to provocation though.

Imagine that! It took to page 8 before we got a real fight started.

So are you, Serge! I remember you playing full-back for France at Murrayfield

Seems you don't.

I really want to see that hairstyle. I can't imagine an afro combover.

I assume you helped him fall down the stairs headfirst?

Fight fight.

Ha ha. I got a bit carried away with the analogy. I just see the pub fight being played out on the world stage all the time. An idealogical argument always seems to be decided by who can hit the other with the most force. It hardly proves who's right in either case but it will always happen.

What I mean is, you're having an argument with someone and your logic is winning then he smacks you on the nose and he wins the argument. It proves he was right all along.

That's an interesting question. I think you want to hurt someone enough to make them walk (or run) away and concede that you've won the point but not enough to leave permanent damage. But that raises another interesting point. It's that hitting someone harder than they hit you proves that you win an argument, ignoring the logic of the situation which might suggest exactlty the opposite. But it's not just two guys in the car park, it's the US, the UK, Russia, etc.

I bet you say that to all the ladyboys.