Euro Division Homepage LXXV

I used Google translate, which I believe is run by Trebs.

I google translated it too, just to make sure I hadn't committed an international crime and the German fuzz were after me.

I don't get emails about wang enlargement these days. Everyone is about the money money money with their bank scams. Spam used to be cool.

I got spammed from an email address called Shagaholic.

I didn't open it just in case, but it could easily have been a carpet lovers support group

My friend used to get inundated with emails from the Um Bongo newsletter.

To this day he doesn't know who signed him up to it.

sodhat wrote:My friend used to get inundated with emails from the Um Bongo newsletter.

To this day he doesn't know who signed him up to it.

That doesn't sound like the worst newsletter to get. If it played the song when you opened it, I'd sign up now

I just wonder what they had to write about. I mean it's not exactly a fast moving brand in a sector of great changeability.

Can you guess which other country also sells Um Bongo aside from the UK?

sodhat wrote:I just wonder what they had to write about. I mean it's not exactly a fast moving brand in a sector of great changeability.

Can you guess which other country also sells Um Bongo aside from the UK?

  Congo    Nah i know who it is really but i shall leave to guess

Presumably the newsletter kept you up to date with the Hippo's collecting of different fruits and the Rhino's creative brain coming up with clever names.

How else would you get to know about what was going on way down deep in the middle of the Congo?

I am guessing Um Bongo isn't sold in the Congo, so I'll guess......Russia?

Afro wrote:
I am guessing Um Bongo isn't sold in the Congo

I meant to add, in spite of the advert's claim

It's not sold in the Congo (or Russia) but the claim they make is only that they drink it, so maybe they get illicit imports via the black market.

Can they be done under fraud for that?

Hero wrote:Can they be done under fraud for that?

I suppose under contract law if you were induced into purchasing it purely based on the fact you thought it was drunk in the Congo then they might be in some legal hot water.

sodhat wrote:It's not sold in the Congo (or Russia) but the claim they make is only that they drink it, so maybe they get illicit imports via the black market.

I know the answer if I think about it, as I remember my cousins having it when I went to stay with my aunt and uncle in Lisbon many moons ago

Buffon will be leaving Getafe today now is the chance to buy him if you want.

Unless they got it from the same illicit trade as the Congo use

VivaPaulScholes wrote:Buffon will be leaving Getafe today now is the chance to buy him if you want.

Do you want me to do a collection and a card?

sodhat wrote:

Hero wrote:Can they be done under fraud for that?

I suppose under contract law if you were induced into purchasing it purely based on the fact you thought it was drunk in the Congo then they might be in some legal hot water.

I wouldn't have gone near the drink if they'd said it was drunk in Milton Keynes for example, but the Congo, well that won me over.

No, you are correct, Portugal is the only other place on earth you can procure Um Bongo without having blood on your hands. Out of interest, the jingle in Portuguese would be:

Um Bongo Um Bongo bebem no Congo

Kia Ora > Um Bongo.

FAKT!

Hero wrote:Kia Ora > Um Bongo.

FAKT!

Agreed, but you'd definately need to play a more experienced CB alongside either of them.

I used to have a Soda Stream when I was a kid. They did produce some dross in the 90s.

We used to have one of them too. It felt like my mum trying to save money by not buying proper fizzy drinks, but saying "here treat yourself to some of this carbon tasting water with a bit of a hint of fruit"

I seem to remember the coke tasting sort of like coke, if it was watered down a lot and fizzier than any drink should be.

The novelty of pressing the button to fizz stuff up wore off pretty quickly for me.

Have you seen those super concentrated tiny bottles they do now of drinks. Tiny tiny bottles of Vimto etc that just need 2 drops to make a glass.

They're well expensive compared to normal ones but are quite handy when going somewhere such as football matches with the kids. They do though make ones of some of the still energy drinks so I'm waiting on the Daily Mail to say some kids gone off their nut by downing a bottle.

I spent most my time drinking Strawberry Quik good times

Hero wrote:Have you seen those super concentrated tiny bottles they do now of drinks. Tiny tiny bottles of Vimto etc that just need 2 drops to make a glass.

They're well expensive compared to normal ones but are quite handy when going somewhere such as football matches with the kids. They do though make ones of some of the still energy drinks so I'm waiting on the Daily Mail to say some kids gone off their nut by downing a bottle.

I reckon you could have a pretty good night out on a super concentrated bottle of Vimto if you did it like a shot.

I do reckon you might be hospitalised too though.

Here's a questions for everyone.

Why do you have your username and where does it originate from?

(obviously ones like Marky and Olly are quite easy to work out...)

When we played cricket in the playground at school we decided to give ourselves Pakistani nicknames after Khalid Mahmood, the token Pakistani kid who played with us.

I was Azzy, my best mate Matty, there was Nicky, Chinny, Squarey, Indy, Brummy, Fanny and others. Fanny was named because he used to have one of those old ladies' pocket fans for when it was hot

That makes sense to me now, considering your first name.

Mine is a reference to The Mighty Boosh which I'm not even a big fan of. They called someone a sodhat and it made me chuckle. I regretted the choice relatively soon after.

I play an online game called Runescape and near to when I started out 2 of my friends had Holy before their first names and Holymike was taken so I went with Holymikey for one character then I used Holymiky and I just use it for pretty much everything now

I thought it was because you were a messenger of god

I can send a message for you if you like Sodhat?

I think His last message to me was a smack round the face with a hockey stick.

Never displease Him.

TheSecondComing wrote:When we played cricket in the playground at school we decided to give ourselves Pakistani nicknames after Khalid Mahmood, the token Pakistani kid who played with us.

I was Azzy, my best mate Matty, there was Nicky, Chinny, Squarey, Indy, Brummy, Fanny and others. Fanny was named because he used to have one of those old ladies' pocket fans for when it was hot

What has that got to do with TheSecondComing

Mine is relatively obvious. Named after Fellaini (BigFellasAfro), then he jumped ship for more money and mid table football, so he had to be abandoned. Was already known as Afro, so just stuck with it.

I now consider it as homage to all people with big hair apart from Fellaini, but in particular Carlos Valderrama

And Willis from Different Strokes

Mine is because I really like Paul Scholes but I'm thinking of changing it to my nickname or something.

VivaPaulScholes wrote:Mine is because I really like Paul Scholes

You kept that quiet

I stole mine off a fat kid.

The cricket's going about as well as Olly's sex life. Close family excluded, obvs.

Don't worry, we still have Rooty.

Why can't England batsmen resist playing the pull shot? Especially Prior, he's terrible at it.

They know India want the win, so don't try and play the short stuff and they will soon start bowling with more length,

sodhat wrote:Don't worry, we still have Rooty.

  

I have two shots in my repertoire. A good pull, and a smash into cow corner. Anything on my off-side and I'm dead. Or straight on. I need it pitching on leg, or pitching up. If I have to block a ball, I'm doomed.

Better get my pads on for the 3rd test!

This lot are absolutely brainless, so I'd give you a game right now.

I'm a defensive hermit when I bat.

I play a few strokes on the off side, a cut or the odd drive but I'm not a hitter at all.

Afro wrote:This lot are absolutely brainless, so I'd give you a game right now.

I get the feeling they are taking it on to try and scare the Indians to bowl fuller. But they keep getting out...

They needed 100 runs in 2 sessions. There was no need to scare them into anything.

I agree completely.

I didn't think Root would go the same way. Maybe this is the 20/20 effect on batsmen.

We should do a fake online managerial cricket league. How many English players would realistically be in the league? Anderson + Ballance? Maybe Broad? English cricket is pathetic.

TheSecondComing wrote:We should do a fake online managerial cricket league. How many English players would realistically be in the league? Anderson + Ballance? Maybe Broad? English cricket is pathetic.

They did that on the cricket section before.

And my word, Azzy, what a horrible idea that is. It's hard enough finding out about Dutch wonderkids, no one needs to search for Zimbabwean middle order grinders.