I once inadvertently 'watched' the Tour De France. Was backpacking round Europe one summer, wandered out of my youth hostel to buy some fags, saw these motorbikes in the middle of the road, thought 'what the ****?', motorbikes rapidly followed by all these blokes on bicycles, rapidly followed by all these support cars. And that was it - all over in about, hmmm, 45 seconds at the most. It has to be the worst spectator sport on the planet.

Yes...ok, get your drift...but good watching it on telly (camera follows see - and you get to see all the crashes.....and Mr Duffield cracks me up.

I want your lovely smilies!

Can't remember where I got 'em from - but there's a whole page of good ones here .

OOh lovely thanks

Now I just need to work out how to use them

Not sure if you can hotlink from that page. But. In Firefox, you just right-click on the image you want to use and select 'Copy Image Location'. Then put (img) but use square brackets not round ones, then press Ctrl-V to paste the location in and (/img) at the end.

Thanks Hasn't got that option when I press it though - no worried I'll suss it as some point

Go Ghana

Hey, they are my team !

They have a good chance

I got Brazil in a work sweep. Are Brazil any good? I dont know. Wish I had of got Australia as they are always good at sport. might try and swap with some unsuspecting fool.

swop with me

stop moving around

I know they are, I am supporting you my team have bit the dust

oh yes

Thankyou

Have you answered me in the Loung??e...zooming over, then back here.

yes I have, it's making me dizzy

right off to watch the match and do the ironing

careful now