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I'd like to commend the referee of the Switzerland v Ukraine game for managing to stay awake. Sir, you are a better man than I.

The title of this thread is an example of why punctuation is so important.

Have you tried voice recognition software?

No ones suggesting that the two teams had a brian cell between them. Btw: Perhaps a yellow card should also mean you have to play in your underpants? Like when you forgot your gym kit at infants school? Edit: I'm worried by my use of 'you' and 'your' in the underpant suggestion. Wishful thinking?

Absolutely, the Dutch players in particular gave us some of the best ensemble acting outside of a BBC costume drama. But as always tends to be the case, players take advance of a weak or poor referee. Would 16 yellow and 4 red cards have been seen if Colina had been in charge? I suspect not.

Looking on the bright side, perhaps they're just faking thier deaths to get away from you? Hope that helps, K-S

Olympic Challenge - Eastern Europe abecedarian: I had another root through my bookshelves and found "Northern Lights" by Drago Jancar who is a Slovenian writer, I suspect I didn't mention it before as it didn't make much impression on me.* Anyway it led me to the publishers website, and...

Capek's work comes across as variable in quality in English, I suspect that may be because alot of it suffers from poor and/or old translations. His plays for example read as very stiff and frankly terrible. Whether R.U.R. (the play that introduced the work robot) is really as bad as the version...

Ref tried his best to ruin the Holland v Portugal game. I dislike the idea that yellow and red cards can lead to players missing later games, with the way they're being given out at this world cup then the later stages are going to be played with sides missing a number of thier best players.

It was a re-read on my part as I'm trying to get through a few Capek books at the moment. I'd say it's one of the best books of it's kind I've read, and still relevant almost 70 years after it was written. Plus ca change, plus ca mem chose I guess!

Thanks, that is interesting. The Czech one reminds me I need to write a review of "The War With The Newts".

Then I guess different people, in different circumstances and from different cultures would have differing views of what was relevant or not. If you belonged to some rain forest dwelling tribe which uses hallucinogenic drugs as a rite of passage when I’d guess that a reading from The Naked Lunch...

Neither would I, but I would say that some counterculture ideas are more acceptable than they used to be. Others, lets take Aleister Crowley as an example, will probably always be considered 'out there', and in his case, that's probably a good thing too. I think that depends on who you are...

I thought that until I tried to track down some of Zolipara's Norwegien recommendations. I must get back to them...

The other baltic countries may be more difficult. I've been on holiday to Riga and asked for good Lativian writers from one of the locals; thier response "We have no good writers". Ho hum. If books set in a country are an allowable bending of the rule than there is "The Dogs of Riga" but I've...

Abecedarian. A suggestion for Estonia: I’ve just finished “The Compromise” by Sergi Dovlatov. Whilst Dovlatov was Russian, “The Compromise” is a collection of stories from his time working as a journalist in Tallinn, Estonia. As you can see from this excerpt, he wrote with that very dry sense...

LibraryThing seems to have better functionality and much more users - so recommendations are better. However you have to pay, $10 I think, if you want to store more than about 200 items. So I use Listal which is free. To be honest there seem to be a number of these kind of sites springing up...

Websites for keeping track of your books etc... I use Listal.

About Love and other Stories by Anton Chekov Henry V by William Shakespeare (not read since school)

Just to clarify, Samerron means WW1.