[bluebellnutter]

I found a spare "t" lying around here, Malcolm, think you might have lost it

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I'll swap you an i for an a as well.

[Abernathy]

Hello Mooney. Hope you've sorted out your personal difficulty and that Mrs M is well.

'Fraid you've some catching up to do. Our dimmest troll at the moment is called "A Bit o' Balance"' and (s)he's as thick as pig shite. I'm thinking you're going to have to get slightly thicker if you're to regain your title.

[Killer Whale]

Just fucking ignore them! You're like a big bunch of troll magnets with your elecro-troll-attraction setting cranked up on full, you lot.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Do you suggest ignoring all 'annoyances' in life?

[Killer Whale]

I deal with people trying to throw bricks through my windows.

However, children trying to attract my attention by shouting 'poo' while my back is turned just get ignored.

[oboogie]

Well could you not just look the other way whilst those that want to play with the Trolls have their fun, Whalley?
I quite enjoy baiting the funny snappy creatures, they bring out the school-bully in me.

[Abernathy]

It's while your back is turned that they're picking up more bricks.

[oboogie]

Good job they can't throw straight then isn't it?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

There's also no sign that if you ignore them they go away, though it may be more comfortable to do so...

[davidjay]

I don't care how 'smug' it is, it tore the lie of Gordon 'prudent' Brown's PFI being 'value for money' to pieces way before most people had ever heard of it in the mainstream press, and for that it gets my vote every time.

I bet they're ecstatic.

[mattomac]

I have to say I quite enjoy reading it, to take it as gospel would be as silly as taking the rest of the press as gospel, and did anyone ever think PFI's weren't a big waste of money, of course your current government wouldn't dare mentioned it as they plan on extending this idea not reigning it in.

[Tubby Isaacs]

By the way, it's not quite fair to associate PFI exclusively with Brown. It preceded him, and now Osborne's using it (having inveighed against it). I accept Osborne was probably sincere but it's a Treasury policy and it gets urged upon all comers. No doubt the exact same civil servants who were pushing it on Brown have dusted down some old working papers and pushed it on Osborne.

[Daley Mayle]

Private Eye is, like the curate's egg, good in parts.

(That comment is, like the Private Eye, somewhat smug, supercilious and assumes the reader has some knowledge of a standing joke).

My main problem with the magazine is over the forty years I've been reading it the font size is getting smaller and smaller.

[Samanfur]

Is anyone else watching Hislop in front of Leveson at the moment?

The knife is in the DM and being very firmly twisted.