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Ex Lion Tamer

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  1. I wonder if he has OCD? His relentless need to poke fun at the same targets again and again was quite obsessive
  2. Don't forget that this is still his first season after stepping up to the premier league. I think he deserves another year. At the very least he's a good squad player, no reason to get rid
  3. There's so much more to penalties than having a hard shot
  4. Either that or they checked the web hits and went with what people were clicking on
  5. My understanding is you have psychopaths and sociopaths (its possible I'm wrong but I think that;s what I remember). So psychopaths have defective brains so they don't feel empathy. Sociopaths do bad things because of their upbringing. Ian Brady was a psychopath, Myra Hindley was a sociopath. They both did evil things - Myra because her violent father had made her believe violence was ok at a young age and Ian because he just enjoyed it. Jon Ronson's book the Psychopath Test is very readable if you are interested in the topic
  6. I'd like the speaker to have the power to step in if a question isn't adequately answered
  7. He was certainly the best striker at the club when fit, but you could always be sure he'd be back in the treatment room before too long
  8. Won't there?
  9. But nothing would make a Scottish breakaway more likely than another Tory government. A Labour - SNP coalition could be the only way to save the union
  10. It's actually all about the SNP, Labour are going to be decimated in Scotland
  11. Has he said exactly what happened with the collar bone incident? Was it some tough guy wanting to stick one on a legend?
  12. So basically you want masses of extra red tape for businesses that send staff to work in Europe, and extra layers of government bureaucracy to police it, and all in order to solve a problem which the evidence shows doesn't exist
  13. I think there could be an issue with having too many immigrants too quickly, but I don't see any evidence that we're anywhere close to that
  14. Fair enough I thought you were saying that we have uncontrolled immigration at the moment. Clearly we are not seeing those levels at present so the system is OK
  15. More immigrants paying taxes means it's actually easier to pay for the NHS. Especially as they are normally working age, so can help pay for all our oldies. There's plenty of space for more houses, we just need to build them. Will stimulate the building trade and help the economy
  16. Great arguments guys, thought provoking as always
  17. English is your first language so you're OK
  18. You'll have to enlighten me because I don't think it's clear at all
  19. I take it you're not the type to give away your last Malteser? Anyway, you're completely missing the point that immigration benefits us all, so there's no squeezing up necessary: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1114/051114-economic-impact-EU-immigration http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26447244
  20. You're stuck in the old nation state ideology. The planet belongs to everyone and we don't have a natural right to close off parts of it for ourselves
  21. Guys, I find it as disconcerting as anyone but change is a constant. In 50 years time the world will be unrecognisable. It will almost certainly be more crowded, but people will change and adapt. We might think it's not as good as the old days but our kids will have grown up with it so they won't know any different. OK so the south East will be more crowded, but the focal points of our economy will change and expand. Look at New York - it's virtually impossible to get an apartment on manhatten island these days unless you are wealthy, which older generations may see as a shame, but the result is that Brooklyn is the hip place to be. London is going the same way. As others have said, there are far more densely populated countries than the UK and they manage to have a decent infrastructure. That all said, there are huge challenges coming up, mainly from climate change and ageing populations. One of the most interesting predictions is that water shortages will mean the majority of people will have to go vegetarian in 40 years time - I for one won't enjoy that but will just have to embrace it I guess (if I'm still alive)! http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2012/aug/26/food-shortages-world-vegetarianism
  22. Also, I'm supportive of feminism, but Caroline Lucas trying to make out that Bennett is only getting flak because she's a woman is such nonsense
  23. I'm still confused about this Citizens Income thing. They're now saying they still want to do it, but not in this parliament because it's such a big change. Is it really a practical idea? I'm not convinced. Why does it need 5 years to work out a policy? The whole thing was based on idealistic assumptions about how much it would save. And now again their leader doesn't know the figures. I'm not convinced they're credible at all
  24. We would miss Pelle's link up play perhaps more than you think but I agree it's probably time to give him a rest
  25. So how does that compare to other keepers? Anyone who thinks he could have saved the first goal is mad though
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