CB Fry

No one seems to have told her that there is a highly convenient way to carry breast milk around.

It was offside.

Here's the original post. He's spot on. You got dug out by about five posters for your Vardy comment in seconds and now have got nowhere to go except retreat. We all make mistakes. Give your fingers a rest.

Ian McKellen tonight on BBC 2 was simply brilliant with this speech. I've long thought St George's day was a load of old small-minded pony and the same day would be infinitely better served as Shakespeare Day, and this piece which I wasn't aware of previously, seals it for me. Apposite on this thread. William's take on Thomas More's speech to the mob protesting against migrants in 1517: Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise Hath chid down all the majesty of England; Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation, And that you sit as kings in your desires, Authority quite silent by your brawl, And you in ruff of your opinions clothed; What had you got? I’ll tell you: you had taught How insolence and strong hand should prevail, How order should be quelled; and by this pattern Not one of you should live an aged man, For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought, With self same hand, self reasons, and self right, Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes Would feed on one another…. Say now the king Should so much come too short of your great trespass As but to banish you, whether would you go? What country, by the nature of your error, Should give you harbour? go you to France or Flanders, To any German province, to Spain or Portugal, Nay, any where that not adheres to England, Why, you must needs be strangers: would you be pleased To find a nation of such barbarous temper, That, breaking out in hideous violence, Would not afford you an abode on earth, Whet their detested knives against your throats, Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God Owed not nor made not you, nor that the claimants Were not all appropriate to your comforts, But chartered unto them, what would you think To be thus used? this is the strangers case; And this your mountainish inhumanity. I'm not putting any more Shakespeare on this forum tonight, two threads is quite enough but from a billion eons away he sees the truth in us all. I'd recommend watching McKellen if you can. Imagine it will be on YouTube within hours. Brilliant.

This royal throne of kings, This sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, This seat of Mars, This other Eden, Demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, This little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, This earth, This realm, This England. Vote in, vote in, vote in Don't be miserable as sin, Vote in.

I think we are stuck competing with our natural rivals West Brom and Bournemouth while those three build on their foundations and leave us behind.

You seem to be confusing a "20 goal a season striker" with "a striker that scores 20 goals in a season". Those two things are not the same. It's a simple point. I hope you can understand it now without resorting to your usual drivel.

Long, Mane, Pelle, Austin, Jay Rod. Waaah waah waah why can't we be Leicester.

So what you seem to be saying is if Shane Long was better at scoring goals he would have scored more goals?

Did McMenemy set up the training centre in Bath, then?

Because last season he scored five goals, fewer than Shane Long.

Spurs: no ambition.

And all that negative net spend as well, which forum geniuses were very quick to remind me is the main driver of success for any club. Well, Villa, Newcastle and Sunderland have been delivering positive net spend season in, season out (the last two over five concecutive seasons at least) and they are indeed proof positive. Oh, and haven't Stoke and Palace strengthened, like, so well. So much strengthening in the summer and it's made such a difference that's for sure. Skinflint, clueless, cheapskate Les and Ralph take note.

Their auto place went at least three weeks ago if not longer than that. They've been nowhere near.

Any guesses that Wes's next post makes some reference to "the establishment"?

Koeman has an anti-Saints agenda.

Except pretty much every single remain person does not accept the predictions as the "gospel truth". Just a fiction in your head, weak and puerile frankly. The only people being unequivocal are Brexiteers like, well, you.

Your corporations point is utterly non-sensical. Businesses all over the world can and want to trade with the UK now. Following Brexit they won't all suddenly want to trade with us more as you seem to think, it's just we will have made it more difficult and onerous. Germans want to sell us cars, Brexit will made that more difficult. You seem to think that all these corporations are going to respond to Brexit by running around desperate to sort things out for out benefit. It will be Brexit just creating more ball-ache where previously there was less. I know the Brexiteers absolutely love the German-car-makers-banging-on-Angela's-door routine but it's a nonsense interpretation of what will be a multi-lateral international set of negotiations. As Farage and Co and you love to remind us, Northern Europe growth is slowing. So if I was BMW I'd start focusing growth on the profitable growth engines of India and China and over the next five years could easily find a way to fill any gap lost through changes in tariffs and agreements with the UK. Brexit does not give us control of the German car industry. Angela once she opens the door to those banging on the door car manufacturers can tell them that they can all be on the next plane to Beijing and let's start filling that potential gap now. Because that's where the growth is, right Brexiteers?

He didn't issue any threats. It's taken as a threat because you don't like what he said. It was a very sober assessment. Not sure what your point about US Corporations is. Sure they'd like a trade deal but as Obama says they'll prioritise with the biggest and most strategically important. Pretty basic stuff really. Hilarious you see it as a threat when's it's the very obvious way of the world. In any post-Brexit negotiations woth the US you can bet our opening gambit to the US won't be the bottom lip grizzling rubbish about how the special relationship has been ruined and pointless jabbering about 'why don't you open your border to Mexico and have a supreme court in Colombia'. Put Farage, Liam Fox and political megastar Kate Hoey ("I've always admired her") in front of Obama (he'll still be President then) on June 25th and they won't be giving it the "how dare you" big boll ocks then.

He's the only game in town as long as he gets through this and is magnanimous and/or restorative win or lose - he'll either be leading a post Brexit Britain or a nearly-half-of-my-people-have-spoken-we-want-more-reform post Remain Britain. Either way he'll have some uniting to do.

Yes. That's safe for another couple of seasons as the Italian clubs bombed out of Europe too early.

In or out, he's a shoo-in.

Calm down Coco.

Except he's not pretending to care about average Brit. He's just making the point that the US has bugger all interest in working with a post-Brexit UK, which was at one point a key point of the Brexiteers argument - the EU is holding us back from trade elsewhere, we want to work more closely with our chums across the Atlantic, not them frogs and krauts. Our chums have now been very clear they have no truck with this at all. A post Brexit UK will be a fiddly irritation to the world powers, and not in a good way.

It wouldn't be April without a tortuous thread about perceived ambiguities around European qualification. Usually permutated into oblivion by Redslo and The9. It was far simpler in the old days when the Charity Shield winner and the League Cup runners up got a place but only if the league winners finished in second place.