Ponty

Good. Anything that holds back the tidal wave of Government powers and Police state has to be a good thing.

I''m confused, TDD. Are we the Man City of League 1 or are we the Portsmouth of League 1?

Is that verbatim? Jesus Christ.

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Hmmmm, not on the OS and I distinctly recall reading Cortese's words about transfers being revealed first on the OS, not SSN.

Why does a 1p rise in tax put 5p on a pint though, if approx. half of a £3 pint is tax? In fact, if pubs were serious about not ripping off customers, a 1p rise in tax would put 1p on a pint.

It's just easier not to bother going any more, tbh. I live in a small village that has 3 trading establishments; two pubs and a newsagents. That's it. Yet on any given afternoon you'll find more people in the shop than in either pub. The shop shuts at 6pm (how 1970s) so I can't give estimates for the evenings.

Well, erm.. No, basically. It's supposed to be a free market and manufacturers/retailers should be free to sell at whatever price they choose. We should not be nannying potential alcoholics/troublemakers by pricing them off of the "sh**ty" lagers. Who's to say what constitutes a sh**ty lager/cider anyway? CAMRA? My God, some of the filth they call beer tastes like car shampoo. As for getting people back into pubs, repeal the smoking ban. Make it voluntary for a pub to be non-smoking, or have proper non-smoking areas. Put the power back into the hands of the publican instead of eroding it with fashionable bans and then falsely manipulating the number of customers by taxing them out of drinking at home.

Yeah, Fascists.

I felt sorry for the ordinary fans. The old boys who've supported the club since long before the rivalry really took off. They must wonder what the hell is going on.

Yep. Spot on, PES.

You won't get very far hitting an Iraqi with a laptop.

It was his fault then. Daft tw**.

Night lads. Go for it.

What's the point? Someone will only find it hilarious to post it again and I have to get up for work in the morning.

That's just messed up. I wouldn't want to be the first guy to stumble across a software glitch that makes the mouth clamp shut.

I wonder if he means Stock?

I guess it's one of the principal reasons for their step backwards from F1. Until it becomes more 'visibly' green (it's already carbon neutral) it doesn't really fit with their projected image for the Renault group, and that's fair enough.

I don't see how he diminished it, mate. He was very enthusiastic about it and it's hardly his fault it broke down. Besides that was hardly of any surprise to any Vincent enthusiasts... it's a 1940s piece of machinery, after all.

A "better man"? A better footballer, possibly, but, unless McSheffrey has actually murdered someone, not a better man.

Anybody would want their pic airbrushed if they were blown up to a 12 feet tall portrait. I bet even GB gets the touch-up crew to get his eyes pointing in the same direction.

Ha... You should work for the government. It won't be long before the mantra (against those who oppose DNA collection) changes from "You've nothing to fear if you've nothing to hide" to "If you don't want your DNA collected you're basically pro-kiddy fiddling".

The EDL will be devastated.

I used to hate seeing McSheffrey line up against us.

I don't think that's what he's saying at all.