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I've got my first ever season ticket this year. I seem to have bad timing for this sort of stuff. The day after I left permanent employment and started my own business, every news channel in the UK announced a worldwide recession. Shít worked out anyway. I'm still looking forward to the season. One of those things that I may regret by participating in, but will definitely regret if I don't.

Locked in a cellar, Fritzl style, Dalek?

"Hallo. We are Arsenal. We have a long established tradition of buying Saints players and insisting that we play them, even if form drops massively. You'll be based in London, get a massive pay rise and will be playing in front of huge crowds in competitions like the Champions League. Would you like to join?"

My favourite moaners these days are the ones that make out like Kat, already very wealthy herself, is going to buy a new platinum bath or something with all of the proceeds.

The thread is a funnier joke than the club, tbh. Yes, we're all a little worried - but it's not like we sold these players for magic beans, or sold them out of desperation. The club got decent money for all of those players; any club coming back in knows that they'll have to pay serious cash to get at any of our valuable assets, in some cases more dough than the player is worth. The sales were all driven by players' wishes to go, and while I'm the kind of vengeful bastard that'd say "stick 'em in the reserves", long-term, that's not a great position for Saints either. If we're still lacking players when the season rolls around, then yeah, the hysteria might be justified. Let's wait for the punchline before crying with laughter tho', eh?

Ukraine : the selectivity of the media http://eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=85098 The photos of the separatist controlled BUKs, apparently proving their complicity, were taken back in March.

Destiny beta is open for all this weekend on PS4, XBox One and PC. It's from Bungie, makers of Halo. It's very good. You can feel the Halo DNA in the gunplay and the enemy AI. It's actually a lot of fun fighting against things that know how to flank properly, etc. Similar to Borderlands in the FPS RPG, but takes it so much further than Borderlands ever did. Loot you can see on your character, persistent social hub areas. I'm a little taken aback at how stuff like other players and persistence makes the universe feel like a living, breathing thing. Download, share thoughts, etc. It is your Destiny (beta weekend). (I'll get me coat)

Think people ran out material for that in around three posts.

Is the Israel/Gaza conflict causing a rise in anti-Semitism in Britain? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023hwkh Emma Barnett vs a very feisty Alexei Sayle.

There speaks a frustrated commuter. Nice username.

Three less than we need, as perceived wisdom and inevitable panic always dictate. Do I win £5?

Spam javelin? Pork sword? Corn beef rocket? Seriously though, halal?

I meant to reply to this ages ago. It may have been all of those things, but I won't be having a laugh at your expense. It's a very interesting case, both in its unresolved nature and the way that the story eventually disappeared from the radar. With MH17 and the now confirmed crash today, there is probably even less chance that the story will get the attention it deserves. That doesn't imply any sort of plan, btw. Just the way it is.

Those are scenes from a police state, if we're being perfectly honest. It's got it all; freedom of speech literally trampled to the ground and good men letting evil triumph by standing around doing nothing.

Fair play to the bloke for protesting, but this undermines the oft-repeated claim that Israel is the only democracy in the region. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=680935605323935 For most, democracy includes freedom of speech as well as voting.

Sadly no. I refer only to the practice of sniping behind anonymity.

That'd require my pal to come out of hiding. Likely?

SaintsWeb. Come for the football. Stay to watch a bloke in his fifties fantasising about a jailbait variant of a flat-chested model.

Ally Sheedy in Wargames, ta. Colleen Camp, too.

Think you're going to be out of luck as is. This adapter might see you right tho':- http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-3-5mm-Headset-Splitter-Adapter-Black/dp/B0058DOWH6/ref=pd_sxp_grid_pt_0_2

Completely agree. The implied message being that the BBC is somehow trustworthy and impartial? I used to believe that the Beeb was de-beaked after Hutton. Recent revelations have shown it to be an utterly compromised organisation that simultaneously harboured paedos and set up things like Childline. I'll accept your point with the qualification that it's all propaganda. The point has been made several times, on this and other topics. Social media is inherently unreliable, and for the sake of argument, how would you tell between a Ukrainian nationalist and a rebel? On this we concur, but I think it unlikely to happen. The Malaysians have been dragged through the mud twice now, perhaps not coincidentally. This is a country which won't admit Israeli citizens and charged Bush and Blair with war crimes. The fact that it's a moderate Islamic country makes matters even worse. Irrespective of who was responsible for the problems the flights met, it is unrealistic to expect US/UK/Israel to cheer-lead for Malaysia to run the investigation, especially with the entirely unresolved case of MH370. The Dutch are in a tight spot. Russia is their 3rd largest trading partner. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-22/death-of-193-dutch-strains-russian-relations-for-shell-heineken.html http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/mh17-crash-death-of-193-dutch-strains-russia-relations-for-shell-heineken-20140723-zvw5j.html Incidentally, those two articles are another great example of the "rush to judgement". Already talking about breaking off trade relations because of unproven claims, backed only by social media.

The video I posted established that the US State Dept either don't have or are unwilling to share the information they said they had last week. The only cited proof of the allegations are social media. Which would be an entirely fair line of reasoning, except for the massive rush to judgement. We've had reports of rebels stealing from the dead, black boxes being spirited away to Moscow or "scared" eyewitnesses saying they saw a BUK launcher in rebel hands and a call to strip the Russians of the 2018 WC. If you say they are still in the process of gathering proof, how do you reconcile that with the myriad of proofless accusations?

You should really learn the difference between narcissism and confidence. Fk it, just learn confidence. Probably an alien concept.

Sorry Minty, but I don't agree. The Russians have been fitted up for this from the start, proof or not. Day one, the Americans said they had proof of a missile launch from rebel-held territory. This has not been presented, despite being a slam dunk. Can't really agree with the social media thing either. Take a look at the main board transfers thread and the disdain that tweeted rumours get, yet the US is willing to blame another super-power for an atrocity based on Twitter and YouTube, user generated content which can come from anywhere. It's madness.

There's a man who speaks from experience! Read the thread, ask yourself the last time anyone asked for your opinion, and weep.