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Perhaps the funniest thing is that he got special dispensation from the Home Office for his work permit, largely on the basis of his exceptional talent.

That aforementioned Mexican Drug War. Confirmed that between 2000 and 2012, the DEA had a deal with them. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1#ixzz2qOD4S69c

Right, Matthew has been added as a first name. Le Tissier as a middle name. No excuses!

Surely we should have a concerted campaign to get this man to call his daughter Matthew Le Tissier McLaughlin! The top name only has 15K votes. One vote, per day, per member. Make it happen, boys and girls!

Well, it's one way to get people along to your nascent religious congregations. You could argue that Christmas itself has been supplanted with the annual zenith of consumerism.

Bit weird that we still celebrate it now. Have you seen Parliament recently?

This account has the ring of truth about it. If you'd said he'd gone out on the razzle in Stoke on a Saturday night, I'd probably have called foul

Ooh nice. I like Madrid. We were stuck there penniless on an exchange and ended up playing football with a load of 13 year old kids in 40 degree temperatures. They walloped us, despite our bully-boy English tactics. Love the place and keep meaning to go back.

You utter bastard, kpturner! /me scribbles kpturner's name in blood underneath CB Fry's on "The List"

David Mitchell does Goveadder. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/12/michael-gove-blackadder-first-world-war-david-mitchell

I have a "friend" who would probably be good to go as a medical experiment following the excesses of Christmas.

I look forward to testing this hypothesis if it happens.

Oh FFS, please don't let this be true. Kasabian are alright, but their fans are scum

Liverpool for much of the last 20 years. It's sound, y'know.

When I was at Uni, I remember hustling out of the building only to bump into a cleaner. She wasn't happy, asking "Am I invincible?" (meaning invisible, of course). My response was "I dunno. Can you be killed by conventional weapons?" Last night, I was having a go at the film Bugsy Malone on FB. Specifically, I don't get why the lads sing in adult voices, yet talk in squeaky boys voices. One of Bugsy's defenders piped in with "All films have floors in them". I chuckled a lot, but didn't pull her up on FB. Besides, it's unarguable, floors are pretty standard in most films That's progress, of a sort. I've slipped on literary standards but grown somewhat as a human

Everyone know's it's club philosophy to play three up front. Tan, Bates and Risdale to job share after NC leaves.

IDS is at it already - the excesses of Benefits Street being used to justify further cuts. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/benefits-street-iain-duncan-smith-3019449 The 26K limit on benefits paid out is already under review.

Fk me, the #benefitsstreet hash tag is grim reading.

The Russians had the worst time of it, yet are often overlooked for local considerations, like the Battle of Britain. I really enjoyed Beevor's comprehensive approach to the Second World War; the Russians rightly loom large for much of the book. More than anything else, Soviet sacrifice and the resilience of the nation as a whole won the war in Europe. Very decent article. Shame about the funding not being there to give each an individual burial, but the closure that their findings brought to families like the Kustovs is life-changing.

Which of course, is fair enough. However, they never really plaster five kid families all over the front page of the Daily Mail. It's all about the families on benefits that can't stop sh!tting kids out, all at taxpayer expense! The article is directly addressing the sensationalism of the Daily Mail pieces. That's fair enough too, surely?

The unfounded NA allegations had me chuckling for days, but I didn't make the Colin link. I'm a bit slow on the uptake with some stuff, scotty. I only realised why Like a Prayer was dirty about a decade ago.

Spend less time being bored And a bit more making bank You'll have a house in no time. Not this mum-bought w4nk. Get mater on, FFS.

A few more intellectual beatings from self-proclaimed scumbags like me, and you'll stop posting here too.

The problem for Warnock is if that there is any grain of truth in this, and he sues, he risks everything.

Started watching a show called Leverage. It's a show about a former insurance claims investigator asked to lead a team of crooks. Seems like a modern day A-Team, even down to having a crazy person on the team. Quite enjoyable so far for what it is.