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  1. No way, man. He'd have only bought from the Italian leagues last season, because that's what Cortese did
  2. Ah beautiful. Keep it up. Go here if you need any more supplies. http://www.cheap-rope.co.uk/?gclid=CP6Iv67P-cECFTLMtAodkw8Amw
  3. He could end up in the position to form a coalition with the Tories. They are doing their level best to farm the NHS out to private industry anyway. Match made in heaven.
  4. Bang to f**king rights, Nige. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigel-farage-caught-camera-admitting-4617184 UKIP's leader would rather we sought independence from state funded health and go for a US style insurance-backed setup. It's an interesting area of debate, but a definite vote loser.
  5. Probably the only country that could do it and get away with it. Founders of the game, got the hottest club league in the world, and have a national team so shít they make small boys cry. Go for it.
  6. Pls use following material in all future similar posts. Imagery:- Verbiage:- I love CB Fry And when other sockies ask me why I say his hand up my arse feels proper class You other boys should give it a try
  7. Time offers perspective. AJP Taylor's works were infamous when released, largely on account of the fact that they cast the Allied powers, particularly France, as agitators in the build up to WW2.
  8. She makes a top bird pie. Rumours of solvent abuse are unsubstantiated.
  9. There are unseen hands guiding this spectacle, blocking Unbelievable Jeff's drive as we speak. The plan is get everyone in place and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. Three posts to reach minimum safe distance.
  10. Could be fit for Villa, depending on the severity. Minor usually means days, not weeks.
  11. Dalek2003 has no arms. More stalks with ordnance. Horribly disfigured, and doesn't deal well with stairs. Having a pop at the disabled? You utter bastard, VFTT.
  12. Most teams don't bother scoring many more when they go in 3-0 up. Koeman wasn't having any of that.
  13. Is he having a mare in Liverpool?
  14. Why the f**k do you, of all people, need a utility warehouse?
  15. People like you are the reason "no news is good news" exists
  16. pap

    Sci-fi Fans

    District 9 was awesome because it hides its true brilliance until Act III. No-one can accuse that movie of being predictable. Indeed, I didn't even know what sort of film it was, while watching it. Didn't mind Elysium, and maybe it's the filmic version of the difficult second album, but District 9 still stands up there as arguably one of sci-fi's best. Don't think Elysium is in quite the same company, despite being another of Blomkamp's gigs.
  17. It's not even that difficult to imagine. It's a highly sought after profession, reputed to be difficult to get into, where your employer is likely to be a large commercially driven corporation. Assuming the obvious, that the large commercially driven corporations actually fancy making money, how best do they do that? They try to go for the largest audience, naturally. Big club bias is effectively a product of commercial objectives, and I doubt many would disagree with me on that. Wouldn't even say that was the end of it. If big clubs are important, papers will be looking for journos that can act as differentiators ( generators of "exclusives" ) in the trade. That's where it gets murky for me. It's not even a case of who-you-know vs what-you-know - it's more causal than that. What-you-know is often determined by who-you-know, or more accurately, who-you-know-that-will-speak-to-you. For me, that's where the big conflict of interest lies - the contest between getting exclusives and remaining impartial. It is by no means constrained to football, either. The tech specialist press is actually worse. EDIT: I'm not actually saying money is changing hands, but I do reckon that journos know where their bread is buttered.
  18. We'd be in agreement on this. Like you say, no-one knows for sure - but the outcome that Farage said would have been preferable, unconditional surrender, was achieved anyway - just with a starvation blockade. There's also absolutely no guarantee that we wouldn't have just ended up wasting more lives needlessly and every indication that the stalemate would have kept dragging on. The armistice itself didn't turn the Germans against the world; their subsequent treatment at Versailles did. That was largely because of French anger. Most other powers had no interest in holding it up by the late '20s, and most recognised that the treaty was extremely unfair to the average German. By then, events were already in motion.
  19. Aren't nearly all journalists paid?
  20. As I said earlier, the only validity in Nigel's point is the one about never being defeated on the battlefield. Pershing's points rested on the idea that if German High Command were requesting an armistice, that was a sign of weakness and should be pursued. Both men died before 1950, after the end of a long and bloody war, once again involving the Germans. The historians that followed have the right of it. Nige never read any AJP Taylor?
  21. Araldite.
  22. He referred to another poster (me!) as "The Jimmy Savile child abuser of the year" in 2012. Should have possibly been banned for that too, but I didn't pursue it, largely because he does himself more damage and no-one takes him seriously anyway. That was because I admitted to using corporal punishment on the kids back in the day. Even dearly departed dune wasn't a fan.
  23. Nope. It's an urban backwater where if someone farts, there's a five hour gridlock affecting two thirds of the region.
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