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Its nice Jose has such good words about Pardew after that incident with his wife.

The page three girls are actually quite unusual in the media in that they are normally well nourished. Most models are stick thin. You can argue they offer an alternative image girls wouldnt see otherwise - although that doesnt get over the objectification issue. Personally I dislike big tits and have a special loathing for boob jobs.

Apply market forces. Minor stuff like broken noses, people wont go to the doc if you charge too much, so maybe £100 tops, it will be a loss leader. With cancer or heart attacks though people are really motivated buyers so we should be able to get them to mortgage their house or rent their daughter out.

In the UK you can argue a laptop should last more than a year and HP should repair / replace it. Dont know about US but you can check its warranty status here. http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/wc/public/home

It dilutes the amount of airtime UKIP get.

Have you actually read the policy as opposed to the report of the policy? Its actually full of good and sensible and desirable stuff, including safe standing. c) Professional Sport CMS860 A strong school and amateur sports culture should, in turn, strengthen professional sport by both encouraging those who wish to pursue sport as a career and increasing the potential audience. Access to a sporting career should be available without discrimination to anyone with the desire and ability to pursue it. CMS861 In addition to their commercial aspect, professional sporting teams often represent communities at local or national level and this social function needs to be recognised and supported by developing structures which would allow local stakeholders to participate in the running of the business. CMS862 The Green Party would prefer professional sporting clubs to be mutually owned by the members rather than by shareholders. For those clubs which are currently Public Limited Companies, whose shares are traded internationally, the risk is always that distant shareholders, with no regard for the community the club is supposed to represent, will take over the club and sever all meaningful links with the local community. In some instances, clubs have even been moved to other towns and cities - making a mockery of any supposed local connection implied in the club's name. We will introduce legal mechanisms to allow transformation of such PLCs into Mutual Organisations with agreement of stakeholders. CMS863 Where clubs wish to remain as PLCs, the Green Party would like to see supporters' trusts set up with the aim of achieving enough of a shareholding to prevent the club being taken over by outside financial interests. CMS864 Local authorities should be permitted to invest in shares in professional sports clubs which operate in their area as a means of maintaining a connection between the club and its community. Any dividends paid to the authority must be reinvested into public sporting facilities or coaching programmes in the area. CMS865 We believe in 'safestanding' for sports stadia. This means that spectators who wish to stand will be allocated their own space separated from seating only areas. There are examples of good practice in countries like Germany and we believe it is high time the UK adopted this practice. Currently (2007) UEFA does not allow the use of standing areas in grounds for its fixtures. We would seek to undo this ban where such areas are proven to be safe for spectators and where the police are satisfied that no crowd control issues would arise. d) International Sport CMS870 Whilst professional sport is a business, as noted above, its role in representing a community in a spirit of friendship and mutual respect with other communities should never be overlooked. This is especially so in the case of international sport. CMS871 If a team is representing the nation then the Government should take a role in deciding whether it is appropriate for the team to take part in competition against a country with whom normal friendly, respectful, or diplomatic relations are not possible. The Government should not try to avoid taking action by treating the sport as if it was a private business venture. CMS872 In determining whether a particular country is appropriate for international sporting contacts consideration should be given to the freedom of access by supporters and media in the country. If host government actions meant that such freedoms for UK citizens and journalists could not be reasonably guaranteed, there should be a presumption against a visit by a representative national team. CMS873 Strategic national planning should seek to ensure that major national sporting arenas are not all sited in one part of the country and that all can be easily accessed by good public transport links. Wherever practical, the venue for international sporting fixtures should be rotated around various suitable stadia throughout the country, and should avoid being excessively focussed in London. CMS874 When bidding to host major international sporting competitions, such as World Cups or the Olympics, wherever possible existing facilities should be proposed. No new facilities should be proposed unless their existence will also prove to be useful to the wider local community in the years to follow the games. CMS875 The UK should use its influence with the world sporting community to encourage the placing of international games across wider geographic areas to prevent excessive negative disruption to the lives and economies of host communities. CMS876 The televising of major national and international sporting events has a significant influence in inspiring young people to take up sports. It is therefore important to ensure that such events remain available on free-to-air nationwide TV. The Government should resist proposals to remove events from the list of those protected in such a way. It should negotiate to get highlights of major events which are no longer protected in this way, and events staged overseas involving representative national teams, made available on free-to-air TV if possible. f) Localised Sports CMS880 Some sports are specific to small localised areas of the country. For example Cornish Wrestling and Sussex Stoolball. Local authorities should particularly seek to encourage and support such activities both in education and in the community. g) Sponsorship in Sport CMS890 Sponsorship of sporting teams or events should not be used to circumvent regulations on advertising. CMS891 Sponsorship arrangements should not be allowed to restrict access to events deemed of national or regional importance. In particular where a national team is playing then public service media should always be allowed to offer free access to all UK citizens.

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The BBC have added a longer more fulsome quote now, so probably.

Is that a quote from Brittan?

His family praised "his extraordinary commitment to public life". Oddly cold and impersonal.

What a sh it thing to do Oh

The boundary between funny and nasty, banter and concerted put downs isn't that hard to gauge for the socially skilled. Oh.

Ah. The ever reliable report of a report of a discussion document.

Never owned one or been in one. My only contribution is I remember my partners mate's boyfriend having one and he loved it! I wouldnt buy a 165,000 mile car though. Wait until a better kept one comes up. Go here http://www.volvo-480-europe.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=7&sid=4a40e7410ca6c6eb12c3dd95a6efbdcd

Packet of JPS, frilly knickers, a nipple clamp and by yourself.

Could be Lou Reed - so in that case both. Not sure Lou Reed was from Coxford though.

I thought it was AC Milan he was linked with not Atletico Madrid Anyway Dalian wouldnt be prevented from holding minority stakes in both Saints and Madrid.

I think it shows that properly trained soldiers who have them for a purpose can be trusted. People who want them because they fear the government / zombie apocalypse / their neighbour probably cant.

Sadly true - public policy, climate change, global co-ordination, meaningful action and hypocrisy. Some of those know each other well, some total strangers.

Thats a special case. The Swiss have a defence policy which is based on a very small army but a large reserve of trained citizen volunteers who keep military grade weapons in case of invasion. The Swedes used to have something similar in that villages would have their own armoury that citizens would go to in time of war. As society became less homogenous that broke down. edit: just read wiki link which makes that clear.

I posted a stat earlier in the thread. Families who keep guns at home are 15 times more likely to kill each other or themselves than they are to be killed by an outsider - which presumably is the reason they kept the gun in the first place. If you want your family to be safe, don't keep a gun at home.

Chris Lynam

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