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I wonder how many cases are genuinely "I didn't know" and how many are "I decided not to tell till it was too late for anyone to get on my case"

It must xcross any owners mind to sell LS, AL, Osvaldo and Mayuka for £60m and buy Ings for £10m. The team would still be capable of mid table ish, you'd have bought the club for £50m nett and you could sell for c£150m. I don't think KL would do this but I'd be tempted...

Bit tasteless. Club feet, bandy legs, spade face - clearly a genetic condition.

Not sure the situation is any better or worse than its ever been. My daughter was fully dry by 2.5 but my son continued to wet the bed occasionally till about 7 and even now at 11 if you tickle him / make him laugh enough he will 'pmsl'. Its a typical non story imo. If one head in 20 has experienced a 7-11 year old wearing a nappy in the past year and the average size of a middle school is c350 pupils it means one kid in 7,000 - hardly an epidemic is it?

Very few people on here will have an informed opinion about him because he is so behind the scenes. We definitely need somebody in his role to oversee recruitment, academy, contracts etc and so far as I can tell, he does a good job.

I laid 12mm celotex under mine, works a treat - warm and no sponginess. http://www.celotex.co.uk/products/tb4000

Ah, thanks for the heads up - another St George - no capacity / desire to learn. Its not mandatory for sceptics you know. GM is deliberately provocative and can be funny, Whitey posts up counter hypotheses. Just as matter of interest, what would you actually do about preventing the extra three billion? Its one thing to bemoan it and another to come up with a workable answer. My position is its far easier and cheaper to adopt low carbon energy usage than it is to control population growth over the next 50 years. Yours appears to be, like St George, "its all too difficult and I'll be dead in 50 years so I don't care". Correct me where Im wrong.

Nature intended the carbon would be locked up in timber for a couple of hundred years - not released through an annual crop cycle. Clearly, before GM jumps in, we need crops to survive, but lets pretend it isn't yet another way man has deformed natural cycles.

The whole growing crops to make ethanol for transport idea is crazy. Hydrogen fuel cells is the long term way forward with liquefied natural gas as a stopgap.

Its shallow and superficial I know - but I like winning things. Although most of Lg1 was dire the Paint Pot and the promotion seasons were far more memorable and enjoyable to me than mid table PL. Depends whether you want to be a big fish in small pond or a small fish in a big pond. We should forget about the CL delusion and build a squad strong enough to have successful FA Cup runs and the occasional Europa cup outings.

Bearsy only fires blanks though.

Yes of course 3 billion extra people on the planet presents major challenges of all sorts - pressure on food, water, biodiversity,energy et al . No-one disputes an extra 3 billion is undesirable - it is, to quote Monty Python bleeding obvious, not insight. The question is what can realistically be done about it - and the answer in the short to medium term is 'not much'. Young populations have lots of babies, ageing populations don't. For example 63% of the population of Nigeria is under 24 - nothing in the world is going to stop them doubling their population within 25 years. The long term solution to controlling birth rates lies with increased affluence, education and things like access to secure banking and property rights. The UN predict the global population will hit 10bn around 2060 and then gradually stabilise. It is far far easier to deal with the relatively easily fixed technological problem of ghg emissions than the fundamentally already 'built in' structural problem of population growth over the next 50 years.

Bit harsh. I think you'll find BBB was referring to Jizz In Five Seconds.

Would also be interesting to know what has happened to all the scholars of the past 20 years who made it through to 18 - how many made a career in professional football and in what division?

Better than wasting it

Obviously if people get richer then they tend to have fewer children and can afford to think about long term issues such as the environment as opposed to immediate essentials like food and housing. In general though I think the whole article is fatally flawed on two levels: 1. There is absolutely no guarantee the west, or indeed anyone, will continue to see economic growth on the same levels as the past 50 years or so. Indeed I think its unlikely given increasing scarcity and prices of raw materials and growing problems like waste disposal and access to fresh water. 2. Even if we do get wealthier all that happens is that wealthy people consume more - more flights, more imported food, more goods and bigger houses. That will far offset adoption of greener production technologies.

One of these guys I guess. The Seattle Sounders site isnt exactly brimming with detail. http://www.soundersfc.com/academy/u-18-roster

Cant see it - supposedly on £60,000pw and out for the rest of the season with knee ligament damage.

Ive no idea what this thread is about. Anyone got a link?

Greenpeace is a very successful environmental campaigning organisation that engages in peaceful protest and civil disobedience - chaining to railings, blocking access etc. They are very effective in dozens of countries throughout the world where the police generally allow them to protest and if pushed too far will eventually drag protesters out the way or charge them with a public order offence with a £100 fine penalty. In the US and Russia they have never been anywhere near as successful - because of identical policing tactics - baton and tear gas weilding, cracking skulls and six months plus in prison.

Its telling you prefer to debate the choice of adjectives used to describe desperately weak and outdated evidence than defending the substance. Use whichever descriptor you prefer - it doesn't change the fact you posted up two 1997 reports of a Press Association syndicated article and a jokey discussion forum akin to this one as 'evidence' to counter the overwhelming contemporary scientific opinion. You dismiss NASA as 'populist' . Their link actually says there is no evidence for a multi-decadal trend and anyway the nature of the warming experienced is not consistent with increased solar activity. Your argument basically amounts to - we should force the foreigners to reduce birth rates so they don't end up with population densities anywhere near ours in England and similarly should deny them the right to consume energy at a level comparable with our own use. What do you suggest? forced abortions and bombing them back to the stone age? Why bother anyway - its all down to the sun innit? India has a per capita energy use around one tenth of that of the US and one fifth that of the UK. China is approaching similar emissions to western Europe largely because it has become the manufacturing centre of the world - if that manufacturing was repatriated to Europe our emissions would be far higher. Developed nations need to accept growth in energy consumption in the developing economies. As a consequence we need to at least halve our current ghgs in order to control total global emissions. Its not even that hard - I halved my footprint last year by insulating the house and buying a more fuel efficient car - and saved around £1,400pa in the process. The move to a low carbon economy would be broadly economically neutral and likely have beneficial side effects for health. The arguments that go along the the lines of "there is no problem and even if there was its caused by the sun / Chinese and there is nothing we can do about it / they should go first" are just peurile.

I wouldnt actually mind that too much. Much as I like Shaw we'd be a better team with £30m spent wisely - especially if Matt Target is capable of stepping up.

I get the thrill seeking but this is just near to suicidal. Going fast downhill you have full sight and a chance to react, your life is largely in your own hands. At 80mph totally blind behind a lorry all you need is for the truck to brake due to a car pulling out in front - or bit of rubbish / roadkill on the tarmac and its good night Vienna.