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Lallana for sure. Clyne and Rodriguez maybe. Shaw and Cork will only go if there is a massive injury crisis imo. Cant see any way Lambert will go.

Bent cu nt Gin A favourite evening aperitif at the Redknap household

You know what's coming next don't you? ****.

She'd tickle your prostate with a vegetable knife

Is this just so you can get a thrill from someone typing cu nt Bletch?

Thats because she doesn't feel she carries responsibility, doesn't mean she isnt guilty. Im sure she didnt want Kercher dead - but she invited a drifter she didn't know back to the house whilst stoned. It doesnt take too much of a leap to guess Guede came back expecting sex, and Knox baulked because she was with Sollecito and passed him off on to Kercher. I think she and Sollecito got involved somehow in events which ended up with Kercher dead.

You move in elevated circles Mikey.

Why not go for something in between the two extremes. We often go to apartment hotels - you get the extra space and kitchen so you can cook your own meals, but still have the nice pool, room cleaning entertainment and other people around if you want it. This kind of thing http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g189112-d264295-Reviews-Vila_Petra_Aparthotel-Albufeira_Faro_District_Algarve.html

Great result after pretty dire first half. Chuffed.

I have a sneaking feeling Gallagher and Guly would do well together. Worth trying since we've had one shot on target so far.

My last post on the subject because we're going round in circles. So for the purposes of this thread: 1. Tidal floods dont count 2. Storm surges dont count 3. Floods which happen every year don't count 4. National floods dont count 5. Floods in places in Bath and North East Somerset council area don't count 6. Unless there are documented pictures of flooded areas in the levels which are provably not part of the usual annual floods, they don't count. Its easy to throw out red herrings. The facts remain: 1. The levels are a flood plain at, below or near sea level 2. The levels flood every year, have done for hundreds of years and and when there is heavy rain they flood badly. 3. Water drains very slowly from the levels because of their low elevation and predominantly clay soil. 4. Hard sea defences and numerous weirs and sluices to protect against ingress of seawater during storms raises the levels of rivers and reduces their fall and flowrate, thereby making rainfall flooding worse. 5. Dredging the rivers will make almost no difference because the carrying capacity is determined primarily by the speed of flow and the speed of flow is reduced by 4 above and by the large number of meanders in the rivers (twisty bendy course). Have you not noticed the banks are artificially built up in many places in order to give height (and therefore drop) to water which would otherwise be almost stagnant? 6. The only significant way to speed up flowrate without removing the weirs is to canalise the rivers even more than they are already - ie straight lines and artificial built up hard banks all the way to the sea, remove any trees cover and probably fence the banks to keep cattle from trampling banks and silting the river.

Ah okay, ta. Missed that.

Sad but true. The deal was dressed up as good one for us but in reality all we appear to be getting is him out of the building and his wages paid for a few months. Thats not a criticism of the club because there were few options open to us. Juventus hold all the cards. If he is brilliant for them and has a stonking world cup they get a £30m player for £15m. If hes crap, they walk away having paid nothing.

No they were bang on. They said "the marshy land may become one of the first parts of the UK to face effects of global warming". Because its a broadsheet they dont normally need to emphasise words like that for its readers - but Im happy to help out.

Warmer air carries more moisture than cooler air so rain storms may be heavier and warmer weather can generate more energy in storms - but the effects are marginal. Climate change hasnt caused flooding in Somerset. If you look at the picture of Glastonbury in the post above the most obvious thing is that all the old houses are built up on the higher ground. We seem to have forgotten the reason for that.

This is the Somerset floods thread and Keynsham is in Somerset. It is also the focus of much of the media coverage - hence the comparative pictures. Towns and people get more photographs and are uploaded more than wet fields in the levels hence the choice of pictures. If Keynsham were flooded repeatedly and the levels weren't you would have a point. As the levels are also flooded and have been repeatedly for 100s of years and in the same years, not so much.

Sorry Halo but your post is just wrong. The area has always flooded regularly, its a flood plain which floods. Every planning document or historical document you care to get will tell you that. When you get double normal rainfall on a flood plain it will flood badly. When you build houses on as flood plain they will be flooded. However the current floods are nowhere near the biggest floods of the past 100 years. In 1919 floods covered five times the current area. In 1947 floods were abnormally bad. Here are some pictures from 1968, again much worse than now, 7 people dead. In 1981 over 1,000 homes were flooded (60 currently). More flooding in 2008. A lot of the news currently is about Keynsham. Watch this and tell me which is worst. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7499533.stm This the White Hart in Keynsham in 1968. Its pretty similar to the 1947 images, 2008 images and the current images (now called the Lock Keeper) and after. Bit more violent than today huh? http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/e/r/Chew_Stoke_Floods_-_10_July_1968.pdf This is 2008

:mcinnes:Of course there is cost cutting. We've shipped out a whole load of players were previously paying and that has reduced costs. That is cost cutting. The only question is what happens with the savings, pocketed or spent.

Damn. By the time he gets to SMS it will be gone 5pm and everyone will have gone home. So close

Im happy that Gallagher has been added to the squad and will get game time. I also doubt he would have been promoted so quickly if Osvaldo hadn't gone. With a semi crocked Lambert and and Rodriguez who doesnt seem to flourish in the centre we are clearly a goal scorer short. That said, given we are safe now for the season, I'd rather wait to the summer to get the right person than panic buy in January.

Id rather cost cut now and spend the money well in the summer than blow it now on dross that we end up trying to shift out as deadwood this time next year.

and his good points?

No-one is minimising the suffering of those who have been affected by flooding. Its a devastating thing to happen and the urge to 'do domething' and 'blame someone' is always strong at those moments. Its not a good time to make policy. Simply digging drainage ditches or increasing the carrying capacity of rivers has no value if the water has nowhere to go. And the reason it has nowhere to go is because much of the levels is just above sea level or below. Water flows only very slowly on very slight downhill slopes and not at all uphill. Building hard sea defences only exacerbates the problem of rainfall flooding because whilst its reduces the likelihood of storm surge or tidal flooding it raises river levels and creates in effect, a swimming pool (with the other sides of the pool being higher ground surrounding the levels). Even creating emergency pumping stations wont work unless you have somewhere to pump it to - and you cant pump it into the rivers because they are so slow flowing because the fall is so small (exacerbated by the downstream storm and tidal sluices). There are only two real options 1. create some massive massive pumping stations connected to a pipeline around the size of the channel tunnel dug through the levels all the way to the sea for multi billion pounds. The government is never going to write the cheque for that and anyway there'd be local action groups about spoiling the view 2. Create natural wetlands which are lower than the surrounding fields which provide sinks for flood water to flow to, but that involves the loss of some farmland. There''d be outcry about lefty greenies ruining rural business. The third option is the one the politicians will take and all the residents will like ( until next time) - which is to wring hands, blame the Environment Agency, promise some pointless but feel good dredging and ditch clearing - then walk away hoping floods wont be back anytime soon.

Do they test the head during medicals?

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