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Very sad, but he was 84 and died suddenly at the footie. Not a bad way to go.

Thats really the nub of it. I didnt have my two children baptised because although it would have been a nice family event, I thought it was hypocritical to make all kinds of promises about bringing them up as Christians when i knew we wouldnt because neither parents were believers. I dont think its discrimination for churches to try to ensure that the people being blessed, christianed or married by them actually believe in their teachings.

Think he may have meant Turkish - but interesting you think snowmen could be classed as homoerotic. Weird, but interesting.

Domino theory. People are worried about changing the relatively stable staus quo and anything which could possibly lead to renewed war with Israel, threats to oil supplies and an itchy nuclear Iran.

Get her some plimsolls with a six inch nail in the heel. No-one from Plymouth will know the difference.

Soccer Saturday Live, on Sunday 25 September 2011

tbf its his patriotic duty to inform us we'd have been better off in an Anschluss with Nazi Germany.

Treating people for disease is meddling with nature. Growing selective crops is meddling with nature. Keeping alive 100 year old deaf and blind stroke victims is meddling with nature. The whole area is a minefield.

Imo the primary concern should be what is best for a child - not what is best for putative parents. Trouble is the whole issue is a thousand shades of grey and I dont feel equipped to 'judge' every case. There was a case in the US a while ago of a woman in her 20s dying of cancer trying to bear a baby before she died. Whilst you can utterly sympathise with her position it still leaves me deeply uncomfortable. Science will increasingly make more things possible which 'society' thinks are undesirable. I have no idea where personal rights and liberty stops and where society takes over.

As a rule of thumb I'd agree with that. Trouble is its unenforceable and not always desirable. I think giving fertility treatment to women in their 50s and 60s is wrong, I think it is wrong to conceive a baby from your dead husbands sperm, I think surrogacy for money is wrong and, when it happens in the future, I think cloning a baby from your own stem cells is wrong. But some people will always do what they want, regardless of what is arguably best for the child and I dont think it helps any to try to 'ban' someone from bringing up the child after the fact.

http://www.raisingfunding.co.uk/using-charity-numbers-properly-identifying-yourself.html

A move driven by fear imo as I doubt whether Spurs, West Ham or Orient really wanted it - they were just worried about what would happen to their clubs if one of the others got the stadium instead of them. Will be interesting to see what happens to Orient's support with a new 'big boy' only half a mile up the road. I guess West Ham will fill in the athletics track with seating?

I went to an all night show of Friday 13th parts 1 to 5 at the Classic. Don't remember it being a flea pit, not compared to the one in Woolston anyway where you were lucky to find four unbroken seats next to each other.

England call up v Ariel. Seriously, good news, congratulations to the boy and academy.

I dunno what his mum washes his kit in, but it doesnt look very white.

Weird. I would have thought fans from clubs in the Midlands would travel the least.

The City guys who work those kind of hours are usually trying to be at work when markets in Japan open and still there when markets in the US close. There is no inherent need for one person to cover those hours. It can easily be done with two guys earning £500,000pa instead of one on £1million. The trouble with the City is that it has developed a macho culture where it is important to be seen to be at your desk from early till late, regardless of whether that is productive time or not. The UK needs an effective and successful financial services industry -and that is built on skills. The current set-up simply encourages investment / M&A bankers to make a lot of money for themselves quickly and get out (or be pushed out) by their 30s. Go round the offices, you see very few staff in their 40s or 50s, those with most experience and knowledge, because they leave in response to the working conditions. The industry and the UK would be better served by retaining experienced able staff for a whole career. That way the people who work in the city wouldnt be burnt out by 35, there would be more employment not less and we wouldnt get the repeated banking ****ups every 20 years. Its not radical or impractical, the insurance market which is equally global does it, the bankers just need to follow suit.

Least he was honest about his motives. More than we can say about Dune.

I doubt if his little boy, who never sees his dad through the week and probably only for a few hours on the weekend sees it that way. Any man who has is married with a young family and is out of the house from 4.30am till 11.30pm should not be be lauded imo.

Genuine question. I thought you had referred to girlfriend, not a wife. Are you married to the woman you live with or married to someone else?

Don't you live with a woman you aren't married to Turkish? Not very traditional.

Condecension doesn't change facts. You were pleasantly balanced for a week or so after a long sabbatical from here, but have now returned to type. Go back to the head in sand routine, it suits you.

I don't have an agenda. It really isnt difficult to run a charity, especially one turning over

Great. Its been updated and corrected since yesterday. Im glad my posts were helpful