Hamilton Saint

Just make sure they can spell!

Don't put words in my mouth, or misrepresent my view - I didn't say discrimination against another national group was OK. I wasn't condoning prejudice and bigotry. I was merely criticising the incorrect use of the term "racism".

Think about it. Racism has to be antagonism or discrimination against another race. If a caucasian Englishman discriminates against a caucasian American, that is not racism - regardless of what the RRA says.

Sorry to nit-pick, but being anti-American is not being "racist"; there's no such race as "American". Anti-Americanism is a form of bigotry not based on race.

1. Green 2. Lib Dem 3. Labour 4. Conservative No surprises there.

I do believe that AP has made it clear this season that his philosophy is to field the best team he can for every game, regardless of whether it's a cup game or league game. Based on the idea that it's better to keep the momentum going - to build that "winning mentality", than to damage it by slacking off for a cup game.

You can get the Cracovia Krakow vs Jagiellonia Bialystok game, or the GKS Belchatow vs Odra Wodzislaw Slaski game, but you can't find Brighton vs. Saints. Go figure!

... I've watched Saints play a cup final via the internet. Watched the Cardiff FA Cup Final on TV. Listened to the '76 Cup Final on the radio.

Thanks for sharing your pics. :smt038

Awesome! Surely this vindicates Pardew's commitment to winning all games - cup ties as well as league games, I mean.

Thanks for the link. It was very jumpy and irritating to watch - but better than nothing, of course! :smt038

It's looking good! COYR!

It's jumpy for me.

I did it three times; I got 28, 31 and 20. I'm 57.

Read Night by Elie Wiesel. He was taken to Auschwitz as a young boy with his family. He was the only one to survive.

Here you go - both sides of possibly the best pop single (45 rpm) ever released: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7NoOhmVMac

They're down, and I hope West Ham go with them.

Thanks for those!

She does it much too slowly - almost like a dirge. I prefer the Bert Jansch version. [bTW, it's a song by the great British folk-singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl.]

This article is nonsense - I listened to the entire interview with Cortese and this article just does not reflect Cortese's attitude towards Pardew. From all that I've heard and read about Cortese, it seems to me that he is smart, competent, demanding and fully committed to his job. To call him a "bufoon" is ridiculous.

Check my PM.

Agree with this. There's nothing "wrong" with refs - they're just human beings and will always make mistakes. Some refs, of course, are better than others. Even the best refs can buckle under the intense pressure. And they are not helped by the intense partisanship of players, managers and fans. Now, most refereeing mistakes are not game-changing decisions - except for penalties. This is where TV replays should be used. Refs should have the option of stopping play and consulting with an official who can take a minute to look at the incident again - in slow motion. How many penalty decisions come up in the average game? Would a brief delay for those decisions be so disruptive to the flow of a game?

Did you actually read through my contributions to this thread? The point you make is a valid one, but it actually criticises me for something I wasn't doing. My main concern was the sloppy use of the term "socialism" and "socialist". If you want to talk specifics in discussing political philosophy, it's important to get the basic terms straight. My argument was pitched at the level of general philosophy, not the specifics of day-to-day conditions in Britain, which, as you point out, I am not in a position to judge. My other intervention in this thread was to criticise the tactic of labelling people as fellow-travellers of a demonised political movement merely because they share the same stage, or participate in the same public protest. I wasn't debating the specific policies or tactics of the two groups in question, just identifying an illegitimate debating technique.

Yes, there are "two sides to the coin". I'm giving mine; you're giving yours. If my prose "just smacks of the language of the left", well - guess what - yours "smacks" of the language of the right - with the de rigueur references to the Socialist Worker and The Guardian. I emigrated with my family when I was a teenager, BTW. My parents' decision. "User fees" are charges paid for a service or activity that used to be funded by the state, based on the philosophy that if you use it, you pay for it. Makes sense in some circumstances, but not in others. Some institutions and services require government subsidy.