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Yeah, but we're not in the EPL, and if WE are still in the cup, then WE will still have a game regardless. Either way, we get a game on a saturday, so I still don't understand your logic.

But if we win, then we'll have a cup game on a saturday instead of a league game. I don't get your logic at all.

Completely agree. You could see that that cup run gave the team more confidence and togetherness. I still don't understand why people are so certain that a good cup run will have a negative affect on our chances of promotion.

I actually feel sorry for the guy. He was in an impossible situation. He was hired by the previous owners so there was always a possibility that the new team would want to bring in their own man, and he had little hope of setting the world alight with the squad he inherited from Benitez. Having said that, I do think it was a ridiculous decision to give him the job in the first place on the back of one good season at Fulham. He probably took it knowing that he would probably get sacked but that his contract would be paid up if that was the case.

Sh1t! I met him once. He was doing a sponsors appearance on behalf of Troop at Top Trainers in the East Street shopping centre in about 1989. There was a queue of people waiting for his autograph and the lad in front of me asked Gary if he wanted to fight Lennox Lewis (who was just making a name for himself as a pro) and his reply was "No. I want to be world champion." RIP Gary.

I've really never understood why people get so offended by the F word. Really, what's so bad about it? It's just a word for f***'s sake! People don't get offended at hearing the word duck, or luck, or muck, so clearly it isn't the sound or cadence of the word that offends. Neither do the same people get offended by hearing ****, or make love to, or have sex with, so it isn't the connotation of it either. So what exactly is it about that one particular word that people get so uppity about? I guess it comes down to social conditioning or just plain snobbery.

http://newsthump.com/2011/01/05/hmv-urged-to-try-selling-things-that-people-still-give-a-****-about/ :lol:

There was a lawyer.... Kobayashi RIP Pete. A true great among British actors, you will be sadly missed.

I got one of those Addidas toiletry box-sets from my step-dad. I'm bloody sure it's the same one I gave him last year!

So, as we thought, they have only completed this transfer to make a quick profit. I really, really hope that FIFA shaft them and refuse to sanction it, meaning they will be stuck with the extra liability of his wages that they can't afford. I won't hold my breath though, as they seem to have a knack of squirming out of these things.

Yep. She's nothing but an uneducated, untalented, disgusting slag, but she isn't quite as contemptible as the utter morons who actually pay money to read about her antics in pathetic rags such as Heat magazine. The fact that these kinds of magazines take up half the bloody displays in most newsagents is indicative of just what is wrong with British society today.

One thing that bugs me is the trend of putting ex-reality TV contestants in on the 'celebrity' special version of the show. Seriously WTF!?!?

I'll be making my annual pilgrimage to Beatherder - a little gem of a festival hidden away in the Lancashire countryside that I have been to for the last 3 years running. Other than that, not sure. Some mates of mine usually go to The Big Chill every year so I might go to that depending on the line-up.

Is life all that? No, I've found it to be a series of one disappointment after another. Don't get me wrong - I'm not depressed at all (I've been there and done that thanks) - I've just come to accept the realisation that things are never as exciting or fulfilling as they are made out to be. Everyday life is just sh1t really - go to work, take abuse from some knobheads about things that aren't your fault, get no recognition for your efforts, get home and you're too tired to do anything other than sit in front of a computer or watch the brainless drivel that passes for TV entertainment these days. If this becomes a routine over a prolonged period then it's only a matter of time before you start wondering why you bother.

To put dune on my ignore list

As if further proof were needed, you have just shown what an utter fool you are dune. On the Global Warming thread last week, I asked you to comment on David Cameron's commitment to carbon-reduction and how that squared with your insistence that GW is a lie perpetuated by socialists as a way to raise taxes, and your response was: Care to comment on this blatant contradiction dune?

Went to see The Way Back with my GF yesterday. It's based on a true story about a group of men who break out of a Siberian gulag in 1940 and trek all the way to India to escape from the Soviets and the Nazis. It's beautifully filmed with some stunningly picturesque scenery, and Colin Farrell (who I had always had down as nothing but a pretty-boy half actor before now) is excellent as a Russian convict, but overall it lacks a certain something. The chemistry between the main characters is never fully convincing and there are only so many ways you can flesh out a story as simple as this. Worth a watch 7/10

I haven't seen it yet, but I recommend you give it a go and try not to compare it to the JW original. I saw a recent interview with one of the Coens about it and he said their approach to it was as a different interpretation of the book, rather than as a re-make of the film.

Me: How do you reconcile David Cameron's commitment to reducing the CO2 output of the UK with your assertion that MMGW is a socialist conspiracy to raise taxes? You: I am a right wing Conservative/UKIP supporter. So you think that constitutes a reasonable answer do you? It seems to me that there is no way you can answer it without making yourself look foolish, so you are deliberately avoiding it. Just my opinion of course

The worst one I can think of is Mick Jagger's godawful 'performance' in Freejack.

I think that has to be the most spectacular case of the pot calling the kettle black I have ever witnessed on an internet forum. Any chance of you answering my question BTW dune?

Rule 1?

Weird Al Yankovic in The Naked Gun ;-)

But that doesn't even begin to answer the question. You insist that MMGW is a lie that is perpetuated as part of a socialist conspiracy to raise taxes. If this is true then why is it that David Cameron, who surely does not qualify for your definition of a socialist, is continuing with the previous government's commitment to reduce carbon emissions in the UK?

So, just to repeat the question once again dune, seeing as you have either missed it or, as I suspect, are avoiding it..... How do you reconcile David Cameron's commitment to reducing the CO2 output of the UK with your assertion that MMGW is a socialist conspiracy to raise taxes?