Sheaf Saint

It's called freedom of choice delldays. My girlfriend is vegetarian, for the simple reason that she just doesn't like the taste of meat, but there are so many different reasons why people make that choice. A friend of mine recently decided to become pescatarian. He said he felt uncomfortable eating animals that he wouldn't be prepared to kill for himself, but has no qualms about eating fish. There is also a huge environmental argument against eating meat. The worldwide demand for cheap beef products is the principal cause of deforestation in Amazonia; whereas if humans were to eat the soya that is grown to feed the cattle directly, we would only need a tenth of the amount of agricultural land to provide the same amount of food energy. With the global population expected to reach 9 billion at some point this century, this is going to become a very important concern.

Bo11ox. Radiohead, and in particular Tom Yorke, are fully deserving of all the public support they receive. We all know that you can never bring yourself to say anything complimentary about anything mainstream manji, but sometimes, just sometimes, there is actually a very good reason why certain bands/artists become popular. Admittedly it took me quite a while to get into and appreciate Radiohead, but I'm really glad I did now.

Hmmmm. While I still have some respect for Hoddle for the job he did with us, it's fair to say his record in the transfer market while at Saints was abysmal. I seriously doubt he had already lined up somebody who would have gone on to do a better job than BT did.

Well I don't claim to be any kind of industry-leading expert when it comes to IT, but the simple fact is I ran it on my own PC and it worked, so I ran it on my work laptop and it worked, and I have used it many many times on other computers in my day-to-day job and it has never failed to do what its developers claim it will. And it's free, so what's not to like?

I know everyone is entitled to their opinion and all that, but in this case yours is just plain wrong. I have used it many times and I swear by it. It clears redundant registry keys and drivers and deletes unwanted programs from startup resulting in a much smoother and faster system every time.

Then you've got too many programs in your startup folder, and I'll bet you don't use half of them or even know they are running. Download CCLEANER and run it... will speed up your system a treat

You would think the plod would be happy for other motorists to warn people and make them slow down. After all the whole point is to reduce accidents.... isn't it?

Cracking goal

Although it hasn't actually been proven (yet) the overwhelming consensus among climate scientists is that average temperatures in the UK and the rest of north western Europe will drop as a result of global warming due to the disruption to the gulfstream (that currently provides us with warmer climes than many other areas along the same line of latitude) caused by the desalination effect of melting Arctic ice.

The fact that he is England's no. 2 says more about the lack of decent keepers in England than it does about his ability IMO. He let in some very sloppy goals for WHU last season and if Big Sam doesn't think he will be good enough for them in the prem next year, why should we assume he would be any better for us?

I did a similar thing a few years ago - 60 miles along the Trans-Pennine Trail between Leeds and Sheffield. The longest ride I did in training for it was about 27 miles and I was woefully under-prepared for it come the day. The biggest mistake I made was assuming that riding in the relatively flat region near where I live would be adequate training - it wasn't nearly enough. Make sure you do a lot of hill-climbing during your training, as not only will this prepare you for what you will face on the ride, it is also good resistance training and will help with your overall fitness. You've probably already been given loads of advice about it but one warning I would give is don't stop for too long at any one time and especially don't stop for a big lunch or anything. Take plenty of high energy food with you in your pack - cereal bars, dried fruit and nuts, and some sugary sweets for when you need a quick boost. Maybe PM Minty about it, as he did the John o'Groats to Lands-End ride a few years back as I recall, so he can probably offer some pearls of wisdom. Will happily make a donation though because I know from first-hand that this is no small undertaking and is worthy of my support. Good luck mate.

I did see a little bit of the end as my girlfriend was watching it, and the thing that really struck me was that during the fireworks display at the end there appeared to be a projection of the french flag over the front of Buck house. What was that all about?

Oh goddammit I've fallen into another one of dune's traps. He's managed to turn yet another thread into a right-wing rant about the evils of socialism!

I don't really care what Churchill had to say about it. Aside from being a decent military strategist he was actually a crap prime minister who was an alcoholic and who changed parties as often as he changed his socks.

Nothing at all. Like I said... their prerogative.

Err, you do realise that Liz is descended from Germans and that Phil is Greek, don't you? I'm not the slightest bit gutted. If people want to stand around in the rain eating cupcakes and waving flags, while blowing sunshine up the 'arris of some old pensioner who had the extreme good fortune to be born into the house of Windsor and whose only real achievement that is being marked right now is having managed to thus far avoid dying, then that's their prerogative. Personally, I have far more interesting and stimulating things to do with my time.

Making a comeback? It never really went away, it's just that places like HMV etc stopped selling it.

Believe me, I'd like to. They had the good sense to overthrow their royalty centuries ago.

Bubby want pizza! Awesomely disturbing film.

I really couldn't be any less interested. So some old bint is celebrating 60 years of living in obscene luxury at taxpayers' expense, all because her great great great great great (?) grandfather happened to be a bloodthirsty, war-mongering megalomaniac. Whoop-de-doo. And don't anybody give me "Oh but she's such a wonderful lady", I'm not disputing that. I'm sure she is a warm, loving and humorous person and all that, but so are many people I know and none of them will ever or would want want to be afforded the luxurious lifestyle of the monarchy. It's high time we rose up out of the dark ages and scrapped the idea of hereditary rule IMO.

I have emailed the site owner and asked him to clear up any confusion. I recommend everyone else does the same... email@the-end.com

Take the teams off and then place some land mines at random points around the pitch. Winner is the team with the most players left alive after 30 mins ET.

Does indeed look a lot of fun. No idea how much the tents are though, not cheap I imagine due to the strength required to hold the tension.

You mean like these?....

The end of the world? Should we all lie down with bags over our heads?