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You may see it as namby pamby bollix Delldays, but what the Scottish Justice Secretary has done is completely consistent with Scottish law. Do you believe that he should have bent the rules according to their own justice system just to bow down to what Hilary Clinton wants?

I won't hold my breath Delldays, we're still waiting for you to eat your own sh1t after we made the playoffs in 2007

Earlier this year my GF and me stayed in a little town caled Divača in Slovenia. A proper little one-horse town with just one guest house (pictured) and where nobody spoke a word of english... We only stayed there for one night as it is close to the Škocjan caves we wanted to visit, then we headed down to the coast to a beautiful little fishing town near the Italian border called Piran...

So is today the deadline day for paying back the £20m to the South African bank?

He came across as a true gentleman. Very sad news indeed. Rest in peace Sir Bobby.

David Speedie. Was gutted when he signed for us. I remember us playing Coventry at the Dell once and he seemed to spend the entire 90 mins trying to get anyone in red and white sent off.

I don't think it's nailed on that he will win the next GP. He has been out for nearly 3 years now and will not get to even drive the car prior to Valencia. His fitness will not be up to what it was either. He will also be at a disadvantage in that he has never raced on this circuit before and won't get the chance until friday practice. Still gonna be interesting though.

Young F1 driver with limited talent accuses experienced team principal of being obsessed by money and having no friends. This is only going to end one way I'm afraid. Bye bye Nelson.

Portishead - Roads. There's probably quite a few Portishead tracks you could choose from but this one is by far the most powerful. Saw them do it live in at Manchester Apollo last year and I was nearly in tears by the end of it.

There are reports now that Massa might suffer permanent damage in his left eye, so we may never see him in F1 ever again I really wish him all the best. He's a far more accomplished driver than his team mate ever will be IMO.

I'm currently reading Philip K D1ck's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', which as most will know is the novel that Bladerunner was based on. never actually read any of his work before and haven't watched Bladerunner since I was about 17 so thought I would give it a go. Very strange book so far.

Watched Persepolis the other night. Hugely enjoyable french animation charting the life-story of a girl growing up in Iran during the revolution. I understand it was based on a graphic novel which itself was based on the real-life experiences of the author Marjanne Satrapi. Very moving and in parts very funny - the story charts Marjanne as she grows up and relocates to Vienna to escape the Iran/Iraq war. Well worth watching - 8/10

First I've heard of it, but I wouldn't rule it out completely. Perhaps our F1 mole Ponty could enlighten us.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/motor-racing/massa-doctors-encouraged-by-signs-of-improvement-1761980.html Good to hear. A friend of mine suffered a similar head injury in a motorway paile-up last october and he's only recently gone back to work. They can take a long time to recover from so I reckon it could be some time before we see Massa driving again. All the best Felipe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8166851.stm Not sure exactly what changes Maclaren have made recently but what a turnaround! Will be interesting to see them challenging at the front with Brawn and Red Bull

I thought Eto'o was going to pompey with Villa and Silva though

I would just like it to be known that I too would be willing to act on behalf of these players pfc123 - seriously, if you believe this then you are living in cloud cuckoo land. Do you really, genuinely expect eto'0, Silva & Villa to sign for Pompey, just because they are hoping to appoint Maradonna as a global ambassador? :smt075

I came across a thread on another forum recently discussing the demise of the local pubs in the UK, and one poster claimed that it is because a very large majority of local pubs are owned by national companies, chains etc.. who have massive debts to pay off due to the recession. This combined with the amount of duty to be paid on alcohol at present means they are much better off selling the property for redevelopment than they are continuing to run the pub as a viable business. I'll try and find the link - it's an interesting discussion.

I just came across this on another forum and I thought I would share it with you all because it's quite hilarious... http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=497332 Oh and FWIW, I think there is more chance of Tony Blair apologising for the Iraq war than there is of Leroy Lita joining Saints.

No. I was wondering who Daren Brown is. I know of an author called DAN Brown and a hypnotist called DERREN Brown. I think the poster was getting confused between the two, but I suspect he was referring to DAN Brown. I was also only being pedantic

OK, fair enough. I think when you mention the 'nutjob sonspiracy theorists' (still a shocking prejudice IMO as I have never yet met anyone who fits that sterotype) you are referring to a very small minority. You are correct of course when you say that people on either side of the coin are capable of doing their own research. It just angers me when I see people who have absolutely no knowledge on a particular subject ridiculing and dismissing those who actually investigate for themselves because their 'nutjob' theories do not fit in with their own world view and so therefore must be wrong. I'd just like to add that I wasn't specifically casting you in that category. It was more of a general statement.

On the flipside of that though delldays, it could be said that anybody who just blindly believes the BS they are spoon-fed without questioning it and doing their own research, and who dismiss others whose views don't match their own as 'clearly mental and lacking something in their lives' is just a sheep who is incapable of thinking for themselves and feels the need to apply stereotypes to others in order to maintain a false air of superiority.

Who's he then?

I disagree. Bush was no criminal mastermind, that much is for sure. But they only needed to cover it up enough to make sure they didn't leave a 'smoking gun' and this is what they did. There are dozens/hundreds of individual aspects of the whole saga that just do not add up. Each one of them on their own could easily be dismissed as circumstantial or just plain coincidence, but when you add them all together the chances of coincidence becomes infinitessimally small.

I think the point that Baj was making is that if they got away with faking it once, why would they attempt it over and over again and risk getting found out?