TheCholulaKid

My 21st was MLT's two goals against Newcastle at home. Two of the best goals I've ever seen. Doesn't get much better than that.

Walls - Coracle

Daughter was easy. Just felt right. We didn't know what we were having and had a name for either we were happy with. Second time around (3 weeks ago - cheers) we did know what we we were having and for some reason it was a lot harder. We finally named him a couple of days after he was born.

Happy Mondays - Bummed

Another vote for Brighton. And Coventry - half the kids I teach support them and know I'm a Saints fan. So, I'll get it if we lose. Also, some ****er tried to stab me there at a game in the early 90s. Nothing comes close to Pompey though.

Spot on mate. This really must be the arseholes thread.

Should say pricewise they are (respectively): £825 £990 £990

Cheers. So far a toss up between: Volvo V40 2.0i Estate (1999, 90,000 miles and 12 months MOT) Saab 9-3 2.0i SE (1999, 90,000 miles and 8 months MOT) Citroen C5 1.8i (2003, 78,000 miles and 12 months MOT) Apart from the relative gas-guzzlage of the Saab and having no idea about Citroens (but will have a look anyway) - any obvious plus or minus points?

Also, Rovers - are they really that ****? Seem to be an awful lot of cheap ones around with reasonable mileage. I appreciate they're an old man's car...

After a family car for under a grand. 1.6/1.8L and above. 5 doors. Will mainly be used for infrequent long journeys. Seen a couple of Saab 9-3's around for about a grand with 80-90000 miles on them. Not after anything flash - something reliable. Any ideas? Ta.

Teacher. Just about to move to Cameron's constituency for some grassroots subversion.

Don't bite, people.

The private sector? Or the taxpayer? Either way could you supply a link. That sounds like an interesting read.

Oh dear. Modest public pensions are both fair (we've paid for them with our salary AND our taxes) and civilised. As a public sector worker, I would like to see government help to improve private pensions, not the government trying to make public sector pensions as poor as the private. If there's any injustice and lack of fairness, it's the fact that the little people are having to pay for the greed and arrogance of bankers and their mates in government. We are all ready to take some pain ... but not until the bankers pay up. As somebody above said....Cameron et al would be laughing themselves silly at their (apparently successful) attempt at divide and conquer. It's a crying shame that so many people fall for their misinformation in the misguided belief that some people are having it easier than others.

Nope, no chip. Just don't like selfish, reactionary, lazy-thinking c*nts who can't see beyond the right-wing media hysteria. Strike bingo anyone?: http://thethirdestate.net/2011/06/strike-bingo/

This is a truly moronic paragraph. I actually pity you (and your ilk). You (and your previous posts) suggest a seething anger and injustice that only the truly ill-informed and reactionary could have. Always looking for someone else to blame....not a very endearing characteristic at all.

Couldn't have put it better myself: 'You've been told there's no money by a government that has plenty of money to drop bombs on other countries just to keep the armed forces happy; is quite happy to forgo millions in tax to keep the rich happy; is delighted to allow corporations and banks to waste millions in bonuses for individuals rather than paying the money back into the society to whom they owe it. There is no good reason not to fund schools and universities properly. The government has chosen not to - one can only imagine because they'd rather reserve education for wealthy elites. This is a disastrous choice from every perspective. Don't endorse it by suggesting that it was neccessary. It wasn't. These open threats by Tory MPs to break the unions are a disgrace. Not only do they expect the people of the country to tug their forelocks and say: 'yes, cut my pension, m'lud, I don't deserve it anyway', but they want to make it illegal to have a different opinion from the government about our own working conditions and to express that opinion in the only way that has even the slightest chance of being heard: through strikes. We wouldn't have to strike if a world-class education system wasn't being ****ed up by a bunch of wealthy tossers who are equally without brains and consciences.'

Another reactionary fool. The reason teachers are striking is because the government (despite their protestations) have not sat down to show the unions exactly how and why the current pension agreements are unsustainable. Every teacher I know understands that the country is in a difficult financial state. Every teacher I know understands that changes to the current pension agreement is probably necessary. Teachers understand that cuts need to be made. What teachers do not understand is why the government is still refusing to share its facts and figures that backup their proposed changes. That is why they are striking. The more cynical might think that the Tories can't believe their luck that they inherited such an economic shambles from Labour and are using it as an excuse to wage an ideological war on the public sector.

You are absolutely ****ing clueless. You (meaning all reactionary fools) really are. I despair of the human race sometimes. Excellent piece in today's Observer by David Mitchell: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/26/universities-private-public-david-mitchell

Good post.

Michael Gove's an idiot. He should be listening to Ken Robinson:

Can't believe we got all the way down here before anyone mentioned this. Easily their best song on their only decent album.

Le Diner de Cons - a French farce that made me laugh out loud at times Marathon Man - one of my favourite 70s films

Was driving through Grand Canyon National Park a few years ago - dead of night. Caught an elk in the headlights in front of us (massive things if you've never seen one). Anyway, slowed down and stopped while it ambled across the road. Just as it got past our car another car came flying over the hill on the other side of the road towards us. Ploughed straight into the elk - elk smashed through the windscreen then was catapulted over the top of the car into the road beside it. To say it was a mess would be an understatement. The people in the car were actually OK - few cuts and bruises and a ****ed car aside. The elk however......was still alive although with two broken front legs. Two other cars had pulled up in the meantime and everyone stood around debating what to do with a clearly ****ed but still conscious elk. Some mental geezer decided to put it out of its misery by chopping its head off and proceeded to pull out a massive knife and walk towards the elk. We managed to convince him there must be a more humane way as the clearly terrified elk tried to haul its body away. Another bloke had a gun on him - so it was decided he would do the job. Two shots to the head later.....****ing horrific. I'm not sure whether the fact I had been smoking Canada's finest most of the evening helped or not. Camping in the Grand Canyon should be on everyone's 'to do' list though.

Eastern Eye, London Road, Brighton Indian Summer, East Street, Brighton (expensive but worth it)