Halo Stickman

RIP Lee Rigby. May your loved ones find some peace.

Like people that like saying like a lot and like say it like several times like every sentence like.

1/ Remembering players’ fathers playing 2/ Buying nasal hair clippers 3/ Developing weird Zimmer frame fetish Edit – delete 3/ Reason – wrong forum

Round robins that drop out of Christmas cards, listing in nauseating detail all the 'wonderful' achievements of their oh-so-perfect bloody kids!

One of the factors behind London’s dominance is an historical one. If we go back to 1770, a pre-industrial time (i.e. before the immergence of the industrial northern towns), the population of London was approaching 700,000 – about an eighth of England’s entire population. The next largest town was Norwich with 30,000, and only Bristol, Exeter (probably), York, Newcastle, Colchester and Yarmouth topped 10,000.* This huge disparity between a nation’s capital and provincial towns / cities was much larger than that found in most other countries around the globe at that time. * re. English Society in the 18th Century by Roy Porter

I was parking my car in Cardiff a couple of years ago, scrabbling around in my pockets for money for the parking meter, when a young Welsh chap, passing by, asked if I needed any change. It turned out, not only did I not have enough change, I also had no notes. Young Welsh chap handed me a £2 coin, said ‘have that one on me, mate’, and strolled off down the road.

So people that start every conversation with a superfluous co-ordinating conjunction

People that have!

People who think that every poster has spent the last couple of months reading every thread

Windows whinging about whingers

Price tags and barcode labels that stick like sh1t to a blanket

Bearsy asking me if I'm having a stroke when I'm w anking

Men at urinals attempting small talk – I need to concentrate when I’m having a p1ss!

Just wasted 20 minutes queuing at my bank – why the hell have they got four counter positions, but only ever have two of them occupied by staff, except on busy times when they reduce it to one! Anyone else need to offload irritating stuff before the festive spirit of Christmas kicks in?

So, in this miserable series, Carbs is England’s second top scorer – 2 runs behind Bell, still tucked in at the cosy no 5 slot – yet which batsman does Bob Willis think should be dropped for the 4th test? The Hampshire man, of course! So f ucking predicable

Fu cking hell! This is the first time I’ve read this thread. Before anyone decides to add to it, they should seriously ask themselves the following question: If a rational man decides to debate with an irrational man, is this decision rational or irrational?

The worse kick followed hot on the heels of probably the best kick I’ve ever witnessed – it was the kick in the teeth when Keegan’s fantastic overhead scissors kick ‘goal’ was ruled out because Armstrong (I think it was) was offside, even though there was absolutely no way he was interfering with play!

Pleased to see the BBC honouring Big Ron’s death on Sports Personality of the Year show last night. Shame they couldn’t have shown his four goals in our 4-1 win at Old Trafford - didn’t want to upset some of the Man Utd old-timers wheeled in for the Fergie love-in, I suppose.

Shocked that the BBC didn’t give Mandela the Sports Personality of the Year award.

I certainly agree with you that the world needs to address the fact that oil supplies are finite; but, if oil ended tomorrow, what changes do you envisage the world conjuring up or implementing to replace it, or to do without it? Ramp up the introduction of alternative energy supplies; build more nuclear power stations; discover completely new ways to generate power; save energy by giving up our cars, TVs and internet forums; move to self-sustaining communes, etc? If oil ended tomorrow, how rapidly, easily, fairly or peacefully do you think these changes could be implemented? Oil currently supplies a vital percentage of the world’s energy needs. Perhaps I’m less optimistic than you, Pap, but if oil ended tomorrow, rather than it being simply a case of replacing it with something else, or giving up our profligate ways, I rather suspect that people would be starving, freezing and stampeding to death within days. I would fight to ensure my family was not amongst them; I’m certain you would do likewise.

Not sure we should go that far

Nobody seems to know who the bloke on the left is – what’s the betting he’ll be in the starting eleven for the Burnley match?

Who is the next Saint destined for the SWF title page hall of fame? Lallana, perhaps? But who would you drop to fit him in? For me, it would be a toss up between Shilton and Keegan, mainly because they weren’t with us for as long as the others. Is there anyone else you think should be on there? Ron Davies, perhaps? Perhaps this has been done before, in which case I apologise.

Our intolerance of intolerance

One thing’s for sure – there’s more chance of relegation than there is of some posters getting the concept of ironic humour