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But they haven't though have they? They've just told people what the optimum amount of fruit and veg is to lower the chances of getting heart disease and lung cancer. They make sure the information is available and then leave it up to the individual to decide. This whole thing of being told what to eat is your own paranoid delusion. It simply hasn't happened, yet you've referred to it a few times. Tell me, who exactly is telling you what you can or cannot eat? Last time I checked, there was more choice of food available to us all now then there has been at any time in history and you're allowed to eat any of it. There's no scare story, just helpful advice to people who want to avoid chronic disease. You aren't exactly helping yourself to shake off that moron tag with posts like that. Stop being fed up over a situation invented in your own head and go and enjoy a sausage roll. knowledge is being shared, nobody is being made to eat or not eat anything, knowledge is a good thing, but it's your choice to use it or ignore it. Just because you aren't interested doesn't mean ignorance should be encouraged.

so rather than make more attempts at preventing ignorant people getting ill, which costs comparatively little, you'd like your tax money spent on treating them for the diseases that occur more frequently with poor diet, which is far more expensive? How very odd. They aren't do-gooders, you loon, they are people paid to do the job of lowering rates of heart disease and other nutrition based illnesses to save tax money being thrown away on treatment that shouldn't have been necessary. Nobody can or wants to force anybody else to eat differently, but they should certainly take the basic measures of making sure the information is out there. Has it really been told to you by these people every five minutes, or has the BBC chosen to run a story on it that you have chosen to look at.

The stupidity on this thread is incredible. A large amount of health problems can be prevented or lessened through good diet. Prevention is far more cost effective than treatment, so to save our taxes, there should be plenty of preventative advice out there. Then people can choose whether to follow it or not. That's basic common sense. To help people know the optimal amount of fruit and veg to eat, they condense it to a useful, easily understandable number. It's not exact science, it's not supposed to be, it's an easily digestible guideline. If they then find that research shows that guideline can be improved, fair enough that they do that. They aren't putting out a law here, they are giving a healthy eating guideline for the masses. Good idea. then we get morons who act like it's some kind of ridiculous conspiracy and use silly phrases like "scare story" and "emotional blackmail". Laughable.

Been seven a day here for ages, there is no exact amount, it's just an attempt to help people eat healthily. It can only be a good thing if people try to balance their diets a little. i think it'd be worse if there was no education about healthy eating.

I don't think I can take one more bloody post singing Davis' praises as an unsung hero. He gets praised every bloody week, he has had loads of threads, how can he possibly be called unsung? I reckon he has had more praise this season than Morgan, JWP or Wanyama, he's not ****ing unsung.

I think one of the most interesting parts of this has been that, although when Cortese left they made it very clear they had wanted him to stay and that KL had been happy with him, they have been very happy here to give an impression of him leaving the club in a big mess. They haven't said it outright but it's heavily implied. That says to me that there could be some unwelcome changes on the way and they want to make sure any bad feeling is deflected nice and early. I think this will simply be a lack of transfer spending rather than sales as they would look very bad if they sold now after giving guarantees otherwise. Perhaps it also gives them good grounds not to move ahead with any hinted stadium developments too. Now any bad news in policy will be met by "Oh well, I suppose Cortese did leave the club in a financial mess." rather than anger at the new regime.

I just do not get it when fans say this. At the moment we have an excellent left back, one we would almost certainly fail to replace with the same quality. If it were easy to get somebody of his youth and ability, he wouldn't be worth the figures touted. So we can be certain that losing him would make the team worse to the tune of a first class left back. What would we get in return? Another chance to try our hand at the transfer lottery. We may even have less than 30 million to spend, if our owner is willing to sell then she may not be keen to send all that money straight back out again on uncertain returns, in fact it would be ridiculous if she did, as there would be other expenses too. So we have lost a 30 million pound player and now sit with maybe 20-25 million to spend. Let's see where that gets us, 20-25 millions worth of talent? That's unlikely in experience, what we get are players that other clubs will sell us for that price, and that are willing to come to us, remembering that we have just sold our most valuable player, so our ambition is clearly limited. Of the players we get, some will work out and some will flop, that's the way it always is for every club. So to recap, we lose a world class player, widely rated at about 30 million, known to fit our team and can be relied on to perform at this level in this league, and we gain perhaps a 12 million pound success somewhere else on the pitch. Brilliant. Now like many others, I accept that no team gets to keep all of their best players, but to actually show a preference for selling Luke Shaw is absolute short-sighted lunacy. As fans, we should all very much hope that he stays.

Well, currently our team isn't quite as good as Chelsea, Man City, United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs and probably Everton, so I'd say we should expect 8th again, but going by lucky and unlucky results, other teams progress, players having a particularly great or terrible season etc, we should hope for 6th to 10th, being shocked and delighted with higher, disappointed by lower and feeling we have nothing to complain about anywhere within those parameters, because football isn't an exact science and variables can take you in any direction. I also believe we will keep MP and all of our first team regulars. To be honest I'd actually be amazed at 6th, because it would be a huge deal to dislodge 2 of the teams above us now, while hoping none of the teams below us have a resurgent season.

I have no idea what you're going on about. I think. Shaw will still be here next season and I haven't seen any credible reason to think otherwise. If you keep believing every newspaper rumour, you're going to upset yourself.

They were especially bad today though and their failure to keep an organized back line let JRod and Lambert beat the offside trap far more than would be possible most weeks. most stuff on here last week was about how poor we were to let Spurs back into it, rather than recognizing that they are actually a better team than us who took a while to really get firing. we rarely give credit for a win to other teams on here, preferring to slate our own loss, we can't expect other forums to treat us differently.

Kelvin Davis Dan Harding Radhi Jaïdi José Fonte Joseph Mills Paul Wotton Dean Hammond © Michail Antonio Adam Lallana Rickie Lambert Papa Waigo Substitutes: Chris Perry Simon Gillett Lloyd James Bartosz Białkowski David Connolly Anyone else kind of forget that Gillett and James were still part of our team at that stage? I always associate them with the dire team that got relegated from the Championship, not the one that fought its way back to respectability. Mind you I'd also forgotten that we played Harding at RB rather than James. Incredible that Lambert and Lallana were on a journey there that might still end up with them playing for England in the WC finals this year.

Did anybody else find the front row there reminded them of League of Gentlemen?

I think Shaw will actually get in it, not as the best LB necessarily, but because he has caught the attention of everyone so much this year and so will spring to mind quickly when people try to think of an outstanding LB. His age will also add to his appeal as outstanding this season. Baines might still be better, but this hasn't especially been his season. In fact, I think he may have a better chance even than Lallana, because of the depth of alternatives for midfielders.

Even with us, few academy lads go on to command a regular starting place in the prem. I'd say Shaw and Chambers seem to have fully stepped up now, despite promising beginnings I would say the future is still uncertain for JWP, let alone Reed and Gallagher. Players further down the order than those still have a long way to go and a lot to prove. We can hope a few of them make it though.

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Thought we were okay, just that once they got going they were better. No surprise there, they are above us on merit, not by luck.

What is wrong with you?Why not just discuss it? Be open? This hostility makes you look like a small boy.

When Hodgson picked JRod for England, it caught nearly all of us by surprise. It was off the back of a season where he didn't score many and there had been no clamour, even from saints fans, to call him up. Now it looks like he stands a very good chance indeed of being on the plane as second highest English player in the prem. He saw it pretty early, so fair play to him.

I think the real problem would be how many of the goals had been scored from open play.

I like your avatar pap, I watched that film quite a few times as a teenager. Sho Nuff.

The best in no real order: The Wire 24 Entourage The Office (UK and US) Archer Game of Thrones House of Cards Spaced special mentions to Suits, The Bridge, Lilyhammer, Sopranos (only watched one series, liked it but never got hooked) and I'm getting back into Breaking Bad and that should probably be in there. The worst series that I gave decent time to were: lost heroes homeland all of which had a decent early concept that they stretched out further than that concept could manage.

Yes, I use that. I've been using it instead of media hint lately, as there was some issue with Netflix redirecting. It's better too, as media hint allows iplayer and automatically puts you onto US Netflix, whereas hola allows you to choose Netflix from any country.

I used to work in the Irish bar over from the Hippodrome, Bearsy. It was O'Connells back then, but ended up as another O'Neils. St Paddy's day was busier there than on New Year's Day. I don't think anybody there really cared about who St Patrick was as much as Barry does. I think they would have been fine with any day being chosen as a celebration day, but it evolved from the old saint's day and most people don't get quite so uptight about it. It doesn't have anything to do with saints any more. I don't care about the Christian or pagan origins of Christmas either. I bet Barry's a right laugh on festival days, running around telling everybody to stop having fun and to think about the history instead. "Stop it! You're celebrating and enjoying yourselves for the wrong reasons!":lol:

I can't think of many celebrations in the year that I take part in that DON'T have some ridiculous foundation that I don't believe in. In fact the only celebration I take part in that does have a basis I believe in is one based on the signing of another country's constitution. I don't celebrate any saints' days though, that's too silly, but I've seen plenty of St Patrick's day celebrations and can see what it symbolises to the Irish, which I do get. as you mature a bit in life, Barry, you might start to understand stuff like that. Christmas is one of the most important times of the year for me, despite not believing in the Christmas story. It's not about the history or whatever silly reasons it all started, it's about the here and now and what it means to the individual. St Nicholas could be proven to have been a vampiric child murderer and I would still celebrate just the same. Relax, don't be so angry with the world and learn to appreciate it you uptight little man!