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Good story. I was at CERN while the LHC was under construction. The experimental scientists I met there were all as you describe. Their single-minded determination to be as cautious and precise as possible with their experiments, never overstating a result or over-simplifying an explanation, made them almost impossible to understand at times. But this was truly a scientific community working with common purpose and at the very edge of our scientific knowledge. Aside from this, it's a great day for woefully underfunded British science, and for Peter Higgs in particular. We spend 0.55 of GDP on scientific research - less than any country in the G8. Yet Britain is the most scientifically productive country in the world. (The Cavendish Lab in Cambridge alone has 29 Nobel prizes - more than entire countries like China or Russia.) Knighthoods won't mean a damn if Higgs isn't awarded one.

You have a personal animosity towards all experimental scientists? Based on what exactly? This really is breathtaking stupidity. Honestly, you meet some odd people here and there, but if you're like this in person, I feel genuinely sorry for you.

I'll bet your mortgage that we have at least one signing in before the end of July

Do some reading Dimbulb. Be just a tiny bit curious. Don't accept the pathetic limitations of your own knowledge as the edge of the world.

You really are an LHC-sized nitwit. This will in all likelihood turn out to be one of the great days in modern science, and you're spending it wedged into your chair typing it's all a conspiracy?

Why?

There are about 80 million Germans, many of them goalkeepers. Can you narrow it down a bit?

Fulham, at least, aren't in the running - they've been outbid by us and they won't go back. Fayed is balancing the books these days.

We chaps justify it by looking cool and not like £9 bowl-cut-and-shears plebs.

In Premier League football you always round up.

I'd suggest the reason for an edit wouldn't be 'misquote' but selective quoting. The sentence after the chief prosecutor one is surely worth including.

That's still not what's at issue, though. It's the routine use of solitary confinement among pre-trial detainees.

So I see the Saintsweb dumb and dumber are on their anti-student rant again.

So a routine denial of a basic right is reduced to 'probably overkill'?

Yes, but about the Swedish judicial system's attitude to pre-trial detainees, which is what the article is about?

If you read the piece, it's actually about the system itself, not about its application to one or to notorious cases.

I don't think you read the article in that link.

The worst of it is the Libor scandal was the result of manipulation by derivatives traders - the same derivatives that brought the credit crunch down on our heads.

Congratulations. You've turned into your mum.

I feel sorry for him. He's clearly been spun a pile of crap and he's fallen for it.

That's got to be wrong.

Crisps are weird though. They're basically burned fat heavily laced with salt.

"Ik wil naar Southampton" is either positive or he's talking in sea-shanty to say no.

Quite so. This crowd nowhere near cool enough to post on Saintsweb. I bet there's not a WUM, troll or wizened old hack a-mong them. Pathetic people.

So Reading, with a stadium capacity less than Craven Cottage, can outbid Fulham on wages/signing-on fee. Given the experience of our friends down the road, I wonder how sustainable this all is. Fulham, by the way, is one of the most indebted clubs in the Prem, and only gets away with it because it pays negligible interest on £200m or so to Fayed.