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I would have, but you didn't turn up.

Well if you get out of bed more often you'd stand a better chance of making something of yourself.

Not as badly as you're being misspelt.

Anyone who walks around with the name of Tristram and flogs cigarettes for a living has little room left to mock. Why don't you stop trying to hijack this thread into another 'look at me' nonsense?

You have the patience of a saint.

If by 'they' you mean Al Qaeda, there's good reason to think not, at least in Afghanistan. If by they you mean the Taliban, much of their support derives from a fiercely nationalistic, anti-outsider sentiment, especially among the majority Pashtuns. The West's presence as an occupying force undoubtedly strengthens the Taliban.

Indeed. The Times also picks up on this story (can't link to it unfortunately without having to give Murdoch money).

Overrated pap. (Sorry pap). And would depress a labrador.

You really are odd. Viking (for all his many faults) actually has experience of these planes and other transports - which you choose to dismiss as 'non-sensical' [sic].

Al Qaeda was driven out of Afghanistan almost a decade ago. The British and the coalition have been fighting the Taliban, who have never been a direct threat to the West, and who have never mounted any kind of attack outside of Afghanistan. (The Pakistani Taliban is different).

I'll raise you: The Tenant (for the failed suicide followed by the second more successful try).

That would do it.

Only if you invite me to one of your 'marketing' exercises for BAT.

Yes, but Alpine's very angry.

Jesus H! Have you seen your post count?

Rangers will be liquidated before the end of the season, according to Channel Four news, quoting the administrators. Staggering. Once the psychological barrier is crossed....

And Obama responds to this 'dressing down' - along with Britain, Germany and France - by re-opening talks with Iran over the nuclear facilities. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/06/world/meast/iran-nuclear/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Claridges is a hotel you petit-bourgeois.

Three too many.

Wasn't there also a brief period when Davies, Paine AND Chivers (before his sale to Spurs) were in the same team?

Lord Duck, meet Jackanory.

That chart is upside down, surely.

The 'complicated' stuff they do pretty well, I'd have thought. Hence this thread, hence this inquiry, hence this 'little difficulty' that the Murdochs have found themselves in. You do know who broke this story, right?

Yes, because THAT's what's wrong with British journalism.

I'll be curious to see whether the ITV series covers the story of the crew.