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The moment News Corps is charged (as seems increasingly likely) under the US's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, I'd be willing to bet that The Sun is history, at least as an NI imprint. The sheer scale of newsroom criminal activity emerging from the Leveson Inquiry will also probably lead to the Murdochs being tied up in even more expensive and damaging Congressional inquiries for years to come. The damage the Murdoch empire has done to journalism is immense, but even that pales compared to the damage done to British public life, which NI rags have turned into a mafiosi playground, filled with routine cash bribes to those craven enough to play ball, and sinister threats and intimidation directed at those with an ounce of dignity.

The last time I looked, I remember that Brum's away record was actually worse than ours. Still think Reading are the main threat right now.

Sounds more like he's had a lawyer's letter from the PL.

Just hit the nationals: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/portsmouth/9116030/Portsmouth-may-fold-before-the-end-of-Championship-season-says-administrator-of-cash-strapped-club.html

I think you can assume the FAPP is in the post.

Exactly. They will be liquidated - the lack of a precedent has nothing to do with it. The only question is when.

I'm surprised it's so few, but I'll take your word for it. I love the alpine rationale (!) for the rest of the list though. By his logic, Poland was responsible for the holocaust.

It's a bonkers list, pap. For a start, Kosovo and Bosnia were countries on whose soil other countries (Serbia) committed mass murder. Libya and Afghanistan do not, as you say, even come close. However, Iraq is the exception. The US-backed war it fought with Iran probably did exceed the million mark by some distance.

Okay detective, who WAS responsible?

An acquaintance of mine won an Oscar on Sunday night. It was for one of the minor categories admittedly - documentary short. The film was called 'Saving Face', and was about a plastic surgeon who repaired the damage to women's faces after acid attacks in Pakistan. Judging by your (admittedly bizarre) logic, I would have been dissuading her from making it. The problem with you is you have a disordered mind and a tourrets-like posting style, so arguing with you is impossible. I'll leave it at that.

I don't hate anyone, not even feeble minded mini-me's, who are just mildly amusing in ways they'll never be capable of understanding. Now why don't you behave like you're older than eight and go back to the point of the thread.

I see the gormless glutton and the wannabe-turkey woman-hater are double-teaming on the student again. Stick to the argument, geniuses.

Actually the UN didn't. No surprise that you did though.

You're trying to understand something that doesn't really exist to anything like the degree you might think it does. I was in Argentina many times in the eighties, and, aside from the military, never encountered anyone who had more than a passing opinion on the subject. At the time, many Argentinians were FAR more concerned with the lethal behaviour of one of the most bloodily oppressive regimes on the planet. The prospect of being picked up by the notorious secret police, cruising in their Ford Falcons, was far more of a threat than British and local politicians' d ick waving over the Falklands - and of course the most important outcome of the war for most Argentinians was the fall of the junta. Don't confuse flag-waving Peronistas with Argentinians as a whole.

All I can go on are the words on the pages, hypo - some of the best unintentional comedy from you in ages.

Keep going - please tell me you're joking. If not, some advice: it's not them, it's you.

How do Indian families react to you any differently to people on here? And why would that be, I wonder? Still, dribbling on about your 'real world experience' was an excellent joke. Well done.

I hope for his sake that he's not one of those involved in the serial criminal activities which seem to have become deeply rooted in the culture of NOTW. Waving his pay packet at the NOTW's victims suggests he's lost his bearings, so who knows? Today's revelations about what went on in Jackanory's office were truly shocking - the intimidation and corruption of police officers investigating a murder linked to NOTW-hired investigators.

This thread is bigger than Jesus.

I noticed this rather late, but it's heartening to see that the Liebherrs have withdrawn all their business from Iran after the 'authorities' started routinely to use heavy-duty cranes in the mass hangings of its citizens, including children. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/24/idUS221761+24-Aug-2011+BW20110824

West Ham also owe the bulk of the stage payments for Tevez, which I find pretty amazing. They kick in this year apparently.

Yet again, I repeat: the generally accepted definition of 'indigenous' is those peoples who occupied lands before colonisation. Why is 'black' in inverted commas by the way?

Good. Then I don't have to say go away. Your response to cat's point about you former employer hacking into a dead girl's phone is to wave your huge wage slips at him? Good grief.

As in all things to do with the Falklands, it's complicated. While not part of the EU, the islanders are full citizens of the UK and therefore of the EU. They are also able to opt in to large lumps of the EU. As the recent discussions there have shown, things change (in ways that we cannot always predict!), and to repeat my point, if self-determination is the guiding principle (and it seems a good one to me) it can't be changed in order to arrive at only one answer.

Bugger.