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Bite.

Bakary.

Not a coincidence - it simply (sorry) is. And it's meaningless to say the acronym is 'first'. An acronym can also be a palindrome, just as any word can - but we don't say the word came first. These is a deep philological issue. But with this sorted, we should be free and clear to win at Anfield. Don't thank me.

This changes EVERYTHING!!!

Nice feature on JR in The Times today (sorry, Murdoch's damned paywall means I can't link). Not even a hint of a desire to leave in that either..!

It is closer than that - in some subjects it's better than Oxford. Oxford remains the only place I know of in British HE where you can't study for a politics, philosophy or economics undergraduate degree as single subjects (the closest is economics which you can combine with history). Some claim there are advantages in this, but the only one that matters is it's a feeder degree for the British political classes. UCL and LSE are probably better in all three subjects than Oxford. In the sciences and engineering, Oxford is outdone by other universities in many subjects - not least by Imperial College. Bottom line: London rules. But (to the OP) Birmingham University is very good.

If anyone's going to end up in that part of the world why not go to York? Better university (Russell Group) and much pleasanter city (understatement!). York also has a now well established law school.

And 'comprises' rather than 'comprises of', or 'an historic day' rather than 'a historic day'. Hang on, I'll be back with more (and I'll only shut up if they make the damned announcement).

Yes, Les Reed was sent out to deliver to fans a message that was a pack of lies - because that's how the club has acted ever since the Liebherrs took over. Jesus Christ. What would the body count be on here were a scooter to have a minor backfire?

Yep. How about you? (*question may be interpreted as rhetorical).

We kidnapped him?

No offence intended, but I find it reassuring that you're the one saying this.

Made me laugh. So true though.

So that's that then. Sherwood it is.

There's no helping you if you can't tell the difference between a training ground and a training gronud.

In round numbers? (Or round number singular?).

John Smith is funny.

Why the uncertainty?

Outed. Well there’s an interesting choice of term. My ‘2004-2007 work’, as you put it, included a film about American Airlines 11. One particular story within that, about a passenger called Daniel Lewin, led to my being accused of being – I quote – an ‘Israeli psy-ops officer’. My home address was published online and my family and I received some very disturbing threats. These people, just like you, saw it as important to ‘out’ me – that is, to make false and libellous allegations that I was in the pay of some inner government ‘ring’...in their case, the Israelis (trans: dirty Jews). You are prone to exactly the same impulses. This is why – despite the fact that a few people on here know who I am – I didn’t want you to know. I find you very strange and irrational. And as we’ve seen recently, there’s good reason for concern about this kind of behaviour. The conspiracy theorists who were making the ‘psy-ops’ accusation were also, of course, vicious anti-semites. You take more care to disguise it, but I suspect you are too – as your truly nasty, and thankfully deleted, post about the Holocaust showed. Your only saving grace is your utter hopelessness - your disengagement from anything that remotely resembles reality.

What a weird response. The 'insufferable elite' were the working class voters in Hammersmith and Fulham who rebelled against a council determined to hand a local teaching hospital over to property developers? These were the same 'elite' Londoners who wanted to stop the council demolishing 700 homes occupied by working class tenants in order to replace them with £1m+ apartments? You ought to get out more. Go to King Street in Hammersmith, for example - the local High Street. The boom businesses there are pound shops and pawn shops - two of the latter have opened in just the last six months. Long-established working class communities are under enormous pressure in London, and many face extinction by bedroom tax developer land grabs, and the sheer escalating cost of living in a place where developers want poorer residents pushed the **** out of the way. These are your 'insufferable elites'?

You should get your story straight with your "Let's Roll" mates whom you've also quoted. According to them, the 9/11 survivors and families are all crisis actors: As I say, these comments are from your quoted source. So what do you believe? Are 9/11 victims, survivors and families all crisis actors? Are the Boston victims, survivors and families all crisis actors? And if not, will you FINALLY apologise, a year late, for your deeply offensive accusation that Lee Rigby and his family are crisis actors? (Heaven knows why Gemmel bought your mealy-mouthed nonsense about the 'timing' of your accusation).

Well I'm happy. The socialist republic of Hammersmith and Fulham is reborn. Nothing to do with UKIP, who've been monumentally irrelevant in London despite the enormous amounts of money poured into them by shadowy and creepy ex-Tory donors. Absolutely everything to do with a deceitful Tory council colluding in the destruction in stages of a popular local hospital (Charing Cross). After all the anxiety in the borough about this, it's reassuring to be part of a functioning local democracy.

You really don't have to say it - just as none of it on here is your 'content' either. Weekend back at planet Narcissus?

As someone who's met and interviewed, among others, the widow of the captain of American Airlines Flight 11, the husband of one of the flight attendants calling from the plane as it headed for the North Tower, and the ground staff member to whom she was talking as this first hijack unfolded, I must say they seemed real to me - including their palpable sadness and grief. But then maybe I'm a hologram too. And you. And (almost) everyone. And the Matrix is a documentary. The only thing real in this entire wide world is an IT plumber stranded and earthbound in some Liverpool 'burb.