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  1. And what about the majority of Brighton fans that deserve to be given the opportunity to get back to their cars without sticking out like the proverbial sore thumb? Letting everyone out at the same time is the best option for normal fans. The only people it doesn't suit is the miniscule minority that want to fight. Law and Order is about protecting the innocent, not about protecting criminals from themselves. For that fundamental reason Hampshire Constabulary did the right thing for the Portsmouth game and they should continue to do it.
  2. Just go home after the game, or go a for drink, or a meal. That way you won't get into trouble. After the Portsmouth cases everyone saints fan that would ideally enjoy a ruck knows the score so they have no excuse for getting involved around the stadium or in town and then complaining after.
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    NA's reaction

    I think too many people are being taken in by leftback. He's just a bitter man with an axe to grind or is on a wind up. Either way he not important and what he says should be taken with the same pinch of salt you'd take any other posters views.
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    Are you leftback in disguise?
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    Royal Wedding

    Seriously, do you really think you should be teaching kids as a member of a violent Marxist organisation?
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    And people like me.
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    You stick to Weyman Bennett.
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    Royal Wedding

    I won't be buying much of it, but I will fly the Union Flag to show my loyalty and admiration for the crown.
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    They are not Socialist. They are a Western Christian Imperialist institution.
  10. This.
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    Latest guesstimates say it'll give a £620,000,000 boost to the economy. We are so fortunate to have a Royal Family that brings so much investment into the UK for such a comparitively small cost to the taxpayer.
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    Learn to quote Timmy.
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    They died.
  14. THE GINGER GENE REVEALED Red hair, often associated with a fiery temper, not to mention the bad behaviour of media millionaire Chris Evans, may be the legacy of Neanderthal man. Oxford University scientists think the 'ginger gene', which is responsible for red hair, fair skin and freckles, could be up to 100,000 years old. They say their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man, who lived in Europe for 260,000 years before the ancestors of modern man arrived from Africa about 40,000 years ago. Research leader Dr Rosalind Harding said: 'It is certainly possible that red hair comes from the Neanderthals.' The Neanderthals are generally thought to have been a less intelligent species than modern man, Homo sapiens. They were taller and stockier, but with shorter limbs, bigger faces and noses, receding chins and low foreheads. They had a basic, guttural vocabulary of around 70 words, probably at the level of today's two-year-old, and they never developed a full language, art or culture. T hey settled in Europe about 300,000 years ago, but 40,000 years ago a wave of immigrants - our fore-bears, Cro-Magnon Man - emerged from Africa and the two species coexisted for 10,000 years. Dr Harding's research - which she is presenting at a conference of the Human Genome Organisation later this week - suggests the two species interbred for the ginger gene to survive. But Dr Harding said Chris Evans and other redheads should not be offended by being linked to the primitive Neanderthals. She said: 'If it's possible that we had ancestry from Neanderthals then it says that Neanderthals were more similar to us than we previously thought. 'No one should take offence from the research.' Scientists at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, at Oxford University, compared the human ginger gene - known in scientific terms as the melanocortin-1 receptor - with the equivalent in chimpanzees. They found 16 differences, or mutations, between the two genes. Since an early version of the gene developed in chimps roughly ten million years ago, the scientists estimated there has been one mutation every 625,000 years. They used a computer to calculate how long it must have taken for one particular mutation - the one responsible for ginger hair - to have passed down through the generations and become so common among people in Britain. They concluded the mutation was older than 50,000 years and could be as old as 100,000 years. A Channel 4 drama last year explored new evidence that Neanderthals were actually 'ultrahumans' - able to adapt to extremes of climate and surviving for 272,000 years, compared with modern man's 40 ,000 years and 'civilised ' man's 7,000. But they finally became extinct - about 28,000 years ago - because Cro-Magnon Man was more socially advanced and able to develop communities and a language. In the end, Neanderthals were outwitted for territory and food. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-38826/The-ginger-gene-revealed.html#ixzz15dfkBc4j
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    Henry XIII was one of the gingers, as was Lizzy I.
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    They made me laugh.
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    Shares

    Good results from ITV with revenues increasing and debt decreasing, although the SP did drop (which i'm happy about as it keeps the window of opportunity open longer). This is still a great long term investment imo and now is a great time to get in there.
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    He's not though. He says it like it is and has a brilliant sense of humour. I think he's ace.
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    When Charles and Diana got married I was on holiday in Bournemouth with my mum and dad and dad parked on double yellows saying "it'd be alright because the traffic wardens had been given the day off". Everyone else thought the same thing and the whole road along the front was chocca with cars parked on the double yellows. Unfortunately the ob weren't given the day off and every car got a ticket.
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    The Duke of Edinburgh has expressed regret over a comment he made about Indians during a tour of an electronics firm - but it is not the first time his controversial remarks have landed him in hot water. In May this year he angered deaf people during a visit to the new Welsh Assembly. While he was with a group from the British Deaf Association who were standing near a band, he pointed to the musicians and said: "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." In 1996 he caused an outcry among gun law reformers when he said: "There's no evidence that people who use weapons for sport are any more dangerous than people who use golf clubs or tennis rackets or cricket bats." He told a Briton he met in Hungary in 1993: "You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly". In 1995 he asked a Scottish driving instructor: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test." The Prince angered local residents in Lockerbie when on a visit to the town in 1993, he said to a man who lived in a road where 11 people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet: "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle." During a Royal visit to China in 1986 he described Peking as "ghastly" and told British students: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed." He said of Canada: "We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves." At the height of the recession in 1981 he said: "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." In 1966 he provoked outrage by saying: "British women can't cook." Commenting on stress counselling for servicemen in a TV documentary on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day, he said: "It was part of the fortunes of war. We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking `are you all right - are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?'. You just got on with it." Personal remarks have annoyed singing stars. In 1969 The Duke said to Tom Jones after the Royal Variety Performance: "What do you gargle with, pebbles?". At a private lunch given 30 years ago he said he thought Adam Faith's singing was like bath water going down a plug hole. The Duke is a Legend.
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    lol. I actually like Camilla (never a fan of Diana and her melodramatic b0ll0cks). That said my favourite Royal is "The Duke". His views and attitudes are the same as mine. I love the way he says it like it is and doesn't give a sh1t what anyone else thinks about it.
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    A Conservative victory in 2015.
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    Oh I get now. Humour (despite it being lefty humour - therefore not funny at all) is a taboo thing in Socialist/Marxist circles and BTF is laughing about it slipping through the net.
  24. Given time they'll all be like Baj.
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