JackFrost

and he still sells out venues in Scotland in a very short time LOL

Exactly, New Labour and the Conservatives are exactly the same. Only a party that favours the rich will get in because the rich own the media. Cameron is Blair part 2, no policies and too good at the PR for his own good.

temperature of the earth hasn't risen since 1998. We have to focus on countries like the US, China and India to make any significant difference to the amount of CO2 pumped out. If the UK went carbon neutral tomorrow it would make practically no difference overall. The main reason why climate change is one of the hot topics right now is that it's an excuse to tax. Besides, methane is about 20 times more harmful to the atmosphere than CO2 is

A very accurate post. Although strictly speaking unless you're a fluent Arabic speaker you haven't read the Koran. As Muslims don't regard a translation of the Koran a Koran, because of the Arabic language complexity and sacredness, it shows how strict Islam is. Besides, as someone pointed out on here, the biggest danger is the western world's ignorance of Islam. I'm sure for instance that a lot of people in this country will ignore the fact that the Muslim Council of Britain openly condemned the rally by that sect that was calling for Sharia Law to be enforced in this country.

I think this is one reason why he left Mock The Week. The BBC were being too restrictive on him and I wouldn't mind betting the producers went on and on at him to tone his act down. I mean what did the beeb expect? It's like inviting someone like Bernard Manning on and then telling him to stop being racist. I hope Mock the Week get a very good replacement in otherwise the show will go downhill quickly. Boyle was definitely the 'crowd-favourite'.

based on extreme 'Nick Griffin-style' interpretations of Sharia Law, interpretations that go against core principles of Islam itself, Why? Wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that the vast majority of these vicious practises are only reported by the western press when 'someone is doing it in the honour of Allah' would it?

believe it or not the feature to customise your own competitions and leagues is something I'm looking forward to

Totally agree with the top half of your post. There are plenty of Christian verses that could be twisted and grossly misrepresented in the press like plenty of Koran verses have If Christianity was represented in the press like Islam currently is, there'd be a lot of churches coming under attack.

There are also many Islamic countries that are less screwed up than some so called Christian countries. Your saying the Taliban running Afghanistan would be as bad as say e.g. the Lord's Resistance Army running Uganda? I agree with you. What I'm saying is we as the western population hardly hear about extremists who claim they are doing what they do for any religion other than Islam. This results in Islam being severely demonised to people in western countries, and people like Griffin swallowing it all and forming opinions based on pure ignorance. As for your second point what I'm saying overall is, it doesn't say anywhere in the Koran "Women must be stoned to death if they commit adultery" or as Griffin likes to think "Women must be stoned to death if they are raped by a man"

The game is not produced from scratch each year. The interface is modified, tweaked and new features are aligned in the code, that is what happens each year. Big difference. The detail of the game (assuming you mean the amount of players, clubs, leagues) is incredible yes, but the sheer amount of data in the game (with the necessary precautions) would be extremely unlikely to produce bugs, it's unknown elements ie new features being implemented in the game that would cause the majority of bugs/glitches the programmers would have to sort. Interesting you refer to SI as a "small developer". Bet their a way bigger software developer than the company I work for

I work for a small IT company that produces complex software for various companies that needs to be constantly updated and tweaked for more add-ons and features to be added. If our company released software with as many fundamental bugs and glitches as the last FM had we'd go out of business. I found glitches in FM09 on its release (double type in a search engine bug for instance) which if found in our software, would take one of our programmers minutes to fix. I almost don't mind a new PC game of FM's magnitude to have the odd bug straightaway, but for there to be bugs so fundamental and obvious is unbelievable. They can only get away with it because of the size of their company and the reputation of the game. At the end of the day it's selling a product to the mass market that they know has faults with it Now I'll be fair, I haven't seen or played FM10 yet so can't pass judgement. it may well be a lot more bug free than previous versions, I'll have to see, but the presence of a patch on a game's release date doesn't exactly exhude confidence.

The top 40 music charts were killed off in the early 00s as soon as the bloody manufactured dross started to take over . All the charts are now are a sodding popularity contest of celebrities

No problems him coming back in a limited role, as long as he isn't anywhere near the first team.

LOL Why don't the people making Football Manager make sure the game is actually finished before they release it?

Depends what you wanna use it for. It's far less user friendly than Windows but if your a programmer it's infinitely more times easier to experiement with.

The whole program was little more than a 'demonise the BNP' publicity stunt. Griffin was thick enough to go along with it. He illustrated how deluded he was with his views on religion. No hypochondriac, he didn't have a point on Islam. His views on Islam are as wrong and despicable as they are on immigration. That's an example of how easy it is for him to link his disgusting views with common opinions derived from misconceptions in the press, and ultimately get people agreeing with his delusions. Anyone who has studied Christianity and Islam will know they are very similar religions, Christians and Muslims worship the same God for example. The only major differences are firstly, what they believe about Jesus Christ. Christians believe he is the son of God whereas Muslims believe this is impossible and think that Jesus Christ was a divine prophet. The only other is a cultural difference is how strictly the respective religions are applied (e.g.dress code). Islam is severely demonised in the western press, when a woman is stoned to death in a Muslim country the press associate this incident with Islam when in fact it's the actions of the despicable governments, some of which western countries openly support diplomatically (e.g. Saudi Arabia). Anyone would think there were commercial interests involved . . . . . At the end of the day though Christianity and Islam are very similar religions. As most of you will know, eating pork is strictly forbidden in the Koran. What some of you may not know is that it is also banned in the Bible (somewhere in Leviticus) There are also 'Christian' militants in the world as well as the 'Islamic' militants we hear about (using the words loosely), the LRA in Uganda, the IRA in Ireland, groups in Papua New Guinea etc etc etc Any Muslim will tell you that Bin Laden is not an "Islamic extremist", as his actions go against the core principles of Islam. Violence is strictly forbidden in the Koran. It's like a devil worshipper calling himself a Christian. Unfortunately a lot of the western press are ignorant enough to use this term and it's idiots like Griffin who think everything they read in the Mail or The Sun is fact. (Rant on religion over thank goodness) Besides, Griffin just illustrated what a complete idiot he is in all areas. I thought that black woman (the lady from the museum ,not the Tory) did better than the other 3 put together. The BNP will continue to try and link their vile racist bigotry with common opinions people have on issues like immigration but I think the majority of British people have too much sense. That may sound complacent, but the BNP have the British press united against them and it is the press that is the most powerful force, not only in this country but the world. (Need a cup of tea after that)

Disagree, he was woefully off form the season he left partlydue to a niggling ankle injury. Also he was keeping Crouch out of the side was one of, if not the most prolific Premiership striker in the second half of that season. There's another one, Peter Crouch. Yes it was a choice of either playing for a Championship club or for Liverpool, but he went from a prolific striker to not scoring for his new club Liverpool in over 23 hours of football.

and how did Michael Svensson not even make the list? One of our greatest ever defenders whose body sadly let him down.

Overall a very good list, but I disagree in a couple of areas. Marsden should be higher. In 02/03 there was a stage where he was getting a weekly MOTD analysis tribute. He was very consistent and one of the most professional players we have ever had. Don't agree with the Kelvin Davis summary. There was a time a few years ago when he was one of the poorest goalkeepers in the Championship and was making schoolboy errors on an almost weekly basis. You have to take your hat off to him though, he has completely turned his form around since then. It's especially credible considering all the abuse he got from his own fans.