JackFrost

On freeview you need to retune your box to get the extra red button channels for the olympics

Sounds like you missed the ladies' synchronised diving earlier

When someone tells you something you need to know and they say "FYI" and then say what they need to say. The irony is they think it's a short way of saying "for your interest" when they don't even need to say it in the first place.

Qatar are actually very much in contention for qualifying for the 2014 World Cup on merit. In their group their battling for the second qualifying spot with Iran behind South Korea. Anyway, personally I didn't think much of the opening ceremony. Some good bits but overshadowed by some bloody awful things. The theme was ok initially when they transformed the green fields into the industrial revolution (thought they should have gone the whole way to what London is now) but then it all went downhill The NHS bit was just weird, the Rowan Atkinson thing was stupid after 5 seconds and from then on it became hopelessly reliant on wheeling celebrities out. They made a big mistake making a load of nobodies light the cauldron, although the cauldron itself was very clever. As for bleedin' McCartney at the end Couple of comedic moments, some of the balloons during the countdown didn't explode, that German guy doing that Nazi saluting although that may have been a unfortunate camera angle (either way it was hilarious), and I swear someone had to wake the Queen up just before Rogge got her to declare the Olympics open. The whole thing wasn't a patch on China 4 years ago, now that was unforgettable. I don't think I'll ever forget this, simple yet so spectacular http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iySCiDaaldw

I think you've made your marque on this thread

Yep, ignore them. If they keep sending you increasingly threatening letters, send them a letter back saying you only have a legal obligation to pay any fine to the police or local council which they are neither, and you'll construe any future letters from them as harassment.

Albert Luque Signed for Newcastle for £9.5 million and scored 1 goal in 21 games

I think they'll survive past August 10th but next season will be very long and very hard for them. It's when Chainrai has his mitts on all of the parachute money, that's when things will get interesting again.

Not working for me either

Seconded

Damn you had me fooled for a moment, I can't believe you've gone down that road

No at 31%. Come on chaps.

working for me

1-0 brazil

It was actually Dunblane that made the (then) government ban all cartridge handguns as a response. Besides it is still perfectly legal to own certain guns in the UK providing you have a licence.

It'll be a good indicator how good our young players are compared with other countries. I expect Brazil to stuff us looking at their squad

It would be complete madness and even if it did happen and KD got injured, we'd still have one of the PL's most comedic moments ever with Forecast even if it was at our expense. Also we have Adkins in charge now, who isn't likely to make a George Burley-esqe decision and "keep his faith" in Forecast.

Forecast has made 4 appearances in the FL for Grimsby. His debut was described as "one of the most shockingly inept displays the Football League has ever seen." and his loan spell was ended early even though the 1st choice Grimsby keeper was still injured. I think that sums it up really, hope Lowe is still happy.

I hope scouts from Orlando City were there, given that they signed Anthony Pulis

23rd July is my bday

Yeah with GTA IV they tried to go the "realism" route and it just didn't work that well. The whole point of GTA is being in a virtual environment where you can blow up police helicopters with armoured tanks and doing whatever the hell you want. I also found a lot of the characters in GTA IV irritating - Niko spending half the story talking about his soul, and as for that Roman guy - jeez. The Jamaican Jacob fella was the only character that I found entertaining/amusing although that's probably because I've come across so many fellas that are just like him in real life when I was on the beat. One rumour on wikipedia is they're trying to re-create real life Los Angeles which would be interesting. They need to produce an updated version of the San Andreas formula. And bring back The Truth (yep, I also came across a few blokes like him as well when I was a copper)

. . .subject to the SFA not overruling it

Money

As is the swear filter for asterisking the most important word of my joke

That is taking the ****