JackFrost

about to start on BBC2

That's because they produced commercial radio friendly music, broke through just at the right time to establish their brand with a deluge of PR. Like I say I see why people liked them and still do like them but their not to my personal taste. If they were breaking through right now they wouldn't stand a chance in terms of any widespread success. Like all bands their now only living off their reputation in a world where music isn't bought down to quality or standard of music, it's bought because it's what Simon Cowell tells people to buy. The radio DJs/music experts have moved on and the "mind-blowing" music is now being produced by the kiddie-pop brats like Justin Bieber and the 30-40 other clones producing "hip-hop" with the sole purpose of enriching the wealth of the select few by making mediocrity look pleasing and fashionable to the wider public's eye.

I didn't say it was small minded to like them or any band. What I said was, it was small minded for so called "musical experts" to brand fairly basic piano/guitar chords/riffs as "mind-blowing" just because their done by a famous band that a lot of people have heard of. If people like them that's up to them, but their not to my taste and never have been but I can see especially in these current times why people like them. Coldplay are one of the last mainstream bands around which is something to be heralded. Now that pop music is nothing more than a conveyor belt of physically attractive youngsters that attempt to sing and dance whilst blagging a living by producing pitch corrected recordings in fashionable clothes, Coldplay are almost to the point of being 'refreshing' as what they produce can be called 'music'.

Coldplay bore me to tears. It really does illustrate to me how small minded some radio DJs/music reporters are when they describe some of their basic commercial guitar/piano riffs as "mind blowing" Not a big fan of U2 but I can listen to them. I can see why their popular.

Just wait for this to appear on a couple of skate forums and them actually believing it

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motogp/13914951.stm

And when asked the direct question Dune skips around it then ignores it. Quite a socialist thing to do. Seriously though I'm sure Maynard is a inspiration to many people, unfortunately for dune he intended a wind-up and has had quite the opposite reaction.

why?

and that's funny because. .

Threads with 'OMG' in them

The Labour party's reckless borrowing that left us with the biggest deficit since WW2 was certainly not an illusion. Of course it was a global meltdown but we were among the first to go into recession and the last to come out thanks to years of Brown and Darling constantly throwing money that we didn't have at problems in the hope they'd go away by themselves

Can we change the misleading thread title to "Thank you Nick Clegg"? For accuracy of who is pushing the idea, and to annoy dune

As signings go they've already lost out on De Laet and Shackell that they were rumoured to be interested in. I doubt they'll make a move until the registration deadline is around the corner, then expect them to sign Carlos Tevez

From what I've seen of it the mental training would do me a lot of good, also it seems to be based purely around self defence and it appears a more laid back, less aggressive martial art than say karate/judo and would suit me more. As I've said I not really done any proper research yet but on first impressions it would probably suit me.

Anyone done aikido on here? Have considered taking it up myself but never got round to really looking into it

1- Golac - simply the best 2- Killer - One of our best ever CBs and his determination to come back from his knee injury was something else 3- Ostlund - For his commitment and his brute strength/stamina. Will never forget when Hartson karate kicked him and he just got straight back up again as if nothing had happened 4- Claus - Great Servant 5- Niemi - Pure Class 6- Dia - Is just amusing looking back on it 7- Pahars - couldn't half score a crucial goal 8- Monkou - Great player 9- Rasiak - Like an Alfa Romeo, would either delight you or have you tearing your hair out, even just for that goal against Derby 10- Tahar - Purely in for that tackle when he practically chopped Kieron Dyer in two

Hard to believe it only in the mid-late 90s when the cars stopped completely disintegrating on big impacts. In the 60s/70s plenty of drivers died in an horrendous way, where the cars would turn into a fireball and they'd be trapped inside and die after being burnt alive. Most terrifying crash I saw live on TV was in Indycars in '82, when Gordon Smiley lost control and went straight into the concrete wall at 200mph. One of the medics who was there later wrote in his autobiography that when he came across the wreckage he noticed a strange grey substance on the track. Turns out it was the liquified remains of Smiley's brain that had melted in the fireball and splattered all over the track. Before anyone asks the inevitable unfunny question, no he didn't survive.

True although we still achieved that in League one despite the chaos ensuing with ML passing away, the Pardew debacle and the 4-5 games of Wilkins' disastrous spell/transition with Adkins

Wasn't that when the blithering idiot George Burley signed plenty of players in good time. Unfortunately he thought the best way to deal with a severe defensive crisis was sign a load of central midfielders

He's been having too many conversations on money with Peter Storrie

I totally agree, they're driving me mad

I expect it'll be by £0, as they'll make them up as they go along and use any laundered money via creative accounting to cover their backs.

I very much doubt he had identical equipment to Schumacher, which makes it all the more outstanding

Srebrenica '95, Khmer Rouge in the late 70s, Darfur, it really is one of the great philosophical tragedies of life when after Hitler's extermination of the Jews people said "never again". Even a local Detective Inspector of many years would tell you their experience of the extent of the horrible things people do to each other, and mass torture/murder is on a completely different level to that. In the famous words of Rodney King "why can't we all just get along?"

I think Massa signed a long term contract after he was a test driver and he did look quite good when team-mates with Schumacher. He was close to Schuey's pace most of the year despite not being allowed to race him and being in an inferior car. He has gradually faded though, it baffled me when Ferrari signed him until 2012