Lighthouse

I don't think it's the players which are the real problem (aside from Fox). Today's goals were mainly down to bad organisation and communication. There was nothing today they couldn't have dealt with if only they were properly organised. This isn't like 05 when we had a squad full of dross like Davenport and Nilsson, we've got people who can play. We should stick with Gazza unless he develops some serious faults and give the rest of them some serious coaching.

I voted Gazza because I can't see that he did much wrong to get dropped in the first place. I didn't really see a problem with Boruc for any of those goals. First goal - The free kick just floated over everyone and nobody got a touch on it. Boruc went to his left expecting matey to get a touch and he didn't, it just went straight in. Poor defending, there should be a good strong head on that long before it got to the 'keeper. Second goal - Looked like Guly played Yoshi an absolute hospital pass and their man at the far post was badly marked. Can't remember it too well but looked like Fonte should have done better. Penalty - Fonte's fault, but the free kick leading up to it looked dubious to me. Fourth goal - Defence just kept backing of and Fonte let him turn inside and shoot instead of seeing him down the wing. Great finish, nothing Boruc could really have done.

I think he said, "you talk about the racism, what about everything else?" I think he was trying to make the point that racism isn't the only problem with the game. He is right to be fair, why should there be outrage at racism in the media, whilst chants about Jones' child abuse case is apparently ignored.

I'm not sure about 'better in all other areas' but Beatts was a hell of a player in his prime. His problem was consistency but he had a couple of seasons when he was really good. Rickie has yet to prove himself in the Premier League.

I know Tolix. He's a nice bloke, very open minded and has an interest bordering on obsession with other countries and cultures. He certainly isn't a racist, that was just a very badly judged attempt at a joke. He knows better than most of us the problems with fans in Eastern Europe.

Finnish. I'm off to get rat arsed and go rallying through a forest.

A koala isn't a bear and you spelled 'grizzly' wrongly. Fail.

Black, grizzly or polar?

Sounds like a decent sweepstake to me. He's quite a tall strong lad, I'm going for a medium sized alligator.

Couldn't we moor it at Pompey, gut the insides and build a new 50,000 seater uber stadium inside for the Fratton Faithful? I can't think of a better use than that.

Who's going for this then? Ticket prices look pretty good for this, so I might give it a go. Any reccomendations for decent pubs, easy places to park etc. from those who've been before.

Our fans are clearly an utter embarassment... or something. etc.

I would be absolutely astonished if his altitude wasn't one of the parameters being monitored during the jump. I am sure they will know, even if they don't release it publically for some reason.

I suspect had he waited another 20 seconds to open the shoot and broken Kittinger's record, he might have made rather a large hole in New Mexico.

A lot of people are tweeting 833mph as the top speed, which equated to Mach 1.24 at the time. Wow.

Thinking about it, if he broke the sound barrier anywhere it is most likely around the tropopause, which at those latitiudes would probably have been about 40,000ft. Above that the speed of sound will start to go up again as the atmosphere warms up slightly.

The speed of sound is lower at high altitude (more specifically when air is colder), so if he did break the speed of sound it was likely not at the fastest speed he achieved. The maximum altitude of an aircraft is limited by this. As the aircraft climbs, the speed of sound outside will decrease. Eventually you will get to a point where you cannot fly slower without stalling and you cannot fly faster without exceding the aircrafts maximum mach number. This is known as coffin corner and will be higher or lower depending on an aircraft's weight and outside air temperature.

Just brilliant.

Me too. Sadly far more ludicrous opinions are posted on here in dead seriousness.

2014, we're going to Spa in the Evora. That's the plan anyway.

Anyone got a Fluval 06 series external filter? Been looking around the web, they look pretty handy.

Anyone done this? Looking for some opinions from anyone that has on insurance premiums, is it worth it? Flicking through Go Compare for some quotes and adding the IAM option seems to knock about £70 off the best premium, from £1400 for a £30k Lotus Evora (so about 5%). The course is £139, so in theory that would break even after 2 years. Anyone got any better or worse discounts from elsewhere?

Pretty interesting stuff. Obviously every crash is different so it's hard to make definitive conclusions. In a way it's a shame they used a 727 and not an old 737 which is much similar to modern aircraft design wise. In some ways the 727 was safer. Having the engines at the back protects them from impact in most crash scenarios. They also require a stronger fuselance to cope with the extra weight on the tail, as well as a stronger wing spar. They did this before with an old Boeing 720 and created a massive fireball, they aluded to it briefly in this documentary.

Historically maybe but I went to a local comprehensive and the school rugby team was just as popular as the football team. Half of them were common as muck and lived in council houses. The older rugby fans are probably more middle class but it's not exactly Eton vs Harrow.

Stoned to death, probably none. Stabbed, shot, beatten to death... probably thousands. I'm not saying Islam doesn't have a problem but I think the OP was wrong to desribe it as being 'a religion which condones' murdering a teenage girl. This is more a problem with the Pakistani government, which is one of the more aggresive Islam states. I'm not aware of women's rights being abused in Indonesia, Turkey, Morrocco or the Balkans but I admit I know very little about those countries.