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I heard a quote on the radio this evening stating that this whole affair is actually a matter of 'freedom of the press'.... The editorial team at the Daily Mail are perfectly free to confirm their status as narrow-minded, bullying, bigots.
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I suspect that the Mail will find some way to resurrect it.
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1) Shock horror - a self proclaimed marxist thought that the British class system and Monarchy were outdated and should be replaced. ( FWIW, Eric Pickles was a marxist at school ). 2) Shock horror - the Daily Mail writes an article during the Tory party conference that derides a marxist. ( Stereotypical foaming at the mouth, pandering to their loyal readership ). Why is either of these points a surprise ?
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The bloke on the 19th floor will even lose his view next Easter, the tower blocks are coming down. As for the having to register for JSA online - the main Job Centre here is across the road from Central Library, so they simply send all the JSA claimants over to use the public access PCs we have installed, expecting the library staff to walk the jobless through the online processing; ( nobody told the library this was going to happen ).
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Well, we were certainly not a match for Citeh and Chelski last season.
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We see shedloads of Ribbles round here as they are local - certainly a lot of the cycle club members like them. I considered the Bianco when I was looking to buy my 'best' bike, but looked to having the Tiagra groupset fitted, as it gives the option for an easier bottom gear for the less flat stretches, ( a.k.a. the Pennines ).
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Chamakh should have jumped over King Artur and slotted the ball into the empty net, instead he was on the way down before contact was made with the keeper - in all probability there were only 2 people in the ground ( or watching the stream ) who knew it wasn't a pen at first sight, one was the striker and the other was the ref.
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Mrs B has spent today making chutney from the figs and plums in our garden, and it looks like there will be a useful crop from the grape vine that has grown up and over the apple tree. ( That latter crop really shows what sort of summer we have had up here ).
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Can't argue for the money, Sora / Carbon fork / etc, however I bet that within 18 months this will be your 'second' bike.
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Post Match Reaction & MotM: SAINTS 2-0 Crystal Palace
badgerx16 replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Saints
Just spotted that we have the joint best defensive record in the entire football league. -
Post Match Reaction & MotM: SAINTS 2-0 Crystal Palace
badgerx16 replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Saints
3 points, clean sheet, Dani O & SRL score, a goal from open play - good day at the office. -
There you go - Dani O IS rubbish and we will NEVER score from open play.
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Global warming really is happening... (well, duh!)
badgerx16 replied to 1976_Child's topic in The Lounge
Nor do any of the MMCC proponents. There seems to be a particular hook that the nay-sayers are getting stuck on; that the argument is a straight, black or white, "Is Climate Change man made ?", which point can then easily be rebutted by the 'climate has always changed' retort. -
Global warming really is happening... (well, duh!)
badgerx16 replied to 1976_Child's topic in The Lounge
Do you, perchance, read the Daily Mail or the Daily Telegraph ? -
Global warming really is happening... (well, duh!)
badgerx16 replied to 1976_Child's topic in The Lounge
But what is their conclusion ? GOHC calculations with and without corrections derived from the TG and CH methods. Also included are calculations from L09: (http://journals.ametsoc.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/ams/journals/content/atot/2013/15200426-30.6/jtech-d-12-00127.1/20130613/images/large/jtech-d-12-00127.1-f19.jpeg) -
Global warming really is happening... (well, duh!)
badgerx16 replied to 1976_Child's topic in The Lounge
And there lies the problem - if the sceptics are right they all point their fingers and sing "Lah, lah, lah, we told you so", if the 'tree huggers' are proved to be right, your grandchildren are screwed. -
Global warming really is happening... (well, duh!)
badgerx16 replied to 1976_Child's topic in The Lounge
But that is not what the IPCC reports says - it says the rate of increase over the last 15 years is less than predicted. "Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850" "...the rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012; 0.05 [–0.05 to +0.15] °C per decade), which begins with a strong El Niño, is smaller than the rate calculated since 1951..." "The globally averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature data as calculated by a linear trend, show a warming of 0.85 [0.65 to 1.06] °C, over the period 1880–2012, when multiple independently produced datasets exist." -
Global warming really is happening... (well, duh!)
badgerx16 replied to 1976_Child's topic in The Lounge
The year 2000 computer meltdown didn't happen because thousands of people like me, around the world, spent months upgrading and patching systems before the deadline date. Even so, some things did go wrong. It was real, it was managed - MMCC is real, but there is still time to manage the situation. -
Unless we have somebody else lined up to replace him this would be very foolish. Building the attack around Osvaldo is fine, but the other attackers ( J-Rod, Gaston, Lallana, etc ) need to contribute their share of goals, and who would step in if Dani were suspended / injured ?
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Marquez's overtaking is sometimes bordering on the insane.
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Presumably Spartan is a Skate 'in peace' but when he posts about the return match :- "See you in March probably a few beers in the Mount on the Friday Night or the Bourne Arms in Knott End" he can f()ck right off - I couldn't tolerate a skate in the Bourne, it's only a mile, and upwind, from my house.
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Perfect pair of results - Saints win at the Premier leaders and my 'local' team beat the skates.
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Even Gaston ?
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Looks like a good idea from up here !
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Global warming really is happening... (well, duh!)
badgerx16 replied to 1976_Child's topic in The Lounge
A fine group of CC deniers you have there. http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/09/17/international-climate-science-coalition-s-lacks-credibility "The self-proclaimed experts at the International Climate Science Coalition have today launched another fanciful flight into the realm of climate denialism and United Nations conspiracy theories."
