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I assume he's off to Liverpool too?

Good to hear our impartial co-commentator shouting 'GET IN!' as that one went in! Well done Gareth

"Ronaldo hurdling it... maybe not so much contact." Is that what we're calling diving these days?

I'm guessing this referee doesn't ref in La Liga? Ignoring nearly all the tumbles from the players and letting them play, it's great to see.

That was the most predictable thing I think I've ever seen ever.

Looks like Derby have been watching too many of our games - loads of possession, barely a chance to speak of.

See, Pap, I thought you'd turned a corner with your last post - you'd actually come out of your hidey-hole, put forward some actually debatable material, and responded in a mature fashion to a question. "Bravo Pap!" I cried. "He's managed to surpass the debating skills of an eleven-year-old! Rejoice! Maybe we can actually get somewhere now." But now somebody comes along with equally valid points and better questions, you revert to type, avoid answering the points put forward, and start shouting "Strawman! Strawman! That's not fair, I'm not playing any more!" Some might argue that those are the techniques of somebody that knows they don't have a leg to stand on, or worse, a politician.

Pap, I feel with you giving out all these awards, you're neglecting yourself; it's not healthy. Here, cherish these: Hey. You earned them.

I know I'm a bit late on this, but have a play around with this: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/flobi.html It's a simple calculator to show the energy that would have been transferred to the supporting structure below, using a few physical laws. Various sources put the mass of one WTC tower at around 450,000,000 kg; dividing that by 110 and multiplying by 15 gives you the mass of 15 floors as 61,363,636 kg, not including the bit on the top which would have been a few more tons. Let's say a floor is 2 m high; these figures give you a value of 1,202,727,265 Joules of energy transferred by the 15 stories collapsing down, or 1.2 gigajoules. However, that doesn't take into account the penetration and momentum of the structure - it assumes that the towers land with no momentum and energy just stops, which clearly it doesn't. 1.2 gigajoules in a fraction of a second landing on already-damaged support struts is a lot. It is, somewhat coincidentally, approximately the energy required to take 1000 kg of steel from room temperature to melting point (actually about 1.4e^9 J, but the point stands). Your other point about it being dispersed is irrelevant; in the time period the collapse took, even if every brick were to turn to dust, it would not be able to dissipate quickly enough - there's just too much volume with such a small surface area to escape from. To use your excellent analogy from earlier, the building becomes a bag of sugar, and the sugar cannot move out quickly enough because it's all moving at the same speed.

Nice linking to a completely independent unbiased source there, paps.

Only because some of that was the remains of the nuke (seriously??!?!) they used because it was an INSIDE JOB YEAH.

I am constantly amazed by some of the characters out there in the world - I genuinely didn't know that there were actual people that missed the massive f*cking plane crashing into a tower captured live from about 20 different camera angles and seen by multiple thousands of people. I suppose climate change is a myth too, Pap? The Americans never landed on the moon? Or the Moon-folk came to us and started farming us and leaving crop circles and brainwashing our governments? Don't look now, but there's a translucent man with an axe standing behind you...

Green. But the bigger priority is that people vote, not who they vote for, especially my age group. Politicians pretty much ignore the votes of the 18-25s, policies are aimed towards homeowners with kids because they know a lot of us don't vote so they don't need to appeal to us.

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2014/05/nigel-farage-ive-got-so-many-women-pregnant-over-the-years/

This one's good: http://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/john-lear.htm I especially like this bit: I also didn't realise you have to be an engineer and architect to be a pilot. What a pillock.

This was written just after that 7-0 win: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2521833/After-Walcott-Bale-Lallana-Shaw-generation-Saints-players-making-themselves.html Sims is the one that seems to be making the biggest waves recently.

I'd imagine (read: hope) the starting XI would have Henderson in for Lampard in DM and Lallana in for Wilshire in AM; beyond that, with Sturridge up top and Rooney just behind, that looks fairly likely. Personally I'd rather have Lambert instead of Rooney, but that's partly based on my Southampton/SRL bias and my anti-Rooney bias because he just doesn't fit into the England squad. I can guarantee he'll start though.

Adam Lallana - 20! Gotta be

Redmond looked good, although after his second goal he was frustratingly selfish, shooting at every opportunity when there were others in better positions around him. Not unique to him though - Ince and Lingard were guilty of that too, but Redmond was doing it repeatedly. With some coaching and better players around him than he has at Norwich, he could do well.

Goes goes to show how well we've done this season then!

I haven't, I have a loan to cover that of which I see not a penny, and then have that debt hanging over my head (which I'll be paying back with interest over the rate of inflation, naturally) for the next 30 years after I graduate into this over-saturated job market. Not sure why you've put the word "fees" in quotation marks? They are very real fees which I will still be ruing into my early fifties.

Exactly this, I'd take an advert break at every throw in if it means Adrian Chiles is never again allowed anywhere near a TV camera.

The best thing about Athletico drawing with Barca is that it means Real finish in third! They are the team that try to buy trophies if ever I've seen one, never mind Man City or Chelsea.

I was going to say this even before he missed an open goal, but Kieran Gibbs is useless. Well done Roy Hodgson for dodging that one this time around!

Arsenal should've had at least one if not two penalties by now. Hull offering little this half.