AgentAxeman

I dont think theres much point in signing a creative midfielder. to accomadate a creative type of player we would have to have a completley different set of forwards as our forwards movement is shit (apart from maybe Routledge) and therefore negates the usefulness of said creative player. its fairly obvious to me how hughton wants to play and creativity doesnt come into it.

we've had a couple of flakes here in North Shields. nowhere near enough to lay tho.

And so far as the likes of you are concerned, anything deviating from a hard-line approach or with a nod to realism makes you a brainwashed, Guardian-reading "do-gooder" who cleans the toilets of mosques for a living. Which is why neither side will ever agree and this thread and versions of it will keep happening. Again and again and again. Tedious, isn't it? Both sides summed up perfectly. From my perspective it is definately not a race thing as such. Its more a general dislike / mistrust of people who seem unwilling to merge into society. I come into contact every day from the school yard to work to the pub with "foreigners" who are taking a full part in society, are open , friendly and skin tone never enters my mind. There are others however others who do close themselves off, dont try and fit in and as such make themselves stick out. This however is just a mirror of everyday relationships that we all encounter that have the same results. There will be people in the office who are stand offish and as such do not form relationships and become the brunt of the "packs" jokes. On top of all this we are living in tough times with a joke of an imigration policy. The two sides of life are bound to be muddied. True but the point is that Leazes see anyone who doesn't fit in as you describe as a threat to his way of life and to his actual life - I've asked for examples of the first without success and the second is ridiculous. It's this perceived threat to "Britishness" (which they can never define anyway) that marks people who may have doubts about immigration as root core racists imo. I'd also say that despite some false starts the current immigration system isn't that bad - the points system makes sense and as I've said the only element I'd limit severely is the arranged marriage importation of uneducated Southern Asians. Hmmm, some good points there. NJS, I agree with you about the points system for immigration. however, this only deals with the people who enter the country legally and this is but a drop in the ocean compared to the overall level of immigrants entering the country atm. I know you mentioned Southern asians through arranged marriages but in reality there are many more than that. unfortunatley nobody seems to know exactly how many illegals are here or perhaps are unwilling to tell. I think there was a study done showing 1 in 7 prisoners in our gaols wernt born in this country. perhaps this sheds some light on the overall problem. of course when i highlight that there is a problem im called a deluded far right fuckwit which quite frankly is deluded childish name calling. Jesus, sometimes it makes you want to spit!

Had a bottle of Cloudy Bay 'Te Koko' Sauvignon Blanc at New Year. Canny dear but worth every penny. fantastic! much better than carling!

or pills. it is afterall a two way process!!

Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. Has a hint of elderflower in it. Lovely!

Some kind of federal system would be decent. I mean, Germany just about works and it's not as if a Berliner and a Bavarian have anything in common. Barely even language. you been trying to watch welsh channel 4 again Meenz?? Don't get it any more since we're on Virgin. I'm gutted - used to love watching Cân i Gymru of a St. David's Day! Well get yersel's back on SKY. actually dont as i'm with them (phone,telly,web) atm and they are shit. think i'll be going back to Virgin at end of contract...

+1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_v468ptuXw but u should try this. Class. thats class LM, not sure about the 2nd tune as a ringtone tho. seems mightily depressing to me!! I much prefer to answer the phone with a grin on my face!

totally agree about Mark Hughes. Fantastic manager at mid table Prem level which is the best we could possibly hope for under this owner. as for tactics, i really believe he's been forced into playing a more 'direct' approach to every game due to the limitations of the squad. lets face it, if your best two forwards are over 6' and not very mobile (as they are) it makes sense to play the ball early, try to hold the ball and hope you get a runner (Nolan, 2 wide guys) from midfield. saying all that i do believe we will struggle next season IF we get promoted.

Some kind of federal system would be decent. I mean, Germany just about works and it's not as if a Berliner and a Bavarian have anything in common. Barely even language. you been trying to watch welsh channel 4 again Meenz??

where did you get this idea from??? If you've never been to one how do you know??? deluded name calling!!

hes doing a decent job with limited resources. but only decent.

I do find it denigrating. being attacked for your political beliefs is akin to facism I've never voted bnp btw in case you're wondering, but by god i'm tempted!

Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows by Leslie Gore

yes they are white, but why draw attention to the colour? If I was to draw attention to a group of peoples colour when reporting, say a crime, i would be called racist. why not just call it 'Angry Men'? Because it's about angry white men. racist

yes they are white, but why draw attention to the colour? If I was to draw attention to a group of peoples colour when reporting, say a crime, i would be called racist. why not just call it 'Angry Men'?

They've got Leazes and Stevie bang on The author discusses the report here... Angry White Men Meh....... expecting impartiality from a BBC report is like asking LM about the Shepherd era. It's not a BBC report, it's an abstract for the report... http://www.politicalstudies.org/forthcomingissue.asp The BBC link is to an interview with the author. The report is going to be in the next edition of the Political Studies journal. My bad. I think the title of the report is a bit provocative tho.............. Imagine it had been called 'Angry Black Men' or 'Angry Asian Men' and it was about disafected people who were feeling threated by changes they couldnt control and felt that those in power wouldnt listen to their concerns? The people lining up to call the authour 'Racist' would be huge.

They've got Leazes and Stevie bang on The author discusses the report here... Angry White Men Meh....... expecting impartiality from a BBC report is like asking LM about the Shepherd era.

I thought you WERE the Intellectual Elite???? (well the closest thing to it on this Board anyway...............) ;) The leaders of the Russian revolution were all intellectuals. yeah, and that worked out REALLY well, didnt it? (the squiggle formerly know as sarcmark)

good player. sign him up!

have you still got a turntable? (must have a headphones socket). 1. get audacity off the net. its free so dont worry 2. run a lead from your headphone socket to your pc mic input (small jackplug) 3. run audacity. go into project and select 'new stereo track' 4. start the record and press the record button in audacity.(make sure the input level is ok) 5. do the same for side B you'll have to split the tracks manually but its a piece of piss to do. make sure you use the 'export as Mp3' option when saving the individual track. hope this helps edit: just remembered you'll also need to download something called the 'LAME mp3 encoder'. it explains how to do it on the audacity site. (iirc)

been pulled out of the squad tonight.

Very true. I wouldnt drink draught carling. thats just a one way street to pukesville!!

Scientists exaggerated impact of climate change, says Government's chief adviser Professor John Beddington: Scientists should be more open about uncertainty Scientists have exaggerated the impact of climate change and need to be more honest about how difficult it is to predict, the Government’s chief scientific adviser said today. Professor John Beddington added that experts should be less hostile to sceptics who question man-made global warming. And he condemned those who refuse to publish full report data, adding that public confidence in climate science would be boosted by greater honesty about its uncertainties. Professor Beddington was speaking in the wake of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) admission that it had made a mistake by claiming that Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035. That followed the 'Climategate' row over whether researchers at East Anglia University manipulated evidence to support a theory of man-made global warming. An investigation is now looking at leaked email exchanges to see if there is any evidence of manipulation or suppression of data which would call into question the research findings of the university's Climatic Research Unit. The centre's director Professor Phil Jones has stood down from the post while the inquiry takes place. ‘I don’t think it’s healthy to dismiss proper scepticism. Science grows and improves in the light of criticism,’ Professor Beddington said. 'There is a fundamental uncertainty about climate change prediction that can’t be changed.’ He said that the false claim in the IPCC’s 2007 report revealed a wider problem with the way that some evidence was presented. ‘Certain unqualified statements have been unfortunate. We have a problem in communicating uncertainty,’ he told The Times. ‘There’s definitely an issue there. If there wasn’t, there wouldn’t be the level of scepticism. All of these predictions have to be caveated by saying, “There’s a level of uncertainty about that”.’ Himalayan glaciers: Claims they will melt by 2035 were not backed up, the UN said Professor Beddington also said that large-scale climate modelling using computers resulted in ‘quite substantial uncertainties’ that should be communicated. He said: ‘It’s unchallengeable that CO2 traps heat and warms the Earth and that burning fossil fuels shoves billions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. But where you can get challenges is on the speed of change. ‘When you get into large-scale climate modelling there are quite substantial uncertainties. On the rate of change and the local effects, there are uncertainties both in terms of empirical evidence and the climate models themselves.’ Urging scientists to release their data to their critics, he said: ‘I think, wherever possible, we should try to ensure there is openness and that source material is available for the whole scientific community.