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  1. Baby's bottom censored by store A mother who wanted to give a birthday cake to her son featuring a photo of him as a baby was forced to have it censored because it showed his bottom. Gail Jordan, 41, had gone to Asda in Liscard, Wirral, on 13 June with the photo of her 21-year-old son David taken when he was five months old. Staff at the supermarket refused to scan the picture onto a cake as it featured nudity. They eventually printed the image onto the icing with a star over the bottom. Mrs Jordan, of Rock Ferry, said: "I took the photo of my son to the store in Liscard and they said we can't do that - it's nudity. "It was a photo of my son at five-months-old. I could not believe it. 'Not pornographic' "Eventually another member of staff cut a star out and put it on his bottom on the cake. "I just wanted a picture on his cake. Staff said it was deemed as pornographic. "I don't normally shop there, but it would not stop me going back." She added that her son was embarassed by the debacle but liked his cake. A spokesman for Asda said: "We did not say it was pornographic. It is policy across the board that we don't do nudity of any sort at any age. It is nothing new. "They (the staff) made a couple of suggestions - enlarge it so you take the bottom out of it, make the border different and another suggestion was putting a star on the offending area."
  2. I don't have a problem with Private hospitals and clinics for those that wish to pay for treaments, but the thing I have a problem with is rich folk being able to "jump the cue" at NHS hospitals, it just feels so wrong. What is needed is some common sense with surgery and treatments that are provided by the NHS, boob jobs and cosmetic proceedures etc.
  3. There'll be more than a few people who had money on Djokovic to win the whole thing mind. Cracking result for Safin. I watched it, although Safin was fairly clinical, it felt more of a case that Djokovic lost it rather than Safin won it, Djokovic just wasn't on his game today at all, his body language was that of a man who had accepted defeat well before the end.
  4. The Daily Mail Newcastle's Keegan plots £6m raid for Swiss striker Derdiyok Kevin Keegan is weighing up a £6million bid for Switzerland striker Eren Derdiyok after catching the Newcastle manager's eye during Euro 2008. The 6ft 3in forward was also watched by Arsenal during the tournament but Newcastle are in pole position to capture his signature. Basle striker Derdiyok is eager to move to the Barclays Premier League and Keegan is keen on bringing a tall and powerful player to St James' Park.
  5. Got all his albums but never seen that. Clive Anderson is wank like. There is another one out there where he is interviewed on The Word, but you just want to throttle Terry Christian if you watch it.
  6. Cage The Elephant - Ain't No Rest for The Wicked
  7. When does series four come out on dvd? August 26th
  8. Jimbo

    Jill

    Not dead ? Happy Birthday !!!!!!!!!!!!!
  9. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/2...;feed=worldnews Secret of the 'lost' tribe that wasn't Tribal guardian admits the Amazon Indians' existence was already known, but he hoped the publicity would lift the threat of logging In pictures: the remote Amazonian tribe Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor The Observer, Sunday June 22, 2008 Article history Warriors from the Amazon basin tribe, above, paint their bodies red and fire arrows to ward off the plane carrying José Carlos Meirelles, who says that he released the picture in order to highlight the plight of indigenous people in the jungle They are the amazing pictures that were beamed around the globe: a handful of warriors from an 'undiscovered tribe' in the rainforest on the Brazilian-Peruvian border brandishing bows and arrows at the aircraft that photographed them. Or so the story was told and sold. But it has now emerged that, far from being unknown, the tribe's existence has been noted since 1910 and the mission to photograph them was undertaken in order to prove that 'uncontacted' tribes still existed in an area endangered by the menace of the logging industry. The disclosures have been made by the man behind the pictures, José Carlos Meirelles, 61, one of the handful of sertanistas – experts on indigenous tribes – working for the Brazilian Indian Protection Agency, Funai, which is dedicated to searching out remote tribes and protecting them. In his first interviews since the disclosure of the tribe's existence, Meirelles described how he found the group, detailed how they lived and how he planned the publicity to protect them and other tribes in similar danger of losing the habitat in which they have flourished for hundreds of years. Meirelles admitted that the tribe was first known about almost a century ago and that the apparently chance encounter that produced the now famous images was no accident. 'When we think we might have found an isolated tribe,' he told al-Jazeera, 'a sertanista like me walks in the forest for two or three years to gather evidence and we mark it in our [global positioning system]. We then map the territory the Indians occupy and we draw that protected territory without making contact with them. And finally we set up a small outpost where we can monitor their protection.' But in this case Meirelles appears, controversially, to have gone out to seek and find the uncontacted tribe in an area where it was known to be living. According to his account, the Brazilian state of Acre offered him the use of an aircraft for three days. 'I had years of GPS co-ordinates,' he said. Meirelles had another clue to the tribe's precise location. 'A friend of mine sent me some Google Earth co-ordinates and maps that showed a strange clearing in the middle of the forest and asked me what that was,' he said. 'I saw the co-ordinates and realised that it was close to the area I had been exploring with my son – so I needed to fly over it.' For two days, Meirelles says, he flew a 150km-radius route over the border region with Peru and saw huts that belonged to isolated tribes. But he did not see people. 'When the women hear the plane above, they run into the forest, thinking it's a big bird,' he said. 'This is such a remote area, planes don't fly over it.' What he was looking for was not only proof of life, but firm evidence that the tribes in this area were flourishing – proof in his view that the policy of no contact and protection was working. On the last day, with only a couple hours of flight time remaining, Meirelles spotted a large community. 'When I saw them painted red, I was satisfied, I was happy,' he said. 'Because painted red means they are ready for war, which to me says they are happy and healthy defending their territory.' Survival International, the organisation that released the pictures along with Funai, conceded yesterday that Funai had known about this nomadic tribe for around two decades. It defended the disturbance of the tribe saying that, since the images had been released, it had forced neighbouring Peru to re-examine its logging policy in the border area where the tribe lives, as a result of the international media attention. Activist and former Funai president Sydney Possuelo agreed that – amid threats to their environment and doubt over the existence of such tribes – it was necessary to publish them. But the revelation that the existence of the tribe was already established will provoke awkward questions over why a decision was made to try to photograph them – a form of contact in itself – in order to make a political point. Meirelles, one of only five or so genuine sertanistas, has no regrets, arguing that the pictures and video released to the world were powerful and indisputable evidence to those who say isolated tribes no longer exist. 'Alan García [the President of Peru] declared recently that the isolated Indians were a creation in the imagination of environmentalists and anthropologists – now we have the pictures.' But he is determined to keep the tribe's location secret – even under torture, he says. 'They can decide when they want contact, not me or anyone else.
  10. Allardyce ready for return The former Newcastle boss has been out of work since being relieved of his post at St James' Park in January, refusing to be drawn back in by the first offer on the table. He had been in the running for the vacant hot-seat at Blackburn, but removed himself from the list of candidates late last week. With that role having now gone to Paul Ince there is a distinct lack of top-flight jobs available. However, having had first hand experience of how quickly managerial situations can change during his time in the North East, Allarydce does not expect to be waiting long for the first casualty of the 2008/09 season. Despite disagreeing with the reluctance of certain chairman to give their manager time to build a successful club, the ex-Bolton chief admits that he has maintained his desire to be involved in the game. Pressure "We had a particularly bad year for dismissals last year and even if you're sat in my position I think it's quite outrageous what happened," Allardyce told Sky Sports News. "I would have thought that everyone thinks the same - 11 managers changing hands in the Premier League during one season, for the first time ever, shows the pressure on us all. "But it's one where we have to deal with it and come back and next time it comes round look forward to it." Record Allardyce also feels that he will come back a better coach for having endured the trials and tribulations which blighted his time on Tyneside. "I've had a great six months and I come back now as Sam Allardyce and a better manager than I have been before," he added. "I never foresaw the situation as it materialised at Newcastle but, from my point of view and from the public's point of view, you can't hold me responsible for that. "My past record speaks for itself and hopefully that will be enough for someone to take Sam Allardyce on in the near future."
  11. Someone from N.O. or someone who knows someone on N.O. is updating this. Have you seen the toon squad on our wiki page ? Current squad As of 1 June 2008 No. Position Player 1 Flag of Ireland GK Shay Given 2 Flag of Senegal DF Habib Beye 3 Flag of England DF Nicky Shorey 4 Flag of England MF Michael Carrick 5 Flag of England DF Steven Taylor 6 Flag of Senegal DF Abdoulaye Faye 7 Flag of England MF David Bentley 10 Flag of England FW Michael Owen (captain) 11 Flag of England MF James Milner 12 Flag of Russia FW Andrei Arshavin No. Position Player 13 Flag of England GK Steve Harper 14 Flag of Turkey MF Arda Turan 15 Flag of Canada DF David Edgar 16 Flag of Russia MF Pablo Aimar 17 Flag of England MF Aaron Lennon 22 Flag of England MF Nicky Butt 24 Flag of the Netherlands GK Tim Krul 27 Flag of England DF Ben Tozer 34 Flag of England GK Fraser Forster Players In No. Position Player 3 Flag of England DF Nicky Shorey 4 Flag of England MF Michael Carrick 7 Flag of England MF David Bentley 12 Flag of Russia FW Andrei Arshavin 14 Flag of Turkey MF Arda Turan 16 Flag of Russia MF Pablo Aimar 17 Flag of England MF Aaron Lennon Players OUT No. Position Player 3 Flag of Spain DF José Enrique 5 Flag of Turkey MF Emre Belözoğlu 6 Flag of Brazil DF Caçapa 7 Flag of England MF Joey Barton 9 Flag of Nigeria FW Obafemi Martins 11 Flag of Ireland MF Damien Duff 14 Flag of France MF Charles N'Zogbia 17 Flag of England MF Alan Smith 20 Flag of Cameroon MF Geremi 23 Flag of England FW Shola Ameobi 36 Flag of Australia FW Mark Viduka 38 Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo MF Kazenga LuaLua 39 Flag of England FW Andy Carroll
  12. Crap source but this is from his wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marouane_Chamakh
  13. Jimbo

    George Carlin

    Fuck, I'm gutted, the man was a total legend. RIP.
  14. agreed, but the build up to that he was taking some heavy shots and there was nothing coming back in reply.
  15. He wasn't punching back at the time of the stoppage, I think that is the main reason the ref jumped in. They won't let a fight go to a point where there's starting to be an ever increasing risk of damage, bad for business. That's one thing that's key in UFC, the slightest sign of danger and the fight is stopped.
  16. He wasn't punching back at the time of the stoppage, I think that is the main reason the ref jumped in.
  17. I retained the league title with Brugge only losing one match in the league all season, got the Belgian Cup final got toasted 6-0, I'm still fuming !
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