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Mr Jon Snow of Channel 4 News doesn't think so

I don't even own one for reference, sounds as exciting as reading the dictionary....which I know some people do too though. Canny cheap at Amazon, I didn't realise it had writing about the places in there . I might ask for it for christmas and see what the fuss is all about.

Nout wrong with Gail man, do a lot in the sack with a nose like that. Well you're not going to end up bruising your bollocks on her chin, I spose there's that advantage.

Is this common? I've got an uncle whose kids bought him a collection of atlases (atli?) for christmas last year because the one he had was getting dog eared from being read in the bath and on the shitter.

Sally's the mam isn't she?

She still a goth?

Can someone explain the whole enjoyment of watching westerns is please, as they send me to sleep. Only men like westerns, not women. Apparently, at times when men are at their most emasculated, the western is at it's most popular. So, after a war, or in reaction to feminism. Any time you want to see men be men.

We're going to Sam Jacks for it but I'm a bit dubious. It's been a great laugh in there this season, but on Saturday there was a real nasty atmosphere in there, came from a particularly high Charver element (even more than normal). No one was bothering to find a surface for their empties and just forcefully smashed them on the floor and the pot lads (underpaid foreigners) were getting chased around the place. Wasn't fun. Goldie, The DJ and the strippers were as entertaining as ever though so swings and roundabouts.

....oh, and the rat oot in the Sports Cafe is VERY poor nowadays. They send a couple of them round with jugs of lager to hand out for free, the only catch being that they don't pour it into your glass....they pour from the jug straight into your mouth. Half of Byker lap it up, personally I didn't fancy their phlegmy dreggs.

Old idols favourite Michaela is at Sam Jacks these days.....and looking the worse for wear after too long in the game.

He's in Mood now. Where the clientele aren't daft enough to do curry hell, the beer's so expensive no-one is pissed, the strippers are so good they don't feel the need to gyrate...or indeed strip and the place is so dark you might as well be in a flotation tank with shit music pumped in.

What's the soldier off Popeye called, with the nose? Alice the Goon? That's the one...

On the metro home from work I enjoyed the fireworks all over Newcastles horizon for free. It was lush. I even put war of the Worlds on the ipod to add ambience.

What's the soldier off Popeye called, with the nose?

Favourite? I'd probably go with the Coens.

PMA my boy, PMA! If you will it, it is no dream. Theodore Herzl. State of Israel.

I reckon we'll shit on the mackems but take a beating off Blackburn away. At home I reckon 4 points from Arse and Liverpool. The four games after that will then yield 12 points I'm sure....and if they don't then we really deserve to be down the bottom end. HOWAY!

Probably. But he did score goals in Italy and the champions league, as opposed to Holland.

I'd love to see that.

Has Rodders been proved right in not rushing to sign Kuyt ??? Hmmmm It seems that's debatable. Personally I'd have loved him here but after Souness had spent over £45M in a season, I think Roeders frugality had the best interests of Newcastle at heart and was comendable. Hang on, didn't he spend £10.5m on Martins when Liverpool spent £9m on Kuyt ? Martins was proven in a tougher league and has scored more than Kuyt*. *I guess.

Has Rodders been proved right in not rushing to sign Kuyt ??? Hmmmm It seems that's debatable. Personally I'd have loved him here but after Souness had spent over £45M in a season, I think Roeders frugality had the best interests of Newcastle at heart and was comendable.

It has improved under Allardyce. Difficult to judge the impact he's had on it when we've had no Intertoto/UEFA cup/Carling cup to contend with though. Only three games in over a month shouldn't see a lot of injuries.

The thing is Roeder had largely lost it and lost the dressing room by the end of last season, BUT a lot of that goes back to the ridiculous injures we had last season compounded by the relentless negative pressure the guy had most ALL of last season. Without those injuries things might have been different (although I couldn't have seen him doing what Allardyce is hoped to be able to do even without). The thing is I reckon Allardyce is only a loss at Sunderland (or a few losses elsewhere) from going in a similar direction as Roeder and once a manager is more concerned with fighting the press and the fans than anything else, they are probably doomed. People moan about Roeder using injuries as an excuse but he was right, his problem was he mentioned it every day. How many more points would we have picked up last season if Owen had been fit more often than not? quite a few I reckon considering we had to play Rossi and Duff up front at times, shame Boro wouldn't sell us Viduka which would have softened the blow. Aye well his big problem was saying "I won't use injuries as an excuse" at the beginning of the season when we had a fairly decent injury crisis going, but that left him on a hiding to nothing as our injury crisis amazingly continued unabated and even deepened massively post-Xmas for the rest of the season. He backed himself into a corner and the fans and the press just got more and more aggressive over the season with him, and there was very little he could really say or do that would placate them. By the end of the season he seemed more like a WW1 shell shock casualty than anything else. Which is what worries me about Allardyce, he may not be the man to take us back to glory day (or nearly glory days), but I wonder if he'll even be given the chance to try before the feeding frenzy begins. I reckon tactics wise they're on about the same level, but allardyce talks a far better game and uses smoke and mirrors to convince people he's a scientist of the game barely matched by professor Wenger. He'll be far better at facing down his accusors. Which isn't a dig by the way, if he can convince the changing room/fans he knows what he's doing he's half way there. It's all about confidence.

Roeders only problem in the Transfer market was being too cagey. He refused to throw money at solving the problem. Which wasn't a bad thing imo. I wouldn't argue with any of Allardyce's buys at the time though, except for barton who I wasn't happy to see here.