Renton

It's this pseudoempowerment of the public I find most cringworthy. Surely we pay politicians to govern us and don't want to (and are not capable of) governing ourselves?! Also this marriage allowance. What a crock of shit that is.

I might bump into you (unknowingly). I hardly ever stop off at Leeds but travel through it a bit. Wtf were they thinking of building that 30 storey Dalek? Architecture at its most hideous - and this is coming from someone who usually loves skyscrapers.

He's got a point like. First our fish, then our savings, now our planes, the fuckers. Oh aye - Bjork n'arl.

Tory's is longest by over 50% so must be good.

Wow, now that is insulting, and nonsense of course. It's as banal as saying that everybody is the same. Also comparing the church with academia? Hmmm. Somebody's going to have to run it by me how atheism - an absence of belief in any God or Scripture - can be described as dogmatic as well. Sounds like an oxymoron to me.

Right, I know (Gemmill) that this probably should be in the help forum or already may be in this megathread somewhere, but how can I download youtube videos and keep them for posterity? I did google it and was directed to a hack site, but didn't like the look of it (particularly as I need to update my AV software). TIA for any tips.

Seriously, have you had a look at this manifesto? It's embarassing and will do the tories no favours. I can actually see them losing the election or at least not winning it now, they've lost the plot.

Aye, it was obvious like, the story didn't remotely add up. Surprised it took this long.

I agree but if you play the empathy card as Cameron does, you should be open to question about where that empathy can come from. Specifics? At the end of the day the majority are still egotistical maniacs who crave attention, but all im really bothered about is whether they can do the job, not whether there nice guys. Bit like seeing a brain surgeon, as long as he's good..... What a ridiculous comparison.

Blair is very money driven now - probably down to his harpie as much as him. Brown isn't exactly a council house lad but I don't think he's loaded - his dad was a church minister I think. Brown was educated in a state school. In general, it is fair to say that the tories are much more priveleged than politicians from the Labour party, and the two leading tories are amongst the most priveleged. How much this matters is a moot point of course. It matters not a jot really whether your rolling in it and well educated like Cameron or "working class" and not well educated like two jags. Only matters that you have the right ideas for that moment in time and can inspire and lead a great government. Depends on how much influence your background has on your ideas I'd say. In my opinion this lot will never help the average man on the street, let alone people from the North East. David and Boris.

Blair is very money driven now - probably down to his harpie as much as him. Brown isn't exactly a council house lad but I don't think he's loaded - his dad was a church minister I think. Brown was educated in a state school. In general, it is fair to say that the tories are much more priveleged than politicians from the Labour party, and the two leading tories are amongst the most priveleged. How much this matters is a moot point of course.

Did that test, put the Greens, UKIP, and BNP in it for the hell of it even though I'd never vote for them in a million years: Labour Party: 70% Green Party: 52% Liberal Democrats: 49% Conservative Party: 35% UK Independence Party: 34% British National Party: 19% About what I expected apart from the Green Party vote.

Spot on. 2 genuine wingers is OK if you have a quality team. Tactically, it leaves you playing too much of an open game and you can be sold short in central midfield. It works if you have superior players, but in the premiership we aren't going to have superior players like we have had this season. My post about Routledge is because I basically think he lacks control, he loses control of the ball and he doesn't seem to be in control of what he is doing, and is OK but just not good enough ie like Franz Carr and Ruel Fox, rather than Keith Gillespie who in my opinion was a major player in Keegans team that didn't quite do it in 1996 for many reasons one of which was the loss of him in the team. Don't mean to knock Routledge but football is ruthless and demands ruthless judgement as we should all be aware of now after the last few years. I'd completely agree with that analysis about Routledge like. My worry is that I think there's a reason the premiership clubs heven't really seemed to be interested in him.

Is that a holiday home then PL or do you live there? The Cheviots are fantastic and then there's the stunning coast nearby - Bamburgh, Lindisfarne, Alnmouth. Like you say though there's no work and its a bit too far to commute to Newcastle.

Well, this is a point in hand. You 'like the look' of this chemical but based on what? There's no way of knowing if it is good for you or not without conducting a properly controlled study in humans. Take vitamin E, an antioxidant that was presumed to protect you against heart disease because of its biochemical properties, and was massively championed by nutitionists etc 10 years back (not surprisingly since they profitted from it). It took the Heart Protectio Study (a massive RCT with 20,000 participants iirc) to find out at best it did you no good and at worst it might even harm your health. Incidentally the benefits of multivitamins have had doubt cast on them very recently in a massive observational study (500,000 people), but because this isn't controlled it's impossible to draw firm conclusions (increased cancer risk could be due to confounding factors). I blame the internet. GSK bought out the company that had all the patents on it last year for a product based on it for clinical use dimbo. Give me the details of your employers they're clearing wasting their money on you. Tbh Parky I've never heard of Resveratol before and its not yet on the radar of healthcare services as far as I am aware. Given your earlier post on 'spun' water I'd assumed this was your usual cut and paste nonsense. Anyway, you are aware that GSK will test literally thousands of chemicals, but only a tiny fraction of these will reach the market? The time to get interested in it will be when it shows benefit in clinical trials, if it gets that far (which is unlikely). Nice backtrack. Just drink a glass of red wine a day btw.

Well, this is a point in hand. You 'like the look' of this chemical but based on what? There's no way of knowing if it is good for you or not without conducting a properly controlled study in humans. Take vitamin E, an antioxidant that was presumed to protect you against heart disease because of its biochemical properties, and was massively championed by nutitionists etc 10 years back (not surprisingly since they profitted from it). It took the Heart Protectio Study (a massive RCT with 20,000 participants iirc) to find out at best it did you no good and at worst it might even harm your health. Incidentally the benefits of multivitamins have had doubt cast on them very recently in a massive observational study (500,000 people), but because this isn't controlled it's impossible to draw firm conclusions (increased cancer risk could be due to confounding factors). I blame the internet. GSK bought out the company that had all the patents on it last year for a product based on it for clinical use dimbo. Give me the details of your employers they're clearing wasting their money on you. Tbh Parky I've never heard of Resveratol before and its not yet on the radar of healthcare services as far as I am aware. Given your earlier post on 'spun' water I'd assumed this was your usual cut and paste nonsense. Anyway, you are aware that GSK will test literally thousands of chemicals, but only a tiny fraction of these will reach the market? The time to get interested in it will be when it shows benefit in clinical trials, if it gets that far (which is unlikely).

... fucking hell Gordon, keep up Oh. I heard a simpler version of the joke, which I preferred. It's the way you tell them.

Well, this is a point in hand. You 'like the look' of this chemical but based on what? There's no way of knowing if it is good for you or not without conducting a properly controlled study in humans. Take vitamin E, an antioxidant that was presumed to protect you against heart disease because of its biochemical properties, and was massively championed by nutitionists etc 10 years back (not surprisingly since they profitted from it). It took the Heart Protectio Study (a massive RCT with 20,000 participants iirc) to find out at best it did you no good and at worst it might even harm your health. Incidentally the benefits of multivitamins have had doubt cast on them very recently in a massive observational study (500,000 people), but because this isn't controlled it's impossible to draw firm conclusions (increased cancer risk could be due to confounding factors). I blame the internet.

Erm, wasn't the joke supposed to be 'iTouch kids'?

I love Mull. You should climb Ben More weather permitting. The best months for the west coast are June and September apparently so you might be OK. The main problem I have with Scotland is the difficulty getting there and the lack/expense of accomodation when you do get there, coupled with random weather and insects that can practically bite your leg off.

If that legislation goes through, how pukka would that be? Levels the playing field at least. Man City in at the right time though, will encourage investment to build clubs up before the legislation is passed. Wouldn't that leave the clubs with massively inflated player assets they can't recoup in sales though? Supose it makes no difference in city's case.

If it does go to court I'd want to be in a Faraday cage come verdict time if I was there.

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This breaking of H2O water molecules leaves them in two parts, one part hydrogen H and one part hydrogen and oxygen HO now when the water molecules exit the electrolysis chamber of the water ionizer they reform into the new tiny water clusters of 4-8 H2O molecules as we discussed earlier but they also leave an abundance of broken segments of only Hydrogen H ions and Hydrogen + Oxygen Ions HO These ions are water give the water ionizer its name and the water ions are what produce the positive health benefits in living biological tissues when exposed to ionized water. The drinking water from your water ionizer now possesses two additional properties over ordinary water, smaller molecular water cluster size and an abundance of health improving hydroxyl ions. These water ions improve health by producing a scavenging removal effect of the positively charged free radicals which damage cells that are naturally found in our body as a byproduct of metabolism. The ionized alkaline drinking water acts as antioxidant water detox sponge wiping away and removing these harmful free radicals in our bodies, kind of like a oil filter in your car it filters out contaminants in the bodies life giving fluids providing a detoxification effect and overall improvement in the bodies biological systems such as immune function, metabolism, and rate of cellular reproduction. The ionized drinking water ionizers properties of antioxidant alkaline detoxification health improving ability is so profound upon the bodies condition that within as little as 1 months time of drinking electrolyzed ions from your water ionizer you will notice that you have lost weight, with continued use the weight loss will continue and be sustained as the ionized drinking water increases your body’s ability to get rid of toxins and waste which are normally stored in fat cells which are 90% water by weight. and... Microwater, with its low molecular weight and high reduction potential, makes it a superior scavenging agent of active oxygen. But electrolysis inside the Microwater unit not only charges the reduced water with electrons, it also reduces the size of reduced water molecule clusters. NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) analysis reveals that tap water and well water consists of clusters of 10 to 13 H20 molecules. Electrolysis of water in the Microwater unit reduces these clusters to about half their normal size - 5 to 6 water molecules per cluster. As the graph shows, the NMR signal that measures cluster size by line width at half-amplitude shows 65 Hz for reduced water and 133 Hz for tap water, revealing that the reduced water clusters are approximately half the size of tap water clusters. This is why microwater is more readily absorbed by the body than untreated tap water. Microwater quickly permeates the body and blocks the oxidation of biological molecules by donating its abundant electrons to active oxygen, enabling biological molecules to replace themselves naturally... http://www.iwanthealthywater.com/Alkaline.html Pseudoscientific bullshit from quack shysters. The benefit of 'antioxidants' for 'detoxification' have been entirely discredited in recent years, for instance in the HPS megatrial. In fact many antioxidants probably do more harm than good. As for that Bawell waters piece - wtf? Do you own shares in it or something? More cutandpastery nonsense from Parky.

I'd love to see Ratzinger taken down but I'm a bit uneasy about Dawkin's involvement in this - could be seen as opportunism. Hasn't Dawkins suggested that he himself was subject to mild abuse at boarding school as well? Regardless, the pope even looks evil, he would be perfectly cast as the Emperor on Star Wars.

I know you were specifically talking about England but as Scotland is so near us I thought it was relevant. It's got some of the best scenery in the planet imo. This year I have been to Mauritius already and will be going to France, NW Scotland and Mexico later on but it's the Scottish trip I'm looking forward to most (weather permitting - it's shit in the rain). The landscape around Torridon is surreal - I'll not post any photos though as this is an NE thread. The Tyne valley just looks quite ordinary to me. As Alex says there's far more beautiful places in Northumberland, especially along the coast imo. I like Corbridge and would like to live there but I'm not sure its worth the premium on house prices tbh. I love that Alston road as well. When you get to the top of the pass and the Lakes are spread out before you - happy times.