Dr Gloom

oh great, he's back.

I knew he was ne5. You couldnt get two posters with such similar deranged view of the world. Funny how he talks about his alter ego as if the rest of us don't know. Me myself and Irene tbh

I just ignore the pms he's sent me as I do his posts. What's the point? He wants a rise and hates it when he's ignored. The more of us that ignore him, the more chance his time away from this board will be permanent.

You had to go and fucking jinx it. Looks like I spoke too soon

The families who will lose tax breaks are those with a member earning over £50k and even then it isn't totally taken away until they earn £60k. I can't say that I feel too bad about someone earning £60k not getting any child benefit. The middle classes will be some of the biggest losers in this budget, which is ironic given they're a key voter group. Someone earning 60k in london with four kids for example.

Less than 3,000 properties of over 2m were sold last year. This is not a robin hood budget. It's a Tory budget with one or two small concessions, proving beyond doubt that the Tories are the butch and the lib dems the bitch in this coalition.

hate to burst the bubble but austerity doesn't result in growth. economics 101. the deficit has to be cut, no argument there, but this course of action, this obesession with cutting the hole in the public finances this quickly and this agressively is only going to result in another recession, and most likely a second great depression.

Before we've even had the budget Unbelievable it's been trailed since the weekend you man breasted bafoon. there are unlikely to be any big surprises.

this is without doubt a tory budget. clegg proving yet again he has lost all credibility. the biggest winners are the top 1 per cent of the population who are going to be considerably better off thanks to the cut in the 50p top rate of income tax rate. clegg's claim that this is a robin hood budget is desparate. his so-called tycoon tax will be forgotten about in no time and the deal on the mansion tax could and should have gone much much further to justify his concession over the 50p rate. proves, as gemmil pointed out, that the man gave up his principles, his party and his supporters at the first whiff of power. meanwhile the savagely aggressive cuts will continue and whatever way osborne dresses it up, we're still looking at those two extra years of austerity. a lost decade basically. nice one george.

This thread has turned into a really interesting read. The absence of a certain someone benefitting this place hugely already.

Circuits today after kettle bells yesterday. Burning shed loads of calories so eating like a horse. Eating clean during the week allowing myself a bit of junk at the weekend. I actually dropped body fat since last measurement. Back down to 12%. A couple more to go and the abs will start popping again, hopefully in time for summer. Don't agonise about dropping the extra pound CT. do youself a favour and get your body fat percentage measured. That should be your real goal, not dropping weight

last night i had a hot quinoa salad with roasted peppers, onions and tomoatos, garlic, chilli, capers, feta and fresh corriander. it was fucking lush.

You didnt see much of the Spurs game at WHL then? One swallow doesnt make a summer, but he's cover for about 4 posistions so we'll be putting up with him for a while yet, especially if we get in the Europa league next season. well yeah, but they were all gash that day weren't they? most games i've seen him at defensive midfield, he's impressed me. still don't fancy him at full back.

Isn't santon a square peg too though RB converted to play lb?

I wonder if they care about the club. They both still attend most games. Ashley still wears his scarf. Do they see themselves as supporters?

Is a good no nonsense defensive midfielder. More than happy with him there as cover for tiote. I didn't think he was premiership class and I still don't fancy him at full back but he's had a good season. Hasnt let us down when called upon and, like Ryan Taylor,0 has won over most of those that wanted him out of the club.

Run fat boy run

Perch played the makeleli (sp?) role to perfection. Motm for me. Shame the more creative players around him didn't perform their roles quite as well. Cisse looked dangerous. Couldn't work out why he was subbed as thought he did more than ba. Jonas was the other stand out player - could be the answer to cover at left back.

i can see us dropping points here. we're the better side but we look nervous at the back. good to see us playing more passes on the ground today but there's been too much dawdling on the ball at the back. williamson, ben arfa, guthrie all guilty of it. i'd like to see cabaye and ben arfa both get on the ball a bit more. positives - perch looks solid, cisse and jonas look lively.

whata ball jonas. cisse should have scored

norwich getting loads of the decisions. perch mopping up well.

good hold up play from cisse. looking more like a proper number 9 this game. excellent cross from jonas for the goal too, wonder if CT saw it. ah, what a save to deny ba!

Empire Theatre, Kite festival, Sunderland Aquatic Centre can't believe they've put sunderland baths in there like

The thing is though that even the really nice expensive places have shitholes just around the corner - it's pretty integrated. Black, white, poor, rich all live side by side

He's the worst thing about this board. Wish he'd change his tune or fuck off because it's boring to fuck as his patter is killing evey thread.