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  1. Dr Gloom

    Holidays

    Where abouts? not booked yet but looking to get a small villa just outside ibiza town
  2. yeah, let's keep smith and guthrie and forget about ireland
  3. Dr Gloom

    Rob W

    right; let's get to the bottom of this then. rob, please kindly list the following and we might believe you: the speciality local cuisine in Tonga the name of the towns and hotels you stayed in Nauru. the airline you flew to Oman the name of the indigenous people local to where you were in Angola the souvenirs you purchased in Kiribati what you would recommend to see and where to go in Tuvalu
  4. Obama releases birth certificate to quiet critics Barack Obama released his original birth certificate on Wednesday and, in an unprecedented move to address the right wing controversy that has dogged the president since the 2008 campaign, called on Americans and the US media to focus on solving the serious problems facing the country. Mr Obama said that he had decided to request the official documentation from the state of Hawaii, where he was born in 1961, after coming to the conclusion two weeks ago that the ongoing debate was a distraction from the enormous challenges the White House and Congress are facing, including the forthcoming debate over long-term deficit reduction. “We’re going to have to make a series of very difficult decisions about our deficit and our debt . . . and this is going to generate huge and serious debates,” Mr Obama said. “But we are not going to be able to do it if we are distracted . . . if we are vilifying each other. If we just make stuff up and pretend facts are not facts.” The president said he had watched conservative conspiracy theorists debating his place of birth with bemusement and puzzlement. “Normally I would not comment on stuff like this. I’ve got other stuff to do,” he said. So-called “birthers” believe that Mr Obama was really born in Kenya, the birthplace of the president’s father. Under the US Constitution, only US-born citizens are allowed to become president. The conspiracy theory has gained new traction in recent weeks because of the rants of Donald Trump, the New York property magnate who says he is considering a run for the Republican nomination. Mr Trump, a reality TV star, has repeatedly suggested that private investigators he recently hired were unearthing new information about Mr Obama in Hawaii, and suggested on Fox News that Mr Obama’s maternal grandparents, who were American citizens, had issued false birth announcements in Hawaiian newspapers so that their grandson could become an American citizen. The Republican establishment has struggled under the controversy, seeking to distance itself from what has long been seen as a radical theory about the president that was potentially motivated by racism. At the same time, Republicans like House Speaker John Boehner never fully repudiated the birther movement, perhaps out of fear of angering Tea Party activists on the right. Indeed, for years the controversy was seen as indirectly helping the White House by making some of the president’s critics on the right look as if they were unhinged. But it was clear on Wednesday that Mr Obama and his team of advisers had decided the debate had endured for too long, and was starting to take a toll on the president as he begins to ramp up his re-election campaign. A recent poll by CBS News and the New York Times showed that about one quarter of Americans believed the president was not born in the US. On Wednesday, Mr Trump congratulated himself for pushing the president into action. He said he had learned of the White House decision while on his helicopter and that he still needed to have a look at the birth certificate ...what a twat http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/76880c16-70dc-11...144feabdc0.html
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    Rob W

    why don't you believe he's been where he says he has like stevie?
  6. Dr Gloom

    Rob W

    i have to go to brussels quite a lot with work. dull doesn't begin to describe the town. nice beer though.
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    Rob W

    just realised i've put in washington state instead of DC, scratch that one off
  8. Dr Gloom

    Rob W

    http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_confirm.php?id=6207759 22%....looking pretty light in africa and asia, non existent in south america, something i'll have to address in the future
  9. Dr Gloom

    Holidays

    ibiza. but given i'm going with my wife and kid, it won't be at all like the last time i went there on my stag do
  10. does he even post on here anymore?
  11. If only running a premier league football club was the same as paying slave wages to 12 year olds in the philipines. If you think sports retailing is so easy you had betterexplain to JJB where they went wrong. And if you think Sports Direct is one of Britain's most successful businesses then you'd be utterly wrong Try Vodaphone, BP, GSK, HSBC etc. I've worked on bigger products than Sports Direct. Its a chain of tatty corner shops, not a flagship of British industry. sports direct is ftse 250 with a market cap of £1.2bn. hardly a small player
  12. for what it's worth: The Boardroom - U The Manager - C The Team - B The Media - D Outlook - E
  13. Is that what I said like? Stop talking to me you annoying prick. nick destroyed
  14. how immature. yeah, pretty much When do you think we will qualify for the Champions League, or even europe, again ? never under the current owner Will such an achievement motivate you to go to games ? i go to games now. not sure why that's any concern of yours though I see you are now agreeing with everything I said about Ashley, at last. not really; i realised ashley was worse than shepherd quite some time ago. probably about the same time as you tbh One day you will also realise the Halls and Shepherd were better than you think. they are better than ashley; i agree with you there. but i've thought that for soem time now. hope that clears everything up for you .
  15. Did you have your cock in hand as you heard his dulcet tones Leazesmag?
  16. Same same but that's what bank holiday weekends are all about. Having my third BBQ of the weekend tomorrow. Lots of drinking in the sunshine. Back to work and training tomorrow
  17. Should Nick stop making polls?, Should Nick stop making polls?
  18. Dr Gloom

    Cooking

    had a belting bbq today with a selection of home made salads and my famous guacamole
  19. What do you do, Doctor? i'm a video journalist
  20. i was looking forward to motd later. not sure i'll bother now
  21. i've met most of the big players in the world of european politics over the last few years in my job, among them blair, sarkozy, merkel, trichet plus loads of the uk politicians - daring, the two millibands, cameron, brown, boris, et al. without a doubt my favourite famous person i've met is ian holloway
  22. i thought that was a joke at first like. unbelievable decision
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