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He may be a taxi driver, but he's wait, what? just around the corner? Aye fuck off! *fires up Uber* I'm just jealous of the cake tbh. Not had one like that since I was five!

Poor article. Equates bombing ISIS with hating Islam, which is surely the very bedrock of right wing nutjob ideology? I can hate Isis, respect peaceful followers of Islam and believe that religion is mass delusion all at the same time, can I not?

First world problems tbh. There's still people round my way (including relatives I'm ashamed to admit!) who are not exactly subtle in the fact they're not happy next door has just been bought by a brown family.

Racist! Anyway, it's hardly rude when they were obviously pointing out Gemmill's bad taste in home furnishing. Impressive they change their language even when on the phone. Quite rare that, in my experience. You sure they don't suspect you're an undercover Border Force agent? Deep undercover obviously.

Give us a synopsis. I'll probably understand it. Not sure about anyone else here though.....

Stevie's is quite effeminate, as if his anger at the world is compensating for something....

My main plan was for a boycott of this whole season on principle. Why? Because I just knew how it would be spun in the media as the usual 'fickle NUFC fans' if the calls for boycotts only started after 10 or so games, once it was confirmed that McClaren would be taking us nowhere. People should still boycott, absolutely, but be in no doubt, those who only start now will still forever be classed as a big part of the reason this club has been thoroughly hollowed out, and may never recover. Our biggest competitive advantage when being run properly - the stadium capacity - has been steadily eroded these last few years, both because other clubs have expanded (with more to come - Spuds, Lollerpool, Wist Ham), and it's become less of a factor to other income streams anyway.

Kind of like Fish going home to see the family......

*looks up average life expectancy of taxi drivers in the north east, and subtracts 50* Yup, looks like you're right this time CT

It's always amazed me that doctors were allowed to hand write things, surely people have died directly as a result of people not understanding it, or worse, misunderstanding it? My penmanship is exemplary, in part because I've had a few jobs where it was critical to product safety (medicines, dangerous machinery, etc) to be able to hand write notes in a one time only, no backsies, fashion. Not least since the presence of scribbled out and re-written words look extremely suspicious to safety inspectors (there's accepted procedures to cope with mistakes of course, but it's a real pain in the ass). I'd imagine the same is true in industries like aviation, where there's a need for someone to be able to go back and read notes that might have been made years previously, in order to determine if fitting a particular part to an aircraft is safe or not. Safety critical industries have long understood that the human is always the weak link in the chain, and so have learned to factor in things like poor hand writing (while also recognising that even worse mistakes can happen if people wait until they're at a computer to write things down, or are transferring notes from temporary pads onto official records).

Jim Carey.

Not at all. Just pointing out how many people on here gave me absolute dog's abuse for wanting us to get relegated last season, and then predicting this exact scenario once the appointment of McClaren was announced. They all argued that McClaren would have us moving in the right direction, and all seemed moderately pleased with Ashley's statement also. Plenty weren't, but plenty were. And sure, all sorts of bad shit could happen if we get relegated, but that doesn't change the obvious fact that it offers a better chance of getting rid of Ashley for good, than if we stayed in the Prem for another decade of this utterly shite existence (if he was remotely interested in selling at the top of the market, he'd have gone years ago, and any shenanigans he might pull he would, whether he was leaving us in the prem or not). At this point, he's just rinsing us.

Found on his Wikipedia biography, this is the weirdest BBC "news" article I've ever read about any sporting figure. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4973056.stm I would have been almost certain this sort of PR guff was the result of him hiring Max Clifford, but it seems that didn't happen until a month later....

Scoobos was one of the muppets, was he not?

I'm quite sure he wasn't given responsibility for tactics at Man U. And I seriously doubt their players really needed a pep talk from him before they could get up for a game. I'm pretty sure he probably just sat in the corner at that point, while the captain or manager got on with things. As for his record as an international manager, that pretty much speaks for itself. But for anyone who doesn't remember what a farce it was, no doubt there's plenty of stuff in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McClaren#England you might have forgotten.

Re. ground forces.... Russia won't be doing jack shit, since even as mad as Putin might appear, he's not dumb. Even accounting for the fact that internal public opinion and worldwide condemnation for lack of Queensbury rules warfighting is just not an issue, it's still simply not in their strategic interests to have their increasingly expensive kit and men that their rapidly deflating roubles have paid for get blown to shit in a seriously long drawn out occupation, while they also underwrite Assad's rebuilding of his own forces (and most of his country's physical infrastructure too I suspect). The US of A won't be dong jack shit, because the Demmycrats are certainly all gun shy now after Iraq/Afganistan, and the Reeepublicans sure as shit don't give a fuck if Arabiastan goes up in flames and drowns in a sea of blood as long as not one more American life (or cent) is spent on it. And without the US, we'll of course be doing jack shit too (we couldn't even make a tiny little bit of the Afghan outback safe without sustaining unpalatable losses and incurring eye-wateringly huge costs). Best case scenario - with the combined diplomatic efforts of Russia and the US, some agreement is reached between Assad's forces and the rebels to stop fighting each other, presumably through the implementation of some kind of western enforced buffer zone. Then, hopefully, with the direction, training and arming of each side by their respective Western ally (Russia-Assad/USA-rebels), the two sides can be persuaded to turn their attention to clearing any ISIS territory within their 'borders' under cover of air forces, while simultaneously the same strategy is employed with whoever the fuck it is in charge in the various parts of Iraq that have been occupied by ISIS. This is unlikely to ever happen though, since it requires too many people to make too many compromises for too many costs, to conduct too many risky tasks which have limited chances of success. As any fool can see though, the war(s) will eventually cost more to everyone in the long run, but history is dumb like that. Worst case scenario - China unveils their secret clone army grown for them on a distant planet by a shadowy figure named Duke (of Westminster), conquers the entire fucking region in a month, claiming dibs under the UN equivalent of squatters rights in abandoned property, and it becomes another defacto PRC colony/resource centre, just like much of Africa is now. And in 10 years time we'll all be eating rice, wearing straw hats and reading little red books. But that's got nothing to do with this, that's just what happens in Corbyn's Britain.

Evidently, this piece caused a bit of a stink recently. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/saudi-arabia-an-isis-that-has-made-it.html It's about the Saudis. Being the real terrorists. Their backers. Their funders. The source of their ideology. I'm sensing just a tiny bit of de ja vu. What was that guy's name? Obama something, Usamma? Rama lama ding dong? Jesus. It's not like I'm not pleased to see this out there, but come the fuck on! Us ignorant westerners have known it was the Saudis since 9/11, there's just jack shit anyone in power is prepared to do about it. Because of the global military industrial lizard complex. AmIRight?

Had no clue Fury was a homophobe until the comedian from The Chase rounded on him repeatedly on Fighting Talk this morning. Made a crack about bare chested sweaty combat with an Eastern European for 12 rounds. Not really funny, but you could tell it was just a pretext for calling him a bigotted cunt. Still haven't properly read up on it.

Are you fucking kidding me CT? You can't just drop this shit in "general random conversation". I'm sure we could get 10 pages just on Conehead jokes FFS. Then there looks to be a rich vein in the Rogue Traders area. My god man, the sheer waste of this comedic potential.

Not sure if I'm repeating this stat accurately, but I think I heard recently that even after Paris, the number of people killed in Europe by terrorist is still actually lower than the total amount of Europeans killed in 9/11.

Taking the SFA to a judicial review. Trying to claim the new Rangers chairman shouldn't have passed their fit and proper person test, due to some South African tax case. The brass fucking stones on this cunt.

Just to be absolutely sure, we don't have anyone in our squad who we poached from LFC? Because we're short on goalkeepers, we've got several red cards in waiting in the team, and karma is a bitch.

Don;'t forget, we didn't just sign a coach, he's got a seat on the "footballing board" with Penfold and Moncur, which was clearly one of the things that persuaded him to come in the first place. So in all likelihood, we're not talking the usual shafting we take on compensation, he's an executive now. He's not going anywhere, not without an exhorbitant, 'golden handshake'. After all, who the holy fuck is going to hire him if he does jump ship now? If he's not prepared to drop into the bottom half of the Championship at least, the guy's going to be after at least enough chucking around money for 18 months.

The difference between hope and fear. It's not too many years ago that Selhurst was as quiet as a cathedral, and our away section was loud enough to make the whole game, the full 90 mins, feel like a home fixture. We fucking bossed them, and you could feel the fear of a keenly anticipated thumping in the air, in the players and the home fans. I should know, because I once had to sit smack bang in the middle of the home stand. I don't think I even had to go out of my way to get a ticket either, gaps all over the ground. A valuable weapon in the armory, given our record at the other London grounds. We don't even have that any more. Crystal Palace. A fucking tiny little club in a shitty little part of the extreme edge of London, and they look like they have more reasons to be optimistic than our giant club. How you didn't actually vomit while in that ground today, I don't know. I would have been sick, sick to my fucking stomach at the realisation of it all. Probably as soon as I saw the cheerleaders. Most likely because I would have had to have got absolutely fucking tanked on the coach on the way down. I suppose Mike chose well, since if he'd picked a club like Crystal Palace he might have actually been under threat of losing his revenue stream if he made a cock up of it all, with people having plenty of other options of how to spend their free time, even watching other top flight clubs if they needed a football fix.

There were plenty on here last year who were dead set against relegation, absolutely desperate for another season in the top flight. A speech from Mike, a bit of money, a brand new coach who was obviously better than Pardew, that's all it took to fool them. Even as the window went on, and hopes of signing super star players like Charlie fing Austin evaporated, they still clung to that hope, like shipwrecked passengers to an upturned lifeboat. I got fucking dogs abuse on here, called a mackem and all sorts, for having the good sense to point out there was nothing, not one thing, in McLaren's record, to suggest he would be taking us anywhere, certainly not under the exact same regime as Pardew was working under (being Mike's yes man and buying young foreign lads spotted by Carr for options to sell after a few years). Well, I take no pleasure in it, but now we're past the magical 10 game point and this buffoon's true potential, his complete inability to coach, motivate or formulate any kind of tactical plan, is laid bare for all to see. Was I spot fucking on or was I spot fucking on? Go back and check if you want. Nobody can blame the players, these were the same guys who have all performed well for us in the past, and on paper, the arrivals in the summer were better. So it's beyond obvious it's the coach, just as much as it is the regime/ethos. We're regularly being beaten by teams who have some of our former players FFS. It was as obvious as obvious could be through the whole of last season, through the whole Sack Pardew nonsense, that the issue is Ashley, that it will always be Ashley, and that if people gave him a fucking penny of their money this season, you were willfully, knowingly, prolonging the agony of all of us, who long ago jumped ship. I prayed for relegation last season, I was wishing it every second of that final match. Why? Because I knew it was the last best hope to get rid of Ashley, at least probably until the last day of this season.