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Haddaway and shite man man man, divvent ye knaa that Fat Mike'll sell oop to the Sheikh of East Waziristan and we'll bring in Rooney, Casillas, Fabregas and Terry? We'll walk the league like, no problem. [/sSN]

We got a Man U badge for this guy?

Why what's wrong with your eyes? nothing i stil dont want them to be skitted do i ? you look like a retarded fish. You are aware that picture is not of him? He's another of the Everton brigade that have invaded lately.

God, that was an awful kit. Ronnie for me.

true, but we dont want to be going back there, and being wrongly labelled a small club just because were in the championship. we get higher attendances down their than the likes of everton and villa anyway. go away you scrote what? If you're a NUFC fan I'm Joseph Yobo. Nice to hoof..I mean meet you, Mr Yobo. Good to meet you too, you red shite. Up the toffees. Can't wait for Torres to go to Citeh. He'd come to us if we had any money, bigger club and all. Maybe I can get a few Nigerian businessmen together, take Everton over, and buy him. Chairman Joseph Yobo, has a good ring to it, no? Now please just give me a few hundred thousand quid while my compatriots fill out the paperwork and we will wire you your ancestral fortune within a fortnight.

true, but we dont want to be going back there, and being wrongly labelled a small club just because were in the championship. we get higher attendances down their than the likes of everton and villa anyway. go away you scrote what? If you're a NUFC fan I'm Joseph Yobo.

What is this shit? Did I miss when we announced we were taking in strays from smaller clubs?

Blue mackems, red dippers, oh my. We've got a veritable menagerie on this board now. OP is a mackem as well. But obviously we're such a small club that fans of other clubs have to come on our board constantly to tell us so.

Only goal, they should say. How like him that his only goal's in a match that doesn't count.

"What senses do we lack that we cannot perceive another world all around us?" Is there a standard answer to that as well? Questions with no answer, I realise that. I just don't agree with the implication from HF that no rational and intelligent person can believe in God. Many of the world's most foremost scientists have been believers, for example, and their religious beliefs didn't impact their discoveries.

"What senses do we lack that we cannot perceive another world all around us?"

It's that God watches the universe and his creations and at times intervenes, and that we can't know his will, on account of him being ineffable, etc. Impossible to argue that as it's just about belief.

I've read a few articles from British science teachers saying that they face increasing hostility from Muslim kids when evolution is raised - one of the disadvantages of the more fundamental Islam we seem to be engendering in the UK (probably as a result of immigration from Pakistan) is that on this issue it seems less enlightened than more mainstream versions. I also think there's a "bloody-mindedness" at work where some Muslims are deliberately embracing tenets which they know will annoy western liberals the most. Of course the fact that a lot of Muslim schools are being funded by Saudi Wahabbists doesn't help as they tend to be as much towards the fuck-witted end of the scale as US evangelical creationists. I have often said you can trace many of the negatives about Islamic society today back to Saudi Arabia and specifically to the Wahabis, who are absolute psychos and who are a danger to Muslims and non-Muslims worldwide. They've been a strong influence in Pakistan since the 70s and the rule of Zia-ul-Haq and their particular brand of Islamism is gaining popularity even in relatively secular states such as Egypt. I really struggle to support war or violence of any kind, but if there ever was a regime that needed changing it would be the House of Saud.

Yes. There should be a "Brown Lads" group as well for me and Bawan and...well, just me and Bawan. Funny, that. Vimalraja, maybe?

Creationism isn't being taught 'all over the US'. It has caught on in some areas, but in most of the country, it is still not included in the curriculum. There is an increasing propensity to give a nod to the 'evolution is just a theory' claptrap. So while few schools will actually talk about creationism, many attempt to intimate that it's a possibility. I have no idea what is taught in "Muslim Faith schools". I doubt it is creationism. Despite the myriad faults of conservative Islam, one of its plusses is that it does not reject what Westerners consider 'science.' Remember, much of the scientific tradition as we know it originated in the Muslim world. @Happy Face: You already know what I'm going to say. You're a bright fellow and I'm sure you are aware of the standard counter-argument to what you are asking.

Can't tell if I'm part of the "Yank Five" or the "Terrorist Sympathisers." Is dual citizenship possible?

That's fair enough. But how do you define the bolded? If it's stuff like what The Fish is talking about, well, I'm a schoolteacher myself and rest assured I want religion to have no part in schools or government.

"If Campbell's still playing, why can't Shearer put his boots on? I'd rather see him on the pitch than chatting bollocks on the telly. Shearer was a good player, but he's shit on the telly. The guy's as thick as pig shit, that's why Newcastle went down. He can't read, never mind manage." FYP. Now do us a favour, yeah? (p.s. He had a career-ending injury, or doesn't your memory go that far back?)

I see I'm in the large minority here, which is definitely not the case in the USA. Of course, as a Muslim I believe in one God who is eternal and who created the universe, and I believe in his prophets from the OT through to Muhammad (pbuh.) I believe that he impacts our lives, although probably not in ways that we can discern, and that we have free will, but God also has a design for us and it's up to us to make the choices that will hopefully lead us down the right path. And I think that path is just to live as an upright human being, acting with compassion and fairness, treating other human beings with love and respect. Which is what most if not all religions preach. Past that, when we get into organized religion (hasn't really existed in Sunni Islam since the 8th century, although there are plenty of fanatics who would tell you otherwise) and the like, I want no part of it. Every person's individual relationship with/belief or disbelief in God is their own business. I abhor the militant atheists who try to 'disprove' God as much as the evangelicals of any religion who try to 'prove' him and moreover to 'prove' that you need him/are saying the wrong words to worship him/etc.

Forgot Gosling I think. Ben Arfa please. And keep Ranger, sell Xisco.

Mensah, ah yes, isn't that the dopey mackem who thought he could take a penalty in the world cup quarter-finals without any run-up? I'd say he's the thickest of a thick lot (not counting your good self, of course) but now that you've got Bramble there's competition for the title.

'But somehow Andy Carroll got into the side' May have been because you were injured as always, you donkey.

Sounds like a good move, nothing but praise for him in the Championship last season. I'd be ok with loaning out Kazenga and Forster, even Ranger, but I want to hang on to Kadar as we might need him.

I'm sure this is from somewhere else, as are all of soccernet's news items, but since I don't see it on the BBC: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id...ers&cc=5901

Still don't understand why people on this board talk about Barton as though he were any good. What's he done in black and white? "Our best player" - that's a laugh.