Tom_NUFC

there's all different flavours.

Bollocks, its just non-alcoholic that's all.

I don't like getting pissed nowadays. If I go out for a drink, I'll have a few Cokes or J20s between pints.

I had an exam yesterday afternoon. It was alright. A week off now before lectures, but I'll have to do some work on my dissertation I suppose.

I still play it. I've got a Megadrive emulator on my PC.

I play guitar - self taught. I've been playing for 12 years and I'm fairly mediocre, but I can knock out tunes. I have a bass - and I can play that, but in a 'messing about' kind of a way. And I can also play a bit piano/keyboards/organ but not very well at all.

speaking as a regular of both, I think they should stay.

Sacking Roeder = Shite decision right now Shepherd blowing his own head off with a shotgun = Big thumbs up

Only for cup games though, no need for league games. And I'm not neccesarily on about pathetically touting free tickets around schools anywhere between Jedburgh and Doncaster like they do.

Last night was awful, but there's no way Roeder's position should be questioned on the back of it. In general, he's doing OK.

They could even do bairns go free if they're with an adult. One thing that you see at cup games is people bringing kids, and they buy them pop, crisps, burgers, programmes etc. They'd still make money out of it, and have better crowds.

No, I'd have prefered that, at least it would be more acceptable. I wasn't thinking that last night was going to be an easy win at all. I thought that we should win, and I was confident. Being beaten was always possible, but for me its the lack of our performance and the magnitude of the defeat that I feel angry, embarrassed and humiliated by. Any 5-1 defeat is unacceptable. If we lost 5-1 to Man U, Chelsea or Arsenal, I'd be angry, but to lose by that amount to a team a division below us (albeit a one doing well) is really sickening.

A fucking disgrace that was. A massive pile of shite. I walked out after the fifth - I usually hate leaving before full time, but I was cold, embarrassed and angry. As I left the steward by the exit said "that's the worst game I've seen" and I walked away from the ground thinking that I must have seen worse, but I couldn't think of anything. I remember things like getting beaten by Southend 4-0 away, but I wasn't actually there.

Park at Falconer Street in Shieldfield, then just walk over the footbridge into the City Centre.

I've had mine a year and its been fine.

This one's good, its a Panasonic. Not DivX, but it does have DVD RAM.

Bugger! Mines 'fizzier' looking though!

Whilst I agree that History is just what is recorded, and therefore before things were recorded it is pre-history. There have been things which occured during the times of recorded history which weren't recorded because they weren't deemed important. They're not pre-history though.

I can cook a bit. I've got quite good at making curries. Not doing some chicken with sauce from a jar or owt, doing proper curries from scratch. I don't really follow recipies now, I just chuck all sorts in. Get a few fresh spices/herbs (like Corriander) and its very easy to make a really nice curry. I can do stuff like Chilli Con Carne as well, and have tackled a Sunday dinner on a few occasions with success, and basic stuff like sausage and mash, its hard to go wrong there.

Why would the English and French teams be merged? France would have still had their own national teams, after all all the British countries do.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6261885.stm Formerly secret documents unearthed from the National Archives have showed Britain and France considered a "union" in the 1950s. On 10 September 1956 French Prime Minister Guy Mollet arrived in London for talks with his British counterpart, Anthony Eden. These were troubled times for Mollet's France. Egypt's President Gamel Abdel Nasser had nationalised the Suez Canal and, as if that was not enough, he was also busy funding separatists in French Algeria, fuelling a bloody mutiny that was costing the country's colonial masters dear. Monsieur Mollet was ready to fight back and he was determined to get Britain's help to do it. Formerly secret documents held in Britain's National Archives in London, which have lain virtually unnoticed since being released two decades ago, reveal the extraordinary proposal Mollet was about to make. The following is an extract from a British government cabinet paper of the day. It reads: "When the French Prime Minister, Monsieur Mollet was recently in London he raised with the prime minister the possibility of a union between the United Kingdom and France." Mollet was desperate to hit back at Nasser. He was also an Anglophile who admired Britain both for its help in two world wars and its blossoming welfare state. There was another reason, too, that the French prime minister proposed this radical plan. Tension was growing at this time along the border between Israel and Jordan. France was an ally of Israel and Britain of Jordan. If events got out of control there, French and British soldiers could soon be fighting each other. With the Suez issue on the boil Mollet could not let such a disaster happen. Secret document So, when Eden turned down his request for a union between France and Britain the French prime minister came up with another proposal. This time, while Eden was on a visit to Paris, he requested that France be allowed to join the British Commonwealth. A secret document from 28 September 1956 records the surprisingly enthusiastic way the British premier responded to the proposal when he discussed it with his Cabinet Secretary, Sir Norman Brook. It says: "Sir Norman Brook asked to see me this morning and told me he had come up from the country consequent on a telephone conversation from the prime minister who is in Wiltshire. "The PM told him on the telephone that he thought in the light of his talks with the French: "That we should give immediate consideration to France joining the Commonwealth "That Monsieur Mollet had not thought there need be difficulty over France accepting the headship of her Majesty "That the French would welcome a common citizenship arrangement on the Irish basis" Seeing these words for the first time, Henri Soutou, professor of contemporary history at Paris's Sorbonne University almost fell off his chair. Stammering repeatedly he said: "Really I am stuttering because this idea is so preposterous. The idea of joining the Commonwealth and accepting the headship of Her Majesty would not have gone down well. If this had been suggested more recently Mollet might have found himself in court." Textbooks Nationalist MP Jacques Myard was similarly stunned on being shown the papers, saying: "I tell you the truth, when I read that I am quite astonished. I had a good opinion of Mr Mollet before. I think I am going to revise that opinion. "I am just amazed at reading this because since the days I was learning history as a student I have never heard of this. It is not in the textbooks." It seems that the French prime minister decided to quietly forget about his strange proposals. No record of them seems to exist in the French archives and it is clear that he told few other ministers of the day about them. This might well be because after Britain decided to pull out of Suez, the battle against President Nasser was lost and all talk of union died too. Instead, when the EEC was born the following year, France teamed up with Germany while Britain watched on. The rest, it seems, is history. Document's A Marriage Cordial will be broadcast on Radio 4 at 2000 GMT on Monday.

Since when have people from Carlisle been Geordies? It wasn't that bad. It was a foul - definitely. No argument on that one, but howay, that lad mustn't have seen much football if he's saying its the worst he's seen......

I was expecting a defeat today, given Spurs' decent home record. They should have won it, with all their domination and control of the game, but they wasted quite a few chances. We stood up fairly well to them, and never gave up. We had a lot fewer chances, but did better with them when they came along. I thought Martins was brilliant today.

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