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So what? It was racist then and it's racist now. That's like keeping a black man chained up in your cellar then defending it on the grounds that slavery used to be legal. It's not really like that at all, and unless I'm mistaken, Bluestar isn't defending the continued use of the phrase. I don't think he was either, it's just that I've heard the 'well it used to be a recognised colour' as justification for calling something nigger brown before and I think it's complete bollocks. As I say, it was racist then and it's racist now, the fact it was the done thing 20 years ago makes no difference whatsoever. 10/10 on the PC front but your maths is shit

Being a jambo the Hibee scum

Isn't that the point? My point being that the feat has it's impressive-ometer needle dampened by the fact that they weren't fighting against the Persian SAS... It's still impressive, but the "facts" detract from the legend. The Persian army at the time was the greatest army on earth (having conquered a huge swathe of the planet) irrespective of it's make-up, therefore I think the feat of holding out for 3 days deserves a raise in the "impressive-ometer needle " IMO

Was meant to be getting turned into a film directed by Michael Mann, but seems to have slipped off the radar. He went and did Collateral instead. Shame that, it'll probably never be made now because of 300 which better be good because if it's not it's a disservice to one of history's great stories. The Spartans were sort of the Nazi's of the ancient world and are a compelling subject. I don't think Nazi is a particularly fair comparison (except in the most indirect military sense, some thing Alexander and the Roman’s repeated really), both because the world was a vastly different place, and because Sparta did both somewhat directly and indirectly influence Athenian democracy (in some ways they were much more liberal and equal than them, in fact, although in many ways not), which is pretty much at least the barest ideological framework of the modern idea. But they are fascinating though definitely (as is most of Mediterranean history of that time period tbh). That's why I said "sort of" Nearest contemporary comparison IMO though, much more so than the Romans or Alexander

As you say apart from clothes and food, I reckon I buy virtually everything else on-line. Especially anything electrical, bought a small tele from Amazon for £249, was £349 in Currys

Was meant to be getting turned into a film directed by Michael Mann, but seems to have slipped off the radar. He went and did Collateral instead. Shame that, it'll probably never be made now because of 300 which better be good because if it's not it's a disservice to one of history's great stories. The Spartans were sort of the Nazi's of the ancient world and are a compelling subject.

Brilliant historical novel about Thermopylae, highly recommended for anyone who's interested - Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield [

AYe, that's him, I see he looks the part as well. There's an obesity epidemic at Talk Sport towers. They obviously live on good ole white-man food, pies, mash and chips etc, [talksport]none of that darkie fruit and veg rubbish !!!!!!![/talksport]

John Gaunt Writes for the Sun and looks like a bloated Landan cabbie

well spotted wanker All blokes are, especially one's like me who work away from home most of the time Tell me about it No I will not, you fucking vouyer

Seconded Fucking unreal tbh

Very clever station tbh, make a fortune out of fucking idots who can't see they are being set up with ludicrous topics. Notably a huge number of cockney and scouse callers seem to predominate

well spotted wanker All blokes are, especially one's like me who work away from home most of the time

well spotted

Should just nuke the whole fucking middle east and turn it into a sea of glass Just so long as we can still get the oil out when it's stopped glowing I'm not serious BTW

Stunning film On a Nicholson-esque theme The Departed, thoroughly enjoyable gangster/bad cop romp Di Caprio was excellent, which was a surprise

Solely on Taylor IMO When the balls played wide Huntingdon checks his run to play the winger offside, which he would have been except that Taylor was 2 yards behind the line the rest of the defence was holding, Taylor compounded his error by not cutting out the cross As for the "no defenders - why didn'y you realise that in August" comments, he probably did but we were skint (and probably still are)

Guilt edged fit for Morrissey then Out of order. The truth hurts sometimes

Guilt edged fit for Morrissey then

Which reckoned this lot were good http://www.globalnet.co.uk/services/broadb...nd_max_plus.asp

Thanks, but within reason not too bothered by monthly cost (it's a business expense as I work from home) just after a half-decent provider

Heard nothing but bad about Tiscali mind !! What was wrong with Plusnet? a couple of techy's at work reckon it's fine

Moving into me new house soon and trying to decide on new broadband provider. Internet does get hammered with my lads' on-line gaming and not downloading movies (because it's illegal and we wouldn't want to do anything illegal would we) Sky Broadband seems to be the fave at the moment, any suggestions from the techy whippersnappers on here ?? Can't go Telewest (my current ISP) as they don't cover the new house's area

Bit late for me. Ive already bought me HD tele. Im very happy with it. Major spate of burglaries round near me where houses and schools are being broken into for their projectors and then theyre being flogged on to pubs etc. Well any burgler who manages to get mine will need a stepladder as it's to be ceiling mounted, disarm the alarm and avoid the dogs, if they manage that they'll deserve their ill gotten gains

ON the verge or procuring Infocus IN76 HD projector 6ft Motorised Screen Yamaha RXV1700 AV receiver and DVDS1700 DVD player Kef 3005 Speakers Gonna be sweeeeet BTW projector and screen way cheaper than a big plasma or LCD