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And that in a thread where Gemmill has a go at German humour...

Efficiency at its finest tbh

You are getting too predictable.

I like the film actually. Some nice subtle humour like the scene where they are reasoning which car to buy when they get all the money.

Probably the most overrated opinion ever. Do you think he should go to 'merica and make some money out of it?

Whenever I read the title of this thread I do wonder how thompers does know about the level of Gejon's sexual abilities ...

It's the end of N-O as we know it. It's the end of N-O as we know it. It's the end of N-O as we know it and it feels GREAT ©.

I've never seen any of this crap. I'd watch it if they invited some Al-Qaeda member though.

All we now need is an Alberta-Luque-thread and the N-Otification of this board is completed.

I just read the Tony Hawk book about buying a house in the pyrenees. I noticed how many empty houses there are in the outer small villages in France. I think I'm definitely up for buying one at some stage.

If we're so stupid, how come we had Einstein and Werner von Braun!??! Because Austrians are even more stupid?

I've already had a look at this http://z7.invisionfree.com/toonchat/index.php?act=idx And even the jokes from the viagraselling bots are better than Shinton's tbh...

Ban her tbh

If I were Beckham, I'd leave the MLS for a good few years yet. He's still too good / young to waste his talents in that league right now. I'd have him in a second at NUFC, not least because of the money he would generate for the club. Don't think he'd come, though..... Gemmill would go ballistic with even more oversea fans flooding the fora. We could do with a Kok-Wee-Uk for comedy value though...

I think his legs have long gone. He had his best time when he was running down the wing and got in accurate crosses. Nowadays his game is very static whenever I have seen him either for England or Madrid and either if on the wing or in central midfield and tries to orchestrate by hitting long floating diagonal passes. Even Nobby is offering more movement and pace.

Hmm, I disagree. And I am everything but a fan of Emre. Beckham tries far too many long passes everytime he is on the ball for my liking.

I'm seriously considering to emigrate to some gardening-advice forum...

I agree, it's fucking ridiculous, now fuck off! We all know he's been after Cat for a fair while despite the fact she's old enough to be his mother! I would have to have been a gymslip mam, but unfortunately it's true. How fucking depressing Mind you, if I were his mother I'd make sure he listened to some decent music and didn't run up and down a footy touchline in too-small shorts I'd force feed him alcohol and make him stay out til 2am like normal teenagers He also has to be taught not to hang about male changing rooms tbh.. But at least he has manners and knows how to give someone a handshake. Though it looks like an obsession if you only do it to one person...

Toontastic is a great forum and all that, but I've just become too attached to N-O to leave it and replace it fully with here. I also fail to see exactly what Toontastic is supposed to have over N-O, aside from the arcade of course. You can f***ing swear without getting banned, you numpty?

I only worked night shifts during a part time job when I was 18. I am glad that I did it... ...after that I was sure to become an academic chosing to work whenever I want.

I guess the family is already happy enough after having sold the video tape to FOX for a nice sum...

I see charity as crumbs from the table to salve the consience of the well off rather than an attempt to change. I see the wefare state/socialism as a more fundamental recognition of human brotherhood and an attempt to make a real difference (though I know its idealistic and usually impractical). Yes, but even the socialistic ideas just didn't spread from the ground, but are the result of a continuous process. Of course you have at first the catholic ideas of doing good works for the benefit of your afterlife. Then you get the protestant reformation telling people that they will get salvation regardless of their actions in life on earth, which doesn't mean they dropped the idea of caritas in the form of responsibility, but it was the (absolutistic) monarch who was responsible for it. The next step is the state as form of a community taking over and getting the responsibility. When you take Marx and Engels (and especially the latter as a strong religious past) for example, they didn't just came up with something totally new but just were trying to further develop existing ideas to better the current state. It's only their whole concept as a sum of several already known ideas and concepts that is revolutionary.

Well, it's based on the idea of caritas. And in the 15th and 16th century you'll find all over Europe the spreading of the idea of "public good" as a further development of the idea of caritas which became a task for the state, e.g. especially hospitals for the poor and ill etc. (often funded by the dissolution of monasteries who were thought to be perverting the ideas of caritas and public good). The real secularisation of these services only took place about 200-300 years later. Your distinction between charity and humanitary needs some explanation to me tbh as I find it quite absurd. As for the comments of "cherry picking". Isn't in the end everything a kind of "cherry picking", even in natural science? Poor ideas/theses get dropped because of new (better) interpretations/perceptions/findings (gnosis). I think that is a sort of common ground between empirical and non-empirical sciences.

IMHO that is rather down to the fact that thanks to the modern welfare state (developed on the foundation of Christian principles btw) most people don't face existential questions in everyday life. A lot of people just don't feel the urge to deal with religion in these circumstances. Normally this changes when people are challenged by unsual situations (illness, death etc.) and starting to ask themselves metaphysical questions. Then a lot people suddenly come back to religion in its different forms. As long as this is the rule I would no society call agnostic.