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One morning when a busker got on my carriage and started to play Romanian folk songs on the accordion, i offered him 4 euros to stop playing. Similar thinking tbh. did he take it? Aye, i told him he was making me feel sick and he got off. I didnt interrupt him, it was between tunes/strangled cat impressions.

One morning when a busker got on my carriage and started to play Romanian folk songs on the accordion, i offered him 4 euros to stop playing. Similar thinking tbh.

Is this the thread in which Ant looks like Russell Brand?

Personally i think the Germans dont want the cost of intervention when it is mainly the french and british who will gain economically. The arguments they give are sound but not convincing. The same story has Clinton saying there's "no US support" for imposing a no fly zone... http://www.newser.com/story/114204/libya-n...ks-g8-plan.html Thought I read this morning they came on board with the idea but expect China/Russia to oppose it anyway.

What is in the basque dressing? sounds interesting! I'd have to check the bottle but its got espelette ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espelette_pepper ) garlic, olive oil and various herbs. Its basically spicey / herby oil that you can marinate meats / fish with or lob on a salad with a bit of vinegar added (or i do anyway).

In the G8, its the Germans putting the skids on things, the US, UK and France are all signed up but Merkel wont countenance it. Personally i think the Germans dont want the cost of intervention when it is mainly the french and british who will gain economically. The arguments they give are sound but not convincing.

Coincidence. Curtis is dodgy as fuck, he was the one caught giving 700 notes to Jermaine Pennant's Dad at a service station and was implicated in the dealings at Bolton with Allardyce's son etc. If you can connect Curtis to José Antonio Martín of Bahia then you'd have the whole merry-go-round under one deal.

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The death rate is vastly increased because of Al Quaeda's attacks on civilians in Iraq. Saddam cooperated with Al Quaeda in the weeks before the invasion, allowing Zaarqawi to gain a foothold in the country and instigate a civil war. Why make the Stalin comparison? It makes no sense. Criticism of Stalin wasn't allowed for a while after WW2 because of his role in defeating Hitler. It would also have been fucking impossible to take Stalin on. The battle in Iraq was always going to be fixing a society that had been raped by decades of totalitarian rule. That process will ultimately take decades. How very noble of you.

Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere but there are many questions coming to light on the role of agents and their companies during the Carroll transfer. Apparently Carroll was in the process of changing his agent in January from North East based Peter Harrison to Mark Curtis from Direct Sports Management. Curtis was apparently on the helicopter with Carroll but neither his name or Harrison's is on the transfer paperwork. The named agent on the paperwork was David Bromley. He may have been representing Liverpool but thats odd since they have Comolli to represent them. Bromley and Curtis (Carroll's new agent) both work for the same company. It appears that the same company was working both sides of the deal and there is therefore a conflict of interest. Outstanding question on the deal put to Liverpool are 1. Who was the registered agent for Andy Carroll on transfer deadline day, Monday January 31, 2011? 2. Can you confirm that the agent name on the official transfer paperwork was David Bromley (a Fifa registered agent)? 3. We understand that Mr Bromley was acting for Liverpool Football Club. Is that your understanding? 4. How often has Mr Bromley acted for Liverpool before the Andy Carroll deal? 5. Why would Liverpool require an agent to act on behalf of the club? 6. Are you aware of any connection between Mr Bromley and Mark Curtis, who is to be Andy Carroll's agent after arbitration? 7. Did you know that David Bromley is the company secretary of Direct Sports Management Ltd, of which Mark Curtis is also a director? 8. Was Mark Curtis present when the Andy Carroll deal at Liverpool was signed? 9. Was an agent's fee paid by Liverpool to Mr Bromley? 10. How much was that fee? And what was it for? 11. To whom was the fee paid? Was it paid to Direct Sports Management Limited? 12. Did the FA, at any stage, warn Mark Curtis that he was not in a position on transfer deadline day to represent Andy Carroll? 13. Who did represent Andy Carroll on transfer deadline day? Did he - as I understand his representation contract allows - represent himself? http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/ma...nt-andy-carroll

Its their instinct in a crisis, retreat.

The French are telling everyone to get out of Japan and that they dont trust the Japs have it under control. Air France putting on more flights.

Used to love him. A bit un-pc these days like. A bit un-pc but all done in the best POSSIBLE taste.

Leazes reminds me of General Cheeseburger from the Kenny Everett show. "Round them up in a field... and bomb the bastards!!"

If yee look as young as me at 33 yel be deein areet. By putting that pic up like I realise am fair game for abuse nee one else would be daft enough to put a topless pic up. I meant Wyn looks 50s man not you Obviously I always put question marks against people who have never shown a pic of themself on here like. Biggest shock was that Ant looked like Russell Brand. Link?

Equivalent renewable energy, just to be clear.

Portugal's a fairly good model for renewable energy too... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal Isn't that preferable/safer? It's an impressive reversal of the numbers. How much power do they (Portugal) need to produce compared with Britain? Are there more logistical obstacles here than there? How's the decriminalization of weed going there? The last I saw it was a success in every area that could be quantified. The population is 1/6th, so I'd guess near that level. Not one person can or has explained why we can't put thousands of huge wind turbines, the size we've never seen before in the North Sea. There's no such thing as limitless wind power, if we have the will we can do it. Freddy Shepherd has the vision to do it, will private companies and the government have the will to do it. Regardless what arguments you put up, it's not impossible, and it's safe. It's the type of vision the Halls and the Shepherds had at NUFC, and look where we ended up. Are you happy with your freezer regularly defrosting when we have anticyclonic conditions? Apart from that there's the cost, the ugliness of them and their effect on wildlife, and the fact they're technically unreliable and need frequent replacing. You also have to manufacture them which wipes out most their carbon credentials. The effect on wildlife? What thirty miles out at sea? A few fish bumping their heads isn't going to cause an ecological disaster. Technically unreliable? Are you an expert on the new modern techniques they're developing? The ugliness of them, if you have them 30 miles offshore who's going to care apart from a few Uncle Albert types, as I'm sure you're aware you can't see anything in a straight line from your view point that is further than 22 miles away due to the shape of the world. As for the manufacturing pollution, you can't be serious? I'm no expert, but are you? If this was a cost-effective solution, why's it not already been done to a greater extent? You've completely ignored my first and most important point. They provide only an intermittent source of energy so can never be our main energy resource. I don't personally care about sea gulls getting decapitated but plenty of other people do. Regarding their ugliness, the further out you build them, the more expensive they are. The North Sea is up to 400 feet deep, how are you going to anchor them? The cost would be astronomical. I think somebody in the know on here said they were technically unreliable. Apparently at any single point in time, even with ideal wind conditions, a fair proportion are out of commission. The manufacture of them and their spare parts is of course going to effect the environment indirectly, you have to factor it in. I'll be interested if you address point one anyway, it's a fundamental flaw as far as I can tell. The future of the planet is at stake, and the government were considering FFS proposals strongly until the cut backs, they all agree something like this needs to happen in the next 20/30 years or we're fucked. The renewable energy industry is taking off, I can even see it in my industry, it's double the size it was two years ago, and in two years it will be double again, people are starting to take it seriously. At the end of the day long term it would pay for itself because our oil will be gone in 30 years, and we either find alternative energy sources or be ripped off to fuck off the likes of Russia and Libya for oil. As for it never being our main source of energy, says who, and why not? It's almost infinite. As for the North Sea being 400 foot deep, it's over 1,000 feet deep in some places, yet oil rigs manage, they're all easily solved engineering problems of which neither you nor myself fully understand anyway. Wind turbines don't produce any energy when it's not windy though? Even if I can accept other problems can be solved, how will technology ever get over that particlar problem? Rechargeable batteries? I completely agree that renwables are important but intermittent sources can only ever be part of the solution. Nuclear energy is another important piece of the equation imo, for the reasons you've stated. The North Sea aye, known for it's tranquil still conditions. You say that intermittent sources can only ever be part of the solution. Why???? Explain definitively why. Because electricity, I mean the type you use in your house or for industry, cannot be stored, it must be constantly generated. You say the North Sea is always windy but it's not. You can have days or even weeks without any, or little wind. Even too much wind stops turbines working. During which time we'd be screwed without any electricity at all - no computers, fridges, TVs, lights, electric trains, telecommunications etc. Therefore you have to have a constant source to rely on as well - a good old fashioned nuclear, gas, or coal fired station. Wind energy can never really make up more than 20% of the total in fact. When the oil price went above $110 recently, the economics of renewable energy for the UK economy were better than the economics of oil (according to Chris Huhne anyway). Thats a very quick way of saying that the the equivalent energy for $110 worth of oil could be made more cheaply domestically and to supply domestic energy needs. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011...omy?INTCMP=SRCH

Doing a warm salad tonight, pan fried salmon fillets, green beans and new potatoes. Mix salad with beans and pots and lob the salmon on top. Am marinating the salmon now in a basque dressing which is oil based so none needed in the pan.

Plenty in the belta minge thread.

Aye, when it was a civil war in Rwanda, the french upped sticks and fucked off. I guess the oil contracts change the Libyan situation. 'We are right to act' moralising is patently bollocks if you look at historical willingness to engage in civil strife.

I cant see this being a Goa, apparently Imran Khan but Ghengis Khan't. Take away from that what you will.

Dont think the way forward is that clear to anyone, a no fly zone wont do much if the rebels are being killed by land troops. France and Britain want it, the rest of the UN is a bit sceptical. Not sure why. We engaged with Iraq after Kuwait because it was an invasion, not sure how international law works for civil war. A no fly zone would surely just be a political move and in this case, a good one as i doubt its going to encourage Gaddafi to kill even more of his people. I think we cant let people die but what if its only a minority who are opposed to him? How do we assess that the rebel's represent a will of all the people? Do we know the number of fatalities in Libya yet?

Was that with someone called Howie Dj'ing? And MC Lee. They both played at Havanna's and then the Arena in Boro. Those two clubs were the best in the history of the north east, it wont please anyone to read. Better than the colosseum? Wasnt there an outdoor event down that way called Butterloggie or summit aswell, vaguely remember the name but before my time... They were in the Boro then moved to Sunderland iirc.

Was that with someone called Howie Dj'ing? And MC Lee. They both played at Havanna's and then the Arena in Boro. Those two clubs were the best in the history of the north east, it wont please anyone to read.