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It's quicker than 9 and Ping seems ok. Not many artists to follow.

Go on then

As a country and people probably, but can't see it in football. there isnt much between the two lineups out tonight (though I still think we shade it) but if everyone was fit (and in S.Irelands case willing to play) I think we're a fair bit ahead of the scots. Is he ever going to play for Ireland again? Its just the embarrassment of being caught lying like an idiot keeping him out imo.

Rather have Perch today. I reckon Cattermole finished him.

Ireland > Scotland

I read somewhere the japs prefer to watch cartoon porn than real porn. Imagine that Inspector fuckin Gadget giving it 5 nowt. Wrong uns. Did anyone see that BBC3 documentary about that 14 year old lass who became a superstar in Japan because of some dance on youtube. Her Japanese manager was a right shifty fucker who kept saying 'in the west its not right to objectify a 14 year old as a sex object but here in Japan its perfectly normal' Aye ok mate.

yes, is it a co-incidence that the only period Owen and Viduka stayed fit and turned in a few consistent performances was when Keegan was manager ? We were still close to having a decent team at this time. As for the defence, Beye, Bassong and Given would walk straight into the current team. Bad team spirit and player sales is what relegated us though. Indeed and bad organisational leadership of the club, 4 managers in one season being another key one. If we still had Beye and Bassong today am not sure they would walk into the team, yes Bassong was a great CB but i dont see Williamson that far behinf him. Beye is finished now too imo.

You didnt like Berlin? Has many sides, the time i met Parky there i went to an immigrant neighbourhood and got my haircut in a flat off 2 fit birds, then had coffee in someone's front room they opended to the public. Normal front door, hall, living room, 4 or 5 strangers and a table with nice coffee. 'Suggested' price less than one euro per cup. Can i just say though, Mrs P sounds lush Strong thighs, broad shoulders? Right up Meenz's autobahn Isegrim needs to come in here and make an invasion joke btw.

I'm in Berlin next week Parkenstein. Have an agenda that is military in its precision and breakfast is at 6.30 each morning. Fucks sake.

They are really repressed and stunted psychologically the control is so high here. It's one of the reasons all the Turks act like cunts cause they can get away with it here. They wouldn't last 5 min swaggering around like that in Eng. Dont know like, the Turkish community up around Tottenham Hale / Stoke Newington are right moody twats. Great kebabs though, me and a fat jewish mate used to have special kebab nights up there.

They've all got that little bit of Hitler in them as far as I'm concerned. Too orderly for my liking. Mrs P's tidyness drives me up the wall. Even at w/e we always have 'to be doing something'. She's always fukin arranging things for Sun morning with ParkyJnr, so I look like a cunt cause I refusre to get out of bed at 7.00 (ON A SUNDAY!!!!). She arranges and re-arranges things on my desk, she never seems tired or just able to relax, she doesn't understand anything about the world on any meaningful level, she watches Twilight (that vampire thing) and raves about it. I saw her cleaning her macpro screen with special computer screenwipes the other day (that's just fuking anal!!). Germans are shit. Robots, but a lot of the women look good, and I presume shag good. Personality wise they'd be alright if they were more like us. I don't think many Irish or English people would admit it but we're almost identical culture and personality wise generally speaking. The French ARE the best shag. MrsP operates it like a quota system the blonde Nazi bitch!

Good point, but thats what scares me about this season. Imagine carrol and jose enrique get injured next game, we'l end up with a worse team on paper than last season. Also, it wasnt just the forwards that were better that season, so was our defense. I'd have bassong and beye for campbell/perch any day. Not sure the defence is worse now. Youre thinking that way because we went down that season. Imagine collocini of now plays like collocini in 08/09 and this defense has to perform under the same shenanigans of that season. On paper theres no doubt, imo, that 08/09 defense was better. There was a reason beye was voted player of the season for us and bassong sold for 8 million. One more thing, your midfield and strikers playing well is crucial for a successful defense. Both of whom were poor in the season we went down and a key contributor to why our defense was always under so much pressure. This season we have the fewest shots on target against us in the whole league so far. I think there is a cohesiveness about the defence this season that wasnt there in the relegation season. Not down to the individual player's abilities but the organisation and management of the club.

Good point, but thats what scares me about this season. Imagine carrol and jose enrique get injured next game, we'l end up with a worse team on paper than last season. Also, it wasnt just the forwards that were better that season, so was our defense. I'd have bassong and beye for campbell/perch any day. Not sure the defence is worse now.

I guess if any group of people have a shared appearance it means they have a shared genetic make up. You cant say that in Germany though, its social democracy gone mad tbh.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/world/eu...1&ref=world BERLIN — When a German banker and former government official spoke publicly about a unique “Jewish gene,” when he attacked Islam as a source of violence and stunted development and when he espoused genetic theories that evoked the fright of the Nazi past, the political leadership here quickly condemned him as racist and called for him to be fired. German central bank executive Thilo Sarrazin’s disparaging comments about Muslim immigrants have triggered a heated debate on race and integration in Germany. But the banker, Thilo Sarrazin, an executive with the central bank and a former Berlin finance minister, has not emerged as the marginalized hate-monger that the initial condemnation suggested. His book, “Germany Does Away With Itself,” which laments the growing number of Muslim immigrants, contending that they are “dumbing down” society, was released Monday and is already in its fourth printing, with sales expected to exceed 150,000 copies, according to his publisher. Mr. Sarrazin has set off a painful public discussion here that highlights one of the nation’s most vexing challenges: how to overcome what is widely seen as a failed immigration policy that over decades has done little to support and integrate the nearly 20 percent of the population with an immigrant background. It is a policy that also stokes anti-Islamic sentiment and hostility. The sensation of Mr. Sarrazin’s book and his unrepentant posture have also provoked something less tangible, but perhaps more troublesome for policy makers here eager to keep the radical right from gaining a foothold as they have in other parts of Europe. Under the cover of speaking truth to power, Mr. Sarrazin has tried to legitimize hate speech, his critics say. One of the most telling signs of the growing distance between native Germans and immigrants, officials say, is the observation that the grandchildren of immigrants are less likely to integrate into German society and less likely to apply for citizenship compared with members of previous generations, creating an ethnic underclass in education and employment. Residents from immigrant families are twice as likely as other Germans to be unemployed. “This issue is now more important for Germany than the economy,” said Wolfgang Nowak, former senior adviser to the previous chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, and the head of Deutsche Bank’s International Forum. Mr. Nowak argues that Mr. Sarrazin has done his country a favor by forcing the topic to the top of the political agenda and crashing through the barriers of political correctness. “The condemnation of his book is an automatic reflex of a generation raised after Hitler,” he said. Even some who found his approach offensive said that Mr. Sarrazin had “addressed a problem that will remain long after the waves of outrage have subsided: the enormous integration deficit of the Muslim minority in Germany, or at least of disturbingly large parts of it,” said an article in the center-left newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. In a newspaper interview published the day before the book was released, Mr. Sarrazin also spoke of a Jewish gene, a reference to recent studies showing that Jews share many genes inherited from the ancestral population that lived in the Middle East long ago. He was criticized by everyone, including the chancellor, Angela Merkel. His party wants to kick him out, and the bank is considering firing him. On Thursday, the board of the bank voted to ask Germany’s president to dismiss Mr. Sarrazin from the board, and Mrs. Merkel applauded the decision. Mr. Sarrazin’s stance, and the traction it has gained, has alarmed many, in part because he is not a member of the extreme right but a longtime member of the center-left Social Democrats and the former top financial official for the city of Berlin, one of the centers of the immigrant community. “If he were an extremist, no one would pay attention,” said Hatice Akyün, a writer who has debated Mr. Sarrazin and condemned his theories of the innate inferiority of immigrants. “He is a Social Democrat. You cannot do what he is doing, not in this country. You cannot give this kind of thinking a democratic base.” Ms. Akyün, whose father came to Germany from Turkey in 1969 to work as a miner, said that the debate often came down to the difference between integration, which she said immigrants and their families accept, even desire, and assimilation, which they reject. Maxim Biller, whose family moved to Germany from Prague when he was a child, said, “The only chance for acceptance in German society is total assimilation, don’t hold onto our traditions.” Mr. Sarrazin, who wears small, round glasses and has a stern face topped by a shock of mostly white hair, said that he wanted to highlight what he described as the drain on Germany by an immigrant class. In his book, he criticized Islam and blamed Muslim immigrants for refusing to integrate. He also blamed Germany for being too generous with its social benefits, which he said attracted immigrants looking for handouts. “No other religion in Europe is so demanding and no other migration group depends so much on the social welfare state and is so much connected to criminality,” he wrote in one passage. Germany has had a difficult time coming to terms with its immigrant population. Next year will be the 50th anniversary of the guest-worker program for migrants, mostly Turks. Originally, the plan was for the workers to return, though that idea evaporated in the 1970s when Germany allowed workers’ families to move here, said Gunter Piening, an official who deals with integration and migration issues for Berlin. “The German philosophy was, ‘We are not a migration country,’ ” he said. “There were migrants, but there was no migrant policy.” It was only in 2005 that Germany acknowledged that it had become a destination country, a shift that was not accompanied by a practical plan, Mr. Piening said. That has slowly begun to change, he said. Recently, for example, Berlin revamped its secondary education system because it recognized that children of immigrants were “getting an education which was good for nothing, a dead end.” Steps have been taken to also allow Muslims to be buried without coffins — the custom for Muslims is to be wrapped in a shroud — a small measure if ultimately adopted, but one that would nonetheless help make Muslims feel more welcome, Mr. Piening said. It is not, however, entirely benevolent as German officials recognize that they will need immigrants in coming years. According to a recent survey by the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce there will be six million fewer Germans of working age by 2030.

Not much use comparing the squads imo, go to individual match reports and compare the starting 11s. The Midfield consisted of Butt, Geremi, Duff and Guthrie for some games. Only the forward line is better on paper but in reality they were shitheads.

The press bit (the mesh) that goes through the coffee, is that glass as well?? Stainless steel i believe. How long have I got?

It's made of glass though.

Whats wrong with a cafetiere by the way? I use a saucepan to boil my water, 4 massive spoons of Carte Noire, mix, plunge, drink. Am i doing it wrong?

Iraq? Arguably Iran has covertly invaded Iraq post-2003 and Pakistan is constantly on the brink of invading India. To some 9/11 was a declaration of war, so Saudi Arabia too

They're Irish arent they? Massive in France.

Are me, Ass-drilla and Mattm4 the resident frogs on here?

By the way our squad for this season has 68 names on it. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/newcastle-u...72703-27186446/?