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Yeah, there are loads around the world, the scottish lad i was with lives in Singapore and said the one there was shit and very tame, the one in Amsterdam is apparently the best with the san fran one a close second (in terms of being out there and a bit kinky, which is right up my boulevard, as you know).

Lovely film, got that on DVD. You seen Tetro yet?

Was working so was busy during the day and had dinners with colleagues at night. Thurday night went to The Colonial which is a french vietnamese place, decent food but a bit pricey. One for the expenses if you can. Friday night went to The Supper Club, its an experience as they do bondage floor shows, waitresses are all in kinky PVC gear, was with a group of lads (English, Scottish and Aussie) so it was a bit of piss-up. Afterwards we went to a club called Slide, was alright nowt special and i left early as i was presenting at 9am on saturday. Saturday night, went to a forgettable Italian place then to the top of the Marriott Marquis (39th floor) with floor to ceiling windows and an amazing view of the city. Would recommend a visit for a cocktail or whatever. Also good for views is the club called Starlight Rooms at the top of the Francis Drake Hotel, worth checking out too. Weds night is ladies night, if that interests you. Sunday i was wrecked (obviously), went to SF Moma which was decent, its not far from Union square which is worth a visit. Sunday night went to The Chieftain Irish pub, completely mental even on sunday evening, some bizarre Doris in the corner doing a synth-pop 80s gig on a laptop and a drum machine, decent pint of Guinness. Monday morning i got a taxi driver to take me to Golden Gate, Snake st, Californian Heights etc, took a few photos then to the airport 70 dollars for 2 hours drive around town.

You wouldnt keep Barton who has proved he can keep a club in the top flight? Or Colocinni? Or Gutierrez? Personally i would sell Nolan and look to get someone with pace and strength to play along Guthrie who i see as capable of playing a similar role as Carrick. I think we need a new right back and a new striker, if sunderland go down we should try and get Benteee. I think we have 4 defenders and 4 midfielders who are good enough to start prem games. I'd want to strengthen that starting 4 in midfield though and RB is not covered in that. For stikers its a bit complicated. I think Carroll has started to develop as a decent striker this season, its been a year of development for him so you've got to hope he can translate that into a step up to the top flight. I see Lovenkrands as decent but was not happy with his overall performances when we were up there. Maybe that will change and would agree he should be kept. Ranger is one for the future still, Best i dont think is good enough but i wouldnt know and Shola is a possible. If the mackems go down, i'd suggest Bent, like i suggested 2/3 seasons ago and was laughed at.

Dont the Vardys of mackem fame finance an academy? Pure religious nutjob place too.

cos they could afford it. we couldnt as we'd just given them all wor cash (in a manner of speaking). How had we just given them all our cash if they'd just given us massive loans? Don't think too hard about that one btw. well duh! hark at you. at that point we were massively in debt to them. therefore they were flush (lots of assets you see) and we wernt. i was always told that the loans were in the form of material goods anyway, not cash. ie they then gave us material goods (tanks, bullets, food etc.) and we paid them back over the following 50 odd years. Still means they were solvent and we wernt. basic finances, you should try it sometimes! The previous post re: the dishwashers etc. was a flippant one but that doesn't alter the fact that the US made us financially better off after the war than we would have been had they not supplied the loans etc. They were richer than us, aye, but we were skint because of the war, not because we'd just given America all our money, which was what you said. They actually supplied us with stuff we needed at a fraction of its true cost. It was stuff we needed as well. As an aside, I think a lot of the problems with post-War Britain was a resistance to modernisation. This stretched well beyond the immediate post-war years into the 60s and 70s. You have to wonder why so many other countries even more devastated by war were able to cope so much better in this period. Personally I put it down to the ruling classes clinging onto power, land and so on. Well, only 2 or 3 EU countries peform better than us economically in the post-war period and only for certain periods of time. The Germans dont have an army, so 30% of their tax revenues can be invested into other areas. The French position themselves at the heart of the new EU power structures and therefore benefit from protectionist policies and from close economic ties with the Germans. The EU project was all about keeping these two from war, so the economic gains for them (seen post 1950 onwards) were substantial. Its no coincidence that De Gaulle wanted us kept away form this new relationship. The Italians do ok for certain periods but only out perform us during the 70's when we were again bankrupt. It was in 1976 that we went to the IMF for money, an avenue the EU has been desperate to avoid with the Greeks. I'd say from an economic perspective, the Dutch disease of the early 70s and the lack of participation in the EU projects of the 50s and 60s strained our overall economic performance.

Stevie I was only 16 That bloke was 30s with those horrible curtains. He had a nice brown leather on iirc.

I think there is a long clip of this on the official history DVD, wont get a chance to look through until weekend though.

I watched the exact same 3 films on a flight at the weekend. 2012 - I knew what I was getting. Kept me entertained for 90 mins but generally a poor movie TIoL - The odd laugh but generally utterly forgettable Up in the Air - Nicely shot movie. Good acting. Again, utterly forgettable. Watched them on a flight too. Paris - San Francisco, you?

Snakehips, the name of the man you were talking about is a lad called John Maynard Keynes. Considered at the time the most intelligent man in Britain, he was sent to the US to secure funding for the re-building of Britain who had bankrupted itself during the war. Marr's account of this on TV is brief, i recommend the first book for a better account. The effort and stress (the man was possibly the greatest Economist that ever lived and was well aware of the implications of his personal failure) killed him.

2012 - Shite but funny. The invention of lying - Fell asleep. In the air - George is dreamy.

To whom it may concern; change your mind, prove you've got one.

I used to like Russ Abbott Customer - 'Waiter can you clear this table?' Waiter - 'Not in these trousers'.

Not seen Hurt Locker, is it anti-war or not then?

We should get the team to run out to this, it might help.

I still don't think he's anything more than a piss-taking wum. Gejon?

If people were a bit more circumspect and considered in their opinions in the first place there wouldnt be all this fuss about being 'wrong'.

Not working for me Tom, any other place? Are you clicking on CH3? - you should be. YES, but nothing playing. Was it working for you before? Try closing down your browser and then going in again from scratch. Its defo working as I'm listening to it myself. No it hasn't worked at all. I've tried that to no avail. Maybe because sometimes things are only available in the UK. CH3 is working for me. I'm in Spokane WA Well it aint working for me you jammy sod. Guess I'll have to stay with the text commentary for this match. By the way, my daughter lives in Richland WA. Its working for me in San Francisco.

Some great stuff in Andrew Marr's first book on modern British history about Churchill.

The club (Matter) is meant to be good. At the Dome that is. Never been but the soundsystem is apparently the best around, lots of people seem to go there. Oh and Stevie, as of June i'll not be looking kindly on any french-bashing on here. Its a family thing. Mind, that'll be a thankless fucking task.

Looking at him as just a defender, i think he is probably equal to the best left backs in the premiership. Looking at him as a left back and responsibility to get forward he has in his position, he has work to do. Age is on his side in the position he plays and experience gives you better judgement about these things.

In a parallel universe under Shepherd and the Halls, NUFC won the FA cup and in the same season reached the semi-finals of the CL. Unfortunately, that world was also destroyed by Islamic terrorists who engineered a global nuclear war 2 hours after the final whistle. Bastids.

So if the leader of the BNP went to university......

Adam and Joe have been doing radio for years, they'll just find another station. They were on Xfm before 6. Edit, iirc.

Kaballah=Templars+Bavaria+Vatican=Hitler+SkullandBones-Bloodpillar11=Einstien^6+9/11=Bear Stearns (The Bear Star) +11+33=Jacko. If you cube a pythagorean triangle you get a precessional number. Pythagoras was a phoney.