Christmas Tree

Is the point. Its a chance to re-create the great street parties of 77 when we had the silver jubilee. Chuck a bit bunting up, get some of the neighbours to each make a bit of scran. Chip in for a bouncy castle for rthe kids, load up the water pistols and have a good old time.

Nice one Dave.

Brown finally owns up for Labours part in causing the banking crash......But doesn't apologise. (Not party political)

What aout furthering his career at NUFC. We get larger attendances than all but 2 teams that will finish above us. Liverpool don't have CL football this season or next or for the foreseeable so what makes them a massive step forward? Had it been a genuine top 4 Club here or across Europe I'd buy the 'further his career' excuse. He'll go there for one reason only. Which brings it back to Ashleys policy of uy cheap sell expensive. he's going to further his career, and not just money mate. They have so much money, it isn't that important. He wants to play for a club that want to win things and play in the Champions League, keep their best players and bring in other top players to play with their current best players. We don't do that anymore. It's THAT simple. Mike Ashley, like the owner of any big football club, had a choice. He's made it. Havent they just sold one of their best players for 50 million? (I know what you mean though)

Surprised if anyone thought he was going to stay. His heart hasnt been in it for a while as lots of peeps have commented. Its a shame but in our current position its a fact that more successful clubs are going to come knocking and players who dream of champion league football are going to move on.

Another 7.1 hits Japan today. Also, just watching the beeb reporter in one of the towns hit by the Tsunami. The picture below shows the back drop.!!!!! I know we've seen lots of pictures live and still, but when you see a bloody large boat like that dumped on top of a two storey house...Fucking hell. Im looking at the houses in my street now and just cant imagine something so powerful that could dump a ship on a house.

In order of positivity I'll go for a nailbiting 3-2 to us. Ive also put in a cosmic order

Love days like today. Worked the ranks til 4.30 this morning to ensure enough funds to take today off. Just had the bairns upto Bill Quay farm to see the new piggy wiggys and lamby wammys. Off to the garden centre for a few essentials and then a nice walk down to the pub for the match. The wifes out shopping so I'll have my three daughters with me and the little laddies on board for his first pub 4 oclock kick off. Happy days. The only spoiler is that Ferguson will be left out. Think most of us would like AP to stick Jonas out right, Barton in the middle with Guthrie and Ferguson left wing. However AP has a bit of a track record of getting these things wrong.

A reminder that this is on Sunday June 19th this year. (Fathers Day) http://www.northyorkshireshow.co.uk/ Here are some pictures from last year to give you a small feel for the show http://www.northyorkshireshow.co.uk/gallery2010.html I really cant recommend this event enough. Its nothing like the shit Northumberland one and once you go, you will probably make this an annual outing.

Im undecided about this. I have a feeling that this could look quite good when the team take to the team with it on.

They are both fine, just busy. Good to hear

The race was on the tv when I got home so I started to watch it. Must admit I felt sick at the sight of stewards making the horses miss fences out due to the dead bodies of other horses on the course.

Whatever happened to Manc Mag and Alex? Hope your both ok.

A WOMAN has appeared in court accused of biting off her boyfriend's testicles. Martin Douglas, 45, needed emergency surgery to reattach his genitals after Maria Topp allegedly bit them off in an early-morning drunken attack. The badly-injured victim has since recovered in hospital following the incident last month. Topp, a mother-of-four from Waterloo Street, Newcastle, has been charged with grievous bodily harm and will appear before Newcastle Crown Court, next month. Mr Douglas, who works as a DJ, called 999 himself after the alleged attack at his flat in Newcastle. Paramedics called police and Topp, 43, was arrested. Mr Douglas, whose arm was also injured, spent several days in Newcastle's Freeman Hospital, where he received treatment. A Northumbria Police spokesman said: 'At around 4am on Friday, February 18, police were called to a report of an assault. 'Officers attended and arrested a 43-year-old woman on suspicion of assault. 'A 45-year-old man was taken to the Freeman hospital for treatment to injuries to his arm and groin area. 'Police have since charged Maria Georgina Topp, 43, with causing GBH.' Chronny

By all accounts a bad apple and has been for some while. Assuming replacements are coming in.....Just get rid and move on.

I've come across plenty of so called professionals who are thick as mince and working class types who know limitless things. What I was getting at was non history geeks come to know detailled stuff about stuff! The example I gave in the OP was the Indian / Pakistan partition ( this week Cameron apologised for our part in it). Now I guess that this was a huge thing, however there will be few on here that fully grasp it. As there will also be those on here who do not understand why Israel is where it is etc. Surely if you didn't study history or specifically seek out a book about the partition, it's quite odd how so many people in public life have a full grasp on it. Like Parky I probably watched too much x files. I'm very surprised that no one has mentioned Fred Housego to you. Why? Because he was the first ever winner of Mastermind and his occupation was.....a taxi driver :lol: A London cabbie he was, which is a far cry from driving a Trabant around South Tyneside Anyway, his knowledge (no pun intended) was gleaned from reading (quietly and very loudly perhaps ;) ) anything; from books to the side of a breakfast cereal packet. Personally, I like history. English history in particular. I haven't read any fiction since Pickwick Papers, around ten years ago, as I much prefer the real stuff. I don't study it as such, but the odd bits and pieces stick in the dark recesses now and again. Like you, I have met plenty folk (professionals, with loads of qualifications to their name) who didn't have the common sense they were born with. Common sense is real intelligence, imo, not a load of bits of paper saying you have learned something. Common sense is a gift of life, but vast knowlege is largely obtained from voracious reading (loudly or quietly) but can also be gleaned from watching documentaries (speaking of which, BBC did a great drama documentary on the Indian independence and subsequent partion some years ago. The boundary between India and Pakistan was drawn up by a British civil servant btw). Hope you've learned something there, rickshaw boy I have indeed, very interesting.

Saw this today and made me smile. Not sure if its being posted before but hey ho. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because...... WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them ! Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The very idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

It was close. His cross come shot on Saturday nearly got him in. You are retard? Has to be taking the piss as last week he was trying to claim that a miss hit Ferguson cross was a shot. His cross to bear is proving that Ferguson is better than Jonas. I literally believe he's upset when Jonas has a good game. Thought the wink did it. It was a great goal but one swallow does not a summer make.

Too warm for taxi'ing. knocked off about 2ish and hit the garden centre and bought some raspberry bushes, then some cans......heaven. Time for a bath then pub. Happy days.

I've come across plenty of so called professionals who are thick as mince and working class types who know limitless things. What I was getting at was non history geeks come to know detailled stuff about stuff! The example I gave in the OP was the Indian / Pakistan partition ( this week Cameron apologised for our part in it). Now I guess that this was a huge thing, however there will be few on here that fully grasp it. As there will also be those on here who do not understand why Israel is where it is etc. Surely if you didn't study history or specifically seek out a book about the partition, it's quite odd how so many people in public life have a full grasp on it. Like Parky I probably watched too much x files.

I can understand people with a genuine interest like yourself, but there is also a very broad range of educated people who somehow still seem to know all these facts about the big wide world.

I always find it quite amazing what people know about the big wide world and how they know it. Example, tonight they were talking on question time about our involvement in the partition of India and Pakistan????? WTF How do people learn all these various facts about the world. I just went to a normal comp, recall history being fairly dull, but even for those who enjoyed it, theres only so much it covered. So your very bright and go to uni to be a doctor etc etc. Many people who dont take History at a higher level can turn out to be still very culturally aware about the worlds history. How? Was uni so dull that they just read or watched lots of historical things? Im not a great reader, but even if I was I wouldnt throw myself at a book covering the partition of India and Pakistan. Its quite telling on here that there are a few who seem very informed about these sourt of things and I would genuinely be interested to understand how you have built up this knowledge. It could be India, the french revolution, the american civil war, suez etc etc

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On Newsnight? Jacob Rees-Mogg was clearly shown that was bollocks when he stated it. The top 1-2% of the top 20% is the actual stat you're referring to. As well as the entire bottom 20% suffering equally badly. *breast stroke* TBF all the news channels were running with the same story.