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I had forgotten about that, what a cunt.

Also sounds like Italian food.

This.

Come on Paraguay. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/29/l...75.html#s108053 Paraguay's success at the World Cup continued on Tuesday, with the country's soccer team beating Japan on penalty kicks to advance to the tournament's quarterfinals. Now, with only eight teams remaining, the Paraguayans may have a few more fans to help win it all. Larissa Riquelme, a curvy lingerie model who loves her national team, has been cheering the Paraguay squad on from Asuncion, clad in revealing outfits. The 24-year-old beauty has pledged to run naked through the streets "with my body painted with the colors of Paraguay" if Paraguay wins the World Cup.

Most entertaining game so far.

Lampard was the worst of the lot, I thought.

Switzerland hit the post!

The Swiss in my office are going berserk.

She even made the headlines in Switzerland! Small world. http://bazonline.ch/ausland/europa/Die-ers.../story/10573981 Congratulations!

Anyone but Spurs.

Probably just a case of bad translation.

We've had enough players who run about a lot and put in many tackles. The reason we've been shit is because we haven't had anyone creative for ages.

I have no problem with atheists in general, but in my experience a lot of them are more fundamentalistic and dogmatic than most religious people I know and therefore incredibly annoying. Dawkins and Hitchens being a case in point.

I don't think Best is on big wages. Hughton has been getting criticism for seemingly being a soft touch, so Best will be an interesting one. If he wants to send out a message, Hughton should ignore the fact that he only bought Best in January and tell him to look for a new club at the end of the season. It's what a good manager would do.

Lots of penalties too.

Might get away with it against bottom-of-the-table Peterborough, but if any of these five players make the starting line-up in against a Premier League side in August, we're fucked.

Wow!

Happy Face, I haven't had time to read all of the article you posted above, but if it says what I think it says then I don't get this particular point of view and hatred of Obama from liberals. I can understand that they're pissed off about Obama not being liberal enough after some of the things he promised during the campaign, but do they/you seriously believe that there are any realistic alternatives? Voting for a 'true' liberal is of course what got Bush elected in 2000, and it will be 2000 all over again if liberals don't support him in 2012 or 2016. The truth is, there simply are no realistic alternatives. There will be no more Wilsons or FDRs as presidents, at least not for forseeable future. Apologies if I've completely misinterpreted your posts BTW.

The thing is all of these scandals are breaking in the first world where the media, the internet and "decent" justice systems are all doing their best (though could do a lot better for example prosecuting the Irish bishops). My sympathy is for the thousands who will being abused in the third world with impunity - probably for decades to come. I would have a lot of problems with the Catholic Church even if not one person had ever been touched - however this issue is almost a "magic bullet" in what I hope will be its downfall - though obviously that doesn't mean I'm glad people were abused. It's not just the Catholic Church though, it's becoming obvious that these things seemed to be happening everywhere in the 70s and 80s, in liberal, anti-authoritarian 'reform schools' as well as in Catholic institutions (in Germany and Switzerland in any case). I'm not condoning the horrible acts of Catholic priests in any way, but it's clear that the Catholic Church always has and always will make for an easier target than other institutions.

In defence of the journalist, the transcript is from a regular Guardian feature called Smalltalk or something like that. The questions are meant to be simple and not really serious.