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I suppose you could argue that once this game is over they have a fortnight to get something going even if the players are fucking off for a week. I wouldn't mind waiting till the summer if it meant someone decent but as others have said, the huge danger is Carver will do just enough to be appointed full time.

Leicester have shown signs of life in the last few weeks.

As I said on the politics thread, if he tried to ban encryption it would be stopped by the banks at the very least. He might think he can get some easy votes by threatening WhatsApp etc but beyond that it would it would make the UK a pariah for businesses worldwide.

My understanding of the image thing was it was specifically invented to stop inappropriate representations. In other words they invented the rule so they could punish the act the rule was designed for. I suppose its like Christians objecting to the Bjorn Borg-esque depictions of Christ on the basis of him being Semitic but the churches have always been happy for Europeans to project themselves onto JC.

The idiotic PM is having the piss roundly taken out of him for his nonsense about "no conversation between two people can be allowed to be private" which would mean encryption being banned. Thankfully as soon as banks realise what he's saying he'll be told to drop it like the good little poodle he is.

It must really annoy the cunts when their private is always better than public mantra fails - see also great eastern

I remember a Doctor Who from probably the Peter Davison era where he visited a planet where the president had to explain his major decisions on TV and the people registered disagreement by pressing a button which gave him an electric shock proportional to the degree of disapproval. It seemed like a good idea at the time - probably because it would have been Thatcher if applied in the UK.

Pardew gave Carver a job as a link to the region - he admitted that on a few occasions so the fact he didn't want to take him to palace tells me all I need to know about his coaching ability.

Thera are lines which you aren't allowed to cross - inciting hatred leading to violence being an obvious one but there's also a lot of hypocrisy around it where anti-semitism is seen as beyond the pale but other subjects are allowed. I hate the way it seems you can't call Israel a bunch of cunts without being accused of being anti-semitic - I call cunts as I see them regardless of tribe. Saw a couple of good tweets from Frankie boyle on the subject - one where he mentioned a paper (didn't say which but it would have een the Mail or the Sun) stating its outrage at Paris and defending free speech but the same paper attempted to get him prosecuted for making a joke about the Queen on Mock the Week. He also mentioned how good it was to see people demonstrating in support of freedom in Trafalgar square and not in Parliament Square where they'd be arrested (there's a specific law preventing any form of gathering there).

I thought that Bridcutt looked a canny player but of course that was against us when they all turn into fucking worldbeaters. (God I hope that's over now).

I reckon if we'd tried a short corner like that it would have been disallowed and the taker booked for ungentlemanly conduct.

I agree with that but if they tried a UK declaration now (or at any time in the past) it would include the monarchy and for that reason I'd be out.

Haven't seen the film but write-ups I've seen suggest they misportrayed him as he was open about being gay and quite sociable - the idea that he could have been blackmailed is supposedly bullshit.

It would have been something approaching a fair statement if and when his review and appeal had succeeded in simple miscarriage terms but as of now it's disgraceful.

I think the four hundred year head start would work if it was up to the 18th century but I think technology and how small the world has become renders it moot to a large extent. I've said before that our best hope is for Muslims to be "corrupted" by western freedoms and I'd like to think the modern world accelerates that process. Of course for every two steps forward, there's one step back due to US led fuckwittery.

Its a hard one for me as I think going out of your way to insult someone is daft but at the same time I think you should be able to in the right context. I think sites like Jesus and Mo should be allowed but as you say someone printing one out and sticking it on a wall is going too far. I suppose the average Muslim isn't going to read a magazine like this so in a way they're just playing up to their market but that obviously shouldn't mean retribution like this if Muslims are "directed" to them by shit stirrers as happened with the Danish cartoons.

Maybe there is no message and motive other than to carry out the proscribed punishment for those who insult the prophet. It's like the Westboro Baptists - the argument is they aren't true to their faith but I'm afraid if you actually read the holy books they pretty much are and its the namby pamby modern reasonable Christians/Muslims who are heretics.

That'll be 97.5% carried out by Christians, Jews and Buddhists then.

So he's a good manager because taking into account spells in the lower leagues, his record is just better than a selection of horrifically shit managers? Right.

I liked Under the skin apart from the lack of proper explanation. It just appealed to my "weird" sensor.

I presume that's a list of those least likely to go tits up. Should only really bother anyone with more than 85k in an account.

Did that the first time I was there - scariest driving I've ever done. I've hired a car this time as well and will do more exploring. That first time was in a Jeep which in summer was a recipe for being fried alive.

I don't really expect it to be more than 20 at the most. Just fancied somewhere relaxing and semi-familiar for a break. I'll go somewhere ridiculous later in the year.

Have been in over the two weeks so I'm enjoying seeing the barely controlled despair on the faces of people returning today. This is being enhanced ten fold by the fact I'm fucking off to Cyprus next Friday for a week.

Robert was inconsistent but he was infinitely more consistent than Ben Arfa. He also had a better attitude imo which is some indictment of BA considering how shit Robert's was at times. Ginola was better than both of them and Beardsley was better than him