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The Thatcher angle on this if they release it will be her very deliberate attempt to demonise fans and make them the enemy. She did the same with the miners. She was very big on polarising people into those she thought shared her so called values and those who should be written off and punished - hence her contempt for the NE and similar areas.

I actually see Shola's ongoing presence in the squad as the perfect indictment of the regime. Canny bloke, abysmal footballer.

Two things - going to Hillsborough in the 80s was always a nightmare thanks to the SYMM (not really the clubs fault I know) but mainly because when they got promoted in 84 under Wilkinson they were the epitome of football murdering bastards - they had a horrible offside trap which absolutely destroyed us when they beat us at our place. On a related but non-hatred note when we played Millwall in 93 we were stopping in Clapham at the time as one of the lads was seeing a lass who lived there and it was the day of the Arsenal Sheff Wed LC final - we made the mistake of heading for what was our usual haunt of Camden only to find it full of Sheff Weds top boys - had a dodgy moment when their "general" sized us up but then decided we weren't worth bothering with and instead we had a good crack on with them - then fucked off back to South London as soon as we had the chance

I would also say that among the masses filed under "every fucker else" I do have a few I have particular grudges against - for example Nottts County. We played them in 91 when we were shite and heading for the third pre-Keegan and they were heading for the first/premier and we played them at SJP around xmas time. Stimson got sent off and this was when I used to sit in the East stand near the seated away fans and there were a few around us that day as they actually brought a goof following. Anyway they were complete pricks about the sending off and really bigging themselves up as if they were a bigger club than us - really pissed me off. I was fucking ecstatic when we played them a couple of years later in the LC when they were on their way back to obscurity and put 7 past the cunts.

Just woke up to this - a bit surprised he won but looking with an outsiders lack of knowledge it seems like a masterstroke appointing Lendl.

I think I've done this before but my hierarchy of hatred goes: Mackems Man U/Liverpool Forest/Sheff Wed/Stevenage/Hereford All London teams Every fucker else.

Just had a moment of self-awareness at my sometime complete idiocy. I'd intended to do absilutely nothing while off work for the next two weeks then just decided 20 minutes ago to go somewhere. Eyed up a couple of trips then had a thought that some places are fussy about impending passport expiry and I thought mine ran out in October. Dug it out and found it ran out at the end of July. Sketch well and truly knackered unless I spend a fortune and waste a day going to Peterborough. Bollocks.

23 minutes from two weeks off - almost happy.

I don't think CT has grasped that investment actually produces returns through tax. He sees it as money pissed away rather than seed sown.

There's also the point that it was obvious to anyone with more than two brain cells that weaker countries that embraced austerity (as they did) would spiral downwards - so you can fuck off with your "nobody predicted the eurozone crisis" Tory shite.

I think Ferguson played a decent back four (though Neville was a kid then) with the idea of seeing if they could sneek it but without being too bothered if they lost - I still enjoyed beating them immensely at the time.

Is iPhone development Java or something more exotic? (I know Android is Java)

Surely no matter which side of the manufacturer debate you fall on, its worth waiting for 4g before next upgrading? That's my plan anyway.

Don't like paper tissues. The hanky is usually alone in its own pocket and would get replaced on a heavy use day.

Wallet, keys, travelcard, hanky and phone all fit in pockets very easily. If you're going to the gym at work then I have no problem with a sports bag being used. Apart from that I just don't see that much else you would ever need. Okay if I do decide to take a sandwich to work I tend go use a carrier bag which I accept is a bit crass but that's it. Also you can tell with a lot of these soft leather bags that some carry that they are almost empty which suggests to me its a pose thing so any abuse is deserved imo.

Murdoch must be moving into private healthcare.

It's the idea that you have to carry stuff that doesn't fit in your pockets that I find as gay as the actual bags. Women "need" all the stuff they carry - I just don't get what a bloke needs in the same context.

I agree Stevie but LM's mantra was "backing the manager" and Pardew claims he's happy with the window - you can't have it both ways without admitting that the idea of a manager being given x million to do with what he likes is gone. As I said in the position thread the pennies saved on Debuchy are fucking trivial.

This is why I'm looking forward to Charles taking over - I think he'll do a shit load of damage to the institution when all his interference becomes more open and blatant. And CabayAye if ypu think the Queen is above corruption you should look up the deal she did over tax when her mother died.

It's the idiocy of not stregthening at all that pisses me off - just seems like a waste after last year.

I've gone 10th because not improving the squad is an absolute disgrace and epitomises Ashley at his worst. DEals were not done for the sake of fucking pennies. Even losing an important squad player on the last day made no diference to the fucking idiots. As I've said many, many times any season when Shola Ameobi is first choice or just outside as he is now and will be in January is a complete fucking write-off.

Not something I can articulate easily but I always felt that working class people made the best of life despite being "poor" to whatever extent and concentrated on building loving families more than anything whereas I see middle class values as being a bit more materialistic - especially the obsession with property values. Middle class people value people by their wealth imo whereas working class people value more human qualities. Of course this could be generalised, biased bollocks because I came from a "good" working class background where especially my Mam always saw the good in other people. As an aside I always find it funny now how politicians and media go on about the "middle income families" as if there are great numbers of them usually defined as not much above higher tax band. In fact only 11% pay 40% or more which means there are a lot of people on pretty average/modest earnings who still see themselves as middle class - maybe that's just a result of wanting to put distance between themselves and the underclass.

Kids should go with their dads relatively civislised until about 12/13/14 - then they should be going with their mates and start getting imbued with anger, bitterness, passion and hatred.

FA cup it is then.

As I've said before as well, too many posh cunts, women and students. (Sorry Cath, pissed again)