NJS

Well the first question should be were you there and did you hear it? As I said if that applies to all TV then it would be a farce. "Public order" as I understand it involves words or behaviour that causes a public reaction - you can't walk into a bar in Glasgow say and shout "you're all Jock twats" as that would cause a reaction - fair enough.. I then don't see how someone calling Anton Ferdinand anything should provoke a reaction in anyone else. Are we saying if I call you a twat that someone else can complain as they are offended? Even if it was a black person who complained, I'd argue the point that calling someone a black cunt is racist but only to that person - I don't think you can argue he was calling all black people cunts in that context.

I also find it strange that Terry has been charged with a public order offence where the "victim" didn't hear the comment, no other person in the vicinity did and the crowd couldn't react. That would leave the watching TV audience as the only "public" who could react and if we start charging people for what they say on TV in case someone watching reacts where will that end?

It's only in the last 30 years or so that an atempt to narrow the definition has been made on both sides/in all areas. Maybe Me, Stevie and a shit load of Mackems can only acknowledge through gritted teeth that until the late 70s nearly everyone in Northumberland and Durham were happy to call themselves Geordies - witness SAFC fans singing it at Wembley in 73. I think the narrowing down, whether it was because of the derogatory use of Mackem and their seizing of that phrase and turning it into one of pride or not was a good thing in many ways as it adds a layer to the rivalry. Of course in places like South Shields, Durham and the SAFC enclaves around Ashington its going to cause more bother as people who have only ever defined themselves as Geordies are now asked to realign their idenity. I certainly know lads from Shields who are SAFC fans who downright refuse to ever associate themselves with the concept of being Mackems. I think I've said before its about layers - just as a lot of people have pride in calling themselves Geordies and Englishmen, I can take pride in calling myself a Sanddancer and a Geordie - I honestly see it as a subset rather than something mutually exclusive. Because of the number of people I've met from all over the North East who support NUFC I just can't bring myself to accept Stevie's ultra-narrow definition as I think its disrespectful to too many - I don't mind a bit pisstaking here and there but being categorically told that I can't be defined as a Geordie is something I will never accept.

She was quite sexy in Buffy though I think she's lost something as an adult. Okay there were several sexier lasses but she still had her moments.

Tbf a fair response to "did you just call me black cunt" is "I've never called anyone.....". At the time I did think that's what he said. Now if the case is that did call him that in the first place then fair enough.

Well I sent through a more detailed 3 page CV this morning and I've now got a phone interview next week - so the shit begins again.

When we were up for the tournament in 95 we got talking to a couple of Rangers fans who were coppers - they reckoned nobody in Scotland were like Aberdeen when it came to "proper" thuggery. They said they always had to think twice when they were ordered to get stuck into them. I suppose the Glasgow/Edinburgh lot are a bit like Newcastle - most bother is just hardish lads who are pissed rather than proper firms. Also it's a classic Irvine Welsh quote which I always suspected was true that Hearts fans are more numerous and more passionate about the game than Hibs but Hibs have the better firm.

Aye, I expected the gay dig. I am turning into a right hypocodriac puff as I get older like.

Is there any definitive way to determine whether you have hay fever? I've had what I thought was a cold for about three weeks but adding the eye iritation to the sinus discomfort makes me think it might be hay fever - I do have a bit of a cough as well though so don't know whether thats a deal breaker. I remember years ago going for a training placement when I was at universtity and having to have an allergy test (drops on the arm etc) - can you do something similar for hay fever or should I just give this flixonase stuff a go and sod it?

Which doesn't exist I agree with you completely - football aside I just hope a way can be found to punish what looks like according to TP's posts to be criminal behaviour - and that's just regarding the administration liquidation process let alone the previous goings on. As I said I also really hope the money can be recovered somehow.

The funny thing is your underlying reason for arguing that threatening adminsitration is a meaningless scare tactic is to have a go at Ashley when as I've said the biggest user regarding Newcastle is Hall.

Not sure how the law works as its a new entity but I'd like to see the new club be forced to pay off the money owed. That may drag them down such that its not an easy return to the PL (especially as their decent players are leaving) but it would still be worth it imo. The "target" of all of this shouldn't be to see a "Rangers" back challenging Celtic in 3 years time and all the extra revenue restored as if nothing happened - it should be to ensure the debts are paid.

Aye, its bullet pointed already and uses tables to separate roles. Theres also the view that you should tailor it to the application but sometimes I feel like saying "that's what I've done so deal with it". Of course you should get guidance from the agent as to what their client wants but as I've said before agents are variable.

I was going to email Stevie and ask for his opinion but decided to widen the floor as it were. When I was job hunting last year I came across a lot of mentions of this unwritten rule about limiting a CV to two pages max. Now I know from when I've been involved in recruiting in the past that I have had a negative response to people with 10 pages of "here is what I did everyday for 3 years in each and every role I've had" but I'm now finding that 2 pages is pretty limiting. I had it down to a decent view last year but now having added my most recent role it's spread onto a thrd page. Additionally I spoke to an agent yesterday who told me his client had asked for some additional technical info which I sent this morning but now he's came back and said they can't submit separate documents so would I mind incoroprating it into my CV? - this would take it onto a fourth page. Should I just do this for this one occasion? Ideally I think a one or two page summary along side a much more detailed "appendix" would be the best way forward so someone could make the supposed snap decision and chuck it in the bin or decide to look further. I suppose you could argue that's what the first interview is for as well. Thoughts?

It's exciting news but the ultra cybic in me thinks it's happened a bit too easily and early after the opening to be accepted so willingly. Of course if the collider does work this well then it'll hopefully provide more discoveries in a relatively short period.

I'm in a bit of a mixed mood - I've been suffereing with a bit of man flu for a couple of weeks and then was struck down on Sunday night by a gout atack - the first one I've had for four years and only the second in about the last fifteen - it reached its peak last night and now is on the way to subsiding but that's meant the cold has decided to have another go. This has meant I've been working from home the last three days and so I've dipped a toe (probably the one that's okay and not the inflamed monstrosity on my other foot) back into the job market and have already had 3 or 4 conversations with my favourite people - recruitment agents. I've decided to include a possible return to contracting this time around which if it works out will at least mean the probablility of some Europa league trips.

A couple of lads I know who were always "up" for a bit of bother got invited to go to Man City in a transit by the Benders - it was a bit like a youth team player being invited to train with the first team or maybe even being drafted in as a sub for a big game. Fair to say from how they described it, it was a step up a bit too far involving kids being put through car windscreens etc I don't think they went with them again.

Of course I woiuld love to have memories of actually winning something but in the absence of that we have to cling to the "good days" being either defiance in the face of adversity, good pissups and dodgy trips with the threat/reality of bother. I suppose fuckers who have won things have those types of highlights as well but I like to think ours are better.

The only two games I've ever wanted to go to but couldn't get a ticket for was that one and the Boro game where we lost 4-1 and ended up in the play-offs. I remember listening to it on the radio and even with supposedlly correct info I convinced myself we were down before the winner went in. Generally I don't think fans who are say under 25 are that interested in "history" apart from ocasionally - I think that's more s sympton of a world where everything has to be "now" rather then them being wankers tbf.

Going back to Cameron's use of "entitlement" - the thing that gets me is the mindset where rewards are seen as inevitble and expected - I remember arguing with managers 3 years ago when the bank I worked for had lost €1.5bn in the crunch who reckoned they should still get their bonus as their business had made a profit - when I asked where the money should come from to pay said bonus they were almost stumped but still reckoned it was "morally" due. The concept of a big picture even as far as company level was completely lost on them.

Theres also the point that the traders are divided into "teams" - a team knows that if they make a profit (by fair means or foul) then they expect a bonus to reflect that - they have no concept of the division or the bank as a whole losing money. Of course the team that is the "victim" of the swing/roundabout of the manipulation expect a bonus even if they don't make a profit on the basis that the bank as a whole did. So even if the manipulation doesn't affect the bank as a whole's results by a significant amount, the individuals/teams involved make loads.

Lost control of my car about 15 years ago, ran off the road into some trees and ended up with a huge tree at each corner of the car as if a giant had picked it up and placed it there - got out unhurt and still don't understand how it got like that but I reckon any impact on any of the 4 trees and at best I'd be typing this with a straw a la Hawking.

I know it's a cliche but with certain bands like Oasis its not just a "Manc" thing - I saw them at Finsbury park in about 05 and it was full of Cockney Liam wannabees - that's not just a London/South thing either as I've been to other big gigs/festivals down here and the crowds have been canny.

I think its more sinster than that. I have no objection to anything (within reason) that brings people together in a social setting and I think genuine mates helping each other out in business terms is fine up to a point but when it goes all secretive and you get whole professions like the Police using it far too dodgily for promotions etc then it becomes wrong. Its similar to the semi-mythical old school tie - people doing deals based on a nod and a wink of questionable association rather than on ability/fair price.

It was just a general "would you be interested" conversation rather than handing out leaflets on the high street. Since my current workmates consist of Russians, Indians, Chinese, Poles, Irish and a lad originally from Ipswich I very much doubt it.