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Slightly derailing the thread but anyone other than Man City fans or Scousers (who live in their cities) using the "United" abbreviation should be shot. I educated my Irish ex-boss who was a Liverpool fan on this subject to the point where he did use Man United - my constant references to Rotherham (the first one) when he used it eventually wore him down.

TBF in this instance he would have had a team briefing him so don't assume he was that aware (non-political point BTW)

That's what I mean from the American Sports I only know 5 ever, bakabaal, gridirons, ice hockey, and what's the other sport they play it escapes me now. There is another one these mugs play that's popular. Baseball. I did enjoy 'Field of Dreams' to be fair. (15 to 67 in a sentence). Aye Baseball. There's another name that's hit me for some reason "Tony di Maggio", I donno who the cunt is but his name rings a bell. Joe - more famous globally for marrying Marilyn Monroe.

Well if that's aimed at me I think that is fucking hilarious. Seriously, mate, I don't know what they look like. Why would I? I don't watch basketball FFS! He's such a mug. I dont know any of these yank cunts neither. Knowing about yank sportsman isnt normal in my opinion. I think he's saying you take pride in not knowing or are faking it for effect - ironically displaying the kind of arrogance that the Yanks have in thinking their sports are global.

Yes but with the caveat of the other European imperialists ie the French, Spanish and Dutch being there or thereabouts as well. "We're" still the biggest cunts ever though - of course whether you feel pride, shame or like me a mixture of both in that fact is up to you.

There's a lad from S Shields who goes everywhere who I'm sure a few on here know called Cliffy Ahmed whose party piece is knowing pretty much every capital city in the world. I reckon I could name 80%. So could I - it gets a bit difficult when you get to Carribean and Pacific islands though. You also need to keep up with former Soviet republics.

Bit topical given the tour announcement but I went to the US for the Washington/Columbus games in 2000 and it amazed me that Ohio has 3 or 4 cities bigger than Birmingham - including Columbus which I'd never heard of prebiously.

There's a lad from S Shields who goes everywhere who I'm sure a few on here know called Cliffy Ahmed whose party piece is knowing pretty much every capital city in the world.

The fridge rings a bell in basketball, thats about it. He was "football" as well - Chicago Bears I think.

I would probably need a clue to recognise Michael Jordan. Didn't have a clue who Lebron was either. Not a black thing either - I do know some NFL famous faces like Elway but for example I have no clue what Wayne Gretsky looks like.

I can't remember a time when I haven't read and absorbed knowledge just for the sake of it. I dropped geography for 'O' level due mainly to a shit teacher and not having enough options available but its always been a great love of mine - I can read atalases for hours. History at school was taught by a teacher who was very exam focused so we only learned what we had to but since then I think I've absorbed a good spectrum. That applies to more general knowledge as well. Used to be a keen pub quiz goer and I still have an underlying desire to do Millionaire - the usual nerves disclaimer aside, I've quite easily done full runs to the top prizes watching.

Sometimes even propping up things which look like a "loss" is cheaper in the long run - places like Germany propped up their industries in the 80s and saw them come out stronger in the long run. Compare that with the wastelands of the NE and elsewhere left over from Thatcher's "reality". The tories are also very happy to subsidise BAE, BNFL and of course most of all the fucking farmers without complaint.

Or Trotter spending millions on Siemens to try and save his seat.

Shocked at Stevie like - saw the title and assumed it was the stupid Irish teen cunt.

The bloke couldn't sing live 20 years ago - fuck knows what that many years of further abuse have done to his voice.

Im not arguing with that but listening to Renton you would think that this was just a tory master plan. The scale in which the NHS was privatised under Labour was huge. I don't think I've ever denied that Blair was completely Thatcherite when it came to too many things. Having said that, in his defence he sold himself as a pragmatist rather than ideallist - your current boys are the latter which is much more dangerous.

Completely opposed by the Tories of course - no wait.... No regulation proposed in the past or even now would have prevented it - the underlying facts are that governments (and 99.99% of the public) didn't understand what the banks were doing but were happy with the "rewards".

Seen that on a few US TV shows (though they call it "Epi")

Internal markets were introduced nto the NHS under Major as well. Of course that's a long way from having to pay to see a doctor which isn't far away now.

Why don't you address the simple point that the financial crisis was global CT? Too awkward a question?

The Vatican came out with some stuff a while ago about how they were confident any aliens would be God's children too - no word on why we got his "only son" and what the poor aliens had to do with instead.

I tend to agree - you can't use the argument that human morality is generally derived from being social, empathatic animals (as I do) so any attempt to set that morality from an arbitrary book is superfluous - and then write such a book.

what planet do you live on ? Find me any articles from 2007 that anticipate a sale. If it was so obvious then why do you think they wanted to sell? Who says they wanted to sell? SJH seemed keen but I’ve never seen anything from FF confirming he did. The Hall/Shepherd "split" was one of the most interesting things about it imo - in fact I'd give Shepherd credit for his reluctance versus Hall's eagerness to sell.

Chance to perve over Kate Humble surely?

what planet do you live on ? Find me any articles from 2007 that anticipate a sale. If it was so obvious then why do you think they wanted to sell?