NJS

Akin to your trophy count - SAFC do beat NUFC on one important point - the number of times the club has been found guilty of illegal payments.

Pissed off with another shit recruitment agent (sorry Stevie) Applied for a job on Jobserve - bloke rings within 5 minutes and says how suitable I am and we have a good chat about why I want a new job, what I want and how much I want. Says he'll have a chat with colleagues and get back to me. He then rings when I'm me on the train as follows: Him: I've got the perfect role for you - primarily first line support... Me: Stop there - I have no interest in first line support jobs. Him: Well its not just first line support, you own the issue and either fix it or possibly contact the vendor... Me: That's the best definition of first line support I've heard. Him: well its other stuff as well - I'll send you the spec. Gets the spec - Job title: Senior Support analyst, primary function: first line support. Just sent him an email with about 5 reasons why its not for me including the salary being crap but still had to end with "but if you have anything else....". Really wanted to add "LIKE THE FUCKING JOB I APPLIED FOR YOU CUNT" but resisted.

Pretty Slim Pickens like. Add Pulp, the Manics and White Lies.

Nice to see Cameron pontificating about freedom while on a trade mission to sell the tools of opression to dictators.

Apart from one or two tracks I find Pop pretty much unlistenable as a U2 fan but at the same time you can't exactly say it showed no change of direction from their early stuff. I think it was you who also said Kid A sounded like the future of rock - I may have a narrow definition which I fully admit to but I don't see how any album with virtually no guitar on it can be described as rock of any kind.

Just asked a lad who stayed there when we were doing a late night implementation last October - overbooked so they didn't get a room and had to get cabs home - shit staff who didn't care.

Compare league titles, also compare the amount of time they have spent in the top flight of English football to you. Everton are a bigger club, way bigger in fact. You always have to twist it to points that Sunderland "win" on like league titles or years in the top flight - in our cases 4 vs 6 which I'd call a minimal difference and Everton's nine isn't that many more. It's also funny to read Mackems bragging about time in the top flight given 40 years of yo-yoing. So is comparing us to Everton like comparing Stoke to Arsenal fair or is it fucking stupid?

Everton have won just 3 more trophies than NUFC (which is 6 more than SAFC obviously) - how many more have Arsenal won than Stoke you stupid Mackem twat?

I don't agree with fees for useful courses but hopefully irresponsible decisions to deliberately write-off debt will affect their credit ratings.

My view was that if they wanted to sell the idea of a community club, helping schoolkids and dole wallers see football then that's pretty laudible but you can't then turn round at the same time and brag about having full houses meaning they're supposedly great fans.

I'd add that their real problem now is that they are getting under 40k with all the discounts and £19 STs

Really? TBF - they did get full houses for the first couple of years under the Monkey's heed - it was only after the relegations bit that they dropped a bit. That was in the initial "free ticket mackems" era though.

U2? Even allowing for a couple of duds, 20 years includes Achtung Baby which pisses on all of the self-indulgent, masturbatory, knob-twiddling twaterry of Radiohead by a distance not measurable by humankind. (Yes that's a bite)

The junction one is amplified ten-fold if its a traffic light controlled junction - there's one on my daily drive where I join a main road with light and the number of people who brake to take a simple right turn on green is criminal.

There was a kid in the year above me who had a caliper on one leg and everyone call him "Spacka-leg" - the name stuck even after it was removed as he got older and the problem had been corrected.

People in front of you who brake on an approach to a junction when you can see quite clearly that nothing is coming and its perfectly safe to go for it.

I have a good friend who used to travel to Malaysia with her family as a kid and she told me how bad it was there but with a bit more subtety - things like women having to walk behind a man and also having to make sure they "look up" when speaking to a man - obviously difficult if you're of average western height compared with local men. I find that level of expected deference to be horrible.

Don't see the point of getting all high-horsey about the direction a thread can take just because the start was about something horrible. You could say the same about terrorist outrages or American fuck=ups which cost lives which are "standard" discussion starters. Just because this was a bit more personal shouldn't make a difference.

I think his complaint was more about the people watching foreign broadcasts. I know but without Sky those broadcasts wouldn't exist.

Being such an avid Man Utd fan I presume he's from Manchester. (though I am a Newcastle fan from Torquay, with no connection to Newcastle at all) It think that's better than the cliched Irish (both bits) Man U or Liverpool fan - at least you're original (in an obviously mental way).

Being such an avid Man Utd fan I presume he's from Manchester.

The games are available in the pubs because of the Sky deal which contributes massively to their turnover - I think he should realise that before having a go. He also needs to realise their crowd has found its true modern level - I can't see why more Mackems would want to go at the moment.

And its cousin "IS IT" (no question mark or inflection). Or a hybrid - I'm working with an Indian lad who suffixes almost all his sentences with "isn't it".

There were 3 people at work today having a conversation just behind me and one who's a bloke in his 50s just went on for about 7 or 8 phrases/sentences in a row which were all inflected - annoying as fuck.

But surely better that the fucker on the phone advert who says "Wonga"