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Ridiculous to the sublime....what was that about team spirit Gemmill? Would love to be the bloke interviewing Wenger: Wenger: "Ref - whinge - Barton- whinge - soft penalties - whinge" Me: "What about the disallowed goal that should have given you fucking cunt!!!"

Platini thinks this will affect English clubs but there's no way Madrid, Milan and Bayern will stand for it either.

Only place I've been in France is Troyes - typical quaint continental market town with cobbled square etc, etc. I have to say Rome impressed the fuck out of me.

Then again you can understand the desire to build in the centre (though the result is shit) and if you tried to build another Washington or Killingworth now I'd imagine there'd be a lot of objections.

Has anyone rooted their Android phone? I downloaded an app to do it at the weekend which worked but made everything run ridiculously slower so I disabled it.

Rotherham is pretty despearate. I know a lot of towns/cities in Yorks and Lancs have a similar industrial revolution feel but the last time we went to Rotherham for the cup it seemed like it was a dumping ground for all the mental patients in South Yorks.

I had this one last night where I was visiting the junior school I went to as part of some kind of "Who are you" type documentary and they had a tourist attraction which was a shark in a tank. Any budding psycho analysers in the house?

Not a huge fantasy fan but I know a couple of people who take this series a bit too seriously and my nasty side finds it funny that after all the years of waiting the bloke has died before finishing it.

Zeus or Thor? Moving the posts to some kind of wider Deistic universal creator is one thing but equating that with tribal Gods from a small part of the world is for me where it all falls down. Religions are very much about a personal relationship with a defined entity (as well as power and money but that's a sideline) - imagining that relationship in the context of the universe as we know it now is where it goes a bit mental.

Intellectual masturbation aside, as I said for the vast majority their God is very defineable - and demonstrably ridiculous. I don't see how rationality can be dismissed as trendy or populist.

They're as diametrically opposed as any two things can be - no amount of apologist twisting can change that. Wrong. The problem, at rock bottom, is this: If nothing happens without a cause, then something must have caused the universe to appear. But then we are faced with the inevitable question of what caused that something. And so on in an infinite regress. Some people simply proclaim that God created the universe, but children always want to know who created God, and that line of questioning gets uncomfortably difficult. One evasive tactic is to claim that the universe didn't have a beginning, that it has existed for all eternity. Unfortunately, there are many scientific reasons why this obvious idea is unsound. For starters, given an infinite amount of time, anything that can happen will already have happened, for if a physical process is likely to occur with a certain nonzero probability-however small-then given an infinite amount of time the process must occur, with probability one. By now, the universe should have reached some sort of final state in which all possible physical processes have run their course. Furthermore, you don't explain the existence of the universe by asserting that it has always existed. That is rather like saying that nobody wrote the Bible: it was. just copied from earlier versions. Quite apart from all this, there is very good evidence that the universe did come into existence in a big bang, about fifteen billion years ago. The effects of that primeval explosion are clearly detectable today-in the fact that the universe is still expanding, and is filled with an afterglow of radiant heat. So if nothing happens without a cause, what caused the beginning of the universe? Surely as it defies the laws of physics, it is by definition something devine, wouldnt you say? Goal post moving shite as usual. The vast majority of Theists don't know, understand or believe in a 14bn year old universe. Everything they do actually believe in has been proven to be wrong beyond ny kind of doubt. It's only since the big bang has been theorised that philosophical bullshit like that has been invented. I actually admire the honesty of Creationists more than the twisting insanity of people like you.

They're as diametrically opposed as any two things can be - no amount of apologist twisting can change that.

As Christoper Hitchens points out - one of the stupidest concepts of the Abrahamic faiths is the idea that their God (whoever/whatever that may be) would only talk to tribes in the Middle East when other civilisations like the Chinese were just as "civilised" at the time.

I agree with that and the idea he knows he's on a hiding to nothing - given that he hasn't done too badly but as I said, not addressing the strikers regardless of Carrol is an extremely bad sign for me.

Heights in general but specifically walking across high bridges over water.

How did it go? Quite well - I'm a perfectionist so obsessed on one question I struggled on but otherwise it was fine. Finshed just in time for kick-off as well - the bastards.

My concern is that it was obvious to the world that we had 4 inadequate strikers aside from Carrol and he should have been working to replace at least two of those regardless of any will he/won't he stay shite. Now we're left with 3 inadequate strikers.... Piss poor management.

Working hard but basically dross.

Nervous as well - I've got a phone interview at 19:30 for a fuck off job.

Huddersfield in 84 when we got promoted - asked Kenny Wharton for his shirt but he just shook my hand instead. Cambridge 93 - we were in the seats down the side and the car was parked behind the terrace which meant walking around the ground so we walked across the pitch (there had been a mini-invasion). One of my mates did something to the top his hamstring climbing over the fence so it became "the day Paul lost his arse at Cambridge".

And vice versa.

I spoke to one who was honest enough to say pretty early on in the conversation "If I do get you a job what's the name of the person I need to speak to about getting them a replacement". Well that's not on, but never lose sight of the fact we're in it for the money, I take it you think we should just be some sort of charity service? Didn't have a problem with that one Stevie or as I said an honest approach that knows that money is the bottom line - its the ones who dig for info without providing any signs of available roles that I don't like.

I spoke to one who was honest enough to say pretty early on in the conversation "If I do get you a job what's the name of the person I need to speak to about getting them a replacement".

I think there's an undercurrent of hypocrisy on both sides on those occasions - they must know a lot of people don't

I don't mind playing the game with an "all cards on the table" approach which recognises they're in it for the money and as I said some have been great.