AgentAxeman

Aye, if I was still living in Germany then kebab would be top of the list, but the version you get here - even the "proper" ones, in my experience - is too horrendous to contemplate. Aye, best kebab i ever had was in Jormany. Proper chicken kebab. Lush. Better than the crap you get over here. Fish and chips for me. Yum!

Im feeling distinctly nervous about this game. Especially as Wistam' are winning 2-0 against Manure atm...... Edit: Manure are now winning 2-4 which is better for us obvs but i'm still really nervous about this game. 1-1

you mean like Sharia law?

Apparently Hitler didnt really want to kill the Jews. He REALLY wanted to kill all the paki's but couldnt get the fucka's to go in the shower!! .................. a bit too much?

He'll still be on a retainer tho eg. a % of his wage with the remainder paid if he gets an appearance. All depends what the % is really.

Brilliant!

2nd place = Loser! fptp

I already can

Hmmmmm, tricky one! Just cos it's new doesn't mean it's better. If people would learn this simple truism then maybe life in general would be better! Fptp for me.

I'm with MF on this. T'aint a funny picture.

:lol:

but ? but ding ding :lol:

That was my 1st reaction to reading the article as well. Distract the fans with bullshit whilst we slide precariously close to the drop zone.

I didnt even bother watching it. All the hype from sky put me right off. I watched Dune on channel 5 instead.

Looks a lovely recipe. Might have to try it out myself. Try an Austrailian cabernet, it should work lovely with the lamb.

Fuckin hell Kev, you're living in an occupied country. Fucking euro's? Get yer own fuckin currency man. Tell yer potato eating comrades to man the fuck up!

Ahhhhhhhhh, the good ol' days................ Crackin read that like.

Hiccy Barfday JawD! Have a good' un'!

This As for the op, its certainly a pisser that he's gone from a 'future talent' to 'one of the main men' in the England squad (at least in the press's eyes) since he's moved. More down to the (southern) press's perception of Nufc I reckon. fwiw, I still bear absolutely no malice toward Carroll for moving. All my hatred and loathing is firmly aimed at the fat cunt and his lickspittle.

As others have said, a fairly neutral budget. Dont reckon theres much to crow about either way, so, a nice gentle budget with no great surprises which hopefully will bring a little stability to the overall economy. Still a bit nervous about the growth forecasts mind you so Im not gonna ape CT with blind optimism yet.

Peer inside a black hole as its a complete unknown. Evolution is pretty much proven (imo).

Great thread btw. Keep em coming (sic)

RIP

yeah but Capellos a cunt.

Heres an alternative................. How to heat your home for free ... with boiling water from a mile underground Britain’s latest energy revolution doesn’t look like much. Twenty-four acres of windswept, gravelly wasteland, a handful of muddy portable buildings, and a small drilling rig rocking gently in the bright sunshine. But this workaday scene belies the fact that here, a mile, maybe two, under Newcastle upon Tyne lies what some experts believe is the solution to our energy crisis. Because deep in the Earth’s crust, thousands of feet under the city, lurk tens of cubic miles of scaldingly hot rocks. And if all goes well, the people and businesses of Newcastle will, within a couple of years, receive their heating and hot water almost gratis, and carbon-free, courtesy of this ancient heat source. It is easy to be sceptical. Free energy deep in the Earth’s crust sounds too good to be true. People have been talking about ‘geothermal energy’ since I was a child. In the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the government investigated several potential sites, but this came to nothing because of the initial expense, and interest dwindled as fossil fuel prices fell. But now the cheap gas is running out and oil prices are soaring. We’ve abandoned our coalfields and everyone thinks coal is too dirty to burn and turn into electricity. That leaves nuclear power (hardly flavour of the month, given events in Japan), various forms of renewable energy — and geothermal energy. So has its day come at last? The Newcastle project is on the site of the old Scottish and Newcastle Brewery, now demolished, in the city centre, right in the shadow of the St James’ Park football ground. Last month, drilling started on an exploratory borehole. It’s a project that was embarked upon by the universities of Newcastle and Durham, and is being helmed by a new British company called Cluff Geothermal — formed by Algy Cluff, 70, a former Grenadier Guard who made his fortune in North Sea oil exploration, and George Percy, 26, a friend of Kate Middleton and young member of the aristocratic Northumberland family which owns much of the land around the area. The site has none of the aesthetic grandeur of a large wind turbine, or the James Bond high-techery of a nuclear project; just a small, thrumming drilling rig 50ft tall, pounding through the sandstones and mudstones at a steady rate of 20ft an hour. They’re already nearly 500ft down and plan to go to nearly 7,000ft, where, all being well, the borehole will tap into a hot ocean of brine locked within the deep rocks. The first hot water could be pumped by this May. To understand where this heat comes from, we need a history lesson. More than 400 million years ago, what is now North-East England lay under an ancient ocean. The land on either side of this ocean drifted together, closing the gap and displacing most of the water to other oceans — but a quantity was forced underground. These upheavals meant deep, hot rocks were thrust close to the surface — close enough for their heat to be tapped today. Generally, as you drill down anywhere into the Earth it gets warmer, by one or two degrees Celsius every 300ft. But here the ‘thermal gradient’ is a far more useful three to four degrees every 300ft. That means that if you dig down a mile, you hit rocks that are as hot as a scalding bath. Two miles and you’re above boiling point. What’s more, the upheavals left fault lines throughout the strata of the hot rocks, which are saturated with water from the ancient ocean, like a prehistoric plumbing system. Countless trillions of gallons of brine deep underground have been heated by the hot granite, like the electric element in a kettle. So, what the geologists will be pumping up to the surface is hot sea water that last saw the light of day more than 100 million years before the first dinosaur hatched out of its egg. Where does the heat itself come from? ‘It’s actually generated by the low-level radioactive decay of elements like uranium and thorium in the rocks,’ says Professor Paul Younger, the geologist in charge of the Newcastle project. ‘That big mass of granite acts like a huge natural reactor.’ And unlike wind power, this heat is constant 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Geologists have estimated that a single borehole could provide useful heat for 40 years, after which it would need to be left alone to replenish its natural warmth — while production would simply switch to a replacement borehole nearby. Overall, the geothermal heat under North-East England is good for 300 million years. So, unlike gas or oil, it will never run out. If the geothermal water is hot enough, it can even be used to generate electricity, using water vapour to drive electric turbines The plan is to pump up the hot brine through machines that will pass on the warmth to domestic heating and hot-water systems (the actual brine will be too salty to use directly, although if it is non-toxic some of it might be pumped into a natural mineral spa). Initially, this will provide heat and domestic hot water for a new science park, possibly thousands of flats, offices and shops, as well as the nearby shopping malls of Newcastle city centre. In time, it could be used to heat all kinds of building. A single borehole could generate enough energy to heat a thousand homes and in theory there is no reason why ten or 20 boreholes could not be drilled, providing as much energy as a small conventional power station. Once the initial investment from the Government, universities and the local council has been made, running costs would be almost zero and, of course, there are no carbon emissions. If the geothermal water is hot enough, it can even be used to generate electricity, using water vapour to drive electric turbines. Best of all, there would be no ugly power plant, as geothermal power stations are mostly underground. There have been safety concerns. A scheme in Hawaii ran into trouble when the drill hit a pocket of molten lava. And in 2007 a team of geologists had an even bigger scare when they sank a borehole into an active fault zone in Switzerland, setting off a small earthquake. But, as Professor Younger points out, ‘our geological fault has not moved for 280 million years, so that won’t happen here’. The British project is not without its problems. The rocks under Newcastle are riddled with old mine-workings, antique shafts and buried machinery dating back centuries — the risk of hitting one of these means a very specialised team is being used for the exploratory drilling. So far £900,000 has been spent on the Newcastle project. If the exploratory borehole is a success and hits ‘hot gold’ — and we should know by July — private companies will be invited to move in. Britain’s wealth was founded on two things: wool in the Middle Ages and, later, our extraordinary geological heritage, which kick-started the industrial revolution in the 18th century. We had coal, iron and later oil and gas. For many reasons their day has passed, or is passing. What is now being exploited is the almost inexhaustible source of energy that lies deep beneath the earth of our ancient land. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/art...l#ixzz1HFIVkgVC