AgentAxeman

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Rumour mill says Carricks off to Blunderland and Bellamy to Tottenham.

Hiccy Burpday!

makes sense to me. crunch & bang, crunch & bang, etc.

Not the whole race together - I just expect notional communities to care about each other at some level. One of the "successes" of Thatcherism was to engender the attitude among the well-off/southerner's that the pain in the other parts of the country didn't matter to them. I realise there has always been elements of that but I genuinely think that without necessarily day to day contact, there was more of a shared community spirit in this country - certainly during the war as I mentioned. Of course at any time there will be scum around but I'm talking in general terms here. This is probably why I support devolved/regional government - in a way its a recognition that the country is too large a community for a ahared basis and the only realistic way to have people with commonality thive is on a smaller scale. Im not certain that i agree with the whole devolved gov idea, at least not on the scale of the welsh and scottish assemblies which quite frankly seems to me to be another layer of beaurocracy for its own sake (probably an EU inspired idea). However, i do think it would be a good idea to devolve more powers to local councils to allow them to respond more rapidly to local issues.

I thought only a few planets were warming up. The basis of this argument is that the sun must be causing global warming and in fact, warming throughout the solar system. There are several flaws in this line of thought. Firstly, the characterisation that the whole solar system is warming is erroneous. Around 6 planets or moons out of the more than 100 bodies in the solar system have been observed to be warming. On the other hand, Uranus is cooling (Young 2001). Secondly, the theory that a brightening sun is causing global warming falls apart when you consider the sun has shown little to no trend since the 1950s. A variety of independent measurements of solar activity including satellite data, sunspot numbers, UV levels and solar magnetograms all paint a consistent picture. Over the last 35 years of global warming, sun and climate have been moving in opposite directions. That begs the question - what is causing warming on other planets? With the exception of Pluto, climate change on other planets are fairly understood: Martian climate is primarily driven by dust and albedo. Global dust storms increase the surface albedo by settling brighter dust on dark surfaces. Higher albedo leads to more sunlight being reflected which has a cooling effect. Snapshots of Mars' surface in 1977 and 1999 find that the surface was brighter in 1977 and darker in 1999. However, this doesn't necessarily point to a long term warming trend - the 1977 snapshot was made shortly after a global dust storm while the 1999 snapshot occured before a dust storm. Consequently, there is little empirical evidence that long term global warming on Mars is occuring (Richardson 2007). More on Mars... Neptune's orbit is 164 years so observations (1950 to present day) span less than a third of a Neptunian year. Climate modelling of Neptune suggests its brightening is a seasonal response (Sromovsky 2003). Eg - Neptune's southern hemisphere is heading into summer. More on Neptune... Neptune's largest moon, Triton, has warmed since the Voyager space probe visited it in 1989. The moon is approaching an extreme southern summer, a season that occurs every few hundred years. During this special time, the moon's southern hemisphere receives more direct sunlight (Elliot 1998). Jupiter's storms are fueled by the planet's own internal heat (sunlight is 4% the level of solar energy at Earth). When several storms merge into one large storm (eg - Red Spot Jr), the planet loses its ability to mix heat, causing warming at the equator and cooling at the poles (Marcus 2006). More on Jupiter... Pluto's warming is not clearly understood. Pluto's orbit is much more elliptical than that of the other planets, and its rotational axis is tipped by a large angle relative to its orbit. Both factors could contribute to drastic seasonal changes. As Pluto's orbit is equivalent to 248 Earth years and observed warming spans only 14 years, it is likely this is a seasonal response (Sromovsky 2003).

Yes but we only exist as a successful species because of co-operation and forming communities - we've exploded in the last 10-20k years because of it. For wars I meant the way civilian populations came together - the blitz spirit etc. twas only yanking yer chain NJS. so you mean we revert to tribalism during wartime? not certain how that could be classed as the human race all standing together. oh, and also during the blitz the amount of crime rocketed (looting, black market activities). it just wasnt reported for propaganda reasons.

you cant fight human nature bonny lad! we are, after all, only animals. as for your example of all standing together in wartime? do you actually know how nasty wars can be?

The early 80's were a bit tight but i'd hardly call it "Bread line". The latter half of the 80's I thought were quite affluent.

hmmm, 22yrs old, free transfer, hugely talented. Sign the fecker up FatLad!

Hiccy Burpday!

fuckin hell, if we get him and (maybe) Gosling we're actually going to have a canny midfield next season. :angry:

ffs!

THIS!

it staggers me that anyone could believe otherwise

Another player and his agent trying to drum up interest.

I thought he was canny against us last season. kept Jonas quiet. and lets face it, hes gotta be better than Simpson and Raylor.

That was the jist of my post. Getting rid of 10% of MP's who (no matter what you think of their ability to initiate change) we can influence and who actually wield some power will save virtually nothing in terms of overall budget. But we seem to value it less than an outdated monarchy that (while still a drop in the ocean) costs each of us several times more. Agent, as a strong proponent of spending cuts, shouldn't the Royal family (cost £38m) come before 10% of MPs (cost £4m salary + £9m expenses)? Why is the royal family good value but those MPs aren't? Happy, you are just SO easy to wind up sometimes! tbh, i'm not as fussed as some on here about the royal family (they are a tourist magnet i would guess) and tbf £38m is nowt in the great scheme of things nowadays. Quango's spend that kind of amount all the time, maybe you should just think of the royal family as a (sort of) 'visual' quango? would that ease your anti-monarcist conscience? a 10% reduction in NHS managers would probably be a far more effective money saving device than the mp's tho. I have no figures to back that up. Just a guess.

62p? good value that like!

this, and yes, there is a shortage of teachers and has been for yonks. proabably the reason why so few have been dismissed for incompetence.

Hiccy Burpday!