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It's got a ring to it. You'll spear terrorists?

Robert's white, I've got myself a nice tan since I moved to France, does that give me a right to rap? You do seem to have a chip ChocChip, you seem to think racism is only a black & white thing and you also appear to be blowing things out of proportion.

I think your wrong. I can tell you i've heard enough at away games that, as a black person, i can feel uncomfortable. I've heard 'Titus, you thick black c**t' too often. O'Brien got stick in the end but he was always shite. This doesn't make me think all Geordies are necessarily actively racist (i haven't heard many black taunts from London accented NUFC supporters though, just the once actually, Tottenham away, facist maniac in the seat next to me, it had to be me ), but you wouldn't hear that at Arsenal, not these days, but i still hear it at NUFC games. I remember monkey chants being directed at Carl Cort when Wimbledon beat NUFC at Selhurst Park, and then we signed him, now he WAS crap but why call him a monkey? Whose more often than not the bogeyman who the supporters start blaming first? Ameobi, Bramble, Dyer, Jenas, Robert (polynesian i think - non-white anyway), Babayaro, Faye. People don't tend to hear what doesn't effect them, nor do they tend to notice a bias which isn't against them. All lot of you notice a bias from the southern media against Newcastle and because of that i notice it, i ask my mates (Londoners) they don't notice it.] I love the club, i don't love Geordies, i don't have an opinion, i don't know any! But i wouldn't automatically like someone because of their accent or place of birth. When i'm in the away section it's good to be with fans who support your club, it's f**king fantastic tbh and the way you speak if hysterical (in a good way) but don't tell me the insular attitude that is so publicly predominant if not representational of the region isn't gonna jump on the most obvious difference (skin colour) if they've got a gripe with that indivdual, because it always will. 32199[/snapback] That's big of you! A wise poster on here who hasn't graced us with his presence in a while would have called that racism.

Glad someone else noticed his thinly veiled racist agenda. I know you were focusing on the black angle but all of these players are foreign and all but 2 are not Geordies. Which is certainly a sin in Oliver's book. Seriously though how can you say Elliott has suffered anywhere near as badly as say Babayaro. The easiest example I could come up with would be Taylor versus Boumsong.

This is what portforward.com has to say about the BT 2100 and Messenger: That's taking the piss. Good site for this stuff generally. http://www.portforward.com/english/routers...N_Messenger.htm

True, look at the reception Sir Les still gets. But there is a sizeable element who always seem quicker to get on a black/foreign players back when they first start or go through a bad patch. Shearer was finished when Bobby first came too. The first thing he told him was that he was spending too much time with his back to goal for a striker, later he brought Bellamy in to do the running for him. Souness has done well to undo that and wouldn't have the tactical nous to see what Bobby saw. Owen and a decent manager and Shearer has a season left in him, and Shearer is technically adept, I'm at a loss to understand how anyone can think otherwise. I think his head's dropping as it was when Gullit was here though.

Is that what you call him when you're alone? 32087[/snapback] For a feel. 32098[/snapback] Oo Er!

Is that what you call him when you're alone?

more of a middle-aged rebellion then?

I've voted but I'm not disclosing my choice or reasoning behind it.

Remember when you were 13 and everything you didn't like was so 'gay'?

Grand, wasn't sure - thought I'd have a go anyway just in case. Belligerence always the best policy. Off to watch Nathan Barley.

I believe our response was something along the lines of: "No offense to the guy, but we've never heard of him"

I don't reckon you have to be a snob and/or narrow minded not to agree with your comedy tastes!

PL -I'm not sure about them being incomparable, when I sit down to watch comedy, be it stand up, sit com or otherwise, it should do one thing - make me laugh. I'm not slating your opinion because it's only personal taste but maybe my problem is really with sitcoms. You say they do the serious stuff well, why bother with the serious stuff? And I guess after a while I got sick of them trying to be wacky. Had some great characters but I got bored, their zany humour started reminding me of that character who tries to be the office clown in the Fast Show. British vs American - I hesitate to say British because of some of the shocking stuff that's come out of Northern Ireland but English comedy is consistently better than American whatever way they do it. I'm not English so I'm not biased that way but BBC comedy has an obvious advantage as they're not as concerned with figures. Scrubs has to please a mass market in the dumbest nation in the world. ITV comedy proves English mass market can mix it with the best of them when it comes to low standards though! HF - I couldn't have watched any of that for more than 2 series'! With the exception of the Simpons of course. Blackadder reinvented itself every series. I like Curb your Enthusiasm but have seen about 3 episodes.

Should do, why not?

I haven't seen it in a while so I can't comment on the latest series but as a general rule comedy series' running past the second series are a bad move. Can you honestly rate it with the likes of League of Gentlemen, Black Books, Spaced or anything by Chris Morris? LOG survived a 3rd series impressively by completely reinventing itself and even Black Books had lost its edge by the time it finished.

Scrubs is a US sitcom set in a hospital. I really liked it for about a series and then it got very tired. By the time of the wedding it had become a soap opera and just wasn't funny anymore.

I know I'm not a professional so can someone more knowledgeable please explain what part golfish bowls play in football?

I'd say he can, and Bjork and Helena Christensen would be involved somewhere.

SSR = legend.

Happy Birthday.

I imagine a faceless man, late last night, with too much alcohol taken on, saying all that in the voice of Stewie Griffin followed by maniacal tittering. Seriously, it'll be a lot harder to let these things in than to get rid of them. We have the liberties we have today because of the struggles of others.

Sorry but that term annoys me, how do you appease an intellectual? Probably by not being a fuckwit. Conservative, Liberal, Intellectual. All these terms are spun until we just sound like a bunch of bipartizan children who scream if we don't get exactly what we want. Above all it stands in the way of reasonable debate.

If you believe the powers that be can do whatever they want and there's very little we can do about it why would you say they spend so much time and effort influencing popular opinion?