Meenzer

you're aren't going to groom me Surely a man of your experience would know how completely nonsensical that statement is?

So you style yourself as the person with the most life experience but all you can come back with is "well someone else did it first, ner-ner-ne-ner-ner"?

As far as the image of the side is concerned the captain is important. Captains often reflect the nature of a society, take Maradona, wonderfully creative but ultimately a glutonous, corrupt, cheating, choatic life cunt, and you could use all the words to describe Argentina and Argentines. Aye, but he won the World Cup. You reckon anyone in England would really sacrifice that in favour of a more societally representative captain? No. My point is its important for your captain to convey a positive message, Beckham was always an icon, but it went to another level when he was made captain and he was a good ambassador, he even helped us win the Olympics. Look at Bobby Moore "gawd rest 'is soww", a brilliant man by all accounts, family bloke had a good life and battled bravely with cancer. You didn't hear about him being a tit like Jimmy Greaves etc... People look up to captains whether you like it or not. Bryan Robson another fantastic example. Hence suggesting a granny-shagging, WAG-worshipping worky-ticket as the ideal successor to these legends of the game? (I like Rooney and would have nowt against him as captain, for what it's worth, but you can spin stuff whichever way you want...) Granny shaggin when he was 18? Did you not make mistakes as a teenager? Probably fuckin stuck in your 6th form common room till 8pm every neet. You'd have a fucking heart attack if you knew just how wrong that was. Which isn't to say that I wasn't making all kinds of mistakes at the time. Of course I take your point though. I honestly want the best for England, but I freely admit to being a gloryhunter when it comes to the national team - I'll support "us" as long as we're doing well, but I'll not lose any sleep when we hit the usual glass ceiling and crash out in a blaze of tabloid navel-gazing.

As far as the image of the side is concerned the captain is important. Captains often reflect the nature of a society, take Maradona, wonderfully creative but ultimately a glutonous, corrupt, cheating, choatic life cunt, and you could use all the words to describe Argentina and Argentines. Aye, but he won the World Cup. You reckon anyone in England would really sacrifice that in favour of a more societally representative captain? No. My point is its important for your captain to convey a positive message, Beckham was always an icon, but it went to another level when he was made captain and he was a good ambassador, he even helped us win the Olympics. Look at Bobby Moore "gawd rest 'is soww", a brilliant man by all accounts, family bloke had a good life and battled bravely with cancer. You didn't hear about him being a tit like Jimmy Greaves etc... People look up to captains whether you like it or not. Bryan Robson another fantastic example. Hence suggesting a granny-shagging, WAG-worshipping worky-ticket as the ideal successor to these legends of the game? (I like Rooney and would have nowt against him as captain, for what it's worth, but you can spin stuff whichever way you want...)

As far as the image of the side is concerned the captain is important. Captains often reflect the nature of a society, take Maradona, wonderfully creative but ultimately a glutonous, corrupt, cheating, choatic life cunt, and you could use all the words to describe Argentina and Argentines. Aye, but he won the World Cup. You reckon anyone in England would really sacrifice that in favour of a more societally representative captain?

has meenzer got a "leazes - old board" style rod up his arse on the way Nah, I just think the whole thing is ridiculous. The entire squad is a pack of cunts, why differentiate between one cunt and another?

Until the tabloids tell you you do.

The one who thought he was using a typewriter but then it turned out he was just inCRED ibly short-sighted? Yes.

Except Terry, who'll get booed by his own fans and play below-par throughout, but Capello won't drop him because he feels guilty about stripping him of the captaincy in response to the demands of a couple of tabloids and the retards who listen to them. Definitely worth the effort though. Definitely.

Which is Rio according to the Beeb. Terry will be captain in all but name, he just wont have to face every England press conference, where the Bridgeys wife questions will certainly be on the agenda.. Even better. The sine qua non of pointless knee-jerk actions can't be far away, though. Let's keep working on it...

Anyone who thinks the captaincy of England is important is a fucking cock, Capello included.

I'd venture that installing solar panels across the entire country and importing all our meat, fruit and veg would work out more cost-efficient than using the same land for agricultural purposes. Bit less pretty on the eye, admittedly. Of course, the present and next government would prefer us to accept the prospect of inhabiting high-rise matchboxes with a supposed market value of £150k+ and precisely no quality of life, which makes the issue of personal responsibility for efficient roof space usage somewhat less important, but there you go.

We'll never win the World Cup as long as we're obsessed with who's captain and whether they have the moral integrity for the role. Footballers are fucking idiots and always have been. What happened to worrying about what happens on the pitch?

OK, fine, I'll bite - if only because it's Friday afternoon, I'm bored and my curiosity is getting the better of me. So. I realise it's only the Internet and you've been careful to never give any insight into why your opinions might be worthy of any kind of credibility - but, purely as far as your adopted persona on here is concerned, I can only see two realistic scenarios to explain your behaviour, and they are: 1) You know that your constant references to the Halls and Shepherd wind people up and you honestly don't give a shit because you're only here on the wind-up, other people's responses to your posts on everything from football to Muslims don't bother you in the slightest, and you could give up this forum at the drop of a hat; or 2) You honestly don't realise that your constant, knee-jerk harping on about the Halls and Shepherd actually damages the impact of every single other post you make on here, no matter how valid its content may be. So which is it? I'm honestly fascinated. And not just because I want to drool over your cock in the showers.

Aye, this is what I'm saying though. I've spent tons of time in the former Yugoslavia and their "let's take advantage of the benefits of being theoretically Eastern European without actually aligning with the Soviet Union" approach was clearly the way to go (though if everyone had tried it, you have to assume even the creaking mechanisms in Red Square would have spotted the downsides eventually). Then again, as soon as Tito died the whole thing started to spiral towards the ultimate payoff of Srebrenica and similar, while East Germany ended up being bankrolled by the West - so maybe alignment with the Evil Empire wasn't such a horrendous idea in the first place.

Tenner says you cant back this up with evidence. Twenty says you've been pwned. aye, you can't get more senior than that. I'm surprised the usual culprits didn't dispute it mind ....... Fucking hell man. Stevie makes a good point then you come along and destroy it by making a statement that's equivalent to "You can't get more senior in the UK than Nick Clegg". With cyber-allies like you, who needs cyber-enemies? I have no cyber allies. I'm the board equivalent of Rambo. Who would you say your cyber allies are? I don't cyber-think I cyber-have any. I've tried to cyber-look at Leazes' cock often enough but he's having cyber-none of it.

An interesting interpretation by wornfree.com

Just did a bit of googling and one of the first hits is this: Skirge

I borrowed it to jam in Jedward's cold, cold heart(s).

Tenner says you cant back this up with evidence. Twenty says you've been pwned. aye, you can't get more senior than that. I'm surprised the usual culprits didn't dispute it mind ....... Fucking hell man. Stevie makes a good point then you come along and destroy it by making a statement that's equivalent to "You can't get more senior in the UK than Nick Clegg". With cyber-allies like you, who needs cyber-enemies?

Well now that clearly depends on the shopper in question.

"And now from Germany, we move to Poland... that's been done before." Ken Bruce, Radio 2 commentary on the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest.

Now that's clearly just cheating.

Couldn't tell you which one exactly, but the better half just got a Lumix and he's dead happy with it so far, so what they all said, basically.

I'd never do it unless I was stocking up on tinned goods or booze or something that's difficult to carry, but then I live 15 minutes' walk from a Tesco and a Sainsbury's, and two pairs of hands is enough to drag a fortnight's shopping back home. If I was somewhere less supermarket-friendly and I didn't have a car, I'd definitely consider it, even at the expense of not being able to inspect the fruit and veg before you buy it etc. etc. Around here, though, it really is pure laziness.