TheTaffer

I think lawro's 'analysis' is worse

Cabaye!!!!!

Don't post often but.......... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyDVDxtEhCY

Mike Dean is having a shocker

Will pass on the information, match day just isn't the same when you have to look away or hold your nose every time the guy sitting next to you talks

I'm pretty sure your not even allowed to drink water. My mate who comes to games with me doesn't drink water, cant even brush his teeth unless he gets up when its dark. I think the rule is nothing can pass your lips or something like that.

WHATAGOAL!!!!!!!!!

great interview. I like the bit about Carver towards the end, letting Pardew know what the fans are saying

Anyone know what the enrique chant that everyone is singing?

hahahahahahahaha

This one could be a real cracker, back to the 90s!

I know its hard to read, I didn't know how to change the colour. Still new to the site.

No offence to you personally cos I dont know you but that just sounds like happy clappy land. If you have an alternative that you think had a chance of winning a real election in the next five years Im all ears. Life has never and will never be fair. It is all about and always will be about survival of the fittest. Well I think the aim should always be 'happy clappy' land in the long term otherwise what is the point, of anything. What defines survival of the fittest? It is such an ambiguous term. Winning an election here will rarely be anything to do with new ideas because everyone has been socialised within this system and their belief systems are so embedded in the 'status quo'. Now I'm not sure if its even possible to be objective about anything given that we all have inherent biases. However, I would like to think that there are societies and systems that we have not yet come to know that can exist and that are 'better' than the ones we know. I am not a communist, everyone knows how that went down in Russia. All I'm saying is, why cant we keep an open mind? Nothing good ever came from polemical debate. Which is why I will always try to avoid it. Anyway to finish, here is a quote from one of my favourite thinkers, Michel Foucault. The polemicist , on the other hand, proceeds encased in privileges that he possesses in advance and will never agree to question. On principle, he possesses rights authorizing him to wage war and making that struggle a just undertaking; the person he confronts is not a partner in search for the truth but an adversary, an enemy who is wrong, who is armful, and whose very existence constitutes a threat. For him, then the game consists not of recognizing this person as a subject having the right to speak but of abolishing him as interlocutor, from any possible dialogue; and his final objective will be not to come as close as possible to a difficult truth but to bring about the triumph of the just cause he has been manifestly upholding from the beginning. The polemicist relies on a legitimacy that his adversary is by definition denied

I don't think you can say 'Anyone who thinks there is a different way is talking shit or plain cuckoo'. I can understand your point but its a bit ridiculous to dismiss everything else whatever your opinions may be. Offer me an alternative then to future I set out. There are many alternatives that are out there from all sorts of standpoints, recently there has been quite a lot of new economic literature that has stemmed from an attempt transcend the current hegemonic economic system that led to the situation we are in now. My personal preference would be a system that was focused more on fairness and less on the individual. Whether that is feasible or not within the current structure is another matter but I do think it is important to keep an open mind.

I don't think you can say 'Anyone who thinks there is a different way is talking shit or plain cuckoo'. I can understand your point but its a bit ridiculous to dismiss everything else whatever your opinions may be.

Fuck me I mean I know people think very little of rival parties but this is a bit ott It's not just the party in power its the whole shebang

I think its nearly time to emigrate. Will give it a few more years but I don't want to be hanging around as the country destroys itself.

It seems pretty clear that Ed is pretty unpopular. I just wish he would grow a pair so the tories aren't re elected.

I think what you say is fair, I just saw hope in his response to the budget (if you haven't seen it, check it out on youtube) and recent pmq performances. The polls have also started to show labour has a decent lead. Whether it comes to anything is another matter

I really really hope its not true

Just interested to see what everyone on here thinks of him. Thought he got off to a poor start but I think he's improved over the last month or so. Does he have a realistic chance of becoming PM?

Been a member of this site for a while but not posted yet, I just couldn't help getting involved in this one. Part of the reason we are in so much trouble now is our move from a manufacturing and industry based economy into a service based economy back in the 80s. If you look at the countries that have coped best with the financial crisis such as Germany it is because they have such a well developed manufacturing industry (two thirds of German workers have jobs in the steel industry). Thatcher could have modernised our manufacturing and industry sectors instead of destroying them along with thousands of lives. good first post Thanks

Been a member of this site for a while but not posted yet, I just couldn't help getting involved in this one. Part of the reason we are in so much trouble now is our move from a manufacturing and industry based economy into a service based economy back in the 80s. If you look at the countries that have coped best with the financial crisis such as Germany it is because they have such a well developed manufacturing industry (two thirds of German workers have jobs in the steel industry). Thatcher could have modernised our manufacturing and industry sectors instead of destroying them along with thousands of lives.