Happy Face

I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers.

Did butt take a niggle or what? Either way, once Viduka came on we looked far more dangerous......up till half time at least.

They say underneath every pony tail there's an arsehole Is that not off blowing old men in the toilets? Nah, but it might be off drinking Lambrini out of bottles some radgie 14 year old lasses were sharing with us on the metro. Did you have a bit nec on? You reckon that would more likely bring on a throat infection like?

I thought so, there was some scum down the other end drinking that red and blue stuff. No standards.

They say underneath every pony tail there's an arsehole Is that not off blowing old men in the toilets? Nah, but it might be off drinking Lambrini out of bottles some radgie 14 year old lasses were sharing with us on the metro.

I thought we were underdogs against Liverpool. I think I overdid the singing. I was a little horse yesterday. Today i can barely talk and swallowing is agony.

I Robots - Frau (Boys Noize Remix)

This is the sort of shite my mother and her mates send me.....along with every phoney baloney virus warning they get. No offense like BS, I guess you're just of that age

Mohammed, Mohammed the bear, Everyone knows his name.

It's a masterpiece by all accounts.

That's the famous story from Marathon Man innit. He goes for a run round the block and Larry Olivier asks "What you deein?", Hoffman says "I've got to be out of breath in this next scene", so Larry has a good giggle at him and says "try acting dear boy".

When they go on about class actors it always comes down to quiet-shouty Pacino or gurning De Niro, but Hoffmann never gets any credit. Midnight Cowboy Tootsie Marathon Man The Graduate Kramer Vs Kramer All The President's Men Lenny Papillon Straw Dogs He's immense in them all. Not only that but he's been in the 2 greatest comedies of our lifetime, The Simpsons AND Curb Your Enthusiasm. Kudos

I was always confused because I thought thhe word should have been insaner. Little did I realise it was simple gobbledegook. Had myself thinking of other gobbledegook in song. What the fuck does "tek fly boss wok jam nitty gritty" mean?

Is this a joke? Arse Having? What kind of name is that? And we'll be getting "Virgin" plastered all over our shirts. This country!

I was always confused because I thought thhe word should have been insaner. Little did I realise it was simple gobbledegook.

it's insanier

Black Ketsbaia tbh.

Given that you started the topic I foolishly assumed you wanted a discussion on it. Yep, but bullshit isn't discussion, at least as far as I'm concerned. I've lived there, have you? And rubbish you can drive from one end to the other without seeing a car (maybe at 3am), clearly you've never even been there. And again causalities aren't high at all given the influx of bikers and other tourists, not to mention that the roads themselves are very, very tricky (lots of very bad roads with cliff drops and bad/blind corners and such) and the conditions can be very, very treacherous (very easy for a road to be generally clear of ice, yet drop into a dip and suddenly the road is sheet ice), given that is a very unforgiving place to drive or ride it is amazing the casualty rates aren't much higher. And yet no real carnage, in fact if you look at Cumbria it has one road casualty per 1050 of its population and the IOM has one per 990 people (should probably be closer to 1050 itself if you take into account yearly % of tourist population as well), which considering all the factors that should increase IOM road deaths just shows what bollocks your "point" is. I've also lived in North Wales which again has some very nasty roads and very bad conditions, it also has had the most speed nazi chief constable around, and yet (when you take his very dodgy statistics massaging into account) their percentage drop is little more than the national average (and scarily the deaths and serious injuries of cyclists and pedestrians has actually increased, in once case by 70% in one year). In fairness the guy does tend to make his cameras very visible, so at least they are doing the job they are supposed to do, that is slow people down, not make cash. So again whilst I'm not against speed cameras as such, I am very much of a mind of how they should be used and should not be used. One side of my family is from the IOM so I go over there regularly, I asked for a manx flag on here...even provided the .jpg, but it's still not been forthcoming. You've basically got a couple of built up areas and miles of hills between them. UK speed limits apply throughout the built up areas while between them, as I said, you barely see another car at any time of the day. You clearly don't pay much attention then do you. If you stick purely to back roads you may not see that many cars (but then on said back roads you'll not be getting up much speed anyway), but the main roads are busy enough (not city busy, but at least as busy as similar roads else where in the country), and certainly during the general tourist season, never mind TT. Because the IOM has very nasty roads and very nasty conditions (which should result in higher deaths irrespective of limits), and has the large tourist and TT tourist adding to it, yet even with no speed limit on national speed limit roads, their accident rate isn't any worse than similar areas. Hence your "points" = bollocks. Simple enough for you? Although given you clearly don't notice cars when you "go" to the IOM, maybe not simple enough. What a div. Do you even bother to read posts you're responding to? In built up areas (where I agree you see plenty of other cars) speed limits apply like anywhere else in the UK, so if you're suggesting we should follow the IOM there, it's bollocks. right? As you say, only on the national speed limit roads is there no actual limit. These are the main roads, for example between Douglas and Ramsey. You'd be lucky if you saw 10 other cars while doing that journey, and even if you saw twice that, you'd never be up someones bumper because there wouldn't be anything coming the other way and you'd have overtaken immediately. The terrain on these roads is no different to plenty of the hilly roads in the uk, the only difference is the vastly reduced number of cars using them...so again following the IOM would be impracticle on our FAR busier roads. Even with the low number of cars travelling those roads, the number of deaths on the island is higher. This might be because people are whizzing about everywhere at 120mph, or because the terrain is like nowhere else in the UK, it might be because deaths go through the roof on TT weekend (though they don't at all). Either way it still means your comparison is bollocks, because traffic on the island is in no way comparable to the UK. You see?

My last point is about slow progress being for the best of the club...and what Sam is achieving. Look at the results we've matched or achieved (with points gained) from the improved 'performance' Bolton +3 Everton +2 West Ham +2 Boro +1 Reading 0 Spurs 0 Wigan 0 These teams are all either struggling or mid-table. These are the teams we'd always want to beat, or (for now) to be competing with for places. So in terms of these games he's got us at least doing as well as, but more often doing even better than last year. The teams where we've 'lost' points this year compared to last reads exactly the same as the league table currently stands from 4th to 8th... Liverpool -3 Man City -1 Portsmouth -3 Aston Villa -2 Blackburn -3 These are games we took more points from last year, but where on balance it was a suprise result, we had no right to do so. Inconsistency basically. Being 'up' for the big games and overachieving in them, while underperforming against the teams we should be beating. I'm not saying we haven't had a few bad results against poor teams, but certainly no worse than last year.

After tonight we'll have played Liverpool and Arsenal and still be higher. Well we'd already played Liverpool away as well at this stage, the point I'm making is that we've had easier games up to this point then we did last season. And the point I'm making is that you can't say he hasn't made any progress and then discount the progress he has patently made. If you want to compare him when he's played all the same games....wait until the end of the season, until then, he's currently performing above expectation. What progress Do you think he has made? He's brought in a few players who could be decent and got rid of most of the dead wood but since the start of the actual league season I can't see what progress has been made on the field at all. So now your changing the goalposts from no progress whatsoever to no progress in style of play. I've not been impressed with the football we've played. But then i was never impressed with the football that Bolton played when he was there and expected nothing else. As long as it translates to a higher league position we'll be happy though, right? And if you look at the games where Allardyce hasn't been able to match or improve on last years result.... Liverpool -3 Man City -1 Portsmouth -3 Aston Villa -2 Blackburn -3 That's a canny list of teams exactly in the position where we want to be heading in the long term. No?

That would represent absolutely no improvement on last season whatsoever and I would immediately be calling for his head. It was an excellent result last season too and Roeder should never have been sacked. Allardyce will do well to improve on Roeders 6 points against the big 4 at home, without losing one of them.

After tonight we'll have played Liverpool and Arsenal and still be higher. Well we'd already played Liverpool away as well at this stage, the point I'm making is that we've had easier games up to this point then we did last season. And the point I'm making is that you can't say he hasn't made any progress and then discount the progress he has patently made. If you want to compare him when he's played all the same games....wait until the end of the season, until then, he's currently performing above expectation.