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The alternative to the poll tax was council tax though, right? I don't see any credible alternative to Ashley at the moment. No-one is going to make a £400m investment while america's AAA rating is being questioned.

What are their demands?

Aye. Look at Cardiff and villa. Lower possession but better results than Hull, West Ham or Everton. It was just in response to Parky's desires that I posted it. Passing it from side to side in the middle third as the opposition are camped in their box is no good. Being composed enough to soak up some sustained pressure and then break into the space created has proved more valuable.

Possession is trending upwards...

Aye, it should be second nature, but who should he ask to drop in from a 4-3-3? The "wide" midfielders or forwards? DK was suggesting the former, but in reality we don't have any deeper midfielders that would naturally fill that gap. Unfortunately as he also points out, you won't get the enthusiam for tracking back week in and week out from Remy and Ben Arfa either. At the moment we seem to have the worst of both worlds where it's not necessarily seen as anyones duty.

Aye. I just think if you say to 3 players "you're all covering the wing and should interchange", rather than adding extra cover you're giving them all a pass on what their responsibilities are. Which is why we're seeing huge gaps left. Is Pardew good enough, or are our players good enough, with the stamina, to put that system into play where they all bust a gut and look out for one another to cover runs? Maybe they will be in the long run. Against lesser opposition I think we can do it, it looked lush against West Brom last season. But any team we come up against with anything about them knows how to exploit the weakness. When you have the likes of Danny Simpson limiting himself to defending 95% of the time and one man in front of him knowing he's the only one in the team that can lend a hand, I think you have a more solid foundation, despite the personnel having less ability.

For a club with 1 winger in the entire squad it is a strange tactic to play a system that effectively needs 6 players to play the role in one form or another

Shit joke tbf

I didn't want to give you the hits

Haha. Never heard about that. Perhaps he should have qualified his comments... “Son, you throw like a girl raised in a patriarchal society that discourages women from participating in sports.”

Looks like they're gonna get more political for the second fortnight. He followed the above with a Macdonalds bashing sculpture... http://www.banksyny.com/2013/10/16/all-city-%E2%80%93-mcdonalds

Strange to use an example of America remaking a British show as an example of American shows being of a higher standard. Surely that points to the originality and quality of UK shows. As does their remaking House of Cards or Life on Mars or The Office, Prime Suspect etc. I never said British shows don't play up to any stereotypes though. My argument is that TV shows both inform and reflect the national psyche of the country in which they are made. There are an abundance of stereotypes on UK television, of course, they also reflect our history and politics. The fact you recognise that only reinforces my point that what you and Ewerk regard as inconsequential entertainment does still offer a deeper social commentary.

We have TV in the UK too, not boring tv either, but we've never produced a series so devoted to the idea that torturing is necessary to get results. Or that every muslim is evil and anti-western.

I think you're too worried about our attacking ability

can I google how many grams in a ton?

Did you watch Alan Yentob's series "The United States of television"? Recommended. Something like MASH is ostensibly a sitcom for the masses only there to shift ad-space at some of the highest prices at the time. But that doesn't preclude it from implanting hugely important ideas into the minds of the population about the justness of war or the value placed on the lives of "the enemy". As Vietnam lost popularity as a cause it totally reflected the reluctance of the nation to be intervening abroad. Similarly after 9/11, 24 embraced the lust in the US for security at any cost. That lust has recently been questioned, so a series like Homeland is more subtle about delivering the same ideas. ...and there is no need to read between the lines on 24. The lines are spoken out loud and tell you everything.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticking_time_bomb_scenario

It's not like. It's like comparing Paris Hylton and Jordan. Both thick as mince but one's dressed better.

There are moments of shock in homeland, but they play up to the racist American stereotypes rather than challenging them. He got out his prayer mat and America was outraged because muslims are bad. The challenging direction from then on would have been to have him be a good muslim, like 99% of the real life muslims, but no, it followed that because he was a muslim he was also evil, on a course towards suicide bombing the white house having been turned into an Islamic Manchurian candidate. Did you read this from earlier in the thread... http://www.toontastic.net/board/topic/32429-homeland/?p=1139593

Think he means the Homeland daughter, which wouldn't be any great loss.

I've drifted away from any real interest in my children over the last 20 years but I've certainly enjoyed hacking my daughters Facebook recently.

I was much happier watching 24 because it never pretended to be anything more than a balls to the wall action thriller. Homeland started out trying to be a political drama, West Wing with some action, so when it failed, it did so more quickly and miserably.

There's a game. Replace x, y and z with words to show it's a sentence that sums up CT's entire existence. I've drifted away from any real interest in gardening over the last 40 years but I've certainly enjoyed fly tipping my waste recently. I've drifted away from any real interest in exercise over the last 20 years but I've certainly enjoyed buying an indoor rowboat recently.

I don't think it was a masterplan. He's a pisshead that dances round topless at Sports Direct parties as well. I'm sure he would like to think of us all being on the same side. They are at sports direct because his staff love the bonus culture he promotes (while they continue to grow at least) and his customers love the cheapest of the cheap tat he puts on the shelves. Unfortunately, quality footballers and managers can demand top dollar as a flat wage, unlike menial minimum wage staff, and NUFC customers want the exact opposite of a cheap and nasty product, so the methods which come naturally will only antagonise where they have succeeded for him the past 20 years.

I was spot on with why season 1 was shite too