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I get the impression you could be....if you weren't so tragically superior. "In this world you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant."

Novovirus has impeded our family tours today. I've been playing nurse, but the day off has meant I get to stay in and play with my toys off Santa. Rocksmith for Xbox 360 is the best. I'm building a name for myself as a good local band already and fame beckons. Got a new blu-ray player too along with all the coen bros films, all the superman films, all the Back to the future films, inception and the Led Zep live Celebration Day gig. When I grow tired of those I have Danny Bakers book, the (relatively) new public enemy cd and lots of sweets/chocolate/biscuits to gorge on. ...and an orange.

Is Gene usually an amiable chap like?

Then again, van persie punched coloccini in the face before scoring, maybe I'm being generous.

I wasn't sure thinking back. Point stands though.

Aye, it was in reference to the suggestion they cheated their way to victory. I thought it was a fantastic game and not fair on them (or our guys) to say they were cheating when we probably got the rub of the green on the dubious decisions.

What's this "we" you stupid fucking mackem?

Fergie was a cunt at half time, but they never cheated. They should have had a pen for colo's handball. Valencia's tackle on Anita was nasty but the game was over then.

Me neither. Same goes for the Bob Dylan one.

Anita attempted more crosses than Jonas and only 5 of his were any good too.

Didn't realise you were there then. Sorry

I do wonder about the use of numbers in his tweet. I know very little french, but I know the word for yes is oui and the word for 8 is huit pronounced similarly. I wouldn't start popping 8 into tweets where i want to say yes though. Do the french replace words with numbers like us? eg CT 4 1 8 all the pies?

Does he work at Cobalt? If not he's the spitting dabs of a lad in the same room I work in.

I worked in The Criterion pub for 3 years and loved it. I worked at Asda for one night and never went back, fuck doing a job you can't stand. I worked at BT on the phones cold calling people and enjoyed it. I worked for EDS testing, coding and designing and never got the Sunday night blues once Now I work as a manager for HP and I'm bored shitless or clueless just about every second at my desk that I'm not on Toontastic. They pay better than Asda though, so I ain't gonna show the same willingness to just not show up any more.

A year ago I said Ben Arfa was poor when he played poor, which was 70% of the time. That's down to 10% now. Perhaps there's something to this management malarkey that involves the management of character? That requires effort is rewarded in balance with natural ability. Look at what the story has been about QPR since the game finished. Too many talented players coasting and the hard-working pros at the club putting them to shame.

Is the opposite of synchronous not asynchronous?

All the best everyone

@CissePapiss 36m ago Sometimes frustration is bad, I respect my manager& his decisions! Great win 4 the club & let's hope we can do the same in the next 2 big games

It's getting back to the old idiom on here which Chez has railed against for a few years. Luck wins, incompetence loses. you can't have it both ways though. As I don't believe in luck I have to ask why we won? We were the better team. We had the better posession, more in their third, more opportunities. We just weren't scoring from it. Ba and Cisse had both spurned a number of opportunities failing to do so much as hit the target. As the system was working (unspectacularly), it needed a change of personell rather than wholesale reshaping the team. The ONLY strike option we have on the bench is Shola. His reputation precedes him. He is unfairly maligned. He has a wealth of experience he handles the "fishbowl" with ease. He's good at putting his foot on the ball and slowing things down, he's a more physical presence for QPR to deal with than either of the other two. He CAN play for half an hour. He did the job.

Some fella behind us on Saturday shouted "Toontastic is run by arseholes, for their friends, who know fuck all"

I thought it was the worst I've seen Jonas play. I'm just not a knee-jerk arsehole who thinks one of our longest serving, most reliable players and stand in captain is finished because of a few lethargic performances, after three 40 game seasons on the bounce with a world cup in between. Similarly, I'm not gonna start sucking Marveaux's cock like I'm Stevie and he's Weldy off the back of a few assists. He might prove to have the ability, however judging by his reaction to the most tension releasing goal we've seen at SJP for some time, I fear it's his attitude keeping him out of the team.

Almost seamless how you've flipped from Shane being the solution to all NUFCs woes to Marveaux.

I know there was booing, I'm the one who raised the issue in this thread you helmet. My point was how mint it was to see those boos rammed back down peoples throats, whatever your interpretation of the reasons behind it. Certainly around me all the shouts that went up were "Fucking Shola?!" or "Fucking hell Pardew!" or variations on that. When Shola scored several of us made a point of laughing in the faces of the lads that said it. I was as frustrated as anyone when I came out for the second half and no changes had been made, I said to the lad I sit next to "Pardew will probably wait till the 80th minute like he always does"....but he didn't, he gave the starting 11 another 15 minutes to see if his team talk inspired an improvement and then changed it for the remaining third of the game, and had made all his changes with 20 minutes to play, a dangerous tactic with a couple of players finishing the game on bookings, and an increasingly injury prone squad. If it didn't work then he should get stick...and he has all season. As it did work though, it deserves credit. Not a petulant "should have been done sooner!" to justify yourself booing the lads. MOTD also made a point of praising Ryan Nelson to the hilt. He was a one man wall of impenetrableness against anything and everything that came in to the near post. We were getting plenty of possession and we were putting plenty into the box (Anita and Gutierrez put 14 and 13 crosses in respectively). Cisse was getting in the middle and wasting chances when he did.

I didn't

We probably wouldn't have won in that case because Shola is a hulking, Eric Pickles of a man who can only be effective for half an hour against a ragged defence that haven't stopped running all game. Pardew has had nought but abuse on here all season long for being low on ideas and failing to make the changes that win games. He's made a good change over the weekend that has won the game and got stick for making the change. For all the moaning of Cisse being out wide all game, he was right in the centre when he spurned the best chance of the game from 6 yards and then a header from 6 yards too.