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Just 'acquired' 4000+ books for the kindle santa brought me. That'll do me until I'm dead.

Super 8 - Canny tense for 12 year olds and women. Perfect family viewing. Bridesmaids - If you want a film to keep your lass on side for going on the piss for 3 matches over the next week you could do a lot worse than this. A fair few laughs for a chick flick. Vicky Christina Barcelona - Amazing that I didn't particularly enjoy a film wher Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansen lez up. I can put up with Woody Allen intellectuals when they're funny (him and Diane Keaton), but not when they're whiny bitches or smouldering hunks without a witty comeback between them.

And contradicts the other story in the same paper that NUFC will follow the same tried and tested approach of the last few years. Pinch of salt.

Queens Park Rangers have signed striker Federico Macheda on loan until the end of the season from Manchester United.

There was a kerfuffle at the time like. The BBFC refrenced the line in their report.... The Guidelines at ‘15’ also state that the ‘strongest terms (for example, ‘cunt’) may be acceptable if justified by the context. Aggressive or repeated use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable’. KICK-ASS contains one use of very strong language. The word is spoken by a young girl who, like Kick-Ass, has become a makeshift superhero. Although some people might be offended by a child using this type of language, the predominant effect is comic. The young girl in question possesses incredible strength and agility and manages to dispatch a large group of adult male villains immediately after making the remark to them. The remark is delivered in a throwaway fashion rather than aggressively directed and the unexpectedness and incongruity of the use provides a comic justification for its inclusion.

I was saying Coyle should get manager of the season at this point last year when he had Bolton in our position. They totally crumbled though and finished below us, and this season they've been woeful. This is what I fear for us. I stand by what I was saying after 11 games, we had some very kind fixtures early on and rub of the green like I've never experienced. It was never going to be sustained. Wrong to look at Pardew though, because Fergie himself would struggle with the tools Mike Ashley provides. It's just a shame Ashley now sees europe on a shoestring as a possibility. He feels our start has vindicated his approach and any drop off will be the fault of the team/manager.

took a four year old last year and he liked it. Wouldn't bank on getting more than 2 hours out of it though.

No, I think it was Cyndi Lauper.

So, on the list of people that can't play are vuckic, obertan, best, ameobi, smith, perch, Simpson, Ryan Taylor and maybe gutierez. Who's taking their places? Maybe some people should accept our best options in some cases have limited ability.

CT knows 3 reserves and half a dozen under 18s that can do a better job.

to tell the truth....8th to 17th....it's all mid-table safety and I'll not crack open the champagne if we're at the top end of that or wallow in misery if its the lower end. would be nice to finish anywhere higher than last season though just to say we're still heading the right way.

possession holding backwards and sideways passes are a good thing, especially away from home. Especially with a lone target man who's not going to hold the ball up or latch on to every single defence splitting pass you seem to expect. Whos saying that not a good thing? It is certainly a good thing but its not the only metric to measure a player's ability by and regardless of that it borders on completely irrelevant when the amount of time you're measuring it over is 30 minutes. Not much in the context of a season. Wouldn't you agree? Considering Ben Arfa scored last week and looked the goods criticising him this week for a poor performance is just dumb. It seems like the people saying 'he's not the messiah we all expected' based on one poor performance are in fact those who thought he would be prior and that has changed because of last night for some reason. Talk about over reaction. considering obertan created goals against Bolton and wba it must be dumb to criticise his performance too...if you're being fair. Obertan performing well is the exception not the rule. So even though he is due his credit when it is warranted, it is often given with a sense of suprise rather than as a clear vindication of his qualities as a footballer. Similarly, Ben Arfa is criticised for the opposite reasons, I imagine, I'm not so quick to judge as some. I think that is fair. Unless. Are you seriously suggesting that Obertan man-for-man is a better footballer than Ben Arfa? Would Ben Arfa not be a better option on the wing? Ignoring stats and the like for just a moment, I find them meaningless for the most part, just from your impression of him as a footballer. Ben Arfa is blatantly more talented. Obertan blatantly puts more effort in....even bottling every 50/50 he's in range of. The question is which ofthem we can carry when. Neither will be one of our consistent performers or anywhere near the running for player of the season. As Overran is more more naturally a right winger, makes sense for him to play there when fit.

possession holding backwards and sideways passes are a good thing, especially away from home. Especially with a lone target man who's not going to hold the ball up or latch on to every single defence splitting pass you seem to expect. Whos saying that not a good thing? It is certainly a good thing but its not the only metric to measure a player's ability by and regardless of that it borders on completely irrelevant when the amount of time you're measuring it over is 30 minutes. Not much in the context of a season. Wouldn't you agree? Considering Ben Arfa scored last week and looked the goods criticising him this week for a poor performance is just dumb. It seems like the people saying 'he's not the messiah we all expected' based on one poor performance are in fact those who thought he would be prior and that has changed because of last night for some reason. Talk about over reaction. considering obertan created goals against Bolton and wba it must be dumb to criticise his performance too...if you're being fair.

possession holding backwards and sideways passes are a good thing, especially away from home. Especially with a lone target man who's not going to hold the ball up or latch on to every single defence splitting pass you seem to expect.

thought we looked better second half than in the first....and vuckic attempted 30 passes in an hour to Barfas 6 in half an hour. Much more impact from the youngun and vindicated a Start over le strop.

Ben arfa touched the ball once in 30 minutes last night. Did I miss something where he showed obertan how its done?

Do the people that paid to see HBA last night get any money back?

Not wanting to do a Leazes, but apart from Taylor we can still put out the same team that went on the 11 game run that so many people felt vindicated Ashley. Don't worry about kneejerking at all, that was the sport for Sept/Oct. To point out Simpson/the Taylors/obertan ain't good enough now is being slow on the uptake.

Taking 60 points by May would require another impressive unbeaten run comparable to the start of the season though. So by giving that target your expectations would have to remain that high too. Odd. It won't happen because the confidence that winning breeds has been shot to shit now. That feeling of self-belief is difficult to get back.....after dropping so many points to the likes of wba, Swansea and Norwich. On current form we'll do well to break 50....and i'll be happy with that if we do.

Never heard of the bloke but he's a thick twat. Could barely stomach this bollocks when we were performing above expectations. After 2 months of relegation form its infuriating.

The Toon Army were determined to have a laugh last night. In addition to the obligatory shirtless contingent on a cold, wet Merseyside night, one fan was dressed as the Honey Monster and another as Sesame Street’s Big Bird. But what isn’t a joke is that Newcastle are now a model Premier League club because of their transfer policy. The prolific days of Mike Ashley funding Geordie Messiahs with tens of millions of pounds have gone and instead the Newcastle chairman has introduced a more hard-nosed approach. Who can blame him. All the days of plenty achieved was the humiliation of relegation in 2009. Now Newcastle are all about living within their means. Just look at their transfer dealings this year. Out went Andy Carroll, Kevin Nolan, Jose Enrique and Joey Barton for just under £45million. They were replaced for a fraction of that amount. Demba Ba didn’t cost a penny in transfer fees and the Senegal striker, with 14 goals in his last 14 league starts, hustled Daniel Agger into putting through his own net last night. Apart from £10.3m Fabricio Coloccini, bought in the times of largesse, last night’s starting line-up at Anfield cost peanuts compared to Liverpool’s. Is it any wonder Ashley is laughing all the way to the bank? The doom merchants who predicted relegation for Newcastle in January when they sold Carroll have been shown up. Instead the Magpies spent most of this season in the top four. Other Premier League chairmen, sniggering three years ago when the Toon changed manager as often as they changed their socks, now see them as the way to run a club which isn’t bankrolled by some rich foreign owner. Of course it helps to have a good manager and after the excellent work on a shoestring by Chris Hughton, Alan Pardew has taken them to even greater heights. He understands Newcastle are now a selling club and next through the St James’ Park exit is likely to be the much-coveted Cheik Tiote. Tiote exemplifies Newcastle’s transfer strategy. Picked up for £3.5m from FC Twente in August 2010, his price-tag now is several times higher. Newcastle will feel the loss when he eventually goes, but, just like before, they will replace him – and make a profit. http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/blogs/mirror-football-blog/David-Anderson-s-Big-Match-Verdict-Liverpool-3-1-Newcastle-How-Newcastle-have-exchanged-false-prophets-for-real-profits-article847335.html

Eh? Are you trying to keep it polite and gain acceptance? You dicked us from start to finish, all the posession and all the chances. We were fortunate Carroll is gash. And we had nowt on the bench that could do any better. No blaming Pardew. Just outclassed, by the least classy club.

Conceded 6 in the first 8. Conceded 17 in the last 8.

Not yet, probably on the anniversary of Steve Jobs' death to honour the greatest man who ever lived.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-england-merseyside-16355281 Thatcher's cabinet agreed