Tom_NUFC

Just don't shave... Two of the biggest perks of my job. I can wear what I want and there is no pressure on me to shave. That'd never work for me - can't stand the itching of a beard. I can get to about two days without shaving and then its got to go.

Check out the Metro Aye. I've just had a look on there - 15 bloody pund for shaving foam! I can get some Wilkinson Sword shaving gel up the road for £1.50

Evidently. Dunno what's gone wrong with that like

Aye. Mind, I'm not arsed about clubs that much anyway. I love Sunday Dinner True. Although I stopped dreaming of that when I was about ten and realised I was a useless footballer - but hey, maybe I gave that one up too soon. It's never held Stephen Carr back. No. I hate the property and motoring sections. First thing I do on a Saturady with the Journal is bin them. I've not quite got around to that. I don't drive. Not DIY or the garden, but they'll come in handy for something, although I never know what. Mostly, although I've been doing that for a while, though not completely plain ones. I pay no interest at all. Not really. No to the first part (I'm a mature student), yes to the second. I don't like either. Aye. I've never paid attention to the charts for a few years, but it's out of choice because the charts are sh!t. I keep my finger on the pulse of the new indie and rock bands though. I'm not losing it yet. Pizza Hut = Fine for takeaway Pizza. Pizza Express, much better to sit in than Pizza Hut, but because of Red Wine. Can't stand the stuff. Always running out. No most 'trendy' bars are sh!te too. Surely the use of the word 'trendy' is a sure sign that you've become your parents though. Yes, but I'm a Historian, I have a good excuse. Yeah No. No. I'm really not at all practical. I'm useless at all that stuff. I have a utility with a bike and boxes full of videos of matches I taped when I was a kid.....I might have to have a look through them actually. Yes to the 4 channels, and none of them were on 24 hours a day either. I listen to Radio 5. I do both. If some old woman is spending ages getting on or off the bus and I'm in a hurry I'll be thinking "hurry up you old bat". Then when its bairns shouting and stuff its "ignorant little gets, no respect." No I said that earlier today!

nowt wrong with it. Recent shirts have been too white. More black is always better than more white. Stands out more. More powerful, more dominant.

Nice

Dunno who I'll vote for. Certainly not Conservative. I don't trust them one little bit. The BNP rarely put any candidates here but I wouldn't/don't vote for those vile knuckle-dragging thick racists anyway. Labour - I might switch back, but I'm not happy in doing so. Liberal Democrat - I switched to them from Labour, but since they've been running the council they've turned into a right bunch of sanctimonious pricks. Long story, but we've had issues with them over the wheelie bins and their policies on this make the SS seem lenient. Green - Perhaps. They probably stand the best chance now of doing something than ever before. Socialists - If they're running they stand a reasonable chance of getting my vote. Communists - Unlikely, but an outside chance of my vote.

We used to go up that way loads when I was a kid. Thropton, Rothbury, Alwinton, Clennell. Nice place, not sure I'd want to live there though, but nice if you like 'rural'. You get all the planes from RAF Boulmer doing low flying as well, and the army practicing at Otterburn.

Aye you probably can pick up a Mexican Strat, and I do like Strats, but I just prefer the Les Paul - either way you're getting a f*cking good guitar though. Sammy's right mind. The draw back to the Les Paul is that its bloody heavy. I've dropped mine on my foot when I've not been wearing shoes a couple of times, hurts like hell.

I'll bear that in mind! Im in the running for a new Guitar like, any reccomendations in the 300-400 quid mark? Don't listen to that, and get an Epi Les Paul, you should get one in that price range. Gretschs and 355s are lush like, but for £300-400 - nee chance. I suppose it comes down to the kind of thing you want to play, but Les Pauls are versitile and I don't think you'll get much better for the price, and you'll certainly get a lot worse.

Nowt wrong with Les Pauls. Lovely guitars. I've got an Epi one myself. Not as nice as the Gibsons, but still nice guitars.

Sounds nice. I'd be interested if I had the money, but I don't. Got a Fender Precision (Mexican) myself.

I don't mind Warnock, and its funny what he said, but I think he's got it wrong. To be fair to the Smogs, their priority was the FA Cup, so they rested some of their players in the league because of that. Its completely understandable.

Happy St Cuthbert's Day

An extract from a mid 1980s film in which nuclear bombs fall on Britain http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/...ses-nuclear-war And this is what people were supposed to do. Public advice in the event of a nuclear attack http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_47...w=bb&mp=rm# http://www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk/atomic/main.htm Aye. Hide in a cupboard or under a bridge - change your clothes and everything will be FINE.

I've no idea. But I know of something, which would perhaps give some idea of the scale of damage. In 1978, General Sir John Hackett (a former NATO commander) wrote a book called 'The Third World War'. It was done as a history book published in 1987, looking at the three week long Third World War of August 1985. In the process of the war, the Soviet Union detonate an SS-17 nuclear missile 3,500 feet above Birmingham: "Within a fraction of a second the resulting fireball, with temperatures approaching those of the sun, was over 2,000 metres in diameter and reached down towards the centre of Birmingham. The incredibly brilliant white flash which accompanied the detonation was visible in London. Even at that range, individuals looking at the fireball suffered temporary blindness and felt a faint flush of heat on their faces." Hackett details that the heat effects was significant upon people and places within 20km of the blast. Yachtsmen 19km away "felt their skin begin to burn as the lasting pulse of heat from the fireball hit them. The thoughtful ones dived into the water to escape the burning heat. Those who did not suffered blistering burns on all exposed skin. The varnish on their boats bubbled, nylon sails melted and newspapers lying in the boats burst into flames." Closer to the blast countryside foliage "crisped as if autumn had arrived. Smaller brushwood was smouldering. Haystacks were burning and paintwork on buildings and vehicles in the path of the heat-wave blistered." 12km away from the blast "people caught in the open recieved burns which needed immediate hospital treatment. At this range curtains and other materials inside rooms that were exposed to the heat pulse began to smoulder and in some cases burst into flames. Any lightweight objects such as newspapers, canvas and empty packaging in the open soon caught fire." Closer in - intense heat levels. "Almost any lightweight material subject to the heat-wave burst into flames while metals and other objects were scorched and distorted." "Clothing worn by individuals no longer gave protection against the heat. Clothes burned off, and people in the open recieved such extensive burns that their prospects of recovery, even with first-class medical assistance were negligable. Fires were started inside and outside buildings to an increasing extent as the epicentre was approached, with apparently almost total conflagration occuring within three to four kilometres." The blast wave followed within seconds. The pressure crushed all buildings below the epicentre leaving a mountain of rubble. The blast wave then roared outwards. Nothing survived within 3km of the epicentre. Between 3-6 km "a few of the smaller and strongly constructed buildings remained standing, some at crazy angles and missing many portions of softer construction around reinforced concrete or steel skeletons." Lighter and modern buildings such as schools and hospitals were destroyed beyond recognition, as were most houses and other residential buildings. People indoors were buried in the rubble. 3-4km of the epicentre very few people survived the immediate effects 4-8km people trapped and killed in the rubble. over 8km - Damage levels fell, but lightweight structures blown over, roofs blown off, windows blown out, turning the glass into missiles causing much injury to people. Windspeeds at the airport 12km away from the blast reached 160kph, tearing wings off planes and tails, and turning others on their sides. Over 12km - minor damage, mainly confined to broken windows and shifted roof tiles. Though the roar of the blast was loud and lasted about 15 seconds. 8 minutes later, the roar was heard in London. 1 minute after the blast - a mushroom cloud 15km high and 20km wide over the Birmingham area. Fires reported in towns beyond 15km - Wolverhampton, Sutton Coldfield, Solihull. Most roads in Birmingham covered by rubble and roads with 5-6km blocked by masonry. The only means of movement in the area provided by the M5 and M6 motorways - due to being away from buildings and relatively free from obstruction - "The bridges along them had also survived remarkably well." The centres of nearby towns - Dudley, Walsall and Halesowen - impassible. Though the road systems were visible and damage considerably less than in Birmingham. Of Birmingham's 2m pop - 300,000 killed within minutes by heat and blast effects or because they couldn't be reached by medical teams. A further 250,000 suffered serious blast or burn injuries. 500,000 recieved minor injuries which were able to be either treated by the people themselves or by First Aid. Only a very small number entirely free of injury. Half the hospitals in the area - destroyed or rendered totally unusable. Only a quarter of the remainder able to function normally. Doctors and Ambulance crews suffered in proportion to the civil population and so harldy any were able to cope. 3 quarters of Fire Service equipment in Birmingham destroyed. Fire Brigade unable to move along blocked roads. Communication systems within and out of Birmingham destroyed. Total electrical failure in Birmingham and large parts of the Midlands.

Load of shite - yet again. But, while Roeder and the players are responsible, the biggest problem we have is Shepherd.

well I'm here aren't I? Going to bed in a bit, and I'm going to try and get up to watch the F1 at 3am. Schumacher put me off the last few years, but last year was a bit more exciting, so now he's out the picture completely I'm hoping that'll continue.

Goodfellas has just started on 4 if you're interested. Na, I've got it on DVD and just watched it last week as it happens. Too soon to watch it again.

Conceding that second goal last week was what cost us, but having said that, we were still in a good position. Over the last week, pretty much everyone I've talked to about the game has been saying its a good lead, but it's by no means over, its very possible they could win 2-0 and go through. Now presumably if we all knew this, then they did, so how the f*ck did they come up with that? We've known/been told how tough and how attacking they are when they're at home. So surely the most important thing was to make damned sure we got in an away goal. But no, very timid attacking wise until late on in the second half, when its a bit bloody late. You can't sit back against such an attacking team like AZ, even with a solid mistake. I've been of the opinion that Bramble, generally has been playing pretty well since he's been back in the team, but the old Titus came flooding back tonight. Taylor was more careless than complete sh!t, and I think you can say about him that he's a decent defender in the making, but still young and making the mistakes young players do - saying that, he was flailing his arms about at times, and that challenge he made in the first half - someone should have had a word with him, just to say cut it out/calm down. People are getting their knives out for Roeder - I haven't, but with displays like tonight, I can understand why, as I'm not sure what the plan was there at all. Or perhaps there was and the players just decided to ignore it.

It depends on the nature of the goal, but in general I get up have a bit of a cheer and a jump and clench my fist - but I don't go overboard in the mental stakes. I do usually think in the back of my mind that it won't last though. Again, it completely depends on the situation. It usually wrecks the weekend. I find myself avoiding any highlights and I usually can't be arsed to watch any of the other games, but it does usually pass once Monday's out the way - unless its been spectacularly bad. It makes a good weekend, and I go into the next week with a nice feelgood factor.

I got bored with my name, so I put some other things in. 'Shite' (the Juvenile ones are the best) Shite - It Does a Body Good. If You Like A Lot Of Shite On Your Biscuit, Join Our Club. Tonight, Let It Be Shite. Don't Forget The Shite, Mum. Shite-Lickin' Good. Naughty, but Shite. Nothing Comes Between Me And My Shite. Make Someone Happy with a Shite. Never Knowingly Shite. There's no Wrong Way to Eat a Shite. Right, that's enough juvenile antics for now.

Something to remember is that Hillsborough wasn't caused by unsafe terracing, it was caused by incompetant policing. If the Police had done their job properly that day, then seeing the amounts of people trying to get in to the ground as kick off approached, they'd have had the kick off put back by 15 minutes and got people in safely, rather than opening a few gates and hearding everyone through without opening the side sections of the terrace to let people through and relieve the crowding.