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Theo?? 195315[/snapback] I would've thought John Obi Mikel 195360[/snapback] Rooney maybe? How old was he when he moved? 18? 19?. The two major clubs being NUFC and of course Man U.

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That sounds a lot like the History theory modules I have to do for my History degree. They drive me mad. I find Postmodernist theory the most annoying, infuriating and contradictory load of shite. Postmodernists are a bunch of arseholes, but even some of the more traditional theories like Marxism are dull.

10 clubs involved, I can't see that NUFC isn't one of them. Bound to be, I'm afraid.

Aye. I did Spanish at school, and I was alright, apart from the f*cking tenses o as a aimos ais an, o es e eimos eis en. We used to get taught some silly saying to help us remember. 'I talk to you about he or she, but you are too polite to answer back.' Never worked.

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Nah. Interesting thing about Football in America is that the Association Football rules VERY NEARLY became the standard Football code in the US. In the 1860s, there was a club founded in Boston called Oneida Football Club, who played to rules which were prodominantly kicking and discouraged handling. Most of the influential American Universities (Havard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth) favoured the Association rules. The exception was Yale, who, favoured Rugby rules. Yale persuaded the others to adopt the Rugby rules, with a few modifications, which developed into Gridiron. Had they not been persuaded, then Association Football could have been the dominant Footballing Code in the US.

I like N-O, but I think some of the moderation is a bit heavy handed. Calling someone a Cock end, isn't exactly the nicest thing you can call someone, it's quite mild really. I don't think it deserves a banning.

A few times. I was in the school choir at Primary School, and we went to St James' for something. I can't remember what. All I remember is that Look North came down, and we were given packets of Tudor crisps by John Anderson and Mirandinha. I was on Tyne Tees News/Look North when I was 11. The Queen and Prince Phillip came to our school to open a Gymnastics Centre, and we were all lined up. Me and my friends could be seen in the background, waving and jumping about like dickheads at the TV cameras. There were also glimpses of me in the crowd on the Tyne Tees Match and Sky for a few years, because at the time I sat in the old family enclosure in front of the East Stand, and was about 3 rows from the front and almost on the halfway line.

I started there in 90. Mr Wright was my form teacher. I was never taught by O'Sullivan, but everyone knew she was a nutter. A total schizo. I think the best English teacher to wind up was Hobbs. He'd go purple and start shouting in a high voice in his silly Yorkshire/Lancashire accent, which just made things worse for him because it encouraged people even more.

I've not got any myself. My Grandma has a school photo of me when I was about 6 or 7, proudly wearing my Newcastle top (the mid 80s Umbro one with the black V-neck).

There was one kid in my year who always went down called Wazza. I forget what his real name was. I just remember him putting his green coat over his head and racing down to pick up all the money and seeing him come up with his coat covered in spit. It was vile.

I never knew you went to Benfield as well? F*cks sake the Hockle Pit was the most disgusting thing ever, but it just had to be seen.

It'll be bad when the Queen snuffs it like. I'll not be that bothered myself, but you can bet any football will be posponed and there'll be f*ck all on Telly apart from news of it, programmes looking back at her life, upset Royalists etc. It was bad enough we had to have minutes silences at the match for The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret. I never stood for them. I didn't shout during it, because that spoils people who want to or at least think they should. I just sat in me seat and read The Mag. I thought, I'm not standing for you. What have you done. The Queen Mother didn't do a lot for anyone and she got to 101, well done, ayou had a good innings, but you haven't done much apart from happen to born into a family that was deemed 'good' enough to marry into Royalty. Princess Margaret spent most of her adult life pissed. But she because she was a ROYAL alcoholic she deserved a minutes' silence.

She's since been upstaged by a whale tbf. Good post btw. 190619[/snapback] The whale will live on forever in our memories. It truly was the large marine mammal of hearts.

I remember it. I was listening to the radio in bed and had fallen to sleep and half woke up during the night and heard something about a car crash and fell back to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, they were talking about it non stop on the radio. I was gutted........that they called our game with Liverpool off because of it. F*cks sake. The whole thing annoyed me. It was just mass hysteria. People who didn't even know her wailing and bawling and the woman screaming her name at the funeral, and the people who lined the motorway when he coffin was taken to be buried. Unbelievable. I felt embarrassed by the way people acted. It was sad. I was no great fan, but I didn't wish death on her, but the way people carried on. I laughed the day after she died when someone told me the steering wheel joke though. It never takes long for the dodgy jokes does it.

I've not been myself, but my brother has and he loved it. The medieval style restaurants which do banquets with bear and boar he reckons are cracking, and he bought some class Apple Vodka back with him. Much nicer than the shite we get here. It's really cheap as well. Watch you don't drink the water though. My brother made that mistake when he came in after a night out, and ended up with a rather nasty infection (no, it wasn't an STD) which landed him in the Freeman Hospital, a lot of pain and an urgent operation.

North America first of all, but with plans to extend it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5294842.stm Universal backs free music offer Vivendi Universal, the world's biggest music group, has signed a deal to make its music catalogue available on a free legal downloads service. Under the agreement, Spiralfrog will offer Universal's songs online in the US and Canada. New York-based Spiralfrog will launch its service in December and make its money by carrying adverts on the site. Spiralfrog aims to take on market leader Apple's iTunes service, which charges 99 cents per song in the US. "Offering young consumers an easy-to-use alternative to pirated music sites will be compelling," Spiralfrog Chief Executive Robin Kent said. Mr Kent, the former head of the Universal McCann advertising agency, added that his research suggested that in return for free music, young people would be willing to endure adverts - as long as the brands and products were relevant to them. 'Shrewd move' US-based music industry legal specialist Josh Lawler said news of the new service was "inevitable". It's a very shrewd move by Universal," he told BBC News. "The music industry is going to a point where all delivery will probably be some form of downloading or streaming." Figures from the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI) estimate that for each legal download, 40 are done illegally. Mr Lawler added that the success of Myspace had underlined the power of the internet to make or break artists - as well as proving that advertising-based formats can work. Funding question But while Spiralfrog is discussing possible deals with other big record firms, questions still remain over how the artists featured on Spiralfrog will be paid. "The internet is very much a viable media, but the trick is going to be getting it off the ground in the first place," Mr Lawler added. "Spiralfrog will have to find a way to pay artists from the advertising dollars they are generating. "But they're not necessarily going to know how many advertising dollars there are and so some artists are going to be hesitant about it," he said. Rapid growth The music downloads industry is a burgeoning market. According to the IFPI, 60 million MP3 players were sold in 2005, while 420 million single tracks were downloaded during the year - up 20 times on two years earlier. Many of the models sold are also expected to be incompatible with Apple's online record store - such as Sony's Walkman. At the same time, numerous companies are jumping on the downloads bandwagon. Entertainment retailers HMV and Virgin already offer music downloads, while music television channel MTV has opened its own online shop, Urge. Microsoft is preparing to launch a music store to go with its Zune player, made by Toshiba, which is popularly viewed in the industry as an "iPod killer".

I do, but the boxes aren't that great. We've managed to acquire an extra one, and we still fill them both by the time recycling day comes around. And we usually have to stick newspapers beside them separately. The boxes are a pain in the arse. The recycling wagon comes down the front, because it's too big to go down the back lane. But the only place we have to store the boxes is in our back yard. That means bring the boxes through the house to put out the front on recycling, which isn't great if it's been raining. Other areas have an extra wheelie bin, which means a normal bin wagon can be used and it gets sorted out at the recycling plant rather than in the wagon on the street. It would also mean the wagon could come down the back lane like the normal bin wagon does.

Totally agree, It's not like you're short of a bob or two Michael.

Before he died, my Grandad was in hospital for quite a while, and he'd had a portable CD player and asked for some of his CDs, and there was one that he he particularly wanted to listen to, but my Grandma said he had it, but it wasn't on CD. So my aunts who live down there had a look around for it. They all live down on the Wirral and there's not any specialist record shops down there, just the mainstream ones like HMV, Virgin etc. My Mam was going down to visit, so before she went she had a look in Windows for it and found it. So she goes down with it, and takes it in for my Grandad, who told her he had it at home. My Mam said it wasn't on CD, but he said it was and he'd been trying to tell my Grandma that he had it on CD, but she was adament it wouldn't work. So when my Mam went back to my Grandma's she has a look and sure enough she finds it. She showed it to my Grandma, who said "it won't work, because his 'machine' plays 'round things and that's square!' My Mam had to open it up and show her that the 'round thing' was in a square case.

Nah, it has to be either Masters of the Universe or Moonwalker. 185427[/snapback] How DARE YOU TOM! 185553[/snapback] I went to see them both as a kid (at the old Cannon Cinema on Westgate Road as I recall) shocking films the pair of them. Masters of the Universe ruined a birthday treat!

Nah, it has to be either Masters of the Universe or Moonwalker.

Cakes on a Train. Samuel L Jackson stars as a disgruntled passenger on a train, which is delayed by 45 minutes due to 'engineering works'. His patience finally snaps on a trip to the buffet carriage where he purchases an extortionately overpriced and at best mediocre tasting cake. "I have had it with these motherfucking cakes on this motherfucking train!"