Tom_NUFC

There's not enough time in the world to do that.

You could take some photos of some US Dairies.

Cats. Dogs are thick and I'm allergic to them.

It was bound to be switched though, because of the UEFA qualifier on the Thursday.

I think it's fair enough. They're aiming at the bairns on holiday.

Oz, first series of Auf Wiedersehen Pet. 168106[/snapback] Aye, that's right! Cheers for that, it was doing my head in thinking where it came from.

Aye, true enough

I sometimes say 'Donkey Shite' meaning Thanks. (From the German, Danke Shon.) I heard it from somewhere, and can't for the life of me think where, but I liked it and I use it a lot.

Should've went with the sack and couple of bricks route. I can't stand cats, they always seem to be violent jealous creatures. 166045[/snapback] Agreed. Never seen the attraction in them tbh. 166049[/snapback] It depends on the personality of the cat. When I was a kid, we always had cats. My parents got a kitten, not long after I was born. That cat and I grew up with each other, and it never did anything to harm me whatsoever, and being a little kid, I did things that could have provoked it to. Pulling its tail, generally pestering it, etc. Some are viscious, others are good natured, like any kind of animal or person. That said, I can completely understand Jimbo not having a cat around given what happened.

How dare he eh? How dare decided to move 'ap norf' instead of a move to Spurs, who we all know are a 'clarssy team'. of course if you go 'daaairn the Layne' they all speak the Queen's English perfectly.

Despite Duff, I'm still not going to the friendlies. I went to the intertoto home and I'll got to the UEFA home as well, but I can't really afford to go to the friendlies. I was meant to be starting a job today, but there's been a hitch and they're still waiting for some stuff to come through. I can't start working until it does, so I haven't got much to spend right now.

What it doesn't say is that I scored 2 of those shots and Villa scored none of theirs, and it was reasonably early in the game. Anyway, here's the first pic of Duff in the away shirt.

Very dissapointed in you for playing on Fifa Tom. 163509[/snapback] *edit. didn't read it properly* FIFA is better than PES5. PES5 stinks. Had it, hated it, gave it away.

I hate all this non competative bollocks. I was crap at sports, always have been and come sports day, I'd always finish last. I never suffered any trauma from it, I was just shit at sports. I enjoyed sports though. People are good at different things, and kids who are good at sports should be rewarded and encouraged, and I've heard of cases of kids winning city or county wide competitions who have been told by their headteachers that taking part was the important thing and who actually won is irrelevent, and these kids have been left feeling like their achievements were for nothing. What about their feelings, and that hardly spurs them on does it? The non competitive attitude to sports in schools will cripple the country's sporting chances. Kids should be encouraged, supported and congratulated when they achieve something regardless of whether thats in sports or science or art or music or whatever.

When I was in 6th Form at School, we got a new headmaster who used to go on like some business wanker. 'Pro-active' 'thinking outside the box' etc. Everyone thought he was a prick, even the teachers. I HATE business speak. 'Pro-Active' is the worst one. It doesn't actually make any sense for a start. You're either active or you're not. It's the language of greedy bastards to be honest.

I always laugh when I see Charvers wearing tracksuit bottoms and shoes.

Fuck me, will you ever stop going on about Marco Gabbiadini? All I hear from you is Marco this, Gabbiadini that. Give it a rest for fucks sake. 160382[/snapback] ?

You should send it in to the Chronicle, some class poems in there.

I'm an advocate of the multiverse theory myself. Multiple parallel universes in which there is a different outcome for every decision in history. Some deviate quite a bit from ours, like the Nazis won World War 2. Others, you would hardly know the difference, like I had Shepherds Pie for my tea last night instead of the Steak and Chips I actually had. Others, are really different and strange, where Newcastle are the most succesful team in world football. Then there are those, so different that you just couldn't comprehend, like Sunderland are the most succesful team in world football.

I once had the pleasure of telling Marco Gabbiadini that he couldn't use his phone. He was quite angry and phoning up from Italy to find out why he couldn't use his phone. So I had a look at his account and the daft bastard hadn't had roaming activated, so his phone was useless. I told him this (trying not to sound gleeful about it) and he was getting upset because he needed it. Was there nothing I could do? No, because the phone needed to be in Britain for it to be enabled.

He used to live around the corner from me. One of my dad's claims to fame is that his dog tried to shag Supermac's at the park.

Aye, you could get knacked for that! Has anyone who works with systems like that ever done searches to see if they could find details for famous people? When I was at Orange we used to do it all the time. I found that there were hundreds of Noel Gallaghers, but only one of them had a phone registered to Oasis Music.

Aye, and it had a big impact on Joe Louis. No black boxer after Johnson was allowed anywhere near the World Heavyweight title until Louis got his chance in the 30s. Johnson was a very brash, loud and colourful figure, which of course, with him being black angered a lot of whites who thought he was 'uppity' and cause blacks to get 'uppity', and grow in confidence. Louis had it drilled into him by his manager and trainers not to react, not to even smile after a win or be photographed with any white women, and show no emotion in public. This was so that he didn't offend whites, and he earned the name 'deadpan Joe'. Despite that, he still became a huge hero to blacks across America who would go mad after his victories and angered whites. Reporters refered to him as an animal and a savage. When he thought the German, Max Schmeling in 1936, the American press favoured Schmeling, as a gentleman and everything a man and a champion should be. Interesting though that when they fought a rematch in 1938, a lot of people were wising up to the Nazis and suddenly the American press were becoming more patriotic and Louis was seen more as an American and less as a nigger. They billed the fight as democracy vs dictatorship. Interesting stuff. I did a big assignment for uni on the impact of Black sports stars in the African American struggle for freedom. Anyway, I'm way off topic. Right now I'm re-reading The Outsider by Albert Camus, which I haven't read for absolutely ages.

Technically, he'd have been Russian or German