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Hate horse racing - it's bent as fuck and the National in particular is cruel to the horses IMO Not that I particularly like horses, dimmest animal on the planet (after them ring-necked doves and pheasants)

I'm the codger of the board Real first name: Alistair Nickname: Ali, or SICK MORON Age: 47 Occupation: MD of my own company (but it's only me) Programme and Project Manager Location: The Coast but work all awa the place Language(s) spoken? English, teeny weeny bit of Turkish an all Avatart - why? Green Bay Packers my second sporting love Previous avatarts? Loads Tell us when you first joined the boards? Been on different boards for about 10 years, mostly NFL one's Board highlights? Met some great friends through boards Board lowlights? To many bannings to mention What would you be doing if you weren't doing your current job? Playing the blues (badly) Pets? Two dogs, Fish in pond in garden and marine fish in tank in house I play a bit like.... Tony Green - I've got a crocked knee as well (done representing the UK versus Turkey in a midnight 5 a side in Turkey (sober btw) Football heroes? Benny Arentoft (had a toon subbuteo set when I was a kid and one players head wasn't painted so he looked blond hence Bene), Rivelino, Cubilas Football villains? Any non-toon players, especially when they score Best advice given? It ALWAYS works out in the end Ideal partner? Wor Lass I guess, been married 25 years this year (or Demi Moore) Ideal dinner date? Demi Ideal meal? Steak from Prime Cuts Steakhouse in Chicago mmmm slab of dead cow mmmmmmm Can you cook? Yep Current wheels? BMW 523 Biggest influence? Me Da TV programmes? The Goodies, Father Ted, Malcolm in the Middle, Discovery/History type prog's Burger and chips or fish and chips? Burger & Chips Chinese or indian? What do you order? Juns Favourite tunes? Eagles, Metallica, Runrig, and erm.... Garth Brooks Abi Titmuss or Jodi Marsh? YUCKAROO George Clooney or Bradley Pitt? My rabid homophobia prevents me from answering this question Favourite film? Shawshank Redemption If I won a million pounds.... Retire Age first drunk alcohol? First drink? Too long ago to remember Ever suspended/expelled from school? Nope Favourite insult? Loads depending on the provocation Not a lot of people know that...... I could so easily have become a Mackem due to appalling neighbourly influence when I was a kid. Most you've ever spent on an item of clothes? Rolex watch (well an insurance company paid for it not me) How many pairs of shoes do you own? 4 or 5 I'm obsessed with..... Bourbon In 5 years time, I hope to be....Retired and still breathing with my kids left home

And they will be, in their droves down at Pat Pong market for about 50p a go

Thou doth protest too much I reckon, traitor

Well, I think it looks really pretty smart. Not that I'll be buying one, haven't bought a shirt for years. Crap fan obviously.

Could be, but the "by Newcastle" is a bit of a strange comment

Throw away line on News 24 "The odds on Steve McLaren tumbled following a tip-off received by Newcastle, that he would be new England boss" hmmmmm curious, unless of course the "tip-off" was someone saying "OK I'll be your guy because England have blown me out" maybe Or are the alledging Freddy piled on with a Bentley boot-full of cash at his local bookies

That's libelous isn't it ???? Sick possibly Hardly a MORON, I've got O levels and stuff (from the days when you weren't allowed calculators an'all) 114936[/snapback] Having read the thread, I agree with Wullie tbh. 114940[/snapback] Depends on what's real and what's not don't it, this is the internet after all 114947[/snapback] I'd let it drop if I was you, considering the misinformed homophobic shite you were spouting. 114950[/snapback] Agreed But surely IF that was my opinion that was being expressed I'd be entitled to it ????? 114959[/snapback] I bet you think you're being clever again like you did the other day.......when you got yourself banned. 114964[/snapback] No not really just putting off jumping in the car and driving to Aberdeen Where they DO let Chavs play golf in their Chav gear BTW

That's libelous isn't it ???? Sick possibly Hardly a MORON, I've got O levels and stuff (from the days when you weren't allowed calculators an'all) 114936[/snapback] Having read the thread, I agree with Wullie tbh. 114940[/snapback] Depends on what's real and what's not don't it, this is the internet after all 114947[/snapback] I'd let it drop if I was you, considering the misinformed homophobic shite you were spouting. 114950[/snapback] Agreed But surely IF that was my opinion that was being expressed I'd be entitled to it ?????

That's libelous isn't it ???? Sick possibly Hardly a MORON, I've got O levels and stuff (from the days when you weren't allowed calculators an'all) 114936[/snapback] its alreet mate, I'll tell you how to get round the IP ban 114941[/snapback] Cheers Other son reckons it's a piece of piss

PAH Gemmill have your day in the sun, I'll get you worked into the perfectly robust and totally logical evolutionary theory one of these days (says he in a Fu Manchu voice)Muhahahahaha 114943[/snapback] I took no pleasure in you getting banned. Well, not until 10 minutes ago when you started grovelling to HTT anyway. 114946[/snapback] Hardly a grovel, it's for the children (in a non Gary Glitter way)

That's libelous isn't it ???? Sick possibly Hardly a MORON, I've got O levels and stuff (from the days when you weren't allowed calculators an'all) 114936[/snapback] Having read the thread, I agree with Wullie tbh. 114940[/snapback] Depends on what's real and what's not don't it, this is the internet after all

PAH Gemmill have your day in the sun, I'll get you worked into the perfectly robust and totally logical evolutionary theory one of these days (says he in a Fu Manchu voice)Muhahahahaha

That's libelous isn't it ???? Sick possibly Hardly a MORON, I've got O levels and stuff (from the days when you weren't allowed calculators an'all)

Oh no I won't, I've been permanently executed Oh well he'll just have to read the ramblings of the old farts and old farts NO GROOMING or I'll get annoyed

CBA 114899[/snapback] Purlease let me back HTT, pretty purlease 114906[/snapback] Not me, me ole china, think of the children

What's wrong with here like? Eh? 114902[/snapback] Erm.............. he thinks this is a place for old farts

CBA

P.S. I didn't men anything derogatory about the Hitzfeld campaign with the SS reference - honest

Is there any chance my ban can be modified?? Quite happy to not go back myself, but my laddo is giving me SUCH grief for limiting his Toon-based surfing opportunities. Current situation is a bit like wiping out a village because someone threw a bottle at the SS man. (overly dramatic I know) After all if you don't help him broaden his horizons and be exposed to wider views, he'll just be stuck in the redneck environment he calls home I did have a word with myself about the transgression (laughs) and I told myself I should be ashamed of myself and I agreed.

Pre-season friendlies tbh. I wouldn't read too much into results like a narrow loss to Chelsea, AC Milan and Real Madrid. Do you really think that those teams wouldn't stuff MLS teams in a competitive match? 114548[/snapback] They're hardly competative matches for the MLS sides who all have more important matches to handle as well, but I'd agree with you that they're pre-season for those clubs. OTOH, I don't think that they'd stuff most of the MLS sides most of the time. Plenty of players who were cack in MLS have been quite good in other leagues: Simon Eliot (Fulham) Tony Sanneh (Hamburg) Luis Hernandez (Necaxa) to name but a few. The real problem is the lack of meaningful games. I think it's a problem that'll be solved with more teams and certain other 'format' changes. I'm still not certain that this is going to happen; I think the game in the US is going to follow more of the South American model than the old NASL days when we had Pele, Beckenbauer, Best etc. playing here. That model has been shown to not be viable in the US Market; far better to actually develop our own players and league with the odd player shipping off to England or Germany or somesuch if they want. Yeah, it may seem like a feeder league, but that's the model when so much of the sport is played in Europe, the players in the Americas are simply at a disadvantage regarding travel. Solano is a good example of this. Another aspect is the 'hip-hop culture' phenomenon which glorifies the 'gangta' behavior that is exemplified by a lot of basketball and football players. I think that this factors into the decline of baseball as well as there simply hasn't been that sort of a player in that game for some time. (That and the sheer number of steroid scandals.) I'm not sure how much of an affect it'll have on things, but you can be sure that as long as the best US Soccer can produce is Deuce it's not gonna happen. 114849[/snapback] Agree with a lot of what your saying but the point I was trying to make is, that over time more and more US kids are playing the game and it is bound to grow, and given the US population there's going to be an awfull lot of homegrown talent. The superstars comment was not so much a hark back to the Tampa Bay Rowdies days but more of the thought that IF footy became mainstream in the USA it's knocking bet that they'd want that league to be "the best" and the money would flow, hence the superstars would be pile in to reap the rewards, as opposed to being brought in as a kickstart measure. Long time in the future though.

IMO FWIW This is a Paranal Observatory and operates the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) with four 8.2-m telescopes (the Unit Telescopes or short UTs). Each UT provides one Cassegrain and two Nasmyth focus stations for facility instruments. One Nasmyth focus is available for visitor instruments. In addition each UT is equipped with a Coude focus station from which the light can be coherently combined in the interferometric focus. Looks like it could be modified into a Parknob Observatory

SO be carefull where you're walking folks. There!! done my bit

Yep, last years loophole is closed, champions get in 4th go into the UEFA

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