NJS

I'd imagine the mythical golden 50s is more their desire than 30 years ago.

This thing about it being any other job and he'd have no issues is bollocks. A criminal conviction of any kind would stop me from working anywhere decent. That might not be right but it's reality.

I thought I'd read she was unconcious but read a bit more and there's no evidence of that. I think the jury took implief consent for his mate by her going back to the hotel with him which I think is a stretch. That argument didn't work for Mike Tyson. The debate I think is between a drunken shag or a predator knowing she was beyond consent. I'd instinctively say if he thought she was that pissed he'd get away with it then he's a cunt.

I know I said it's what they do for us that matters but he's still tainted slightly by choosing rangers over us in my mind.

Nicely prompted my brain into gear - Pumpkins ticket for next Friday.

Stupidly obsessed with making it "his" team - a mistake too many managers make.

He played a couple of games in the Bracewell role - notably Norwich away- where he was superb and I always wondered why he didn't persist with that.

Undoubtedly but I always try to apply the "what they did in a black and white shirt" test as the primary driver.

Cole is still a bigger hero to me than shearer or Les. He just completely epitomised the sheer joy of that first season in the prem.

He's a horribly smug cunt when he's being a smug cunt.

Was talking to someone last week who came out with the same granny shite. Told her they could sell up and the reply was "but it's their home" so I pointed out disabled people were being told to move for daring to have a spare bedroom. I fucking hate lie fed tory cunts.

Disagree. Perhaps more prone to errors than most but overall decent. One of the best saves I've ever seen against everton as well.

Hate to say it but it's believable that they would get away with it - locking single mothers up in asylums and other stuff like that proves that people on the edges were disposable.

So how many levels of separation would have made her unshaggable MF?

I think a brother of my great-great grandmother may have emigrated to the US - I'll follow that up eventually. Thing is without doing the exact numbers, when you start to see how many siblings people had and also how concentrated in one place they were as I said, and then project forwards from say 1800, I reckon I must be related to a fair proportion of the people in Shields. That's in a town of say 80-90000 now - fuck knows what smaller towns and villages must be like before we started to travel more - limited gene pool city.

I'm doing it blind - as my Mam had me when she was 40 and a few years after my brother and sister I was always the bairn of the family do didnt get a feel for the previous generations. I only knew one grandparent and only have vague memories of older relatives. I could ask my sister but think I might surprise her with it for xmas. I'm getting hints of minor scandals. I think both sets of grandparents were shotgun weddings judging by the dates. Ridiculous numbers of kids were also common a couple of generations ago.

I've been having another go at building a family tree on Ancestry.co.uk and I've got a lot further than last time. Now back 4 or 5 generations on my Mam's side and it's interesting to see the interplay of names - like my Mam being named after her grandmother. Had one dodgy moment when my Great Great Grandfather came up as born in Sunderland but a couple more checks put it down as Durham (probably a mispelt village near Bowburn). Apart from that my ancestors were very local - I think North Shields is the farthest away with the rest all S Shields/Jarra. On my Dad's side it's a bit more evasive - My dad's Mam was born in Jarra but her parents/ancestors were from Cumberland on her mother's side and her Dad was from Berwick. There's a bit of a dead end with my Dad's dad - I know his name and date of death and have their marriage record but I suspect he was Irish.

I get your point but wouldn't call questioning the "multiple" part of the accusation as venomous. I agree completely on the "but he's so nice" bit.

He had one of those "pay someone off without liability" cases which like Jackson seem very dodgy to me. Then again the lass with the most cause now cites "multiple occasions" - how the fuck can you be drugged and raped and go back for more?

I read that the FBI are investigating them over some hotel perks for officials in NYC.

Dont think theres any involvement with spurs any more. I can apply for test match tickets but need clients to schmooze.

It seems strange that one of the original kick off points for the troubles was "rights" but they've been overlooked to an extent. When I worked for a small company in Newcastle we didnt get sick pay and used to count it against holidays which in retrospect was shit. It only really bothered me when I lost two weeks to chickenpox.

Had a corporate induction day today which ended with a Q&A panel with a load of head cheeses including the non-exec chairman whose name is Fani Titi - it's pronounced Farni Tee-tee but the kid in me was still quite amused.

Loss of rights is a nice tory bonus on top of their make everyone "self-employed" master plan. Pity the tax receipts are shit.

The scouse cunts also hounded Hodgson to fuck.