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No - I was surprised how shite Fulham were but anyone who thinks we're anything more than garbage is blind imo. On a side note I hope the low crowd has the fat cunt shitting it as well.

I know I sound like a stuck record but since we didn't take the necessary action to bin all four shit strikers in the close season, and are now starting with two of them it means a relegation struggle awaits. Signing "a striker" this week won't help - unless it's fucking Messi.

This is quite ironic and mildly amusing to me - nobody I've ever went to games with since I was about 15 has ever worn a scarf or a strip or any other badge of identity - when we started getting the train in about 1981 the last thing you wanted was to be "made" by rival fans. Then all of a sudden every fuckwit on the planet starting wearing strips and they were christened "trees" as in "lit up like a Christmas tree". Yes I am easily pleased.

Less people leaving - rest of world as fucked as us shock.

I've said it before but not getting shot of Best and Lovenkrands (and Shola) will cost us dear. And how shit is Ba?

That's wrong I think otherwise West Ham and Millwall would have many ethnic fans and they probably make up less than 5% of their football. I mentioned in the riot thread that a lad I worked with who was from Deptford told me how a lot of South London was pretty segregated and he's a Millwall fan - I'd presume a lot of their fans were from the white estates around the old ground. West Ham and towards the east is more Asian than black - and as you say I can't imagine West Ham or Millwall being that welcoming to either Blacks or Asians from the 70s/80s on. I think Arsenal have traditionally attracted a lot of "posher" people for London - maybe from the areas of North London with money - as well as quite a few Irish and Greeks because of the fair number of those in and around North London as well. I still think of Tottenham as having the most black fans in London - though I could be wrong.

Definitely - I could just about get my head around going on the piss with them (but only if they'd established the 3 were from a no-mans land place) but going to the match was fucking ridiculous.

He played the role of a proper geordie, and ye can narf hear that Birtley twang with Dennis sometimes. The two proper geordies were Oz from NE12 and Vicky from NE16. So what did you make of Fraser's "You can go back to your council estate in South Shields?" I've found myself using "lunch" in the last 2 or 3 years - it makes me die a little inside. She's from Hazelrigg/Wideopen definitely. Are we talking actors or characters though? I also remember a line where Den referred to his "building business in Sunderland" which I found a bit off at the time.

Been on a training course for the last couple of days and it reminded me how much I hate the tube and most of all tourists in London. Nice day yesterday so the tube fucking stank - I think they should introduce random carriage hosings by the fire brigade just to teach half of these fuckers what water is. I also failed to get on 4 or 5 tubes in the first place - I think they need to get those fuckers from Japan with cattle prods to get people to move so you can get on. Then had to walk down Regent St (in the words of the song) which meant wading through armies of zombies masquerading as tourists - especially outside Hamleys - pity they don't sell real Uzis or I'd have been tempted. Back to relative normality tomorrow.

Mate I respect you, I wind people up about South Shields you know as much about football if not more than me and love the toon every bit as much, you're an intelligent poster one of the best on here. I just have a bit of banter, HF knows that too and so does Sima. Ah Kna as ye would say Signed Rewben.

Adding to Stevie's nausea: Mam's house: SAFC: 5.49 NUFC: 8.12 Now: WHU: 24.70 (Not counting Southend, Dagenham and Colchester) NUFC: 239.67

He played the role of a proper geordie, and ye can narf hear that Birtley twang with Dennis sometimes. The two proper geordies were Oz from NE12 and Vicky from NE16. So what did you make of Fraser's "You can go back to your council estate in South Shields?" I've found myself using "lunch" in the last 2 or 3 years - it makes me die a little inside.

Fuckers at Parcel Force can also charge you ad "admin fee" for sending it to the HMRC which further erodes saving. I bought a KVM switch a couple of years ago from Taiwan and as others have said, at the end of day all the saving was wiped out.

A bit worried - I think I have a toothache coming on and I'm on a training course till Wednesday so may not be able to get it sorted till Thursday. Then there's the whole needing to take half a day off in only my second week in the job paranoia.

Went on one with work when the Tall Ships race was on in 96 - fucking loved it.

These things can always be gotten around by adding in on to the fee or wages - see Barton joining us as an example. I don't believe for one minute that handing in a request would cost him say in excess of 250k.

I think the point is that making a formal transfer request in May would have helped everyone know where they stood - of course you could argue it was pretty obvious anyway but I found his "I'm saying nowt until I get properly tapped by another team" stance to leave a slightly bitter taste. Of course I don't blame him for wanting to leave but imo he went about it wrongly.

I think the Monkey's heed used that bitterness and made it a quite positive thing. Fortunately since then all their managers have been fuckwits and it was only through us having an even bigger fuckwit at the time (Kinnear) that we've lost to them since the Heed.

Random thoughts: If Webb had made Cattermole the first yellow of the game which given the tackle he did give the first one for he could easily have done, they could have been down to 8 - now that would have been funny. I'm really pleased for Ryan Taylor but given how much the cunts hate him, it might have actually been sweeter if Steven Taylor had got a touch. Also the commentators "two Geordies in the team" - since when have Greenwich and Lagos been anyway near the river Tyne (though I respect their adoption). On a personal level I wish I felt the same about the rest of the games like this - it really reminded me how much I used to enjoy football - not the football itself obviously but the emotional involvement. Who knows I may even think about going to a few games again - might see if I can get a ticket for QPR.

I'd love to wire up the two corrupt cunts' testicles to the main and ask them: "You gave a corner, which part of the body did it come off?" - obviously "head" or "torso" hits the switch followed by "How did his head or torso divert a ball which was to the side of his body?" - more zappage as they fail to answer with anything coherent. I expect of it Webb TBH. On another note the complete failure to retain possession just proves why we'll be in a relegation battle this year.

You will spend the first year getting up to speed in those but you should know that they'll be an integral part - if you didn't take them at A level because you wanted to do other stuff more then fair enough but if you dropped them because you didn't like them or weren't good enough at them then I'd rethink engineering.

It's about time someone mentioned that the coppers deliberately held back so they could use their performance as an argument against the cuts.

For what its worth if you want a really good career in IT then academically the best subject you could do by a billion miles is maths. There's a huge demand for analytical modelling and shit like that in finance - if you go as far as getting an MSc or a PHD and combine it with a decent standard of general computing you can easily earn 100k+

When I first joined my previous place, we had a senior manager who completely allowed "testing" in the live environment - it took a "we're closing you down tomorrow" audit from PWC to put a stop to it - happy days. I still don't think people realise in anyway shape way or form that emails/internet browsing are or can be completely recorded - when we first went from a ramshackle internet network + netware for the proper stuff to a full Windows network it was unbelievable how many people did actually have quite blatant porn on their PCs without a care in the world.

I read a book a while ago called "Why do people get ill?" - the conclusion was that the power of the mind on the human body is seriously underestimated. This wasn't some spiritualist bollocks either but a look at how absolutely central stress is to a lot of illnesses - even to the extent of "allowing" a cold to take hold one day and laughing it off the next (Think Bart getting the antibody troops to lie down on a school day). As others have said I wouldn't be surprised if you're reacting to all the crap you've mentioned lately.