NJS

Everton have won just 3 more trophies than NUFC (which is 6 more than SAFC obviously) - how many more have Arsenal won than Stoke you stupid Mackem twat?

I don't agree with fees for useful courses but hopefully irresponsible decisions to deliberately write-off debt will affect their credit ratings.

My view was that if they wanted to sell the idea of a community club, helping schoolkids and dole wallers see football then that's pretty laudible but you can't then turn round at the same time and brag about having full houses meaning they're supposedly great fans.

I'd add that their real problem now is that they are getting under 40k with all the discounts and £19 STs

Really? TBF - they did get full houses for the first couple of years under the Monkey's heed - it was only after the relegations bit that they dropped a bit. That was in the initial "free ticket mackems" era though.

U2? Even allowing for a couple of duds, 20 years includes Achtung Baby which pisses on all of the self-indulgent, masturbatory, knob-twiddling twaterry of Radiohead by a distance not measurable by humankind. (Yes that's a bite)

The junction one is amplified ten-fold if its a traffic light controlled junction - there's one on my daily drive where I join a main road with light and the number of people who brake to take a simple right turn on green is criminal.

There was a kid in the year above me who had a caliper on one leg and everyone call him "Spacka-leg" - the name stuck even after it was removed as he got older and the problem had been corrected.

People in front of you who brake on an approach to a junction when you can see quite clearly that nothing is coming and its perfectly safe to go for it.

I have a good friend who used to travel to Malaysia with her family as a kid and she told me how bad it was there but with a bit more subtety - things like women having to walk behind a man and also having to make sure they "look up" when speaking to a man - obviously difficult if you're of average western height compared with local men. I find that level of expected deference to be horrible.

Don't see the point of getting all high-horsey about the direction a thread can take just because the start was about something horrible. You could say the same about terrorist outrages or American fuck=ups which cost lives which are "standard" discussion starters. Just because this was a bit more personal shouldn't make a difference.

I think his complaint was more about the people watching foreign broadcasts. I know but without Sky those broadcasts wouldn't exist.

Being such an avid Man Utd fan I presume he's from Manchester. (though I am a Newcastle fan from Torquay, with no connection to Newcastle at all) It think that's better than the cliched Irish (both bits) Man U or Liverpool fan - at least you're original (in an obviously mental way).

Being such an avid Man Utd fan I presume he's from Manchester.

The games are available in the pubs because of the Sky deal which contributes massively to their turnover - I think he should realise that before having a go. He also needs to realise their crowd has found its true modern level - I can't see why more Mackems would want to go at the moment.

And its cousin "IS IT" (no question mark or inflection). Or a hybrid - I'm working with an Indian lad who suffixes almost all his sentences with "isn't it".

There were 3 people at work today having a conversation just behind me and one who's a bloke in his 50s just went on for about 7 or 8 phrases/sentences in a row which were all inflected - annoying as fuck.

But surely better that the fucker on the phone advert who says "Wonga"

Here's one for Stevie given his email history. Just spoke to an agent and got the spec through for a job she wants me to be put forward for - at Freshfields law firm Looks decent but the salary is not quite up to the mark - might still go for it though.

I'm sometimes guilty of that. Noticed at the weekend that 3 or 4 of the SSN presenters say "sickth" instead of "sixth" - fuckwits.

I think that's an excellent post in general but I would pick up on this bit - you've already identified the factors which apply specifically to many Muslim countries in that young men are horny with little outlet because of the restraints so I think the "Could have happened anywhere" view is a bit naive.

Newcastle United - 1904 to 1911 - fuck the rest.

Problem for me was that as the blackberry is from work I can't sync with outlook on my home PC - might apply to Stevie. Eh? Isn't the Blackberry principally an e-mail machine? Seems extraordinarily shit if you can't have multiple accounts. Work security policy means just work email account is accessible. It's swings and roundabouts - I've basically had a completely free mobile for 5 years so any limitations are fine - I bought the new personal phone in anticipation of leaving.

Problem for me was that as the blackberry is from work I can't sync with outlook on my home PC - might apply to Stevie.

You need to enable bluetooth on both phones then there's an option to export or import contacts. It can be a pain - transferring from my work blackberry to my new HTC took a few goes.