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No but perceptually a vaccine which worked as well as the Polio or Smallpox ones would feel the same as a cure to people.

I'd want 33% to increase to 100% before I'd try it. Note also they were all given safe sex advice as well - the danger in a vaccine or cure for HIV is that people will see it as a licence to go bareback again.

Stopping foreclosures would be a good thing in my view - the rabid pace with which the banks pursued so many was the root cause of their downfall. Translating the mortgages to rent until the market picked up again would have been a lot better as the toxic assets would only have been temporarily smelly.

Didn't he give up, then die from cancer anyway? Some punchline that like. Pancreatic cancer though.

It was certainly a shame that after Cole/Ferdinand/Shearer it fell to Martins - not exactly Rob MacDonald but still pale in comparison to the other 3. As long as we get rid of Shola before he gets his hands on it.

Funniest I've seen live or probably on vid - however Hicks is still my favourite because of the edge/cleverness of his material.

There are a few comics who I think are quite funny on panel shows etc but when I've seen them as stand-ups I've not found them funny at all - Noble, Izzard and Moran are examples of those. In contrast I can't stand Alan Carr or Russel Brand on panel shows but have found their stand-up to be excellent.

Nowt compared to when Mirandinha did it...... twice! Another worky little twat (but not as much of a twat as Bellamy) I still consider his riot-inducing badge/kiss wave to the kop in 88 to be in my top 5 moments in Football.

He used to do that for us as well. Yeah but context is everything - don't tell me he doesn't know the context having played for the Scousers.

I'm sure it won't just be me but did anyone else notice a subtle "aeroplane" element to his celebration after the third goal?

Of course the added time is corrupt but how many times did Hughes benefit when he played for the cunts? Roy Keane syndrome I call it - he's forgotten different rules apply for "united" compared to the rest.

Just consulted with my Blackburn workmate: "Good, steady, reads the game well, will be a good player at that level - being kept out by 3 better players".

Yeah but as it happens I'm stuck at work because the trains are completely fucked tonight by a tree falling on the lines

If you appoint someone to a board with the title of executive director (football) then that person has total responsibility for the on field results of the club. Let's cut all the shit about signing players or spotting youth talent or his role in Keegan's exit - that was the bastards title. On that basis relegation is complete and total failure.

I had to switch SSN off when he was on screen - I despise the bastard.

But correct. Genetically we are still mainly "Celtic" - that doesn't mean Irish or anything like that - it refers to the people who populated the Islands after the last Ice Age and as you say haven't been diluted that much by invasion. The supposed Norse influence on the North East is significant in the North of Scotland and the Isles but less so in England. It's sort of funny how the BNP have had to "reluctantly" extend their definition of what is okay beyond Anglo-Saxon to include Celtic - considering the genetics make us predominally the latter.

Fucking shit music. (Decent vid)

The thing is one of the reasons Keegan was so admired (despite the ultimate failure) was that very emotional vulnerability you mention - his passion made the man - much like Robson. What I would say is that most people when they are honest with themselves recognise their own failings which leads me to think that knowing exactly what people were going to say about him it just strengthens my view that the shit must have been mightily bad for him to "bottle it" this time around. I realise there are arguments about his age and his financial status but I still think he wouldn't have gone without an immense amount of consideration.

Anyone planning to go to the game by train should note that National Express East Anglia drivers are on strike on the Saturday. Don't know if it affects anyone going via Peterborough but the Liverpool Street route wil be a hourly and crammed if you're extremely lucky. It's the last day of a 6 day strike (I just remembered as I've just checked with my boss that I can work from home all week) so it may be resolved in time but its still a potentially huge pisser.

Apart from the "pen", none of those 14 shots on target were anywhere near being a goal though.

I was thinking during the Leicester game how true the cliche about your mistakes being punished in the top flight is - I'm hoping the confidence brought by getting away with it and keeping clean sheets will actually reduce the mistakes - for example I think Collocini only made that one mistake at the end which is low for him. It could have cost us the points but didn't and that's what gives me hope.

I'm schizo on this one - if it had been a player doing it for us I'd have loved it as I can't stand Arsenal but if it was the other way around (I saw Keane do it at Forest against us a few years ago) then the player is asking for trouble - what would have happened if someone had got on and started on him? - the fan would have been locked up for years but that level of winding people up on a Friday night wouldn't be overlooked.

It's frustrating in a way - if we could have sorted out the sale or 2 or 3 of the good players hadn't left we could really have been confident about promotion. The size/quality of the squad still terrifies me but the kid is right on one thing - the other teams so far have proved toothless. That could change of course but if we last to January and can then get some players in I'm beginning to think we have a good chance.

I hope we start playing the teams that these other "contenders" must have played because that's another fucking shit team sent packing with only a half-decent but solid performance. Chopra tried too hard and he may be their best player but I had to laugh when he kept coming deep to get the ball as if he's a good player. I'm also a bit concerned about Barton being too laid back and going through the motions - did okay but I just feel he needs to find some other gears. Also in response to that Place review which said we got all the decisions because of our "name" I couldn't help thinking we got bookings today because of who was involved - and that Bothroyd should have a a yellow for being a whinging, cheating little shit.

Yeah that's my reaction too - pity he can't get the money off Ashley personally.