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Well, it would provide an interesting alternative to the bog-standard Christmas tinsel and spray-on snow. Maybe that's what his arse features that time of year.

Last year some of it was live on the festival web site. Only Ash and Jimmy Eat World worth watching. For sure. You'll know and be familiar with all of the other performers then? Quite a few of them - I have a couple of friends who are going and I know what they like (36 Crazy Fists etc) and know who they are looking forward to and I'm familiar with JP, Kiss and a few others. I was thinking of going but a festival with only 2 must see bands is not enough.

Last year some of it was live on the festival web site. Only Ash and Jimmy Eat World worth watching.

Thought this was going to be a plea to buy the Coldplay album

The latter - 09/10 DD runs from Feb to November next year.

Some articles seem to suggest that - by "Fire" I think that implies stop paying him which obviously means he can't play but the registration means he's our to sell.

From an admittedly legally ignorant pov, I think we're fucked in sacking him by offering him the cut as this says - should have sacked him and let him come crawling for a compromise imo.

In terms of being sly in doing what it takes to win then the Portuguese are mere apprentices to the masters - the Italians. However as additionally defined as being ruthless and doing whatever it takes top win then the Italians bow down to the Jormans.

Mines reduced by £68 and no need to move which I was worried about - result - now all I have to do is actually get to some games next season.

So not so much the thread as the polar opposite? Okay then "You know" replaced "Oh, right" in the driving me insane stakes

Not so much lost as current and I think I've said this before but the absolute constant use of "you know" 20 times in every sentence is driving me fucking insane - I blame Beckham.

I have to say I'm a bit suprised at how easily Hughes has left Blackburn. I do think its a bigger job but I thought he would bide his time a bit more - especially in light of what's happened to Ericsson. I also think Ericsson was/is a better manager (at the moment) which makes the whole thing daft.

Am I the only person in the country to be taught to leave a parked car in 1st to avoid those sort of things? Not necessarily first but I always leave mine in gear - tip fom my Dad. I also always turn the ignition key with the clutch down even if its in neutral.

It's the kids who are the "victims" as well - if they say they have worked damned hard which of course may well be true they aren't getting any credit so the brighter ones are losing out from a perception pov.

I think its a basic stepping stone - if I was looking for someone for a non-technical job I'd look at how they did in technical subjects to that level assuming they took something else later. Obviously now I only look at people with proper degrees anyway so GCSE maths is pretty meangingless.

I sat my Maths 'O' level in the last year that calculators weren't allowed for our exam board. The argument in going to calculators was that taking away the pain of log tables would mean the actual maths could become more advanced. This suggests that never happened. Onviously kids can only do whats put out in front to them (to use a footballing cliche) but I don't see the point of making it easier to get high grades - I think they should use percentiles instead of absolutes for grading - then people might "trust" them again.

Popped in today and got fobbed off. If you're not happy at being moved to the corner don't bother asking about alternatives until after the 17th (deadline for renewals). Apparently they hope the majority won't be picky, they're going to lift the entire Leazes L7 and drop it in the corner so everyone will be sitting around the same people they did before, just further away and £100 cheaper. If that's not for you, come the 17th, you can arrange an appointment to discuss where you can go. Did you get a chance confirm that the new family enclosure is L7 Milburn towards the Leazes?

Me too - being such an argumentative git I'll be independently auditing every sale. Incidentally I noticed from the ads that Coldplay have done an exclusive deal with iTunes - not saying it will limit sales but its another example of sucking corporate cock. Also BT I love the way you shifted it to "increasing sales" after I named a band who'd outsold them during their lifetime (RHCP) - I admire your twistability in the face of defeat. No you had to go back to 1999 to find them, which indictated that they weren't the biggest band TODAY AT PRESENT CURRENTLY IN THE MIDDLE OF NOW But Coldplay were alive in 1999 weren't they? How many has Coldplay's new album sold this year TODAY AT PRESENT CURRENTLY IN THE MIDDLE OF NOW?

Me too - being such an argumentative git I'll be independently auditing every sale. Incidentally I noticed from the ads that Coldplay have done an exclusive deal with iTunes - not saying it will limit sales but its another example of sucking corporate cock. Also BT I love the way you shifted it to "increasing sales" after I named a band who'd outsold them during their lifetime (RHCP) - I admire your twistability in the face of defeat.

BT: Another point you miss is calender timing - the new Coldplay album is out this month I think which gives it 6 months. Say U2 release an album in December then it obviously won't outsell Coldplay. However at the end of 2009 it's possible it will have sold more. That's why we are trying to get it through your head that performance over a decent time period is the only fair criteria. At one point you seemed to accept this by defining 2000 and/or since Coldplay formed. That is now dead as we have named artists who have sold more. We also trumped your "demand for tickets" argument with U2. You then tried "the media" - no evidence/examples forthcoming. So we're left with the contrived bet of "most sales in one 12 month period, January to December, of a nominated year" Also you say Coldplay are the biggest band NOW - despite the fact that sales of that album are ZERO for this year.

I usually get capped when I kick off my weekend porn download on Friday nights - it isn't that big a deal as it just speeds back up during the night. However I'm still thinking of cancelling just on principle. I first got Telewest in 2000 I think which was one of the first broadband services around and I paid £50 pm for quite a while (though the speeds increased over time). Now I pay £37 for 20Mb which will become 50Mb some time this year but its all pointless. You only need 1Mb tops for browsing so I don't know how they can actually sell broadband that is capped at this level - 3Gb (evening limit) isn't even a DVD. My first question when they offer 50Mb will by what's the point? Also I know its a cliche but the customer service has went completely tits up since the bearded twat bought it.

It actually annoys me more to see a good footballer fail to live up to his potential than to see a limited player make a good living. The injuries didn't help but we should have got so much more from him. Still a Saint for the free kick though.

I think if we're going to compare, doing it over the same time period is only fair? Well make it since Coldplay formed then as I said above, RHCP beat them. (and with the magic number of albums)

Also if you sneek 1999 in then RHCP outsell Coldplay thanks to Californication.

No Coldplay released their first album - everybody else got frightened and retired.