NJS

Don't believe it for a second.

Why was someone who was "in bed" arrested out of interest? Identified? If it had been the classic "caught up in something in the wrong place at the wrong time" then I could understand it as I've seen it happen but my gut reaction is that picking someone up who as I said was "in bed" seems a bit random. I admit to prejudice - I hate the fuckers.

Out with fellow workers a few years ago and a couple of lasses were talking about childbirth weight and how one of their sisters had had an 8 pounder to which the other one replied that hers had been 10 pounds. Cue my "I can't see how a couple of pounds would make any difference" Didn't go down well

I'm always heartened by the fact that daft phrases like "Fear of Fanny" can still bring a very juvenile smile to my face. See also while channel hopping on Sky and seeing "Watersports World" come up.

As is life. I've accepted we'll never win anything so the best we'll get are days like this and beating the Mackems - it may be sad but thats life.

I'd moved to Chelmsford a couple of weeks before that but had been living in Hotels. That week I'd sorted out my house so came up to get all my stuff. I went back to my Mam's after the match and was too hyped up to drive - I had to chill for a couple of hours before setting off. I remember some Manc shit at the time about how all five goals were wrong - Peacock's never crossed the line, Ginola backed into the defender, etc, etc - I think someone was "offside" for Albert's - they were serious as well. Happy days.

Registered online a few months ago. I think we should follow other countries and make people opt out rather than in. The obsession with remains and funerals mystifies me.

Three contrasts: When Shearer went through last year against Wigan which turned out to his last goal at SJP I knew he was going to score. When Shola has any one on one I'm surprised if he scores. When Martins had that shot today I thought not a bad effort - but for £10m I want someone I know will score - he isn't it (yet).

The squad "building" in the summer worried the shit out of and now the team selection and performances are just confounding that. My opinion of his appointment was that Shepherd set our level as 5th/6th challengers at best but I didn't honestly think we'd be this bad. All set up for Shearer's white knight routine.

Seen it before but it remans pretty true - exchange of academic papers my arse - without the desire for porn the internet would still be text only.

Software Developer (and probably Software Development Manager next year) for a German bank in the City.

You could just wake your bloke up

I went to see Gene a few years ago and they did a great song called Is it Over which has a climax where it all goes quiet and the lead singer screams/sings the title acapella. Just at that point this twat next to me turns to his mate and asks him what time he was going out the next night. If I'd had an Uzi the fucker would have bought it there and then. On a related note, for festivals I'd have a bloke in the lighting rig picking off fuckers with their girlfriends on their shoulders with an air rifle.

Somebody posted on either here or the original site about going to a Wham gig at Brixton and being fucked sensless by the girl they'd went with after she'd been worked into a sexual frenzy by the gig. Was that you or is this just a coincidence?

I stood outside Roker Park for the Bowie gig. He came out with the immortal words "Hello Newcastle" I went to see Big Country then left. Bowie never did anything for me.

Ah the old "if I opt out that leaves more for the ones who don't" bollocks which of course is applied to healthcare just as much. As I said on the legislation thread and as Bob has alluded to the thing is that the more the rich, powerful and influential opt out of state services the less they will care despite any well-meaning intentions (or bastard selfishness in the tories case). In reference to the point about a minority, elections are now decided by middle-englanders - a disproportionate amount of whom use private education. Its not just about resources its about a stake in something that you care about for the good of everybody and not just yourself. I have no kids - does that mean I should not be allowed to discuss education? - of course not - I care about society.

I did have a choice (which was pretty much my own) but it was a choice of two catholic schools. At the time it didn't bother me even though by that age I was starting to have doubts. Its only through becoming old, bitter and twisted (I blame NUFC) that I now feel so vehement on these issues.

Obviously parents have a right to make choices for their kids in the sense that by definition the kids aren't necessarily old enough to "know better" and these decisions are hopefully "co-operative" but overall I feel that if all schools were "decent" (yes, I know I'm an ideallist) then there wouldn't be a need for this choice/selection circus which leaves people disappointed. There was something today about CofE schools allowing some "heathens" in which would at least make it honest as I know people who have attended church just to "codn" their way in - thats not right imo. As I said above the answer I think is right is to determine the "good" bits of these schools and drop what I think is the bad.

The Hope and Anchor when U2 played to 9 people in 79 The very last Big Country gig at Barrowlands (saw them on the tour in London but I think that would have been better) The last Smashing Pumpkins gig in Chicago Any Belly gig.

Any teaching of young children is indoctrination by brainwashing - it should be banned completely. If your faith is so "right" then you should have the confidence that people as adults would choose it - as that is unlikely its never been allowed. On the parental choice qustion I feel parents have too much choice because its a vote winner - why should someone who may use a schools services for as little as 5 years be able to influence the founding and establishment of facilities with a lifespan of 50 years in a field of "industry" they generally know nothing about? As long as schools teach an agreed curriculum and maintain good standards (can of worms I know) then I think parents should have little or no influence.

A few thoughts: The one thing I really admire the US for is the separation clause in the constitution. Religion has no place in schools. I read recently the CofE want an exemption clause from equality legislation on homosexuality - basically they want the right to continue teaching illegal hatred and bigotry with tax payers money. There ae two things I will never forgive Blair for - within 2 weeks of coming to power he invited the Bitch around for a cosy chat and secondly for his defence of Emmannuel teaching lies as science. Anyone who is for faith schools should be made to watch the video from Ulster of adults screaming hatred at kids from a few years ago because the path to their school went too close to the "wrong" side. Having said all that it is true that they tend to get better results - I'd have a good look at why - is it just the intake comes from more "decent" folk (which I accept some theists are) or is it as they would argue some kind of moral ethos? Of course I'd ban them and to prevent the retreat to privately funded bigotry I'd do as I said in the 5 pieces of legislation thread and make private education itself illegal.

Wonderful ideals, totally impractical, if even fair. You expect people who work their arses off to provide the same opportunities to their children as someone who does the bare minimum? Don't forget to tell the last one out to turn out the lights, because those remaining won't be able to afford it. To turn yout point around why should waste of space kids get a lift in life from hard working parents? If people's only motive in life is to leave a "stash" for the kids after death then I think thats sad - you should enjoy the fruit of your own work and hope that your kids can look after themselves. Inherited wealth propogates class, power and everthing else thats unfair in this country. Or to turn yours around, why should a person who has spent the last x years of their life looking after a sick parent suddenly be left with nowt? as for: How would this help those services? they are currently stretched, what you're saying is add in another million or so people into each. Breed a blackmarket for operations etc as Joe Bloggs the multimillionaire has a dodgy hip, under your rules he cant legally jump the queue by going private so he goes for his consultation, pulls out a wad of cash and tempts the consultant to lift him above little old Mrs Muggins who only offered him a Werthers Original. In my world relatives would never have to look after the sick - I know some would want to and thats fair enough but surely that desire would come from love and not "greed". My system would be an incentive for the "powers that be" to sort it out and it would be temporary in the way you mean - I know there are people who are well meaning but I believe that in a sense the NHS has become a "token effort" which the powerful see as something they don't use. If they did I think both the resources and the determination shift would make it work.

Wonderful ideals, totally impractical, if even fair. You expect people who work their arses off to provide the same opportunities to their children as someone who does the bare minimum? Don't forget to tell the last one out to turn out the lights, because those remaining won't be able to afford it. To turn yout point around why should waste of space kids get a lift in life from hard working parents? If people's only motive in life is to leave a "stash" for the kids after death then I think thats sad - you should enjoy the fruit of your own work and hope that your kids can look after themselves. Inherited wealth propogates class, power and everthing else thats unfair in this country.

It was 89 iirc and is my number 1. 2. Ozzy Osbourne Mayfair 80 3. Manics Millenium 4. U2 MK bowl 85 5. Big Country Whitley Bay Ice Rink 86 6. Pixies Brixton 04 7 3 Colours Red Reading 99

1. Abolish and make illegal all private education and health cover (and obviously obliterate religion from all state schools at the same time) - people who try and get around it by sending kids abroad or using foreign health service to be refused re-entry and be stripped of citizenship. I believe these two services will never "work" while the rich and powerful opt out of them. 2. Renationalise without compensation all public utilities including rail etc. 3. Execute the first 1000 people in line to the throne and confiscate all "long term" inherited wealth - eg Duke of Westminster's property. 4. Inheritance tax to be 100% with no exemption bracket - so that everybody starts off in life with the same opportunities. 5. Introduce a universal contraceptive into the water supply/food chain and supply the antidote under licence.