mockney piers

Do you have to set the Hendrix gin on fire and smash it in to the speakers to really appreciate it?

Whoops Ted, you're quite right, will amend my post for clarity. Getting things mixed up in my head. Moos, fair enough, I know I sound flippant but I do think about these things at a less shallow level than is apparent and would be more than happy to join you for a pint-based chat.

You could argue the lack of pionts deduction was a premiership f**k up, this was a f**k up by a three man independent tribunal.

"Paths to God" So you're saying that despite His apparent antipathy toward idol worship, He was actually encouraging anamism thence paganism for a good hundred centuries before revealing himself to a small backwater middle eastern tribe by way of a incendiary shrubbery?

The fine for the infraction was a record breaking 5 million. This is the compensation due to Sheffield Utd due to an ineligible Tevez (though FA gave him permission to play those last games) being the difference between their Premiership survival and relegation, ?30 million being the perceived loss of earnings as a result of the latter (McCabe was after ?50m).

?To do my duty to [god] and [to the queen]" was our version. I'm surprised to see scouting movement in a country where Baden-Powell made his reputation fighting against you, weird. As it goes he started it as a way of improving the constitution and readiness of a perceived sickly youth for the rigours of war, but after witnessing the carnage of the first world war he did a 180 a was a total pacifist, reinventing scouting, still within it's essentially paramilitary setup, to be an organisation for peace, understanding and cooperation between the youth of nations. Good stuff, god or no god, queen or no queen. dib dib dib

I'll let you have shooting red herrings in a barrel, it works. Regardless of journalistic quality it still stands for me that, as I said before, it was a ridiculous decision that essentially denigrates the contribution of the rest of the team across a whole season and that the whole saga from the initial speculation, to their dodgy signing, to Mascherano's malign influence unsettling the team (and I was saying that loooong before the winning streak) and caused such a bad run that put us in the relegation fight. I say it again, blame the FA, but to grant compensation on the perceived influence of one player (who was present for 8 straight defeats) is poppycock.

I went to cubs and scouts and I feel no more inclined to do my duty to god than I do to the queen frankly. I can tie a mean sheepshank though.

clearly an itch I can't stop scratching. Football, rather than West Ham, is the loser

Problem with the catholic church of Britain is that it has yet to find it's own character. It was once upon a time renowned for a certain unique sensibility, but following the dissolution then a couple of hundred years of repression, with a dose of grim Godliness in the 1640/50s that character was extinguished and it's more or less had to rely on the Irish and other catholic immigrant communities to fuel it's rebirth following the end of recusancy, and has yet to find it's own way again. For the record the nasty soul burner was Italian.

Snitch? Are you spoiling again Keefa?

Easy with the spoilers there Keefa Greggs, I now know it's not McNulty who dies...see, it's so easily done!!

LOL, yes, a classic quote Ted.

I have heard that humanist celebrants have a tendency to go a bit militant atheist, which as far as I'm concerned is every bit as bad as a dogmatic priest (see above). But, like that hellfire and brimstone chap who condemned my friend's soul, it may be down to the individual celebrant's sensibilities about how far to go with the dogma at a ceremony. The chap at my wedding was actually a pretty good guy and went some way to meeting me half way when I asked if we could keep it light-hearted and happy and try to ease up on all that god stuff. We got away with no mass or eucharist, but he did keep proffering the book cover first in a demonstrative fashion as if somehow its presence would convert all the heathen scum from Britain (and indeed Ireland, no names mentioned....sean)

Now that you mention it I went to a catholic funeral where the priest basically said that as my mate Dan hadn't been to confession or received last rites, that the best he could hope for was purgatory. I must say it was pretty upsetting and I can't say as it served them much positive propaganda as regards my feelings toward that organisation. Cunt

I've heard this a few times. The thing with rites is they tend to fit better in a religious or superstitious context. The Catholics have been honing their skills for a long time and consequently pretty good at that whole malarkey. Structure and familiarity help you to feel part of something bigger, and when I said the classic marriage rites, I may not have believed any of the religious side, but those words 'to love and to hold...til death do us part, Amen' felt very powerful and made the marriage itself feel more real. I've been to a pagan wedding too and it may have been a lot of stuff and nonsense (no offence mum) led by a 'shaman/priestess' but it worked as theatre and ceremony. I've already stated to my poor beloved that our kids get baptised over my dead body (trade off for getting married in a catholic church), but I don't really know what to replace it with; I'm certainly not going to get a humanist celebrant to do it, I'm figuring just a big piss up is the way forward.

Can anything be used out of context? If it has no context then it has no meaning at all does it? "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog gay" That's out of context. I think you just mean you don't like the way it's used contextually to mean shit rather than as a mere description of hoomosexuality, jollyness, or caddish behaviour, rather than out of context. God, I'm boring myself again!!!

Soo, Lindsey Lohan drinks from the furry cup then huh? Finally she might be in a movie I'd like to see!!

""gay" to mean "sh*t" is akin to using a word like "black" or "Pakistani" to mean "sh*t". " Black Wednesday, black mood, Pakistani democracy. Clearly that can be the case then.

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We did a wrong un and we were fined. Maybe we should have been docked points, maybe not, but if you're going to get compensation from anyone for that decision go to the FA, don't blame west ham. And to say that Tevez kept us up is absolutely ridiculous and an insult to the rest of the team, Green's excellent goalkeeping for instance; especially as the blades happily managed to bag 3 points off a west ham team with Tevez in it. I'm bored of the whole thing so I'll shut up, we've had a fire sale in preparation for this, which obviously if we go down as a result of, I think a counter-compensation suit may be in the offing...ad infinitum....

Officer MacGabhannty or Uncle Seany? Or of course...

Sorry moos, my bad. Actually rather liked Mock Bey, but Prop Piers is cool too, I have a proposition for you...

Mock Bey, nice. A cold-blooded sociopathic killer with a dark sense of humour; could have been worse Sister Moosone ;)

Good point, I went on there to check up on some minor detail of one of the characters, and regretted it immediately. Of course the main thing you have to avoid is Officer MacGabhann and his spoiler riddled anecdotes ::o