mockney piers

Roadster to Nowhere?

"and are just. not. as. good." yeah yeah, wenger and his shrewd signings. There is an AWFUL lot of dross out there, foreign and british, believe me, Harry signed most of it.

I have a copy BM; I'll plop it on a USB key for a forum drinks or something. I don't lend CDs for that very reason, I lost dozens when a previous company made a lot of redundancies and people left with my CDs :( I saw them live at The Venue in New Cross more years ago than I care to think about. They were absolutely superb, even if the style has dated somewhat, I don't think I've seen a band play almost 2 hours seamlessly and remain so tight throughout!!!

Interesting that Southern Southwark is 2-3% irish on that map, yet the forum must be knocking on 15-20% Is it an ancestral penchant for the written word, or an ethnic affinity with organising drinks or an innate neighbourly nosiness or something else?

Did you see the footage of their pundit suggesting that the US should sponsor Iranian terrorists to set off car bombs in Tehran. Not that the US hasn't previously sponsored terror in countries to destabilise regimes, but for a news 'provider' to openly suggest it, even jaded old I found absolutely staggering.

Quite. Are we so spoilt by our me me me now now now culture that we can't queue for 5 minutes for some good quality produce served by people who care? And yeah, much of the stuff in sainsburys looks downright dangerous, leave alone poor quality.

All very valid points. I saw an interesting docu about how the tories in 1992 had switched their intelligence from canvassing to focus groups following many of the techniques the Clinton camp used in their campaign. And despite all the polls showing they'd lose, Major and always looked curiously relaxed about the whole deal. THey knew they'd win and indeed Murdoch switche times at the last moment as he loves to think of himself as the King maker. That doesn't detract from the fact that Blair had 3 phone conversations with him in the week leading up to the invasion; would that he had consulted parliament as much. It's true that people probably don't read it for the politics, but ask advertisers if they think their adverts have direct influence (they don't by the way), so these things kind of sink in through a process of osmosis. So people will, I'm sure, be against invasion, but a resigned acceptance will have seeped through the pores already supported by ideas such as 'yeah but that Ahmedinejad is a holocaust denier innit', 's'pose better a war than a nuclear iran', and they won't even know where those ideas came from. It's the insidious poison that upsets me even more than Murdoch's malign influence. But I thank FSM I don't live in a country run by Fox news is all I can say!!!

Murdoch wouldn't be quite so influential if people didn't take note of what the sun says unfortunately, I'm sure they'd love to ignore the interfering old git.

Whilst picking up a takeaway curry yesterday (couldn't be bothered to do a sainsburys shop frankly) I was flicking through that dreadful rag they call the sun. Yesterday's main editorial basically said "lets go to war with Iran". No matter how horrific a paper it amy be we can't deny it has a hefty influence. By and large the majority did not support the last war, do you think Murdoch can sway the populace over Iran with rubbish rhetoric like "The only thing worse than a War with Iran, is a nuclear Iran...blah...ahmdinejad bad man...blah"

dear liza dear liza

Oh, and well said downsouth, I think you're addressing the real issue here.

"Economic ethnic cleansing of black people is certainly taking place . I know of several black families that have taken the money and moved to places such as the West Indies and Croydon" Ethnic cleansing is a horrible term whereby people of an ethnic group (or similar sounding surname etc) are forced out of an area by coercion, terror, rape and murder. What you describe is known as cashing in, no matter how terrifying the prospect of moving to Croydon may be. I do wish people would stop cheapening this term. Are they also housing market collateral damage perchance?

Not using quail eggs? Standards are clearly slipping round here!!

Ooh you've just reminded me. I was a few years above Matt Oakley and was good pals with his sister. He was at southampton from schoolboys onward so always kept an eye out for them. The passion for a club was exactly what I saw when he was interviewed the other day after he captained a Derby side that knocked Southampton out of the FA cup. He looked absolutely devastated!! It even brought something of a tear to F'nB's eye despite his team losing.

I realise that the director worked on 300, so maybe used to the graphic novel aesthetic, but Watchmen is more than just a comic book. There are A LOT of threads and subtleties to handle; I hope they don't ruin it. Ooh just thought of another un-spandex clad super-villain. How about V?

RT, I had no idea. I've just had a look on IMDB, I see the the guy playing Rorschach was previously Dirk in the first epsiode of MacGyver in 1986. Nothing like a cast of relative unknowns then!!

Timothy Claypole? Miss Popov?

You could go as Dr Manhatten, just go naked and paint yourself blue. Another one from that book is also possible, though more of an anti-hero than a superhero.

Err...yes. Sorry, I don't think I've been having a pop at foreigners per se. I was saying foreigners rarely have the same passion for a club, but as I've pointed out, home grown local talent can turn into a monster (and waste of space as far as I'm concerned) once he's got his first humvee.

I can't deny that sean, but then we were playing great footy in the mid eighties. I'm just saying I cannot muster genuine passion for the game when I can't feel any from the players, even if they're a nice bunch who you'd introduce to your granny. West Ham is on a knife-edge at them moment. Some good youngsters, some through the academy even, some good english players like Ashton and a good ex posh player who's been through the mixer and now plays with his heart on his sleeve. But then we have the Bowyers and the Bellamys and the Boa Mortes and Anton "I beat him up cos he looked at my ?65,000 watch at Ilford nightclub" Ferdinand. We've had a couple of managers who placed an onus on trying to do things with English players where possible (of course you never knew what was coming with Harry), but a chairman who will almost certainly run out of patience with that approach. I see us falling down the wrong side of that edge in the future and my heart just won't be in it any more. I do enjoy watching Arsenal play (well, that Man U game wasn't exactly a humdinger, but still) but I know my heart wouldn't be in it if I was an Arsenal fan. My cousin, born and bred in chelsea won't even look at their games in a pub any more. West Ham can still do it for me, but I fear for the future.

I think I just saw lines that cheer you up by the checkouts!!!

true on the both the cross posters. I'm lamenting something that seems to have gone from the game. I never specified mercenaries were foreign, I hate all of them. I'm off to the Hamlets where no doubt the players will strop because they're not on ?100 a game, like what that new lad is ;-)

what he said. Luckily I still have Spain. Hmmm, underachievers less than the sum of their parts....why does that sound so familiar?!