maxxi

:) :) :)!!! ETA: Ol?... etc.

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's a long season. You won't be the only one to > forget. Are you saying that with crossed fingers?

I like my fantasy spiced with a sprinkling of reality. It.... COULD.... HAPPEN!!

Saturday 5th Manchester City 2 - 3 Everton Cardiff 2 - 1 Newcastle Fulham 0 - 2 Stoke Hull 1 - 0 Aston Villa Liverpool 2 - 0 Crystal Palace Sunderland 2 - 1 Manchester United Sunday 6th Norwich 1 - 1 Chelsea Southampton 2 - 3 Swansea Tottenham 1 - 3 West Ham West Bromwich 1 - 0 Arsenal what do you mean deluded?

Atticus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What would have become of Lennon too? Doubt there > would have been a dalliance with a Frog Chorus, > mind. Have you not seen steveo's Plastic Ono Flaming Lips Band thread/clip!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXXn3-UpusI

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > unruly hedges at the front of ones propoerty, > plums in ones saniflow, removing toys from ones > pipe?!?!? > For goodness sake people get with the > programme!!!! To be fair the hedge was only trimmed 'door to door' which must have left a lot of unsightly foliage.

Someone was just taking the P.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > And I've definitely been a bit 8 (is that like 8 > bit?) *hangs head in shame again* Eight perchance*? *11.1

Dopamine1979 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gom? Goms - Irish for fools (and clich?d fools at that - and yes I realise that may be the point but I found it a bit ott)

I suspect DB's list is like anyone elses - 10% actually read, 40% started and never finished, 20% seen the film, 20% bought intending to read (just haven't got around to it yet) and 10% on the shelf just to look good and/or impress girls/boys/the boss/the staff/the shrink/the vicar/the in-laws/etc.

Seriously? Not as eye-achingly poor as the Jason Byrne thing admittedly but still full of goms.

my one point up to 4 thanks to L'pool.

the cruelty's been notched up - almost as though they've only just realised that we(don't) watch purely to see the pain.

Burbage Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ???? Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Pretty dull nowadays, the old it was better 2 > > years ago clich? can be changed to 4 > > Which begs the question of why more seem addicted > to it now it's turned, to use a culinary analogy, > from crack to porridge. > > The absence of unmitigated strife is, at least > arguably, a good thing, and I can see the benefit > of single-issue, single-author threads where > monomaniacs can gibber to themselves without > upsetting others. It follows in the recent > tradition of public bodies which, however short of > cash, find time and money to set up forums and > meetings and consultations and communications > units to focus on ever more detailed aspects of > their work in the strategic hope of being able to > place any future fall-out at the doors of a > handful of bewildered public. But what's a sound > component of a panjandric arse-concealing strategy > isn't necessarily so useful in the context of a > discursive forum. And that makes it particularly > baffling that so of us are now incapable of > reading a thread without appending an entirely > inoffensive version of what we'd like people to > think our opinion might be. > > I'm of the mind that, as the economy plummets, > inflation rises, wages falls, unemployment hovers, > gas prices loom and the overweening futility of > what passes for a human life looks more like a > bleakly cosmic giggle, people turn to the forum in > the same way as, in decades past, they would turn > to suet pudding or (in more elevated households) > banana custard. By dripping our polite and neutral > contributions into the communal mix, like > spoonfuls of Horlicks into Grandma's toothless > maw, we're adding a dose of fluffiness to what we > hope will become a respectful utopia, > spontaneously arising from a pleasantly public > denial that there's anything out of place in this > best of all possible worlds. It's pure escapism, > of course. But there's little enough of that > available elsewhere, outside of the Daily Mail, > since the soaps went all gritty. > > But however attractive escapism might be, it's > never buttered any parsnips or shifted much in the > way of canine excrement. It is therefore our > certain duty to clamp down on it. We must quash > unwarranted optimism with the same vigour as we > sit on the deluded, scurry at the legal threats of > cake-shops or, with all due respect, drive out > irrelevant nostalgia. q.e.d.

1 point only thanks to So'ton.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am getting quite worried now. We had an easy > start (on paper) that's gone now. What I am > heraing is that Nolan's ineffectual without Caroll > and being carried and Sam's one striker tactic > with a useless striker is, er, useless. CHANGE IT > YOU FAT **** yep - When I first saw the fixture list I thought if we had points in double figures by now we'd weather the on-coming storm of playing the bigger boys - yet this was inevitable and clear to abso-fucking-lutely EVERYbody since before the transfer window closed - in fact since ?5m was spent on Downing in mid August.

Gnnnf... no..Fnnnrgh!... striker... gmmmmmph... cow's arse...snnnnkkl.. banjo... gaaaah

I went for a Spurs win (2:1) also - AND a L'pool win over Sunderland (3:1) but have Gooners and Swans at 2:2.

Norfolking chance

My OH was pestered and pestered when there a few months back and when polite refusals fell on deaf ears had to tell them to Fk off.

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > maxxi Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > So, looking forward to Everton game with brand > new > > striking saviour Mladen Petric (brought to the > > club because Carroll is not yet fit to play and > C. > > Cole's return was ruled out as he was not fit > to > > play) who is... not yet fit enough to play. ha > > bloody haaa. > > Never fear, Carlton's > here...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/a > rticle-2434272/West-Ham-ready-sign-Carlton-Cole-sh > ort-term-deal.html He's 4th in the queue - after Dean Ashton (he's got one good ankle), Frank McAvennie (he's finally quit the booze and his and Andy Goram's chat tour isn't selling tickets so he may be forced into a come-back), and my dog. My dog is blind. And I don't have a dog.

steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't have these identity problems because I > live in Dulwich, neither East, nor West, not North > nor Village. > > Dulwich I live in down-town Dulwich, aka The Valley.

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Question for the 'appy 'ammers amongst us. > Would you want Di Canio as your manager?... Broadly what EP said. I would have liked PDC at one time but I think he's going a leetle beet craze - not that that would be a bad thing right now. Can't shake the feeling that present club tactics (manager, squad) are just to 'maintain' so as not to rock boat of Olympic park move. Any adventure is being suffocated so our chairmen can make a bit of dosh on the Boleyn redevelopment.

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You won didn't you ? Zactly - cup game? okay, play well. Relatively unimportant cup game? fine, play like demons to get the win. Back to the league? cows arse and banjo time. That's the West Ham way.

Lowlander Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For anything fresh like bread and olives I can > simply pop into Franklins or the ED deli, both > very reasonable priced compared to Sainsburys or > Tesco I believe. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...oh stoppit my side hurts.