Huguenot

I'm guessing the FA have a good reason as to why they've given a different penalty. I'm intrigued to know what it is though! Apparently Suarez was heavily penealised because he racially abused Evra persistently throughout the game, so it could be the Terry's infringement was considered to be a one off during a heated exchange. It also seems that neither Suarez nor Terry are considered racist by the FA, it was the language they were both penailsed for not the intent.

Same reason middle aged men go uuuUUUUUUHHHHHHMMMM in the middle of their sentences - to prevent other people butting in when they need time to think. It's a filler word. Used to be 'innit', d'innit? In Singers they go 'laaaa'. The kids won't even notice they are saying it in the same way that nobody realises they say 'uuumm' every seven or eight words until you record them and play it back. If you're really interested, it was traced back to California's 'Valley Girl' speak - as brought to the world in the 1995 film 'Clueless'. It's white, middle class, ditzy and materialistic.

Hasn't it been generally accepted for years that a significant pressure on female appearance is generated by competitive pressures from other women, not men...? Anecdotally, in my meagre experience with women, it's only when other women get involved that everything goes nuts on the apperance stakes.

Botox is a lethal neurological toxin that prevents muscles from working. When injected in small quantities into the face it paralyses facial muscles and prevents your face from doing that nice crinkly thing when you smile, or any other expression for that matter. Hence less wrinkly, but also less able to communicate anything through your face and that weird plastic look. Nice eh?

Inflation isn't supposed to be kept down, or there is no incentive to trade - it needs to be usually around 2% - 3%. Whether Mervyn King is impacted by this will depend upon what index his pension is linked to. If his pension is linked to the retail price index the he won't be bothered by changes in inflation as his pension will always have the same purchasing power. Hence he wouldn't have an interest in either high or low inflation.

Good for you emc, balls of steel etc. :) Doesn't get away from the fact that I find this a sad practice on so many levels. The party thing seems really odd - nervously chatting women periodically getting up to be serviced by a man in a white coat with a needle, hoping that physical mutliation for an improved look will help them better cater to societies prejudices.

Everybody's business changes, everyone is suffering cuts and everyone is suffering pay freezes and job losses. I don't see why the fire service should be any different. If the nature of the job is changing, away from firefighting and toward education and fire prevention then the business should be structured accordingly. If you've managed to do 20% more with your time, then what on earth were you doing before? By the way, you won't win any arguments by telling people they're too stupid to understand. If shifts haven't changed and absenteeism is dropping then it simply tells us that something else is going on - you're not going to build any sympathy by implicitly suggesting that firefighters who don't like the new shifts are skiving.

It's nothing to do with the shift systems. You explicitly said that sickness and lateness had dropped for the stations that DIDN'T change to the new system. So nothing has changed except they're suddenly not sick and actually turn up to work. How do you account for that? Remember - you can't mention the new shift systems in your answer because these guys have not been subject to it. Regarding the FBU, all unions have an explicit responsibility to improve the salaries, terms, working conditions and perks of their employees. That's how they get members. It doesn't take a genius to see that increasing salaries, holidays and perks for firefighters can be in direct conflict with trying to create a more efficient, better structured and more appropriate fire service. That's why they only give one side of the story.

Finland is Europe's largest ice cream consumer, with around 14 litres per head per year. It's a VERY cold and VERY wet country, but its residents are notoriously crazy in the head.

It's all a bit kneejerk food snob. If I told someone I'd put E160c in their egg sandwich they'd do their nut about chemical 'muck' in food. If I told someone I'd put paprika in it they'd compliment me on my creative flair with spices. However, E160c is paprika.

Yes, without an emulsifier the mixture would separate very quickly.

Maybe ring up BT and ask to get a line installed and ask what the number is?

So then that's basically all you've got in those ingredients, with a slight change for vegetarians. The only addition is the stabiliser, which your Gran would also require if she wanted to retail the stuff and have it on shop shelves for months. Hardly 'muck'.

Well by your own logic, if we don't waste ?530m on technology that doesn't work, we can make all those cuts to funding without damaging fire cover or personnel? That's the problem with FBU logic - it's not logical. BTW, the fact that we've had cuts in the past is no logic for not having cuts now. That's more of a whinge than a reason. Also, if the stations who have not changed their shifts have seen sickness and lateness reduce, then surely that means that before this year there was more malingering and skiving? Not a great advert for the service, and evidence in itself that things needed sorting out. Most of your arguments are disconnected headlines designed to 'shock', but the reality is that it's all partial and misinformation.

Well, that won't make you any cookies - what ingredients are you proposing for those? Gotta compare like for like.

The last time the subject came up, we were promised London would be burnt to the ground in 48 hours and that new shift patterns couldn't possibly work because all the Firemen would die or something. London didn't burn to the ground, and the shift changes seem to have resulted in coming 5% under budget. Can we be forgiven for not believing the claims from the unions this time as well?

Which ingredient is muck BNG? You've got your standard ice cream, plus the flavours for cookies and vanilla. What's your problem? And, God bless, what are you getting so angry about? Bizarre.

If you know the name of the current or previous tenants, howabout looking them up in the phone book? If you don't know the name, try looking up the address on the voting register and them looking them up? Businesses sometimes buy the telephone directory on disc, and they may be able to do a search on the address if you know someone who has this?

It's bonkers to imagine that hospitals can be run by doctors and nurses, they're taught medicine not administration of the healthcare business. If the trust managers are professionals in the healthcare industry, then they are healthcare professionals. It's also a bit rude and belittling. This 'snobbery' that unless you directly administer medical aid you are unnecessary in healthcare is plain daft. It may well be that there is too much bureaucracy in the NHS, but that doesn't mean it can be rejected altogether.

Juke box? Sounds a little bit gentrified to me. Are there any unspoilt places where men in top hats sip mint juleps at the bar and you can still catch cholera in the toilets? Or pick any other time in history and claim that's the 'unspoilt' time ;-) Anywhere that stinks of piss and poverty must be better after all! Poor people are more 'real'.

Eh? What did you think went into ice cream? There doesn't seem to be anything in there that you could classify as muck?

Pilot's license?

I can't make out what these guys want, what they do, what they intend to achieve or whether there is any logical reason to support them. The website is so vague it makes Sarah Palin look decisive and well informed.

Isn't a bit vague? The NHS will say it's trying to do all of those things anyway, and will also say that the proposed new system will improve on that. You need to be more specific surely? Nebulous ideas about generally spending less on marketing are part of that - unless you have specific issues then you can't really campaign.

I'm not sure that you can have anything that 'replaces' religious words - hence heck or gosh would both be out, as would be crikey. Well Blow Me Down might get a few votes. Stu Francis has probably got a few. F*ck me sideways would probably be a bit rude to replace it.