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You're stupid

I've got a book of his "You, Me and Jesus By Cliff Richard" which I got for 50p from a charity shop. Every now and again through the book there are cartoons. Every time there's an athiest, they're always drawn as a punk with mohawk and a safety pins through their nose who does nothing but swear, kick over bins and throw beer bottles at grannies.

True, but when you played us we were also missing key players through injury with Faye, Owen, Cacapa and Duff all sidelined along with no-so-key-but-stop-you-having-to-play-good-players-out-of-position squad members like Ramage, Carr and Babayaro Boro are also lacking key players, although mainly because they don't have them in the first place rather than through injury

Just got back from the match, we were the better team and deserved at least a draw. Good performance with lots of effort all round which is all we can ask for!

http://uk.gamespot.com/users/Adam_B/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25233743 Not so much a website as a blog.

GameSpot's forums are imploding and they keep having to reset the "reader score" for K&L because it keeps ending up at 1.3. Absolute PR disaster for both parties, possibly the worst since "All I want for xmas is a PSP". Eidos have gone from having the small problem of a lackluster review on a site they paid big buck to to completely skin their front page in their game advert, to the rather larger problem of no-one trusting good reviews of their game because of the implication that the reviews were written under duress. Meanwhile, GameSpot has lost a lot of credibility and is now experiencing a concerted campaign of mobilised forum geeks cancelling their subscriptions en masse (And setting up a website to keep a tally of how much money GS has lost) while churning out internet memes by the bucketload to go alongside the cynical swipes by the likes of Penny Arcade.

Just hope it's long and it's this polished all the way through!

This. Game. Is. Awesome.

Hold on, lets put this into a little context here http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSnazipact.htm

Jesus man, do you never think to, for instance, at least scan a wikipedia article or something before jumping in with both feet into an argument? Anyway, at least the Commies were on our side during the war, we'd have been proper fucked without them

Someone 'hear' is ignoring the post they made where they demonstrated that they didn't have the first clue what they were talking about.

Huh? (reads again)..... Huh?!? Surely that's not the case at all, in fact pretty much the exact opposite. Karl Marx coined the phrase "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." ie those who are most capable do more to support those who are weaker. Indeed you see this in things like socialised medicine, something which some Americans think makes us pinko commies. Those who are highly intelligent or physically strong or excellent footballers pay taxes from the jobs they find themselves doing to pay for the care and medicine of people who are, for example, brain damaged and can't feed and dress themselves never mind go out and earn £20,000pa. Capitalism however DOES like to present as its basis this myth that everyone is the same and everyone can "make it" if they just apply themselves. Of course the truth is that if there really was equal opportunity for all and everyone decided to "make it" then the whole basis of capitalism would crumble because it needs poor people doing menial jobs to support it. Thatcherite stuff like the poll tax is the kind of mentality that assumes we are all capable of the same and can all contribute the same to society (if society existed, which of course as Maggie pointed out to us, it doesn't). So John Terry pays the same amount as some starving pensioner war veteran who can barely pay his heating bill, completely ignoring things like the ability to pay. Cue riots.

Are we talking about communism with a big C or a little C? I'm not actually sure what people are talking about at all in this thread, communist ideology, communist states, socialist ideals... In fact, I don't think any one is.

I've seen plenty of Che Guevara t-shirts, don't see many people with dictators on their shirts though.

Where to even start... You're the one unhappy with the way our legal system has been hauling their ass before the courts and slapping them with an H&S rap, maybe you're the one who should pack your bags. The Iraqi police seem to do what they want without having to answer to anyone which is why some of them have ended up so corrupt they're basically insurgent death squads in uniform, sounds perfect for you. Could you link me to that story? I'm just interested to know if that info came from the CCTV (or the CCTV which wasn't 'lost' at least) or from the police. You know, like the info about him wearing a bulky jacket in summer, looking like an arab terrorist, jumping over the ticket barrier, the lie about them telling him to stop outside the station, saying they identified themselves as police even though passengers say they didn't etc etc. The officer's account in the leaked IPCC report didn't say anything about him putting his hands together, it sounds like he didn't have a chance. A google for "jean charles de menezes hands together" doesn't yield much considering the third result is this thread. EDIT: This is the closest thing I could find, the officer saying he was worried his hands might instinctively come together, nothing about JCDM actually doing it or attempting to do it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/menezes/story/0,,2186469,00.html Strange I can't find a reference to this thing you claim I'm a "moron" for not knowing. Are you sure you've not simply mis-remembered it? A lot of people in this thread seem to have sucked up various half-truths and outright lies from the media coverage, things like him having a bag or running away from the police. The cynical among you might think releasing misinformation and retracting it later was intentionally to do this, muddy the waters and hope people rememebr the allegation but not the retraction. Even the stuff the security forces claimed about his immigration status is a bit unclear. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4713753.stm The differing views of the security forces and Jack Straw may come from the fact that the the British government has encouraged illegal immigration for years through the Inland Revenue's issue of CIS4 cards without confirming immigration status. If he JCDM had one of those and his Visa ran out (or even if he got one after his Visa expired) he would have technically been residing here illegally, but while working in the UK legally and and paying tax legally.

Looks like it's found its way on to shelves somewhere in Spain, naughty naughty.

One of the guys who tried to carry out the last attack had his car bomb towed away because it got a ticket. The other one set himself on fire. The attempted attacks in the weeks after were foiled by the incompetence of the wannabe martyrs not getting the formula of the bomb right, not by The Met. Just in case they send someone with a clue to carry out attack we need people to be held accountable when they screw up. And if you screw in a manner that results in an an innocent man being shot in the head 7 times you are going to be held accountable, copper or not. And that's how it should be. Non sequitur ahoy!

Looked like he was trying to blow up a bomb, Jesus wept, if you believe that then I've got some magic beans you might be interested in buying. He didn't have any time to do anything, the woman sat next to him said he did nowt and at first she thought he'd been picked at random because he was closest to the door. Fact is any terrorist with half a brain would have used a deadman's switch so it would have been the Keystone Cop idiots who would have detonated the bomb by shooting him anyway. It was a massive fuck up, it endangered the public and killed one of them. If you're happy with these idiots not being held to account I just hope they're not in charge of protecting you next time you get a train because even Mr Bean could outwit these hapless bunch of dickheads.

Riiiiight, so the standard procedure when stopping suicide bombers is to wait until they're on a tube full of people. At least you can scoop up the body parts easier than if they were in a tunnel.

He wasn't carrying a bag. If they were actually told he WAS a terrorist (not just that he was under surveillance because he came out of the same block of flats as a terrorist suspect) then that's even worse! They let him walk on to a bus full of people, get off, walk in to the underground and on to a packed tube without challenging him and then shot the poor fucker. If he'd been using a dead man's switch they'd have blown the whole thing to hell. I do agree that the responsibility for completely fucking up the job of protecting the public, killing one member of the public and endangering coutnless more in the process, lies higher up the command chain however. Which is why I still think Ian Blair will go, no matter how many investigations he tries to block.

Got a ticket to the Wear-Tyne derby, here's hoping I come back in one piece. It's an early kick off to stop fans turning up drunk. Meeting my mates in the pub at 7 for DJ and strippers, howay the lads!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike

Good for them, they get paid very little for producing the most important part of any production while the actors get all the glory and the sudios get all the money. The studios are bullshitting them about "not having a business model" for mobile, internet and DVD sales, so they can't offer them even a tiny percentage of profits from their work being distributed in that way. They've kind of got them by the balls though, because like I say they don't earn much and can't claim benefits while striking. I think the studios are just hoping they'll win by starving the writers. If it goes on too long turn off the telly and go down the pub, or otherwise get a life.

Boris speaks out "It's not good enough. It's not good enough just to shrug our shoulders and say that Jean Charles de Menezes was an inevitable casualty of the so-called war on terror. According to the polls I have seen, the majority of voters really seem to think we should all heave a sigh, move on, and accept that someone will always be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I say that I am afraid that will not do, because if you think about what actually happened, and you look at the real reason why an innocent Brazilian electrician had seven shots pumped into his head by the police, it is clear that we are in danger of drawing precisely the wrong conclusion. It wasn't too little concern for health and safety that did for that young man. The awful paradox is that it was too much." Good article. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/11/08/do0801.xml

Still Life and its prequel, Post Mortem are good recent point and clickers for the PC. Also enjkoyed Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and the Gabriel Knight Series, as mentioned earlier.