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Well, when your confidence and belief is getting smashed against the rocks in a sea of uncertainty, it's easy to see how you might feel threatened by an overly confident pachyderm. Anyway, he didn't even look like an elephant. Fresh ginger more like.

Yes it truly is, but I also loved the 'upbeat' second album, 'What Does Anything Mean? Basically'. Hope they put out a remastered version one day. [YOUTUBE]e4jxC_4kjg8[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]AbJbqYzfOnc[/YOUTUBE]

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+1 Rather than selling my old PC on Ebay (I'd have been lucky to clear 50 quid for it), I connected it up to the telly downstairs. Can surf the web, watch the game on sopcast, watch youtube stuff on a big screen and play games that are better with a mouse and keyboard than a joypad. Best £50 I never had.

So you got away with it then? Not fair. I always got found out, probably because I'm an utterly unconvincing liar. I'd make a shit poker player, that's for sure.

I didn't think so at the time! Now I look back though, it would have been comedy gold if the handle had come off the suitcase as he was carrying it down the stairs (6)

Me and my brother were and are still pretty close. Only a couple of fights as kids and usually my fault as I had a right temper back then. The last major one resulted in me breaking my arm on a door jamb when the fucker ducked. We were going on holiday two days later. Lesson learned, age 14. Once when we were proper young I bet him he couldn't fit into this old suitcase we had (he could) so I shut him in for a laugh. I didn't know the keys had been lost years ago so me arl fella had to carry it, with my brother having a panic attack inside, to the shed to hacksaw the locks off. Got well battered for that one. On a happier note, when we were in our early twenties we had an pissed argument, I stormed off, he ran after me and twisted his ankle. While he was signed off work and in the pub, he met his future wife and they've been together 20 years now. All's well that ends well.

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I disagree. The perfect defensive midfielder would be to give Mash Didi's discipline and intelligence :whistle: Ask yourselves this. If you were to list every centre mid that Liverpool have ever had other than Mash or Didi, who do you think would be their best partner out of the two of them? I believe Didi would be the choice most times, so I'm going with him.

I think the point was that maybe comparing Didi to Mash isn't apples to apples either. I personally believe Didi played the DM role more like Alonso did than like Mash does. He sat in front of the back four, quietly broke up play and efficiently distributed the ball. No fuss.

Different types of players. And the one that is best depends who their centre-mid partner is. Mash suited Alonso to a tee because Alonso anchored the midfield and allowed Mash to do his terrier impression. Didi was the anchor in any midfield he played in. I'd go for Didi purely because I believe he'd be a better partner for Gerrard, Lucas or Aquilani than Mash would.

Sorry mate, I'm off to bed. I'm being coerced into going to an early morning psychiatric counselling session about my paranoia/schizophrenia. Will that do? ;)

Well, you have to concede that Broughton's comments at that Chelsea do were a bit iffy? I don't care who anyone who the club employs supports, as long as they're competent and professional. Broughton showed a lack of professionalism. Purslow, a lack of competence. Moores and Parry showed both.

Not if he's as clever/self-serving as Parry.

Still leaves the problem that we're effectively run by a one-day-a-week Chelsea fan who thinks Torres should leave for his own good, and a Liverpool 'fan' who thought it was a good idea to shell out £8m to replace Rafa with Roy. Frying Pan. Fire.

Luckily for us(!), the debt is so high that asset stripping won't work. Sell off the players, the ground, the LFC brand (which would be worth fuck all by then, anyway), would that bring in the £350 million just to break even? No chance. Wouldn't put it past the cunt to try, though.

Let's not forget Hodgson is 62 years old. He wouldn't be a long-term appointment, new owners or not, and he can't be lumped in with the likes of ONeill, Pellegrini, Hughes etc. If we're just looking for someone for a couple of years to steady the ship (three years according to Broughton) while we sort the club out off the field then he's probably the best manager we can realistically get. IMO of course.

Spain '82 for me, the first I can properly remember (13 years old). I have patchy memories of '78 but what a sequence 78-82-86-90 was. The magic has gone a bit now because in them days, it was usually the first time you saw a great foreign player properly. Now with wall-to-wall coverage of football and the fact we have most of the best players in the world playing in the Premiership or Champions League then there's very few surprises left. Imagine if this world cup was the first time you'd seen Messi, Torres, Villa, Xavi, Robben et al strutting their stuff. Having the effect that watching the likes of Platini, Maradona, Brazil '82, Roger Milla etc for the first time had on me. I believe that at no time have so many people in the world laughed together as when Blanco of Mexico did his first 'bunny hop' at the World Cup. At the time it was like watching Neil Armstrong do a slow-motion comedy fall down the steps of the lunar landing module. Beautiful.

Well, I for one am not accusing him of being greedy or robbing the taxpayer, but he's shown himself to be weak, insecure and dishonest. Unfortunately for him, these things are exactly what is not required in a member of parliament, let alone one charged with a task of helping to throw thousands of "fundamentally good and decent people like" nurses, doctors, firemen, policemen, civil servants, teachers, librarians etc etc onto the dole. He is now a liability in that position for this government. It's not a witch-hunt. I think he will go, he deserves to go. But I hope he somehow gets away with it, because I don't want him replaced with someone of Gideon's choosing. That would be much, much worse. EDIT: Oh, he's gone. You do have to question who is behind these revelations. My money is on the Tories, although Labour could be playing a Long Game.

Sorry Strontium, I think you are on your own with this. I can see why he did it, that the cost to the taxpayer was 'zero' and he was claiming the kind of money he would have got anyway if he'd been more honest. But unfortunately for him, he's in a role where his job is to make cuts to public spending and he can't now be taken seriously if he goes after 'scroungers' and 'benefit cheats', which is where I suspect the spending axe will fall hardest as they have a lot of public support on it. If I was claiming housing benefit to the tune of £40,000 that I wasn't entitled to because I was co-habiting and used the excuse that I couldn't tell anyone I was shagging her because my mum and my mates don't like her, I'd be laughed out of court on the way to prison. It wouldn't matter that I didn't also claim dole to which I was genuinely entitled so that it balanced out. You don't let a murderer off just because on the same day he saved a drowning man.

They really aren't. My main concern at this election is the economy, the engine that drives the country. Labour have borrowed heavily to reduce the effects of recession on the populace. And, to be fair, it seems to be working in the short term, but the UK is on life support. What to do next? Well, Labour want to carry on as they are, propping up the economy until spending cuts and tax rises are inevitable. The Tories want to cut government spending as soon as they get in, possibly meaning less tax in the future but there'll be more teachers, nurses, policemen, firemen etc on the dole. From Now. And the ones left with a job will be expected to do two people's work for less money. Less people to pay tax, more people claiming benefits. Not good. As far as I can work it out, if you are in a safe job and can ride out the storm, vote Tory. If you're vulnerable, vote Labour. If you're not sure, vote Lib Dem. :|

I use Kaspersky, and have done for 3 or 4 years. Never let me down, and if you look at the online reviews from the likes of PCPro or PCAdvisor it's been consistently in the top two or three internet security products throughout its 2007, 2008, 2009 etc incarnations. Plus it can be cheap. Especially when you consider that a valid, unused licence for an earlier version, say 2007, works for the 2010 version. It's not even a loophole, they made it that way. So you can get a licence cheap with an older version on ebay because some sellers don't realise what they're selling. For example, I bought a 1 year 5 user licence for Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 for £14 off ebay. Then downloaded the 2010 version off the Kaspersky website and used the code on that. The end result being that me and my brother have 4 PCs/Laptops protected for a smidge over £3 each. If I were you, I'd download the 30-day free trial version from their website and look for a cheap licence in the meantime. Or you could get a free product like AVG. I tried a couple of free ones (AVG, Avira) but hated them. Good luck!

I thought Lampard would get it, to be honest. He's pretty clean, a good speaker and most importantly it would head off any problems that a bitter John Terry could cause as part of a Chelsea clique. Terry seems the sort of selfish cunt that would try and bring down his replacement, so lets see if he's cunty enough to shit on a Chelsea team-mate. Oh, hang on....