tonyh29

Aye that is spot on clearly didn't work for The Special A.K.A. :winkold:

and yet some "experts" are saying that Achtung Baby was totally different to anything before it :confused: though I know nothing about music according to you :winkold: and I'm probably not really qualified to say this but to my ears Achtung baby doesn't sound anything like the Joshua tree .... Chillis have been mentioned a few times but people are aware that they were treated within the music industry as a joke to start with , It is the same funk rock over and over. The same instrumentation. The same beat. Nothing changes .... now despite that i don't' mind a lot of their music but with lyrics such as Compare us to a ferris WHEEL Just be sure of what you want to STEAL My disenchanted DIPLOMAT Asleep inside the LAUNDROMAT Hop along to the cowboy BEAT When I feel your fire jump up to MEET I think even at his pretentious best Bono is a better lyricist than Keidis ... now i know it's trendy to bash / knock U2 but they must have been doing something right to have shifted 150 million + records ??

It has been said that this was exactly Browns take on it as well... Doesn't explain the announcing the intent to sell in advance though :confused:

Arguably it's a pointless accolade but "Irish rock band U2 have been named by readers of Q magazine as the greatest act of the past quarter of a century. " discuss ... personally i like their music and they've always put on a good show when I've seen them .. trying to think of a band who I could feasible "vote" for over them ? I'd love it to be true but I somehow doubt it is but at one concert Bono was doing his preaching bit , he stood on stage clicking his fingers and said "Everytime I click my fingers a child in Africa dies " to which someone shouted out "well stop clicking your fu**ing fingers then" as a U2 related quiz question ..who is this ? no cheating now ....

Not very good with words so I'll borrow some from Paddy as a (hopefully) fitting tribute of the sort of guy he was

yeas and No depends where he invested the money generated by the Gold he sold ... some rough calculations if he put it into Government bonds meant that he "only" cost us around £6 - £9 bn Interestingly there was an opinion from some economist the other month that osborne has messed up by not buying into Gold , despite it's somewhat high price at present ...

A topical one But , What would have happend had the Egyptian leadership not prevented Gaddaffi from sinking the QE2 ??

Brown was advised by just about everyone he consulted not to sell . If I recall he announced the sale in advance thus ensuring we managed to get a rock bottom price... Now the man was an idiot but I dont think he was (totally)stupid and so one has to wonder what the real reason was for offloading the gold... Maybe there was something in the "carry trade" rumours around that time concerning gold ... And maybe Brown had no choice ?

The latest punctuality data shows 18.8% of TGVs and Corail trains reached their destination late A study of 20 German railway stations published by the consumer advocacy group Stiftung Warentest found that only 32 percent of long-distance trains arrived on time. To make matters worse, three out of four high-speed ICE trains were delayed. meanwhile : The number of trains on time in the period March 6 to March 31 reached 92.9% compared with 93.5% in the same period last year, Network Rail (NR) said. :winkold:

which coup do you think will happen first , Millibands or Camerons ? Ed will obviously get replaced by brother Dave , but who do you see out there challenging and beating Cameron ? Fox was one possibility but he has now gone ... David Davis may fancy his chances and of course Boris believes he should be PM but would the party ..and indeed the public ever vote for him on a grand scale ?

Nice to see Cameron annoying the French today ..another plus point in what has been a very good week for him and it seems unlike Blair who always capitulated to the French Cameron secured agreement that non-euro countries would be invited to the bank rescue summit next week and also a “safeguard clause” that the eurozone would not be allowed to take any decisions on issues that affected all the EU’s 27 members.

What do people make of this little device ? Capture living pictures the photo gallery gives you an idea of what it can do ... double click on the Butterfly or Spider etc etc

he says blind and you'd have to be black not to see it ...

Isn't part of the problem that Given isn't actually good at crosses ? Great shot stopper , maybe even the best in the Prem but always rooted to his line on corners

My mate rang me from Thailand as he was watching it and was so baffled by it ... So I just broke my villa exile and watched it on MOTD Never a penalty and never a red card A decision that maybe cost us the game today ... (You can argue about the Hutton challenge of course )

your statement suggests that this is something new which is rather misleading ... the biggest hike in fuel bills was between Oct 07 and Oct 08 where the average bill went up from £865 to £1215 but that probably doesn't fit the idealogical line so is ignored ?? for me the worse part of all the high bills is "Green taxes designed to meet a £200billion bill to switch to wind, wave, solar and nuclear power currently add around £100 to annual bills" yet more "green "stealth taxes that almost certainly wont get used where they are meant to and shouldn't be passed onto the consumer

it's political correctness gone mad I tells ya

it's a strange one for me .. was he executed by a mob ..almost certainly ... did he deserve it ..almost certainly .. does that make it right ..almost certainly not but saying that I doubt many people will be shedding a tear over his death

interesting comment from the US regarding the Browns "The Browns will never improve until Lerner sells the team to an owner that actually cares about football. Just look at how well the Parcells rental worked down in Miami. Holmgren will be back in Seattle a richer man and the Browns will be in no better shape than the day he took over." seems it's not just Villa he is holding back then ...

maybe next he will come out and say " We not only saved the world" you really have to stop trying to pass of "blogs" as fact

let me guess Thatcher forced Argentina to invade the Falklands as part of a conspiracy to boost her popularity and Chamberlain declared war on Germany in an early re-election campaign bid :shock:

no that is a conclusion you have rather bizarrely come to ... but it WAS Cameron who persuaded the UN into drawing up a new United Nations security council resolution that would include a threat to impose a no-fly zone ( after European leaders failed to give clear support for a no-fly zone at an emergency European summit )

The action in Libya was authorized by the United Nations Security Council. in Iraq it was not The Arab League urged the UN to take action against the Gaddafi regime, they did not in Iraq No false allegations were made against the Gaddafi regime, of being in league with al-Qaeda or of having a nuclear weapons program etc etc so i suspect the sick you can taste is due to the actions of Blair rather than my consistent views on the matter

Seriously? All the facts regarding the start of the conflict point towards the French government initiating the action. Cameron hardly stuck his neck out by agreeing with the French any more than condemning the French plans and actions would have been. From the start of events : Cameron took a bold gamble two weeks ago when he became the first Western leader to call unequivocally for a no-fly zone to protect anti-government rebels from the bloody reprisals undertaken by forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator At the time, there seemed to be little appetite for the measure elsewhere.

I know it embarrasses you immensely that Blair and brown cosied up to Gadaffi and sold out the Pam Am victims to grab a quick buck out of Libya but your deflection attempts are still poor even by your standards Compared with Labour’s protracted, painful and highly controversial conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan Cameron’s intervention in Libya has been a triumph of foreign policy.... without the French and UK Libya would still be under the control of Gadaffi ..Simples