Clarry

There was a man unconscious on the oavement outside of Streatham High Road police station a few years back. I went into the station and told them and they told me to go to the phone box and report it....

The fish symbol comes from a play on words I (Jesus) C (Christos) etc...and he was know as the fisherman. Whether the use of fish comes directly from earlier usage, cannot be proven or disproven, unless someone left a manual. It's like relating the pyramids of Egypt to those in Mexico. Makes nice stories, but they are in fact very simple structure/shapes (but a bugger to build).

In archaeology we used to look at all religions as cults. e.g. the cult of Mithras, the cult of Christianity, the cult of Judaism. cult    –noun 1. a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies. 2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult. 3. the object of such devotion. 4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc. 5. Sociology . a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols. 6. a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader. 7. the members of such a religion or sect

There's a fair few* dissenters that are from Ireland, and Houllier is French. I see.... *does two = a few?

Poland is pretty much "half-price". So beer about £1 - £1.50 and decent grub for about £5. Try Wroclaw (pronounced Vrrokswav). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wroc%C5%82aw http://www.wroclawcitybreaks.com/index.htm

Pull your foreskin over your head piss and drown yourself.

Yes it is ...is this the 5 minute argument or the 10? Sorry, this is "being hit on the head" lessons Piss off, no it isn't... 56 pages to go It's like a Sixth Form common room in the 70s.

Bond was half Scottish/half Swiss. The wiki atricle stirred the memory of years ago the James Bond newspaper strip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond

here here well done thetrees and gazton 'magnum pi' If I was Randy I'd make it worthwhile for thetrees not saying anything in the future!

Yep, I like that. How many coaches does a first team usually have? 1 manager, 1 assistant manager, 1 coach and 1 goalkeeper coach? Liverpool had Roy Evans with the ladder to get the ball back.

His heart problem was nothing to do with stress. It wasn't a heart attack at all, but a tear in the aorta which was fixed. And you don't have to spend the rest of your life with no stress after a "normal" heart attack anyway (unless you have a diseased heart or go back to clogging up your freshly scraped arteries). Why would part of the recovery of a lot of heart surgery be on an exercise bike/rowing machine raising blood pressure if this was the case.

Looks wise, Fleming said Bond looked like the singer Hoagy Carmichael. Google image it, I can't be botherd with it!

Reading that book at the moment. Very entertaining.

What happened to 2, 3 and 4 or are you an innumerate thicko? Sorry, that wasn't too nice. Just being passionate.

Absolutely. Maybe 3 players, though!

I'm a few episodes into Mad Men season 4 and it is still excellent.

We do not want Shearer.

'Soccer' is just as legitimate a term for association football as 'football' is. It originates from an abbreviation of association, 'assoc', which mutated into 'socca' and later to 'soccer'. All of this happened many, many moons ago. The idea that the word 'soccer' is some abhorrent American bastardisation is a phallacy. Many English speaking countries, such as Australia, Ireland and the USA, have more than one type of 'football'. (Aussie Rules, Gaelic Football, Gridiron.) The word 'football' in these countries has always been used to describe the native sport. Therefore, the use of the word 'soccer' is necessary in order to differentiate between the different codes. Just because the use of a certain word is the norm in England doesn't mean that that it should be the norm for all English speaking countries. (P.S. I really don't want Bob Bradley to be our next manager, but for reasons more meaningful than his vocabulary.) Used to be the norm in the 70s in the UK.

Understand what you're saying. Only heard the "headlines". Looked into it and saw the stuff about credit agencies being involved. Hmmmm. It still doesn't take away from the fact that it is aimed at the bottom and not at the top (as society is so often percieved).

I'm not too bothered about a crackdown on benefit fraud. Fraud is fraud. Crime is crime. But when are they going to announce a crackdown on tax fraud and the millions that illegaly change hands in banking/hedge funds because of slack regulation? Probably never, because once more it's easier to get the "little" man. I suspect the pay by result method they propose will see thousands of **** ups, along the lines of parking tickets and clamping etc.

Then you are indeed a wise man.

Absolutely. It always amused and bemused me the number of people bemoaning (rightfully) Labour's infringement on freedoms, but them thinking that the Conservatives would be some sort of Martin Luther King/Nelson Mandela "free at last" party. It's the Keystone Cops handing their truncheons over to the Gestapo.

I'm all for community and voluntary work, and millions in this country do it already. However, I fear "Big Society" will go like this; taking the Parks division of a Council as an example. Cuts are made, jobs are lost. Voluntary Parks support is created. The unemployed are co-erced into "volunteering" to keep the parks tidy/safe etc. And don't forget voluntary contributions to upkeep the park you have already paid for. It'll probably be in areas that will not affect MPs and their families of any political hue, so that's alright.

A lot of the overspend on BSF is on private "consultants". Which, where I am is usually Aussie and NZ graduates getting £40,000+ for jobs which are basically admin. I'm a leftie, but I blame Labour and my Council for this. But I don't begrudge the workers this, because to get people on 2/3 year contracts they are more likely (in my mind) to have to offer a higher wage because of the short -term employment. Hence the popularity with "Aussie/NZers. I wouldn't rick it. Give me a lower wage and longevity(soon to go though!) And it's easier to get Anderson's Consultants to bring in the staff than to have you're own Council HR advertise, recruit and employ. Easier, not cheaper. But the schools built round me are very impressive. It seems to be the British disease (under any political hue) though, that whenever something "big" needs building, the costs are higher than anywhere else because of the "old boys" culture. Wembley being an example. And the Olympics...what a surprise that some on the committe own large tracts of land where the Olympic Village is being built. Back to the school building projects...we have MPs telling children in some schools to stay in their disgraceful classroom conditions. High-waged men and women, some being millionaires and multi-millionaires, telling schools (and thus children) to put up with it. Would they sit in Parliament with leaking roofs, no heating in winter and no air-conditioning in summer? Or their constituency offices? No. Child abuse.

If you know a child is in a prefab classroom that is unbearably hot in summer and freezing cold in winter you do something about it, whatever the cost. To withdraw the money and leave them there is child abuse.