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110 Tomahawks launched so far in addition to British and French aircraft flying sorties. The crap smashing has commenced in a big way.

This will get very interesting if things actually happen quickly enough to make any difference. What I'm expecting to see happen, if there is to be any chance of success, is: Various Special Forces are already in there performing training, co-ordination and recon roles. Our SAS will have been in there for weeks. Some of them were the guys that went in on Hercules a while back to get those oil workers out. US carrier-based aircraft take out air defences - and **** soon. Special Forces act as FAC, where necessary, but the static targets will already be planned for a hit. Various nations hit mobile targets, bridges and other strategic targets from the air as the Loyalists advance on Benghazi. Again, Special Forces as FAC. Hopefully some of those will be Arab League pilots but I'm sure some will be French and British. The Arab pilots won't have ever done it before but they will be well trained. The French send in the Foreign Legion to do any dirty on the ground shit - they don't ever send their own troops in if they can avoid it. If anyone is coming back in a bag they don't want it being one of their own. Yanks send in Apaches to annihilate the retreating forces and do some blue on blue. Ghadaffi does a runner on a plane and gets shot down by an F-16. Britain is seen as the saviour of Libya and we get oil concessions and the price of petrol comes down. Total result all round.

If you are staying in that part of town I'd go to the Maharaja in Hurst St. It's just round the corner from where you are staying and has been established for years. It's a traditional Tandoori style/old school Indian restaurant and you'll get better food from there than any Balti House.

You're right

When does typhoon season kick in over there?

Best before/use by dates. Not the date but the "For best before/use by see lid/label/bottom/side/neck" You **** stupid bastard words removed. If I'm looking at that crap then that is obviously where you should have put the date. You **** know that is the logical place to look which is why I'm looking there and why you are directing me to look elsewhere for what you should have put there in the first place. Cocksuckers.

Cetacean or human? If it's the former it'll have nothing to do with the 'quake. They'll have been rounded up, gaffed, hacked and clubbed to death.

Total shite

They are paid a boatload of money every week. We are entitled to ask for big and small asks EVERY game. Especially games like this.

Based on your background I'm guessing you will have a fair understanding of psychology, whether you are formally trained or not. having done what you have you must have a good understanding of how men think. This raises a couple of questions. Bearing in mind Gerrard described our 4-0 hammering in December as "the lowest point in his career", why do you think he seemed so intent on re-enacting that scenario. Dogs go back and eat their own vomit, which isn't the sign of a gentleman and I wish they wouldn't. Why do you suppose he wanted to put himself and us through it again by his team selection? Has he shown signs of masochism or self harm? Secondly, he stated in the post-match interview that Man City are, at the moment, a better team than us. Now, I must question such a defeatist statement. It suggests his belief was we couldn't win the game even before it was played and that was the vibe he put out before the match. This vibe was then augmented by the team selection. "Well (Gallic shrug) we can't win against this stronger team so we'll play a weak team and hope not to concede too many." Is this really the attitude of a winner?

Houllier should invite all the away fans out for dinner. MON is a word removed but at least he had the decency to do that after making an equally gash team selection.

**** me, Ash, that was a surprise. Fancy you hoofing a free kick over the bar by miles.

FFS

Hah hah! The final insult after a hammering, getting sent off in stoppage time!

Just watching Gaddafi's speech ATM and I can't decide if he has totally lost the plot or if the live translation is really bad. EDIT. I've decided. No matter how bad the translation it obvious he's raving mad!

Come on, boys. Let's put them to the sword this half.

Bad defending again

Cracking goal. Gabby gets a 1 on 1

Ah yes, forgot about that. Really good shout. Probably the best steak I've eaten in Europe was in one of those. Argentine beef, cooked to perfection. If you like a bit of steak, hit up on one of those bad boys.

Only in the course of my duties as a social anthropologist! Some of the things I saw were real beasts. I can only assume the 18 stone african woman who tried to call me into her parlour was catering for a niche market. If you could find the niche in the rolls of fat.

Eat vlaamse frites with mayo. I thought the idea horrible until I tried them but they are great. Also, there are some great stalls selling Vietnamese spring rolls in the markets. Much nicer and lighter than the Chinese equivalent. Can't think of much else atm, my visits weren't really to sample the higher culture. More geared to the lower culture of beer and cafe society.

Happy with that result.

This is going down to the wire

That was utterly dire. To think that shite will actually share a listing of Super Bowl halftime sets with the kicking show Prince did in the rain a few years ago. Terrible.

Indeed, there's some serious deja vu reading that Toon interview.