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hycus-flange

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  1. so glad Howard saved that pen, stitch that you deluded cockney rocket polishers
  2. Try improving your readings skiills: I haven't said I don't want any Villa fans on my forum. Instead I said that the policy of the forum is to restrict it to Spurs fans. I don't make the policy. There are other Spurs forums that do allow on other fans. Seek them out if you wish. So you choose to go on a Spurs forum which doesn't allow away fans. Which is your choice. You could choose to go on a forum that does allow them. But you don't, you like to avoid fans of other teams coming on to wind you up, yet you do it elsewhere... probably because he's a Barclays Banker
  3. Pretty dead eh? As of just now .... VT: Our users have posted a total of 507,917 articles COYS: Our members have made a total of 2,669,062 posts Whatever Trevor, cant believe you are on here so early after your shite team were humiliated by Manure reserves x x
  4. a nice win for Villa, with Terry sent off, thats what i want
  5. hes just bandying around figures to make him sound like Billy Big Bollocks, they will spend next to nothing and then say the players they wanted didnt want to move in Jan
  6. i agree, there should be a "they are all shit and should never have been made" option.
  7. bellamy is an ass, but he was their best player tonight. back 4, Sidders and Gabby were the picks of our boys
  8. ^^^^^^^ should be shooting that with a .177 or .22, not a camera, vermin
  9. where is the option for Man Milk, not as i partake, but there maybe some ladies/ boys? who do and would like that option to vote for, cum on, get it on the poll. by the way, green top for me
  10. not too much to laugh at today, just wondering if we would have put up a fight like they did, fooking hate them, but they done alright today
  11. ar well, they've only got Manure first game live on telly
  12. **** the items in the picture, thats the first bit of sunlight ive seen for a month, goddam rainy summer
  13. gotta be the skynnrd track by a mile
  14. ...... I think their language is called Shard End-glish.......from a land where fake Aquascutum caps and ownership of a Staffordshire bull terrier is mandatory, together with a loving relationship with a fat bird in a fake Lacoste shell-suit who he used to call 'sis'.... not forgetting the Elizabeth Duke jewellery dripping off every appendage
  15. took my missus there for a dirty weekend, i ended up with bronchitis, sort of spoiled the weekend, nice place though.
  16. i agree the chelsea goal was good, and when he was playing for a new contract Angel was good, but to produce that form in very few games means he was either over-acheving in those games or he was lazy in 90% of the games he turned out for us. i prefer the idea that he was lazy, therefore not a hero
  17. been there, done that, fired the rifle, got the t shirt, took the photos, got the medals, and would do it again tomorrow
  18. i cant stand most of them, but my all time hate is cucumber, anything it touches tastes of the stuff, its vile.
  19. There is a lot of hype about the McDonalds' scalding coffee case. No one is in favor of frivolous cases of outlandish results; however, it is important to understand some points that were not reported in most of the stories about the case. McDonalds coffee was not only hot, it was scalding -- capable of almost instantaneous destruction of skin, flesh and muscle. Here's the whole story. Stella Liebeck of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was in the passenger seat of her grandson's car when she was severely burned by McDonalds' coffee in February 1992. Liebeck, 79 at the time, ordered coffee that was served in a styrofoam cup at the drivethrough window of a local McDonalds. After receiving the order, the grandson pulled his car forward and stopped momentarily so that Liebeck could add cream and sugar to her coffee. (Critics of civil justice, who have pounced on this case, often charge that Liebeck was driving the car or that the vehicle was in motion when she spilled the coffee; neither is true.) Liebeck placed the cup between her knees and attempted to remove the plastic lid from the cup. As she removed the lid, the entire contents of the cup spilled into her lap. The sweatpants Liebeck was wearing absorbed the coffee and held it next to her skin. A vascular surgeon determined that Liebeck suffered full thickness burns (or third-degree burns) over 6 percent of her body, including her inner thighs, perineum, buttocks, and genital and groin areas. She was hospitalized for eight days, during which time she underwent skin grafting. Liebeck, who also underwent debridement treatments, sought to settle her claim for $20,000, but McDonalds refused. During discovery, McDonalds produced documents showing more than 700 claims by people burned by its coffee between 1982 and 1992. Some claims involved third-degree burns substantially similar to Liebecks. This history documented McDonalds' knowledge about the extent and nature of this hazard. McDonalds also said during discovery that, based on a consultants advice, it held its coffee at between 180 and 190 degrees fahrenheit to maintain optimum taste. He admitted that he had not evaluated the safety ramifications at this temperature. Other establishments sell coffee at substantially lower temperatures, and coffee served at home is generally 135 to 140 degrees. Further, McDonalds' quality assurance manager testified that the company actively enforces a requirement that coffee be held in the pot at 185 degrees, plus or minus five degrees. He also testified that a burn hazard exists with any food substance served at 140 degrees or above, and that McDonalds coffee, at the temperature at which it was poured into styrofoam cups, was not fit for consumption because it would burn the mouth and throat. The quality assurance manager admitted that burns would occur, but testified that McDonalds had no intention of reducing the "holding temperature" of its coffee. Plaintiffs' expert, a scholar in thermodynamics applied to human skin burns, testified that liquids, at 180 degrees, will cause a full thickness burn to human skin in two to seven seconds. Other testimony showed that as the temperature decreases toward 155 degrees, the extent of the burn relative to that temperature decreases exponentially. Thus, if Liebeck's spill had involved coffee at 155 degrees, the liquid would have cooled and given her time to avoid a serious burn. McDonalds asserted that customers buy coffee on their way to work or home, intending to consume it there. However, the companys own research showed that customers intend to consume the coffee immediately while driving. McDonalds also argued that consumers know coffee is hot and that its customers want it that way. The company admitted its customers were unaware that they could suffer thirddegree burns from the coffee and that a statement on the side of the cup was not a "warning" but a "reminder" since the location of the writing would not warn customers of the hazard. The jury awarded Liebeck $200,000 in compensatory damages. This amount was reduced to $160,000 because the jury found Liebeck 20 percent at fault in the spill. The jury also awarded Liebeck $2.7 million in punitive damages, which equals about two days of McDonalds' coffee sales. Post-verdict investigation found that the temperature of coffee at the local Albuquerque McDonalds had dropped to 158 degrees fahrenheit. The trial court subsequently reduced the punitive award to $480,000 -- or three times compensatory damages -- even though the judge called McDonalds' conduct reckless, callous and willful. No one will ever know the final ending to this case. The parties eventually entered into a secret settlement which has never been revealed to the public, despite the fact that this was a public case, litigated in public and subjected to extensive media reporting. Such secret settlements, after public trials, should not be condoned. ----- excerpted from ATLA fact sheet. © 1995, 1996 by Consumer Attorneys of California click for link where's the punchline, i thought this was a joke thread
  20. by George, it as ta be ASDA
  21. i wanted them both to loose, but the lesser of two evil's came through in the end, at least the trophy wont get soiled with that buy the league cockney twnuts name scratched on it, and we can still sing the song to em
  22. what about Angus Young, he's way better than soft rock/pop guitarist May
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