LondonLax

Yeah if there were a massive empire state building creature down there built to survive the pressure it would probably explode if it ever tried to come to the surface where there wouldn't be enough pressure to hold it together. That would be cool to see...

i will be there too, any more about? where you drinking in covent garden? not a clue where as never been before so anyone who has a can name a good pub to meet up in im all for it! I can name you several bad pubs. There is the Covent Garden walkabout and the truely aweful Roadhouse bar/nightclub. Actually your best bet is the Porterhouse, round the back behind the walkabout. Loads of different beers and I think they brew some themselves. It gets very busy in there though so you want to go early, they usually show football as well i think.

Yes, this whole "getting bored" idea is just wishful thinking by rival fans...

Yes I think it was that sort of poor practice that made them ripe for takeover by Santander. Standardisation is on its way.

Not growth, but a devaluing Pound will surely? That's already happened though hasn't it? It might continue to drop which would incease inflation but if it has found a level for a while then inflation shouldn't change either because of that.

There are a lot of people with large savings cheering for a big inflation rise to force up interest rates again (bringing inflation back down in the process obviously), the last couple of lines in that article suggest Hamish might be in that camp. It depends on whether you have large savings or a large mortgage as to what you will be cheering for this year. Fortunatly (or unfortunatly) I have neither

Is it just VAT? How did the return to a 17.5% rate manage to affect the inflation rates (both CPI and RPI) before January's figures? RPI has gone from -0.8% (I think) in October to 3.7% in January and CPI from 1.6% in Oct to 3.5% in Jan. And bearing in mind it wasn't exactly an unknown, it appears rather concerning that neither the BoE or the treasury were able to accurately forecast where CPI or RPI would be if the increase is just down to VAT. Yes it is not entirely down to the VAT increase, the price of fuel is up also but everying I have read says that the main reason for the spike is the fact that everything has increased by 2.5% this month due to VAT returning to normal. Why? Are they intending to reduce the VAT rate again? If talk of 20% VAT comes true after the next election then the inflation rate shortly after that might turn out to be horrendous (VAT rated goods will be, ceteris paribus, 5% higher than the previous year). No VAT won't reduce but it wont rise either so prices will stay the same i.e. there will be no inflation due to VAT changes. When the fuel price starts to fall again the inflation rate will come down even further. If VAT is increased in 6months than there will be another inflation spike that month showing prices have changed more than usual that month, then it should drop back again as there will not be a similar price increase the month after.

It's just the VAT jump back to 17.5% comming through the system. Infation will drop back down again next month. Interest rates are staying low and growth is not stong enough to drive up inflation.

Yeah.. that is odd. Roisin would be the name, for the record. I once knew a Roisin, she hated me, I was the best man at her wedding, I ruined it apparently. Miserable bitch she was Róisín Murphy is a fairly famous Roisin. She was the singer in Moloko. I saw her doing a solo show at Glastonbury a couple of years ago and she was pretty good.

Er...I would care if we lost. We have a real good chance of making the Semis which would be another trip to wembley. Anyway, I think todays performance was not a bad as some are saying. It was a battling cup tie at a muddy selhurst park. We were never going to be stroking the ball around at will with them stomping on our feet and elbowing our faces in the mud and rain. For all their battle they hardly created anything and they will have a much tougher time of it in a replay. I think we could make a few changes and put together a professional performance at home to go through.

1/13155129 or 7.6*10^-8 - so close to the odds of winning the lottery It's actually.... 1 in 3627... 1/13155129 is the odds of a pre-selected song coming up twice in a row but there are 3627 ways that can happen. But it isn't because ipod shuffle is not actually random 8)

I blame the parents, how can they let their child drink Budweiser?? They should have introduced him to some of the lovely Czech or Belgian beers...

So not much difference to the abuse MON gets when we lose then? Heck he's copping it today after a draw with Man U.

The ipod shuffle is not compleatly random, the songs are programmed to not be repeated very often so the odds would actually be higher than the natural odds you'd expect.

The thing with inequality is worth making a point on if you are talking about finacial/standard of living inequality. There is much greater equality for women and minorities than there ever has been at any other point in history (true equality has not been achieved yet but it is heading in the right direction year on year). In the general population the gap between the richest and poorest is greater than it ever has been but the large middle chunk, i.e. the majority of population, has a higher living standard than it ever has had. In other words, things were more equal before because everyone was poorer and that is not a desirable place to return to either.

Shame we didn't make the extra man count but 4 points off united is nothing to sneeze at. We are only 2 points behind 4th with a game in hand, there is no way I thought we would be this close after the run of fixtures we have been through.

I see. It's "just" that the vast majority of current clubs were non-league clubs at the time. So the fact that this meant they weren't able to compete for all these 19th century trophies is entirely irrelevant to Villa's winning them is it? Pull the other one. The MK Dons are essentially Wimbledon FC re-named and re-located. So what, change it ot AFC-Wimbledon then or any other recently formed club. The point still remains. "AFC-Wimbledon are as big a club as Spurs because they have won the same number of league titles and FA Cups as each other since 2004. You can't go back any further than that beacause AFC Wimbledon were not around then so that era can not be compared..." :bonk: This really is the stupidest aregument you have come out with yet. I'm not sure why I am bothering posting a reply to it...

Take the median age of the population. Go back to when they were say, 6-12 years old. That's when the good times were, since those were the years that a large block of the population viewed the world through the eyes of a protected child (especially if they grew up middle or upper class). John Stuart did a good bit on that the other week on The Daily Show. It's probably on youtube somewhere...

Exactly, the clubs were there, they were just non league clubs at the time. M.K Dons were founded in 2004, their fans don't go around claiming the trophies won before 2004 shouldn't be counted when comparing clubs because they were not around to compete for them before then. The whole argument is completely stupid and could only have been thought up by a Spurs fan. And they wonder why we think they are arrogant...

It's because Australia is so far away from the rest of the world! I can't go on weekend breaks to Europe from OZ

Amen. I'm off on Monday the 15th and can't wait. Literally dozens of the people I went to Uni with have left for Oz, the US, Canada or NZ in the last three or four years - loads of people I served with have done the same. People who think that Britain is not broken, but bad and declining across many spheres of life (and have the option to leave) have been voting with their feet for a while now. It'd be interesting to know the main reasons given for leaving by recent UK emigres. Yet so many Aussies, Kiwi's, South Africans and Europeans keep moving here, well to London anyway. Perhaps we could set up some sort of official exchange programme

Joey, Milner has been fantastic in the middle for us. The only player in the side who picks out through balls to the strikers since Merson was at the club, and he does it with both feet as well as getting more shots away (and scoring goals!) than when he played wide. He doesn't dominate the game against the top sides but hopefully that is because he has only played the role for a few months. I think he will continue to grow into it the more experience he gets and I hope Capello's suggestion that he could be the new Lampard comes to fruition.

I think this part is quite revealing...