HanoiVillan

It's very unlikely, because its system of tones is too complicated for most adults to learn. The Chinese may end up ruling the world, but they'll probably do so through Chinglish.

Yes, it's a northern thing. I do it myself as a result of living with a guy from Chesterfield for years.

I hate to disagree, but it really isn't. He'd need to win every single remaining state by massive double digit scores to even get close to matching Clinton in pledged delegates, and then she has about 300 superdelegates extra on top. Like a worm without a head, he's finished he just hasn't stopped moving yet.

Good come back

I think there's a greater than 50% chance we're looking for a new manager by Halloween no matter who we appoint. Managers at this club since 2010 have lasted an average of what, 9 months? And that's in the PL where losing most weeks has been completely acceptable to the club hierarchy for the last half dozen years. In the Championship, where everyone will be expecting us to win most weeks, a bad start and whoever it is will come under very quick pressure, from all sides.

Some people may be of the opinion that 'stabilising' at a lower level is beneficial for a short time. A few posters have expressed that view I think. The problem, obviously, is the financial implications from decreasing parachute payments.

Well, I mean, it just clearly isn't. I'm not going to blame him for, say, the excessive damming of the Mekong river.

Yeah, a quite incredible story that was. Probably off-topic for this thread!

Ah, is this connected to your memorable date night?

He's a journo from the Brum Mail.

My immediate assumption was that this must be some kind of hoax, but googling around apparently not. It's good to make people feel included no matter what, but obviously some degree of common sense is required. The immediately obvious question is why they didn't have three boxes saying something like 'boy', 'girl', '_________________', or if they wanted to be more PC about it, 'defines as boy', 'defines as girl', 'defines as __________'.

A statement which you should be able to laugh off, but then you're forced to remember that 2/3 of the board are Lerner and Krulak, so I certainly don't think howling stupidity can be dismissed outright as a possibility.

Blues, basically.

To be fair, a fiver on relegation at 20/1 sounds quite appealing.

What I'm like reading this argument: What I'm trying to be like:

Obviously is very unlikely, but odds like these are inherently risky, especially if there has been a levelling off in the league that continues next season. As I said before, they wouldn't give a horse with three legs those kind of odds.

He hasn't done much, but there have been a few flashes. His assist to Gabby against Norwich was something nobody else in the current squad would have done. That's not enough to declare him a success obviously, but I'd like him to get more time. Clearly Eric Black thinks otherwise - he'd rather play a man whose contract expires in 2 games' time - another genius decision from Mr Brainbox.

I suppose it's because I know he can do better. This is a guy who tore up the Championship and then the PL when Swansea first came up, and has since done absolutely nothing. He got his big money move to Man City, he got the car and the girl and the bank account and he's plainly given up trying to improve himself (or even re-attain his former level). We signed him directly after he'd been on a disastrous loan spell at Albion where he couldn't get in the team because he was so lazy. I don't believe that's changed at all. Compare him to somebody like Sigurdsson, who also left Swansea to go to a bigger team that didn't work out and then had to head back down the division. Who works harder? Who cares more? Who do you think spends more time on the training pitch? I know what I think the answer is.

We won't appoint a manager now until the season ends. I hope one will swiftly follow, along with (more importantly) a pink slip for E Black Esq.

Just to add my name to the long list of people disagreeing with this comment. I literally couldn't give a toss about English teams in Europe. Win, lose, draw, doesn't bother me one way or another. I don't know who's left in Europe this season, or indeed if any of them are left. Couldn't. Give. A. Toss.

But West Ham are in a different league to us (I know literally, but I mean metaphorically). They have an enormous taxpayer-gifted stadium on mates rates that has catapulted them in an instant into being one of the biggest clubs in the country. West Ham winning the league next season would have a little novelty value, but (as well as being really **** annoying given their frankly criminal deal) it wouldn't give me any hope. Leicester give me hope. If Leicester can do it, so could we, one day, maybe, before I die.

Well I don't, I think it's nonsense on stilts to be honest. What even is supposed to be the mechanism here? I think we can all agree that this has been our worst season in a very, very long time. I'm 29, and I've never seen a worse season. We've played lower league teams, in this terrible season, four times in cup competitions. Our record is won three, drawn one. So what does it matter? Were those teams trying really, really hard? Did it make the slightest bit of difference to the outcome? In summary, I question a] whether this dynamic even exists (when it seems to imply footballers aren't trying that hard in the other 90% of games they play), and b] whether it matters in the slightest even if it does exist. If we have a good team next season (I find this possibility very unlikely) then we'll win lots of matches. If we have the same shit team, we'll lose lots of matches. But it'll because we're good or we're shit, not because other people were trying really really hard.

I just can't even relate to that behaviour. Why take a child to a movie that's going to be beyond them? Why a toddler to a screening of anything that's not a 'mother and baby' screening?