WhatAboutTheFinish

...and as serious as cancer. POB you sound like a good guy and I enjoy a lot of your posts but I find it unbelievable you think it's unbelievable that you were kicked out of someones house for going through a 16 year old girl's bedroom (I'm assuming you are over 18 ). Nice bit of paraphrasing of some my previous comments (in other threads) too. Just for the record I said that the REASONS cited for having children are based either on a mental weakness OR an emotional need. If you would like to put forward just one reason for a couple living in Britain today to have children that is based on a sound logic then I'll be happy to retract the statement.

I'm hoping that when you sober up you realise that rummaging through people's drawers after being invited into their home is actually bang out of order. It may be acceptable on 'Come Dine With Me' but not in the real world! Putting aside the fact that finding a vibrator funny is puerile, there should certainly be less shame associated with getting yours kicks from sex toy than from the public humiliation of 16 year old girls.

Collective moral outrage.

Well given that the general (rather depressing) consensus is that finishing 7th next season would be considered some sort of achievement, if we are to change I hope that we go for a manager who is entertaining and flamboyant himself or has the ability to produce a flamboyant and entertaining team. I'm beginning to like the idea of Bernd Schuster. OK the guy has a history of falling out with boards, falling out with the media and being an advocate of the Kevin Keegan book on defensive tactics. However, he's played at the highest level, managed at the highest level (last man to lead Real Madrid to a La Liga title), would command respect of the players, has a big enough name and reputation to attract new players and would undoubtedly set the team up to play an exciting, attacking brand of football. Plus, he's available!

Bernd Schuster?

This would be a grave day, it would pain me to renew a season ticket to watch that clown. This! I like to think of myself as a fairly easy going sort of guy but even being linked with that idiot is winding me up to breaking point. Please, please, please NO!

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Very good post which pretty much sums up a lot of my thoughts on the subject. Punishing someone for their entire life over a mistake (albeit an horrific one) they made at the age of 10 or 11 is not the mark of a civilised society. You also raise a valid point with regards to parental responsibility and I for one would like to see this ingrained in law. If I own a dog and it bites somebody I get a fine, if I have a child that bludgeons another child to death nothing happens to me? This can't be right!

Not sue if this has been mentioned already but did any body see this http://bbc.in/hm3CsI recently on the BBC? "Start of the season", "Good premier league club", plus who we eventually went for, does anybody else think this could have been us in for him? If it was, should we go back?

Any prediction on what the GE would have been under AV would be fairly pointless, as it's impossible to work out terribly accurately. We don't know how people would have placed their alternative votes, if they used them at all. Any prediction on it would be proper finger in the air stuff and most likely wrong because of the assumptions made to make it. I was thinking more along the lines of "If there was a general election today how would you vote under system A, then system B" kind of opinion poll as opposed to retrospective guessing. I am surprised neither side has tried to put these kind of statistics forward to support their argument, which maybe suggests it's not really going to change any results at all?

Have any of the big opinion poll firms released stats on what the results of a general election would be under both systems? It would be interesting to see the comparison, I'd much appreciate any links or info.

There is also a road in the centre of Warsaw, Poland, called Ulica Kubusia Puchatka, which translates as Winnie-the-Pooh Street.

OK potty mouth! Probably because it doesn't contain any swear words, doesn't mention the blues or doesn't start with the words "Stand up if", therefore very much not de rigueur at VP.

Here it is in action http://bit.ly/i7zkpS Here is the actual tune http://bit.ly/hHvXM5 I'm with paulanddonya on this one...this gets my vote every time.

Talcum Powder! So this is what internet forums would have looked like in the nineteen seventies I did get some in a very good talc in a Hai Karate gift set once.

I've always been a big fan of The Bells are Ringing and have never understood why it is hardly ever sung at home games. I know it may not be considered very cutting edge by the younger generation but you have to remember YNWA is from one of the campest musicals of all time. I think that whatever song chosen the club should record a version with the Villa words in and play it over the PA pre game...like they used to do with Dwight Yorke Dwight Yorke.

Why have all the bookies (except Laddies and Betfair) closed the market on this?!

I for one would be delighted to see Sven appointed. His managerial achievements pretty much pee all over any of the other (realistic) candidates that have been mentioned.

.....I'd also like to see this, with Marcel Desailly as his deputy.

I keep changing my mind every two minutes who I'd like to see as manager. At the moment though I think I'm in the give Kevin MacDonald a shot at it camp. He's done everything he possibly could with the reserves, maybe he deserves a chance to show if he can make the step up?

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