Idiot Wind

I have decided to skateboard everywhere these days. There's just as much carrying capacity as the TT

Unfortunately, being a diesel, it didn't possess the necessary acceleration. It has since been replaced by another car equally incapable of travelling faster than the speed of light.

'tis true that we'd need to travel for 20 million years at the speed of light...a little longer than the 20 years I mentioned! Maybe we should invent something that travels faster than the speed of light then. Or would we then go back in time? Or, we could send some people into black holes to test whether they really are shortcuts through the universe. We could send Piers Morgan as the guinea pig to map the entire universe for us. Even then he'd still be a cnut.

If we could somehow observe another planet that was inhabited but say, 20 million light years away, and concluded that it was far less advanced than ours but rich with minerals that we quite fancy ourselves........it would be quite a shock to arrive there in 20 years and find some hugely advanced race that decides they quite fancy our minerals themselves. I realise that this requires quite a few assumptions, namely the ability to travel at the speed of light yet also not bothering to have another look at the planet as we get a bit closer. Some of the facts above are fantastic, one of the most enjoyable parts about reading Dawkins' books. I'd settle for looking down at the Earth once in my lifetime.

...like a bashed crab.

And Klasnic

It's happened twice to me in just over 12 months. It isn't much fun but being professional about it the first time led me straight into a better role. Hoping the same thing happens this time too 2 months of not working is driving me insane.

Migraines aren't much fun at all. I used to get them every 9-12 months but fortunately I have only had 2 or 3 in the last 5 years. Mine start off with pins and needles in my arm and leg (always one side of the body to begin with), then my vision is affected before an extremely painful headache comes on. The worst ones end up affecting my speech and making me violently sick. I've got some industrial strength pills for it but the only solution is to try and get to sleep before most of the symptoms kick in. Lasts about 8-12 hours as well. Not much fun I can tell thee.

I don't think it was (unless there's another version). I think the book you're referring to is called Different Seasons and has 4 novellas in it, including Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, one about a kid who befriends an old Nazi and one other I can't remember. Fantastic reading.

My favourite place out of the ones I've been to - been there a couple of times now. Very jealous!!

Horrible twats

Same here! Any spares knocking about?

I love Caribbean food, one of my ex-girlfriends was half Jamaican and used to rustle up some amazing food. Shame there's not more of it around here. I get some good stuff during the week in London though. I think some of islands have quite a large Asian population (Guyana is one I think) hence some dishes containing coconut and the like....

Yeah, pretty sure we did. Counting just the clubs in the leagues now I've been to 37 - would have said it was more than that.

Pointless. The defender doesn't even fall for it. He was definitely one of the best though. Although not at fancy penalty routines.

Yep, I agree. Long may it continue as it keeps me in a job though

I'm the same, working away in London this week so I'm gutted I can't go to the match tonight.

Not yet but some of the banks, well LBG for sure, have been overpaying for the last 12 months or so and are ahead of schedule in terms of repaying the money they borrowed. The quicker they all become profitable again the quicker the share prices rise and UK plc makes a tidy profit. HSBC and Barclays didn't need Government assistance as their P&Ls are not heavily reliant on the UK market. LBG had little choice as, once they had acquired HBoS (and there were rumours in the financial press recently that they tried to pull out only for Mervyn King to virtually state that they had no choice as HBoS collapsing would crash the entire UK banking sector) the levels of losses involved meant that LBG would have been in danger of going under - this is a bank that now has almost 50% market share in most retail products. Interesting to see in Barclays annual results that the UK arm made a tidy profit but the rest of Europe had considerable losses.

I'm assuming called him Mavies is a reference to the womans name Mavis. Now then, this doesn't actually work does it. His surname would have to be Davis, like Sean Davis. As it is, it's pronounced Davees, same as Kevin Davies. Pedantic I know, but it's rare to hear the surname Davies pronounced correctly.

The cheek of it! Maybe my username should be Optimistic Wind...although don't remember that particular Dylan track.

Man Utd 85 (+48) Arsenal 82 (+44) Man City 77 (+31) Chelsea 76 (+40) ----------------- Tottenham 70 (+19) Bolton 54 (+5) Sunderland 53 (+1) Liverpool 52 (+4) Aston Villa 50 (-13) Newcastle 47 (-1) Stoke 45 (-6) Everton 44 (-6) Birmingham 42 (-13) Fulham 40 (-9) Blackpool 37 (-21) Blackburn 36 (-17) West Brom 35 (-25) ------------------ Wolves 34 (-23) West Ham 33 (-28) Wigan 31 (-30) Get the passports ready! Gonna be tight at both ends of the league I reckon. Just hope we can kick on after the Everton result otherwise that table is ridiculously optimistic.

Spurs were about as shit then as Liverpool are now. I agree, people weren't going mad about him as, quite rightly, it was his first season in the Prem and it could (and turned out to be) a flash in the pan. As could Carroll. That's the point. As for what you said turning out to be true you'd do well to get it wrong since it's already happened. I think it's a good comparison with Ricketts up to a point. The fee that Liverpool have paid is largely irrelevant given what they received for Torres and their perceived notion that they needed a striker to play with Suarez. Yes, ?35m is a huge amount of money but it's cost them ?7m to buy two strikers to replace one who didn't want to be there. Suppose it depends how you look at it.

It's irrelevant what other players cost though. Liverpool, in their minds, were desperate for a striker, had loads of cash, Newcastle didn't want to sell (for a 'market-rate' fee), so the fee went skywards. Have you ever bought a beer on a plane? Hang on, I'll change that - have you ever bought a Happy Meal at the services? Rip-off but where else are you going to get your chicken nuggets and little toy to play with?

Really? That first half of the season in the Prem he was unplayable at times - far more than Carroll has been this season I'd say. Plus, didn't Spurs go in for him only to find that he had a chronic back problem - hence the reduced fee from Boro eventually? Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Ricketts was worth anywhere near that but during those few months I think he performed better than Carroll has so far this season. Whether Carroll has a chronic injury (could his thigh injury be like Woodgate's?) and/or an attitude problem I don't know but it's not hard to imagine both of them is it?

Good news then! My SA source was clearly full of shit haha