Chindie

How dare he play a CB out of position.

Had a look at a Desire HD today. Thats a big phone and feels rock solid in the hand. Only issue I could see was that, even with quite big hands, I'd need to adjust my grip on the phone to access all areas of the screen. But otherwise I was properly impressed. The fact it rests on it's camera lens is a bit shoddy though.

Theres little mention of the type of building that is however. From pictures it seems to be a pretty simple wood construction - Julie is talking about a steel framed building that has prefab panels completely wire and plumbed up slotted into it. The main issue with it, for me, bein that steel frames ain't cheap and either they would represent too solid a building for temporary use, or wouldn't be big enough/prepared enough to be used for long term use as, for example, housing. And I think theres a difference between the relatively clear and undisturbed ground of the Dardanelles, in an area prepared for army use and away from the main battlefield, and the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in a country with a crippled infrastructure (that wasn't much cop to start with).

Yeah I don't think it's the best system. They actively try to discourage working part time, whereas I would have thought it would make sense to encourage people to work no matter what. I mean is it better for the country for me to just not bother and just turn up once a fortnight to sign on for my £103, or to work at least some hours and then have to be given less JSA, as well as getting me into the job market in some capacity at least. I had to go in for a 'Back to Work' session last week and was basically told that, as far as the Job Centre is concerned, if I'm working part time below 16 hours a week, I'm effectively the same as someone who is completely unemployed, but has enough saved up to reduce whatever JSA I would get. As opposed to thinking of me as someone who is working short hours part time and is actively trying to get off the dole entirely. Still, at least I am working and I should get my hours up soon. Something to improve my shocking CV at least.

Part time. Very part time, until I can get my hours up. If you work under 16 hours you can still claim Jobseekers, they just adjust it to the amount you've already earned (meaning that it's actually pointless getting a part time job since you'd achieve the same thing money wise by not bothering to work at all). Still, I'd rather be doing some work than none at all. Annoyingly I've realised that it might be a little tight with my signing on and going to work so gonna have to ring to see if I can postpone going to the job centre till Monday.

Tomorrow is the first day in about 4 years where I'm busy for all of it. got to sign on in the morning (hoping they let me do it earlier than usual, shouldnt be a problem), get a couple of forms they seem loathe to give me, and then gotta go to work. It'll be bloody weird.

On your last para, theDon, I imagine that if you put that idea to Cameron or Osbourne, they'd say something along the lines of 'The bureaucracy required to make such an idea work would end up costing more than we'd save by doing it, so it's a silly idea and caps and cuts are better to route out scroungers'

I disagree that that style of building is much use for somewhere like Haiti post natural disaster.

Hmm... having watched the episode now... I can't see that taking off without considerable adjustment. the outside it's not an awful looking thing, not bad at all really but it does have a bit of the 'commercial' about it, it looks a bit like a classy visitor centre for something. Not bad though. Inside however... it just didn't work. The grid pattern everywhere was stupid, especially when it started bisecting the carpet upstairs. Thats certainly not to everyones taste. It's not horrendous and it's liveable and indeed, in parts, nice, but I can't see it being that popular. But the big issue with it is that it's not a massively original idea. Other companies already do similar things. Indeed a family on Grand Designs has already done the pre-fab house thing, where huge wall sections, with built in pipework and cables, are just slotted together in a steel frame. In fact I think it's something they've had on the show a couple of times. I can remember one guy who did it also with experience from the commercial world where they do it for speed and cost.

I'm lookinh forward to this in the same way I'd look forward to major heart surgery. Going to be a horror show I worry.

Not good enough. And playing with no strikers, leaving 2 fit ones on the bench, is just perplexing. Especially when everyone and his dog knew that it wasn't going to work with Ireland and Young. I worry that Houllier, quoted as wanting Young to be his Owen, is taking that a little too literally. MOTM Friedel, he stopped about 4 certain goals when we were being dominated (by Burnley for **** sake), I assume this means he'll be dropped next match .

Sweepstake on when he leaves?

I'm an avid Grand Designs watcher, got it recorded for watching shortly. Can't say I'm lookin forward to this weeks though, I've never really liked the episodes based on prefab houses. They usually tend to be a bit too 'procedural' and also, a little too 'off the hanger' modernist.

Downing scores an incredi-goal.

bad management if you ask me,not starting at home with a proper striker ffs.. I agree on the striker front. We should have a striker on the pitch. I know Houllier is quoted as saying he wants Young to be our Owen but I wasn't sure he'd take it quite that literally. Awful display.

Absolutely unacceptable.

thats how GH did things at plop,if you can remember how bad they played it was shocking.. Pennies beginning to drop with some people. Indeedily. Except at Liverpool he had a world class striker to save him. Mein Got, we scored.

This is atrocious.

Awful.

A good player might learn that he's bollocks at the attacking side of the game and pack it in. We live in hope. Freekick on the edge of the area.

If there was a player you don't want a golden chance to fall to, NRC.

We're going to need to play some amazing stuff to score with Young and Ireland up front. It'd have to be all nice through balls and that and I've not seen us consistantly play great through balls in years. Otherwise, barring lucky breaks, the ball is going to come back quickly whenever it gets further than our midfield

I have a terrible feeling about this game.

The religious connotations are founded on a falsity - the concept is a solely legal one. It needs reclaiming from the clutches of the church, and avoiding it because of these claims is futile.

A civil partnership is a marriage, has the same rights and so on. The only difference is the name, chosen to not piss off certain groups. If you were opposed to marriage, a civil partnership isn't a solution. You'd effectively just be making a point about a word, whilst doing the exact same thing that word amounts to. Of course there are those that think the fact that it isn't just called marriage is wrong (and they'd be right), but ultimately if your point is solely a problem with 'the idea of marriage'... civil partnerships don't solve it.