chrisp65

no full backs ATTACK!

FA to investigate mass pavement invasion outside Stadium of Light at half time. apparently that really was taken at half time (BBC Sport website) elsewhere, one Sunderland fan reportedly said he was staying until the end of the match - to avoid the traffic

I wonder if Lerner has now realised he was being robbed of manager's wages for a few months back there. Just brilliant today, my dad thought I was taking the piss every time I told him of another goal.

as long as they all get a go and they've enjoyed playing that's what it should be about

The problem fundamentally is that the population is growing and there are too many people here. There just isn't enough space to build houses hence all the flats. London is heading just like Paris and Barcelona where most people live in flats and only the wealthy live in nice big houses. More than enough land in the UK. Though the point about all wanting to live in exactly the same place is valid. Perhaps if we built new towns with decent infrastructure and transport hubs we'd boost the economy, improve lives and give an alternative location to live thus softening the demand and prices in other hot spots. But that's a crazy big idea. Better we all argue over whether Barrat should shoe horn 12 houses onto that roundabout on my already congested commuting route. Incidentally, the 'green belt' around cities. That's 50% bigger now than it was in the 1950's. You wouldn't think so from the news headlines every time some green party hippy finds a new vital type of earth worm and sets up tents that prevent development.

Checks list , doesn't spot my name on it , sighs with relief and sends the kids back up the chimney the French don't have a word for entrepreneur

my only problem is, you could all be lying...

It's just ranking economic freedom. What's the use of economic freedom if you can't walk down the street or its illegal to drive a car?

That's an interesting ranking of free countries, apparently Georgia which has Russian troops stationed on 20% of its territory following the war a few years ago is more free than France. Greece less free than Egypt and Pakistan. Also good to see the UAE and Saudi Arabia are more free than Italy.

ah, outsourcing doesn't count fair enough

the line was 'capitalism ended child labour'

Can you elaborate on whether you are deliberately trolling? At what point did capitalism decide to end child labour? Has anyone told Nike? Or apple, burberry, adidas, Matalan, Next? As a concept it's actually genuinely funny.

(circumcision is) unacceptable, unless medically necessary

Capitalism ended child labour. Capitalism enabled people to take their children out of work thanks to an extreme economic growth. so.... but.... yeah ok, whatever

hungover on a week day Hedonistic Bohemianism.

That's isn't libertarian. That's, at best, the caricature of a right wing libertarian (I'm not sure that it appropriately represents them, tbh). Are you saying that your view of Libertarianism is more correct than mine and that under libertarianism I have responsibilities to others I don't know and have never met and need to contribute to their well being? How will I do this? Perhaps via centrally organised tax? Or an enforceable duty to work for others? How many of these other less fortunate people do I have a duty of care to? All of them? Or just those up to a certain distance away? We could nominate distances and call them borders and everyone within that border I have a duty of care to. But how would we stop people crossing that border? Border guards! Now, how do we pay them?

Yes, I'm a libertarian. If the old or disabled or children or the 'unlucky' can't stand on their own two feet, **** 'em. As long as there's an ambulance when I need one.

fair play to Charlie Kennedy, if I could do a passable impression of somebody that hasn't drunk a bottle of brandy after I'd drunk a bottle of brandy I'd be pleased with myself too

Perhaps the game could be replayed overseas, UAE or Malaysia or California? Then everyone's a winner. West Brom get a replay. The fans get punished, the FA and the League get to try out a 39th game scenario and we get to beat West Brom again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIx2vXiHnAQ

if I could only get either Inverdale or Clarkson off the TV, it would be Inverdale, in the blink of an eye, no hesitation awful awful awful

well I don't know about the rest of you, but I've had a three page answer ready for when MMV posts about that woman claiming money off a millionaire ex husband that didn't get rich until years after they'd split up.......but nothing..... yowser!

at what point did you notice?

I could be talking rubbish, which would of course be very unusual. I'll google. on a v quick google wikip says McCartney's bass line has been considered to imitate Motown bassist James Jamerson hardly a full dissertation, but I'm claiming that justifies my suspicions