blackandblue wrote:

delpiero wrote: 2 wins, 4 draws, 7 losses - Reading's season so far is making me very unhappy You don't live in the glorious capital of theThames Valley, do you? Neighbour?

I live in Reading mate - although i have spent the majority of my working life in Slough  
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delpiero wrote: 2 wins, 4 draws, 7 losses - Reading's season so far is making me very unhappy How's Darren O'Dea doing? Not well I assume since you've only managed three clean sheets.

Utter garbage TBH but it's impossible to single out any single player - the entire team has been gash. We've lost the majority of the team that was in the Prem a few seasons back and Madjeski is still desperate to sell the team    Would give my right bollock for Steve Coppell to return
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delpiero, what did you make of this?
http://www.getbracknell.co.uk/spo...er_and_better_than_leicester_city

Nearly every comment from Reading fans I've seen was ridiculing him.

The fact you guys haven't won at home for ages worries me no end.  Leicester always seem to lose in this circumstances.
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delpiero, what did you make of this? http://www.getbracknell.co.uk/spo...er_and_better_than_leicester_city Nearly every comment from Reading fans I've seen was ridiculing him. The fact you guys haven't won at home for ages worries me no end.  Leicester always seem to lose in this circumstances.

You've got nothing to worry about Liam, Leicester should be more than capable of heaping more misery on us come Monday.
We had a man advantage against QPR for the best part of quarter of an hour and we still managed to concede two goals.

As for Bertrand, the boy is a total div - At 19, perhaps you could forgive the lad for his comments if the team were playing well and higher in the table - a little bit of baiting is no bad thing, but to say we're bigger and better than Leicester is utter bullshit.
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Told you Liam, nothing to worry about.  
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Didn't sound our most convincing display, but the result was good.  Up to 5th now, which must be the highest any Leicester side has been in this division since 2003.  Relegation to League One was horrible, but in the long run it's worked out pretty well as Mandaric now keeps quiet, and we've discovered a great manager in Nigel Pearson.

Edit: Don't forget the possibility of the legend that is Edgar Davids pulling on a Leicester shirt (Unless it goes the way of the clubs attempts to sign Johan Cruyff 30 years ago).
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f**king Man City and their collection of millionaire turds - last leg of my acca and they can't beat....Burnley.

f**k them, f**k Mark Hughes, f**k their billionaire owner and f**k their supporters              
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The X-Factor, Strictly come Dancing, the charts.....f**k it, the general state of this country.
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delpiero wrote:

The X-Factor, Strictly come Dancing, the charts.....f**k it, the general state of this country.

Thank yourself lucky, I'm being dragged along to the live version of Strictly cum dancing in January.  
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You've been reading Jeremy Clarkson, haven't you, dp....?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/...eremy_clarkson/article6907747.ece

delpiero wrote:

Markieboy wrote: delpiero wrote: 2 wins, 4 draws, 7 losses - Reading's season so far is making me very unhappy How's Darren O'Dea doing? Not well I assume since you've only managed three clean sheets. Utter garbage TBH but it's impossible to single out any single player - the entire team has been gash. We've lost the majority of the team that was in the Prem a few seasons back and Madjeski is still desperate to sell the team    Would give my right bollock for Steve Coppell to return

Thanks del

He's held up by some as an example of someone who would improve Celtic's first team. Given how terrible all three of our central defenders have been this season, practically anyone with a pulse is considered as a potential defensive saviour.

In truth, despite some good performances, Darren has never looked like a man capable of impressing in the Celtic defence. I'm surprised he hasn't played more often and better at Reading as I feel he's probably 'Championship quality'. Perhaps not.

Dave wrote:

You've been reading Jeremy Clarkson, haven't you, dp....? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/...eremy_clarkson/article6907747.ece

That link seems to be broken, Dave   But no, I've not been reading Clarkson - the man annoys me to no end - I'd add him to the list above.

On the plus side, i've just read 'The Blood Meridian' for the 3rd time in a row - Possibly the greatest novel ever written.
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Mmmm. The article is still headlined on the Times site, but it seems you can't click on it any more. Suggests that someone's lawyers may have been on to the Times...

Of course, at the first whiff of censorship (which is alledged by a couple of blogs), the whole thing has been transcribed...#

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I’ve given the matter a great deal of thought all week, and I’m afraid I’ve decided that it’s no good putting Peter Mandelson in a prison. I’m afraid he will have to be tied to the front of a van and driven round the country until he isn’t alive any more. He announced last week that middle-class children will simply not be allowed into the country’s top universities even if they have 4,000 A-levels, because all the places will be taken by Albanians and guillemots and whatever other stupid bandwagon the conniving idiot has leapt I hate Peter Mandelson. I hate his fondness for extremely pale blue jeans and I hate that preposterous moustache he used to sport in the days when he didn’t bother trying to cover up his left-wing fanaticism. I hate the way he quite literally lords it over us even though he’s resigned in disgrace twice, and now holds an important decision-making job for which he was not elected. Mostly, though, I hate him because his one-man war on the bright and the witty and the successful means that half my friends now seem to be taking leave of their senses. There’s talk of emigration in the air. It’s everywhere I go. Parties. Work. In the supermarket. My daughter is working herself half to death to get good grades at GSCE and can’t see the point because she won’t be going to university, because she doesn’t have a beak or flippers or a qualification in washing windscreens at the lights. She wonders, often, why we don’t live in America. Then you have the chaps and chapesses who can’t stand the constant raids on their wallets and their privacy. They can’t understand why they are taxed at 50% on their income and then taxed again for driving into the nation’s capital. They can’t understand what happened to the hunt for the weapons of mass destruction. They can’t understand anything. They see the Highway Wombles in those brand new 4x4s that they paid for, and they see the M4 bus lane and they see the speed cameras and the community support officers and they see the Albanians stealing their wheelbarrows and nothing can be done because it’s racist. And they see Alistair Darling handing over £4,350 of their money to not sort out the banking crisis that he doesn’t understand because he’s a small-town solicitor, and they see the stupid war on drugs and the war on drink and the war on smoking and the war on hunting and the war on fun and the war on scientists and the obsession with the climate and the price of train fares soaring past £1,000 and the Guardian power-brokers getting uppity about one shot baboon and not uppity at all about all the dead soldiers in Afghanistan, and how they got rid of Blair only to find the lying twerp is now going to come back even more powerful than ever, and they think, “I’ve had enough of this. I’m off.” It’s a lovely idea, to get out of this stupid, Fairtrade, Brown-stained, Mandelson-skewed, equal-opportunities, multicultural, carbon-neutral, trendily left, regionally assembled, big-government, trilingual, mosque-drenched, all-the-pigs-are-equal, property-is-theft hellhole and set up shop somewhere else. But where? You can’t go to France because you need to complete 17 forms in triplicate every time you want to build a greenhouse, and you can’t go to Switzerland because you will be reported to your neighbours by the police and subsequently shot in the head if you don’t sweep your lawn properly, and you can’t go to Italy because you’ll soon tire of waking up in the morning to find a horse’s head in your bed because you forgot to give a man called Don a bundle of used notes for “organising” a plumber. You can’t go to Australia because it’s full of things that will eat you, you can’t go to New Zealand because they don’t accept anyone who is more than 40 and you can’t go to Monte Carlo because they don’t accept anyone who has less than 40 mill. And you can’t go to Spain because you’re not called Del and you weren’t involved in the Walthamstow blag. And you can’t go to Germany ... because you just can’t. The Caribbean sounds tempting, but there is no work, which means that one day, whether you like it or not, you’ll end up like all the other expats, with a nose like a burst beetroot, wondering if it’s okay to have a small sharpener at 10 in the morning. And, as I keep explaining to my daughter, we can’t go to America because if you catch a cold over there, the health system is designed in such a way that you end up without a house. Or dead. Canada’s full of people pretending to be French, South Africa’s too risky, Russia’s worse and everywhere else is too full of snow, too full of flies or too full of people who want to cut your head off on the internet. So you can dream all you like about upping sticks and moving to a country that doesn’t help itself to half of everything you earn and then spend the money it gets on bus lanes and advertisements about the dangers of salt. But wherever you go you’ll wind up an alcoholic or dead or bored or in a cellar, in an orange jumpsuit, gently wetting yourself on the web. All of these things are worse than being persecuted for eating a sandwich at the wheel. I see no reason to be miserable. Yes, Britain now is worse than it’s been for decades, but the lunatics who’ve made it so ghastly are on their way out. Soon, they will be back in Hackney with their South African nuclear-free peace polenta. And instead the show will be run by a bloke whose dad has a wallpaper shop and possibly, terrifyingly, a twerp in Belgium whose fruitless game of hunt-the-WMD has netted him £15m on the lecture circuit. So actually I do see a reason to be miserable. Which is why I think it’s a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit  in the meantime.

Usual Clarkson oafish, designed to gain a reaction stuff (which would possible lead to him being edited if he posted it on here first hand), but you have to give the man credit for his ability to go off on one at the drop of a hat....

Was Clarkson the author of that?   I thought it might be a spoof given that Mandelson is referred to as a left-wing fanatic, but it's not all that funny.  Or funny at all in fact.  So presumably it is Clarkson.

He is funny but chatting complete crap. Now when have I heard that before?
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You can’t go to Australia because it’s full of things that will eat you,

I love it.

A few years back the Australian Government spent millions advertising in targeted Asian and Middle Eastern countries of the dangers of coming to Australia.

Usual spin sharks, crocs, snakes, spiders, deserts, box jelly fish etc etc.

Was done by the liberal government of the time to try and scare illegal immigrants into thinking twice about trying their luck on a leaking boat and smuggling themselves into the country.

Amazes me how many people believe it. Stats I've seen has more people  dying in the last 10 years, due to being hit by lightning than total deaths caused by sharks, crocs, spiders AND snakes. 17 if anyone's curious.

Maybe part of the reason why so many people outside of Australia believe it, is probably because we Aussies love talking it up when on holidays o/s.

The amount of people I've convinced of the dangers associated with kick boxing kangaroos while on holidays OS is phenomenal

Ring snakes or wheel snakes is another favourite yarn, you know those snakes that hold their tail with their teeth, so they can make themselves into a ring or wheel and roll after you  
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Thanks for posting that, Dave. As depressed as i am with the general state of affairs in this country, i could never agree with a single word that pubic louse has to say.

"Albanians stealing their wheelbarrows" ??!!

"mosque-drenched" ??!!
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Lord Mandelson reminds me of the character in the Terry Pratchett novels, the Patrician, Lord Havelock Vetinari, a kind of smooth and outwardly benign leader. Who trained as an assassin.

That Pratchett knows a thing or two.
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If you're going to be a prick, at least be funny. And I have to say there were some funny bits in there.

I know otherwise quite intelligent people who like Jeremy Clarkson, but I'll go to my grave wondering at the popularity of this tedious bore and Top Gear.  He's like the bloke in the pub who says women belong in the kitchen with a cheeky little smile, not twigging that such humour went hurtling past its sell by date about 25 years ago.

I don't mean "sell by" literally of course, because judging from the bookshelves of WH Smiths, the boy has earned a fortune with this guff.  And good luck to him.  Maybe it's time I jumped on the bandwagon.

Why do Italian men wear moustaches?