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Yes. Pisses me off massively that the years we won it, everybody seemed to dismiss it as irrelevant but the years that Chelsea and Man Utd have won it, everybody seems to have seen it as a heroic demonstration of their dominance.

I don't think it's a case of being desensitized, I think it's contextual. Obviously, it is very sad when a member of our armed forces are killed in duty - that's a given. I feel deeply sorry for families and friends of all those killed. However, we do not live in an age of consription (thankfully) and all of these lads (and lasses) have joined the army knowing what it's all about. While the recruitment videos might show squaddies playing rugby and pissing around on the firing range, the reality is that you are joining to be a soldier. The job of a soldier is to fight, using deadly weapons, against the enemy, also wielding deadly weapons. If you choose to be a soldier, you will be ordered into a position where you will be asked kill and may well be killed yourself. Death is an occupational hazard if you are going to be a soldier, just like burned fingers is to a baker and tennis elbow to a typist. It is not a nice business, but people actively choose this lifestyle with all its pros and cons. So, ugly as it is, death is an unfortunate reality of active armed forces and is obviously not 'news' as much as, for instance, the untimely death of Gary Speed.

Playing FIFA 12 online against some Turk playing who was playing as Galatasaray, losing 2-1 going into injury time, shock late brace from Jermaine Beckford, win 3-2! He will have been sick as a parrot I was over the moon

Yep!

Sean St Ledger Matt Johnson from flop boy band One True Voice

The extent to which I cannot multi-task was highlighted when I attempted to have a slash whilst swilling and gargling mouthwash, which I then choked on and sprayed it out in a massive minty explosion.

I've seen the original (Austrian) one. Shocking!

Economic Left/Right: 2.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.03 Fairly middle of the road.

I know. Not all blokes from Yorkshire are tight, but for the purpose of this I'm making a sweeping generalisation. PS. Is Bedford the South? It's sort of in that gap between the South and the Midlands! Plus, in line with my original point, people on the South coast would consider Bedford 'up norf somewhere' anyway!

She is a cockney. Let's be honest, they're mainly thick. NB. I've reverted to referring to anybody with a southern accent as a cockney in retaliation to the fact that people dahn sahf think that everybody else is a northerner. Which brings me on to another thing that grinds my gears - southerners' lack of geographical knowledge. I spent a period of my life on the Sussex coast and I was absolutely and genuinely astounded by it. As far as they were concerned, England comprised (in South to North order): * The Sussex coast * Gatwick Airport * London * Coronation Street-land EDIT: It's dawned on me that this post is actually sort of racist in a weird way. Ah well.

Why did the scally cross the road? To happy slap the chicken.

Haha! Perhaps I chose my phrasing poorly! On a serious note, I think people tend to associate the 'right' with authoritarianism which, in reality, is more compatible with leftism. The political compass is fun and interesting: Test how fascist / commie you really are!

That is gear grinding.

Chill out the pair of you. But, if wanting justice for crims is right-wing, then I'm a ruddy fascist - and so are all right-minded people.

All the philosophical bollocks on Deal Or No Deal. It's literally just a game of probabilities.

Just watched '7 Days' (Les 7 jours du talion) on LoveFilm Player. Left me feeling empty and depressed. Not a bad film though.

That is lunacy.

Yes. Manners cost nothing! It's even worse when you hold a door open for somebody and they don't say thank you.

Yep. Also people who hurriedly pull out in front of you from a side road, then drive ridiculously slowly for miles. And people who, in merging traffic, won't let you in and refuse to make eye contact with you (because they know how petty and wrong they are).

If this is genuine, the yob in question should have his bollocks removed and fed to his victim's dog. Then his social worker needs to explain how it isn't nice when you do things that harm others.

You tube 'videos' that are basically just slideshows accompanied by shit music and with needless titles in between the pictures.

Recruitment agencies talking constant streams of shite.

Re: updating your Twitter / Facebook.

What the ruddy?