Sheaf Saint

As Tim Minchin so eloquently puts it... F*** the Motherf***er!

When did that ever bother them before???

Then with a depressing inevitability she will have her own chat show and end up selling her own brand of perfume and clothing. There are no depths to which the media of this country will not sink to give celebrity status to untalented nobodies.

Is that the friendly bunch of folk who declared that all the people who died in the Tsunami in 2004 deserved to die because they were non-believers, and that all homosexual people should be executed? Surprised they haven't turned their attention to his already really.

AFAIK, the myth came about during a televised prem game against Arsenal a few years ago when the team were getting d1cked on the pitch so the fans sat near the cameras decided to sing non-stop instead of watching their team getting a mauling. This gave the impression that all Pompey fans are hugely passionate and will sing their hearts out for the team despite what may be happening on the pitch. Certain aspects of the media picked up on this and perpetuated the idea, and it has since become received wisdom when in fact the reality is somewhat different.

I was working in teleoms at the time and I along with 3 or 4 othes were on a huge system installation at a printers firm in Acton. We were running some cables in an office where they had Radio 2 on and the first thing we heard was Steve Wright say that they were getting reports of a plane hitting the WTC. My immediate thought was that it was just a light aircraft and I joked to my mate that the pilot must have been blind if he didn't see it. Then the details started coming through and all the employees of the printers congregated in the MD's office where he had a TV set up. One guy was really concerned as his sister lived in New York and he couldn't get through to her to check she was OK. I remember explaining to him that it was most likely because everyone had the same idea and the Manhattan exchange couldn't cope with the increased traffic - and so it proved, as I remember watching a documentary about the AT&T exchange in Manhattan and how it basically went into meltdown on 9/11. Driving back into London the following day was eerie. Never seen it so quiet at rush hour as all flights were grounded and lots of businesses closed for the day.

Or even just Scunny which is what everyone up this way calls it anyway.

AS the OP quite rightly states, there is no law anywhere which says that this cannot take place, and as far as I'm aware nobody has told this Pastor Jones that he can't do what he is planning. But that isn't the real issue here is it... I have been struggling to think myself just what single bit of good can come from this, and the conclusion I inevitably come to is that there isn't any. All it will serve to do is fuel the fires (pardon the pun) of extremism and generate more anti-western feeling amongst those who already see the west as being oppressive of Islam. It is a safe bet that video footage of the burning Qurans will end up in Taleban/Al-Qaeda propaganda videos accompanied by the slogan "Look what the evil western imperialists think of our sacred texts" or along those lines. The US commander in Afghanistan has already gone on record stating that he believes it will put the lives of US service men and women at risk, and if this pathetic little attention-seeker cannot bring himself to listen to this advice and goes ahead anyway, then there are probably some good grounds for him to arrested and tried on charges of treason for deliberately putting his countrymen in harms way in a theatre of war. If Pastor Terry Jones really wants to discredit a religion then he would be better off taking a leaf out of the book of his namesake and the film that he and his cohorts released in 1979.

And you know this how exactly???

Evil or acceptable? Are you serious? In what twisted version of reality could that ever be deemed as acceptable?

Seemed to work OK for Norwich last season.

Having lived in Sheffield for the last six years I have to concur. He's obviously totally oblivious to the vast difference between a Sheffield accent and a Baaaarnsley accent.

Went to see Inception yesterday. Can't be arsed to write a full review so I'll be brief. Good concept, poorly executed. Unlikable characters and a predictable ending. The idea would have worked better as an independent film rather than a hollywood blockbuster. Some impressive visual treats but overall unsatisfying. 6/10.

So you're upset that someone had the cheek to have a go at you for hitting him with your arm because he nearly (but didn't) hit you. Hmmmm. To be honest MB, if I was riding past and managed to NOT hit you and you decided to hit me with your arm in response to me not hitting you, I think I would probably have a go at you as well.

Not really surprising and I'm not too downhearted about the result as I always think that opening day results are meaningless. But where was the effort and desire? It looked like some of the players were treating it as a pre-season friendly in the second half. Lallana made a massive difference when he came on so it's important he stays fit throughout the season as we will miss him hugely if he gets injured.

Pan's Labyrinth got me. The end bit where.... no, better not spoil it for those who haven't seen it. Last time I had cried like that over a film was when I watched Watership Down as a child.

Schumacher really is ever the arrogant ***t isn't he. Everyone who saw his 'defensive move' on Barrichello agreed it was unsporting and dangerous. How does Michael see it?.... "Different drivers see things in different ways, and then there's Rubens." Considering he was always full of praise for Rubinho when they were team mates at Ferrari, that's a little ungracious to say the least.

What's even more interesting is that when Alonso was asked in the press conference after the race if he made a request to the team to get Massa to let him by, he blatantly avoided the question. What an absolute c**t he is!

It's interesting to read people's opinions on this. But the bottom line is, whether you agree with it or not, the no-team-orders rule exists. Therefore Ferrari are guilty of breaking the rules of the sport and should be punished. End of story.

Quelle surprise. Ferrari sticking two fingers up at the rules of the sport and expecting to be let off due to their 'special' relationship with the FIA. Personally I hope that both drivers get excluded (although I do feel some sympathy for Felipe) and a points deduction. That should hopefully wipe that f***ing grin off Alonso's face the whinging smug little ***t! I was pleased when he won his two titles, if only because somebody beat Schumacher, but his actions since then have shown him up to be a spoiled little crybaby. Watching him in the post-race press conference today showing zero humility toward the fact that he had his win handed to him by the team instead of having to fight for it, just further reinforced my dislike of him. It was cringeworthy.

WTF? He was walking away from the police when the officer needlessly struck him from behind. How can there possibly be any justification for that?

Four Lions Chris Morris apparently spent 3 years researching this film (beginning before the 7/7 bombings) and he has created an absolute gem. Hilarious from start to finish - it really does highlight the irrationality of fundamentalism, while at the same time making you almost feel sorry for the lead character that he has to put up with such incompetence from his team. The weirdest thing for me though was seeing all the familiar locations as it was all filmed in Sheffield. At one point there was a shot of the entire Don Valley area which featured the very cinema we were sitting in at the time! Watch it - 9/10

I think this is academical anyway. Based on friday night's performance, I'd say that satan will be skating to work before England win another world cup.

Thanks to these bloody things I haven't heard any singing or chanting from any of the fans so far at this world cup. What's that all about? I'm sure the players find them pretty annoying as well.

I'm pretty sure it was a spoof.