Sheaf Saint

I finally got round to watching this film recently, having been meaning to for ages, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. It's a heart-wrenching true-story. What really caught my attention was the bits where he was interviewing his old comrades who witnessed the massacre and although I don't understand Hebrew, it sounded as though the director had taken actual recordings of interviews with the real veterans and incorporated them into the film to give it that extra sense of realism. Superb film-making. I liked the dark humour, like the bit where he is wandering through the airport in Beirut, which added a whole different dimension, and the real-life video footage at the end (won't say any more in case I give too much away) is quite harrowing and really brings home the message that this atrocity actually took place in our lifetimes. I don't think I could ever give a film 10/10 but this must come close to being not just the best animated film I have ever seen, but up there among the best films of any genre, so it gets a 9.5

I was out riding my bike the other weekend round Rother Valley Country park near where I live in Sheffield, and there was a hovercraft racing event going on at the lake. As I was riding I heard an engine noise that just didn't sound like any racing hovercraft I have ever seen so I stopped and looked around, only to see one of these beauties fly right over my head... Not sure if it was supposed to be overflying the hovercraft race on the way to an airshow (Waddington was the same weekend I think and is not far away) but he completely missed it, as the lake is the other end of the country park. Was a fantastic sight (and sound) anyway.

I don't often buy a newspaper but when I do it's usually the Independent due to it not being aimed at people with a 2-figure IQ like the Sun/Mirror/Star/Sport; not full of rabid, right-wing scare-stories like the Mail/Express; and small enough to read in the car unlike the Times/Telegraph/Guardian.

Bit of a strange article - there is no direct quote from Strachan saying he is not interested in the job, just speculation based on previous statements. Anyway, WGS has unfinished business at Saints. Does anybody else remember when he said "this will be my last job in football" when he was here last time?

Alive - Bill Bailey without question. Weirdo, eccentric, musical genius and extremely funny in everything he does. Dead - has to be Bill Hicks (Goat boy!)

OK point taken, but do you really believe that we can extract all of the natural resources this planet has to offer (ie gas, oil, wood, coal) without in any way affecting the natural balance of our environment? The latest idea regarding coal-fired power stations is carbon capture and the proposal to bury that carbon that is reclaimed deep underground where it cannot enter the atmosphere. Does anybody actually believe that this will have no negative impact on the Earth at all?

The point about climate change though is that the earth survived perfectly well for billions of years before us, and it will still be here long after mankind has become extinct. We need the planet more than the planet needs us. Most wildlife lives in perfect equilibrium with the planet, but our species is like a parasite draining it of all of its resources. It's no surprise the planet is making it harder and harder for us to exist here - just like the immune system of the human body does what it can to repel viruses and other infections.

wasn't it Ronnie Barker? Anyway, I'm really struggling to work out the relevance of this post to the thread. :smt102

Ah, OK. Must have missed that bit.

He is still technically a director of SFC until any sale is completed, as is Lowe.

Precisely. There are plenty of people at work who I don't personally like, but I have a healthy professional respect for them nonetheless.

I don't believe for a second that Hoddle would be the slightest bit interested in giving up on his academy (in spain is it?) to manage a L1 club. He has stated in the past that he is more than happy where he is. Sorry, as happy as I would be to have him at saints, I just can't see it. Not calling anybody a liar as I'm sure this is being passed on in good faith, but it doesn't add up to me.

Now there's a surprise

Agreed, I thought Madness were superb. I saw them at the MEN Arena in Manchester a couple of years ago and their songs just get everybody bouncing. Thought Bat for Lashes were really good too.

Really? My memory really isn't what it used to be! Anyway, the point I made is still valid... Their early stuff that they wrote themselves was actually alright (King was a decent song as well), but they lost any credibility when they started doing nothing but covers.

Yep

UB40 - The most successful covers band in hiostory. Their first single - One in Ten - was a protest song about the level of unemployment in the 1980s, and was actually very good. Then they decided they weren't going to bother writing their own songs any more and would just do dinner-party-reggae-light versions of classic songs instead, and they went seriously downhill after that. To compare them to The Specials (Ponty) is beyond contemptible. Shame on you.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/keegan-not-only-option-says-le-tissier-1712809.html

Indeed. The only bits of Monaco I watch are qualifying, the start of the race, and the last few laps. As for the rest of it - you may as well go and watch the sink block up.

I would hope that FOTA would have the good sense to realise that Monaco is just a pointless procession that is only still on the calendar to pander to the large amount of mega-rich sponsors who live there. Would be good to see some old tracks from the past revived though, like Suzuka, Imola and Estoril for example.

I saw Eartha Kitt coming out of my arse earlier, followed shortly afterwards by Donald Trump.

Looks like GB will be forced into a re-think on this... Link here

This looks suspiciously like a "we will walk this league" post to me.

Don't know about the Toyota, but I had a Passat 2.0TDi estate as a company car for over a year and I absolutely loved it. For a big car it handles like one a lot smaller and the fuel economy is excellent which is handy if the company don't give you a fuel card.

What you have to take into account is that Iran is a very insular country, and as such they don't have anything like the kind of ethnic diversity we have in the UK. Their nationalism is forced upon them in a way, so it is not surprising at all that a good percentage of Iranians have particular views about other cultures including our own, especially when we've got an unelected moron desperately clinging on to power in this country daring to criticise the Iranian electoral system and publically condemning Ahmedinejad. He still has a lot of support - whether the election was rigged or not.