Deathray

That's actually quite a sad way to go. After going off and reporting in various war zones over the years, only to be killed in a traffic accident. Er........ (from the story): Yes, I'm fully aware of where he was killed. My point (since you're oblivious to it) was that he had been in Vietnam, Iraq, Northern Ireland..etc reporting on the fighting within these countries. Not exactly right at the front line, but still in a dangerous territory, only to be driving around Manhattan and be killed off that way. I think Zorders was displaying subtle humour based on the well known social conflicts in New York (vagrants v cops, gangs v cops etc) that's flown over your head to the same distance the planes flew over mist new yorkers heads back in 2001.

The term famous hermits doesn't compete the whole point of being a hermit is nobody knows who you bleeding are.

It's only snooker. And it's probably only like the Rome Open or some other bollocks like that right now isnt it? If they would only get rid of some of these utterly meaningless tournaments, it would serve two purposes: Stop the players from being knackered-beyond-all-fuck by the time they show up in Sheffield for the longest tournament of the season (so that we might have a World Championship worth watching for the first time since 20-cunting-11) - and let you get on with your homework. So why don't you write a letter to that thick berk Hearn to that effect. If he can actually read that is.It was the final group of the CL a tournament which frankly shouldn't exist in the first place. Although don't agree with you on that last bit, the standard has gone up thanks to more tournaments and it's helping elevate the sport to a new level. The old six tourneys a year days are not something we should retrospectively glorify for the sake of making cheap jibes at ole mucker hearn - although saturation point will probably be reached in the next decade or two. Currently in the midst of 20 days of consecutive snooker - longer than the worlds. Anyway the players being shit at the worlds probably has more to with the fact two session matches are nye on exclusively reserved for it and tournament finals these days. Also calling the PTCs the bollockstan open doesn't make them actual tournaments although niw there using best if 7s in actual fucking rankers (the welsh next bloody week) i nay have to reconsider that opinion too Anyway that concludes my sort of Room 101ish post. Separate topic for snooker discussion anyone? No. It's because they're fucking knackered and if that crusty old cunt had any sense he'd listen to the players who have been trying to tell him that. If it wasn't for player burnout I'm sure Mark Selby would have properly won at least 1 World Championship by now (instead of inheriting one from Ronnie cos he decided he'd spend day 2 daydreaming about him and Damien Hirst tandem-biking through the Cotswolds on meth instead of trying) Hearn always talks about the Worlds being the "shop window" of the sport, so you'd think he'd.. y'know, realise this problem and do something about it. He's up there with Bernie Ecclescunt in the "Crusty White-Haired-Old Heart Patients Who Think They've Got Everything Running Perfectly and Like to Strut Around Pretending They're Geniuses When They're In Fact Annoying, Entertainment-Killing Old Cunts Who Wouldn't Even Fucking Wake Up If Someone Sprayed a Super-Soaker Full of Ice-Cold Antarctic Springwater On Their Balls" stakes Also yeah PTCs have probably helped but maybe when they have some sponsors other than fucking betting companies you can talk about the sport being "raised to a new level"... rite? 2008,2009,2010 and 2011 WCs were all great, the last 3 have been mostly shit thanks to player fatigue. (If it wasn't for that wacky Thai guy in 2013 and a few other highlights I definitely would have quit watching by now and I may well skip the 2015 Worlds....) Seen as I'm up at this chose your own diety that you don't find offensive in this context foresaken time of the night. I'll waste a little time feeding the hand that reaches for the grenade launcher at the first sign of a stick being waved.. Burnout is just an excuse for being a lazy fucker - this applies to absulotely any sport in which you can earn thousands and thousands of pound a match for doing something you enjoyed enough to spurn a conventional career to pursue. Burnout may have been a slight argument during the transition but now we've reached the point where the players should have adjusted to the new regime. One of the advantages from a players point if view of this is they can afford to skip tournaments here and there when they don't suit them - look at the Indian Open draw to confirm that - which would have been a virtual impossibility for all but a few players in the circa 2008 times. With regards to your frankly absurd claim Selby didn't win that final on merit well - for the want of a nicer way of saying this - what a pile of steaming fucking horseshit. Selby won that title with some dogged and determined safety play - one of the key skills a snooker player needs is the ability to prevent an opponent from running out full steam when you yourself aren't. That is what snooker is, any true snooker fan would appreciate that victory for what it was rather than attempt to degrade Selby's achievement. Yeah Hearns a knob in many regards and a borderline megolamaniac at that. Yes some of the things he's done are infuriating; for example downgrading the UK Champs to best of 11 from Best of 17 leaving us with only one long match tournament. But all in all increasing the amount of tournaments was right, it provides snooker players with more opportunities to earn money which keeps them playing and it provides snooker fans with more opportunities to see their players and in the case of much of europe and a fair whack of the far east the ability to do this without needing a passport for the first time in decades. Unfortunately were still in an economic downturn so the companies that do best of out if it are most likely to part with their cash. As evudenced by Germany where they aren't and Kreativ Dental sponsored the event. However given snooker was sponsored almost exclusively by cancer stick floggers for most of it's heyday the class of sponsor has very little to do with the class on the baize. That wacky Thai guy is called Dechawat Poomjaeng (although he prefers Jack). The fact you don't know his name and that you seem to be referencing the WC as if it's the only tournament that means anything suggests to me our level of interest in the sport have a significant gap which may explain the gulf between our outlooks. There is more to offer than the bbc events some of it truly excellent (German Masters last week, the Champion of Champions back in November). I suggest you try and catch some of these events more often, the China Open specifically is two weeks before the worlds so should be good proving ground for whether this burnout stuff holds any weight. It's funny really that sport both brings people together in a shared passion and interest and makes them completely and utterly disagree with eachother regarding teams/players/firmats/prestige and virtually any other factor. Strange indeed.

It's only snooker. And it's probably only like the Rome Open or some other bollocks like that right now isnt it? If they would only get rid of some of these utterly meaningless tournaments, it would serve two purposes: Stop the players from being knackered-beyond-all-fuck by the time they show up in Sheffield for the longest tournament of the season (so that we might have a World Championship worth watching for the first time since 20-cunting-11) - and let you get on with your homework. So why don't you write a letter to that thick berk Hearn to that effect. If he can actually read that is. It was the final group of the CL a tournament which frankly shouldn't exist in the first place. Although don't agree with you on that last bit, the standard has gone up thanks to more tournaments and it's helping elevate the sport to a new level. The old six tourneys a year days are not something we should retrospectively glorify for the sake of making cheap jibes at ole mucker hearn - although saturation point will probably be reached in the next decade or two. Currently in the midst of 20 days of consecutive snooker - longer than the worlds. Anyway the players being shit at the worlds probably has more to with the fact two session matches are nye on exclusively reserved for it and tournament finals these days. Also calling the PTCs the bollockstan open doesn't make them actual tournaments although niw there using best if 7s in actual fucking rankers (the welsh next bloody week) i nay have to reconsider that opinion too Anyway that concludes my sort of Room 101ish post. Separate topic for snooker discussion anyone?

Intense Procrastination and borderline obsessive snooker watching habits combined with stuff that actually needs fucking doing.

Looked ok at the baftas. Although I'm pretty sure they played his bits pre-recorded over speakers, something to do with feedback maybe?

He was a 'unique' on my 'Roger & Out' theme team last year, (and two years before that). I didn't re-enter this time. Two Rogers in three years is a poor return, though I might try again with a few different Rogers next year. Surely depends how much you're putting yourself out?

I remember seeing a Dyke Lane as a child always use to amuse me to no end. That and signs for Cockermouth and Fanny Barks when we went away..

Surely, given they've had the last three weeks off, that'd make a good catch-up day?

http://m.heraldstandard.com/united_states_ap/gop-rep-nunnelee-of-miss-dies-after-brain-cancer-stroke/article_22a23d8f-1e8f-5499-9c0b-93fe67d4d711.html?mode=jqm There you go Deathray. Nunnelee is deceased. If you think I'm going to post when some politician is ILL in one forum and his OBIT in another, well you can surely piss off. Sir Creep This is the thread I was on about, and the thread you were on about - since that merger.

No this is important as many people will assume they are still registered as they have been previously. This is going to mostly affect Students and people who live in multi-occupancy units. This was a change brought in by Labour to move to individual rather than household registration but the argument goes that it has suited the Tories not to bring it to the attention of the above groups too blatently as those people probably wouldn't vote Tory. That argument might hold some weight if the letters didn't say on the envelope the way we register vote is changing.

National Voter Registration Day. Surely people who aren't able to deduce for themselves from the letters already sent by councils this year and you know the news and internet it's a GE year and they need to register to vote shouldn't be entitled to vote?

To clarify I mean the 3 team limit?

Do you think you'd look a reconsidering the team number limit for next year?

Try not to give us false hope in future.

The guy he murdered isn't famous.

Everything's alright now!But even with Google search function ("DDP 2015") I only got the "January 17 view" yesterday. Don't know why... Jeez your slow...

Oh, we're doing that Jan 11 2016

Lighten up - just trying to ensure my creativity boredom doesn't go to waste.

Derby dead pool ready blood dep.

Sam simom Ass in mom

Ooh, you're one of those people... that isn't the point of facebook. Do us all a favour. Mine, the chat room on here - why does it only ever get used on New Years Eve? Erm, actually me and Cat O'Falk were on it last night. Dummy Along with a couple of others who showed up briefly Although this time it was his turn to be stupendously drunk (not that I was last time, just throwing a little false "compromise" there or whatever to my critics innit). No seriously I couldn't understand a word he was typing. Oh fair enough, it must just be when I'm online it's empty. I can never understand a word he's typing anyway or you for that matter..

Ooh, you're one of those people... that isn't the point of facebook. Do us all a favour. Mine, the chat room on here - why does it only ever get used on New Years Eve?

I meant people who already have objections to wearing real fur, surely fake fur is the perfect alternative?

Lost for Words - a team of former countdown and scrabble champions That's the Spirit. Twat. Twats - A team of people with the surname fish.