2pints-mate
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Big mop head scored last night. Keep him!!
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cloudy in london
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Times like that you realize how much we depend on 'online stuff'.
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I thought I'd hate them, but I don't.
They're quite fun to watch.
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That is some list.
Fox News host Shepard ‘Shep’ Smith has been forced to apologize after calling Robin Williams ‘such a coward’ just hours after he committed suicide.During a report on Monday night about the actor’s legacy, Smith described his death as ‘cowardly’, citing a quote from Williams in which the actor described his children as an inspiration.
‘One of the children he so loved, one of the children grieving tonight because their father killed himself in a fit of depression,’ Smith said.
‘You could love three little things so much, watch them grow, they’re in their mid-20s, and they’re inspiring you, and exciting you, and they fill you up with the kind of joy you could never have known.’
‘And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you’re such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.’
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Very cool early on this morning
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Hairy Bikers Asian Adventures
Seen bits of Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea.
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Ah the beginning of the season.
The time for optimism, dreams and new tv contracts.
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...and not get delayed!
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Somehow, "skinny" doesn't suit Western women...
Good job that, for lots of them!
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Me too thought they'd be licking his teeth.
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United sign Herrera and looks like Shaw is next.
I expect them to be back up there coming season.
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I don't understand most of that, but still.... image change!
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Perhaps fed up of the baggage. Perhaps think he won't want to stay anyway.
No doubt he'll be rewarded somehow though probably with a bumper package from RM.
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AFTER winning no games in the World Cup, hopes are high that England will win the European Championship in 2016.
It’s practically in the bag
Confidence of English success is based on previous victories against European opposition such as West Germany in 1966 and Russia and France in the Crimean and Napoleonic wars respectively.
Tom Logan of the UK football magazine The Roaring Lion said: “As we saw in Brazil, young players like Shaw, Smalling, Barkley and Wilshere, simply don’t have what it takes at this level. And Gerrard, Lampard and Rooney are past it.
“They’re a disgrace. They shouldn’t even be allowed to wear the shorts, let alone the shirt.
“We need to learn lessons. We need a footballing revolution in this country.”
However, said Logan, England’s prospects look rosy for 2016: “We have an exciting crop of youngsters including Shaw, Smalling, Barkley and Wilshere who are hungry for success.
“What’s more, with world-class experienced players like Gerrard, Lampard and Rooney still at the helm, we’ve every reason to believe Euro 2016 is practically in the bag for England.
“Learning lessons is for swots. Revolutions are for the French.
“72 hours is more than long enough for them to forget the 2014 World Cup ever happened, even while it is still occurring.”
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As proof of the bite, apart from just looking at the images of him doing the biting
, can't they just take an impression of his teeth and the marks on the Italians shoulder and match them up?! -
Football ey?
Does any other sport inspire such things on such a scale?!
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Is this causing a fuss over there?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TndQBmttOoQ
Tokyo (CNN) -- Outrage is growing in Japan after lawmakers hurled sexist comments at an assemblywoman giving a speech this week about the need for more services for women.
Male colleagues heckled Your Party member Ayaka Shiomura on Wednesday during a Tokyo assembly meeting. They interrupted her with comments urging her to get married and questioning whether she could bear children.
Shiomura had taken the stage to urge the Tokyo Metropolitan government to increase efforts to support women. Citing recent regulations that require mothers to fold up their strollers when boarding a train, she outlined struggles Japanese women face when dealing with pregnancy and raising a child due to lack of public support.
She also addressed the issue of infertility.
However, she was interrupted by a male member of the ruling LDP who shouted, "You should get married!"
Shiomura smiled weakly and continued amid male laughter.
Can 'womenomics' save Japan?
A second outburst, "Can't you even bear a child?" followed as tears welled up in her eyes and her voice began to break.
When she sat down after her speech, she was seen drying her eyes with a handkerchief. Later, she posted on Facebook that the outbursts were like "a punch in the gut" and called on the hecklers to come forward.
Backlash ensued, with television pundits debating the incident and women lawmakers demanding the names of those responsible be released.
Sexism in common in the nation's workplace, and there have been concerns that Japan's fertility rate will continue to drop as more women choose careers instead of marriage and children.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has attempted to fill a gender gap in the workplace through "Womenomics," but men still hold the majority of positions of authority and command greater salaries.
Men in Japan earn 30% more than their female counterparts, according to statistics cited by Abe during an editorial last year announcing the launch of "Womenomics."
Statistics from the National Personnel Authority show just 3% of women are managers in Japan's central government, a number the Prime Minister has said is too low.
The goal is to increase that number to 30% by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Abe has said.
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Sounds like Japan strikers that.
Enjoying the games as well. It always seems easier once England are knocked out somehow.
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Who's that annoying Brazilian who seems to be doing everything he can to be noticed - dying his hair (shock!), crying at the national anthem (oh dear!).
I'll nickname him 'Annoying'.
Too bad he didn't score!
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Messi decided to score 66 minutes in.
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This probably sounds rubbish but.... Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
Their 2 albums and tons of remixes, lent from a friend. Actually sounds really good lots of it.
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Honda scores for Japan.
We should Accord him some praise for the goal.
Maybe give him a Civic reception when he gets home.
He seems to be in his Element at the world cup.
Obviously wearing his Spike boots.
This is just a Prelude to what could be a good tournament for him.
Maybe it will be his Passport to getting more games for Milan.
He will be like a man Freed, on an Odyssey into the future.
Frind of mine think's he's well Fit.
Pity they lost.
Oh well. The Power of Dreams!
Inheritance tax
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That 160 million yen. That means that with a married couple, one of them dies and anything up to the value 160 million yen there's nowt to pay?
I'm terrible with legal talk. All the odder considering it's all round me all day at work!