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#32864 English Premier League 2012/2013
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Oh god, not this shit. I saw this on another site. What did people expect, Sunderland fans to applaud Man Utd?

Also, who the fuck is buying Rooney's 'latest' autobiography?
#32788 English Premier League 2012/2013
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By Carroll. | Permalink | On 12 December 2012 - 20:37 PM
Ehem, Carling Cup last year bro.


But yeah I don't really understand the pictures, what's with the writing as well? Why does one say college and the other say uni?

I can always rephrase the sentence to have the same effect:

Well I thought it was about saying "Look how many more youngsters we have compared to Chelsea" which is as equally as retarded given how Liverpool have won sweet fuck all since 2006 except the League Cup last year, and Chelsea are the current European Champions and FA Cup holders who have won seven trophies in the same period.
#32725 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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By Telegram Sam | Permalink | On 12 December 2012 - 16:29 PM
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The Olympics organisers missed a trick not having Terry run the Fulham Road leg of the torch relay.
#32724 North Korea defies warnings in rocket launch success
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By Phoenix Arrow | Permalink | On 12 December 2012 - 17:27 PM
I don't know about you but I'm terrified of a low budget version of the 1950s.

When they have developed ICBM technology and grow a hatred of the UK, then I'll be tempted to take note of them on a level that is slightly above pointing and laughing.
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By Ninja | Permalink | On 12 December 2012 - 19:38 PM
Hang on whats the point of it.

Is it somehow considered an achievement that your group of youngster hasn't got a University education, just like almost every other footballer ever? I'm genuinely confused to the point of all this.

Well I thought it was about saying "Look how many more youngsters we have compared to Chelsea" which is as equally as retarded given how Liverpool have won sweet fuck all since 2006 and Chelsea are the current European Champions and FA Cup holders.
#32707 English Premier League 2012/2013
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Torri's posts have devolved from attention whoring to just plain shit. What is the purpose of those images anyway?
#32626 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Very well made. Terry actually comes over very well, but the main attraction is Drogba. He deserves every success he's had.
#32615 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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John Terry features. Can't wait. He hasn't won the Champions League.
#32614 North Korea defies warnings in rocket launch success
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North Korea is the least threatening place on the planet.
#32550 The Armoury
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By Ninja | Permalink | On 12 December 2012 - 11:20 AM
Right, you've not seen much of De Gea this season have you?

You do have a history of unstable goalkeepers.
#32538 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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I did say t that I thought it was terrible.
#32443 Capital One Cup 2012/13
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So good. So good.
#32424 The General Games Discussion Thread.
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#32416 Capital One Cup 2012/13
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I'm in love with this Arsenal Bradford match.
#32403 The Armoury
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I don't like the assumption that the League Cup is inferior. It is not as prestigious as the FA Cup but it is still a cup. On top of that it is far more entertaining than the FA Cup has been, at least in the last five years.
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By Phoenix Arrow | Permalink | On 11 December 2012 - 20:03 PM
Is that not in the same league of having to build an army? It would be interesting to see someone put into a fantasy setting who's generally selfish. Someone who doesn't really care what happens to the people or the world he's been taken to as long as he gets out, the easiest way out possible.

That's the idea. But I think at some point he has to get involved in some respect. For purely selfish reasons, but he has to leave the world differently than he left it.
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By Rick87 | Permalink | On 11 December 2012 - 19:51 PM
I quite like your synopsis, It reminds me of a book called 'The long walk to freedom' by Slavomir Rawciz which I read a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed.

Just downloaded it, thanks.
#32374 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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I think it's important to have someone from a military background, because that way they can handle themselves in a fight. As you said, it's a device to get into the main bulk of the story..

I'm definitely going down the second route. Fantasy books have this terrible thing of people having to go to the ends of the world to retrieve a mysterious power that can defeat the most evil of all evils.

I really want to write it now, but I need to finish my other thing first.
#32366 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Well I've had the idea for some time about writing a series of books about a downed WWII pilot who has to find his way home from Northern Italy, via the Alps, France and Belgium. Problem was that the amount of research involved would be astronomical. On top of that I have only a child's understanding of military history. What use is a journey story if the way my journey goes is going to be completely unrealistic?

So this morning when I woke up I thought about adapting it into a fantasy setting. So the plane is on a bombing run over Northern Italy when it is shot down. The pilot wakes up in a forest unscathed, no sign of his crew or his wreckage. Assumes he has crashed in forest somewhere in Italy.

Meets oddly dressed man - wanted criminal - in the forest, possibly murderer. After a fight they talk and decide to travel together. In a nearby village where they are looking for food they are found by a local guard who they kill in order to stay hidden. They are discovered hiding the body and are captured. They are transported to a major city where the pilot learns about the world. Bitterly disenfranchised with two distinct people: serfs and bourgeoisie/nobles. Bitter oppression. They are charged with the murder of the guard and sentenced to death. Before they are hanged an event happens which facilitates their escape.

The murderer's friends take him and the pilot to their ship where they explain how they are fighting a war to try and dethrone the leader of the country. The pilot explains that is all terrific but he has no interest in helping their cause and asks how he can find his way home. He is told he will need to travel to the south through a series of islands in order to speak to a wise man. The murderer agrees to aid the man because the pilot saved his life.

Along the way they pick up a teenage girl who tries to steal from them. The murderer tries to kill the girl but the pilot stops him. Later it is discovered that the girl has run away because her father is sexually abuses her. They reach the wise man who tells the pilot he has come to this world because he is needed. (make better) Dejected and not understanding what that means, he thinks it is bullshit. He travels further south with the three after learning he may be able to leave elsewhere.

While travelling they learn that another country plans to join forces with the current one in order to enact sweeping culls of peasants in order to redress chronic overpopulation. Pilot has change of heart and decides to travel back to the murderer's crew in order to inform them of the horrendous plan. There is a confrontation at the murderer's crew house with a captain in the current country's army, because he doesn't want word to get out that they plan to enact the genocide. After the brutal victory the leader of the murderers asks the pilot to travel to a distant land raise an army to help fight the incoming horde.

End of book one.

Something loosely like that. I don't want any high fantasy - no magic, no wizards nothing like that. People will discuss and talk about spirits and shit, but the story will be told from the first person so the pilot will be constantly skeptical about the whole thing. I feel like it will be less fun and more brutal. The murderer the pilot will travel with will be that: a ruthless, brutal man. There's a shit ton of detail that needs to go in, but I like that I have a lot of ideas to pursue, instead of painstaking research. I like the ideas of racism and using 20th century poltical ideals as allegory. The genocide of millions is pretty obvious.

Obviously there are two arcs: both the journey to find a way home and the journey to end a tyrannical regime. The second is easier to complete than the first. I'm trying to think of a plausible way for it to be completed without resorting to "he's in a coma".
#32346 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Went out last night, woke up at six in the morning at some bird's house and wrote the synopsis for a book on her computer. Forgot to email it to myself so I had to write it out again. Fuck women.
#32344 Buying a house
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I don't have that much money.
#32025 English Premier League 2012/2013
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O'Neill is a better manager than Di Matteo. I don't think O'Neill should be in a job though, he has failed so far in his tenure at Sunderland and it is only because of his reputation that he is still there.
#31986 Still fucking facebook
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By Justicar | Permalink | On 10 December 2012 - 15:27 PM
Please reveal the aftermath to us.

Didn't kick off today. Mine is the last comment. I've seen some go to 300 replies.
#31950 The Susie Book Club
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By Justicar | Permalink | On 10 December 2012 - 15:28 PM
I added a few things on there, and I ended up giving up.

Can't really see what the point of it is. I always have an infinite list of things to read.

I find it difficult to get books I enjoy. The recommendation tool on Goodreads seemed pretty effective.
#31868 The Lower League Thread
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Really think Leeds should bring in Jose Baxter in January. He's doing very well for Oldham and can come on a free.
#31842 The Relationship Thread
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I could never understand living in a world where I didn't live on impulse. Guilt and remorse are the only emotions I understand.
#31838 The Susie Book Club
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Do you use Goodreads?
#31836 Still fucking facebook
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I love the discussions on the Loose Women facebook page, they get very heated.
#31759 What Was The Last Film You Saw?
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The Dark Knight doesn't have the shackle of finality to deal with and it's because of that so much joy can be found. TDKR has to give an impossible feeling of completion to a writing nightmare.
#31756 English Premier League 2012/2013
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By Jaygull | Permalink | On 09 December 2012 - 21:56 PM
I think he means why is football going culturally backwards this season.

It isn't. It's just the advent of phone cameras, twitter and audience power have led to a society where turning the blind eye is something we're not capable of doing. All of these events that have happened in the last twelve months are not new occurences. It's just people have started caring more and more.