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1.  Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
2.  Harvest For The World - The Isley Brothers
3.  I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles
4.  White Man In Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
5.  Personality Crisis - The New York Dolls

1.  London Calling - The Clash
2.  The White Album - The Beatles
3.  Moondance - Van Morrison
4.  Greetings From Asbury Park NJ - Bruce Springsteen
5.  The Wall - Pink Floyd

Bit over the top there from Jude Collins, though I think as a society (in NI) we should certainly aim to be less militaristic in our ways and for that reason I wouldn't encourage either of my kids to join the Cadets.

I see that with his "if you were offended, I apologise" weasel apology, Niall O Donnghaile shares a place in the pantheon with Jeremy Clarkson. Maith an fear

O Donnaghaile had to think on his feet and got it wrong, Clarkson had to think on his feet and got it right

A worse-than-useless 'apology'.

Mr O Donnghaile told the BBC: "If I have caused any offence to anyone, I apologise."

"But if someone was not offended then I'm not sorry!"

The modern day political apology. 

Other forms include "Mistakes were made but no one individual was to blame" and Gordon Brown's famous "I take full responsibility for this and that's why I've sacked the person responsible" as he sacked someone else.

At 205 yoyo a pair, it's not surprising. At least I don't have to worry about Christmas presents now.

Likewise.  Kinda expensive in today's world but Mrs AQMP is a big fan so that's her sorted for Xmas.  Hope she reciprocates by buying me 5 bottles of gin.

"Our ones"?

Where I come from that means siblings and/or parents.  Nothing religious or political

[Sometimes he can be a bit of a pain]

I agree. EG undoubtedly makes uncomfortable reading at times, and at other times he is completely wrong , .... Not much I agree with him on,....

+1.
He's a great addition to the board and in the middle of many long winded and sometimes smart alecky postings  makes many reasoned and thought provoking comments.
Sometimes he can be a bit of a pain but sure isnt that all part of the craic on a discussion board ?

He's at home on the GAA board then!

EG is not a bigot. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. If you think he is, then clearly you have a Wonderland view of language

+1.  EG has his views, I don't agree with a lot of them, some of them I do agree with.  He and I have had our jousts on the board, but he's not a bigot and his views are welcome on the board (in my opinion).  I'm sure in a few years we'll see him posting in the GAA section

Seems he's doing 2 nights now.  Got tickets for the 18th.

Feck it, I'm getting the "no tickets available" message after wating 20 mins

[unnecessary grammatical 'finesse',]

Say what you want about EG, I differ on much (nearly all) of what he says, and even though his posts tend to be long-winded and full of unnecessary grammatical 'finesse', he does provide good balance to this forum and always provide evidence to strengthen his arguments. Certainly not the worst poster.

As for Forever Green, I may be wrong but all you seem to go on about is Celtic.

Now hang on a minute, bang out of order, call in the Mods..."unnecessary" grammatical finesse..unnecessary?!?!?

[As for Cavendish, pretty crazy to even consider giving the award to him considering he finished something like 130th in the race.]

Donald IMO should not get it.  I reckon it will be either McIlroy or Farah, and to be honest McIlroy probably deserves it due to the nature of the victory he had especially after the meltdown two months earlier which overshadowed the fact that he had lit up Augusta for the previous 3 rounds.  Donald, whilst being consistent, has not done it when it matters.   

Donald would argue that "it matters" when you play in every tournament and not just the Majors. Is it more of an achievement for Man City or United for example to win the Premier League over the course of several months than it is to win a one-off match? Of course it is!

You cannot compare the Premier League and Golf.  Tournaments are not worthless but when it comes down to it nobody talks about the run of the mill tounraments a player has won when analysing their achievements really - in golf and tennis you are judged on how well you do at the big ones.  Donald is a number one presently, but he will be still a solid tour player with no majors this time in 5 years.  Its a bit like the situation in womens tennis where you have had Safina and Wozniaki at number 1 in the rankings but nobody seriously considers them to be the best in the game.

As for Cavendish, pretty crazy to even consider giving the award to him considering he finished something like 130th in the race.  

Well that's a stupid comment for a start!

As for Donald being a 'solid tour player' well you're also having a laugh there. He is a fantastic golfer and at the age of 33 has plenty of time to get his major and I fully expect him to.

He has plenty of time to get one, doesn't mean he will.  At present he is a solid tour player who is very consistent. 

Regarding Cavendish, how is that a stupid comment.  He was in a race and he finished well down the final standings.  Its a bit like awarding a man who finished 25th in a marathon race some kind of prize because he happened to bust his balls and run the 7th mile of the race quicker than anyone else.

It's more like recognising the achievement of Usain Bolt if he ran a marathon after having won the 100m

[As for Cavendish, pretty crazy to even consider giving the award to him considering he finished something like 130th in the race.]

Donald IMO should not get it.  I reckon it will be either McIlroy or Farah, and to be honest McIlroy probably deserves it due to the nature of the victory he had especially after the meltdown two months earlier which overshadowed the fact that he had lit up Augusta for the previous 3 rounds.  Donald, whilst being consistent, has not done it when it matters.   

Donald would argue that "it matters" when you play in every tournament and not just the Majors. Is it more of an achievement for Man City or United for example to win the Premier League over the course of several months than it is to win a one-off match? Of course it is!

You cannot compare the Premier League and Golf.  Tournaments are not worthless but when it comes down to it nobody talks about the run of the mill tounraments a player has won when analysing their achievements really - in golf and tennis you are judged on how well you do at the big ones.  Donald is a number one presently, but he will be still a solid tour player with no majors this time in 5 years.  Its a bit like the situation in womens tennis where you have had Safina and Wozniaki at number 1 in the rankings but nobody seriously considers them to be the best in the game.

As for Cavendish, pretty crazy to even consider giving the award to him considering he finished something like 130th in the race.   

Cavendish is the current World Road Race Champion.

[Aye, sure he should present an award to a member of an army that has terrorised this place for years]

Aye, sure he should present an award to a member of an army that has terrorised this place for years. Dont give a f**k what age they were, they are still part of a force who have no right to be getting awards presented to them by an Irishman. Although I am no fan of Sinn Fein, well done to him

I know it's a small point but members of the ACF are technically not members of the British Army though the organisation is "sponsored" by the British Army, whatever that entails.