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Terrorism was ruled out almost immediately, terrible wait for the families now.

Why? Because they have conclusive proof it wasn't or so as not to scare the horses?

I thought the fact that there was a message sent from the plane on more than one occasion would mean that it was hardly a bomb.

There was an automated message sent when the plane was lost from the radar, there was no mayday from the pilots.  Something happened to knock it out of the sky pretty quick.  Even if all the engines failed the plane would have kept gliding for 1/2 an hour with plenty of time for the pilots to send out a mayday signal.

What are the chances of firstly finding the wreckage and secondly finding the black box which is presumably at the bottom of the sea ? Not good I'd imagine, my worst nightmare.

I heard on the news they will struggle to find the black box but I thought the black box was fire proof, bomb proof ... so surely then it is just a matter of finding the position of where the signal is coming from to find the box?

http://science.howstuffworks.com/black-box8.htm

Name the player who has won the World cup, the European Cup, the champions league, the world club cup, the premier league, the fa cup and the league cup.

Barthez?

It really annoys me seeing people on phones while driving..

Good enough for you that you got caught I say.....

I have to agree mobiles are dangerous when driving.  A few years ago someone rang me on my mobile when I was driving, it was a straight bit of road and I looked down for a second to see where the noise was coming from but the car in front of me indicated to go right just at the moment, I looked down at my phone then up again and saw the car in front stopped and indicating.  I slammed on the breaks hard but still hit the car in front only not as hard as I might have, her bumper was 1/2 off and the boot was a bit damaged, there was a mother driving and a wee girl in the back seat with lots of crying and all that and a few months later the obligitory claim for whiplash but if I had looked up and put the breaks on 1/4 of a second later I would have been stopping another 10-20 yards up the road and it would have been a lot worse.  Since that it has made me think twice before looking down to find a ringing phone when driving.

I think it is between Yasmina, Deborah and James to win it now.  Lorraine seems a bit too eccentric, Kate is pretty to look at but I am not sure there is a lot going on upstairs.  Deborah comes across as very aggressive so that could well count against her.  I think James has a very good chance of being in the final 2.

Really hope Newcastle United stay up,looking unlikely though,its been tough for them this year with all the different managers..
Allardyce was a disaster and is the most to blame imo, Kinnear seemed to have steadied the ship until he got the heart problems,Houghton done his best but isn't a No.1 imho and Shearer hasn't had the time really.
I think they will come straight back up again though if they do go down,hope they do anyway.
I hope its Sunderland and Middlesborough that go down

They where something like 10th when Allardyce left so I think it is unfair to blame him when he had only got the job.  He has kept a worse team up Blackburn and had consistently kept Bolton in the top 10 before that.  Getting rid of Allardyce and replacing him with Keegan, then bringing in Dennis Wise over Keegans head, replacing Keegan with Kinnear, Hughton replacing Kinnear then Shearer replacing Hughton where the next mistakes.  Also spending millions of £ having to pay off Alladyce/Keegan/Wise contracts after they have been sacked and selling possibly there best player (Given) 1/2 way through the season have been huge mistakes.  They couldn't organise a f&*k up in a brothel.

No one can hold a grudge like Alex Ferguson.  He would love nothing more than to get 1 over on Alan Shearer for snubbing him twice.

I think he might have close to a full team out vs Hull only he might experiment with a few positions.

                1. Teves

2.Ronaldo 3. Rooney 4. Scholes 5. Berbatov

              6.Van Der Sar

    7. Wes Brown     8. John O'Shea

9. Nani    10. Ferdinand  11. Gary Neville   

Our eyes can only pick out things of a certain size so can you see much difference in the picture when you are sitting 10ft from the tv?  The polar bears on the nature programs I watch look fine to me without having them in HD.

She did an interview not so long ago that freaked me out a bit.  When she talked the only part of her face that moved was her mouth, her forehead, eyebrows, cheeks all stayed perfectly still.  She must have had a serious amount of bottox.  She is definitely a bit f&*ked up.

She said her and Pete hadn't had sex this year but Pete was going to get some soon as they where going to try for another baby.  Very strange.

I feel a bit sorry for her, bringing 3 kids up alone will be tough but then again she has X millions in the bank so maybe she should be feeling sorry for me.

Even West Brom have given themselves a chance, particularly if its a draw tonight. Think Newcastle will win tonight and do enough to get out of trouble. Strange how Hull seem doomed and everyone is predicting their relegation yet they aren't even in the relegation zone.

Momentum is a difficult think to reverse when you are desperate.

Hull could easily get something out of the Bolton game and if United have nothing to play for in the last game and want to protect there players for the CL final maybe Sir Alex will give Carlos Teves a run in nets for his last game just to get 1 over on Alan Shearer for snubbing united all those years ago

One of the first things I thought on this case was how the f&*k could you be so stupid to go out for a meal and leave your 3 children alone and leave the patio door open so that you wouldn't have to walk round the house but I know a girl who is a final year medical student you apparently is a genius, top of her class and all that but she has a very innocent view of the world.  She is from the south with a fairly strong accent but she would think nothing of taking a short cut home through the shankill road, get lost and stop and ask people for directions without realising she is in serious danger.  I sometimes think there may be some sort of inverse relationship between academic intelligence and common sense.

[I bought a kidney from a poor and desperate mum to save my own life]

I bought a kidney from a poor and desperate mum to save my own life 

By Emma Smith 1/05/2009

EXCLUSIVE: It's illegal across most of the world but in some countries you can still pay for organs. Here, one woman explains why she made the controversial decision to buy someone's kidney.


After 18 months waiting for a life-saving kidney transplant Sukhi Johal feared she'd be dead within a year if a donor organ didn't arrive.

So desperate Sukhi did something that's illegal in nearly every country in the world and condemned by experts.

She bought a kidney from a poverty-stricken stranger – a penniless mother of three.

She says: "It was risky and controversial, as a lot of the time you have the middle men who are making money from your situation and exploiting the poor.

"But if I waited for a donor I knew it could take for ever.

"I felt so bad about what I was doing. These people have nothing and are vulnerable. More females are used as donors because they don't have much say.

"When I found out my donor was a young woman with three children I felt terrible.

"The more I thought about it, the more overwhelmed I became with guilt and sadness.

"I left money with a trusted friend over there so that the donor would be able to get access to money if she needed it."

Thousands of lives are saved in Britain each year through organ donation. But with waiting lists growing ever longer, patients are now looking elsewhere for willing donors.

Sukhi, 46, a beautician from West London, was faced with only a slim chance of getting a match and felt her time was running out.

She was diagnosed with kidney disease when she was 21 and told her kidneys would deteriorate over time and she would need a transplant in the future.

Until 2007, she was able to live a normal, happy life. But then she had to go on dialysis. It caused blood infections that meant she had to stop treatment after 18 months.

However, because of high levels of antibodies in her blood, only one person out of 100 on the waiting list would be a possible match – plus her chances of finding a suitable donor were also reduced because she was of Asian origin.

The refusal rate for families of potential donors from ethnic minorities is 70% – twice the rate of white potential donors.

"My sister got a call from a cousin whose friend's sister had gone abroad to Pakistan," says Sukhi. "She got a very successful kidney transplant."

And despite her fears Sukhi decided to go ahead.

"As soon as I made my mind up, that was it. I was at the end of my road. I couldn't continue with dialysis as it was making me so ill so I decided to take the risk.

"If it wasn't successful, I could accept that and if it was then great. I would get my life back."

Sukhi and her sister got in touch with the hospital in Lahore in August 2008.

"I was absolutely terrified about going out there," she says. "When I told my doctor, he was dead against it, which added to my anxiety. But the alternative was much worse as I might not live long."

In December 2008, Sukhi flew out to Pakistan with a close friend.

"At the hospital they said there's three things you have to know – there's no food or water the night before the operation and there are no painkillers.

"You can scream till you're blue in the face – everyone will ignore you."

Sukhi spent more than £30,000 of inheritance money from her father on flights, medical costs, the guesthouse and a small portion to the donor.

Then after three weeks a match was found. "It was an unbelievable feeling – I cried with happiness."

The next day she made her way to the hospital. "I was in tears – terrified in case something went wrong."


The operation lasted three hours and 45 minutes, and all Sukhi remembers is waking up in excruciating pain. However, more than anything Sukhi wanted to know who her donor was. Medics are forbidden to say but because Sukhi could speak the language, and the nurses liked her, they told her.


"I couldn't believe it when they pointed two beds away."

Sukhi's donor was a married 25-year-old woman with three children.

"I got up and started walking towards her despite the agony. The tears just started falling. I couldn't stop shaking as I thanked her.

"She just stared at me startled – not knowing what to say. It was the most profound experience of my life."

Sukhi learned the grim reality of the woman's life when she asked for her house number to keep in touch.

"I don't have a house," she said in Urdu.


Sukhi was shocked at how poor the people were and realised she had given her kidney solely for the money.

"She had put her health at risk for the sake of her children. I broke down in tears.

"More than anything I wanted to help her."

That's when Sukhi decided she wanted to do something for her donor because she was worried the agency might only give her a tiny percentage of the money she'd paid.

She gave her a substantial sum as well as toys and clothes for her children, and she managed to get the number of her father-in-law to keep in touch.

"I felt so bad and wanted to do whatever I could to repay this woman for giving me my life back.

"That's why I gave her money and left more with a friend for when she needed it.

"At the moment, I'm trying to set up some funds for her so that she can send her children to school."

Sukhi adds: "If I hadn't gone to Pakistan it would probably have been too late for me."

Newcastle Hospitals Donor Transplant Co-ordinator Lynn Robson says: "It's very risky to buy your kidney in other countries as you don't know what measures are being taken with regards to screening.

"The average waiting time for a kidney here is two years, so it's not unusual that Sukhi was waiting for a year-and-a-half.

"Obviously we would prefer they would wait it out rather than go to countries like Pakistan to buy one.

"I would strongly advise against this."

Trade in body parts

Illegal here, organ trading is booming in Pakistan.

People travel from Europe, the US and the Middle East to private hospitals that have sprung up around Rawalpindi and Lahore.

In the UK alone nearly 7,000 people are waiting for donor kidneys.

"We don't support payment for organ donations," says a spokesperson for the British Medical Association .

"There are a number of problems involved in buying a live transplant in countries like Pakistan.

"There are problems with aftercare and with the people donating in such poor countries. And you have to ask how ethical it is to exploit poor people so desperate they are donating organs."

I've worked with a couple of complete bitches who where destructive to work with and would pick on anyone in the team if they sensed any weakness.  Coincidentally or not on both occasions the bully has been seriously overweight and ugly.  Before this I always had the impression that overweight people where jolly and made up for there lack of looks by having a better personality.  Do they f^&k!

More like 90-10 I should think.

didn't think it was that much, but sure, hopefully that will change tomorrow night! 

The last 2 years in division 3 Bredagh won all games (4 games).
The year before Bredagh won 2 and lost 1
The year before that St Paul's won 1 and drew 1.
The year before that St Paul's won 1 and Bredagh won 1.

Bredagh 7 wins (64%)
St Paul's 3 wins (27%)
1 draw. (9%)

I myself went for the doctor's note. 3000 for yesterday now in for tomorrow and another 3000 for friday in next week

Ive used the funeral one already this year and I think I may have to use the 'I lost my wallet on Saturday night and my memory stick with all my work on it was in it and Ill have to start from scratch again so I'll need more time' excuse.

Decided against going down the excuse route. Just 100 words left to do, then a scoot up to the Poly Technical and Ill get this baby in before noon and im done and dusted.   

I went out with a girl at college that when she had an assignment that was late told the male lecturers she had 'woman's problems'.  The poor guys just freaked out, no more questions asked and just told her to get it in as soon as she could.  Bad Karma but good thinking.