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I found this on Saturday while looking for something on the internet.

http://www.16personalities.com/

I took the test and thought the result was a pretty fair reflection of me. I came back as ISTP which apparently only 5% of people are.
An introverted thinker and an emotional cripple . Sums me up pretty well :-)

Have a go, only took a couple of minutes.

I've recently gotten access to a pretty decent range of Ebooks, unfortunately I'm unable to link you straight to them but if anyone wants to message me their email I'll supply you with the full list and then endevour to supply you with anything your interested in. There is a pretty good range of biographies (both sporting and non sporting) and a huge array of well known authors.

I'd also be interested in other peoples recomendations as I'd tend to stick to sports bio's in general and mayne its time to broaden my horizon..

Any of you lot post on there in any of the forums?

I was googling something and wandered in there by accident. Any forum I looked at was awful and the soccer ones in particular were mindnumbingly bad.

http://www.youtube.com/user/KeysandGray#p/a/u/2/lGCSh4sSQKk

How the mighty have fallen, they're like two sad old men.

Mine would be the life of Philip Lynott 

Anyone watch this last night??

I'd always be sceptical of the American propaganda machine and they sure wheeled out some heavyweights in this but it was interesting none the less.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd5XMgbGFOE&feature=player_embedded

Anyone seen this before or even know if its genuine??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf2eybSPb-g&feature=related

No matter who the kid is he's pretty fecking good. I can imagine some English/Irish coach taking him off cause hes not a team player.. greedy little bollix mind

A fan fell to his death at Texas Rangers Ballpark after catching a ball tossed to him by Texas outfielder Josh Hamilton.

The man was reaching for a ball thrown to him by Hamilton during the second inning and toppled over a railing after making the catch. Television pictures showed him falling some 20 feet from the outfield seats to a paved area behind a scoreboard.

It is almost a year to the day since a similar accident at Rangers Ballpark when fan Tyler Morris fell from the second level to the lower bowl while trying to catch a foul ball on July 6, 2010. He suffered a fractured skull and broken ankle.

"We are deeply saddened that the man who fell has passed away as a result of this tragic accident," club President Nolan Ryan said in a statement on the Rangers website.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family."

The Rangers clubhouse was closed following the game as the players were informed of the tragedy.

"We spoke to the ballclub, so they understand what happened," Ryan said. "As any of us would be, Josh is very distraught over this."

The fan landed in sight of the Oakland bullpen.

"They had him on a stretcher and were carrying him out," local media quoted A's relief pitcher Brad Ziegler as saying.

"He was staying stuff like: 'Please check on my son.' And people were telling him: 'We'll check on your son, sir.' "I think he had his arm splinted from falling, but he was conscious and moving. To come in and find out about this is just tough."

Texas won the game 6-0.
Reuters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAQRSdGOMmY

Sad story

Stumbled on an article about this guy today, he's officially my new hero. He turned $50 into $40million gambling and lost it all again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Karas

Saw this posted elsewhere, some absolute crackers. Think someone said on here that Liverpool would be playing Braga next in Europa League, cool stadium.

http://www.thisblogrules.com/2009/12/12-worlds-weirdest-stadiums.html

On this day 25 years ago Philip Parris Lynott, the hero of my teenage years lost his fight with addiction. There will never be another like him.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rENy7MQIYJs

We've always intended taking the wee boy to see Santa at the North Pole but for one reason or other its always been put off til "next year". Hes now 9 going on 10 and starting to ask awkward questions so its probably this year or never. Any of you good folk been, is it a rip-off/waste of time or a real good experience for kids??  If you did go who'd you go with as there seems to be a wide variation of options and prices. Thinking of just a one day trip probably.

Have 3 tickets for above gig to flog for a mate and his mrs, is it sold out? Will I be able to shift em? Anyone interested pm me, face value whatever it might be..

Any of you good folk ever buy stuff from DFS? The missus had me on the Boucher Rd on Saturday looking for a suite of furniture, as the wee fella was running amok in the shop I entertained him as she talked to the sales guy, anyway she came home with a price of £1500 for all the stuff we she wants. I was looking at their website there and the prices she was quoted are the exact catalogue prices. What I'm wondering is their any room for haggle with these guys?

I get the usual amount of crap in my junk folder "you need to update your Allied Irish, Halifax, BOI details" "you have won 750,000 Euro in the Euro Lottery" "My name is Mr Bongywonga and I want to send you $15,000,000" etc etc

But this one tickled my fancy today

Nice to meet you,
  How are you and how is your work? i hope that all is well with you, My name is miss Mirian ,i know that you may be suprise how i get your email, i got your email today when i was browsing looking for honest partner,then i feel to drop this few line to you , and  i will like you to contact me through my email so that we can know each other and exchange our pictures, and we maybecome partner.

Remember the distance does not matter what matters is the love we share with each other.

i am waiting  to hear from you soon.

kiss regards Miss Mirian

Think I may have found my soulmate

More proof if it was needed that football is fcuked.....

From the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8797183.stm

Barcelona failed to pay their players at the end of June, club president Sandro Rosell has revealed.

Rosell, who succeeded Joan Laporta at the financially troubled Catalan outfit last week, also said a loan of about £125m had been secured to pay wages.

"We found a club in debt, with liquidity problems. At this point we have to take a loan to pay the wages of the players," he told Sport.

But Rosell said Barca can still afford Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas.

Barca recently sold defender Dmitro Chygrynskiy to Shakhtar Donetsk for about £12.5m to help raise much-needed funds, even though coach Pep Guardiola had been keen to keep him.

They also sold Ivory Coast international Yaya Toure to Manchester City for about £20m.

However, Rosell has moved to reassure worried fans that Barca's problems are under control and that the process of securing a loan had already started under the previous board.

"The banks know that we have a business plan that will allow them to recover the money. The club is not bankrupt because it generates income," he added.

"The members shouldn't be afraid because it is under control. We must resolve this tension.

"It can be done in two ways: to have extra income, like selling Chygrynskiy, and/or taking a loan, which is what we have done.

"The previous board had already begun this process. We followed the same path - the same banks, the same target but with a different business plan. They [Laporta's board] also knew they needed this credit."

And Rosell even claimed that over 50m euros (about £41m) would still be available to spend on new players.


Despite their financial issues, Barcelona have been pursuing Arsenal star Fabregas for some time and recently signed Spain striker David Villa from Valencia.

Rosell intends to meet Gunners manager Arsene Wenger in South Africa shortly to discuss a deal for Fabregas, who started his career at the Nou Camp.

"It's now or never. We'll do it fast. It won't be protracted," said Rosell.

"I'll try to see Wenger in South Africa, then we'll tell you what happens.

"We would not pay the 50-60m euros that I have read about. If Arsenal do not go crazy, he might play at Barca.

"There will be 50m euros to sign more players. This is the case every year. This is our plan for the future.

"Technically, as of now we have 50m euros plus 15 for Chygrynskiy and 24 for Toure. In total, 89m euros (about £75m)."

Please spare a couple of minutes of your life to watch this guy....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBkbj_S3etY

Wind- up?? Probably not, hes American......................

I apologise if there is already a Premiership thread I never looked.....

Saw one of them top premiership goals things recently and it reminded me how much I hated Alan Shearer. It wasn't who he played for or any bad tackle he did, it was his God awful goal celebration, one poxy arm raised, the same time after time I used to think "show some originality you c**t".

Anyone else hate a player for some ridiculous reason and I don't mean things like "gary Neville cause he's a Manc twat" or "Ronaldo - the diving winker" or Craig Bellamy cause hes Craig Bellamy reallly!!!!

p.s Just thought of another, Shay Given why does he feel the need to celebrate every time he saves a bloody shot?

and yeah it is a slow day at work before anyone asks