NickTheGrip

At least you expect to suck. Us English invented the damn game, so I am told, and we are always expected to do well, but guess what - we sucked total Ass in this World Cup (again) Barely got out of the lightest group in the tournament - needed a win against the country with the smallest population (Slovenia) and barely got it, then got manhandled by a younger, more talented, more aggressive, more hungry (need I go on) team in Germany. We actually held our own and came back to tie it (well, sort of) but the result was inevitable. Most of the good US soccer players play in Europe still, so at least they are exposed to some of the world class talent (not the ones in the English Premier league though - all the talent there is foreign anyway) Lets put it this way - I am officially cured of World Cup fever The only good thing to come out of this is that Ronaldo, the whiniest cry baby in all of professional sports sucked up the joint and is going home. Oh, and I wonder who will get the helping hand in the Germany/Argentina game seeing as they both got freebies from the refs in the last round!!!! The biggest irony is that I drowned my sorrows over the England capitulation with good German Wiessen Beer!!!! - I never even made the connection till wifey pointed it out during her nightmare in game 2 on Sunday (She is Mexican and almost broke the damn TV when the "goal" was scored - Glad she didnt - that shit's expensive)

Bring on the Germans - lets get revenge for the last god knows how many penalty shoot outs we seem to have had with them Just remember, not too long ago we played them and won, what was it again - 5-1 (Japan - last world cup, i think) Well its all square now and onto the knockout rounds where the yanks can relate more (like the NFL playoffs - you lose, you go home) I hope we get past Germany so we can kick the snot out of the fat little cheating turd Maradona, like SOB said. I still remember the fucking "hand of God" from 86. I was only 25 when the little T^^t did that piece of crap against Lineker and co. http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/section.asp?catid=78&docid=3437 for those in the crowd who don't know what I am prattling on about after too many beers watching England beat a world class power in Slovenia (oops - inside voice) Go England Shite - we got a hard road to the final. Germany, probably Argentina (Mexico cant beat them - sorry wifey) then Brazil, I think. Still if you deserve to win it all, you got to beat the best at some point - might as weel be now

For all of you, like me, who think Golf is actually fun (to play, not watch) Man goes to the course on his own, and he is looking for a short handed foursome to team up with but there is nothing. After a while this good looking woman comes up to him and says "I am on my own to, perhaps we could partner up". The man thinks, she is not bad looking, this could be fun. The man tees off on the first hole. The woman then tees off and smokes one 300 yards, right down the middle. The rest of the round goes the same way and she beats him handily After the game he is feeling a little down for being beaten so badly and she sees this and says "I know you are feeling bad, why don't we go to your car and I can cheer you up a little" So they go to the car where she gives him the most amazing BJ he has ever had, then leaves The next week she is there again and the exact same thing happens, in fact this goes on for about a month. Finally, after the last round, she is ready to go down on him again, and he stops her and says "You know, we have been doing this for a month now, I think its time we took this to the next leve, if you know what i mean!" She turns to him and says "I have a confession to make, I am actually a man in women's clothes" He is shocked and looks at her really angry and says "You bastard, you have been playing from the women's tees the whole time!!!!!"

I will be happy if they at least try and be World Class. Even if they lose with dignity and can go home saying they gave it all they had would be something. I dearly want them to win, but I just can't see it. It's like when I lived there. I grew up supporting my local team, Blackburn Rovers who were shite and were always flirting with relegation to the then Division 3. I left in 88 and about 6 years after (or something like that), they win the newly formed Premiership Now I live in Detroit and when the WC was held in the US (94) I was going crazy to finally be able to go watch my beloved England play and, guess what - they didn't qualify. At least I got to see Sweden vs Russia, which the Swedes won 3-1 All I can say is - Go Boys go England expects, and all that!!!!! Wednesday is going to be rough as I am DVR'ing the game and will have to wait till around 6pm EDT to watch it - gonna be a long 6 hours or so and I just know some wanker is going to blurt out the score before I leave work

As a Brit living in the US, I was ashamed of the performance (or lack of it). If I worked like that at my job, I would have been fired in a heartbeat. Guess it makes you think, just how bad the group is. Guess we will find out on Wednesday Perhaps we will win and go into the knockout round. Problem is, it will be against either Germany or who ever finishes 2nd in that group. I can just imagine the uproar from my fellow brits if we get knocked out by Ghana!!!!! And as for Rooney - what a turd - he puts in the worst performance of his career and then gets on the case of the british fans who spent thousands of thier own money to go to SA and only started booing in the last minute or so. I would call that wonderful restraint from the fans - I would have been in thier shit by half time - Go home Rooney you worthless wanker

http://www.physorg.com/news191062132.html God I hope Germany doesn't win it. I wont be able to stay awake during the final Of course I want England to win it, but if they get to penalties God help us My house will be chaos this weekend The wife is Mexican and they play in the opener against the host Then Saturday, 2:00pm EDT - England vs US (though most yanks dont seem to give a crap about footy). Barely anyone at work has mentioned it. The only other Brit in the office is still sulking - he flew home to watch his home team play at Wembley (Rotheram) and they lost boo frickety hoo

Well like Laszlo said, I work with him. He described it so well that I wont repeat it. Up until around 4 weeks ago I was the Engineering Manager for the whole location (about 30 people), and was in engineering management for around 4 years. Then my asshole boss told me "thanks for your work as "interim" manager. I brought one of my pet people in now, so you are busted back to private" (well sergeant, at least, I guess) Fucker put a 10 year hole in my career path, and being almost 50, he basically ended it, so I will be doing Electrical Controls Engineering stuff till I retire in around 30 years or so.....yeah, like Crack and Laz say - Michigan really sucks right now. We are looking to get real busy, but the company are trying to do it all with less people and less money for everyone, which also sucks But I guess we have been luckier than a lot of people who lost their jobs altogether, although this kind of feels like "kissing your sister" - LOL

yeah - that explains Google's home page theme today

Hugo is my hero - a fat gamer, just like me, who always has time to make a sandwich, even on a desert island!!!!! Funny how he has not lost any weight, even since they are back on the island, he is walking his ass off, and he doesn't have his Dharma "stash" of tubs of peanut butter anymore. I sincerely hope they answer the following questions, but I dont think they can, in 2 hours What were the scribblings on the wall in the hatch, that you could only see at certain times? How did Jacob get off the island to go visit everyone, and get back? Who was dropping the supplies and where did they disappear to in the plot line? We shall see

I have watched every episode and, IMHO, it is one of the best shows out there. (although, in truth, the competition is not very good these days) The Lost finale on Sunday is over 4 hours long - "WOW" with a 2 hour recap of the last 6 seasons before they go into the actual 2+ hour finale at 9pm. Interesting facts: The commercial spots are selling for the highest price, behind only the Superbowl and the Oscars, at a cost of around $900,000 for a 30-second spot. It is by far the highest price ever for a regular running TV show. It is higher than the next 10 most expensive shows on the same week, put together. They have also given Lost an Emmy exemption as the 2.5 hour finale would not be eligible under normal rules - looks like they are gunning for a lot of awards for this show The strange thing is, they do not get even close to the audience size as other shows, like, the most repulsive, annoying show on television - American Idol (again, my opinion). The difference is the audience is the most rock steady, committed fan base of any TV show, ever, and the show causes more "water cooler" conversations than any other show out there

Couldn't have said it better myself!!!!!!!

Wow, that would be a dream job. I am so f&^^ing jealous. I really wish I could go to work and think of one good thing about being there other than still having one!!!!

Oh, and I forgot Ghostbusters 3 and Transformers 3

To be honest, Hollywood has been out of ideas for years. Just look how many sequels and remakes are coming out these days. Hell I heard they are making a Rambo 5 soon. Maybe Stallone will kill everyone by hitting them over the head with his colostomy bag or walker.!!!!!! Here is a list of sequels and remakes Hollywood is either considering, or are already working on The Brazilian Job (Italian job - which was, in itself a remake of a classic michael Caine movie) I, Robot 2 I am Legend 2 Beverly Hills Cop 4 National Treasure 3 (please no......) Cars 2 Toy Story 3 (actually pretty cool) Jeepers Creeper 3 (was there a '2'?) Shrek 5 (even though everyone said 4 was the absolute last) Ghost Rider 2 The Untouchables (a prequel) Ace Ventura 3 (No Jim Carrey - straight to DVD release in all likelyhood) War of the Worlds 2 This is a reputable web site which is usually right God help us!!!!!

yeah, the porn department really doesnt need a story line!!! (not really what I am looking for when I watch one) Cos every movie has the exact same storyline - and I am totally not complaining

It is in fact a hacker trying to get your credit card information. One of the answers I found on line was to actually input a bunch of bogus information, which seems like a cool idea to screw with the assholes responsible for this piece of shit, but I would not recommend this. for my 2 cents, the drive reformat with an image backup is simply the best way to go, and by far, the simplest. The best software for this, which I use religiously is Acronis. It costs a little money, but I figure my time is worth more. A reformat and reload of the image only takes a couple of hours, in fact, I usually perform this step around once every couple of months just to be sure, and my piece of shit computer runs smooths as a baby's bum pretty much all the time (except when I get into "tweaking" mode and screw something up) Any program that "cleans" malware and spyware off your computer is not 100% foolproof and is only as good as the people programming it trying to keep up with the tards and assholes who create this shit. They will always be one step behind as they are reacting to new stuff being created, not the other way around (although, in my opinion, they do one hell of a job trying to keep up) Again - my two cents for what it's worth

IME stands for "Input Method Editor" and is usually related to non roman languages like cyrillic, japanese, Korean etc. THe most common one is between kanji japanese and what they call romanji (knaji is the stuff that looks like 5 year old scribble, while romanji is japanese words in english phonetics). Do you happen, by any chance to have multiple language keyboards set up on your machine Go to control panel and select "regional and language options", then check for multiple language keyboards being installed (not sure of the exact place to look as I am typing this on an XP machine, I dont have a '7' machine in front of me) Of course, the keylogger is another possibility This might be a strange question, but do you happen to be running a less than kosher copy of Windows 7. The only reason I ask is that 90% of the pirate versions of 7 come from China and a lot have "hidden" code in them that could potentially be causing the IME to start running. Hope some of this helps

Yeah sonov, I have been gone a long time 'cos I didn't know. I left in 1988, and have only been back around 6-7 times since for family visits. Me mum probably wasnt in the mood to catch me up on the newer lingo

Only in England could this happen. The people that did this made a great job of creating a lifelike sign. I never realized that "dogging" was another name for stranger sex http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/8660449.stm

they are pretty much all pay-for-use or subscription these days. It seems that just about anything is available if you are willing to pony up a few greenbacks And, yeah Bart, some of the information is erroneous, like it had my old house that my last ex-wife got was worth $1 million, which is about $800,000 more than it was actually worth. Perhaps I should go back at her for 1/2 the difference It also had my address in a suburb called West Bloomfield, not my actual city of Commerce (about 15 miles apart). WB is one of the richest cities in the country. Maybe thats how they got the $1m value - LOL

To all my fellow idiotd residing in the US I was put on to this website by a friend of mine. It is amazing what you might have searchable on the internet because of this website www.spokeo.com However, if you search your profile, copy the URL from the browser address bar, go to the spokeo home page, click on the tiny privacy word at the bottom you can get yourself removed from the list Beware. I didnt sign up for the subscription, but it seems there is credit history, income, family info, home info, even pictures you might have posted on FB or such

The problem is in the US, anything over 125k is still considered "high speed" We are so far behind the rest of the civilized, high tech world (read places like western Europe, Japan, etc) I have 16M connection from Comcast although it never comes close to actually getting that. The best I normally get is around 9M http://www.speedtest.net/result/801494515.png Guess I will break out my old 33.6 modem - lol

I just think its funny (sad) that these people are demanding protection by use of the same laws they have worked so hard to circumvent One rule - You respect and obey ALL the laws, or go back. Maybe we should say that murder is optional, you can choose to obey the law, or not, and get special excemption if you are from another country and everyone is afraid of being labeled a racist if they even look at you funny By the way, I didnt see anywhere in the AZ law that states only Mexicans are the targets. But Mexicans are the single biggest illegal (fuck "undocumented") alien problem, so if you get caught by this law, its not racist, you are a victim of mathematics (law of averages) BTW, I agree with the Northern border comment - Dont close the border, how will I get my Molson XXX then!!!!!!

Count me in. Although as a citizen of two countries I feel obliged to bring 2 6-packs :-)

Wow - that is pretty cool. What with all the pretentious crap around that is one really well done video (and probably cost 100,000th the cost of a 30 second super bowl commercial) Not being a big softie, but the commercial kinda "gets ya", if you know what I mean Nice post.