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Man after doing some checking, theres a 2 disc DVD set of it with commentary by dolph Lungdren~!, I might just have to buy this bad boy, oh and mario film wasnt that bad, but it did have a kick ass song by Roxette(dont laugh, its a fucking good song )

Hey i'm not dragging his name through the much, clinton is the guy whos shilling his book

Where the hell is this story, cos its nowhere on any UK site?

The dude who plays tom paris in Voyager was also in this fucking Courtney Cox, hmmm wonder who got the best deal there then?

Have a read of this http://bigbrother.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds6539.html Fucking brilliant night

Re: the ending Most blatant attempt to try and attempt a sequel ever? And skeletor was cool when he turned into super skeletor, with that big fuck off staff

Hey, Denmark are playing well, but they need to score, and Im looking forward to Sweden v Italy tonight, should be a good game.

But it has Courtney Cox in!!!111!!

And as a birthday present, Bush gets elected in November, happy birthday mate, although I was surprised you were 29, only one away from the big 30

Well cos current events is MikeSC's stamping ground, easy really

Have a download of this to see what happened, its fucking brilliant http://www.chriscomweb.co.uk/BB5_fight.wmv

I'm not going to say anything but laugh smugly Fuck it, I rock

Oh yeah, no arguments there Mike

Cheers for that, yeah Anders and Killer are well loved by the fans here, plus they seem to genuinly enjoy playing for Saints, unlike some(Gavin McCann grrrrr)

The fact is, Bin Laden wanted/wants Shariah law across the middle east and the world, Hussein was a secular leader, therefore they were at odds due to political and religious reasons to start off with, and Bin Laden wanted to invade Iraq along with his Mujahdradeen(spel?) in 1991, but Saudi Arabia blocked him, as it would have split the coalition along with Israel.

"Powerbomb!" "Ah, he kicked out"

Well to quote the Doors, #"This is the end, my friend"# The Tories and Labour have both been hit by the Eurosceptic UK Independence Party in the European elections. With two results to come UKIP is in third place on 16.8%, with its vote having more than doubled from 1999. The Tories are leading with 27%. Labour is down 6% to 23% which is their worst share of the vote since before the First World War, compounding its poor local elections showing. In a good night for smaller parties, the Greens have held their two Members of the European Parliament with 6% of the vote. The British National Party share of the vote is so far up 4% to 5%. Elsewhere in Europe governing parties in Germany, France and Poland are suffering big losses. As in the UK, Eurosceptic groups are enjoying their best result at the polls. So far UKIP has quadrupled its number of MEPs from three to 12. The party's best showing was in the East Midlands, where it came within 0.3% of beating the Tories and its star candidate Robert Kilroy-Silk was elected to the European parliament. It also did well in South West and South East of England, where they reached second place behind the Tories. Celebrating his victory, Mr Kilroy-Silk said: "Now we know why the British public are fed up with the old parties. They are fed up with being talked to in that simplistic manner. "They want their country back from Brussels and we are going to get it back for them." All the results for England and Wales have now been announced, with MEPs chosen by proportional representation in each region. Scotland and Northern Ireland will wait until Monday for their results. The results in Wales saw no change in the share of MEPs between the parties. Labour is pleased with its Welsh showing, raising its vote by 1%. Plaid Cymru's vote dived by 12% and the Tories share dropped by 3%. The overall EU turnout fell to an all-time low at 44.6%. In the UK, 39% of voters went to the polls - topping the record of 37% for a European election set in 1989. The projected final outcome puts the Tories on 27%; Labour on 23%, UKIP on 16%, the Lib Dems on 15%, the Greens on 6% and the BNP on 5%. It is the first time the two largest parties have secured less than half of the vote between them. Disaster? The Lib Dems stressed they were the only big party to increase their vote but they face being pushed into fourth place by UKIP and won 3% less of the poll than they did in the last general election. Health Secretary John Reid told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the results posed a "huge challenge" for Labour "to argue our case for Europe". "It was a disappointing vote for us certainly... it was a particularly disastrous night for the Conservatives and it's been a good night across Europe for parties of protest as well as parties who are in Britain against the European Union," he said. "The difference in Britain is that elsewhere in Europe, every alternative government, every opposition party, has done very well, whilst the Conservatives have done disastrously badly." Conservative shadow foreign secretary Michael Ancram said: "We are not as high as we would like but we are winning this election." Voters were clearly telling Tony Blair they did not want him to sign the proposed European constitution, argued Mr Ancram. Meanwhile, the Green Party has retained its two MEPs, in London and the South East, and its share of the vote has so far held up from its 1999 showing. Green MEP Caroline Lucas said: "This is a fantastic result for Green parties and shows that we are here to stay, we are part of the political picture." The British National Party has raised its share of the vote to 5.7% but its leader, Nick Griffin, failed in his attempt to become an MEP in the North West. In its first European poll test, maverick MP George Galloway's Respect Party has gained around 1.8% of the vote. And in the Eastern region, ex-BBC journalist Martin Bell failed in his attempt to become an MEP as an independent candidate and said he would now be retiring from politics.

Media regulator Ofcom strongly criticised Fox News Channel in its most recent programme complaints bulletin. 24 viewers wrote in to the regulator complaining that comments made regarding the BBC by anchor John Gibson during The Big Story were "misleading”, “went far beyond reasoned criticism” and “misrepresented the truth." The segment aired in January, in the aftermath of the Hutton Report into the Dr. David Kelly affair. Gibson alleged that the BBC had "a frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Americanism that was obsessive, irrational and dishonest," and "felt entitled to lie and, when caught lying, felt entitled to defend its lying reporters and executives." Gibson also alleged that reporter Andrew Gilligan "insisted on air that the Iraqi Army was heroically repulsing an incompetent American Military," and that "the BBC, far from blaming itself, insisted its reporter had a right to lie – exaggerate – because, well, the BBC knew that the war was wrong, and anything they could say to underscore that point had to be right." What follows in Ofcom's report is a justification from Fox News and a rebuttal from Ofcom to each of Gibson's remarks in turn. "a frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Americanism..." Fox News via Ofcom: 'Fox News said that the BBC had appointed a special executive to monitor ‘pro-Arab’ bias at the network; that tapping the phrase “BBC anti-American” into Google resulted in 47,200 hits; that the BBC “continually bashed” American policy and ridiculed the American President; and persecuted Tony Blair because he was pro-American. These facts justified the phrase “frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Americanism that was obsessive, irrational and dishonest”.' Ofcom response: 'Ofcom does not accept that Fox News’s claim that an appointment of a monitor to detect ‘pro-Arab’ bias is proof of an “anti-Americanism that was obsessive, irrational and dishonest” within the BBC. Similarly, we do not believe that a simple Internet search for the words “BBC” and “anti-American” is sufficient evidence to back-up such a statement. (An Internet search will only identify those sites which contain those words, it will not make any editorial judgement over how those words are used). Fox News stated that the BBC’s approach was “irrational” and “dishonest”. However, it did not provide any evidence other than to say the BBC bashed American policy; or that it ridiculed the US President without any analysis; and that it persecuted Tony Blair.' "[The BBC] felt entitled to lie..." Fox News via Ofcom: 'The BBC “felt entitled to lie and, when caught lying, felt entitled to defend its lying reporters and executives” was a summation of the BBC’s response to the complaint against Andrew Gilligan’s embellishment of his interview with Dr David Kelly.' Ofcom response: 'We do not accept that the Hutton Inquiry supported the statement that the “BBC felt entitled to lie and when caught lying, felt entitled to defend its lying”. The Inquiry stated that BBC editorial system was “defective”. At no stage did Hutton accuse the BBC management of lying.' "[Gilligan] insisted on air that the Iraqi Army was heroically repulsing an incompetent American Military..." Fox News via Ofcom: 'Fox News accepted that Andrew Gilligan had not actually said the words that John Gibson appeared to attribute to him. However, Gibson was paraphrasing Gilligan’s words on April 5 2003 when, as US troops moved towards Baghdad, he said “I’m at the centre of Baghdad … and I don’t see anything, but the Americans have a history of making these premature announcements”. The Iraqi Minister of Information said that the Iraqis had recaptured the airport, which Gilligan and the BBC, Fox News contended, accepted at face value.' Ofcom response: 'Fox News argue that the presenter was not directly quoting Gilligan when he claimed that the reporter “insisted on air that the Iraqi Army was heroically repulsing an incompetent American Military”. However, the manner in which John Gibson delivered these lines and the fact that he indicated that Gilligan said it “on-air” gave the distinct impression that he was quoting Gilligan directly. It did not appear that he was summarising Gilligan’s reporting. Furthermore, Fox News failed to provide any evidence, except that it felt that Gilligan’s reporting of the US advance into Baghdad was incorrect, that supported this statement.' "...the BBC, far from blaming itself, insisted its reporter had a right to lie..." Fox News via Ofcom: 'When it became clear that Gilligan’s source, Dr David Kelly, was not as highly placed in the Government as Gilligan had claimed, BBC executives did not relay their concerns to editorial staff as quickly as they should have done, with the result that Gilligan’s story gained currency. BBC executives at the highest level “argued that the higher form of journalism practised by the BBC required their vigorous defence of Gilligan”. This supported Gibson’s statement that “the BBC … insisted its reporter had a right to lie”. It was clear from their reporting of the war, argued Fox News, that the BBC took a position that the war was wrong. Fox News did not contact the BBC for a reaction or response to John Gibson’s comments since this “segment is reserved for his opinion only”. But it pointed to an earlier news report that day from London about the Hutton Inquiry.' Ofcom response: 'As previously stated the Hutton Inquiry concluded that the BBC editorial system was “defective”. There is no evidence, and Fox News did not provide any, that the BBC “insisted its reporter had a right to lie”. Fox News argue that from its “study of BBC reporting” it could claim that the “BBC knew that the war was wrong”. Fox News’s “study” appears to be based on its own viewing and listening of BBC services. It could provide nothing more than this statement to back up this assertion.'

Man, I think we should just change our name to Swedehampton

If ya followed the story, you would know that in the light of the Hutton inquiry, the government does not appoint governors anymore.

Meh, it wasnt anything important, just a slow news day, and OFCOM isnt a government organisation, neither is the BBC

As some people may or not be aware, there is the third biggest sporting event in the world taking place next week(Euro 2004), and one thing that a competition like this does(along with the World Cup) is sort of bring people together, I know it sounds twee, but it generally does, now I was listening to a radio phone in today because I was bored, and there was some nobhead on there, saying that we shouldnt fly the flag of St.George because it is racist(it reminds people of slavery and the colonies and all the black repression), he even said that it should be changed! The thing I admire about American's is that they are geniunly proud of their country and will fly their flag and be proud of it, why do we have to be ashamed of our flag over here, and have lefty liberals tell us its a sign of repression?

Hey, enough with the Anders baiting, he set up a great cross for Larrsons second.

What TV shows do you think made the greatest impact, maybe due to a new formula, the actors, the way it was shot etc etc?

Apparantly we(Southampton) are in for getting DeMarcus Beasley, is he any good, I remember him at the 2002 world cup being extremely fast, but his first and second touch was terrible, and he had poor vision, has anyone seen him regulary in MLS, is he worth £2.5 million?