The FA has scrapped thousands of copies of a DVD claiming to feature the best post-war England internationals as it did not include a single black player.
The DVD, entitled 'The Pride of the Nation', had been included in a welcome pack for newcomers to the 'englandfans' official members' club.
Sven-Goran Eriksson introduced a retrospective look at the leading footballers to have worn an England shirt over the past 40 years. But while the initial list given to video producers Octagon is understood to have included black players, none of them made the final cut as the running time was reduced to 30 minutes.
And when the complaints then started at the unwitting offence caused by the FA's failure to check the finished copy, the governing body were forced into action.
This will involve the expense of all copies of the DVD being scrapped and a new edition being put together, featuring several black players.
Can I ask why ?
Many of the 17 players on the original DVD would be uncontroversial choices, including Bobby Moore, Gary Lineker, Sir Bobby Charlton, Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Bryan Robson, David Beckham and Terry Butcher. However, Martin Peters, Chris Waddle, Stuart Pearce and Steven Gerrard were also included, while black players such as Rio Ferdinand, Sol Campbell, Paul Ince, John Barnes, Ashley Cole and Viv Anderson were not but in my opinion none of these (apart from Campbell) would get near the list.

FUKUSHIMA -- A woman in her 30s who illegally used her boyfriend's online username and password to access an Internet game and delete his game data faces charges, police said.
Police reported the woman, of Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, to the Fukushima District Public Prosecutors Office accusing her of violating a law banning illegal access. She has apparently admitted to the allegations against her.
"I did it as revenge for breaking up with me," police quoted her as saying.
The man, who is in his 20s, did not suffer financially because of the woman's actions, but she deleted items such as weapons and clothes that he had spent time collecting in the game.
If my missus deleted my half-life 2 game files I'd swap her for a new model ;)
full story here

February marks the 75th anniversary of "Anal Sex Month," a month-long promotion of rectal intercourse for both men and women created and promoted by the non-profit Colon Brotherhood. Originally created in 1927, this year's celebration of all things anal features a retrospective of public service announcements from the early years of the campaign.
Not that Anal Sex Month has been without controversy as well. President Richard M. Nixon oversaw the controversial elimination of Bung Balm in the standard field kit for soldiers, destroying the system of paired soldiering created by President Kennedy. Without the emotional bond created by rough, vigorous anal sex, soldiers in Vietnam suffered higher casualty rates and emotional trauma than those in Korea or World War II. Additionally, feminist movements in the 1960s focused America's attention on the diminishment of the vagina brought about by Anal Sex Month and launched the "Pump a Feminist in the Ass for Equality" campaign.
America soon recovered in the 1970s, when disco brought anal sex back into the spotlight with Shake your Booty, Back Door Man and How Deep is Your Love. R&B responded to the exposure disco brought with the cult classic Get It Up (And Stick It In) by James Brown and everything ever recorded by Barry White.
(faithfully reproduced from http://www.dailyprobe.com/)

I cannot believe VW actually thought of this and produced such a bad taste commercial, what were they thinking ? Car for all occasions ? click here QT needed

The most miserable day of the most depressing month of the year is just a week away, according to research.
Psychologist Dr Cliff Arnalls has come up with a formula pinpointing Monday, January 24 as the gloomiest day of all.The Cardiff University expert weighed up the influence of a number of January-specific phenomena that ruin our mood.
He blamed miserable weather, mounting debt, the length of time since Christmas and failed New Year's resolutions for the depressing day.
The factors are compounded by a lack of motivation in the face of a need to take action.
For those wishing to examine their woe further, the formula is [W+(D-d)]xTQ MxNA.
It translates as weather (W), debt (D) (minus the amount of money to be paid on your next pay day) and the time (T) since Christmas.
Then there is the period since the failure to quit (Q) a bad habit along with general motivational (M) levels and the need to take action (NA) to plan something to look forward to.
What a load of crap today is the worst as I am hungover and at work and want to be home playing half-life or watching CSI.

Would you believe that this amazing sentence contains ninety-nine letters, one hyphen, two commas and a single full stop.

Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the missing £1?

Study this paragraph and all things in it. What is vitally wrong with it? Actually, nothing in it is wrong, but you must admit that it is most unusual. Don't just zip through it quickly, but study it scrupulously. With luck you should spot what is so particular about it and all words found in it. Can you say what it is? Tax your brains and try again. Don't miss a word or a symbol. It isn't all that difficult?

This computer-generated pangram contains six A's, one B, three C's, three D's, thirty-seven E's, six F's, three G's, nine H's, twelve I's, one J, one K, two L's, three M's, twenty-two N's, thirteen O's, three P's, one Q, fourteen R's, twenty-nine S's, twenty-four T's, five U's, six V's, seven W's, four X's, five Y's, and one Z.

What can I say about this game that has not already been said ...
It's taking up way too much of my life and runs like a dream and as for the ant lions do not get me started.
Have plagerised some reviews that sum up this game for me ...

"First and foremost, the graphics are truly an accomplishment. They're not as pretty in the "shiny/glossy" sense as Doom 3, but in the sense of creating the illusion of a living, breathing world, Half-Life 2 succeeds like no game before it. Particularly of note are the character facial expressions – they're so lifelike, they're borderline creepy! The characters move so realistically, it's like having CG actors in a video game, performing with every bit of emotion and skill as their flesh-and-blood counterparts. Equally impressive is Half-Life 2's physics engine. The gravity gun is easily the best new weapon in any FPS released in 2004. Whether throwing sawblades through a pack of headcrab zombies, or hurling an explosive barrel at a pack of Combine troops, the way Half-Life 2 implements the environment's many objects into gameplay never fails to impress".
" Half Life 2 concentrates heavily on a diverse amount of encounters with your enemies. Valve uses the tactic of presenting you with a "puzzle" and allowing you devise a strategy to solve it, and then just before you do solve it, shovelling crap into your face. They include numerous different feels to the environment, requiring a diverse mastery of strategies. While facing the Combine, you must carefully engage each enemy and find the best way to solve your problems. When up against the aforementioned sacs of crap, most strategic advantage is lost as they mindlessly advance on you. And talk about some awesome traps. While in Ravenholm, ammunition becomes scarce and you must resort to the saw (more on this later), and things like gas, flames, electricity, falling cars, a crazy preacher and the all-around life saver, the crowbar".

click any of these for a bigger picture and then go and buy it ...

You are a Mod. Yeah baby.


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24 is one of the most innovative, exciting and acclaimed dramas on television. In its first three seasons, the series has won Emmy Awards for writing and editing and has been nominated for 28 Emmys, including three each for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Kiefer Sutherland. 24 also has received seven Golden Globe nominations, including three for Best Television Series in Drama, which it won last season; and Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Drama for three years, with Sutherland winning once.
Created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, 24 will retain its unique format in the fourth season. Each episode will cover one hour of real time and the season's entire story will take place during one day, so that viewers again can follow characters as they live through a momentous day that none of them will ever forget.
In season three of 24, Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), who was in charge of a special field operations unit of the Counter Terrorist Unit, fought to stop a viral terrorism threat before it could kill millions of people.
Season four begins 18 months later. CTU is now headed up by Erin Driscoll (Alberta Watson), a steely government agent who made firing Jack one of her first priorities upon taking over. After the explosion of a commuter train, Jack, who is now working for Secretary of Defence James Heller (William Devane) and is also romantically involved with Heller's married daughter Audrey Raines (Kim Raver), suddenly finds himself heading back to CTU for a meeting with Driscoll.
Also featured in season four will be Nestor Serrano as Middle Eastern businessman Navi Araz, Oscar-nominated actress Shohreh Aghdashloo as his wife, Dina, and Jonathan Ahdout as their son, Behrooz.

found this site http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~morph/Transformer/index.html where you can have some morphing fun

normal picture of me


morphed baby picture of me


morphed manga picture of me


morphed chimp picture of me

"By 2050, our aim is to beat the winners of football’s World Cup and we are very confident that we will be able to do that" - Shu Ishiguro, head of Robot Laboratory in Osaka
Keio University of Tokyo recent winners of robot world cup in Lisbon / New robot, VisiON, stands 38cm tall and operates independently of humans
THE footballers of tomorrow will have the midfield guile of Zinedine Zidane, the finishing ability of Andriy Shevchenko and the staying power of Roy Keane.
A Japanese consortium of robotics experts has thrown down the gauntlet to future players of the beautiful game by claiming their engineered humans will play mankind off the park within 45 years.
"By 2050, our aim is to beat the winners of football’s World Cup and we are very confident that we will be able to do that," said Shu Ishiguro, who heads Robot Laboratory in Osaka. "When we have accomplished that, we will have a society in which humans and artificial intelligence are completely in harmony."
Mr Ishiguro and his team are placing their faith in the offspring of VisiON.
(found on scotsman website)

sort of thanks to Mark Clark for this one

its only January and already the girls have got their bellybuttons out ...

A piece of cricketing history has been lost forever after an ancient lime tree at Kent's county ground was blown over during a gale.
The 90ft tree was in place when first class cricket was first played on the Canterbury ground in 1847. It was a famous fixture just inside the boundary, but now only a seven-foot stump remains.
Any ball hitting the tree was an automatic four. A six was only awarded if the ball totally avoided touching the tree on its way over the rope. Any catch taken after the ball had hit the tree was ruled not out.
Club curator David Robertson said: "The tree predated the time when the laws of cricket were finalised.
"When they came to draw up the rule book it was decided the Kent lime tree should stay."
The club have already planted another lime tree near the site of the old one to try to keep the tradition alive. There are also plans to make miniature cricket bats and stumps from the old tree to sell as souvenirs (perhaps some wind-breaks would be good as well)

You asked for it (ok, maybe you didn't, but we know you'll like it). To celebrate Boston.com's love of all things odd, they've compiled the top 25 most popular* Odds & Ends stories of 2004 (insert shriek of pure joy here).
You read the stories. You emailed them to friends. In turn, they give you easy access to the best of the best. Go ahead, shamelessly relive all the odd glory below. And don't worry, they'll update this list if another oddity knocks any of these out of their top spots. So, without further ado, here are their top 25:

1. Man mistakenly cuts off genitalia, dog eats it


2. Woman fighting to keep topless maid service in town


3. Computer glitch gives out free gasoline


4. Residents upset about Krispy Kreme wholesaling


5. 'Masturbating' lingerie ad banned


6. 11-year-old girl gives birth in Ukraine


7. Wendy's employees bathe in dish sink


8. Five-year-old boy helps mom deliver baby


9. German immigrant leaves 70% of estate to IRS
   
10. BMW drivers get most sex


11. Woman, ex-boss dating after harassment suit


12. Bush: OB-GYNs kept from 'practicing their love'


13. Man tosses bag of marijuana into security tray


14. Man learns he's dead, thanks to blind ex-wife


15. Drunk driver pulls over policeman, asks to be arrested


16. Man arrested for leaving small tip


17. Court tells 'Shrek' to cut castration jibe


18. Minn. trooper writes 205 mph ticket


19. Porn star tells military 'bullets, not boobs'


20. Young man marries own grandmother


21. Taxpayer dies after official error


22. Bear drinks 36 cans of favorite beer


23. Doctor jailed for billing for sex


24. Numerous sharks, fish found dead in 'ghost net'


25. Couple attacked by bullet-shooting oven

Remake of the famous Monty Python skit, "Dead Parrot". Of course, the dead individual is Kenny and the pet store is now a friend store. And then it goes off onto a wild tangent.

Krista Allen workout video, nice :)

quite possibly the best advert in the world

err lost frog, not 100% sure of whats going on but quite clever

the fhm 2005 calendar my two favourites below:

Managed to get a preview of the the Chemical Brothers CD "Push The Button".
The new Chemical Brothers album Push The Button is, as it should be, the same as all their others, and totally different. It’s a follow up to their first album, and a follow up to their last album, and a follow up to the ones in between. One or two of their previous albums are a follow up to this one.

Track listing:
1. Galvanize-Feat. Q-Tip (probably my favourite, great opening far eastern sounding)
2. The Boxer-Feat. Tim Burgess
3. Believe-Feat. Kele Okereke
4. Hold Tight London-Feat. Anna Lynne
5. Come Inside (not sure about this one at all)
6. The Big Jump
7. Left Right-Feat. Anwar Superstar
8. Close Your Eyes-Feat. The Magic Numbers
9. Shake Break Bounce (still have that chemical formula but this time with a little extra that forces a newer sound)
10. Marvo Ging
11. Surface To Air

The same, because it is the Chemical Brothers, and they do what they have always done, build beats that become lead sounds and which battle with noises that pile in from how they imagine pop history to be, what they believe pop to be, a thing you dance to, a thing you get in the way of, a thing that happens abruptly, a thing that happens to itself, a thing that drives you into the future. The same, because this is what they do, grab noise, break beat all over it, invite singers in to add language and merge attitude, get real emotional about the way music can make the world go round, fast, faster, fastest, with a little bit of slow, a touch of gentle, a push of contemplation, a feast of effect.
It’s what they do, thinking up tracks, and songs, and instrumentals that they would like to have had available as DJ’s, sounds that sound like the sounds they would want to slip between something dead original and something that’s simply fun, between something inspiring and something that, in many ways, is just insane. It’s what they do, beginning an album with a warning, and then a threat, and then a promise, and then they get somewhere, and take it from there.
The way this track, or that track, with a title like Galvanize, or The Big Jump, or Shake Break Bounce builds up is supreme, perfectly done and impossible to imagine being done better.
(from the official website)

Did you hear about the gay magician? He disappeared with a poof!

Q: What do you call a pig with three eyes? A: A Piiig

A man goes into a bar, orders twelve shots and starts drinking them as fast as he can. The bartender says, "My god man, why are you drinking so fast?" The guy says, "You would be drinking fast if you had what I had." The bartender says, "What do you have?" The guy says, "28 pence."

Two cows are stood in a field, and one says, "moooooo."
The other says, "You bastard! I was gonna say that."

A man was driving along in his car one Sunday Afternoon when he was pulled over by a police car. "Have you been drinking sir?" Said the polce officer. "No", said the man, "Why was I driving badly?" "No said the Officer, you were driving splendidly, it was fat ugly bird in the passenger seat that made me suspicious"

Parts of Liverpool were closed off today after a suspicious device was found on a car. Police later found out it was a tax disc.

How do you turn a duck into a soul singer? Put it in the microwave til its Bill Withers

Husband walks into his house with a duck under his arm. "Here's the pig I've been shagging," he says.
His wife says, "but thats a duck."
And he says, "I was talking to the duck."

what the hell is going on with our football legue, forgive me but i know I dislike Moan United and Arsenal with the Yids come a very close third but this is ridiculous ! Look at this picture and tell me why this was not a goal?
Surely the F.A (for what they are worth old gum smackin' twats have got to allow this and allow 3 points) for sure they will not have the courage to overule the linesman and ref and give this in arrears. Much as I am am against video replays this surely is a case for it.
Tottenham manager Martin Jol called for the introduction of video technology after his team were denied victory at Old Trafford tonight.
Spurs thought they had their first victory at Manchester United for 16 years when Pedro Mendes' long-range lob was fumbled over the line by United goalkeeper Roy Carroll - with television replays showing it landed at least two feet over the line.
But the celebrations of the visiting fans were cut short as the nearside assistant referee, scampering down the touchline,(with his head down), refused to confirm the goal.
It left a posse of angry Tottenham players to surround referee Mark Clattenburg at the final whistle and TV pundit Niall Quinn afterwards describing the mistake as 'the most blatant I have seen in 20 years playing the game and two years watching it'.
Jol was reluctant to criticise the officials (huge credit to the guy) after the 0-0 draw but insisted the incident should bring the introduction of video technology closer.