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Was that the year the 100 Club moved to larger premises?

Seriously, it's going to remain as a golf course. This isn't difficult stuff.

Anybody been watching this excellent TV drama/comedy? Basically, Sam Tyler (played by John Simm) is a modern day chap who is hit by a car and wakes up in 1973. Although he still remembers things from the 21st Century, he is surrounded by people with attitudes and prejudices that are literally stuck in the seventies. In the current series he has had to contend with racism, homophobia, sexism, anti-Irish bigotry as well as putting up with all manner of petty in-fighting and back-biting among his colleagues. They should have called it "Life on Bedlington", eh? Yes indeedy!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!SHUTITDOROTHY!!!!!!!!!

He hasn't borrowed nearly enough on that putt. It's going to miss by about three feet on the left.

Some tinpot local radio herbert in a bomber jacket playing rubbish records and carrying out the sort of fatuous "wind up" phone calls that even Noel Edmonds would baulk at? FTS.

Southampton FC are to pull down a statue recently erected in honour of one of their greatest players, Ted Bates. Story here The reason? It's bliddy rubbish. Look at his diddy legs!

They were awful again yesterday.

"Little bit o' politics there!"

I fear you have that whole mote/beam/eye thing going on again. The second "Fractal" thread posted the exact same text but in a smaller font. A rather amusing juxtaposition of form and content, I thought. Perhaps a bit too subtle for this forum, where animated mooning smilies carrying offensive banners and badly spelled nonsense in very large type are the comedic devices of choice.

One for the gamers and spods on here.

Those crazy Mackems! Keep an ear out for a masterful bit of turntablism from the author of this clip after about 2.20 minutes.

I imagine that when the leaders of the world's major religions read your cogent, well thought-out views they will all shake their heads sagely, realise that they have been wasting their entire lives, and walk out into the world feeling naked but strangely alive for the first time. Thank you for sharing your great wisdom, Monsta.

Missvic's house?

A recent article in New Scientist tells of a small number of cosmologists who believe in the theory that the universe is a fractal (i.e it's made of a number of number of bits which is each a smaller copy of the whole - like a fern leaf or a broccoli). This can be proven to a certain size (200million light years or so) but over this size things get a bit big and unobservable. This kinda goes againsn't Einstein's craic as he believes in a more homogeneous dispersion theory (that everything is more or less evenly spread across the place). Einstein's theory has some kinda knock-on effect with space-time and gravity and the like, allowing us to make universal assumptions using the general theory of relativity. This puts into question a canny bit about the universe and how things fit into it. It's all very exciting! I am of the belief that perhaps things are a bit fractal; it's a repeating pattern in nature and it has been shown to happen in space to a certain extent. Also that although he was some cool dude, even Einstein couldn't know everything, if only because science wasn’t as developed then. And I like the thought of different laws of physics to our own. Anyway... I was just reading about it and thought I would ask you all your opinions? It effects us all. I'm bored with favourite pets and pretend Bedlingtonites now...

That went well then, didn't it?

I thought it was dogs who were supposed to be like their owners.

There's an idea for a signature!

Are those the ones that went into the ark two by two?

Despite what pessimistic Pete might think, I reckon the Toon will win tonight. 3-1.

Tell it to the judge, Poindexter.

Hello there, Monsta, if that is your real name, though frankly I am beginning to doubt it.

I think we should have a monorail system!

I think a video game shop in Bedlington would be an excellent idea. It would allow the town's gamers to save money and try a greater variety of games. Mainly though, it would also keep all the spods out of the pubs.