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You have got a bit of a nerve!!!! :rofl: For starters you are blatantly inaccurate and inflammatory with regards to Lady GaGa ripping off Christina Aguilera. Lady GaGa's debut single "Just Dance" was released in the USA in April 2008; and the follow up "Poker Face" was released in the USA in September 2008 a monthly following on from the August 2008 release of her debut album "The Fame". Both singles topped the US Billboard singles charts. Where as this track was not released until September 2008 (after an exclusive debut performance on the MTV's Video Music Awards where several critics and pundits noticed how she had ripped off visually & musically a certain the hot new Italian-American New York singer/songwriter - and ironically raised the profile of this US artist for the first time to most of Europe where her promo (t)here did not start until January 2009) & the video was not released until late October 2008: ltb0VeqVrp4 Oh, and of course her new video of "Not Myself Alone" looks nothing like a try to hard attempt at controversy as it has many similarities with Madonna's "Human Nature" & a certain Lady GaGa's "Bad Romance" video. Indeed it has already probably hindered this Bionic album era's success, as the album really is rather good IMHO. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/05/fire-1273032769.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/05/bottles.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/05/boots.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/05/gimp.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/05/glasses.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/05/debauchery.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/05/rings.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/05/no-pants-high-boots.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/05/phone.jpg Also you accuse others, yet you are doing EXACTLY the same thing stating that Lady GaGa will not be around in 20 years time. A touch presumptious don't you think? But all that can be validly stated is in commercial, visual & imagery, and impact terms her career has got off to a flier and she could go on to be a major icon, or she could easily burn out and fade away as a one album (& a half) wonder. (At the moment re: the Madonna comparison it would only be valid to compare her up to Madonna's Like A Virgin album/Live Aid performance for now). However, as she has already stated she thinks the song she wrote in Liverpool this year will be her career defining song; and she also stated that she will move away from The Fame Monster sounds (to a more rumoured 1970s/1980s Prog Pop sound ditching the autotune) and imagery in her next album. Plus knowing her stated musical hero is David Bowie, then she will know everything about his constant "ch-ch-ch-changes" of "sound & vision" throughout his career. But the bottom line is she has got a significant number of critics and old pop stars (David Bowie; Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones); Alice Cooper; Debbie Harry (Blondie); The Who; Peter Gabriel (Genesis); Duran Duran; Boy George (Culture Club); George Michael; Kylie Minogue; Depeche Mode; etc) who admire what she is doing because she is bringing the visual artform back to popular music that has been largely missing since the late 1980s in the ever more formulaic 2000s.

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World Cup Winners Betfair.com (Win only odds) Spain 4/1 Brazil 5/1 Argentina 6/1 England 7/1 Netherlands 9/1 Germany 14/1 Italy 16/1 France 28/1 Portugal 33/1 66/1 Bar

They are certainly my (ahem) tip to win. Still I thoroughly enjoyed the Argentina v Nigeria match.

I personally think Lady GaGa is easily the greatest new popstar to come along in the last decade or so. But I have to agree with Russ. Implying Lady GaGa is better than Madonna is like saying Oasis were better than The Beatles = laughable. Right now her Madonna meets David Bowie's female Ziggy Stardust act is a breath of fresh air amongst too many one dimensional popstars around at the moment (and you have to give her kudos for bringing dance/pop back to the top end of the US charts; and 1970s/80s art rock visual imagery back to videos/concerts) open up the potential for her to be one of the all time great music artists. But it is how she kicks on with her second/third album onwards will be the key. If she is still a significant artist by the end of this decade then one can start to make those comments. At the moment all she has done is reinvent the wheel.

Argentina are playing brilliantly so far.

I completely fail to see why a few people think it will be a walk in the park for England. The USA are ranked 14th in FIFA's World rankings just 6 places behind England. Plus they've played the two tournament favourites in the past year and on neither occasion did they disgrace themselves: _pwitPFl6-Q FoEbwoik1Hc

Oh don't get me wrong I definitely agree with you on this principle. However, calling BP British Petroleum on several occasions when it stopped calling itself that in 1998 smacks of Anglophilla. Add to the fact that in 2009 The Exxon Mobil Corporation, the American multinational oil and gas corporation announced that they would support and donate to the Democrats at the 2010 US Election and suddenly it gets rather easier to get more cynical about the merits of Barrack Obama's verbal attacks.

Clearly it was a Russ Abbott (remember him) inspired stereotypical pi$$take. Hence the smileys and the next paragraph edited out starting with ...But seriously.... As for our so called arrogance that we are going to win it .... I'm running a World Cup Fantasy Football Prediction Game at work: I've had 36 entries and none of those entries has predicted the Pre tournament 4th favourites (England) are going to win (for the record: 19 Spain; 12 Brazil; 2 Argentina; 1 each Italy, The Netherlands & Germany). So I think that busts that myth of English arrogance down South of the Border out of the water.

Well I fukkin detest soap operas. I think people who watch them are fukkin' sad. But you don't see me complaining about it (until now). I mean it is not as if it is real life is it, yet the way some sad pathetic people go on you would think it is. Plus the last time I looked there were (a lot) more than four channels to chose from, so if you don't like it, turn over and watch something else.

Firstly, lets have a look at the good old US of A's history when the shoe has been on the other foot: • BHOPAL TRAGEDY On the night of December 2 and 3, 1984, a 40-ton leak of methyl isocyanate gas from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, caused the immediate deaths of at least 3,787 people, as a pale mist settled over the town. Thousands more were blinded and crippled by the disaster. In the intervening years at least 20,000 have died prematurely from the leak, and 150,000 have suffered permanent health problems. Union Carbide, now a subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company, was a U.S. firm, and its officials have consistently refused to take full liability for the accident. Immediately after the disaster the CEO of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, was arrested by Indian police when he visited Bhopal. He was released on bail and left the country. Since then Anderson, who lives in comfortable retirement in the U.S., has avoided an international arrest warrant, and India has no extradition treaty with the U.S. Indeed the U.S. government and American courts have repeatedly blocked attempts by survivors' groups and the Indian government to bring Anderson and other American executives to account, and very little of the $450million compensation package paid by Union Carbide has gone to the survivors (money that came not from the company but from its insurers). This week, seven former Union Carbide managers, some in their seventies, were found guilty by an Indian court of causing death by negligence and sentenced to two years in prison. All were Indian nationals. Not a single U.S. citizen has been punished for the disaster despite evidence emerging that the plant's owners were aware, before the tragedy took place, that faults existed in the Indian plant. • EXXON VALDEZ When a quarter of a million barrels of oil leaked from the stricken supertanker Exxon Valdez in March 1989, it was considered the worst maritime environmental disaster in history. The affected area lay wholly in U.S. territory, Prince William Sound in Alaska, and the ship was owned and operated by a U.S. firm. Despite the impact on seals, birds, fish and other wildlife, Exxon fought hard to avoid paying the massive compensation decreed by the American courts, reducing an original penalty of $5billion to just $500million on appeal. As usual, the American legal system acted fast to defend the interests of American corporations, even when their victims were American citizens (and sea creatures). • TORREY CANYON The worst oil spill in British history (and the world's first major maritime environmental incident) polluted miles of Cornish coastline, and cost the local tourist industry tens of millions of pounds. The 1967 disaster involved an American supertanker, the Torrey Canyon, which had been chartered by British Petroleum. It ran aground on a reef off the Scilly Isles, and broke up; the subsequent clean-up operation cost the UK and French governments tens of millions of pounds. Attempts to recover any cash from the tanker's owners proved almost impossible. At one point, a young British lawyer, Anthony O'Connor, served a writ against the owners by sneaking aboard the Torrey Canyon's sister ship, the Lake Palourde, when she was moored in Singapore. He got aboard by pretending to be a whisky salesman and stuck his writ to the mast. French naval speedboats chased the Lake Palourde but were unable to board her and serve their writ on behalf of Paris. Sir Elwyn Jones, the Attorney General, told Parliament, seven months after the disaster that the Barracuda Tanker Corporation was trying to limit its liability in the U.S. courts to just $50. In the end, compensation of £3million was paid, a small fraction of the clean-up costs and costs to the tourism industry. • PIPER ALPHA On July 6, 1988, 167 people were killed when the North Sea oil rig Piper Alpha exploded in a sheet of flame. The rig lay about 120 miles northeast of Aberdeen, in the British North Sea Sector. It was wholly owned by Occidental Petroleum, based in Los Angeles, California. An inquiry found Occidental Petroleum partially liable, on the grounds of inadequate safety and maintenance procedures, but no prosecutions followed. Despite the catastrophic loss of life (more than 15 times as many were killed as by Deepwater Horizon) and the devastating economic consequences of losing some 10 per cent of total North Sea production, there was no anti-American rhetoric at the time from the Thatcher government. So the USA are good at taking the blame when it is their own fault then ...... not. Secondly, maybe Obama is pissed off with the UK because we now have a Government/Coalition who for the first time in nearly a decade and a half has reportedly said no to a request from Obama to send more UK troops into the Helmand province in Afghanistan; and in fact made a point of visiting our troops out there to not so cryptically say he is looking to pull our troops out of there leaving the USA to pick up the pieces. If only B-liar had had the balls to say no to Bush Jnr over those Whoppers of Mass Deceptions....... :thinking:

It would certainly make a good medicine for insomnia. :lol:

Exactly. Or get a better national football team. It's not like all those bloody TV Soaps (which are on all year round); the Excrement Factor; Britain's Got No Talent & Big Brother (which are annual events for brain dead zombies another deliberate Dead Set reference. Talking of Dead Set ....... maybe they should take Charlie Brooker's example and film a travelogue holiday thingy across the United States of America trying to avoid all news on the biggest sporting event in the world (yes bigger than the Olympics football haters). Well sod the lot of you football haters I'm going to enjoy the festival of football (although watching a woeful France against a mediocre Uruguay right now is heavy going) of 64 Games, before all the tribal Premiership football nonsence returns in July.

Yes, but they were so it was the correct decision. If anything South Africa should have won with the chance they had with 10 minutes to spare when Mphela hit the post when one on one with the Mexican goalkeeper.

The irony of course being that in Germany you proportionally 3.8 times more likely to be a victim of a racially motivated assault (it just so happens that the top two worst English clubs for football nutters are Millwall & West Ham (Cardiff lie 3rd)); and they have 4.7 times as many arrests for Football supporting related incidents than in England. Still nevermind. -_-

Good to see Scott being anti-English as ever. :D Maybe if the Scots weren't so fukkin' $h!t at football (compared to their halycon era of the 1970s-80s) they might think differently. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8733373.stm Never mind you small minded pathetic nation which had England given independence to when the SNP wanted it (Alex Salmond's comments about Iceland as a role model would have been hilarious but for whom has to bail of out the Royal Bank Of Scotland), it would have saved the English taxpayer £27 billion per annum, just tuck into your Deep Fried Fat Mars Bars you bunch of unfit alcoholic CU Jimmies and support ABE you bunch of losers. :rofl: But seriously ....... I too hate the moronic "Eng-er-land" chav supporters with a passion who've probably already downloaded that beyond vile "Shout For England" record (that is so dire it makes me want to support Germany); who think Cheryl Cole is well fit and talented and an amazing singer innit; think Simon Cowell is a genius who deserves a knighthood (instead of beheading); believe everything they read in The Sun/News Of The World; think James Corden is funny; and will go into a violent drunken rage the very second after England inevitably get knocked out in the knock out stages of the competition on penalties.

You do realise what the outcome of their last Premier League Fixture was: http://www.skysports.com/football/match_re...3150962,00.html :lol:

I was singing the same melody myself when their track was on. :lol:

Hips Don't Lie :wub: World Cup 2006 - now that's a football tune James "fukkin get off my TV screens you unfunny fatman" Corden.

K'naan stealing the World Cup tournament concert with Wavin' Flag as I type. What a pity it is not at #1 instead of the monstrosity that is.

When Big Brother started I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread, But after the "boring" Series 4; they brought in all the "look at me fame hungry freaks" instead of a cross section of people you meet in normal life, and the show got less interesting as it became increasingly fake and contrived, where it became blatantly obvious that the show's producers wanted certain characters to do better than others instead of letting the viewers decide .... leading to Series 8 "keep Charley Ulcea in the show at all costs" breaking point. Funnily enough, a lot of viewers shared my views with Channel 4, as they lost the majority of the 25+ age fanbase that made the show a success in the first place (and ultimately caused its demise). And they probably (like me) supported Ricky Gervais' campaign to get the most normal housemate made the winner of BB9; against the obvious annoyance of fellow contestants/the show's producers. So I will end my boycott to watch the show's Final 2 Week Best Of/Finale. As for the first three series it was the best British show on TV.

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I genuinely believe England will lose 2-1, as it is the first match of the tournament for both sides which historically has always been the most likely to result in a shock result. Plus USA will be really up for it not least due to all the arrogant UK press about soccer in America in the wake of David Beckham playing over there. But I believe we will win the group, as I can see the USA slipping up against either Algeria or Slovenia.

Just watched it. Now that is how you climax a series. So many great things to say about this episode that have already been said. Leaves plenty of room to develop things in Series 2 & 3.

Indeed. As for English Football Songs of the past 20 Years (From :wub: to :puke:) : Three Lions (96) > World In Motion (90) >> Vindaloo (98) >> We're On The Ball (02) >>>>>> (How Does it Feel to Be) on Top of the World? (98) > World at Your Feet (06) >>>>> Shout (10) My goodness Shout is so shameless & awful (especially compared to the peerless Tears For Fears original) compared to the brilliant Three Lions & World In Motion it almost makes me want to support Germany & Argentina.