Stive Pesley

Demand Pricing of tickets is sooo 2012

True - south-east asia essentially

I quite fancy Vietnam, but I think he may have already done Vietnam by the time we get there. Really fancy Japan, but I'm assuming it will be way more expensive than Vietnam/Laos/Thailand/Cambodia?

Looks like we might be going to Asia at xmas to meet my eldest who has been away travelling for a year. No firm plans as to where we meet up, but as the only bit of Asia I have seen is the other side of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, I thought I'd canvass for opinions Thailand seems the obvious candidate, but I've heard it's just stupidly touristy these days, and it's not somewhere I ever fancied in the past Any better ideas?

Probably a bit harsh to call them s***, but they were certainly lowest common denominator indie rock, a lukewarm rehash of loads of stuff that had come before. And I really couldn't stand the mouth-breather, faux-ignorant image that they projected. Yet weirdly for whatever reasons, they hit the spot for an awful lot of people at just the right time. Live, they were boring as hell (seen them three times - none of which were through choice, but that's a whole other story) Don't begrudge them the success, and I'm a big fan of people having their passions awoken by watching live music, but the ticketing thing doesn't reflect well on them at all, and will probably stain their reputation forever

I can kind of see the point that it gets a little tenuous when it comes to grandparents and beyond, but really? If your Dad was an Irish national, regardless of where you were born and lived - you would be half-Irish. I think the rules are fine as they are, because 1) they allow flexibility for a player to choose who they want to represent based on their heritage (one guy in your scenario might hate his Irish Dad and not feel in the least bit Irish. Another might love his Dad and be absolutely stoked to make him proud by representing his home nation) 2) they allow more players to experience the privilege of international football (eg Steve Howard was never going to get picked for England, but was good enough to get into the Scottish team) 3) they allow smaller countries to at least try and be more competitive by widening the pool of eligible players

Hilarious innit? And all from the "keEp POliTICs ouT Of FoOTbALL" crew who lose their minds over rainbow laces and players kneeling down

Oh come on Alf! I mean, never mind that the National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a detailed investigation, modelling the event and confirming that the WT7 collapse was consistent with fire-induced failure, and aligned with the known behaviour of materials under extreme stress and heat. I definitely reckon that it was a controlled demolition. The fact that this would have needed pre-planted explosives, a conspiracy to coordinate the demolition without detection, and the successful cover-up of the operation, without a single whistle-blower in over 20 years is neither here-nor-there! And despite extensive investigation, no physical evidence being found to support the presence of explosives, OR any signs of a controlled demolition - I'm not convinced because I saw a post on Reddit! Good on the old US govt though for managing a level of secrecy and coordination that you would normally think extraordinarily difficult to achieve without leaving a trace, given the general levels of incompetence seen in central government 😉

And what about them there moon landings eh? 😂

I'm pretty sure that both of these things are just wishful thinking on your part

Went to San Marino a couple of weeks back - a very nice place, but you can see why they don't have much of a football team. It's so small even the 5-a-side pitches struggle for bookings

You reckon any chance they might give us more tickets for Sheff Utd? Their capacity is 32k but they don't fill it with home fans

Looks like an interesting piece of speculative sci-fi. As the reviewer says " it’s irresponsible to hypothesise about tens of thousands of humans being safely born on Mars."