Jaggernaut

I did just that. She certainly has pumped it up by around 30 decibels, I reckon!

Agreed, but I think that if there's a fairly low crowd it'll be due to the timing. A lot of people away on holiday then. If I was here I'd definitely have gone along.

Don't like that.

I was in Japan when The Cove was released there. Many cinemas that planned to screen it received seriously threatening messages, and so most of them were too terrified by the orchestrated campaign of protests to show it.

No it's not, it's done simply to protect Japanese tastes for particular types of sea food. And you surely don't believe scientific research that is funded by the Japanese government on behalf of the whaling industry. Although whales slaughtered and eaten by Japan are supposedly killed for "scientific research", the number that now gets killed is even greater than it was before. Another thing, some schoolchildren get fed whale whether they like it or not; this is nothing but a method of getting them used to the idea of eating whale meat. There is no morally justifiable reason for killing and or eating whales.

It was an important correction to make. To keep this on track, I'm glad the Erskine won't be jumping ship.

Rubbish. Nothing racist about it at all. People who are against slaughtering and eating whales don't care who does it; it's wrong. Japanese people do not need to eat whales. The insistence of the Japanese government to continue to support it could also be seen as racist, as Japanese refusing to comply with the majority view of other countries. And why do they refuse to conform? "Because we are Japanese, and we can do what we like."

Before anybody starts, there's no knead to take this thread to a dark place.

I'd give a big hand to the guy who's modeling it.

Agreed. It becomes pish fun.

H2O under the Erskine. Got away with it earlier!

Most languages have their own versions of many place names, it's not just in Japanese and English that this happens.

Any decent supermarket or asian deli will sell soy milk.

Brief and to the point.

That's right, though nobody will admit it. Opponents often use the sound of the ball coming off the racket as a cue about the speed of the ball and type of hit. This sound can be masked by a scream. It never used to exist, so why now? Simple answer: to put off opponents. Oh, and imitation.

Worth a punt go. Count me in.

He'll begin again as a squad player.

Excellent idea. They could base everything around 40 and 4-1: £40 dinner £40 a pint (OK, £4 a pint) Buy 4 drinks (raffle tickets, dinner places, etc.), get 1 free... In fact, for the match against Falkirk on Sat 22nd Oct (and we beat them in the semi), the buy-4-get-1-free might be a good idea for the 50/50 draw.

Maybe, but if he does go I'd be so sad.

Yesterday the BBC Wimbledon commentators got into a discussion on players grunting, which got me thinking of the parallels with what this thread and poll are about. One of the pundits asked the other what could be done. "Nothing," was the reply. It's not illegal, and you can't ban a player for grunting just because it annoys some (or even many) folk. Could you ban excessive grunting, then? But who decides what is excessive? The number of grunts? How loud or otherwise outrageous they are? Some players just can't help themselves. So, it would seem that it's just one of those annoyances that you need to try to block out or resentfully accept, like mobile phones, or wall to wall old firm coverage in the media. Unless some arbitrary legislation comes in. And on the subject of Wimbledon, what a rip-off: £2.50 for a punnet of 10 strawberries and a teaspoonful of cream!

Well done to him. I'd certainly have gone to that, but I'll be far, far away.

This could be a long, long, long thread.

I'd just like second Vladimir Puntin's post.

I will.

Yeah, but isn't it a pity that we always seem vulnerable to losing our best players to other middle-range clubs. I for one will be on cloud nine if he stays and does the biz next season.