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The Official Man Utd & Liverpool plus Chelsea, Everton and City Banter Thread!

Discussion in 'Manchester United' started by UIR - Kagawa Powa, Jul 21, 2011.

  1. Whiteside of Red

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    Let's look at what each team is best at:

    Liverpool:
    Most League Cups
    Joint-most UEFA Cups

    Man Utd:
    Most League Championships
    Most FA Cups

    So Liverpool are the best at picking up 2nd-rate trophies and Utd are the best team in England.
     
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  2. tunns®

    tunns® I'm a camp pirate

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    how far does your dole cheque go these days anyway, resorted to robbing your dinner from Petworld yet?
     
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  3. KingPepeReina.

    KingPepeReina. Active Member

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    Its more like Jack Russell.
    I forgot to mention
    Curried Doberman and rice.
    Bull-dog stew.
    Man United best team in England<doh>
    So are you another one that has yourself convinced that 38 is more than 40?
     
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  4. tunns®

    tunns® I'm a camp pirate

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    .......... go on I'll humour you - explain please.
     
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  5. KingPepeReina.

    KingPepeReina. Active Member

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    Now tell us.
    Is 38 more than 40 in Trafford<doh>
    Well guess what...it isn't anywhere else.
     
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  6. Man O Chops

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    Thanks.

    Judging by the quality of his posts, a twelve year old closet United fan too. One to ignore. I thought not606 would be mainly grown ups who knew their football!
     
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  7. tunns®

    tunns® I'm a camp pirate

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    no lost me there
     
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  8. Whiteside of Red

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    Yup, when you pad out your trophy haul with 2nd-rate trophies it adds up.

    How many times have you been World Champions? None, real shame.
     
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  9. Page_Moss_Kopite

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    al need. Meet the freegans.

    There's no such thing as a free lunch, so the saying goes, but freegans beg to differ.

    They only eat food they can scavenge for free from supermarket dustbins. Most is only just past its sell-by date, some is still within it but the packaging has been damaged.

    The freegan philosophy of "ethical eating" is a reaction against a wasteful society and a way of highlighting how supermarkets dump tonnes of food every year that is still edible.

    Boycott

    They argue capitalism and mass production exploit workers, animals and the environment. For the most extreme proponents, freeganism - the name combines free and vegan - is a total boycott of the economic system.

    The "urban foragers" do not like to reveal the exact location in which they operate so as not to alert store managers to their after-hours work. In America they call it "dumpster diving" and when the shops shut, that's what they do.

    Freegans Paul and Bob operate in a suburb of Manchester and have a network of bins that provided rich pickings.


    All food is washed before eating
    For them it is a lifestyle choice. They have money and could buy food if they wanted, but as a protest against supermarket waste they choose to live a freegan life.

    "There's so much waste it's just unbelievable," says Bob. "While that continues I can't see my freegan lifestyle changing."

    On a night out with them, the pair delve deep into their first bin of the night to see what they can salvage. It's a good start - yoghurts, a cauliflower, eggs, mushrooms and some ready meals.

    Raiding a second bin they discover it's full of bread, loaf after loaf and many of them still in date. But the haul is nothing compared to their best-ever bin raid a few months ago.

    Barbed wire

    "We got 75 bottles of beer, 100 frozen chickens and all sorts of things like that," says Paul.

    "We found so much food we went out and bought ourselves a big deep freeze and filled it with chickens, meat and all that."

    To get from bin raid to bin raid they use a converted post office van. It's where they store all their food and also where they now live - a mobile home in the truest sense.

    Not every raid delivers. One major supermarket chain has secured its bins behind fencing and barbed wire, an effective way of keeping the freegans out.


    Often food is within its sell-by date
    Each item raided from a bin is washed and the packing wiped over with disinfectant. Then it's opened up and cooked even if its past its sell by date. Seafood is banned if not in date but they'll give everything else a try and are rarely ill.

    Many supermarkets now give their leftover food to charity and while waste has been cut, a lot of food is still thrown out. So what do they think of freegans?

    "As a responsible fresh grocery retailer we cannot condone this behaviour," says a spokesman for Somerfield. "We have reduced our wastage levels by improved processes and by giving our stores the opportunity to markdown products earlier to ensure that they are sold within their use by dates."

    But it's not just supermarkets who are to blame. Figures from the Waste Resources Action Programme - which works with businesses and consumers to cut waste - claim households in Britain are among the most wasteful in the world.

    Each year 6.7 million tonnes of food is thrown out. Half is perfectly edible and in a lifetime its estimated that each of us wastes up to £24,000 worth of food.

    It's figures like these that are the reason Paul and Bob live life the freegan way.




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    Here is a selection of your comments.
    We were doing this 20 years ago. A major Supermarket chain used to dump food in palladins on the day that the expiry date expired. I remember one summers afternoon sitting in the garden of my North London squat eating chocolate eclairs and fresh strawberries. I was looking forward to my evening meal of fillet steak. Unfortunately, now I have appearences to keep up so I have to pay for my self-indulgence
    Nick, Hackney


    A superb idea. I'm tempted to dive for cans of mushrooms myself. A friend of mine worked for a supermarket and was fired for eating a sandwich that was destined for the dumpster!
    James, Berkhamsted, UK


    I can't afford to throw good food away, but I wouldn't even if I was rich. It is so easy to cook up raw food into a stew, pie or curry and have it a day or two later. Raw or cooked food can be put in the freezer so easily. Just wrap it well. Only rule there is never refreeze without cooking in between. Of course the easiest thing is don't buy too much in the first place. I do feel that someone who throws out a significant proportion of what they buy has got to be too stupid to run a household. People who do that are mad and ultimately selfish. There is only so much food in the world - while I don't recommend posting packets of mash to Drafur - you could always buy less and give the money to charity? Retailers should have to distribute any edible waste. Only disposing of fully out of date stuff.
    Sandy, Derby, UK


    Freegans are such hypocrits. You can afford to buy the food yet choose not to, so it's thrown out, then you scrub through a bin for it. You may as well be stealing it from the shop. You're causing the waste by not buying the food in the first place. Sounds like a poor excuse for being tight fisted to me, not a protest against supermarkets.
    Kirsty, Leeds


    Years ago I was very skint and had to eat like this to survive. I don't agree with the waste and think that homeless charities could be given more by the supermarkets earlier so the food is still edible. Also marking the food down by more than the odd 20p would encourage people to buy the nearly out of date food in the store so it doesn't end up in the bin. The supermarkets were aware that some people were scavenging from the bins when I was doing it and would purposely pour bleach or washing powder on the food to render it inedible. I hope that they feel ashamed.
    Naomi, Bristol


    Scroungers. Why don't they go in to the store and look for the reduced items that will end up in the bin and BUY IT! Strewth everybody wants something for nothing. I bet if this lot hurt themselves whilst getting the food they'll sue the supermarkets!
    Ed, Cardiff


    Good for you! I think this is a fair way for showing that so much food is thrown out, but hasn't gone off - I have only just taught my other half that 'Best before' doesn't mean that at the stroke of midnight the food will instantly go 'off' but that it may taste better before this date. Our society is such a 'throw away' society and needs to find out that there are other ways to recycle and save the planet, such as this (not wasting good food).
    Shazbhatt, Sheffield, UK


    Good luck to Paul, Bob and others who follow this trend. I'm not sure Ild do it myself, but I think they are certainly proving a point that far too much good food is wasted. The only point I would like to disagree on is the term 'freegan' which has apparently been made up from the words free and vegan. As Bob and Paul will eat meat and other animal products they have foraged for, they are not vegans.
    2PennyWorth, Dudley


    Why would anyone not condone Freeganism? If the food is going to waste, and the Supermarkets have not arranged for it to go to a good cause - something which i understand M&S does - then, in my opinion, it's up for grabs! If Somerfield doesn't like their bins being raided, then they should get rid of unnecessary packaging, and donate left over food to charity.
    Hazel, edinburgh
     
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  10. KingPepeReina.

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    Manchester United have been World Champions now.
    Correct me if I'm wrong,but aren't Spain World Champions?<doh>
    Do you also want to claim to have won Wimbledon,The Eurovision song contest,the Grand National(Well Coleen does look like a horse),and the Rose of Tralee,maybe Giggs could enter his bit on the side Imogen into it as the Welsh Rose.
     
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  11. Gazautd

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    <ok><laugh>
     
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  12. Whiteside of Red

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    Yup, club world champions - twice!!

    You've had a few goes at it - how come you don't have one?
     
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  13. KingPepeReina.

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    Page Moss.
    Well done on pointing out who the ''Bindippers'' are.
    In their Manchester slums.
    In their Manchester slums.
    They look in the bins for something to eat.
    They find a rat they think its a treat.
    In their Manchester Slums.
    Or heres another version.

    In their Manchester squats.
    In their Manchester squats.
    They talk with an accent no one can stand.
    You toss them a penny they stand on their hands.
    We thank Harold Shipman for dusting their Nans.
    In their Manchester squats

    They all come from Salford where its not so fit.
    They all live in squalour,their houses are ****.
    They have no money to get their next fix.
    So they send out their wives to do a few tricks.
     
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  14. tunns®

    tunns® I'm a camp pirate

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    yep we enjoyed that haul of silverware, damn site better than your "Best Trackie Bottom Wearer" sponsored by JJB, which I believe you have won each year from 1979
     
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  15. KingPepeReina.

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    You lot were claiming to have done something great when you won the ''We beat teams nobody has heard of'' Cup.
     
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  16. tunns®

    tunns® I'm a camp pirate

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    "Freegans Paul and Bob operate in a suburb of Manchester and have a network of bins that provided rich pickings. "



    They OPERATE in Manchester because of the wealth of the occupants, they don't operate in Liverpool because there's nothing to forage because some lil' scally has already beaten them to it.

    Just like you'll see more scousers in the the Arndale or the Trafford Centre than locals, as there is nothing worth left nicking on merseyside.
     
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  17. tunns®

    tunns® I'm a camp pirate

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    what?
     
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  18. HRH Custard VC

    HRH Custard VC National Car Park Attendant

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    Q: How many Liverpool fans does it take to change a light bulb?
    A: Yeah, as if they have electricity in Liverpool...

    Q: How can you tell a level headed Liverpool supporter?
    A: He dribbles from both sides of his mouth - at the same time.

    Q: What is the difference between a battery and a Scowser fan?
    A: A battery has a positive side.

    Q: Why do Sumo wrestlers shave their legs?
    A: So they ain't mistaken fur a Liverpudlian women.

    Q: What's is the differance between Pamela Anderson and the Liverpool goal?
    A: Pam's only got two tits in front of her
     
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  19. KingPepeReina.

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    They are still ''Bin-dippers''
    Whats the difference between a female Man United fan and a rottweiller?
    Lipstick.
    How do you stop a Man United fan from drowning?
    Take your foot off their head.
    What do you call a Man United fan with two brain cells?
    Gifted.
    What do you call Man United fan in court.
    The accused.
    What do you call a Man United fan in college?
    A visitor.
    Whats the difference between a Man United fan and a vibrator.
    A Man United fan is a real dick.
    Manchester United issued their own stamps.
    They had to be recalled as nobody knew which side to spit on.
    NASA Astranauts wanted to train at Old Trafford.
    Its the only place in the world with no atmosphere.
    What have Man United and a three pinned plug got in common.
    They are both useless in Europe.
     
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  20. tunns®

    tunns® I'm a camp pirate

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    The Lord almighty took 6 days to create the world, on the seventh he had a lie in, got up in the afternoon ****ed a pig then went back to bed...... and so gave birth to the liverpudlian.
     
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