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Sixteen months post treatment, still no sign of the cancer returning.

Like I've said before, the majority of the Hibs lads on this board are a good laugh, and some are excellent posters overall (TGIG and Mon Dieu). Pete Rockwell and Hibeesbounce75 are a pair of utter roasters though, and even Doyle pales into normality compared to them. I'm glad they're entertaining themselves though.

No it isn't - that suggests that Hitler's support for Jewish resettlement was a policy entirely distinct from his 'mad' phase of implementing the Final Solution. Next to no credible historians have ever argued this to be the case. It also misreads a willingness to forcibly resettle Jews from Germany and the intended Greater German Empire - to Mongolia, Madagascar, Palestine or anywhere that was suitable - as 'support for Zionism'. Zionism was not merely a campaign for Jewish resettlement somewhere else, and at no point did the Zionist movement call for the forced expulsion of Jews from their homes and seizure of their property under a racist-eugenicist premise. So no, Hitler was not a supporter of the Zionist movement. Try again. Needless to say I'm not surprised in the slightest to see you white knighting for the grubby anti-Semites that form an alarming section of the Labour and 'radical' left. The "Zionist lobby" indeed.

Every so often there's a thread on P&B that goes beyond the joking and sarky remarks and even the usual level of poor taste and becomes something more toxic. Sadly this is such a thread. Posters still trying to blame the fans after their exoneration or the families for keeping this fight in the public eye when it was that very tactic that led to the present outcome are fairly despicable.

I would urge anyone who has the time to go and find the Independent Panel report and read the whole thing. The fact that the game was even at Hillsborough was an act of criminal negligence, no safety certificate and a history of crushing problems. As a result of crushing at the 1981 semi final the decision was taken to put in fences which split the terrace into "pens", those fences directly contributed to the death toll as there was no way for the crowd to go sideways into the ends of the terracing that had space. There was also evidence that the central pens got overcrowded so often that the police had a tactic with a codename to close the gates into the central tunnel, and any officer statements that mentioned that at the time were altered to remove all trace of it. There had also been previous matches where Gate C had to be opened to relieve crushing on Leppings Lane. I can only think a lot of people who point the finger at the Liverpool fans have no experience of being in an absolute shitehole of a terraced ground with a capacity crowd, I had plenty of scary experiences at Ibrox and Hampden and I'm sure plenty of posters could tell you the same.

John Mayall - Long Gone Midnight

Corbin caving into pressure from the Zionist lobby is only making the Labour Party look weak. I'm no big fan of Ken Livingstone but I agree with both these points he made. "I've heard a lot of people being critical of Israel, but if I was to denounce the South African government, you wouldn't say I was racist. "And one of my worries is this confusion with anti-Semitism and criticising the Israeli government policy undermines the importance is tackling real anti-Semitism."

Cover at centre-back

Her fannys probably far too raw to give a f**k about the snow.

The Byrds : You Ain't Going Nowhere

Anyone who still thinks "it wiz ra scousers, shoving" should do themselves a favour - go to Hillsborough.independent.gov.uk and read the Fkin thing.

Too many people still focusing on 'fans behaviour' as some kind of cause. They were exonerated. As has been pointed out the actions of individuals and the actions of large crowds are not the same, and treating them as such is unhelpful. It's a bit like folk comparing the economy of a country to the economy of a household. It's simply too different to make such a simple point. Yes some fans would have been drinking. Yes some fans would have been acting like knobs. But that doesn't equate to blame.

MOTD on the actual day. This is a fascinating watch, since not a single person implies (even under direct questioning) that the fans were to blame for what happened. The cover up started later, with The Sun etc all weighing in.

FFCUK Shadwell's post.

What we're saying (and apologies if I'm making assumptions about speaking for everyone here) is that there would be no findings if the families hadn't kicked up a fuss or rammed it down our throats. Here for example, you said "people know there was cover ups". How did we know? How did we find out? If it was up to stupid and weak people like you we'd be none the wiser. Eat your cereal, this is obviously just a bit above your reading age.

Mike Ashley is an absolute bellend of the highest order. He takes everyone to court and loses, he gets almost as much wrong as Phil. Hopefully Newcastle go down and he can clear out of football as he's no good for anything he gets involved in. Dave King is still a lying criminal who shouldn't be trusted, but that doesn't make Mike Ashley immune from well-deserved criticism.

Potter and Clark sign.

So much for the generals tank battalions. Do donnay makes tanks?

No. Today's 'Daily Politics' was incredible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_92

Fordyce signs

BT have requested access for just one camera + a cameraman, plus 2 production staff, and have confirmed they are not broadcasting the game live.....

I thought it was the words from the Hibs song about John McGinn. I just don't seem to understand.

A bottle of MD and Nade's BBC. What a night that would be.

My favourite line was "sold out coz its Rangers they're playing." Aside from the absurd hilarity of that line, another thing.... 4th round, Rangers v Cowdenbeath: 20,915 5th round, Rangers v Kilmarnock: 33.581 Quarter-final, Rangers v Dundee: 30,944 "Sell outs" aye? Looks like the mad rush for tickets only began in the semis. In fact, Hibs are the only one of the two teams to sell out their ground in the cup this season.

Schalk's contract extended for another season. Great news!

Particularly liking the 'both carers for children with special needs' card being played there. No doubt she'll book a trip Boston and New York to make it up to him, seeing as they're just a two hour drive away over in Lincolnshire.

Looking on IMDB is probably fine but watching it at work is a bit NSFW.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278871/

Played Hallway, Williamette and Always on the Ride from Post to Wire tonight, most of the songs from the new album. Confirmed final Scottish gig at The Caves, Edinburgh on 18 October. Four Walls was closer tonight, the archetypal RF tour song - Willy Vlautin, the outstanding lyricist of this generation finishes on a song that enables the rest of the band to demonstrate their undoubted talent, God I'll miss them

This is what happens when you blindly post on an internet forum having failed to read any of the facts/evidence. Try again.

Completely wrong. There were around 30 people who entered the ground after 2.45 who died in the ground. It was so vast that within minutes of them entering the ground they had ended up near the front of the pen

Show some respect ffs. I personally have known old folk that have died in their sleep. Over the last few years there have been folk aged 56, 62, 63, 68, 73, 79, 85 & 94. I hope one day you die in your sleep when you are old.

Apparently our wee nutter has a thing about flower pots now.

The one on the right certainly is a wid. Mahogany, I think.

I'll fucking have you for that!

Battle of The Bugle is spelled wrong and kept secret as the public would find in unacceptable that thousands died over a mythical musical instrument.

Probably because they weren't.

Does yesterday's verdict not supercede the Taylor Report and therefore make it largely irrelevant in terms of causative behaviour by fans?Anyway, as others have said, crowd dynamics are a different scenario. The next logical step would be apportioning blame to Liverpool fans because they attended the game and therefore instigated a large gathering.

Not sure why you people keep peddling that shite but still, from the latest jury finding: The jury was asked under point 7, "Behaviour of Supporters"... "was there any behaviour on the part of the football supporters which caused or contributed to the dangerous situation at the Leppings Lane turnstiles?" Jury response: "No".

Zayn fingered Lana? On live t.v.? Sheeeeiiiittt

One other thing that folk haven't mentioned about the crushing is the sort of "accordion effect" that happens in crowds. You also see it all the time with traffic jams. People at the front start moving, but there's a time delay in how long it takes for people further back to start moving. Those people then see a moving crowd, and keep going forward. If the people at the front are stopped, then that causes the crowd to move closer and closer together.

Steady on. I'd just like him to suffer some kind of medical emergency so I can piss on whoever tries to help him before stealing his watch and rifling through his pockets for loose change.

Last radiotherapy session done and dusted today, although a bollock lighter will be glad to see the back of the hospital for a while #fuckcancer

The scene at Victoria Park.

EEP with terracing was magnificent. As a wee boy, I used to stand at the front of the terracing near to the cage at the halfway line. Even with a crowd of 4-5000, the place could look full and produce a superb atmosphere. I still dearly love the old place but, back then it was magnificent. With the slight curves behind each goal, I used to compare it to Wembley when I was 7 Two videos of Firs Park. The second one shows it after Shire moved out - very sad. The ground has just been left to rot away which is a real shame as on the few occasions I went to see the Shire there, it was an enjoyable place to watch fitba'.

There was this fat lass that fell down the stairs on the school bus. Boom, bang, boom, thud, aayah! She's lying in a heap at the bottom of the stairs, her packed lunch box opens and her roll rolls out the bus door! Classic!