Dibden Purlieu Saint

He's ahead of Adkins now...

We all get a bit like that sometimes, we all have our posters that...ahem...grind our gears shall we say.

There were a number of gloating threads about Poch's first few games. Not naming names as they know who they are. Not you though...

It is very funny isn't it. They were taking such pleasure in us losing.

What has the Pochmeister done to turn him from an ineffective, Championship looking striker to being the player he is now? Unrecognisable to what he looked like under Adkins. Big credit to Poch and Rodriguez for turning it round...

Can't be gracious enough to give credit to the foreign guy huh? No surpises.

I'm a big fan.

Anybody changed their opinion now? Pochettino now more succesful than Adkins percieved best run of the season. 12 points in 9 games, good enough for 51 points over a season.

I'm worried about your taste in women. Average at best.

I certainly couldn't have got my job without having a degree; I wouldn't even have got an interview. Mikey, don't kid yourself that degrees don't matter. If you want a good job you need one.

There really is a large demographic that use this forum.

Also interesting: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2097652/Does-low-IQ-make-right-wing-That-depends-define-left-right.html "As Steven Pinker points out in The Better Angels of our Nature, his marvellous book about the history of violence, social liberalism does not equate necessarily with economic socialism. He points to a study by the economist Bryan Caplan, an economist at George Mason University in Virginia, who found that smart people tend to think like economists, being in favour of free trade, globalisation and free markets and against protectionism and state intervention in industry. This matches other findings that show that IQ correlates not with left-wing thinking as such, but with classic Enlightenment liberalism. So a smart person (all else being equal) will probably be in favour of capitalism generally, and free-trade in particular. He or she will distrust state intervention in the markets, probably be suspicious of welfarism and deeply dislike protectionism, union closed-shops and tariffs. The smart person will believe that the have-nots should be encouraged to become haves by dint of their own labours and by the levelling of economic playing fields, NOT by taking money off the haves and giving it to them. In other words, Thatcherism. Hardly something we equate with the left. But there is another side to what the Smarts believe. They are pro-immigration (immigration being a form of free trade, in this case in human labour). They are impeccably socially liberal. They do not care what consenting adults get up to in bed and would legalise gay marriage without a thought. They are as near as is possible to be colour blind and strongly favour sexual equality. They are internationalist and despise petty nationalism. And they are suspicious of the war on drugs and in fact of wars in general and do not believe the public should in general be allowed to own firearms. These are the social views, then, of the British metropolitan Left. So what is it then? Are dim people right or left? Here we meet the problem of defining liberalism and left-wingery. A belief in economic redistribution of wealth does not correlate with social liberalism. The nations of the Cold War Communist bloc were ferociously ‘Left Wing’ in terms of a belief in statism, nationalised industries, basic equality and so forth but socially and in other ways they were far, far to the ‘right’ of any mainstream European or American party." So it turns out that we want left wingers to run our morals, and right wingers to run the country...

In English please?

Well, there we go!

I finished uni in 2006, but we missed out on the good years unfortunately as well.

No they don't, people know why the left generalise the right as stupid. It's due to the way the left feel they are above (both morally and intellectually) than the rest of the political spectrum. You can carry on doing that, it's a lefties raison detre. However, it'll be very interesting to see a cross-section of IQ's of those that support the left and right, because I know which one will be coming out as 'stoopid'.

What I do find funny is that lefties don't realise the rest of the political spectrum sits there and laughs at them as they lap up the smell their on farts...

Obviously I am not delving into your finances, but am more trying to work out whether or not people feel they are worse off than say 5-10 years ago? There is a lot said about an increase in fuel prices, cost of food, clothes etc, but also with low interest rates a reduction in the cost of mortgages etc. Is it a case that credit is harder to go by so it's harder to borrow more (good thing in my opinion). Do YOU personally, feel worse off?

The simple truth is he doesn't know what your interpretation of the left is. If there is a definitive, factual left then please let us know. In addition I presume you can't answer my questions considering you keep ignoring them.

Whereabouts are you?

Whenever I read lefties opinions, I think of this episode of South Park... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smug_Alert!

Definitely. First rule of my job. Are you going to reply to my earlier question on who you see as the benchmark to compare him to, and when you stopped liking him?

I think the problem is a lot of people class London as within the M25. You still benefit from the rise in house prices outside of Greater London (as it were), so limiting where you live to just that area isn't sound advice.

By the way, there is a good Guardian article where they respond to these, you'll probably want to go and have a look at that.

70. LEDs are being installed at 3,500 traffic lights at around 300 junctions in the Capital. LED technology can reduce electricity consumption and the associated CO2 emissions that cause climate change by a massive 60 per cent. 71. £375,000 is being provided over the next three years to open a new rape crisis centre in west London. £260,000 of funding has been allocated for the Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre (RASAC) in Croydon. Altogether there will be four rape crisis centres - there was just one under Ken Livingstone for a city of seven million people. 72. 42 public buildings in the GLA Group are being given an eco-makeover. Wembley police station has led the way with solar photovoltaic roof panels. 73. Boris Johnson appeared in EastEnders visiting the Queen Vic. 74. Foreign travel costs for the Mayor’s office were reduced from £107,000 in 2007-08 to £30,000 in 2008-09, while the rest of the GLA reduced its costs from £102,000 to £28,000. A saving of £151,000. 75. Ten delegates attended party conferences in 2008-09, at a total cost (including attendance, advertising, stands, etc.) of £9,000, compared with 19 delegates in 2007-08 at a cost of £43,000. Saving £34,000. 76. Reduction in expenditure on GLA consultants - reducing from £4.7m in 2007-08 to £2.8m in 2008-09. Saving £1.9m 77. Income from the hire of London’s Living Room at City Hall has increased from £145,000 in 2007-08 to £167,000 in 2008-09 as a result of stopping the policy of allowing preferred groups and organisations to use it for free. Saving £20,000 78. The London Development Agency has introduced "a more streamlined staffing structure" - saving £6.6m. 79. Overall crime on the Tube and DLR is down by 8%. Robbery is down by 29.2%, violent crime is down 2.6% and public disorder offences are down by 4.5%. 80. Londoners on Job Seeker’s Allowance and the new Employment and Support Allowance now benefit from half price travel on the buses. This is to help people who have recently lost their jobs bounce back quickly, by being able to travel cheaply to interviews, and access libraries and job centres. 81. Funding has been found to train and recruit 10,000 Specials Constables by 2012. The numbers are due to increase by 2,690 over the next three years. 82. Major retailers including Sainsbury’s, John Lewis, Tesco, Marks & Spencer and Borders have signed up to the ‘Open London’ scheme. The aim is to increase access to public lavatories. These businesses allow the public to use their lavatories, where available, without the need to make a purchase. 83. Cancellation of the ‘Beijing Bus’ saving £160,000. 84. For the coming year's budget £100 million of new savings within the police service will be delivered by deploying staff and resources more effectively and bearing down on overtime costs, while continuing to improve front-line policing. 85. Savings of £100,000 a year in the cost of the London Assembly. 86. There are Northern line improvements with a new control centre and computerised signalling system, scheduled to be delivered in 2012. This will enable trains to run closer together and at higher speeds, cutting journey times by 18 per cent and increasing capacity by 20 per cent. 87. To cool tube trains in summer various improvements are being carried out, including restoring ventilation fans and installing mechanical chillers and portable summer fans. 88. On the Docklands Light Railway a total of 55 new carriages have been ordered, expanding trains from two to three cars and giving a 50 per cent capacity increase by June 2010. 89. Held biggest ever St George's Day event on Trafalgar Square - 20,000 attended. 90. Put cultural supremo, Tony Hall, Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House, in charge of the Cultural Olympiad in 2012. 91. By summer the new generation of the Countdown system will increase bus customers’ access to real-time information for all of the 19,000 bus stops and 700 routes in London via mobile phones and the internet. New Countdown signs will be installed at around 2,500 key bus stops. 92. The Mayor is pushing ahead strongly with Crossrail helping to ensure the funding needed is provided. 93. Boosting the amount of London’s food waste being turned into eco-fuel to cut landfill rates and carbon emissions in an initiative with the Foodwaste to Fuel Alliance. 94. Before Boris Johnson was elected the cost of the Olympics was spiralling out of control. As mayor he has worked effectively to keep Olympics on schedule and in budget. The Mayor is pledged to ensure that Londoners pay no more than 38p per week for the Olympics. 95. Volunteering is being encouraged. The boy scouts and girl guides are being promoted. Lizzie Noel has been appointed the Mayor's adviser on Social Action and Volunteering and a website has been launched containing a one-stop-shop of volunteering opportunities for Londoners to get involved. 96. Measures to help tackle the recession including halving the standard payment period of the GLA group to its small and medium enterprise (SME) suppliers to ten working days. 97. The Mayoral commitment towards greater transparency has been demonstrated by publishing LDA grants of more than £1,000 on the LDA website. This is to safeguard against cronysim and waste. LDA grants are now going to worthwhile projects. An example is the £1,000 for the Bromley Table Tennis Development Group - one of many grants to promote sport. Some of the grant allocation, such as of the London Youth Offer fund has been delegated to the boroughs. 98. The LDA has established CompeteFor - a "dating agency" to help small and medium sized companies compete for the 4,000 Olympic contracts worth £1.7 billion. 99. There is more CCTV on London buses. Live CCTV has been brought in on a north London bus route. Twenty one double-decker buses have been fitted with technology, allowing pictures to be beamed live to the Centrecomm control centre shared by officers from Transport for London and the Metropolitan Police’s Transport Operational Command Unit. The technology allows officers to gain access to real-time images of the bus in question when a bus driver on the trial route makes a radio call to the control room. Pictures are beamed via secure and encrypted mobile networks directly from the buses to TfL’s control room. There are 60,000 CCTV cameras operating on the 8,000 London buses. 100. Crime mapping has been introduced allowing Londoners to find out about the level of crime in their neighbourhood.