Tamesaint

Don't worry. I am sure that Duckie, Wes Tender (remember him?), Moisin, and Batman or the Guided Loony (aka the Poison Peddler) will be along any minute now to explain how the country has benefitted from Brexit

It's interesting. According to Alexei's posts in the Russia thread, our forces would be overwhelmed by the Red Army in a couple of days if the Russians ever tried to invade. On the other hand, according to Alexei, our forces are shit hot at border control. Better than the full time border force. Clearly our country has got its priorities wrong. Get rid of the army and just let the soldiers protect our borders.

It's nice to know that the lazy forces can do something other than sitting around doing fuck all moaning that they don't have enough money. If we reduced their numbers by half we could afford proper public services.

Have you ever thought of moving on from floor sweeping to toilet cleaning??

"Ladies" ??? Don't you mean chicks ? Or birds??

Oh bollocks I thought when that draw came out. But... It is better than being drawn away and losing at the likes of Newcastle or Leicester. And... Imagine how the mood of the club and fans will change if by some miracle Nathan's boys can hold on for 90 minutes and then sneak it on penalties.

You have missed out the other option. At home he is under the thumb of his missus "the snapdragon". He comes on here to express the thoughts that he dare not mention at home. 😁

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At the risk of sounding like Duckie, the whole programme had an unhealthy slant towards women's sport / disabled spott. Matt Fitzpatrick winning the US Open got a very brief 5 second mention. The wheelchair Rugby League team got 5 minutes plus. God knows how they came up with the shortlist of 6 for the title of Sports Personality. Most of the shortlist could walk the streets of Southampton without being recognised by 95% plus of the population.

Getting back to the subject of this thread.... Has anyone else noticed how public services are falling apart? My father in law has just died and it has taken 12 days to get an appointment with a registrar. By law deaths need to be registered within 5 days!!! 6 years ago I had 2 registrar appointments within 3 days (cock up with the death certificate meant a second visit) when my mother in law died.

Why should I? The share price is the same whatever the source.

Of course you did mate. 14 euros??? You had better tell yahoo.They reckon the price on that date was below 12 Euros. I realise that you are as thick as 2 short planks and full of bullshit but if you going to tell porkies at least don't make it so obvious.

Clarkson has clearly lost the plot.A pity that the Sun or whichever rag he writes for doesn't get some treatment for him.

The government say that 1% increase for nurses would cost £700m. That however is for the whole NHS work force. Nurses constitute just less than half of the NHS work force. Say £350m for each 1% that nurses are awarded. 19% for nurses would equate to c. £6.5 // £7 billion. However anyone who thinks that nurses will only settle for 19% clearly knows nothing about negotiation / swallows government nonsense without thinking. An 8% increase for nurses (which is what the Scottish nurses seem to be accepting ) would cost just under £3 billion. As the government have offered (and presumably budgeted for) a 4.75% increase the extra burden on the Exchequer would be in the order of £1.2 / £1.5 billion.. Not exactly chickenfeed but a fraction of the amount that Boris could spaff up the wall in a morning.

Very interesting and confirms what I have been told by other people who work in the health sector.

Better pay for nurses would reduce the reliance on agency nurses and would partially offset any increase in nurses's pay https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-pays-43billion-private-firms-28248649

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Has nobody in government heard the word "negotiate"? Nurses ask for 19% . You offer 4%. They reduce their demands. You increase your offer and you meet somewhere in the middle. In Scotland there are no strikes and it looks as if 8% is going to be accepted. The government is certainly playing an odd game at the moment. Presumably they see political mileage in taking a hard stance. I am not so sure.

I don't believe it. The week before Christmas is when people are trying to arrange get togethers with friends and family.The club are not helping. BBC originally showed this match as being played on Tuesday so I arranged a Wednesday "Christmas curry". When the match was announced on the Wednesday I managed to get my mates to move our get together to the Tuesday. Now we are back to a match on the Tuesday. It's a shambles!!

Borderline????

Apparently Liechtenstein is the world centre for false teeth manufacture. Very Important for those old gammons like Ducky and the GM loony.

Very true but I think you have a selective memory. Have you forgotten that dreadful period from 2005 to 2009? There were some dire times then. 2010 -2012 may have been great seasons but 2008 -9 in particular was fucking awful. If we were to be relegated this year there is no guarantee that it would be like 2010 -2012

I bet that they all have pissed in that.

My mate Crapaface on commentary. "Largest TV audience of the year? " More than the Queen's funeral????

Sku subscription to be cancelled. They took the Test Match off the Main Channel to make way for the Pompey match.