Manuel

It's pretty much the same sort of daft "policy" that your professional body feels it needs to have written down, as the result of endless meetings, drafts and amendments, which of course your membership fee pays for. It doesn't mean don't go to pubs (unless it's one of those dodgy ones that I don't tell the missus about) so your thread title is misleading. It means act in a reasonable and relatively responsible manner, even when off duty because you're employed as a professional and with that comes responsibility to act as one. Most people can manage that. Don't worry I'm sure you can still have your pint.

I'd kill them twice over.

Only if I was making one. They can sugar it themselves though.

They should be forced to drive Clios round the track for a season.

It's not the winning, it's the taking part.

Slightly confused by the above posts. Craig David has been in our midst for almost a decade now.

Not necessarily this world. Hasn't the world has always been that way? If you help someone who's being attacked, you risk being attacked yourself. Usually though, especially in the circumstances described above, I imagine most people would see it as a risk worth taking, or wouldn't even properly consider the risk. Thank goodness people have a strong desire to assist each other when they really need it. Don't feel upset nickh, if you'd known what was going on you'd have been out there is a flash, of that I feel sure. You mustn't feel responsible for stuff that goes on that you know nothing about, you can't be everywhere, you can't hear everything.

Why old people shouldn't use the internet.

Indeed, yet at times distorted. Mooooo.

You don't happen to know how many in total attended the Cannes screening? Four out of twenty, say, would make the faint/non faint ratio pretty impressive. But for all we know there could have been three hundred or more there.

God I hope they do split up. Your vote for most pointless banal offering? I'd go for Wonderwall.

I would definitely like to see the parents taken to task. If my kids of a similar age did wrong, I'd expect the issue to land on my doorstep and rightly so. Parents should take accountability for the actions of their children. Sounds obvious doesn't it. That said, a ten year old and even a seven year old would indeed in my opinion know at the time that there actions were wrong, dangerous, serious and would cause pain. There should therefore be a punishment of sorts for each of them. I'm not sure what though. How might the state punish a seven year old? No pudding for a month?

Most bizarrely, it emerged he’d been jailed for running a crooked ambulance charity. Solent Ambulance Service was supposed to deliver human organs for transplants but Smith had pocketed donations while living out a fantasy of driving with flashing lights and a siren. A blue light wannabee. The law is very clear with regards to use of, specifically, blue flashing lights; for the use of emergency personnel only, and then only under certain circumstances. The legal system should really throw the book at dangerous fantasists like this character. Fat mincer.

Last post for the evening, and it's Saga related. With a player with supposed quality and ambition he was an average striker for League One Saints today I thought. Admittedly service wasn't brilliant at times, and on occasion he was very closely marked, especially in the first half. However when the ball did arrive at his feet, there was virtually no effort to turn and get past the league one defenders, nearly always passed back, very little positive movement into the box going forward. A few occasions looked to go down and look for the fowl, when there wasn't one. League one too tough for him? Interestingly his best spell came after the Northam started singing his song, got him moving, wanting the ball and looking like he wanted to score for a spell.

Gillett was pretty awful when he DID come on to be fair.

With todays team and likewise performances I can see us finishing above the relegatiopn zone, maybe mid table but not much more. Early days of course.

Official player of the year? Davis How many penalties in the league will Davis save? Two Most goals we will score in a league match? Four Our final league position? Sixth What round of the F A Cup we will reach? Third

Either that or a new dartboard for the players lounge.

I'm all for change, but not necessarily risks. I changed my life fairly significantly a number of years ago: relocation, and a new career in an entirely new field, but I wouldn't say there was much risk associated with it because I was unhappy in my current role, so not much to lose, and confident I could succeed in the new one despite a large pay cut albeit temporary. People can't be expected to know what they want to do with their lives at sixteen or even twenty so it's no wonder people search for change in their jobs/careers/location/wife(lol) later on. As far as "never regret attempting something and failing", of course we're all speaking hypothetically but someone wise also once said only gamble what you can afford to lose.

Hope he stays, I like singing that Rasiak song.

Ivan Camp-oh no! Unless he brings his own tent.

Don't suppose you have the number of the plasterer.

Greasy and empty inside? Me too sometimes.

I ate cat once in Peru and it was surprisingly good, although a little gamey. I now go around collecting any stray (not inside) cats from the neighbourhood, prepare and pass to the missus for cooking. I tell her they're rabbits.

If you're looking to cut a rectangular hole out of one for use as a spy aid, The Observer is best.