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To the skates yes but there's not enough of them to make a lot of difference.....and not a lot of conversation beyond the odd grunt

My warehouse manager's first and middle names are Richard and Edward...he says nobody queried it until a teacher noticed when he was about 14 - went home and called his parents all sorts - and they didn't stop laughing for 40 minutes.

I think the Tories did do something about this....they created it and ideologically support it. Harold Wilson must bear some of the responsibility for the widening gap, in fairness, it was he who introduced the percentage payrise system as opposed to the £ per annum predecessor. It's also true that it's down to the shareholders - spot why the Tories are unlikely to change it then?

Some really sensible posters if you read the comments after the match report linked on that page.....

Agreed - I thought Harper looked embarrassed to be associated with such a bunch of unprofessional whingers...didn't stop him from having a blinder though...shame!

Not sure if you've sorted this..guess you must have by now but I had this problem on my laptop running XP. It defeated our IT department but I eventually found it was caused by Kaspersky antivirus and that there was a fix on their support page. Thought I'd put it out there in case anyone else had the issue.

The McRafiq clan are known for their pro English views..

Chuckles out loud..........

Not sure why...he was walking down by himself and chatting when he got down to Row 'O'?

You want to be us You want to be u-us You racist bastard You're not on the bus

Forgive me chuckling that your Freudian typo slip was on the word 'optimistic' :-) On the general tone of the responses I'd say thanks to the OP and those who have backed up the credibility through knowledge of the attendee and provenant picture. To those who patently have an agenda against Cortese because he hasn't provided 100% of what they'd like personally (and no Chairman will ever achieve faultless) - you really are on the wrong forum...the wrong colour forum - why look for dog cr*p to tread in when there's a clear path ahead of you?

Or capacity or close to it every game...you really are not very bright are you?

Cheers, thanks...I began to think I'd imagined it - and it does add perspective to his words in that case.

If wasted is the descriptive then you.........do. What gives you the right to define how much time anyone else should spend and whether or not it is entertainment, educational or just time filling? Just asking?

Live by the sword...

It's not actually a choice over here...if you're called you have to have a very good reason why you can't to get out of it. I've not been called but a couple of my staff have - one had the waiting around for 4 days while legal arguments were had and then she was sent away as the case was adjourned for 8 months. As yet she has not been called back and it's been 2 years.

A little inconvenient if the borders are closed and trade sanctions put in place then...now you know that I also drive a German car and because I liked it I was able to exercise my power of choice to buy it as the market is free and open for me to do so. That would be a good thing ....and one brought about by the fact that there are open trading agreements with the Germans - something that wouldn't be the case if we closed the borders? Now that the Germans have stopped invading Poland they really see that as a developing market..huge potential and they don't even have to change the steering wheel over and then there are the other embryonic economies in Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia that all want to buy their products...because they're good - you and I both voted with our wallets on this? So, it's obviously a good thing for Germany to keep their borders open and make trade between all these nations as simple as possible - I know that you know that my business is that I import things from three different continents so I know that the easier it is the more likely I am to sell those products? Equally if Germany find a good source of cow hides for that nice leather upholstery in these countries then they are able to buy without restriction so it's good all round - isn't it? Yet you would deny the country that you claim (in words if not deeds) you care about and have a fierce patriotic feeling for the same advantages? This would be the result of your favoured parties' stated aims and you (albeit possibly jestingly) wishing to 'brick up the Channel Tunnel' I suspect that thinking things through as opposed to quoting blind platitudes would create a better patriot...certainly the EDL don't seem capable of this....but we stray a little way from a couple of jingoistic self-publicists on a roof but I hope it has been valuable? Thank you for reading...I'm a patronising tw*t aren't I? :-)

If the ferry across to the RCYC island (forgotten it's name) is still running the view of the Toronto skyline is stunning.

So...what nationality is your car then Dune...(I know that you know that I know the answer but in the same spirit of fun as your above)?

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/15112011/63/jack-made-right-move-cork-snr.html For those who don't remember he was a Wimbledon and Sheffield Utd forward..reasonably prolific as the original Dons came through the leagues. I thought I'd read that he has a connection with Brighton..not sure if it's coaching or punditry but it's praise ahead of the weekend so bound to be a little muted if I'm right.

Good player but we have a few of those already in his position...younger too.

This...it's called protectionism and polarises the countries (and by logical default the companies therein) to the degree that foreign investment moves out and their own products are similarly vetoed on the export market - we are then deprived of the opportunity of employing the people who may be best to advance our innovation and output and the markets to sell to. For all the jingoistic waffle produced by Dune's icons there was a genuine purpose in trying to create a 'common market' (remember the phrase?). It was originally conceived to try and facilitate free movement of trade and labour within a geographically close community. The Euro common currency was designed to make this more workable. The 'Empire' and Commonwealth business model had been dying slowly for a century and was far too unwieldy and diverse to control without the army to quell unrest and communications have improved so radically that all countries have the facility to sell or buy their goods wherever they chose to so had no political, geographical or financial reason to stay with a small nation who once had a powerful army and navy...although there has never been any reason that the UK could or should not continue to trade with any existing or new trading nation...the idea of a 'common market' was far from flawed in it's conceptual thinking. The execution has been another story...it would take a P*mpey saga sized thread to talk that one through but it's a similar story to Communism or, for that matter, Capitalism - both work far better in theory than in practise...it's just that Capitalism is the sitting tenant and by it's very ideology is not going to move over for a fairer system...but has had to make a mass of concessions as education and communication improves. The capitalist of a century ago would view the current incarnation as some kind of wishy-washy liberal and Cameron as a raving Bolshevik so the tide is inexorably turning. The current banks induced chaos will do more to further the cause of a socialist based system than years of Tory rhetoric. Longer than I intended, sorry, but insular protectionism is so narrow in thought that I felt perspective was needed

I'm sure you'll have heard all the arguments but as an employer a degree in anything tells me that you had the intelligence to get there in the first place, the application to study for a further three years when you could have been earning, the independence to change your life pattern and become a part of a different part of society and that in doing this you have come out with a qualification. In my opinion, I am also parent to a recently graduated daughter, it's better to look for any other job - including radio - if you have a degree in your CV.

Sour Ho?

LOL...maybe he's just tired of waiting!