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Anyone watch the spurs-villa game tonight: wish Saints got internet streams that quality - but did I hear the Villa fans chant 'pay your tax [something] (Harry perhaps), pay your tax' and 'going down, going down' to the tune of Kumbya...

Ta hypo!

No penalty, but we'll have it.......

I actually read the article. The woman working in Poundland had a science degree, not only that, she had previous retail experience with a holiday/saturday job. So the argument that 1) it gives people useful experience doesn't apply 2) she might "get a permanent job at the end of her placement" is also a crock 'o ****. For starters the company themselves wouldn't employ her. Plus it takes literally hours to do application forms, tailor CVs and covering letters for any decent job. Plus it costs to go to work: I can't get over how expensive bus fares are in the UK now, for example. This is just getting people off somebody's list to no useful effect apart from subsiding major employers for simple jobs where no training is involved.

I went skiing at Cervinia a week ago but it's only open above 2400 and I was skiing mainly on the glacier. Although fun I probably shan't bother going again until a bit more snow arrives. Pila's (my local place) opening on the 26th now looks severely in doubt, as although they've got good snowmaking it's not a substitute for a natural base layer and it's been so warm. At least night time temperatures are dropping.

Thanks for pointing me in that direction - hilarious! "this can only be good news . csi are slowly making pompey a respectable club again after previous owners have dragged the good ship pompey through dirty waters .every thing we get to hear about csi seems to show their interest and their goal of making pfc a top club again .if anyone had doubts before surely they cant still hold them now well done csi onwards and up pup pfe"

The LIDL a few hundred yards from Fratton P....

Wimp! It's a digestive walk from The Platform. Helps get a thirst up for the post-match pints. I sometimes wonder how I keep my figure! [Training 3 nights a week, if you must know].

Or we organise bonuses dependent on promotion. Lots of ways round this particular problem.

As we're such an unobservant lot we probably all failed to notice that a particular name was absent from the press reports. I wouldn't want to be a Storyteller, but is this significant, I ask myself?..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/nov/12/tottenham-harry-redknapp-tax-trial

What does the bit in bold actually mean? Getting hold of any old patch of land they can call their own, given that they rent at the moment?

I live abroad too and get to the games I can, although didn't bother with the early season cup game: finances could be better. But a couple of seasons ago at Christmas I was in a 30k crowd against Exeter. Plastics coming out for _Exeter_, I think not. Finances, opportunity, christmas presents, free time all helped the crowd and made a much better atmosphere. It also allows us more money to spend on players: you do wonder how some clubs manage..

Er.. i watched Saints Player highlights yesterday...

333333 PS thanks saint clarke, back to listening on channel 16 as that's my last post today

PS Saint_clark - can you get SteveG to send me bank details so I can renew my membership - I've only got 1 post to say "YES!" today. Not sure he's getting my emails. Ta

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If it's any consolation we get them in Italy as well. The phone callers I just say I'm not interested thank you and put the phone down, the religious callers I lose all my Italian and speak in English (this applies in the street as well) and the vacuum cleaner salespeople... They exist and have called a number of times. Once a trainee called and I got rid of him in my usual polite and efficient way. A bit later another call - the same guy looking very sheepish with obviously his sales manager and a woman who was trying to look into my house to see what sort of floor covering I had. I smiled sympathetically at the first guy and then started on the bosses in their sharp suits. "Didn't your colleague say he had visited me?"....I quite enjoyed myself. They're extortionately priced machines as well.

Phil, you're being accused of not have Corp on ignore! It couldn't possibly have been that you were quoted twice in full for your post could it Corp? You can see quoted content from ignored posters, but I wouldn't expect to to be bright enough to notice. Has nobody ever told you that when you're in a hole it's best to stop digging. But thanks for the entertainment anyway.

I bloody well hope not!

ooh, Eric, you jut got a mention from DM..

Whew!

OK, but here we're only an hour difference. Coooiiii; Australia...!

Sounds good! A year before dad took me for the first time, and a subsequent lifetime of pain and pleasure. Don't remember Wimshurst or Knapp but remember all the others..