miserableoldgit

As much as I loved the stage production, I am really looking foward to this!

Now that sounds like it could do with a thread of it`s own!

When I come on here I just press the "Whats New?" button and all unread threads (including the one in question) come up. I didn`t even realise that that particular thread had been moved. I don`t think that it`s only the mods that are taking this too seriously!

Next seasons attack force:-

I seem to remember a fee of £800,000. Might be wrong though.

Someone who probably won`t be well known on here but was a big influence, along with the rest of his family, on many performers:- http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/22/mike-waterson-obituary

Almost certainly not genuine, but quite amusing:- A lady Canadian libertarian wrote a lot of letters to the government, complaining about the treatment of captive insurgents (terrorists) being held in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities. She received back the following reply: National Defence Headquarters MGen George R. Pearkes Bldg, 15 NT 101 Colonel By Drive Ottawa , ON K1A 0K2 Canada Dear Concerned Citizen, Thank you for your recent letter expressing your profound concern of treatment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists captured by Canadian Forces who were subsequently transferred to the Afghanistan Government and are currently being held by Afghan officials in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities. Our administration takes these matters seriously and your opinions were heard loud and clear here in Ottawa ... You will be pleased to learn, thanks to the concerns of citizens like yourself; we are creating a new department here at the Department of National Defence, to be called 'Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers' program, or L.A.R.K. for short. In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided to divert one terrorist and place him in your personal care. Your personal detainee has been selected and is scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence in Toronto next Monday. Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin Mahmud (you can just call him Ahmed) is to be cared for pursuant to the standards you personally demanded in your letter of complaint. It will likely be necessary for you to hire some assistant caretakers. We will conduct weekly inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate with those you so strongly recommend in your letter. Although Ahmed is a sociopath and extremely violent, we hope that your sensitivity to what you described as his 'attitudinal problem' will help him overcome these character flaws. Perhaps you are correct in describing these problems as mere cultural differences. We understand that you plan to offer counselling and home schooling. Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in hand-to-hand combat and can extinguish human life with such simple items as a pencil or nail clippers. We advise that you do not ask him to demonstrate these skills at your next yoga group. He is also expert at making a wide variety of explosive devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep those items locked up, unless (in your opinion) this might offend him. Ahmed will not wish to interact with you or your daughters (except sexually) since he views females as a subhuman form of property. This is a particularly sensitive subject for him and he has been known to show violent tendencies around women who fail to comply with the new dress code that he will recommend as more appropriate attire. I'm sure you will come to enjoy the anonymity offered by the burka over time. Just remember that it is all part of 'respecting his culture and religious beliefs' as described in your letter. Thanks again for your concern. We truly appreciate it when folks like you keep us informed of the proper way to do our job and care for our fellow man. You take good care of Ahmed and remember we'll be watching. Good luck and God bless you. Cordially, Gordon O'Connor Minister of National Defense

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2005609/Portsmouth-Wolves-set-battle-Liverpools-Paul-Konchesky.html He "wants" to be a Skate apparently.

I guess that money is their priority. The video stops just before she falls over apparently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_w-93QCSGU

Agree with this.

TBF I always thought that Manfred Mann were a better band with him in it. Didn`t like Mike D`Abo that much.

Bit worrying that he can`t spell the name of his own company.

Are the last two connected??

Sadly, part of the problem with the written word is that it is sometimes difficult to tell when someone is being serious and when they`re being funny. If people mistake or misunderstand posts it can lead to them being "upset" when that wasn`t the original purpose. I think that Deppo`s "sense of humour" meant different thing to different people.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2004016/Norwich-target-United-defender-Ritchie-Laet.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2004000/Leicester-want-Portsmouth-striker-David-Nugents-goals-help-promotion-push.html

"and what are my long term prospects if I take the position?"

Bloody Hell Revolution! We`ve nearly agreed on something!!

It won`t, just like any other thread about any other subject on this forum. Does that mean that we don`t argue/debate/discuss or moan about anything that concerns us because it will not change anything??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDaSvRO9xA and NOT Monty Python!

TBF I was always going to get one. It`s to much of a habit to stop now. But the actual price rise was a shock.

O.K. Revolution, partly because I am ****ed off with this arguing and partly because it is time for me to put my zimmer-frame back in the cupboard, pick up my slippers and pipe and make my cup of Complan, I am going to try a bit of reconciliation. Firstly, although I disagree with a lot that you say and I find you very frustrating, I accept that you have a view that you are entitled (is that spelt correctly?) to and that we will probably never agree. Secondly, TBF, my remarks about ingnorant,insensitive etc posts were not actually aimed at you. There were a number of posts made by others that added nothing to the debate and were quite frankly insulting. Have a look. You will see them.Your arguments, whilst frustrating and wrong (), were at least thought out and intelligently presented. However, I would like to point out that I have at no time in any of my posts indicated that I feel that I deserve the concession rate. You know what my one grouse has been with this. I have lost count of the number of times that I have explained it only for me to be accused of saying other things. Please God, let the football season come soon!!

Originally Posted by miserableoldgit Rightly or wrongly, throughout the country at most venues, on buses, in societies or clubs there and have been for many years concession rates for people over 60. This is not new or limited to Saints. It has been a general policy throughout the country. We are entitled to it because we have been offered it in the same way that students and the out of work have been offered it. Undoubtedly as the retirement age gradually rises, this concession will rise with it. Don`t make it sound like we are MP`s fiddling our expenses. Originally Posted by miserableoldgit Oh dear God! How many more times?? I am not complaing that the club has raised its age for concessions. I am not happy about it but I accept it. My grouse is that for one section of the fan-base, the club has instantly raised prices by 72% without any warning to that section of the fan-base. They could have done this differently by bringing the rise to parity in gradually. As someone else said, even the government is raisng retirement age gradually. You don't have to look far to see where you've said you are entitled to it. Memory not so great eh?

It`s 72% because we have lost the concession and there is a rise is prices. My ticket is now £515. So, it`s OK for you to jump on me for using the word "entitlement" thinking that you have scored a point but different when you do it?

Please don`t be a complete knob. My ST last year was £300. My daughter who sit next to me paid £393. Even somebody with a limited view of life like yourself must realise that the difference is not 72%. BTW how does this post of yours avoid my nasty, ignorant and selfish accusation??