miserableoldgit

Naoko Mori from Torchwood

But surely there is no guarantee that OXO will fulfil the potential that he has. I am not saying that he won`t, but if Arsenal (or anyone else) are prepared to spend £12M to take the chance and that money was WISELY invested in the team then it has to be worth thinking about. Whatever happens OXO staying or going will not decide whether we are promoted or not. If he went because we needed the money and he wasn`t replaced, then maybe but there are many, many other factors that will influence this

Could just be "Peacey Gone Mad"

I liked these two:- “If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it’s either a new woman or a new car!” To his wife, the Queen, after her coronation “Where did you get the hat?”

Might be something here:- http://www.mandmdirect.com/

I absolutey love my Desire S. IMHO better than the i-phone.

How can anyone claim that it is safe to ignore a red light at a road junction? I assume that it is still illegal to go through a red light.

Definitely this! Sent from my HTC Desire S using Tapatalk

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I can tell by the tone of your last post that you are a decent enough chap. Obviously a very tolerant and understanding sort of guy. Just the sort in fact to move to a new part of the ground without a murmer, a moan or a whinge when your ticket has risen by £215. Well done you.

What a prime example of the "I`m alright so **** you" attitude of some people. I will pay the new charge for my seat, even though I think the rise is unfair and has been badly handled by the club. I will do because it is my choice to do so and not because I have been stereotyped and patronised by a big mouthed cyber-warrior.

Very intelligent remark. You must be pleased with yourself.

I think that a lot of people are missing the point. As a 60+ I paid £300 pound for my ticket last year. I didn`t hear any moans from anybody then that concessions starting at 60 (which rightly or wrongly is generally the case in most places) was a problem. I fully expected a fairly hefty rise in my ticket price and thought that about £400 would cover it. Now because of an arbitrary change in club policy I am suddenly being asked to pay £512. There has to have been a better way to deal with this. Generally speaking I suspect that most 60+`s are real long-time supporters like myself and they are being treated disrespectfully. Very few businesses would treat long-term regular customers in this way. As for people saying move or cherry-pick - why should I? I sat on the halfway line at the Dell for 25 years with my ST and at SMS since it opened. It is not a fair way of bringing the prices into line. As for those branding us as "whingers", all I can say is your turn will come before you know it!

It genuinely was my intention to try and start a debate about this, but I also expected any debate to very quickly turn into "argument, sniping and name-calling" because a) the article came from The Mail, which always gets shouted down and b) it`s the way that all debates like this end up on this forum. I just thought that I would give it a try.

I do not follow Hitchens blog. It was just an article that I read which I thought, rather naively, worthy of reasoned debate. Didn`t take long did it?

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/

I guess that you will either love or hate this. Personally I love it.

I saw something this morning that if it hadn`t had been so annoying and possibly dangerous, would have been very funny. I was waiting at some traffic lights ( because the light were RED) when two cyclists coming from different directions, both facing red lights, decided to excercise their "right" to ignore them and sail on through. In doing this they both had to take avoiding action to stop colliding with each other. Why is it that the majority of cyclists (and it IS the majority) think that red lights do not apply them, ride without lights at night, ride on pavements and yet take the moral high-ground and accuse motorists of not being "bike-aware??"

Well there`s your first mistake. Those of us that were brought up to think that are apparently out of step with with modern life. It is now acceptable to call someone (who you probably don`t actually know) a "Nazi scum Baj w@nker c\/nt f\/ck". Oh for the days when people were able to communicate with each other using the thousands of normal words in the English language without resorting to the language of the street through lack of imagination and probably intelligence. AND on top of that, my ST has gone up by £215!!!!!

It is going up for women born in 1953 and after. Anyone born before then ( my wife 1950) is not affected and retire at 60.

My wife reached official retirement age (60) last year and is now recieving her pension. Her ST will go from £300 last year to £515 this year. This for someone on a pension. How can this be right?

Probably this :- http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/ A Lanc, Spitfire and a Hurricane. And is normally a "flyover" by wartime aircraft at this Broadlands event in August :- http://www.eventplan.mysite1952.co.uk/blastsfromthepast.html

How about if you are a woman @ 60+?