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Finally got to see Horrible Bosses this evening. Duh, had NO idea it was Jennifer Aniston until the credits rolled Hangover 1 Superbad have done the lads get into a bigger & bigger mess but still ROFL'd at some classic moments

It's a damned shame he isn't a full member. I could have PM'd him with helpmerhonda's contact info

The second in a small series of why on earth scenarios. In large "Corporations" there are teams of MBA's employed in the task of Marketing Communications, or Marcom. This bears virtually no resemblance to what normal human beings would recognise as "Marketing". It is a world where performance is measured in the number of impressions, click through rates and then only at the bottom of a very long chain does it count "Sales Lead Generation" Typically pre-internet days this meant Print Impressions for Adverts run in Magazines/Papers/TV etc or Articles mentioning Product or Company by name. It is most prevalent in areas where you wish to defend or enhance a "Brand". So paying for an advert in some specialist Industry Magazine may produce 20 or 30 thousand impressions, in The Sun maybe several million. The market leader in terms of the more aggressive "shotgun" approach of Brand building was Emirates who you now see everywhere. The new kids on the block are Etihad. Now Etihad are paying 40 million a year in Man City. Yes that can be called a way around the Financial Fair Play rules, but in Marcom land it is actually a very cheap Brand medium. So coming back to a run of the mill football club, they are still a target for attaching a "Brand". For a "Foreign Businessman" looking to expand their regional operations, 3 or 4 million a year in a marcom campaign to get a foothold into a new market is cheap. In fact the more "News Worthy" a club is, the more impressions it will generate. Those organisations see Football as a cheap ad campaign to build a name - who'd heard of Venkey's before they screwed up Blackburn? Forgetting the Ego's in CSI, the actual strategy was to build a sound Sports Management company (yes yes forget the source for a moment) but it was supposed to be a sound venture to give a "Brand" and hence credibility. The wheels came off way to quickly - but then with the ego's involved that was always going to happen. But the fact remains, poopey may be a laughing stock, BUT they give the MBA's the results they need. (Note most sane people will see a number of fatal flaws with this theory, however as I have never met anyone with an MBA in Marcom who had the slighest understanding of reality, I rest my case. Note I have nothing against Marketing or Media Management people, I even understand the critical role that Marcom plays.) HTH Oh and D_P claim to fame #497 - guess who came up with the idea of Sponsoring Referees & Umpires etc? And guess who stole that idea. (The original idea was actually a plan to get us free beer at the Dubai 7's, some MBA f\/ck stole it)

Wonder what would come first? World Quality Catering Or mending the Toilets

To those asking why? continuously. Simple. Invent 10,000 fans paying cash each home game and click the turnstiles and bank the cash. 300k every two weeks cleaned. 20 home games in a year? 6mil Normal rates for cleaning cash? 50 to 60% so you take on the club, and anything LESS than 3mil loss in a year is a profit. And that's WAY before you start to factor in the cash sales for all those replica shirts and junk in the shop, the 20,000 programmes every week.... Of course the numbers don't add up, but your average Columbian Drug Lord would dream of an ROI like that

I was nice & dry that day, a family friend took me down using his pal's ST and I was proper posh up in the West Stand having been a choco box regular! Jeez there's a lot of old farts on this forum

So what they're saying then is that they spent a zillion looking for Higgs Bosun but it was the wrong type? Who ran Cern? British rail?

Yes. But only as a part of a proper "Social media" marketing strategy. There are tons of new "marketing gurus" out there who do that, some very good and many very bad But take care not to mix work & personal Tweets http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8992404/Channel-4-commentators-embarrassing-hot-body-tonight-tweet.html

Ides of March Clever, tight Political Thriller set around a Primary in Ohio, tight plot, great support work by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Got it on dodgy DVD on recent hols and only chose it on the cast (inc Clooney) & Ryan Gosling in the lead as a believer who gets sucked in to the corruption of US Politics. Without knowing anything of the plot it opens as a Presidential Election movie but then wheels start to come off and the errors get compounded and a darkness or almost despair overtakes the characters. Really well acted and the plot develops at a pace that stops you nodding off as belief turns to cynicism. Really enjoyed it, doesn't change the world but shows up the mess that US Politics is these days really well. Directed by Clooney with Di Caprio as a Producer 8.5/10

Well, I guess now we've seen and heard everything. AA in his interview repeatedly used the word fairly. That must be the first time the word fairly & poopey have appeared in the same paragraph for years

Hey not a bad effort, it did have a couple of links to actually setting up to sign someone from the J-League

Ha so Echo obviously read this forum after all They should gee gee up their reporters to do their own leg work

One month loan would work though

restricting him to one position would be a bit blinkered

Congrats to you both, bet the girls will love having a baby bro on the bus.

I got Steve Jobs's book from future Mrs D_P I also got Steve Job's book from her Bestest Friend And extremely fortunately, a now ex friend of mine got me Steve Job's book. I hate Apple kit

I use twitter to help stalk Golfers I have tweeted a total of 9 times in 2 years, 3 to future son in law, 2 to a competition at Atlantis and 4 to Solent during match day threads I have 9 followers, only one of whom I actually know The MOST worrying is that I am now being followed by...... [h=2]Spurs News[/h] @TottenhamNews Tottenham I mean WTF? Perhaps they are trying to get the inside track on regulars on the poopey thread to see what is going to happen to their 'arry?

One month loan as cover for AL who is off form of late and maybe carrying a niggle? Yeah that works

Feel sorry for him if he signs now. When we get promoted he won't be able to take part in a Derby

Oh this is legendary Director Adokinsu There's only one Adonisku, ONE Adonisku Mind you with the trouble some on her have with spelling AtAdkins.....

Dunno if you lot still get it, we have to rely on imported dodgy DVD's & downloads of Fringe. It was meh ish in Season 2, first half of S3 was better, the last part got better and better and S 4 really is getting better & better. The characters are more complex, the writers must have been on LSD for some of the episodes (especially in S3 titled LSD) to have serious TV turn into cartoons and then time travelling. Great entertainment made even better by having TWO agent Dunhams in it, one the cute but damaged blonde and the feisty oh yes that could be fun redhead. Deffo one of those US series that needs time to get stuck into, now compulsive viewing down here

Well you lot have the bestest fans we just have the moanest

Yeah. Except he didn't headbutt him from the video He still deserved a red for being a t0sser

Yeah, the same way we spent that 15mil for AOC on, on .. uh hang on a moment on oh yeah Fox & SDR

Ugh and that whole eating food in a low pressure airplane cabin and then the whole pressure increases as you descend farty thingy yuk