buctootim

shoe

The people who invested some time and effort and went seemed to have enjoyed it. The people who seem to be moaning didn't. State normal.

http://www.hampshirefa.com/players/womensfootball/girlscoe/hampshire-fa-girls-centre-of-excellence-faqs

Really? you dont rate CL semi finals in 2002 then?

Size of fanbase doesnt count as much anymore. It used to be those with the biggest crowds got the most income and could sign the best players. Now its those getting the tv money are top dogs. If you arent already on the PL gravy train or getting parachute payments then you need a very rich owner to bankroll you there.

It was dumb, especially in the context of the issue under discussion and as you say old school. Maybe he meant it as an ironic joke (big slice of benefit of doubt). My sister had a trial for Saints ladies back in the 1970s, it seems odd that 40 years further on there is no team.

The US has a police force, increasingly a paramilitary one, and we have a police service. Big difference in attitude and role. Ironic really in a country that prides itself on being exceptional and freer than all those other saps that need laws to protect them.

Whiny

Agree, that would make it about right. Would make Blakey an off the scale authoritarian though.

Johnny, Johnnny, Johnny. That survey was fun and interesting but the results were whack. Hypo and Unbelievable Jeff as left leaning and liberal? Ukipper Wes as political centre? Not really. I'd say there is a reasonable balance of left and right of the people who post in the lounge.

I had the same experience! In the end I got one from Homebase for £1,800, had it well fitted with a nice worktop and people still ask "was this handmade?"

cake

seal

Aunty

Cowes

Germany got the World Cup for £5m. Pompey got the FA Cup for £123m and oblivion. Negotiation techniques, who needs em?

Very, very few people picking animal guts up from the floor or washing glasses at 3am for £6ph really had that down as first career choice. People do minimum wage jobs for many reasons but lets not pretend they chose that life and spurned jobs paying twice as much. They do it because of lack of alternatives - whether family circumstances, education, redundancy or something else. I've done many manual and low paid jobs (no minimum wage then), years at TAV agency working at Meatpack, chicken factories, labouring, Mr Kipling apple pie line then endless student jobs in bars and waiting. Do I look down on people who do them, no, Ive been there, they have my full respect for sticking it and getting up and working everyday. Did experience of doing them spur me to find a way out and sort my life out, absolutely. Would I want my kids to spend their lives scraping a living? of course not. Do I think the minimum wage should be far higher so everyone who works has a decent standard of living? Yes.

You never wanted to shoot the neighbours? kin liberal.

People

Don't underestimate the importance of a kids sense of their place in the pecking order - its as important as quality of education and intelligence imo. If their classmates expectations of life are to be unemployed or minimum wage workers then bright kids will tend to see 'doing well' as being some kind of skilled worker like an electrician or nurse and see being a doctor or engineer as beyond them. If their classmates are expecting to go to Oxbridge then they are more likely too. obviously an outstandingly bright and driven kid can do well anywhere, but for most where you get educated and who its with really counts. Its not worth paying for private education if in order to do it you're not able to afford the lifestyle your childs classmates will likely have, that will just make them feel like the bottom the pile. Buy a house in a better catchment area, you'll get the extra outlay back when you eventually sell.

legs

I can believe it

That's a good article Whitey, but it ignores the debt forgiveness Germany received that Britain and others didn't. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/06/germany-1953-greece-2015-economic-marshall-plan-debt-relief (its primarily about Greece but has useful side info).

house

Lets see if we can help. Was it near a canal?