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Give that poster an honoury SWF membership pronto (platinum nutjob level)

Meanwhile, in other tenuously related 'slightly bonkers football boardroom shenanigans' news... http://myonlycardiff.com/2012/06/27/cardiff-city-season-ticket-refund-meeting-270612/ Some eye-watering numbers in that article

@TonyHusbandBBC: Led to believe reports of £6m bid for #bcfc goalkeeper Jack Butland from #saintsfc are wide of the mark at this stage. #bbcsportsday

That's the $64,000 question that no-one seems to know the answer to (definitively that is)

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What, out of date policies dating back to the 1970s....? Yep, sounds about right.... ;-)

[MLG mode]That's not a jumbo jet....looks more like a 777[/MLG mode]

Maybe they should be using that £30k the bestest fans won to buy a new kit for the first team.... http://m.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/fans-facing-kit-sale-uncertainty-1-3995318

No problem at all sir - the more info the merrier - carry on chipping in :-)

Just looked at the map again. Salzburg is defo too far east to drive for Rome I reckon. Innsbruck is probably looks the furthest east I'd want to go before heading south (edit: have just read back through the thread and VFTT has already recommended the route via Innsbruck, so that loosk like the one to consider)

My initial destination is a village near Viterbo, which is about 50 miles due north of Rome (so I'm reluctant to drive too far east before crossing the border into Italy)

Cheers - It's not too late to change our stopover plans :-)

Which 'street' are you hearing that on Mr Bear sir? (not doubting you of course, just haven't heard that rumour on my 'street')

P.s. apologies to BTF if this isn't the anticipated direction this thread was supposed to take.... :-)

Yeah, but at least we have well proportioned genitalia....and nice quiet motor vehicles

If only those Labour tykes had done something to reign in their greed all those years they were in power.... ;-)

I've no idea but it would be a start if the authorities clamped down on the modified modern vehicles first. Surely there must be a law against changing a perfectly quiet exhaust system to make it sound like loud enough to detract from the minute size of their genitalia?

Does the chap who made that post have the following avatar....?

http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/rbsulster-glitch-slog-survey-of-users-plus-analysis-of-the-numbers-raise-further-doubts/ Yay...conspiracy theory time... "A broad spectrum of NatWest/Ulster Bank customers and suppliers have raised new doubts about how and why last week’s RBS ‘glitch’ occurred. Also RBS’s current financial position doesn’t inspire confidence: and the ‘glitch’ gave the Group what might have been a vital windfall of £73bn in liquidity."

Cheers. So, it sounds like not a lot will be open the day we arrive (Saturday 18th August). I'm assuming motorway petrol stations stay open though...? That said, given our overnight stop will be just north of the Italian border we'll no doubt fill up before heading into Italy in the morning. Thanks :-)

So, in summary, all we know is that, in the liquidation scenario, the players may or may not get what they are owed? Glad we got that cleared up today ;-))

Didn't Barclays try something similar with a company called Southampton Leisure Holdings once upon a time...?

Actually, I've just read some background to this and it does look like a case of Osborne putting her in the deep end with any briefing, so I think the accusation against Osborne is probably fair on this occasion.