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The less tax I pay the more I give directly to others. Seriously.

Mansize tissues for that one I'd suggest

Because someone whose daughter works at SMS posted last week that it was "thick stripes with White sleeves" Which makes it a cast iron certainty of course... :-)

Maybe Dune (and previous incarnations) is a user ID created and used by the mods / admins as a way of stirring up reaction and generating traffic on their forum? There again, perhaps not...

£2m it is then... ;-)

If any of us are at a dinner party and someone asks "what's the difference between a Southampton fan and a Portsmouth fan?" show them this post using the words 'nut' and 'shell' with gay abandon.

Morph knows. IMHO of course

It's only July but I think we already have a winner for funniest thread of the year award. Tears rolling down my face catching up with the last page or so. And all this entertainment for a fiver. Bargain :-)

Only 9 posts later than my equally witty post... ;-)

I do have a recurring dream (aka conspiracy theory).... Something to do with the old forum database becoming "corrupted" (sometime in 2008?)....those 'historic' posts never to see the light of day again....which, in my recurring dream, was a rather convenient end to the 'takeover saga'... Of course, in reality, the disappearance of all those threads and posts was simply down to a computer fault....

Ffs

Safari so goody

F.f.s.

Just reading article on Beardall in the London Evening Standard tonight... "Barry Beardall, 65, nicknamed 'Barry the Briefcase'...." Hey...didn't this forum come up with that nickname?! Fame at last?!

What is Barnard at risk from that the others aren't?

He is. He'll just buy the remaining shares by stealth..... Maybe....

No idea. All The Sun says about the charity side of things in relation to this story is: Nothing gives him that right. It was wrong. Perhaps having a very ill son affected his state of mind? We'll probably never know enough to make a wholely informed judgement of his actions.

Done

Breaking News: Murdoch has just withdrawn bid for BSkyB (An exclusive for Mr Peston...surprise, surprise...) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14142307

Apart from when we nearly bought an oil rig.....now that was boring.... Coat. Fetch.

Ok. I'll let him know :-)

See above. I'm just quoting a City 'expert'....

Not according to Anthony Hilton from the Evening Standard (see article above). He could be wrong, of course....

"A favourite gripe of my father's generation back in the Fifties was that their taxes were being used to pay for the Napoleonic wars. In truth, it was not a very serious gripe, and certainly not the biggest thing to worry about in those times, but it has a certain resonance. Politicians today talk about the burden of public debt being passed on to our children and grandchildren. In truth, every generation of taxpayers has had to pay the bills of its predecessors. Even today, though Napoleon has been taken care of, the Kaiser hasn't. Today's taxpayers may neither know nor care but a small slice of what they hand over to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs every year goes to pay the interest on a couple of billion pounds of debt run up to pay for the First World War and still outstanding. Have a look some time at the Government securities section on a stock market prices page and locate War Loan. Launched in 1916 it is still going strong. And it is you who is paying the interest. We did rather better with the Second World War. The last of the millions lent by the US was paid off in 2006." More: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23955926-debt-isnt-always-bad-we-may-even-learn-to-love-it.do

Current generations have always paid for previous generations for....well....generations. For example, we're still paying for the 1st World War today. Doesn't make it right of course. Just an observation.