Whitey Grandad

Only Itchen and Northam open to start with. they've done it again, stupid buggers. I'll wait until the Kingsland is opened.

Credit Crunch, innit.

Make sure you have at least 6 months validity on your passport after your last date abroad. The US can be touchy about criminal convictions. They do not ever regard these as 'spent'. http://london.usembassy.gov/b2.html For Australia I believe they are no longer compulsory.

Talking of employment, nobody has mentioned the number of jobs that have been taken up by 'immigrants'.

Surely your experiences will depend on the type and size of the organisations in which you worked?

Look PFC, your arguments fall down on one major point. If we 'gained a competitive advantage' then why were we so crap?

I usually find that when people say 'no disrespect' they mean exactly the opposite.

The only person I have ever met from Shrewsbury always insisted that it was Shroosbury, and how many people in Romsey do you ever hear calling it Rumsey? I think you'll find that Rumsey is reserved for his Lordship. I'm with you on the seat sales arrangements. Perhaps we should get our retaliation in first?

Keep sticking it up, PFC! I guess the world looks different from your side of the wall.

In every sense of the word.

Please keep up. Both parties came to an agreed settlement to pay up the outstanding amount. They didn't have to, they weren't outvoted by any other parties, but they agreed the amount. That is not 'defaulting' in any sense of the word.

A lot will depend on interest-rate policy over the next 12 months. There's a lot of potential inflation out there and I think it's about time that it started to creep up.

You're welcome. Prize money to the winners of the first round is £18,000 Proceeds (net gate receipts ex VAT and after deduction of all expenses on both sides) are shared equally between the two clubs for the first and second rounds (except replays where some goes to the FA). For later rounds 10% goes to a pool to be shared out amongst the Leagues. http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/FACompetitions/TheFACup/Rules-PDF

I don't even bother to reply if it's less than $25m to be honest.

From the 'Rules of the Competition' (with acknowledgements to the FA): © Immediately after the draw is known, the two Clubs concerned must mutually agree the prices of admission subject to the following conditions: (i) Except where mutually agreed otherwise the minimum admission (except to children and senior citizens) to matches shall be: In the Extra-Preliminary, Preliminary and First Round Qualifying: £3.00 In the Second and Third Rounds Qualifying: £5.00 In the Fourth Round Qualifying: £6.00 In the First and Second Round Proper: £10.00 In the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Round Proper: £15.00 (ii) A higher admission charge may be mutually agreed between the Clubs concerned. The Away Club’s spectators can only be charged more than the home team if agreed by both clubs. (iii) The price for admission for children and senior citizens must be mutually agreed between the Clubs concerned.

In total I believe they received more than it cost.

Small claims court? They may well settle before then.

You forgot to include 'image rights'.

Absolutely. Although the club can take the VAT from the paying supporter, but they don't have to pass it on to HMRC, just so long as they have the word 'Portsmouth' in their name.

So why should only television viewers pay for the BBC? No - I don't want to start a big debate on this but it is all part of the wider question of how the BBC should be funded. What really gets my goat is all the trailers that we have to suffer on both BBC television and radio. I sometimes think there's no difference between them and the commercial channels.

The banks have to rebuild their margins which means lending money at higher differential rates than before. There is not the amount of credit available to the banks as there was a few years ago, hence why it's called 'credit crunch'. They don't want to lend it to each other in case they need ot for themselves.

I felt that he was a couple of feet too far to his left. I can think of a lot of keepers who might have saved it, but I wouldn't criticise him too much for letting it past him.

Where are the banks going to get this money that you want them to lend? The money is there if you meet the criteria. If you think the trains will be cheaper if they were nationalised then you must accept that there would have to be massive subsidies, and that's without the inefficiencies inherent in all nationalised industries. If you want British ownership of the utilities then why don't you buy them?

You don't need a licence for the radio.

Just hope that nobody who works for the company reads this forum. I would suspect that this is an initial meeting to discuss the general situation, but if you are not clear about the reason for it then you should ask now.