Whitey Grandad

Just google 'body paint' for some lovely examples. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QonjXrwiEbY/TO3OTPnHhNI/AAAAAAAAZNQ/bmmPcfnzFrA/s1600/bodypaint-dogs.jpg Nice puppies (Is this sort of thing allowed? I can't find any rules)

That is very sad. My brother-in-law used to go drinking with him when Gascoigne lived in Broxbourne. He could out drink even my BIL and that's saying something.

I am surprised by the division of opinion over him. In my opinion he was directly at fault for several goals against us last season which cost us a lot of points and with those went a lot of money. We need good quality cover in all positions and cannot rely on Fox as our first reserve. Some say we need competition for places, others that we must not upset our promising teenagers. This is a multi-million pound business and these are talented employees, not preening primadonnas.

Do you get a shave with your meal?

Did I read this morning that the doctors have recommended switching him off?

There was something in their body language in the early press conferences that didn't ring true, for me, but I'm no expert. It seemed to me that they knew something but weren't letting on, that they knew she wasn't coming back. I would dearly love to be proved wrong.

I think the problem is that you associate a particular name with someone you knew from the past and then imbue the new person with the previous one's characteristics.

Wouldn't get a game either.

This time, Pap, I very much agree with you. 37 officers and 38 suspects? One of them is going to escape.

He's always worth a goal or two. ... to the opposition.

What a stag night that was!

It's the enormous payoffs that really annoy me. Some of them must have known that they were in trouble and if they didn't they were grossly incompetent.

Does swallowing it make you pregnant? Someone who tried it thought it was a bit deer.

Nobody comes out of the sorry episode covered in glory, although a lot were covered in loot..

Of course. It was a right old mess. Now we all own some major banks and we've bought them with printed money. Now all we have to do is to decide what to do with them. Properly handled they should be gigantic money-making machines, but what are the chances of that?

You're being very selective over the figures. If you look at the graphs you can see that the trend was downwards to start with and is now rocketing. I don't think you'll find anyone who would say the Brown did not drastically increase the proportion of GDP that the government spends. Interest on debt is now around 3% of GDP and will rise to around 5% in the next few years. Whether it falls again is anybody's guess. Let's hope that what we spent all the money on was worth it.

Wait a couple of years and see them at St Mary's.

In the 7 years to 2007 spending increased dramatically as a proportion of gdp so it was not supported by economic growth. Brown threw money at the NHS on the hope that growth would continue regardless. There have always been economic cycles and Brown's mistake was to not be prepared for a downturn. Cameron's mistake was to continue with the same spending plans. On another point, the interest in our debt is now around £46bn and forecast to rise significantly over the next couple of years. This figure is greater than our defence budget.

I would argue that it shot up because of reckless government overspending. Brown committed money that we didn't have and were never likely to have.

No, you couldn't do it overnight but these services would be a lot cheaper if they weren't provided by the state.

Well, if I were you I wouldn't start from here... ...and we both know that neither Pakistan nor Hong Kong are remotely comparable with the UK.

It was going to be Commandment number 11 but there wasn't enough room and after the first ten the price went up to 10 shekels a word. I believe it's allowed providing it's your own crotch that you grab otherwise there can be arguments along the line of 'Oi I grabbed it first!'

What's wrong with Kiribati at over 100%?

Huh, in my day we had to put up with little hooks with letters around the edge of the pitch where they hung the half-time scores. You had to buy a programme to find out which games the letters referred to. And none of these match replays on MOTD when you got home, if you missed a goal then you'd never see it again.

Thanks. You read so many different stories that its difficult to know the true situation. It's the same with the US, I know many people who wouldn't go because if the fear of violence. It will be interesting to see what does happen when the Old Man finally does leave us. I suspect there will be some diet of power struggle for a while.