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Whitey Grandad

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  1. It's not a handout, just returning a fraction of the money taken.
  2. It shows appreciation of great football skills.
  3. Nothing to do with government spending money we don't have, then? Don't get me wrong, I am of the view that a company should pay the tax rate on profits appropriate to the county in which by operate and in which they make those profits.
  4. I drove past a wind turbine next to the M25 last night. It was floodlit.
  5. I'm just a load of clap.
  6. It's all a mugs' game. If it messes up your head it must be doing damage.
  7. The questions is... Would SISU have been better off buying us?
  8. The NHS is brilliant at handling emergencies but poor at chronic conditions. There seems to be a different mindset. On another tack, we were speaking to an Irish lady recently who lost her husband to a heart condition about twenty years ago. We didn't realise that Eire didn't have an equivalent health system.
  9. It's all part of the ridiculously complicated tax system. This may come as a surprise to you but the more people earn, the more tax they pay, and it goes up disproportionately.
  10. Who, me?
  11. I took it back to the shop and they got it fixed within two weeks. New motherboard, which is virtually a new phone. Let's see how long this one lasts.
  12. I hate it. The whole country shuts down for three weeks whilst the rest of the world carries on. No wonder we're in the doggy dos. As a manufacturing outfit we can't get anything made, delivered or shipped. Then we get Chinese New Year straight afterwards. Bah humbug. Until the last few years we have always had elderly relatives to stay with us but for the first time ever we are going on holiday over the entire Christmas period. It'll give my long-suffering mrs a complete rest from all the preparations and cooking. I'll be thinking of you all on Boxing Day and afterwards, paddling in the Caribbean on various islands.
  13. Ticket pricing has to be agreed by both clubs.
  14. Some on the US ebay: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=gyro+ring&_sacat=0&_from=R40 uk sites: http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/Gyro-Ring-Pro-601.html Also known as jitter ring?
  15. Swansea had a rapid fall, although from the old div 1, not the Premier. 1982 to 1986?
  16. Bugger. Any chance of it being on Monday 7th?
  17. I shall be away for this one so an away draw please, with a replay 12 days later.
  18. Can we have both please, Bob?
  19. That's called 'lack of Premiership experience'.
  20. And you could use them more than once because the sh1t wouldn't show.
  21. I have never held left-wing views but I suppose I have always been something of a social democrat. Of course, as you get older you tend to earn more an so get taxed more which is enough to make anybody get a blue rinse. Apparently my grandad, who died when I was about one, was always an island of sense in a sea of labour-supporting neighbours in North London. He would be the only one with blue posters in his window when everybody else was red, maybe it's where I get my rebellious nature from ;-). His Conservative Club pals in the local magistrates came in very handy whenever my dad got himself into a big of local bother. Allegedly.
  22. I have never held left-wing views but I suppose I have always been something of a social democrat. Of course, as you get older you tend to earn more an so get taxed more which is enough to make anybody get a blue rinse. Apparently my grandad, who died when I was about one, was always an island of sense in a sea of labour-supporting neighbours in North London. He would be the only one with blue posters in his window when everybody else was red, maybe it's where I get my rebellious nature from ;-). His Conservative Club pals in the local magistrates came in very handy whenever my dad got himself into a big of local bother. Allegedly.
  23. There's a special glue for it. Take her on the back seat next time, less damaging.
  24. There's a special glue for it. Take her on the back seat next time, less damaging.
  25. That's very kind of you. If you don't like the view, look at it from the other side.
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