Whitey Grandad

There's no point being cost-effective if the planet's uninhabitable. (I don't believe it ever will be, by the way).

Not necessarily. There might have been even more sales if they had been handled correctly.

There can be a number of reasons for this. For example, my daughter's birthday is in June and I always used to buy her a season ticket as one of her presents. Many people are on holiday in July and out of the country. What are they supposed to do? Telephone at enormous expense? Try to get online and set up an account in Bongo-Bongo land? Look at it the other way. What possible reason could there be for not putting them on sale earlier?

Conspiracy or ****-up?

There was a whole lot more to it than that, but we don't have all night.

It's me surviving I'm worried about, not the planet.

You can't just take the raw figures and use them that way.They might have all been installed in the last month. Properly sited and installed payback time should be better than 10 years. it's tax-free and index-linked, but your money is tied up, for the payback time at least.

Fair enough, but why not start selling renewals earlier? Prices were announced some time ago.

Not every season-ticket holder has internet access, nor emails, especially the 'agedly challenged', in which case a postal reminder/invitation would have been the sensible approach.

What resources might they be? Someone going 'click'?

Women over 60 are legally OAP's, but don't get me started.

They are called customers and they are paying a lot of money.

Nobody went on strike when Gordon Brown stole billions from private sector pensions.

That's a very good return for £18,000. A typical annuity for a 65 year old with that amount would be more like £1150, not indexed.

The Local Authorities don't help. They keep on increasing parking charges and introducing restrictions. I struggled for years with Eastleigh BC to convince them that cheap and free parking were essential but they didn't listen. I see that Winchester has now suspended Sunday charging shortly after introducing it.

Some burglars do it lots of times.

My wife watches a lot of crime programmes. People use them because the call is untraceable. (to the person, that is, not the call box ).

This lot are 100 yards from me. There were a lot of police around when I turned up this morning at 10:10. It's a good job that they didn't raid my unit because all lot complain about me treating them like slaves.

Food for thought: http://www.learnaboutguns.com/2009/07/03/violent-burglar-shot-in-self-defense/ http://www.learnaboutguns.com/2010/11/23/evening-burglar-fatally-shot-by-lancaster-tx-homeowner/ http://public.findlaw.com/abaflg/flg-5-2d-2.html In 2004 Patrick Mercer MP won a ballot for private member's bills and put the choice of new law to a vote on the Today Programme on radio 4. The listeners voted to allow homeowners to use any 'force necessary' to defend themselves against intruders on their property. Mecrer said 'the public have voted, the bastards' and 'burglars have rights too', hoever he did put such a bill forward for discussion. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Paul+Routledge%3A+Tony's+burgled+the+Tories'+crime+plan.-a0125974713

Or the ideal game to show the club what we think of their pricing policies?

All of those. You can't stop and try to reason with them. The moment you start talking you're lost and possibly dead. These four knew that what they were doing was wrong and deserve anything they got.

Black. Brown should not be worn in the evening.

I am doing my best to avoid the lot of it. Just don't ask me to pay for any of it. I managed to miss the last lot completely, it's just a load of overhyped mediocrity that's intended to make a very few people very rich. If I were to tell you that Paula Radcliffe is resident in Monaco then you'd understand.

I didn't notice them! Perhaps I'm going deaf as well as blind.

A bit less of the 'older fella', if you don't mind.