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I don't have a Paypal account. I send Stevie an EFT transfer once a year, then sit back and wait for a few weeks until he notices.

Webcam?

:lol:

About this new owner of theirs, loaded up with "ambition". Remind us who all these wealthy Middle Eastern Arab billionaires are that keep shovelling their own cash by the truckload into football clubs? I'm talking about wealthy businessmen, not state-owned corporations like Qatar Airways, or Etihad, or Emirates. I remember Pompey had a couple. And I think Leeds have got one. Notts County had "ambition" as well a few years ago.

Just so I can be sure that I've got all the details, could you post up a list of everything that has happened this summer? Maybe put it in a spreadsheet format so we can sort the copious amount of data more easily. Thanks.

Get out of jail free card for the hard of thinking.

Joint top, surely. On points difference.

Somebody has to peel the half time oranges

Rough translation, "there's no money available"

Season tickets go on sale tomorrow. Emergency services are on standby.

You're getting very "Soggy" aren't you. Getting yourself all worked up arguing about things I haven't said. When you've calmed down and picked your toys up, go back and read the thread. Nowhere have I given any opinion about whether carbon emissions are a good thing or a bad thing. Likewise I made no comment about whether China's emission levels are good or bad. I just noted that your statement was wrong.

All very interesting Tim, but the very simple point is that twice you have stated here that China's per capita CO2 emissions are lower than Britain's, and they aren't . I don't claim to have any other knowledge than that. Your "facts" were wrong. They often are. And not everybody forms their opinions from what they read on Google. Some of us live in the real world and do real stuff.

Yeah, but he's only a regular squad player in a top six premier league club. You can understand his disappoinment.

So your furious googling found you some figures from 2011 ( which, as I'm sure someone as fastidious as you will know were subsequently amended upwards with respect to China when the true levels of China's fossil fuel burn were made public). But last time I looked we have moved on to 2016. Based on published figures for 2014, China alone emits more than three times as much CO2 as the whole of the EU. The per capita figures (the ones you seem to love so much) for that year were 6.5 and falling year-on-year for the UK, and 7.6 and rising year-on-year for China. When 2016 figures are available I expect them to show that China's total emissions are approximately 2,000% more than UK, and per capita approximately 30% more. Here's another question for you to ignore: What would be the effect on global climate change if the UK reduced CO2 emissions to zero?

That would be really impressive, particularly if it was true. But it's just more of your made up bullsheet.

Is this another one of those special "facts" that only you and CBFry together manage to unearth. Because it looks to me like more opinionated guesswork.

Is there any relevance in comparing EU immigrants with British citizens, when I was referring to EU and non-EU immigrants, or did you just slip that in hoping nobody would notice? Are immigrants from the EU on average lower skilled than non-EU immigrants? You will notice that I swam right past your attempt to drag the conversation down to benefits. It isn't about that, despite your conviction that anybody with an opinion that differs from your's is a closet UKIP-supporting "Brexiteer"

They certainly are. There were 333,000 of them last year. And so as not to tempt you to make another reply to a made-up image of what you think I think, I have absolutely no problem with that number. Or any other number that the UK needs. If we need more pheasant pluckers from Eastern Europe, then give them visas. Simple levels of control. They work. But I think (and I'm guessing here) that the overall numbers would be a bit lower if immigrants needed a work permit, rather than unfettered access to whichever country has the highest minimum wage, or better benefits, or whatever the next trend will be five years from now. I speak from experience. I have lived largely abroad for 20 years. I have three homes on three different continents. I have a selection of work permits, residence permits and passports. I deal with immigration matters for employees in a variety of places all the time. Some are a pain in the arse to deal with, but the all work in one way or another at the end of the day for people with skills. And I don't pay a blind bit of notice to anything a politician says.

AAh so it wasn't me then, it really was a completely irrelevant reference. Another hopeless effort to divert discussion away from the subject that you find uncomfortable. Just as an idle aside, how many of those 1,296 Spanish doctors, or 1,400 Greek doctors, do you think would not get a work permit under a points-based system if we left the EU? And how many Latvian chambermaids, or Romanian supermarket shelf-stackers, or Polish road sweepers do you think should be given work visas under a points-based system?

I'm sorry, maybe I'm just going blind, but I couldn't find the number of Latvian chambermaids working in the UK anywhere in that article. Could you maybe point it out?

But the real reason is buried in the quote:

But I guess we do need more Indonesian junior doctors than Latvian chambermaids.

Blimey. I can't wait to see what's in store for fans that are willing to pay the full price for their tickets.

There you go, you got there in the end. Now you know how to vote.

Rubbish. Nobody has ever been able to get between McInness and his liquids.