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Neither of which are morally repugnant. Screwing suppliers - different story... Farmers cannot decide not to supply the biggest customer who is driving down prices because of its power to purchase. You and me could choose (and I do) not to buy from them. Employees could decide not to work for them.

I think the current advice (as given to my missus by her chef/teacher on her Cordon Blue cookery course so could well be wrong) is turn 'em over, stroke them to sleep, then knife through the brain while sleeping. This sounds humane to me, unless a lobster has survived and lived to warn others not to get too excited about a bit of tummy tickling...

That is why you should never boil a crab or lobster while alive - they should be killed humanely before being cooked!

I hate to confess that the wife has occasionally murdered a lobster - albeit, turned upside-down, stomach stroked and then skewered while asleep. Eating animals full stop, I'm not 100% conmfortable with myself... Hasn't put me off steaks and lamb chops mind. But it's the life the animal leads I care about. I know it's expensive but if we all could eat better raised and reared farmstock, I am convinced we'd be healthier and happier as a human race!

Yes. Only shop at Co-Op or Waitrose.

With the net result that they will appear to be selling more potatoes and will go back to the famers and ask for an even bigger rebate on potato crops, resulting ultimately in farmers feeding rabid dogs to potatoes and the whole world dying of rabies...

This day gets stranger - you are qualified?? I need a stiff drink...

It is 20 years since I studied contract and sales law tbh...

A waffle might be a treat for Stan, not my cuppa...

The policy of large supermarkets procuring at vastly reduced prices is one of the core reasons why Mad Cow Disease became prevelant. Large supermarkets leant heavily on farmers to reduce costs. They did and started to feed dead cows to other cows in order to retain a margin. Cows should eat grass. In fields. But keeping them there costs money. Money farmers didn't have because they were being screwed to operate at slimmer and slimmer margins because of the power of the large supermarkets. FAIR and EQUITABLE supermarkets should surely pay what is required of their suppliers to deliver while making a fair and equitable margin for themselves. Not screw an industry into the floor for the sake of shareholders? How do your Chickens live btw? Still selling those that have lived life in a shoe box?? No disrespect to you. But there are things your company does in its supply chain that are far from contributory to a better world. Yes, there are people who don't give a stuff how their chicken and bacon sandwich reached their plate. There are also people who don't care for speed limits or morality...

I believe they were DUTY bound to SELL you those waffles. If it is on display it is for sale and you have the right to buy it. Although this does not extend to the merchandising, tills and staff naturally...

Half the planet is starving and you can't work out a way to give a free banana to someone who might be grateful for it... I'm sure as Lord Sainsbury reclines in the back of his Bentley Superblower he is delighted at your indifference to the developing world...

If we'd had Edward Woodwood and Max Clifford, maybe.

Lowe paying a player from his own pocket? A man who has put ZERO cash into the club is suddenly repaying all that salary, dividends and share buy-backs. Wonders will never cease...

As the world would do well to remember, two wrongs don't make a right.

Please lock these fecking threads becuase every time i come to the site i see these thread titles and it scares me. The people who post this b0ll0x should also be infracted. No, they should be made to pay the rest of us our fees and then be stripped, tarred and sent to live in pompey in perpetuity!! Thank you.

Months - and trust me the £130 gets you a secretary!! As in - short skirt, big boobs and tea-making - hang on suddenly that sounds cheap!! Seriously, rates from the last Administration I was involved in started at £130 an hour for the cheapest member of staff rising to around £380 for a partner to be involved from memory. The Administrator will act as quickly as they can to try to sell the business as a going concern but to do that they need to understand it and its finances totally which can take time. They might even end up running the business for months on behalf of a bank/the creditors. Most probably do a good job - but it ain't cheap and it doesn't always result in a better business. Look at Adams!!! Bought out of administration twice in what five years??

Er, do you think the secretaries run businesses then?? I guess if they are in charge of the pencils and tea, there's something to be said for their inherent value... CEO of our business is on what £250k per annum? Administrator appointed to run it could be charging anything up to £350 an hour or more!! That's over £1million a year. I have no problem paying adminstrators to sort businesses out - I have a massive problem that all that often happens is they suck up whatever cash is left and sell the business to the team who screwed up at a knock down rate - leaving suppliers, staff and others high and dry!!!! If the cost of a partner in Deloittes or Grant Thornton is £400 an hour. Why not simply appoint a new CEO on double the existing rate and see if he can turn the business around??

I see the Navy are still handing our those rum rations.

I love the fact Administrators (no names no pack drill) can charge £130 per hour for a secretary to make them tea. For the hard of maths that would put their secretaries on £394,200 per annum - before bonuses... This is why Admin is a last resort. With all due respect to Administrators, their fees are nothing short of fecking scandalous! There will be feck all left and the club might even be sold in a pre-pack to Lowe and co.

LOL. Priceless. I think the Premier League should play both!!!! Cheered me right up that has.

Put it this way, I'm concerned about going every week.

Only Southampton fans could argue over building regulations... No wonder the board cannot focus on the first team.

Danny Higginbotham. Without that ridiculous own goal against Boro we would be looking forward to the fringes of Europe.

Exactly. Why couldn't we observe the basic truisms of football success? It still might have ended in disaster. But we hastened our own demise. More galling is that we STILL continue down a path that has already once proved our undoing. This is not anti-Lowe - this is anti-bad business management. I don't know if anyone saw Comic Relief the Apprentice? But Gerald Ratner (he of our products are 'cr4p' fame) described his team's product as 'sh!t or bust' - as though that's going to appeal to investors...! It's the same mistake AGAIN... Some people seem incapable of learning from previous errors of judgement. An unwavering belief in one's own abilities is one thing. Dogmatic resistance to change, reluctance to listen to advice and other opinions is what makes for bad leaders, and in our case a badly run football club. If that's anti-Lowe - sign me up. But it's the same reason I don't like any of the countless bad managers I've had the misfortune to deal with over the years...