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Perhaps they might also manage with fewer than their 250 (!) civil-list-paid servants too - including the one who's about to be hired to run the bath.

It seems there are a few on here who protest too much.

Mysonthearsenalfan mentioned it. I'll ask him.

Some interesting mutterings on the Arsenal forums, comparing Chamakh and RL. Guess who comes out on top?

Might you have the causal relationship the wrong way around?

The capacity of the ground will go up by about 4,300, to around 30,000. At which point my maths fails me, as well as my knowledge of the ground. But yes, they're leaving the existing sweating configuration unchanged and adding the second tier to very pleasing effect. As for Michael Jackson, I think the Fulham fans have heard most of the jokes by now, and they don't really care that much because they have a chairman who's sunk about £180m into the club, and is looking to spend a lot more by committing to stay at Craven Cottage, which is really quite a lovely ground, rather than move to somewhere more generic. With that kind of commitment, he could probably stick the old Ted Bates statue in there and the Fulham fans wouldn't bat an eyelid (Not that they wouldn't be a bit baffled...).

Not according to Zoopla.

Before that, he's got a job to do with the Spurs reserves, now they're back in training after jury service.

Neither. He's written in the future conditional tense. So when they're dead.

If everything is the same, how do you make sense of the world?

I'm here to condemn you.

So you're withdrawing this thread then?

Baffoon, buffoon, or baboon - it doesn't matter. Boris is history. Londoners want him out.

He'll be depressed about that. The paranoid android carries other connotations right now.

Don't be so silly.

After reading the peer-reviewed research on how right wingers tend to be stupid, I'm not surprised that this thread got started.

How low can you bow? Can you reverse, bowing, out of a doorway without looking? Just checking, because these are important skills for someone such as yourself.

A bit playground this, don't you think, trousers? As I said on the recent monarchy thread (!), I'm not that opposed to Liz 2, or even Jug Ears, so long as we reform them into a monarchy more appropriate for a modern democracy - the bicycling royals from The Netherlands or Scandinavia would be fine. That way, sensible people can ignore them and those with their curious fixations can worship them to their hearts' desire. Win win.

Really committed royalists - as opposed to the 'it's-okay-for-tourists' brigade - tend to be swivel-eyed right-wingers, and on the basis of recent peer-reviewed psychological research suggesting a close link between poor cognitive function and right-wing views, I'd say yes.

The biggest one is reversing the expropriation of common lands (including large swathes of the British coastline), carried out mostly in the 19th century to give George IV, who'd bankrupted the monarchy, some means of income support (the sponging oaf that he was). Consequently, Liz 2 and Jug Ears (through the Duchys) are by far the largest landowners in Britain. none of it was theirs to begin with. Putting the privately held, rarely ever viewed royal art collections - paid for by the proceeds from the 19th Century land grab - on public view and in public ownership (The National Gallery, British Museum, etc) Throwing open the palaces and houses of the royals to full public view (thus generating far more in tourist £s than the secretive monarchy. Setting aside the grim association of monarchy with the military dictatorship that was the British Empire. Paving the way for a modernising (and widening) of democracy, with a written constitution that includes a genuinely elected bicameral parliamentary system, and a more effective, more accountable separation of powers. Etc, etc.

It's not 'either/or'. If we abolished the monarchy tomorrow - at least 200 years too late, in my view - the Abbey and its corpses would not disappear with it. Of course, by far the LEAST interesting people laid out there are royals.

Yes

Brilliant. When the second Wailers album came out, I was a 'complaints officer' at Island Records. Just as I joined, the pressing plant lost the plot and pressed line after line of ashtray-shaped vinyl. So I spent an entire summer handwriting letters saying 'sorry, here's another bent album'. All done in a haze of marijuana smoke so thick that the forklift drivers downstairs in the warehouse were banned from driving in the afternoons. After three months of that, it just showed how durable Marley's career was going to be.

Of what, my fat little friend?

I didn't infer; I implied. If you revisit the sentence I was commenting on you'll see why. You canvassed for Milligan?! I guess that's why anonymity exists on discussion forums.