Verbal

Most of the time it's the companies taking individuals to court.

Yes, twice. Won both times. It is easy although a little nerve wracking. As far as costs go, the defendants wont be allowed to stuff you with legal charges if you lose - it's not allowed.

I sent it to him.

Not offended, just curious how Hendrix gets to be 'pathetic'. Why exactly is Hendrix 'pathetic' as a 'role model" in the manner of his life or death? These kinds of offhand dismissals are no different in character to the tabloid mentality that drags people across the front pages when they die, speculating about the manner of their death and glorying in the fake-moral indignation of it all.

You can stop it now delldays. You've impressed me enough.

There you go. You're a natural tabloid journalist.

A long way. Toronto is just a bit north of the American Midwest. You'd really have to go east for polar bears - and pack your swimming trunks, because there's precious little ice for you to chase them across.

You really need to be out West for the bear wrestling. Let me know how that goes.

But do you know when to put full stops inside or outside the brackets? (Answering this will give you a clue as to how the season will turn out for us.)

No, he said Hendrix was 'pathetic'. So clearly offended.

Why is Jimi Hendrix, for example, an 'pathetic' role model? As a musical genius who revolutionised electric guitar playing (and who incidentally served in the 101st Airborne), his accidental death (from drinking too much and mixing it with sleeping pills) was a tragedy and a huge loss. No one is belittling the deaths of servicemen - and frankly, looking at the appalling quality of 'front page' coverage of AW's and others' deaths, who the hell else would want it? So tell me more about how 'pathetic' Hendrix was. Really - I want to know. In what way did he offend you in life or death?

Speaking as someone who actually did an apprenticeship years and years ago, the irony about the new fashion for apprentices is that most schemes are only really sustainable with government financing - another example of the private sector sponging off the public. That is new - companies always ran and financed their own schemes. Now they know they can get some fad-driven government to pay for it, and so won't do it unless the taxpayer coughs up.

You have a way to go before you can appeal to 'reason'. Try reading and learning a bit what you think you're opposed to - then you might be able to argue against it with something resembling reason. Andy's broader point seems true enough to me. You have allied yourself with the 'reasonable' EDL. So did Breivik. I remember you even claimed you went on one of these so-called 'marches' (which are never more than an excuse for a bit of good old p aki-bashing). So did Breivik. The point is this: if Breivik's actions didn't give you a moment's pause, then you really have a problem.

Cripes! Really?

Or when in a hole, stop digging.

Of of which is really beside the point. Whether the idiotic holiday was the cause of a few lost sales and work days or not, the slide back into a near-flatlined economic performance is cause for great concern. As the economy falters, tax revenues fall. As tax revenues fall, the deficit grows. If the deficit is to be reduced by another wave of spending cuts, the knock-on effect is more falls in GDP. It's THAT cycle that Osborne has to address, and I frankly have little confidence in a government doing succeeding when it spends even a second trying to dress up the bad figures with an extra flag-waving public holiday.

I think we should all be ever so slightly ashamed.

Why has trousers' chicken stopped dancing?

That was made up!

There's always 5pm tomorrow. There's always a 5pm. The dream doesn't have to die.

Brilliant! JustWhatWeNeed.

who did we sign?

Now!

Why woooosh?

I'm going for yes. Sources seem impeccable to me.