JackFrost

Just go along with it mate. As long as you're diplomatic about it you'll be fine. Apologise for any inconvenience caused and come up with what the managers would call "constructive solutions" in the event of you being in a similar event again. Speaking of disciplinary hearings, after I retired i worked for a small IT company (10-12 employees) for about 6 months to have something to do. It was run by a 'style-over-substance' guy who was a very good salesman but an absolutely shocking manager. He had almost no concept of organisation, timekeeping or efficiency, and anyone who criticised his working style he hacked off every so often until they went away. His 2 deputies were basically controlled by him through manipulation/preferential treatment. I learnt from someone there that the staff turnover rate was so bad 90% of the (full-time) staff had replaced itself twice in the space of 4 years. Anyway one of the young lads in the department i managed got given a disciplinary under the guise of 'poor performance' and he got me to help him at the meeting. I looked at the reasons for his disciplinary and it became quite clear that certain incidents had been totally twisted to make this lad look bad and there appeared to be a personal vendetta going on. On some points they quoted things he'd written in emails and invented their own implications, and another reason was him being emailed at midday to send a package to an important client and he hadn't done it. The fact that on that day he'd previously been instructed to help with an office move and had spent the entire day out the office with no internet connection was conveniently not mentioned. At the meeting we went through each point and despite coming up with a perfectly good explanation for 80% of the points he got given a final warning and warned he'd face the sack if there was any repeat. He put his resignation in the following morning. I was cheesed off with how he'd been treated/the company in general and resigned as well and the other two lads from the same department were going to uni 4-5 months down the line, had previously found out about it and they resigned as well. The manager tried to get rid of one employee and in the space of a couple of weeks ended up losing an entire department. The chaos that subsequently ensued was priceless and the managers at the top got forced into doing the jobs right at the bottom. I received two separate texts from two of the managers after I left, both asking if I could come in and show them how the company database worked.

I posted one of these threads a few months ago, here's what I had then I'll add a couple, People who cold call at your doorstep, despite there being a "no cold-calling, we do not buy goods or services at the door" sign clearly displayed on your front door Politicians who do that hand movement when making a point, when they connect their index finger and thumb in a loop, open the rest of their hand out and move it repeatedly towards the audience whilst talking.

There are innocent women and children being blown up in Iraq on an almost daily basis, should someone invade and put a stop to that? . . . The Western world has this delusion that by invading a country and removing a dictator it means its people are 'liberated' and the people will live happily ever after just before the sun goes down and the ending credits roll to the patriotic music. In reality when a dictator is removed or is in danger of being removed, people want different things. It CAUSES conflict and violence. As others have stated Syria is a complete cluster**** of problems and whilst it is genuinely heartbreaking to see the innocent civilians suffering and being killed we or others cannot just simply invade and "stop it". It's a virtual impossibility. Even if we did invade the suffering and the death would continue and our presence would actually fuel the already raging fire. There are times when outside intervention/military action has been the right option and should have happened like with Srebrenica, Rwanda and the Khmer Rouge etc (Apparently the Vietnamese army only discovered the notorious Tuol Sleng prison in 1979 by chance when they smelt the rotting corpses 5 miles away) but Syria has WAY too many complications, both militarily and sadly commercially.

The Turkish clubs have always had the loudest crowds. I know Besiktas have been famous for their crowds cheering louder than the sound of a jumbo jet taking off or something.

He's right, Nowadays programmes are made for the cheapest price to generate the highest viewing figures and it's given birth to X-Factor/BGT/SCD culture. They rehash the same show format over and over again, call it something different because it's the best formula for low costs and high viewing figures, and this has destroyed general programming quality. OFAH should have ended in 1996 when they became millionaires. It had reached the end of its shelf life then and they should never have brought it back in the early '00s. Unfortunately they bowed to pressure to continue because it was a "classic sitcom" even though they'd clearly run out of ideas and were having to 'resuscitate' it. Yeah but they were completely different times. In the mid '80s it was far more socially accepted to see Del sticking two fingers up at Rodney or Del giving a kid 50p to spend down the "paki shop" before the watershed. If you compare the recent BBC1 repeats of the older shows with the DVD series you'll notice quite a few subtle edits going on.

Don't underestimate Pompey's 'pulling power' guys. "Now they visit Guy Whittingham’s Blues with an away following which is expected to reach double figures."

There was a time I was convinced that this guy from GTA: San Andreas was a fictional character. I'm not so sure now. . .

I think it's more to do with the billionaire owner no longer wanting to bankroll them

They'll still compete next season with a hefty points deduction, once someone has bought the carcass for virtually nothing

I remember when I was in my late 20s and had to babysit a friend's little boy for a couple of hours. There came the point when I let him watch the TV because he said 'Knightmare was about to start'. By the end of the episode I got hooked on the TV show myself even though I was fast approaching 30 at the time. The amount of videotapes I once had of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBQL4zsyKLk

Parachute payments

So no different to a lot of jobs out there

Anyone seen Paul Allen's yacht recently?

When I was in Bournemouth several years ago one of the Lidls over there was horrendous for that. They had this idea that scanning everything at lightning fast speed and all but throwing everything you've purchased into a big pile and demanding the money whilst you physically can't pack fast enough, is the best way of operating a checkout. (Especially when I can pack bags significantly faster than some old ladies). Once you handed the money over they even started scanning the next customer's items through when you've still got 10-12 things to pack. All of the staff I saw there were Eastern Europeans in their 20s and they seemed like badly trained apprentices that had been recruited through some agency

The cherry on the cake with that one is Diego looking like he's just smoked something rather exotic

Just found this bookmarked on an old hard drive of mine from a few years ago, if anyone needs a laugh. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/feb/26/portsmouth-administration-andrew-andronikou

Lidl isn't as bad as people make out and you can find genuinely find good quality stuff in there that is a fraction of the price of another supermarket. Their home chips were some of the nicest chips around and cost around 59/69p. Annoyingly they've stopped selling them recently and the equivalent product at Morrisons costs something like £1.59 and aren't as good. Lidl's lasagne is also one of the best around. I totally agree with the above comments re: smaller range That said any Lidls I've been in tend to have longer queues at the checkouts but this is more down to the lack of checkouts open than anything else. Also up until the last 18 months/2 years ago the 3 Lidl stores I've been in, none of them had shopping baskets available in their stores which was completely ridiculous (they've now introduced them). This meant that unless you were doing your weekly shop or buying literally 2-3 items max it was physically difficult to shop there. Don't think I've ever shopped in an Aldi.

Bin Laden may well have been at Highbury in the early '90s, cheering on his beloved Arsenal FC http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/1650069.stm

What atrocities have been stopped directly by having those men imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay? By the way ignoring facts that don't suit your argument doesn't make you right. Not feeding you

I think we should make this Pap's new avatar.

A total of 779 prisoners have been held at Guantanamo Bay since it opened in January 2002. 600 have been released without charge. It's a gulag that's become a political disaster for the Yanks.

You're judging the nature of the Woolwich incident purely on moralistic grounds on not what the terrorists set out to achieve. They set out to brutally murder a British soldier in cold blood, in full view of the public eye. They carried out the attack to shock, to generate a reaction and to highlight their 'cause'. They were never going to take on Rigby in a straight fight because they know full well that being a soldier, he'll be highly trained in hand-to hand combat and they were always going to minimise his ability to fight back from the get-go. They could never risk it getting into a scuffle or being overpowered, otherwise they'd have failed in their objective. This is a hardened extremist who has been brainwashed into a completely different state of mind. This is a guy that isn't afraid of hacking and decapitating a wounded man to death in cold blood with a meat cleaver, if you think he's losing sleep due to the fear of violence we'll agree to disagree, especially when there are prison guards round the corner. At the end of the day if someone sticks a razor blade into him, then as far as he's concerned he's a martyr. Someone's knocked a couple of teeth out of him, so what? The guy WANTS attention and media coverage and be an inspiration to other extremists, and any violence against him will be exploited by extremists. As the saying goes "Any news is good news". The attacks have already provoked anti-Muslim attacks on mosques up and down the country and that is what the extremists want - to provoke a reaction The best thing that can happen is for him to be locked away for the rest of his life and fade into complete obscurity.

Even Category As have human rights and their personal safety is one of their very few "absolute" rights. If there is a genuine threat to his personal safety (because certain other prisoners know who he is and what he did) then they may well move him. It depends who his cellmates currently are and the cellmates in other areas he knows he could potentially do his time with. It's an extreme/exaggerated example but if they chucked him in the same cell as e.g. Dobson and Norris the first thing he'd do is subtley provoke them, then kick up a big enough fuss until they move him in with someone who is far less likely to assault him (e.g. another extremist). It'll happen sooner rather than later before the Woolwich attack gradually moves away from the world's current affairs and certain other prisoners don't clock who he is, and by the sounds of it someone has.

You'd be surprised. How can it be good news? This guy brutally murdered an innocent man in cold blood in broad daylight. He attempted to decapitate him with a meat-cleaver and/or knife in public with the intention of attracting as large a crowd as possible. The guy is a violent extremist and isn't afraid of death, let along giving two monkeys about losing a couple of teeth in a fist fight. Being assaulted is most probably exactly what he wants, potential propaganda opportunity and I suspect there'll be less people thinking it's a good idea if he's awarded a tidy sum in compensation.

I'm afraid the people who think this is excellent news and are praising the people who attacked him are very naive. I'd bet that Adebolajo deliberately provoked it himself. 1) A violent criminal like Michael Adebolajo who brutally murdered a young soldier in cold blood, won't give a flying **** about being set on and having a couple of teeth knocked out especially if it means he can play the victim. He'll see it as a favour and will feed off/ draw people in who want to "give him a good kicking". 2) It'll mean he'll eventually get transferred to a more secure/secluded prison cell, at the expense of the taxpayer. I've come across prisoners who'd take a thoroughly brutal beating to get moved to a cell where they know they can get Channel 5 on their TV. 3) He'll most probably be awarded a load of compensation, ultimately at the expense of the taxpayer. Having interviewed many violent criminals/psychopaths myself I can assure you their attitudes and our attitudes to violence and being on the receiving end of it are more different than you could imagine.