Waterside.saint

So 20-ish? Massive.

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He's a mug if he walks away from what he's owed

During one of my previous incarnations as a teacher I used to work with EBD youths - kids who were often already well-known to the police & usually one short step away from a secure unit or prison. One of the things I learned very quickly was that the ability to tolerate uncertainty was in short supply with them, and lack of that capacity had landed them where they were - i.e. if they didn't know where they were with you there'd be real trouble very soon. I sometimes wonder if some of our friends on POL are like that - lacking, perhaps, the emotional maturity to cope with change.

If they can find £1000 spare cash in these times then good luck to them! I'm flippin' sure I couldn't

Some have referred to it as The Land That Time Forgot, or more recently The Island of Dr Moreau. In any case, some kind of delusional illness seems to afflict many of the people there resulting in symptoms that are all too familiar to dispassionate observers in the world outside

I can see they have a problem authenticating genuine skates. Maybe they could do with something biometric, e.g. you have to fail an IQ test or prove yourself unable to distinguish fact from fantasy

Like the 4-stroke cycle perhaps: Suck-loadsa-money->Squeeze-credibility->BANG-POP-PHUTT!!!->Blow-hot-air-and-excuses->repeat-until-nauseous....

+1 ...

Useful metaphor. How large, exactly, would the 'bomb' have to be in order to guarantee their extinction? I don't think there's much left in the arsenal that hasn't been tried

All gone quiet, AFAIK

Fortress TBH - love it Oh & I think you mean 'useless ginger villain, greedy moneygrabbing ba$£ard who has brought the club to its knees.'

Best to let them blow themselves out, probably

They'll be fainting & shivering shortly

Mass hysteria. From Wikipedia: sound familiar? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria "Blackburn, England (1965) - In October 1965 at a girls' school in Blackburn, several girls complained of dizziness. Some fainted. Within a couple of hours, 85 girls from the school were rushed by ambulance to a nearby hospital after fainting. Symptoms included swooning, moaning, chattering of teeth, hyperpnea, and tetany. A medical analysis of the event about one year later found that outbreaks began among the 14-year-olds, but that the heaviest incidence moved to the youngest age groups. There was no evidence of pollution of food or air. The younger girls proved more susceptible, but disturbance was more severe and lasted longer in the older girls. Using the Eysenck Personality Inventory, those affected had higher scores for extroversion and neuroticism. It was considered that the epidemic was hysterical, that a previous polio epidemic had rendered the population emotionally vulnerable, and that a three-hour parade, producing 20 faints on the day before the first outbreak, had been the specific trigger"

Its been said before - repeatedly - but I'll say it again: all their options are win-win from our point of view. They die soon, or linger horribly as a warning to all of the ghastly consequences of failing to live within ones means. Its all good

Saving their moribund festering walking dead zombie carcrash of a 'club' is of course all that matters

Put me down for February 2014

Don't be daft, barely 50000 of the bestest superfans could fit in that venue standing shoulder to shoulder, they'd be leaving 10s of 1000s of their superfans outside in the road, the police would never wear it

Interesting. Not wishing to get too technical, but which test are you going to use? Two-tailed or one-tailed version? etc.

Way to go

They're not known as Pompey Pravda for nothing

Go on, gizza 'nother chance, we need players like you that we can't afford, cheque's in the post, honest ... http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/appleton-desperate-for-howard-patience-1-4124223

“‘My other piece of advice, Copperfield,’ said Mr. Micawber, ‘you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.” Dickens: David Copperfield (1850)