Joensuu

Personally find minimum card spend limits really frustrating, but worse still are the shops who don't accept cards in the first place, they won't be getting my custom again if I can help it.

Wow, CB Fry has problems. Oh, and as Turkish et al. think SWF only believe stories when they are positive, I'm gong to believe this one, despite the quality of the reporting. Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

If we were offered something silly like £10m+, and Rickie was offered something silly like £70k pw, then I could see this happening with everyone happy with the deal. Although as his age pushes his 'market value' below the cost of replacing him I can't see it happening. West Ham do have a history of throwing too much money at older players. Didn't they throw bids around last season in the Championship, bloating their squad with anyone half decent like Maynard etc. I'm sure that they will do the same if they stay up, throw down offers for Benteke, Lambert, Holt, Le Fondre, Hooper etc and see which clubs bite. Certainly not the way I'd select transfers, but heck, West Ham seem to do things their own special way.

Had one knee dine a few years back. 6 weeks on crutches; only felt confident swimming after 6 months; didn't manage to run in the first year. No idea why, but it seemed to knock me sideways, for far longer than I'd anticipated. Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

I think most people have always rated Puncheon's technical ability. I think most have been put off by his 'couldn't be arsed' attitude that he seemed to display before we got back to the Premier League. I'm glad he's happy, and glad he's playing well, and would offer him another contract based on his form this season, but I'd be loathed to offer him more than a couple of years.

"Surely a better use of a spare £3m would be to buy Fratton Park - which is what the PST bid proposes - rather than spending out unnecessary money on renting a stadium which can be owned from Day One?" Err, that is of course if the stadium is only valued at £3m, which strikes me as at least 50% under the market rate.

Rowe is correct. However, I don't see three positions (Atheist;Agnostic;Theist), as the two 'extremes' are 100% certain of their position, leaving a massive spectrum of 'doubt' covered by the term agnostic. In other words, agnostic is equally applicable to someone who is 99% convinced of a deity, as it is for someone who is 99% certain that there isn't one. For me that spectrum is simply to vast - Dawkins' Spectrum of theistic probability is a more sensible scale to use, as it breaks agnosticism into subsections. On Dawkins' scale, I would be in the 6th group, but as close to the seventh as would be possible. I think a good example is gravity. Gravity exists, I think we can all agree on that (?), but it isn't 100% proven, and can never be proven, but it could be disproved (i.e. to quote Einstein "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."). To say 100% that gravity exists is technically incorrect, it could someday become disproved. I feel the same way about Atheism - based on the available evidence I'm complete convinced, but am willing to accept that further discoveries might prove me wrong. For example, if a deity decided to actually reveal themselves, then bang goes atheism! Absolutely, that's one of the main reasons why I'd rather have a civil union. They serve the purpose of forming a legal union, or announcing commitment to your friends and family, without having the overheads of 'faith', or a piece of paper forming the core bond within a partnership.

Trousers, to clarify I'm more accurately an agnostic, de facto atheist. As such I am entirely atheist, until any evidence is discovered to suggest I might be wrong. Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

My girlfriend and I have decided not to marry. (Without meaning to offend anyone) we view marriage as a price of paper, which many couples hang on to in lieu of real love and commitment. As atheists we don't like the religious overtones of a marriage either. If we legally had the right to a civil union we might be far more likely to press ahead. I'm with Turkish on this one, I currently feel discrimated against. The sooner anyone, whatever their sexuality, have equal rights to an equal choice of partnership, the better. Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

So much anger against those who think big. Anyone care to tell me why ambition works them into a fury so much? If Cortese wants to expand I'm sure he'll have done his calculations. Only he knows what the accounts look like. He has huge ambition, as we have recently witnessed, will 32k really be enough for a club aiming for the top? Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

Endless slide for me. Any death blow will allow a phoenix club to be started. Problem is, their debts are almost becoming salvageable. At, what £18 million to 'save' the club, they aren't far off of the value that Markus purchased us for. Albeit we came with far more fans, a far better reputation and at £4million or so less. If the skates somehow wipe out their debts a third time, they could well find themselves to represent vale for money. Hmm, I revise my opinion, a death blow is starting to sound more attractive. Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

Nice trolling as ever Turks. Please try to remember, the Mail is only a dubious source when they have an axe to grind. Hence, don't trust them on politics, but generally they are okay at reporting sports. Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

Anything above 5 points is a massive thumbs up, anything below 2 they might not be so impressed. 3 or 4 points for a par. Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

I've supported Cortese's decisions, and to date he's not got much wrong IMO. But right now I'm fuming. I can't see the logic of this. I feel sorry for Adkins, who really hasn't done much wrong at all, and certainly doesn't deserve this. Adkins had the team playing for him. His positive attitude was the cause of our success, he caused the players to hold their heads high after defeats. Can you see the players giving their all over the next few games? I certainly can't. [Wow, I feel like I've turned into Alpine... shudder]

I'd work out your budget, then work out which areas are all acceptable, and commutable. To me it sounds like you need to be on the Woking > Waterloo line - but any station on that line will be more expensive to live around. You might find some of the lines that meet at Clapham more affordable. I had the same issue a few years back and settled on Streatham Hill (I think people are put off by the 'Streatham' bit, and the proximity to Brixton, but honestly it's not all that bad, and really quite sensibly priced compared to say Balham and Wandsworth. We got an 8 bed house there for £2,400 a month - which 6 of us shared, leaving plenty of spare space for parties and guests). If you want some thing a bit nicer, look further out - possibly Worcester Park, or even as far out as Epsom. Like others have said - I wouldn't touch a Foxtons house ever - not if it were the best option going. Foxtons will screw you over if they can. I've found Winkworths to be excellent in the past - they once returned 100% deposits to all tenants except for one tenant who had been causing problems (refusing to pay!) - most agents would have taken the deposits from all the tenants.

I remember reading some professors study into diving a few years back, apparently there is no natural way of falling that causes the limps to rise into the air after the fall. I'd like to think the best of Jay, but watching the video again, i think he has (at minimum) decided to milk the situation, by flailing his legs about. Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

Basically it all boils down to which 'right' you feel is more important: the right to equality; or the right of religious groups to preach inequality. How dare those Westminster-types think they can try to pass legislation to prevent the intolerance's of unevinced deities. Seriously, where do they get off with all their secular undivine powers? Cough.

Ahhha, cheers Trousers, knew I was missing something... Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

I've missed something here. Is there going to be a compulsory purchase order granted to allow the cheats to force Chainrai to sell? Otherwise, won't the court suggest a value, but then say that the current owner is welcome to hold out for whatever he wants to. Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

pap, wasn't one of Tristan's reincarnations a chap called Mole? Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

If the OP were to swap GR with JR I'd have been inclined to agreed. Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

. It's all gone a bit Sparticus. What's your view on Nigel Farage Cheese? Embarrassing Kilroy-Silk wannabe, or example for all true patriots? Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

Wasn't he working in recruitment for UAF? Assumed his ultra-nazi act was just to scare people away from fascism. Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

Ken. Seen as you find O2 provide reasonable reception - have you considered going with GiffGaff (on O2 network) and staying out of contract? I've been with them for 18 months and can't knock them for price (NB, they have had a couple of issues with downtime - but nothing that's bothered me to much)... http://giffgaff.com/goodybags/

Probably posted on here already - but I can't keep up with this thread, so do ignore if it's a repeat... but the Skates on PO are annoyed with the National Football Museum, who have jumped the gun and cut the Skates out of their map of UK football.(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7zh67Je0t1qf9pl6o1_500.jpg ). Got to hope that they are ITK.