ecuk268

If he goes to Spurs, he'll have the opportunity to work with all those Spurs players in the England World Cup squad. Oh, hang on, for the 1st time in 60 years, there aren't any Spurs players in the England squad.

One of UKIP's rising stars (according to Farage), who was feted at their conference, has quit her post of head of the youth wing saying: “Ukip is exploiting the stupidity of ignorant anti-immigrant voters for electoral gain,” she wrote. “While the party deliberately attracts the racist vote I refuse to be associated with them. As a British-born Indian supporter of Ukip I should be proud that the party I joined at 18 has grown to challenge the Conservatives and Labour so strongly. In reality, however, the direction in which the party is going is terrifying: Ukip has descended into a form of racist populism that I cannot bring myself to vote for.” They certainly seem to have some odd people: Janice Atkinson, who chairs the party in the South-east, thinks protesters who shout “fascist” at Ukip members should be arrested. An unidentified councillor sent for the police because he objected to a tweet posted by a Green blogger, Michael Abberton, lampooning Ukip policy. The Camden New Journal recorded a Ukip candidate in West Hampstead, Magnus Neilsen, reflecting that the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1888, which extended the vote to working-class men, may have been a mistake.

Surely, if he'd signed a contract extension, he'd be going to Waitrose or even M&S.

So there's this guy serving a 27-year sentence for various violent robberies and is let out on parole in 2001. 3 weeks into his parole, he commits the first of a further 13 robberies of banks and building societies (including one in Bishops Waltham where he hits a 73-year old woman over the head with a pistol). When he's caught, he gets 13 concurrent life sentences. Some bright spark thinks it's good idea to transfer him to an open prison and then let him out for a short period. Not surprisingly, he does a runner and is now being hunted by the police. What planet are these people on? I expect that, if there's an enquiry, they'll say that "lessons have been learned", so that's all right then. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11191897.Armed_robber_on_the_run_struck_in_Hampshire/

Oven roasted?? Is there any other way?

As old Rene Descartes said: "I think therefore I am not a Daily Mail reader"

I've got this on CD along with the classic "Woolston Ferry" and a collection of pretty awful Saints songs.

So Cameron writes an article in the Church Times saying what a good Christain he is but, when the Bishop of Oxford arranges to present a petition signed by 40 Anglican bishops and 600 other clerics to his constituency office, they call the police and refuse him entry. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-camerons-constituency-office-calls-police-on-food-bank-campaigners-bishop-of-oxford-and-reverend-keith-hebden-9274303.html

Reminds me of a sketch in "Bottom" where Richie is praising Britain for it's Christian values and Eddie points out that Richie never goes to church. Richie replies "I don't need to go to church, I'm Church of England".

Mrs ecuk268 keeps saying that I should have my head examined.

The Allegro was one of the worst cars of the 80's. Came out at about the same time as the Golf and had loads of faults, not least being distortion of the bodyshell if it was suspended towed.

Don't know if it's already been posted but kick-off is at 3.07 (Hillsborough Anniversary) so time for an extra orange squash.

Mrs ecuk268 is never ready on time whereas I always leave loads of time to get anywhere. I've resorted to saying that "we need to leave at 11.45" when I really mean 12.00 but I think that she rumbled that one years ago. She did admit this morning when she was rushing off to work that, even if she didn't go to bed at all, she still wouldn't be ready in the morning.

Had to get the Dictionary out for that. If you'd said schadenfreude, I'd have understood.

Amazing that he was in showbusiness in 10 different decades.

Was it The Gateway?

Did you hate yourself when you were one?

I was at the launch at the Uni (got my picture in the next Saints programme) and also wrote a few match reports for the 1st website. I seem to remember that it went a bit sour when Dave got involved with Uncle Rupert and later regretted it. I stopped contributing when the club wanted to edit the reports (ie remove any criticism).

Presumably, the £30m expenditure for Staplewood includes the acquisition of the 2 fields to extend the training pitches up as far as Twiggs Lane and construction of the Training Dome, new entrance etc.

Plested's Pies

I wonder if these points will be raised? http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/nick-clegg-nigel-farage-debate_b_5028849.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Borrowed from Newsbiscuit, sums it up nicely: "Through a combination of George Osborne’s generous pension provision in his budget and the surprise tour of the UK’s ‘last spark of originality’, many of the world’s leading musicians plan to now ‘pack up their crotch-less panties’. News that Kate Bush is returning to the stage has resulted in an ‘exodus’ from Simon Cowell’s harem, Madonna ‘cashing in’ on her bus pass and the disbandment of the ‘twelfth version’ of the Sugarbabes. While Bush (55) is the first to acknowledge that her high-octane dance routines may be a thing of the past, she is still fairly confident that even if she were ‘to fart Wuthering Heights through a sousaphone, while dressed in a conch shell’ it would still be better than Lady Gaga. Bush’s 79 tour is now widely acknowledged as the most influential rock performance of the twentieth century; whereas Miley Cyrus lip syncing astride a flying hotdog, is not even regarded as the most embarrassing five minutes of a Miley Cyrus tour."

This.

Could go either way. As the insurance companies make a lot of profit from annuities, if people are taking cash instead, it'll either drive annuity rates down further or the industry will have to make them more attractive and flexible to maintain their business.

Adam Johnson has been moaning about not being in the England squad. He reckons it's because he plays for Sunderland and says that only players at the big clubs get to play for England and that a lot of the current squad wouldn't be there if they didn't play for the "big" clubs. As we had 4 players in the last squad we must be a pretty big club.