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  2. If my early education taught me anything it was that porn comes from cemeteries
  3. I think it’ll end up a squad of 26 and at that point both might sneak in.
  4. There are twenty minute gaps though in the timetable so that's where bottlenecks at Aston station build up if you miss the trains just after 5pm. International station currently has trains to Shrewsbury/Aberystwyth, Bournemouth/Manchester, Rugeley/Walsall and the other local stoppers and one every ten minutes to London (8-11 carriages). Add in the HS2 station in just under a decade and that will be a ridiculously well served couple of miles. I think if that was a serious possibility then you'd find a site roughly halfway between the existing international station and the new one the other side of the M42. Pretty sure there are plans for a rapid transit line to link the two as you currently have with the Airport being linked to the station with the monorail. So you've potentiall got all that....and still 40k will probably want to come by Car. Midlands mentality right there.
  5. The food looks like those terrifying India street food videos I’ve seen on youtube.
  6. More of a watcher than a participant
  7. Council are screwed for cash (everywhere). Public services are already strangled, so it's natural "wants" such as sports will take a big hit in the next 5/10 years. There's a big opportunity here. With big investment, the land could become Birmingham's and the midlands premier sports venue for athletics, rugby, even NFL (there's a huge NFL fanbase in the midlands). Bolting on a really good indoor arena is good revenue generator from events such as JuJitsu, Karate competitions which are held every week. A half empty 50k ground is irrelevant, the additional 8-10m a year from lost ticket sales will be easily recouped from other sports in the area. It's a really good idea to out generate competitors in revenue as their fanbase and football based revenue will always be lacking compared to the bigger established premier league clubs. As someone raised in this area I can only commend the investment. It's a shame our club appear to be quite narrow minded when it comes to this, as we could have done something similar around the airport / NEC. (Still waiting for Dr Tony's Theme park)
  8. And the five people that suddenly queued behind you were your nan, your teacher, a girl you fancied from school, the police and a Central News reporter doing a story on how easy it is for under 18s to buy porn.
  9. Ollie has played a bit of European football 2 is enough, he'll overplay kane so 3 is a waste, instead he'll take rashford who can cover 2 roles (badly being irrelavent)
  10. I know, we could round up all the main people who have brought the party and the country to its knees over the last few years and get them all in control at the same time It would be like making a squad of footballers voted the worst ever and then saying “if we put them all on the pitch at the same time it would be amazingly successful”
  11. His brother is a Villa fan, so I can't imagine his family's reaction would've been a sticking point
  12. Pick a team, don’t sit on the fence.
  13. In the 1990s I worked for OFFER (the Electricity Regulator). It was a relatively short time after the companies had been denationalised and they had financial incentives to invest is assets crucial to the running of the grid rather than frivolous corporate spending. One company (I shall not name them) purchased a helicopter for their Chief Executive and listed the expenditure as vital to the running of the grid. OFFER challenged it. We dropped the challenge when the company sent us a business case where it was to be used for essential and urgent visual checking of pylon lines during major outages. Where there's a rule there is a clever accountant and solicitor paid to bend it.
  14. Hang on, I enjoyed it, but I'm obviously in the wrong cohort...
  15. I think this nicely summarises the problem, that many fans are primarily concerned about sporting equality (from which perspective it seems bad that clubs can monetise 'being in London' and others can't), whereas PSR rules are about ongoing financial viability, from which perspective these things are great.
  16. Think my team would be Emi Konsa - Carlos - Pau - Moreno Bailey - Youri - Luiz - Ramsey Diaby - Watkins I prefer Youri playing off the striker but I don't think Tim should start this game.
  17. 3 GKs, 2 strikers, 4+4 defenders, 2+2 AMs, 2+2 DMs, +2RBs.
  18. Absolutely. If its law and applies to all water companies then it would work. It's worth remembering that the law prevents the water companies getting together and agreeing common financial approaches. The government is at fault and the government needs to sort it.
  19. It's not a solution. It's an idea, and it has some merits, of course. But also some drawbacks. It would have been better never to have privatised it, absolutely, but now it is, it's not a simple reverse situation, unfortunately.
  20. It’s almost as if water management and supply should be nationalised and ran as not for profit……if you can get your head around that crazy notion.
  21. Another alternative is (the threat of) a windfall tax - "if you invest in infrastucture, that's fine and good, if you pay out dividends above a threshold, then we'll tax the **** out of you". That's a simplification, but it's entirely possible to incentivise investment and de-incentivise profiteering and excessive dividends and executive pay etc. The share price of oil and energy companies seems to have survived windfall taxes.
  22. rjw63

    Getting older

    WHAT?? You mean you didn't go to the local newsagent, hang around for ten minutes til it was quiet, grab some smut from the top shelf... Then get to the counter and the girl takes so long there are five people behind you, you put the mag on the counter and she squeals "Doreeeeeeeeeeeeen, how much is this RAPIER MAGAZINE?" When the price is oh-so-blatently printed on the cover. Ah the good old days...
  23. NSWE were gunna drop the best part of $1billion on a Las Vegas expansion team so if the business case and site were there for a new stadium I’m sure they’d have explored it. As others have recently pointed out we aren’t maximising what we have in terms in essence rinsing fans, so I can only see a new stadium being thought about once every last penny has been squeezed from fans and there is no further room for growth. Currently there is huge room to grow revenue at and from Villa Park rather than spend a £1billion on something new and shiny. Modern football is about £££ and not history and heritage so that will always be the driver.
  24. My dislike of cricket is outstripped by this, great news, and definitely something to be proud of.
  25. And maybe a soupçon of derby pride? I don't really view games against Wolves that way, but get the feeling they do, and find an extra 10% from somewhere against us. Maybe a bit of that to get us the points (no suspensions or injuries either though please!)
  26. They could. But their share price would crash. The shareholders would undoubtedly vote the chief executive out of office and ruin the plan. Welcome to the world of capitalism.
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