wiganvillain

Not been on for ages, just seen this topic, as one of the resident Jocks on here (yes I live in Wigan) I have to say the Independence is a joke and I don't know anyone back home who is pro, there will be some but I can't beieve anyone believes Salmond, he's an arsehole

Charlie Adam ? Why ?

Might aswell just play Hutton centre mid

If your sole criteria is an ineffective Scotsman, I'll do the job for half of what we pay Hutton :winkold:

Under cut. I'd accept a quarter

Wasn't there myself but 2 of my mates were and they called me immediately after,

Both very impressed by an apparently down to earth, apparently honest bloke with a sense of humour.

Said the right things and both have come away looking forward to the season

Why are we even arguing

Spurs got kicked in the nuts, Glaston has commited Sepukku

The world is in it's rightful place

He'll still be here, absolutely no sign of him being sacked and he sure as hell won't resign as he thinks he's brilliant.

Nice to see him getting the excuses for next seasons dismal performance in early

I've just discovered that tomorrow is Both McInept and my birthday, Ok I'm a year older than he is, however I am also a Jock but thank the gods I'm not Ginger and regarded as shite at my job

A merry christmas and a happy and prosperous new year to you all

Veal doesn't have to be raised in a crate. As has been pointed out, there are plenty of male calves that simply get destroyed needlessly. There are some farmers raising free range veal, but they currently have a limited market due to stupid predjudices.

I agree with whoever said that "food" = "meat". Vegetables are pretty much just a garnish as far as I'm concerned. And fruit is a somewhat unappetising form of medicine, not food.

case closed, argument over

By any chance do you have a Scottish heritage Mike as the above is basically our national motto

Desperately sad to lose that rare thing - a man with integrity in politics.

RIP

New Leader, that would infer they're being led at the moment - debateable

Oh dear, this will cause issues when I've got to trade my 9-3 in, it's a good old bus

Can anyone explain why we're depending on Delph and send Makoun out on loan

Yeah it was but that is very much the edited highlights it wasn't all good.

Regardless he walked out on the club 5 days before the start of a season seemingly because he wasn't able to continue to spend money at the rate he had been for the previous years.

Any respect I had for the man went out the window then.

A post I can totally agree with

Things ain't what they yeast to be in the bakery business.

What are you trying to prove?

I think that he is just trying to get a rise out of you

There's no Knead for all this Flour

In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked.

IMO the quote is fabricated as its from Wikipedia, but it made me chuckle.

633 Squadron Supposedly where George Lucas stole the idea for the Death Star Attack!

This all day

My favourite story about the Mossie (probably as true as the Goering quote) was that the Yanks used them for reconnasance missions but as unarmed they sent Mustangs as cover and they Mossie had to slow down to let the Mustang keep up

Not really maqroll

ask yourself this, how much oil does North Korea have compared to ....... say Iran.

As for Obama not considering a hugely popular (in the USA) military adventure before he's up fpr re-election, give us all a break puh lease

Lots of profitable businesses get into trouble as a result of poor cashflow management.

The old adage was never so true

Turnover = Vanity

Profit = Sanity

Cash = The Real World

No car with the new job so spent £2900 on a 54 plate SAAB 93, needed a workhorse

I agree, we should have let the likes of RBS and Lloyds TSB go to the wall

But imagine the carnage after ? Would it be worse than the mess we're in now

Iceland's economy took a major hit when it let its banks fail but it effectively lanced the boil and is now growing again minus the systemic poison created by its banking sector.

Worth noting that they ignored Brown's threats to use anti-terrorist legislation against them and gave their people a referendum on what to do next. The people said "bugger the bankers", the sky didn't fall in, and now they are well on the road to recovery because the transfer of wealth from ordinary people to the financial elite was rejected.

We did the opposite and other poor saps followed our lead. Instead of their banks going broke entire countries are now drowning under a weight of debt created by the greatest heist in financial history.

Well said that man

I love my local airport (Leeds-Bradford). Five minutes from my house, but not in the flightpath, so no noise. Very, very handy for trips to Europe.

with possibly the worst, bumpiest runway in the UK

I think you have gotten it the wrong way round there. The €100billion "haircut" is money owed to the banks that they will not get back. It's the banks taking the hit there, and the Greek government are getting away with not having to pay back half the money they borrowed.

The banks involved will have to recover that lost money somewhere and it will be down to German and French taxpayers to cover it.

Basically, a load of money has been transfered from German and French taxpayers to the Greek government via the banking system.

I listened to radio 5 live this morning as well :winkold:

(you beat me to the post )

I didn't listen to 5 Live, just read lots of stuff from lots of sources.

surely what actually happened was

To Bankers - Guys, take a 50% cut or lose it all as Greece will default

Bankers - No they won't

To Bankers - Yep, we'll let them default and smile when you get sod all

Bankers - so 50% or sod all, Hmmmm difficult one that, Ok we'll take the 50 % after all as we've effectively written this down by almost that much in our books anyway and it's good PR and god knows we could use some good PR and we'll get it back stitching you up over Italy, Ireland, Spain and Portugal (and possibly France unless they get their act together)

joking aside, I was a strong advocate of the Euro but having seen how some members have treated it I'm exceptionally glad we didn't join and admit I was wrong.

The PIIGS issue hasn't gone away the others are still waiting on the sidelines and if you were any of these other governments wouldn't you be looking at the 50% and thinking "we could do that as well"

Short term elastoplast at nest

Bristol airport has to be the most ridiculous airport to get to.

Not from here...

And clearly the poster has never been to Prestwich Airport (unlike Elvis)

Spelling Nazi here.

One assumes you meant Prestwick Airport Bicks

€100 billion of Greek debt written off

How is that fair ?

It's not fair, it's not meant to be fair.

It's meant as a sticking plaster to cover a small part of the gaping wound that is Eurozone sovereign debt to stop those nice chaps in Banks having to have another Christmas without bonuses, those poor unfortunate, downtrodden, put upon, hardworking leeches on society.

Wait til this fails to stop the rot, 100 billion will seem like chickenfeed

i just could not get into her.

Rohypnol and lube mate, sorted

The rumour up here is that yesterday he was swanning around the "City" parts of manchester in a Bentley Soft Top, top down of course, playing "loud music" and high fiving anyone in a City shirt

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