maxxi

Altogether now: "Same old Arsenal, always..."

t-e-d: "I also know sensitive people who could well be so upset by a hoax that suicide could become an option." Those are not sensitive people - they are suicidal people.

An interesting side-note is that the crimes Harvey Proctor was convicted of over 20 years ago would not be crimes today thanks to the lowering of the age of consent for gay men. It was considered a kind of abuse back then as the 'boys' were underaged (17+) but would now just be kinky (the spanking bit not the gay bit).

Worst are the 'Damn-we've-left-it-too-late-now-where-shall-we-have-it?' work dos where you end up in a strange pub with an uncertain amount stuck behind the bar and still trying to decide whether you should all go Indian or Chinese later. The LL run-in however is proceeding nicely, starting slowly with a medicinal Ginger Wine and fond memories of youthful Whisky-Macs and savouring the smell of hot sausage rolls....

Fine idea - then the good citizens of ED could all compete over who had the purest, most environmentally friendly/organic, strongest, most refined, hardest to obtain, most expensive shit - and spend hours staring at Orla Kiely patterns saying "You know, I really CAN see what the fuss is all about" - and saying how much better it was in the old days when you could key-off a quarter of Moroccan (a bargain at ?7.50 from the bloke with the dodgy porn mags) as easily as crumbling an oxo cube. mmn, bliss.

LadyDeliah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Quids I like your idea of emailing Amazon. > > I've already used their search to get the goods I > want, but searched the names of the sellers online > to buy them directly. > > Amazon can kiss my backside. They won't get > another penny from me. > > I've uninstalled Google Chrome too and gone back > to Firefox. So only: Boots, Apple, Vodaphone, ebay, Ikea, Cadbury, Johnnie Walker, Caffe Nero and Zavvi to go then... (come on we've all been bombarded by the '38 Degrees' 12-tax-dodgers-of-Xmas poster - particularly hard to avoid Cadbury during this festive time tho' eh?) ETA: x-posted with your new thread re the above.

Salsaboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I get loads of those to a junk email account I > have on Yahoo. > > I always reply saying that the sender sounds like > a nice young lady and I would like to meet her. I > always offer to pay the air-fare but haven't had > one take the offer up yet. :( Careful what you wish for cause inside her will be another Elenotchka and inside her another and...

Arsenal 0 V West Brom 2 Aston Villa 1 V Stoke 1 Southampton 1 V Reading 2 Sunderland 0 V Chelsea 2 Swansea 3 V Norwich 2 Wigan 1 V QPR 2 Man City 2 V Man Utd 3 Everton 2 V Tottenham 1 West Ham 3 V Liverpool 1 Fulham 1 V Newcastle 2

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I don't have a problem with > Wenger's tactics last night. Also a chance for > some second-stringers to show how they can (or > can't) step up And Chamakh! Wow, who knew he was still there? And still with that hair. Bless.

LadyDeliah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > At a tenner an hour, I think I'd be happy to book > him AND his mum! But what if his invoices had yet to top the pound mark? I think ?10/hour or part of an hour might have been wiser.

Whassup woody? Did a cat shit in your satchel again?

More like a mickey-taking Mick Mack maxxi ...or a Mick Mack minus (wasn't he a wrestler?)

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There have been some bloody good sporting duels > since the 70s. Superstars - Keegan, Hemery, Conteh, SuperMac, then that Brian Jacks bloke doing hundreds of shoulder dips.

That'd be the iDevil then.

Didn't most hilarious 1970s office anecdotes (that didn't involve a sexist or racist element or a 'Terry-Scott-Style-Situation' concerning dinner with the boss) revolve around forgetting to insert carbons in the typewriter?* *The under 30s can google this term.

Mick is just suffering the understandable rage that surfaces when one realises one's score is less than one would get by doing a maxxi.

Wind of hypocrisy blows through ED - So some firms practice tax avoidance, is that really news to anyone? I thought we'd come to terms with this when all the major pop stars etc. started to practice it back in the 80s, or when it was revealed that over 25% of FTSE 100 companies practice it. Is there really anyone out there who didn't know what a tax haven was and/or how that principle worked? Do you know the taxes paid by every company you use for any and everything? Are you also fully informed as to their ethical practices? Their use of cheap foreign labour and the dodgy regimes they may help to fund? And at the next election when ALL politicians will be telling us how they will make sure you don't have to pay more tax in future, will you be telling them to get stuffed and to please increase tax to 30+% to pay for a higher level of services? Yes I know there's a budget 'Chancellor's Statement' coming and pension tax relief will probably be walloped and it aint fair but look - there's a royal sprog on the way so it isn't all bad :)

ed Max Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Double-joined.

a blankie ban surely

Similarly - Derby Day when it was a Wednesday (which was half the fun).

Home draw for Irons against Man Utd in FA Cup - can I make my prediction now RD?* B) Wenger won't be looking forward to the Swansea trip. *It's a 3-1 home win of course!

Ladygooner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No just overpriced beer Bitter presumably. Good Saturday night - Irons won't be last on MOTD for a change!

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah, you want it in a soundbite? ;-) > > Austerity is when old white men take out a credit > card in your name to fund their cruise holiday, > and then tell you to stop feeding your kids to pay > the bill. > > When they've spent so much you have to stop paying > the hospital bill too, they call you inept. > > Forgive me, but I don't think we should let them > get away with it. Eat The Rich! Old! ... hmm, doesn't sound nearly so appetising.

:)-D ETA- as the only one to predict a home win I am technically at the top of today's leader board* B) *For the next 90mins anyway - I take it where I can get it

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