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DC - follow on? No way, with pitch detioriating and plenty of time...wouldn't fancy a run chaise on day 5

all bandit country to me wolfie

I was going to say The New Den and then I saw it was E&C not South Bermondsey

toast Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Get a dog or borrow a kid. Then you can get > talking to anyone. Especially, as Frankie B says, if you get your kid to wear a "My mum is dead" T shirt

A win against a then out of sorts Liverpool and then against a team who haven't won at home for a few millenia doesn't intimidate Zola's boys....come on you Irons

MP - I agree with the idea of a 'better educated populace' for sound economic and social reasons. I question wether universal HE is the best way to deliver this and to me 'lowering the bar' is counterproductive.

I see what you did there RD

But not as disheartening as getting them to do a degree, get into debt and then find out that their degree is worthless and they'll end up in McDs or a Call Centre.....universal HE is utopian pie in the sky rubbish, HE should be elitist and competitive.

BTW...Kingsgate Native in the big one at York today

lol

I was going to ask if the Betting thread had been a bad influence...and there, we have the answer!

Nope. We've always been doomed since the beginning of time. I'm with Macwber..

but at home on his tod....

Bollox united. My bet on the aussies at 5s looks nice to lay off any time soon...and don't tell Jah but I had a reasonable lump on Spuds pre-season which will be traded off nicely methinks. Anyone had anything at York other than that wonderful horse? RD? MM? very quiet on here

Will all come crashing down at the Boleyn this weekend jah

i like the horse race

Ok, Ok, I've never used it - but having an opinion about something I've not a clue about has never stopped me before. But conceptually it's up there with the updates on facebook, once you've too many friends (i've 7) it gets a bit of a pain...I should give it a go but spend enough time on here as it is

i no wot i fink

Rose Johnson promised she'd meet me by the boys toilets at primary school and never showed

From my own viewpoint, experience and prejudice. The three people I know well who work in the public sector, one in the NHS, one in Local Government and one a copper, DO admit that the sickness allowance (is it 2 weeks?) is routinely and to a certain extent institutionally taken as 'holiday'. A letter in today's Independent from a police sergeant said it was common practice in his station to work double pay days - eg Bank Holidays - as overtime and then make up for it by going 'ill' afterwards AND absenteeisn and sickness days in the public sector are twiceish(?) as high in the public sector. Now, I don't want to get involved in some kind of them V us debate, and of course many people in the PS do fantastic and vitally important jobs with little thanks (amd in many cases reward) but equally as well this is why many in the private sector who face little job security, worthless pensions and aren't all city folk on mega bucks with expense accounts are questioning the PS, its rewards and funding. Edited once I got to PC without half its keyboard missing

Tony.London Suburbs Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Interesting banter on certain Football Forums > between West Ham fans and Spurs fans regarding The > Hammers forthcoming "2 games at Home in 2 > days"...Hammers fans say they would rather lose > 5/0 to Spursand beat The Wall. > Spurs reply with "You consider there is a greater > rivalry with a 3rd Division side!!"...and then add > that says a lot about you(!) referring to West > Ham, of course. > > Then The Hammers fans retorted "No! this says more > about YOU !".....:)) And I've done a fair bit of begging and favour calling in to get a ticket for the Milwall game...spuds I'll watch on the tv

I'm getting quite fond of Quids and don't like it when forumites call me by my real name, Sterling

may shock people but drivers are pedestrians are cyclists too...these are not nutually exclusive groups

Victor Chzndler?

ratty Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yeah - interesting. If I trust anyone in footy > then I trust Peter.... did I actually type > that???? What's your opinion of him quids, as an > ex west ham man?? Ratty - During our Bond Scheme fiasco I wrote him a long and ranty letter which he had the decency to respond to and address all my points, which I was impressed with...generally some fans I know that are closer to the club thought he was a genuine guy