'bout now

+1 for Articulate, especially when a little p*ssed.

You didn't spoil anything Sean, I was trying to be funny. As for the Hammers getting on a winning streak, now that's funny!

2 effing minutes enjoyment, thats all I ask Sean. I don't expect to win the league/cup/europe. I'll leave that burden to you.

Not at Old Trafford I suspect. I'll say it again for effect though WEST HAM IN GAME WIN SHOCKER!!!!!

WEST HAM IN GAME WIN SHOCKER!!!!!

Rennet is extracted from calves stomachs. Its the active ingredient for forming the curds.

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The NHS do have many other sucessful and less > intrusive ways of fundrasing. They also carry out > private treatment as part of income generation > too. Then there is car parking and all the other > associated income streams. There is plenty of > scope for building on those without the need for > direct mailing recent patients. How is offering private treatment with NHS resources not intrusive?

Since when did the PM's salary become a benchmark for all that is acceptable in public service pay? There are 31,000 consultants within the NHS each spending up to 12 years of study and hard work to get there, personally I don't begrudge these people earning( and by and large they DO earn their pay)a decent salary, particularly when there is so much money and an easier life to be had in the private health sector. The NHS is not a bottomless pit, the hospital administrators, doctors and trustees want to improve the service they offer over and above the budget they are given, this comes from charity and benefactors. The charity has asked former patients if they are interested in donating, in a targeted mailshot to people who have a relationship to the Hospital. It is far more effective and less costly than asking people who have not been there. I'm not sure what they want to buy, it maybe a second MRI scanner to help people through the hospital without the long waiting list, it maybe something else. In the long term the charitable donations may benefit directly yourselves or someone you know, I doubt it'll be wasted. If you don't think this is appropriate, how would you go about raising the funds?

> > You have a point PR...you went to the trouble of > attending the meeting. I fully intended to go but > never actually got around to it. I guess I didn't > care enough. In that respect you are a bigger > person than me. Kind of sums this thread up for me. Everybody wants something but really can't be arsed to do or pay anything for it.(and don't start on the "I pay MY tax cobblers, would you pay more?) Thank god the CEO of this charity is a little more pro-active.

DC is right in that the real issue is the employment of this seemingly unqualified special advisor. If he is employed on the back of his bedside manner than it is right that Hague should resign. However the sharing of rooms took place during the General Election campaign so on that note it does look more a matter of financial prudence. Doesn't it?

Hirple, to walk with a limp. Copyright QI

I hope Citeh do well then we'll get to see that banner that went up at Stamford bridge when Chelski won their second Prem title. "Buy one, get one free"

I'm not sure who gave the most petulant display last night, Rooney or Capello. It looked almost as though the players got their wish to play a different formation and Capello was determined to sulk through the game. thought Gibbs, A Johnson and Jagielka did OK but the opposition weren't exactly electric. Dawson reminds me a little of David Gower, in that he always looks slightly embarrassed.

My friend is a Consultant of emergency medecine. He refers to any cyclist brought in with head trauma who wasn't wearing a helmet as a Donor. I don't need research to tell me that my bonce hitting the deck will hurt more without a helmet, so I choose to wear one. Which is thankfully what it is, a choice.

I think the horse has well and truly bolted on that one BR

Create atmosphere in your fridge by installing a dimmer switch.

Fool people into thinking that a minature horse is about to appear by simply tapping two Pistachio shells together.

fair point.

I don't really care who the new owners are, as long as it's run well, and the debt is sorted. Really? You don't care? Is this because football is more important than Human Rights/ Humans/fluffy dogs?

Those open top bus thingys are actually *ahem* rather good. You buy a daily ticket and hop off and back on at your will. I took my teenager on one not long ago, the guide was funny and informative, it was well educayshonall. Quite pricey though.

I used to bemoan the lack of "news" that you could glean about the Hammers. No longer, can we please get them to shut the fuck up http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8868703.stm

That's just taken me back. I saw the Cure there in about 88ish I think.

The Hammers are a 1000/1, so that's were my moneys going *swigs from bottle of Diamond White* *shouts at passing traffic*

Loz, thanks for this thread, given me the nudge I needed.

Houllier has form for that, just ask David Ginola