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Sensible choice imo. I hope this doesn't means Nolan will start every game however.

Quelle surprise I expect they're livid.... Only problem is that they might just chose not to carry on any talks. I expect their only thought at this point in time is maximising the price. I hope we don't dick around too much and leave the field clear for someone else to nip in. Thats what i keep expecting to happen tbh I sometimes think we're like one of those clown cars, where the doors and wheels fall off when it stops. If anyone can fuck it up, Mike and Del Boy can.

Quelle surprise I expect they're livid.... Only problem is that they might just chose not to carry on any talks. I expect their only thought at this point in time is maximising the price. I hope we don't dick around too much and leave the field clear for someone else to nip in.

Looking at the pic on nufc.com, he has the face of a pitiless mass murderer. I like that in a DM.

I thought Smith was supposed to a DM? Of course most people think he's shit but CH seems to rate him....

Quelle surprise I expect they're livid....

this is true. Is it a reflection on the managers out there that only Bobby Robson recogised his best position ? He played against us for Coventry and I always thought Gordon Strachan was a nuggetbrain for playing him out of position too...................... When we bought him I was totally delighted, because I always thought he was a top player playing up front through the middle I have to congratulate you for your excellent judgement and perception. As I recall, most people on the web said Sir Bobby was off his rocker paying six and a half million quid for a player who was shit for Coventry City. In fact iirc the Coventry fans were laughing their socks off that they'd mugged the gullible Geordies, and not many had seen him play for CCFC or Norwich so couldn't contradict them. Good on you LM for not being one of the common herd. sarcastic twat I'm not lying BTW and did post my view at the time .......

Credit where it's due, someone actually did that where I work. Their identity was never discovered, but they remain a legend in my eyes. Yeah, "someone" did it, riiiiight......

I expect most of these will be shit related. The traditional response is to do turn up late, go home early and do fuck all work, whilst spending the day on the internet. Although for some people this may just be their normal working day.....

Presumably you can't light up the Champix?

Surely this would be a good way at getting back at us

One approach is to take off your kecks and boxers, fold them neatly by the sink, and then lean into the urinal with both hands placed against the wall. Punctuating your piss with loud groaning noises, and the occasional "fuck" or "Jesus", also adds to the effect. If you're feeling sociable you can turn to talk to the person next to you, and have a friendly piss up their leg, which they'll enjoy. When you finish, shake your entire body to get the drips off, then get dressed. At no time touch your cock as it's unhygienic. Following the above will help establish you as a "character" in your local.

this is true. Is it a reflection on the managers out there that only Bobby Robson recogised his best position ? He played against us for Coventry and I always thought Gordon Strachan was a nuggetbrain for playing him out of position too...................... When we bought him I was totally delighted, because I always thought he was a top player playing up front through the middle I have to congratulate you for your excellent judgement and perception. As I recall, most people on the web said Sir Bobby was off his rocker paying six and a half million quid for a player who was shit for Coventry City. In fact iirc the Coventry fans were laughing their socks off that they'd mugged the gullible Geordies, and not many had seen him play for CCFC or Norwich so couldn't contradict them. Good on you LM for not being one of the common herd.

I assume what Phil is trying to say is you need to divorce the effect on people's net income from the effect on the Treasury. It's government's responsibility to figure out whether the sums work, and whether there's enough money in the kitty to pay for public services, such as they are. As far as cutting income tax and increasing VAT, the theory is that you put the choice of incurring taxation in the hands of consumers ie if they don't spend, they won't be taxed. If all that poor people spend their money on is VAT exempt, such as fresh food - children's clothing and books - by definition they should have more disposable income. However spending is not really optional, and net disposable income is the real issue, so you would still need a system of targetted benefits to ensure poor people have enough to cover essential costs of living. I'm not convinced by that argument tbh but there is a good deal of (right wing) economic theory behind it as a concept. It's worth reflecting that income tax is a highly political issue. Successive govts have shied away from increasing personal tax rates for fear of the voter backlash, although effective tax rates overall rose steadily under Labour. Employees are increasingly highly mobile these days (I took myself off to NZ after all!) and you risk losing a chunk of your taxbase altogether if income taxes are high, particularly with taxpayers whose skills are transferrable or who have the wealth to move around. Income tax is also a relatively expensive and difficult tax to administer and enforce. VAT by contrast is less emotive, less politically sensitive and much easier to administer and police. And optional to a limited degree as Phil says. Not that I'm in favour of low income tax rates and high VAT rates by the way. I think a sensible balance between the two is needed. Anybody who thinks that high income tax rates are the answer like old Labour are smoking dope though, the rich will always manage down their tax bills through legal avoidance and/or emigration and it has been shown time and again that tax revenues actually increase when punitive tax rates are reduced. High VAT rates are more difficult to avoid, but again if the cost of living gets too high the rich will just go somewhere else, whereas the poor don't have that option by and large. There's no doubt in my mind that the British tax system needs root and branch reform, it's a complete bugger's muddle. However the answer to poverty is not to tinker back and forth with the tax system but to raise standards of living in real terms for the poorest in a sustainable way. Then it doesn't matter how you take taxes off them. Unfortunately that's proved impossible for Labour and Tory governments alike, it's all wind and piss and no results imo. Maybe the UK is in terminal economic decline, and the politicians are just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as it sinks...... Given the parlous state of UK govt finances, I think the best solution might be for the mega rich in the UK to show some decency and humanity, get off their silkwrapped arses and out from behind their locked gates, and organise themselves to do something about British poverty like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have in the US. I won't hold my breath on that one but I look forward to the next lecture from the likes of Sting and Bono about what we should all be doing to make the world a better place. Perhaps they could do something together for charidee for us to buy.

I use sterilised BBQ tongs

So it's better to ask a bunch of strangers on a football forum, who won't have a clue about what Queens' policy is, about something that might affect your future? Not one of your better ideas to be fair.... I'm aiming this question at people who went to Uni through UCAS. So you'll base your conclusions on what someone on here tells you without checking it with the Uni? Notwithstanding that they could just be bullshitting you? OK Kevin, you only need a C. On a different matter, I've been having slight chest pains. Does anyone with a medical background think I need open heart surgery?

So it's better to ask a bunch of strangers on a football forum, who won't have a clue about what Queens' policy is, about something that might affect your future? Not one of your better ideas to be fair....

Reading that, I find it hard to believe you have a 'C' in English. Seriously Kevin, do you not think you're better off directing this question to the University?

Oh dear. The gist of that seems to be Marseilles have decided to keep him but HBA is determined to leave, resulting in HBA going on strike. I assume that L'Equipe is a pretty reliable source.

Nothing about that lot surprises me. If they weren't utterly incompetent, we wouldn't have been relegated in the first place. They probably reckon Smith and Nolan are world class midfielders and Shola's about to come good....

Who knows what his real intentions are? I'd be made up if he was keen to play for us, rather than just being keen to get away from Marseilles. But the main thing is just that he's a good professional. The tough thing to figure out is whether we're actually serious about signing him, the statement from the Marseilles president suggest not.... I suppose we will just have to wait and see what happens, and to hope that he does want to come to us, and that how lot can pull their fingers out of their arse's and make something happen. Yeah, absolutely. They can take their feet out of their mouths at the same time

Who knows what his real intentions are? I'd be made up if he was keen to play for us, rather than just being keen to get away from Marseilles. But the main thing is just that he's a good professional. The tough thing to figure out is whether we're actually serious about signing him, the statement from the Marseilles president suggest not....

If this thread was on the McDonalds menu, it'd be a big nugget.

I've never really understood how football transfers work. In any other walk of life, if you're going to spend millions of pounds on something, there are meetings, exchanges of documents, draft contracts and so on. In football there's endless speculation and intrigue, denials and counter denials followed by a three line offer sent by fax ten minutes before the window deadline expires. I'm hoping that this is all part of Marseilles trying to get a bit more for their player and it will all be sorted swiftly. However seeing as I view everything the bunch of clowns and amateurs running our club does through a jaundiced and cynical eye, I think it's either a) all bullshit with O'M using NUFC as stalking horses to up the ante on HBA or more likely they're acting like sneaky underhand shits in a bid to get a bargain. Either way I'm very sceptical this will actually come off. And in Groucho Marx fashion*, I'm also wondering what's wrong with this guy that he would want to come and play for us. * "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."

This. When he was telling the press that we weren't interested in Campbell and people were just reading too much into his relationship with him Sol was out the back getting fitted for training bras.