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Something ferkin kickass by the look of it

How much would your valuation be then? I have no financial experience so I wont even attempt to guess, all I do know is it should be below £234million. To put it into perspective its like me or you going out and buying a new house for £150grand, ripping the garage off and putting a crown green bowls pitch (is that the right terminology?) in its place and two years later trying to sell it for £170,000 when all other houses in the street have dropped in value.

But is £250mil over the odds is what im saying? im thinking its a pretty fair price... He paid out £134 mill to buy it, invested £100mill in the debts yes? Total outlay £234million. The squad is arguably worth less than it was when he bought the club, attendances are down, we have a manager now who is way down the managerial pecking order compared to the bloke we had in when he bought us. We have lost backroom staff with no mention of replacements and to top it all off there is now a recession so everything is worth less than it was 2 years ago (the land it sits on, the stadium itself even the club vehicles and machinery will all have depreciated quite a bit). In any other sector you would be laughed out of town if you bought a business, ran it shit for two years and then tried to sell at a profit.

Forgive me father for I know not what I do when I say..... Fops right though, Its never a good time to pay over the odds, never mind during a recession.

Just one other thing sir, corner flag you say?

Isn't it Harrogate United? Surely it must be as his email address is unitedofyorkshire@hotmail.co.uk and his IP shows Harrogate so it must be Harrogate United surely?

Stevie and a Leeds fan in agreement shocker

prematch beers for me only

So does Harrogate count? or is it more likely that the United in your email address (unitedofyorkshire@hotmail.co.uk) is actually Leeds? In fact shouldnt you be supporting Harrogate Town and not Leeds, "Ahv got no time for't fans from ootside t'Leeds"

Finally solved it, it turns out that theres a volume control for WMC within the options of volume. It only appears when WMC is open. For some reason that had been muted Not sure why it didnt affect replay of video and music though.

Yeah but a PS3 wont act as an extender for Media Centre

That'll be us in years to come. Stick a bit of Prodigy on for your mam, she loves that Smack Your Bitch Up. © Peter Kaye

That'll be us in years to come. Stick a bit of Prodigy on for your mam, she loves that Smack Your Bitch Up. © Peter Kaye

Just seen Wacky in ASDA buying a High Definition DVD recorder

everyone © Stevie

What happened to that Seat Exchange? Just been on the website and theres fook all tickets for any games anywhere? They only appear to have an agreement with Villa as they're the only team listed (and then they have no tickets).

Course it will, and then they can print loads more money and give us it to pay the mortgages with

Tell you what mind, Dr Strangelove, thats anything but an all time classic that is.

Welcome to the Civil Service my friend :

On a slightly related note for the pharmawhatical people on here. If Dettol can bring out a spray that kills 99.9% of flu virus germs then why isnt there the equivalent drug? Can I snort Dettol to get rid of this bastard illness?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7712478.stm To rehash an old Georgie Best joke, Im assuming he means take back the empties.

As an outsider I can see both sides to that argument. Firstly Id say that from "what you hear" the NHS appears to have too many layers of beaurocracy and not enough importance put on getting people cured. Rather that there are too many targets and statistics. The NHS as a huge organisation needs managers, accountants and solicitors to ensure it continues doing its good stuff, managers need to control what is done and who does it, like it or not the NHS does not have unlimited resources Im sure we all wish it did but its just not possible therefore accountants need to control the resources. And finally, its a shit generation we live in but solicitors are needed to fight the raft of "the nurse spoke to me like shit" or "my big toes never been the same since I had that heart op" compensation claims that people put in. If we allowed consultants and matrons to run the purse strings then the country would be bankrupt within a month, they care too much and everyone would have the best of care and operations as soon as possible. Unfortunately the worlds just not like that

will the average umbrella hold up against one though? Could get messy

Couldnt you also argue however that something such as HIV vaccine will not reach anything like a global coverage? What I mean is that out of that 6 billion the majority will not take it up for instance anyone happily married (so scratch 50% off?, catholics (who believe its a gay curse), so another 15-20%? Nuns? children (although I guess at some stage they become potential customers). Finally though theres a big big proportion of people who dont feel they need it because it will "never happen to them". To be fair the very people at high risk are those that wouldnt pay the $100 fee (drug addicts, street prostitutes etc). Finally, I think theres another element and that is the moral crusaders who would argue that a vaccine against HIV would be taking out the fear factor and make the world more immoral, that in itself could reduce a companies stock. Just point out now I havent got a fucking clue on the validity of any of the above statistics or even thoughts Im confident though that the customer base isnt anything like 6 billion because of those facts but am playing devils advocaat for the hell of it.