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I'm sure you're right about the less privileged caring more for tradition and the pursuit of glory. However, I think it is a graduated rather than an absolute division. Perhaps there are 4 crude groupings. The higher the grouping, the more interested in CL, PL and money because that is what they...

Good man, just what I was after ... thanks.

Blimey that's unusual ... Nigel misses the point. I'm looking for a recommnedation, not another conversation about stuff I despise (something that applies equally to PC Support and CP Support).

Ha ha very good.

It's ongoing support - willing to pay, no issue with that. Everytime wifey turns up with a new bit of kit then I'm reluctantly catapaulted into the Geek role. Just don't want the hassle anymore - I just want to know that there's someone I can turn to (aw, bless!). Feeling as useless as I did...

Hi, Apologies for starting yet another computer help thread. I scanned about 20 others but couldn't find any recommendations. Essentially, I can't cope: ... laptops, iPads, iPhones, iPods, iTunes, printers, cloud drives, shares, back ups, Kindles, readers, smartphones, intelligent cameras and...

This is one of the rare occasions where a question allows me to draw on the vast store of useless facts and social trivia that clutter up what was once a beautiful mind ... 1973 a pint of bitter shandy after Sunday league for 14p at the Sackville (Hove Park Tavern) 1974 The Western 16p was...

Agreed, although the first I know about it these days is when someone else tells me :moo:

BetVictor but the stingy sods have now cut the odds to 2/1 ... the wife should be impressed that her Christmas money is sending shock waves through the betting markets. SkyBet offering 11/4 though so even better value available ... as noticed by Mtoto yesterday on a different thread: Good luck!

Agree with all you say and wagered the kids' Christmas money on a top 6 finish yesterday. It's not 10/1 but a very generous 5/2. If you look a bit harder, apparently 3/1 is on offer. It's not guaranteed of course but true odds probably evens, if not shorter. if it all goes wrong She won't talk...

5/2 with BetVictor for a Top 6 finish this evening. It's not a certainty (nothing ever is) but considering we're in the same position as last year despite missing half a team since August this has got to be fantastic value. Seems a bit heartless to lump the kids' Christmas money on this but...

Not that new ... James Mill 1829: "As we say Sensation, we might also say Ideation; it would be a very useful word... Sensation is the general name for one part of our constitution..Ideation for another." Perhaps that explains why he isn't terribly well known. Anyways, I've just joined a new...

I was scheduled for a spot of keyhole surgery. You know, in one morning and kicked out the following day. Yeah right ... It all started to go wrong in Australia with being carted off to a medical centre in the bush followed by a week in Cairns. 4 'morphine holidays' over the next year in the...

I had a long exchange on this subject with a Bury fan this week. I had a good old foul-mouthed rant about the evils of Blattini, Sky, EPL and the fact that modern football is just a mechanism for scooping up small amounts of money from a huge number of people in order to put huge amounts of...

Me too. (ha ha) The worrying thing is that Chomsky, David Crystal and Anthony Burgess are all old hat these days. Can't be arsed to get my head around the latest theories. God bless Foucault and Tony Bloom.

Forgive me ... thought I was saying just that. But I also thought I had sneered at traditional grammar by recklessly splitting an infinitive. And I continue to play fast and loose by shamelessly starting sentences with conjunctions. Although we don't need to genuflect in Chomsky's direction to...

It could reasonably be argued that 'less' is an adverb in this context. That is, the team has gone about its scoring activities with less proficiency this year which would make "we have scored less" correct. I appreciate there is a counter argument that [goals] is elided in Biscuit's sentence...

Seconded. I can't see them starting their precious little darlings in the NW Cloggers Sunday League (Division 13) and working their way up. They'll want some sort of concession but surely the global-branded asia-obsessed vainglorious EPL broke away from The Football League and formed a new...

As previous, despite disruption there were some trains that evening. Bummer ... you missed a great night.

I was visiting Manchester office that day (like you do) but didn't have enough petrol to guarantee getting home again so caught the train to Blackpool. No rail strike that evening but there might have been a reduced schedule to save fuel on the smelly regional diesel trains?