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Completely with you on this, I always thought the valuation was a bit of smoke and mirrors, though I appreciate others differ. And there's definitely a clause in the lease that says it reverts to the council in the case of an insolvency event. I suppose failing to repay the bond isn't...

I don't think it quite works that way, but I'm wrong to talk about owning the stadium, I meant the 250-year lease. In essence that's the same way as the bond is secured now - in theory if the bond isn't repaid I think the lease is sold to repay it. Wasps/ACL would no longer own it. That's the...

And HSBC, not being run by complete fuckwits (unlike our council) will likely end up owning the stadium because that's all that Wasps can offer as security. There's no way on earth a bank like HSBC goes into this without full security. I fancy they'll employ their own valuers too! In fact...

Only if the following lines are uttered by the guilty party, in this approximate order. I wasn't there. I was there and nothing happened. I was there and something happened, but it was nothing to do with me. I was there and something happened, and it was me but it wasn't my fault. I was...

Couldn't agree less. The Guardian has a liberal bias, but its articles are generally well researched and factual. Its opinion pieces are flagged clearly as such. Unlike almost every other paper mentioned, it isn't beholden to rich owners. If you think the output is miserable, maybe that...

A sad day indeed. Thank you, Boris, for exposing the party of law and order as the completely corrupt sham that it is. And for highlighting the utter hypocrisy of clapping for the NHS whilst simultaneously running it into the ground. Thank you too, for drawing the xenophobic ("I'm not a...

Which basically says that you were happy with the handling of the pandemic because ultimately you didn't think it was serious. It's not an evidence based opinion, anyone who thinks covid is the same as the flu isn't thinking straight. Of course you're happy with your choice, but don't...

Hmm. Too little, too late on the initial lockdown cost thousands of lives. If not tens of thousands. Vaccine roll-out, fair enough, but by any independent measure our initial handling of covid was an appalling public health failure. Thousands died whilst the Government dithered...

Leave it mate, it's brilliant. I'm such a bloody child. 😄

"Hole pincher" may yet turn out to be the typo of the year. Oh dear, sorry mate, your points as ever are well made but this has got me giggling. Apologies...

I just popped back onto this thread to say thank you for all of the helpful advice. Of course, kids being kids, everything I've suggested has been completely disregarded and she's found herself a job at the Uni over the summer. Again though, I really appreciate everyone who has taken the time...

I kind of hope he does really...

Sorry Boris, I'd love to talk to you, but I don't have time today to fully disinfect the phone afterwards...

So he committed 'inappropriate behaviour' but wasn't "guilty" of it. Presumably his hands just do their own thing without any conscious control. (I have this exact same problem when I'm trying to hit a ball with a cricket bat, in all fairness). The only reason he's not on the sex offenders list...

Other than Boris, obviously. The Tory party in its current form is beyond parody.

The fact that a large part of the bond went to paying back Richardson, and that he's clearly not intending to loan them the money back again, should tell Wasps supporters a story. Their 'white knight' has had enough, and for all of the upbeat statements about refinancing the bond repayments...

Sorry about the covid, mate, hope you're feeling better soon. "Sweating like a Wasps bondholder" is classic though, I might as well admit now that I'll be stealing that line for future use.😁

No worries, a few minutes with a belt sander should get that right off for them. Failing that, there's always the angle grinder... 😁 Hmm. The report you're quoting about how much money the Commonwealth games brings in, is paid for by the people who run the commonwealth games! Forgive my...

For that kind of money I think you'd get a very high spec desktop. In fact I reckon you could half that, and still get something entirely functional, with maybe a 1Tb hard disk for storage plus a smaller, faster, SSD to run the operating system. It's been a while since I bought a desktop, I...

Dibs on Aethelred. I'm pretty sure we could frame the return to old English names as a Brexit benefit. I'll write to Jacob. 😄