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  1. duffer

    Wasps downward spiral...

    All was OK assuming Wasps represented their financial position to their auditors honestly. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to lose one set of accounts might be regarded as misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness. 😄
  2. duffer

    Wasps downward spiral...

    Maybe our new mayor is wondering if he's backed the wrong horse too...
  3. duffer

    Wasps downward spiral...

    No well run business finds itself on the end of a winding up order (edit: sorry, striking off order, I'm getting ahead of myself here!), or suddenly finds it can't pay a debt which it promised to honour a matter of weeks earlier. I'm not saying that this is the end for Wasps, but quite...
  4. duffer

    Who is Grendel ?

    I'm kind of with Nick here, I don't think threads on individual posters are a good thing. Personally though, just to offer the alternative view, I think he's an unnecessarily unpleasant and endlessly arrogant low level troll. He rarely posts more than a couple of sentences, and then usually...
  5. duffer

    Willis and Burge

    I've got no great issue with either of them. It's a short, risky career, and whether they chose to leave or not, I wouldn't really blame anyone for doing so if they could secure better terms elsewhere. Wouldn't most of us do the same?
  6. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Top tip: Any time you get a laughing emoji from Grendel, you know you're onto a winner. Putting him on block was undoubtedly the single best thing I've ever done here, but it's great to know that he still reads my posts even though I can completely ignore his inane trolling. Anyway, "Sir Beer...
  7. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    I really don't get this. The law was absolutely unambiguous and the people in charge of the Government were on television almost every night telling us how important it was to follow it. The way to avoid a FPN isn't to use luck, it's to follow the law. If Sunak or Johnson felt unfairly treated...
  8. duffer

    Wasps downward spiral...

    If I was him I'd be in a cold sweat every night given all of the vagaries around this. The phrase "whistling in the graveyard" comes to mind!
  9. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    The magic phrase isn't 'party', it's 'gathering'. It did not need to be a party, the law was about gathering indoors for anything other than the purposes of work. The guidelines specifically banned works Christmas parties. Quite obviously, and as stated by the report, and shown in the photos...
  10. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Can't make an actual point, looks like I'm losing this one, so I'll shout something and run away. Tedious.
  11. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Yeah. I'm not sure about your point but I've worked in private industry for ooh, twenty or thirty years. And yes, sometimes we send someone off with a big speech from a senior manager. We don't normally do it in a small room with a load of booze and crisps though, maybe our workplace is just a...
  12. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    You've already said you're happy to tolerate lies and criminality from our MPs because they're basically all the same. I don't need a high horse to rise above that, to get out of the gutter you just need to step on the kerb.
  13. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Quick question: Which bit of all of this stops the government in any way from taking decisive action on any other matter? It's a fatuous argument, this Daily Mail "don't they know there's a war on" bullshit. If anything all it proves is that we'd be better off moving on quickly to a leader...
  14. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Oh do come off it, you're insulting your own intelligence as well as ours. Look at the picture and tell me again that this was a brief send off for a much loved colleague. It was quite clearly a substantial piss-up at a time of national lock down when no such gatherings were allowed. Others...
  15. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Grow a fucking pair yourself and actually stand up for something. Its utter fucking bollocks to say everyone was at it and you know it. Maybe you did, I can't speak for your moral standards but most didn't and we expect the rules to apply to everyone. Nothing changes if you just sit on your...
  16. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Then why bother fucking voting? What's the point if you're just going to accept that politicians can do whatever they want once elected? This isn't a distraction, it's key - and it's bollocks to say that's it was ok because everyone was at it. How many stories do you have to hear about people...
  17. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Steve mate, it feels like you're working pretty hard here to try to excuse this! 🙂 It seems that other (more junior) people who attended the event were fined, ergo, it's an event that broke the rules that were in place at the time, as set by the Prime Minister. The photographs clearly show...
  18. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    I'd disagree. If we want to get out of the current mess then we need trustworthy, competent, leadership. This goes to the heart of that. These people were partying whilst other people couldn't see their dying relatives in hospital or go to their friends funerals. They broke the very laws...
  19. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    What I can't understand is how you can bring the country to a standstill by going on strike, if apparently you're doing sod all when you're at work! Just the usual nasty party bollocks. One rule for them, another for us.
  20. duffer

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    I kind of get where ESB is here. I do follow it fairly closely and I did get the impression that the final surrender in Mariupol wasn't really explained in terms of the bigger picture. That said, I've no general complaints about the journalism, I think it's inevitable that a certain amount of...
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