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  1. Michael Howard
    Maybe he just decided after all these years that he really ought to do some fuckin work for a change - and he deleted his account to remove the temptation to be drawn back in. He was a good egg TK . . . back in the day . . . .
  2. Michael Howard
    Is right.
  3. Michael Howard
    Oh fucking hell. It is going to be one hell of a long summer. Just roll on next season whatever and whoever it brings.
  4. Michael Howard
    Aldi frozen fish is quality. As is their own brand peroni copy lager. Amongst other things*. People who shop at Aldi look for quality produce at good value. We need an Aldi shopper manager /DOF as we ain't shopping at Waitrose any more. * But Aldi Jaffa cakes are the Josemi of biscuits. Or are they a cake?
  5. Michael Howard
    Partial to a pink wafer myself. Not sure what that says re manager issue.
  6. Michael Howard
    Finally bit the bullet and based on ur various recommendations invested in the sopranos box set £49 from hmv. - 7 episodes done since new year and only another 75 to go. Very promising so far - really enjoying it. Not what I expected. And the psych - worra milf !!
  7. Michael Howard
    Mission accomplished woy. Daily mail ( yeah I know) - anyway daily mail now reporting "Johnson slams hodgsons boring tactics and wants to leave in January". Quotes his agent - complete breakdown in relationship between player and manager. "boring tactics" ? Touché glen. Touché.
  8. Michael Howard
    I named my son after him. That's how much I love him.
  9. Michael Howard
    I am liking the new melons marquee. Great family tent - ESP with the fixed overhang at the front. A lot of tent to put up for a cheeky weekend tho. Brill for a longer stay.
  10. Michael Howard
    Katy perry in a cat suit. Nice.
  11. Michael Howard
    Stick with the design and call it the "Epic swindle bowl".
  12. Michael Howard
    It just seems so right at this stage in my life . . . .
  13. Michael Howard
    It would have to be "living apart". Couldn't be a sham. To be honest I'd be quite happy in the van. Own telly. Bit of peace and quiet. Cook what I fancy. But i could stroll across the 10' to the house to spend an hours quality time with the kids and put them to bed of an evening. Then i'd head off to the van and she can watch Eastenders and corrie. We could do the odd joint trip or camping holiday for the kids and even have the odd shag for old times sake. But I think that would be living apart enough for HMRC.
  14. Michael Howard
    Kat Slater and Alfie Moon in Eastenders. I'd been quite enjoying 'enders with its gritty depiction of Phil's downward spiral as a crack addict. And then along comes gobby porky essex girl Jessie no need to shout Wallace. And Alfie always a chirpy chappie me old china Moon. A pair of thundercunts the both of them.
  15. Michael Howard
    I'm wondering whether Mrs H and I would be better off divorced and instead of most of my salary going striaght into the joint account it can go via the CSA. She'll keep her child benefit and I'll live in a caravan on the drive. She would qualify for a fair few benefits as well i reckon - even with IDS's new system. How do i make this idea sound romantic then ?
  16. Michael Howard
    It's this absurdity that a family with 3 kids and 2 working parents on £44k each - total family income of £88k a year - will still retain their £2.5k child benefit per annum. Yet a hard working single parent with 3 kids on £45k pa gets nil. As will a family with one working parent on £45k+ and one stay at home parent. How can it be right or fair to take £2.5k pa from the latter 2 families but not from the first example ? The only explanation for this blatantly unfair scenario is that otherwsie it is too expensive to means test the full family income. Yet IDS is boasting how IT can now keep a real time check on people's earnigns month by month to ensure they don;t get into the overpayment of tax credits that are then demanded back scenario. They haven't got the poliical courage to either raise taxation or to abolish CB across the board. Instead they have cobbled together an absolute dog's breakfast of a proposal. You can justify the case for abolishing CB and paying it back to thoe in most need through child tax credits. You can make the case for means testing of CB in the traditional sense. And you can make the case for raising higher rate of taxation to pay for "all our children". All of them have pros and cons but none are as palpably unfair as what Osborne has come up with.
  17. Michael Howard
    I'd steer clear of any venues on Stanley Street offerring Big Sausage Nights if I was you . . . . . . .
  18. Michael Howard
    Saw this in more detail last night on Newsnight. They make and assemble the wings and fusillage in India. The control components are still made by BAe in the UK (presumably the 200 jobs safeguarded). And separately they also buy the engines from Rolls Royce. So its not quite how you portrayed it. ....................... until China copies them and supplies them cheaper like . . . . . I was watching it and thinking could I move Mrs Howard and les enfants Howard over to Bangalore and Lord it over the locals like some modern day Raj in some India legal call centre whilst commuting to work on a Royal Enfield dodging the cows. Maybe. What is the Indian policy on inward migration ?!
  19. Michael Howard
    Dragon's Den is back to its best. What possessed James Caan to invest in pitch repairer with built in pencil sharpener tho !! Madness. The bloke reckoned he could sell them for a tenner !!!!!! NO chance. Loving the new series though. I'm in.
  20. Michael Howard
    Its like making jokes about bombs at airports. Don't try and crack a funny with a GP. (I feel bad about clearing the spuds out of the kids lugs now. Must wean myself off).
  21. Michael Howard
    Pure Daily Mail Rochdale shopping centre bosses approve 'Asian squat toilets' | Mail Online
  22. Michael Howard
    All fair comment. But the fact they are private is neither here nor there. Loads of traditional unis and former polys offer the Bar course and the Legal Practice Course and have expanded far more than there are training places. I read a stat the other day that if growth in the number of lawyers continued at the rate of the last 30 years until 2050 then there would be 1 million lawyers in the UK. Now that is a scary thought. MH out da house.
  23. Michael Howard
    BPP has got a good reputation for providing vocational legal courses - for which the students have to pay their own tuition fees anyway. Not sure how it woudl be disaster for the academic reputation of the UK given the number of 2nd, 3rd and 4th rate institutions that can call themselves Universties now.
  24. Michael Howard
    You must be nearly a "Glamper" with all those comforts. (I so hate that word - Glamping - whoever came up wth that should be shot). 2 weeks in a tent in the rain last summer with 3 kids under the age of 5 (youngest 6 months) convinced me of the attractions of a caravan. When i want to rememeber what camping is like i sit in the awning - best of both worlds. And strictly no no2s in the portaloo so its still like camping really. Keepin it real campers.
  25. Michael Howard
    Glad to see you're still enjoying Bolmynydd Paul. We've not been this year - first year in ages we've not managed it. Camping in France looks ace - thats on our agenda in another couple of years - youngest child too young for that sort of journey. I fancy camping in the French Alps in the summer. For this year my tent is now a touring caravan - lets us get the weekends in and not just the school hols and extends the season from March to October. Caravanning is the new camping. You read it here first.
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