Graham

How do we know he is a ''failed'' signing if we have barely given the boy a chance?

No, it''s a very odd state of affairs!

[quote user="......and Smith must score."][quote user="Graham"]Please do not mention my beautiful wife Carol, she has had no argument with you so far. However I believe it is good judgement by her to also point out that the creature depicted in that image is an unsavoury foul beast. My daughter once had a pet sparrow (I caught him from a tree in the garden), he used to cause ever such a mess and was merely a waste of money. Thankfully he disappeared, I am not sure what happened to him but my daughter did not know.[/quote]Have a word with Lappin''s dog. He doesn''t look entirely innocent [:D]Surely your daughter noticed her pet sparrow had gone awol ? [/quote] I wouldn''t be surprised if it''s disappearance was down to that horrible dog. My daughter simply came to me one day and said it was gone, the window had been closed so I''m not sure where it went.

[quote user="Zak Van Burger"]Graham are you aware that the capture and keeping in captivity of a wild bird is a criminal offence punishable by a fine of up to £5000 and six months imprisonment, I''m sure as a good Christian soul you''ll find it your moral duty to at least report your daughter for this crime and maybe purge your own sins at the same time. For your convenience here''s a link to the appropriate form to kick the prosecution off. RSPB[/quote] Thank you Zak, I will consider this.

Please do not mention my beautiful wife Carol, she has had no argument with you so far. However I believe it is good judgement by her to also point out that the creature depicted in that image is an unsavoury foul beast. My daughter once had a pet sparrow (I caught him from a tree in the garden), he used to cause ever such a mess and was merely a waste of money. Thankfully he disappeared, I am not sure what happened to him but my daughter did not know.

Stop it Mortimer, it is not funny. That dog is a vile creature, I should hope I never have to encounter it. Please ''Lapping'' train your dog to act in a more civilised manner, Mortimer you could also learn from such words!

[quote user="morty"]There you go, skip dessert too.[URL=http://s869.photobucket.com/user/mortymccarthy/media/BigDogTongueLOL_zps662fff1a.jpg.html][IMG]http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/ab257/mortymccarthy/BigDogTongueLOL_zps662fff1a.jpg[/IMG][/URL][/quote] Mortimer why do you insist on harassing me? Do not spoil my sunday dinner simply out of spite. I will be messaging you privately.

[quote user="First acolyte the east coast role model"]Why are you having dinner at 14:45?[/quote] Because in our household we are not pigs and do not stuff our faces all day long.

Please delete the above post, I have no appetite for my sunday dinner now.

[quote user="Alan_Grey"]Can I add to my post that while anyone has a right to their religious beliefs, they do not have a right to try and force those beliefs on others? Not that "Graham" is in any way sincere.[/quote] Alan I am not forcing beliefs upon anyone, I am simply pointing out what is right and good. Should you not be in church on this day as your ancestors surely were? Or are you better than them? Judgement will be served, I am simply trying to help you.

[quote user="YankeeCanary"]LDC''s allies are coming out in force now. [:D][/quote] Shut up insolent fool.

Your mutt would do well to see such a beautiful family photograph.

How about that Jack Rodwell or Scott Sinclair? Neither were particularly utilised last season.

[quote user="First acolyte the east coast role model"]Oh shut up you complete tit.[/quote] If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord." When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through! Watch your mouth! You would do well to observe with reverence the grace of god on this most holy day! Blessed are the peacemakers and not the aggressive idiots such as yourself!

[quote user="lake district canary"][quote user="lappinitup"]Good luck with that LDC, let''s hope you succeed. BTW, do you think my dog is ugly? [/quote] Thanks. You have just gone up in my estimation! Your dog is beautiful! Is that tongue for real though? [/quote] It is an ugly brute! A dog of satan.

So beware, for the time is coming, says the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For I will upset the battle plans of Judah and Jerusalem and let invading armies slaughter them. The enemy will leave the dead bodies as food for the vultures and wild animals. I will wipe Jerusalem from the face of the earth, making it a monument to their stupidity. All who pass by will be appalled and will gasp at the destruction they see there. I will see to it that your enemies lay siege to the city until all the food is gone. Then those trapped inside will have to eat their own sons and daughters and friends. They will be driven to utter despair Puniunt, Deus ultionum, qui non igni exhibenda reverentia famae. Beati fidelibus hominibus, non haec. Ignis ardentis!

[quote user="lappinitup"][quote user="Graham"][quote user="lappinitup"][quote user="Graham"][quote user="lake district canary"]Hmmm. Sorry about that folks. Tried to draw a design which obviously the website I used didn''t like. [quote user="Rock The Boat"] I do think there are many practical difficulties to your idea that render it impossible in the form you propose. When I saw the pic rom you posted of a veranda-type corner infill, my first thoughts were that it would be really cool to sip a cold beer while watching the game from such a structure. But we''re not talking summer sports here, so I wonder how many games in a season would it be possible to sit in the open air watching the game from a balcony/walkway. What happens when it starts raining mid-way through the first-half? Will some poor sod get a couple of hundred football fans pouring into his bedroom to escape the weather?Policing fans in a hotel is far more difficult than in a stadium. You''d need police actually patrolling the walkway. How to separate the fans? How do you control alcohol consumption? How do you prevent some awkward bugger who decides it might be fun to chuck beer glasses over the balcony, or perhaps chucking people over the balcony, unless you create a wire cage enclosure. Remember, access is via the hotel so it would be very difficult from a security point of view to vet all the guests and whatever unwelcome possessions they might wish to bring with them. And if you say this is not typical behaviour of the majority of fans, I will agree with you, but you only need a single idiot misbehaving to make the idea of a walkway to be an unsafe area. Might work in balmy Florida where easy-going sports fans sip weak beer and eat hotdogs during an American football game. But I can''t see the concept transported to a wintry January in Norfolk when we''re playing 1psw5ch in the 3rd round of the FA Cup [/quote] Good points RTB. I have had to alter my thinking quite a lot this week, so have gone from buying up the hotel and adding a seating terrace - which is probably too expensive, complicated and not workable - to something that is more likely to be able to happen. A gallery, or balcony is not out of the question. It would have very limited viewing capacity and would only serve the purpose of improving the look of the hotel rather than add significant viewing figures - but would look a lot better. The hotel would, I am sure like to improve the look of the building on that side, as it is what everyone sees - and it isn''t great. A gallery that could hold a few dozen people, perhaps with a cafe style area that could be used during the summer as an outdoor amenity for the hotel with tables would work. The gallery would need to be angled as in this picture and you can see that there would be room for tables at the wide end. Picture hasn''t come out that well, but it shows the hotel as it is now, with the gallery in grey. This would be on level 2, with the galleries on levels 3 and 4 would need to be more like normal hotel balconies, as three like the one above would look too much. The gallery could have a simple hood for bad weather, or simply people could watch from their rooms, although that would restrict the view to snakepit corner. With the restricted numbers,policing would not be so difficult. I am seeing this now much more from the Hotel''s point of view now, but the byproduct of any improvement that the hotel might make would be to make the hotel look part of the stadium - which would ceratinly add to the matchday experience for everyone. No longer would we be looking at a block of flats, but something that has spectators and thus become part of the proceedings. MK Dons looks great, the stadium in America looks great too with its balcony. Something would need to be adapted from different situations to fit what we have. Hope that picture worked. [/quote] This seems like an excellent idea! Quoniam Fortuna novum it aetatis philosophorum.[/quote] I agree So, what''s the next step? [/quote] I should think we ought to lobby the club Lapping. If necessary support can be raised (and I cannot see why not) then this could easily go ahead. Porro filii mei fortibus! Commendations to Lake District Canary for the excellent suggestion, beats many of those posted by many of the lacklustre members of the board such as Mortimer! On a side not please could you remove your ''avatar'' photo Lapping, I do not feel comfortable discussing such a topic with you whilst have the thought of that dog in my head. Dogs are horrible creatures and that one is particularly ugly.[/quote] Please don''t call my dog ugly. He would be deeply offended if he heard you, just as the people in your avatar would if anyone called them ugly. [/quote] Why the people in my ''avatar'' picture are my beautiful family (although my son is absent from the photograph), they certainly are more important that that scruffy mutt. It is an honour to the other publishers on this website that I would let them see such a beautiful digital image, however in your case it is an insult, no one wants to see that horrifying disturbing image. It has given me nightmares.

[quote user="lappinitup"][quote user="Graham"][quote user="lake district canary"]Hmmm. Sorry about that folks. Tried to draw a design which obviously the website I used didn''t like. [quote user="Rock The Boat"] I do think there are many practical difficulties to your idea that render it impossible in the form you propose. When I saw the pic rom you posted of a veranda-type corner infill, my first thoughts were that it would be really cool to sip a cold beer while watching the game from such a structure. But we''re not talking summer sports here, so I wonder how many games in a season would it be possible to sit in the open air watching the game from a balcony/walkway. What happens when it starts raining mid-way through the first-half? Will some poor sod get a couple of hundred football fans pouring into his bedroom to escape the weather?Policing fans in a hotel is far more difficult than in a stadium. You''d need police actually patrolling the walkway. How to separate the fans? How do you control alcohol consumption? How do you prevent some awkward bugger who decides it might be fun to chuck beer glasses over the balcony, or perhaps chucking people over the balcony, unless you create a wire cage enclosure. Remember, access is via the hotel so it would be very difficult from a security point of view to vet all the guests and whatever unwelcome possessions they might wish to bring with them. And if you say this is not typical behaviour of the majority of fans, I will agree with you, but you only need a single idiot misbehaving to make the idea of a walkway to be an unsafe area. Might work in balmy Florida where easy-going sports fans sip weak beer and eat hotdogs during an American football game. But I can''t see the concept transported to a wintry January in Norfolk when we''re playing 1psw5ch in the 3rd round of the FA Cup [/quote] Good points RTB. I have had to alter my thinking quite a lot this week, so have gone from buying up the hotel and adding a seating terrace - which is probably too expensive, complicated and not workable - to something that is more likely to be able to happen. A gallery, or balcony is not out of the question. It would have very limited viewing capacity and would only serve the purpose of improving the look of the hotel rather than add significant viewing figures - but would look a lot better. The hotel would, I am sure like to improve the look of the building on that side, as it is what everyone sees - and it isn''t great. A gallery that could hold a few dozen people, perhaps with a cafe style area that could be used during the summer as an outdoor amenity for the hotel with tables would work. The gallery would need to be angled as in this picture and you can see that there would be room for tables at the wide end. Picture hasn''t come out that well, but it shows the hotel as it is now, with the gallery in grey. This would be on level 2, with the galleries on levels 3 and 4 would need to be more like normal hotel balconies, as three like the one above would look too much. The gallery could have a simple hood for bad weather, or simply people could watch from their rooms, although that would restrict the view to snakepit corner. With the restricted numbers,policing would not be so difficult. I am seeing this now much more from the Hotel''s point of view now, but the byproduct of any improvement that the hotel might make would be to make the hotel look part of the stadium - which would ceratinly add to the matchday experience for everyone. No longer would we be looking at a block of flats, but something that has spectators and thus become part of the proceedings. MK Dons looks great, the stadium in America looks great too with its balcony. Something would need to be adapted from different situations to fit what we have. Hope that picture worked. [/quote] This seems like an excellent idea! Quoniam Fortuna novum it aetatis philosophorum.[/quote] I agree So, what''s the next step? [/quote] I should think we ought to lobby the club Lapping. If necessary support can be raised (and I cannot see why not) then this could easily go ahead. Porro filii mei fortibus! Commendations to Lake District Canary for the excellent suggestion, beats many of those posted by many of the lacklustre members of the board such as Mortimer! On a side not please could you remove your ''avatar'' photo Lapping, I do not feel comfortable discussing such a topic with you whilst have the thought of that dog in my head. Dogs are horrible creatures and that one is particularly ugly.

[quote user="lake district canary"]Hmmm. Sorry about that folks. Tried to draw a design which obviously the website I used didn''t like. [quote user="Rock The Boat"] I do think there are many practical difficulties to your idea that render it impossible in the form you propose. When I saw the pic rom you posted of a veranda-type corner infill, my first thoughts were that it would be really cool to sip a cold beer while watching the game from such a structure. But we''re not talking summer sports here, so I wonder how many games in a season would it be possible to sit in the open air watching the game from a balcony/walkway. What happens when it starts raining mid-way through the first-half? Will some poor sod get a couple of hundred football fans pouring into his bedroom to escape the weather?Policing fans in a hotel is far more difficult than in a stadium. You''d need police actually patrolling the walkway. How to separate the fans? How do you control alcohol consumption? How do you prevent some awkward bugger who decides it might be fun to chuck beer glasses over the balcony, or perhaps chucking people over the balcony, unless you create a wire cage enclosure. Remember, access is via the hotel so it would be very difficult from a security point of view to vet all the guests and whatever unwelcome possessions they might wish to bring with them. And if you say this is not typical behaviour of the majority of fans, I will agree with you, but you only need a single idiot misbehaving to make the idea of a walkway to be an unsafe area. Might work in balmy Florida where easy-going sports fans sip weak beer and eat hotdogs during an American football game. But I can''t see the concept transported to a wintry January in Norfolk when we''re playing 1psw5ch in the 3rd round of the FA Cup [/quote] Good points RTB. I have had to alter my thinking quite a lot this week, so have gone from buying up the hotel and adding a seating terrace - which is probably too expensive, complicated and not workable - to something that is more likely to be able to happen. A gallery, or balcony is not out of the question. It would have very limited viewing capacity and would only serve the purpose of improving the look of the hotel rather than add significant viewing figures - but would look a lot better. The hotel would, I am sure like to improve the look of the building on that side, as it is what everyone sees - and it isn''t great. A gallery that could hold a few dozen people, perhaps with a cafe style area that could be used during the summer as an outdoor amenity for the hotel with tables would work. The gallery would need to be angled as in this picture and you can see that there would be room for tables at the wide end. Picture hasn''t come out that well, but it shows the hotel as it is now, with the gallery in grey. This would be on level 2, with the galleries on levels 3 and 4 would need to be more like normal hotel balconies, as three like the one above would look too much. The gallery could have a simple hood for bad weather, or simply people could watch from their rooms, although that would restrict the view to snakepit corner. With the restricted numbers,policing would not be so difficult. I am seeing this now much more from the Hotel''s point of view now, but the byproduct of any improvement that the hotel might make would be to make the hotel look part of the stadium - which would ceratinly add to the matchday experience for everyone. No longer would we be looking at a block of flats, but something that has spectators and thus become part of the proceedings. MK Dons looks great, the stadium in America looks great too with its balcony. Something would need to be adapted from different situations to fit what we have. Hope that picture worked. [/quote] This seems like an excellent idea! Quoniam Fortuna novum it aetatis philosophorum.

It is apt to remind you: "and so vengeful that wrath will be poured down upon innocent descendants of ''wrongdoers'' for generations to come" The actions of those who blaspheme will affect their future generations for years to come. Take heed of my word or the glorious lord will punish you.

[quote user="morty"]My imaginary God is better than your imaginary God.#case rested.[/quote] Mortimer you do not fail to offend me, if anything this is one of the best illustrations of your inconsiderate nature, God will be frowning on you today, particularly for blaspheming against him on the holiest of these days.

[quote user="First acolyte the east coast role model"]"I find your statement regarding intolerance being equal across religions amusing. You have insulted the Holy Book of the Christian Religion on a public forum without a second thought. I wonder what your thoughts are on the other Holy Books of other Religions?" My thoughts are that all the "Holy books" are man-made and contains several flaws and are not a textbook for moral guidance. I don''t care if I insult your book, maybe if you did some proper reading into it you''d see what I mean. I swear most Christians treat the bible like the terms and conditions on a website, nobody reads it, they just scroll to the bottom and click yes.[/quote] You are a gullible fool.

I would like to have him in the wings just in case. Reminds me of my daughter''s production of Othello a number of years ago actually! One of her friends was due to be playing the role of Desdemona, however on the day she suffered from a terrible bout of gastro-enteritis (I would how she received that wink wink!) and so she was not able to carry out her responsibilities. I put forward my beautiful Mary(the one in the right of my ''avatar'' photo) at the last minute and they said yes. Thankfully being the father that I am Mary was familiar with the works of Shakespeare and thus took up the role with added zeal and experience. Whilst she did this I was able to merrily watch from the audience, thank god Jeanette never played that role!