Walton Goggins

39%......no wonder John Redwood rolled his eyes, and gasped a tut. Obviously Mr Mc didn't watch C4 News earlier, when Ken Clarke and Geoffrey Robinson were openly discussing the government claiming 39% but add in " the other stuff " it is more 70%, if not including pensions, otherwise 100% plus.

First off, the previous post about the bed was funny. I remember an Irish F1 driver was heavily into property, so may be on this forum, you are Edmund Irvine...I claim my £10. By the way if you are commentating on BBC next year thats great !

Don't all rush at once but a Vauxhall main dealer in Cheshire is selling brand new Vectras @ £9.5k for 58 reg. What will this be worth after one year £6.5k ? After two £4k. These will be a reasonably good buy !

BMI Lufthansa to cease flying from Manchester to Las Vegas, Chicago, Antigua and Barbados from January and April 2009. Apparently routes didn't attract clientle they deserved as thrifty northerners only buy on price. Concentrating on flying to Arabia instead with lots of business class tickets paid for with oil money. Loss of 140 jobs. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/new...e_pulls_flights

Nobody will believe that.

Declan is unfairly dissed, listen to what the man says. The cheap shots at his portly stature never get old. W12 - my guess is he is Alan Yentob, can picture him now with David Bowie talking into his Shure microphone, discussing Aretha Franklin's You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman, as their stretched Lincoln Town Car glides into downtown LA in Cracked Actor. The BBC / ITN / SKY reporting of the HPC is beyond the wildest expectations of many bear folks, making some conspiracy theorists look frankly silly. Mind you the conspiracy theorists punting the switch has been thrown from media talking up - to talking crash are something else.

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is...set fire to it and go to Panama.

If you work for FBI's Behaviour Analysis Unit, would have to say your profiling is 85% spot on. Mostly my schedule long haul flights are NYC and Chicago, both of which are filled with holiday trippers, the O'Hare BMI connecting to Las Vegas. United are cutting 1550 flight attendants. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi...0,3461197.story

In my experience the long haul window seats are very much in demand. Unless being the shoulder size of the Incredible Hulk, fuselage curvature shouldn't be an issue, and the snoring person having to pass is normally a significant other, so more of a fumble than a fight.

Damned right.

From the end of the world to your town, how odd, that for years threads have appeared on HPC about, Cleveland, Detroit, and countless other post-industrial US ghost towns in the making, now we have an LA Times piece noting the demise of Wrexham. Surely, an Associated Press piece picked up on a quiet newsday, can there be many Californians with awareness of North Wales, even to know it is near England ? Did Irene Jones in Whitegates pick up the phone to hear an Eva Longoria soundalike, enquiring as to how business was in a Wrexham realtors, if so how surreal. Hi I'm ringing from Los Angeles..... Anway, with regard to " hilltop " quoted above, as you may know, Wrexham has had a large Polish community at nearby Penley, since the 1940s, so don't expect them " to soon go home ". Although it has to be said, there does seem to be slightly fewer than last year around and about. Your view that Wrexham is " a marginal location with no real business of its own ". Wrexham has excellent transport links, compared to many places, and still has a manufacturing element, Kelloggs, JCB Transmissions, Air Products and many other well known names. Agreed compared to the past, it is a shadow of it's former glory, but at least it doesn't rely heavily on financial services for instance. So no economic powerhouse, but hardly Calico Ghost Town either. Yale College Wrexham still exists, so far as I know, it has not been renamed. Glyndwr University is the new name for what was long ago known as Aston College, becoming Wrexham Technical College then NEWI. This is located alongside Wrexham football ground, close to one of Mr Brunstom's most profitable safety cameras. Yale College Wrexham is located on the site of the former War Memorial Hospital. Yale in New Haven, USA does insist that Yale College Wrexham makes clear the non-association, however, Elihu Yale was born in Boston, not Wrexham, so he was not from Wrexham, though he did finally come to rest in the cemetary of Wrexham Parish Church. The local Wetherspoon's pub is named after Elihu Yale, as is a local bar /music venue. No doubt the many American tourists that visit Yale's tomb enjoy a pint in one of these establishments afterwards, perhaps some are visiting from Los Angeles. Whether Wrexham has " an oversupply of property and retail outlets ". Completely agree.

Apocalypse ? Spreading NATO east is a dangerous game, for me the point being full membership of NATO triggers the Spider-Man movie post-911 cringe moment ie. fight one new yorker - you fight all of us. If the Russians attacked Georgia or Ukraine the trip-wire that is full NATO membership requires the automatic response of retaliation by other full NATO members - hence WW3. My feeling is the Russians are in the right with regard to Georgia, and by stealth their objective is the political downfall and regime change of the Georgian president, whom they despise. In fact the way they reacted was something the west could have learned from, just bomb the crap out of it then move out. Most of the problems UK/USA have suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan have been caused by hanging around, peacekeeping and democratising, the Russians are far better chess players. Learn the lesson, refuse NATO membership to Georgia and Ukraine, avoid having to respond militarily to local difficulties, respect Russia and keep buying their excellent value gas. Putting a missile shield into Poland in itself needn't be a problem, but it will be if they make it so.

Longinthetooth has made a better reply than mine, but I just wanted to point out that " the one which it sold for in the end " may not be accurate - as it could have sold below market value. Likewise if you drop the price to sell now you will be selling below market value. There is a whole sub-industry based on buying and selling below market value. * *Obviously on HPC we mostly realise the BMV is the market value.

White goods are particularly interesting because they are in a buying opportunity whereby presently you may choose to visit Currys / Comet, measure up, pull out the drawers, quiz the middle-aged part-time female, then go home order it online saving 30/40%, with it delivered by the brand and have after-sales provided by the brand. If I were John Browlett I would say to myself, ala Talking Heads - whats the point ? In addition, there is the Kitchen Science website operated by KESA, where they undercut Comet by 30/40%, how do they expect the drones in the shed to sell anything. Could it be the are targeting different customers ? The couple with the pram and the 2004 Kia Sedona don't have internet access right, hello it is 2008 ! They do. Look at Panasonic, they invest in Shop@Panasonic, you can benefit from trained staff, gather all the info you need, have quality demonstrations, then jump in your car and collect the TH42PX80 from TESCO @ £649. Even better when it goes wrong, who do you call, no not Ghostbusters... Shop@Panasonic !!! Sony do exactly the same thing with their SonyStyle shops, independently owned, by folks wondering, hang on, why are we helping people buy tvs from Makro/ASDA/CashCo/Argos......oh I remember, because we are thick as pigshit. If I operated Currys, first thing I would do is take a team of buyers to China, spec up some 1080p lcds of various sizes, then fill the floorspace with oddly named packages of blu-ray/hdd recorder/flat screen tvs and heavily spiv the sales peeps to bait and switch them from the more famous names. Job done. If the big makers aren't happy, it doesn't matter, just buy a range of their products off the net to show in store, then swap people over to own brands when they visit. # Hey, what do you mean thats what they used to do in the eighties with Matsui, Hinari, Logic, Teknica, et al, exactly .... remember they used to make good money back then !

Hasn't happened to me as the first rule about HPC with me is you never talk about HPC. Reason being it is so often a no-win situation. Can't help feeling perplexed at so many people both in media and real life that are now saying well, it was obvious wasn't it they were bound to fall some time, they couldn't go on rising forever, unsustainable, blah, blah, and as for those doom-mongers on internet blogs - even a stopped clock is right once a day. In my memory, up until recently, the same peeps have been contemplating 100 year mortgages, folks not on " the ladder " being priced out forever, and the marvelous ATM that was BTL. No mention of the clock stopping, nor even needing winding - being driven as it was by the SEIKO Kinetic perpetual motion of limited supply and pent-up demand - on our tiny island. Reminds me of wearing an Unknown Pleasures t-shirt with hardly anybody knowing it was Joy Division, as it had no name just the graphic of the album sleeve, thinking they were a cool band. Next thing you know Ian Curtis hangs himself and everybody is dancing to New Order Blue Monday at the rugby club, with A Flock Of Seagulls one side and Birdie Song by The Tweets on the other.

Hi, Your link doesn't refer to Nationwide.

Miami Vice. Yes, it really does say thousands. " Thousands Of People With Criminal Records Work As Loan Originators in South Florida. " http://www.miamiherald.com/static/multimed...riginators.html

So he didn't answer.... Renting is dead money. These VIs just ain't what they used to be.

No, if they pass they don't get the money.

Today we watched Dani Pedrosa fall off whilst having a massive lead at Sachsenring, it suddenly occurred to me, hey, we have £15.92 in a IASA savings account with HBOS, in addition to the IASA savings account balance we transferred to HSBC at the beginning of the year. Two things struck me when attempting to pull this sum over to the current account ready to buy Guinness, firstly the effort HBOS make to have punters go paper free, where there balance disappears at the click of a mouse, and more terrifyingly, the red alert warning apologising that the transfer of £15.92 from a HBOS savings account into an HBOS current account was " currently unavailable ". Why ? What have they done with our money ??? Will try again tomorrow ! By the way any money we had with A & L has long since been spent on a trip to Japan, post NR, the way we see it pan out is, B & B next, then HBOS, followed by A & L, then probably a toss up between RBS and Barclays. If IndyMac can go, nothing overtly leveraged in property is safe.

KESA and DSG ( Comet and Currys/Dixons/PCWorld ) have already become " browse shops ". That is the problem they have, and to make it even sillier, they are the biggest culprits for competing with themselves. Not only do they carry the overheads to allow people to kick tyres, but they then help them to buy at next to nothing profit margin from the names they can " trust " - and pick it up from the local store. They are eating themselves. Valid point about people not being willing to buy without having seen the item in the flesh, when the large electrical sheds are gone, the brands will suffer a reduction in demand also. There will always be those willing to buy a complete SMEG or whatever kitchen totally blind, but far more buyers presently check the goods out in store before clicking to buy online. Apple have succeeded with their bricks and mortar shops because they limit online discounting, as do top-end watch brands, hi-fi separate brands, perfume brands and clothing brands. Mainstream electrical brands that happily allow their products to be sold from any lock-up unit with a website, with no thought to after-sales or worry about b & ms being sacrificed, to achieve unit turnover - will ultimately disappear from the market altogether. At the beginning of launching SKY, Rupert Murdoch famously remarked that all electrical retailers are dimwits ( not actual words ), not to be trusted wiring a plug. Seems self-abuse is prevalent further up the chain of distribution also. The big electrical stores have been shafted, almost feel sorry for them.

More in Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns...0,7856620.story No confirmation whether these are in addition to the previously announced cuts and no denial they are not.

Holy credit crunch Crashman !

So Mr Bush and the Halliburton folks are Islamic extremists ? Over the years a few examples of putting down forum posters have been quite amusing, in particular I remember a thread on a hi-fi forum where somebody was argueing about the importance of power supplies, after receiving a long and detailed reply, which was also friendly, but holding a completely opposite view, the original thread starter attacked the person as being probably 12 years old and posting on the forum in their pyjamas. Unaware the advice was being offered by the founder of Naim. The argument that people posting on internet forums are short of something to do, other than watching Coronation Street, is rather silly. People are attracted to things that interest them. Northern Rock for example was exposed here long before Robert Peston had his BBC world exclusive, or maybe he was testing the water here before going on the air. Probably most of the major dudes are here, why would they not be ?

Was that deliberate ? Wrexham FC beating Arsenal ... Would you believe planning to redevelop the football ground with just four parking spaces for the housing of 305 students ? http://www.eveningleader.co.uk/news/Wrexha...cing.4025447.jp