Could be? It's happening in America
ww.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8039814/Tennessee-Firemen-ignore-burning-house-over-unpaid-subscription-fee.html
I bet it's being discussed. Or you could have a premium fee for police - if you want them to investigate your burglary...
Here's a brain teaser for Friday night (see if anyone can get this without looking at the Internet)
There were 13 non-British or Irish players playing in the Premiership in the league's first weekend back in 1992. Can you name them?
Following the couple in Hampshire who got copped, there's another one
Professor slapped with £155 railway fine for getting OFF the train one stop early | Mail Online
This time though, he didn't pay and the rail company backed down "as a gesture of goodwill". Personally, I reckon it's because...
Wins the sprint title at the Vuelta - first Briton for more than 20 years to win a sprint jersey at a major.
:bowdown:
Off to the World Championship now - win that and he's a shoo-in for the Sports Personality of the Year, I reckon.
... now they're about leveraging sitecore (sigh).
Manchester City Football Club to Present Case Study at Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit 2010
A sort of world cup for proper cricket seems set to go ahead (finally)
BBC Sport - Cricket - ICC set to bring in Test league and play-off
This is great news, it will add some real spice to test matches and as England is the place that really likes test cricket, there must be a good chance that...
There's a worse blogger than HB&B on the Argus site
A Whiter Shade Of FAIL From The Argus)
"Every orifice rammed full of Afro, Asian and South American vibe..."
"...the country still is rather a snow-white Anglo-Saxon yawn-fest. However, surely Brighthelm should be different?"
Ye gods
When my son didn't get a replica shirt for his birthday, I assumed that the club had stopped sending them out. But reading the Pleasant Surprise thread, it's clear that the club has a policy of sending out replica shirts to random Gully's Gang members. Why is not possible to send them out to all...
Squad is
WA Adkin
JE Anyon
WAT Beer
BC Brown
CD Collymore
MW Goodwin (c)
LJ Hatchett
AJ Hodd
CD Nash
MS Panesar
MJ Prior
OP Rayner
LWP Wells
Yasir Arafat
Guesses for team anyone?
I reckon that one of Hatchett and Adkin will play and Luke Wells will probably get a game. Surprised to see...
...it's your problem. If you owe them £100m it's theirs.
I've seen this saying on a few posts recently, here and on other forums.
Where's the cut-off point - at what point does your problem become the bank's ... particularly for football clubs.
Just interested like
According to the Guardian, a serving Premier League manager is one of the applicants for the Southampton manager's job.
Southampton fans already fearful of another wasted season | Football | The Guardian
Who the hell could that be: Grant? (he's only been there five minutes) Pulis? (unlikely...
Couple of months travelling the world courtesy of Finnair and all you have to do is keep a blog - certainly beats most of the crap temping jobs that I had
Now, if only I were 10 years younger and no family...
Rethink Quality The Quality Hunters
The thread on The Hungry Years has reminded me of this site
Free Streaming Live Music, Vintage Tees, retro t-shirts, concert posters, live concert, vintage rock tshirts, concert vault, Posters, rock photos and more
There are lots of live recordings of rock acts - some dating back to the 60s and...
... well, not really, they're all American for a start
Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever
But there are some good writers here and some interesting looking articles.
I wonder what a British list would look like - pieces from George Orwell? Christopher Hitchens?
There wouldn't be...
Missed this at the weekend but .uk was 25 years old on Saturday.
Nominet - Latest News
It's weird to think how little news impact that would have had in 1985, it wouldn't even have merited a sentence in the papers. We'd still be feeling the aftershock of Live Aid and beginning to notice that...