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Ah, completely misunderstood what you meant by "normal price." Yeah, club level on TX is easily over £100 for category C games.

C-level?
You'll have to stop using that. If you mean cunt just say cunt.

Well I don't know how his company does it, but typically the tips cannot be expensed and come out of your own pocket. His company are relatively small, so he's not had a huge windfall yet so this would impact him. What individuals do when they're under peer pressure is something that they might regret later. There's a place between being responsible to the person leaving the tip and still leaving a damn good tip. If the company paying for this was a lot larger, which would allow me to assume the boss guy had already extracted some big pay day from stock options, etc... then sure, wouldn't have intervened... but I'm on the other side of these things at times and have sometimes needed to drop my entire monthly income on a work related thing I cannot expense... I can reason that in the long-run it's worth it, but in the short-term it can hurt, so I don't assume that he can afford the tip, or that the company are covering the tip.

Would rep.

I lolled

but I'm on the other side of these things at times and have sometimes needed to drop my entire monthly income on a work related thing I cannot expense..

That is wild

That is wild

It is what it is.

I also loathe the "Most senior person pays" policies... as I found myself in Brussels once with a €4.5K expense bill handed to me... I was on the phone to a credit card company to increase my limit because I wasn't pre-warned. Sometimes I'm with sales people who are totally loaded, but the bill and tip is mine to pick up, oh well.

Just be thankful you're not the oldest brother in a Chinese family.

heehee. first team I played for was called Wanderers actually. Not Eastern mind.

I also loathe the "Most senior person pays" policies

Well we used to get a more junior person to pay on the company card and then the senior person signed it off at the end of month. But that was acceptable in the 90's. Probably an HR policy now to stop this happening.

Pretty sure this has been the first time @Velocio has entered the football thread without having to hand out a ban.

while velocio is here, can we have tags back in the football thread?

Historic

hope velocio watched the it crowd - are we not men episode before he went

Moss: Awright, 'arry? See that ludicrous display last night?
Postman: What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?
Moss: Fing about Arsenal is, they always try an' walk it in.
Postman: True. See you later, Moss.

It did have some brilliant games and stories/teams. The final was brilliant.

can we have tags back in the football thread?

If someone wants to do the coding for emoji reactions to comments, I would accept the PR and launch it.

Also historic. Where's @Ramsaye?

#margaretthatcherspenis emoji

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Off of twitter:

Delighted to hear the World Cup will beheading to Saudi Arabia

FIFA is a mess

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FIFA is a joke

FTFY. It's even beyond a joke now. FFS.

Final call for someone on here to grab a full set (almost) of Blizzards ( https://theblizzard.co.uk/) from issue 2or 3 upto about 20ish.

Otherwise they're off to a charity shop this weekend.

Where is collection dude?