Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Same as some MPs think they are entitled to.

So the top 5 salaries between them are responsible for almost £3.4 million.Like I said, obscene.
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So? What are we going to do about it?

george - no idea what your question was, and in any case, i see everything is now swamped by the customary ranting posters .... glad i was far better employed by a decent lunch with a good m/e client

"glad i was far better employed by a decent lunch with a good m/e client"... Well isn't that bleeding typical, he spends half the day down the pub or restaurant living it up on who.. Us that's who, what scrounger.

... Employed? my rear end!






































P.S. Got any jobs your place Andy? -):

scrounger? .... hardly; i paid ..... no chips on shoulder or otherwise either

cynic
One for you.

I am sitting in a cafe with my tablet. I looked for WiFi points to connect with. The cafe has a very strong signal, so I used that. I did notice one that must have been set up by someone with a sense of humour. It was called

The Promised LAN

I don't have a problem with people who are good at what they do being paid big salaries, when you consider we have loads upon loads of very untalented footballers in this country being paid ridiculous amounts of money. Tiger Woods was paid £2.3million in appearance money to play in a golf tournament in Turkey recently and that was in addition to the healthy cheque he made for finishing second. Absolutely obscene in my view, especially considering the guy is a terrible role model for youngsters. I am well aware some of the money I give to charitable organisations in this country helps to pay salaries and people who think that all those who work for charitable orginisations should give their time for free live in cloud cuckoo land.

doodlebug4 I agree re footballers and golfers, in fact most sports these days have mega buck earners producing mediocre performances, and of course people working for charities have to be paid, (I've not seen a post here suggesting they shouldn't be paid). The point is the directors/CEO's of many charities are taking obscenely huge salaries at the expense of the very people those charities were set up to help.
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as far as i can see, very few golfers even within the world's top 50/100 make that much money in either the short or medium or long term ..... tiger woods is something of an exception due to his quite extraordinary talent .... his off course performance has however, cost him a very considerable fortune, though george best (inter alia) would have considered those misdemeanours piffling

as an almost relevant additional comment, professional golfers have an extraordinarily high degree of integrity and sportsmanship on the course, of which there are many examples ..... the same most assuredly cannot be said of professional soccer players!

cynic - I think both Tours need to address the problem of professional golfers spitting on the golf course - T Woods is the worst offender, followed by Keegan Bradley, Justin Johnston, Jim Furyk etc. There is absolutely no need for it. I think pro golfers within the top 100, either in America or Europe make a reasonable living. The bloke in 100th place on the European Tour earnings has made nearly E4,000,000, not bad for a journeyman pro. Plus his sponsorship deals, whatever they amount to.

It's not just the salaries!

Don't let's forget the 6* Expenses that goes with the 6* Salaried Remuneration Level.

By that I mean, e.g. "Trouble in the Philipines?" sorta kinda.....

.....and off go the top charity exec's in a chauffered limo to the airport to enjoy 5* seats/travel/food/drink all the way there, so that when they arrive, they are 'fresh and at their best', can have a peep at the troubles and tell someone else 'where' and 'what' to do and exactly 'how' to get their hands dirty.

A group of councillors who were kicked out of Ukip have vowed to continue - under the banner of 'Ukig'.

The men have named their group the 'UK Independence Group' - leading to Nigel Farage's party taking legal action.

The five members of Lincolnshire County Council were suspended from the party for following expelled group leader Chris Pain into a breakaway group in September.

A spokesman for Farage told Spalding Today: “We have taken legal advice and Ukip members cannot call themselves Ukig. A breakaway group would be a new party. It’s ridiculous and confusing to the electorate.”

Pain told HuffPost UK the name did not represent a political party, adding: "Nobody's ever contacted me about it... we just changed it last week.

"We could be the Mickey Mouse fan club... it's not a political party."

In September, police dropped an inquiry into Pain after alleged racist comments were posted on his Facebook page. Pain said he had been hacked.

He said he had been kicked out for "whistleblowing" on the party's selection process and for recording a phone conversation with a senior Ukip figure.

"They are trying to use this as a tool to take me out of the party," he added, saying he was taking legal action against his expulsion.

A Ukip spokeswoman confirmed Pain had been expelled from the party, "following a disciplinary procedure".

The bloke in 100th place on the European Tour earnings has made nearly E4,000,000
do your homework properly .... it was actually € 275,000 for 100th and € 2,379,195 for the top guy
NTB were you!!!

from that, the 100th guy will have a lot of other expenses, including paying his caddy, though of course he will have at least some sponsorship - free clubs and golf balls! - but certainly nothing very exciting

as for appearance money, i think you'll find that very few get paid any at all, so that pretty much goes out of the window too

with regard to spitting, i'll be quite surprised if the PGA don't stamp on that very soon and pretty hard (yuk!), as i agree, it's unsightly at best, but at least not AT anyone, unlike those yobbish footballers

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on a final note, it is only the top 115 in Europe who even get to stay on the main tour ..... below that, they go back to the challenge tour where the earnings are paltry

trust me (or not!), it's a truly tough and difficult way to make a living, as any follower of golf will tell you

":-))
on return from a long and biz-successful lunch,"

and

"trust me (or not!), it's a truly tough and difficult way to make a living,"

Yeeeeah right... I think we all now know just how much we can trust you Andy -):

the lunch certainly wasn't tough though very productive, but making a decent living from professional golf assuredly is (not me, for sure; i'ld be living under waterloo arches)

I thought you did.

Must have been Hays whose hat I put a tenner in.

8-)



The B__r didn't give me any change.

Exec Line, I alluded to their expenses in an earlier post, you put it most succinctly.
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Employed? my rear end! No Stan maybe would Fred like to

cynic - post 32789, actually it's you who needs to do your homework properly and all the stats are on the European Tour website if you would like to check it out. You are actually quoting the points on the Race to Dubai.

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