The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[ciggiesnbeer]

Excellent. I know this sounds silly but after years out of the UK I actually miss Vesta, and Pot Noodle. Crazy I know.

[SheffieldVillain]

Excellent. I know this sounds silly but after years out of the UK I actually miss Vesta, and Pot Noodle. Crazy I know.

My UK food cravings are currently finders crispy mince beef pancakes, and scampi fries! Not to mention my standard need for a proper bacon sandwich. One month to go before a visit home.

[Pat McMahon]

Not sure if already posted, but this isn't something we'd be used to:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/12-eeries-images-of-huge-chinese-cities-completely-empty-of-people-a6932936.html

Purpose-built whole cities before people are even ready to move into them. 

At the speed at which that country is still developing, there could well be millionaire/billionaires like Doctor Ghost who have close to zero profile and made an absolute fortune in a very short space of time.

If you go to China you really get the enormity of development. They are planning g for the next 100
years.

I think I read somewhere once that in the space of three years they used more concrete than America did in the entire 20th century.

I posted that last Thursday super tom.

[Pat McMahon]

Excellent. I know this sounds silly but after years out of the UK I actually miss Vesta, and Pot Noodle. Crazy I know.

I wa

Have just spent the weekend with some Irish friends and we're sharing memories of childhood in the 70s where the only meals we ever had that did not feature potatoes were Vesta curries.

[AV82EC]

I keep wondering if @beijingred4lyf will become @beijingclaret4lyf. Surely Uncle Peng is the secret backer behind Dr X?

[Pat McMahon]

I keep wondering if @beijingred4lyf will become @beijingclaret4lyf. Surely Uncle Peng is the secret backer behind Dr X?

I am going to Beijing next Sunday so I will pop into the Slurpy Noodle and report back.

[AV82EC]

I keep wondering if @beijingred4lyf will become @beijingclaret4lyf. Surely Uncle Peng is the secret backer behind Dr X?

I am going to Beijing next Sunday so I will pop into the Slurpy Noodle and report back.

I know it's gone off a bit but still one of my favourite Twatter accounts. Careful you don't get "FUKED UP" by the Beijing Reds.

[aj2k77]

Don't know if it's been posted but the guy who did the interview with Xia in the Daily Mail tweeted that his Harvard Professor got back to him and confirmed his education there and at MIT is fully legit and exactly as described.

[cdbearsfan]

I never doubted Dr Xia or his fellow graduates Fox, Dre and Who.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Don't know if it's been posted but the guy who did the interview with Xia in the Daily Mail tweeted that his Harvard Professor got back to him and confirmed his education there and at MIT is fully legit and exactly as described.

Thanks for that. Actually that is re assuring. I think there was some PR screwup about the announcement, given Villa's PR department allows Lerners bizarre statement to go out unedited and I am afraid I now assume it was Villa's mistake not Xia's.

[Tom_Mc9?]

Good to hear. I think that this could potentially be the start of something actually enjoyable? Stranger things have happened.

[Toronto Villa]

Don't know if it's been posted but the guy who did the interview with Xia in the Daily Mail tweeted that his Harvard Professor got back to him and confirmed his education there and at MIT is fully legit and exactly as described.

Thanks for that. Actually that is re assuring. I think there was some PR screwup about the announcement, given Villa's PR department allows Lerners bizarre statement to go out unedited and I am afraid I now assume it was Villa's mistake not Xia's.

why would they edit statements made by the owner?

[paul_e]

Don't know if it's been posted but the guy who did the interview with Xia in the Daily Mail tweeted that his Harvard Professor got back to him and confirmed his education there and at MIT is fully legit and exactly as described.

Thanks for that. Actually that is re assuring. I think there was some PR screwup about the announcement, given Villa's PR department allows Lerners bizarre statement to go out unedited and I am afraid I now assume it was Villa's mistake not Xia's.

I thought that all along, that's what I meant by saying that some things were lost in translation.

Excellent. I know this sounds silly but after years out of the UK I actually miss Vesta, and Pot Noodle. Crazy I know.

My UK food cravings are currently finders crispy mince beef pancakes, and scampi fries! Not to mention my standard need for a proper bacon sandwich. One month to go before a visit home.

Was proper sausages for me when I was in Norway, pretty much everything else you could find in the international supermarkets if it wasn't in the normal ones but sausages they just didn't get at all  The closest we found was at Christmas one of the supermarkets did 'meatcakes' that were basically skinless sausages, we had a freezer full of them the 2nd year we were there and they got us by until about mid-February.

[The Edge]

Don't know if it's been posted but the guy who did the interview with Xia in the Daily Mail tweeted that his Harvard Professor got back to him and confirmed his education there and at MIT is fully legit and exactly as described.

Good to hear that.  I am  romantically nourished by this news.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Don't know if it's been posted but the guy who did the interview with Xia in the Daily Mail tweeted that his Harvard Professor got back to him and confirmed his education there and at MIT is fully legit and exactly as described.

Thanks for that. Actually that is re assuring. I think there was some PR screwup about the announcement, given Villa's PR department allows Lerners bizarre statement to go out unedited and I am afraid I now assume it was Villa's mistake not Xia's.

why would they edit statements made by the owner?

Because its their job to look after his image and Aston Villa's. A good PR person would take Lerners statement then gently approach and work with Randy to polish it into something that would benefit Randy and the club.

Randy does not strike me as some ogre who would tell his PR rep to bugger off. He is an intelligent man who could use some help in that department.

As it is it appears they just go out unedited and are, well, a bit strange really.