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They get the bigger stage because people (two week a year merchants like me) generally prefer it. Overall its a much better spectacle. you as a purist disagree. Be boring if everyone agreed Agreed its not what happens, in general at grand slams women get paid more for less tennis. I have no issue with that. As previous posters have alluded to. The names in womens tennis currently dont inspire people as much as they do with the men. Outside of Sharapova, Williams (S&V) your average tennis fan (two weeks a year) hasnt heard of anyone else. The men have an established elite. Throw in most of us currently disagree with you and thats why the womens world number one was on an outside court. I suppose my main reason for posting was that you appeared to be highlighting that the women are being badly treated by wimbledon. In my opinion theyre not. Would Serena Williams have been put on an outside court ? I dont know but I doubt it.

To be fair most people in this country only watch tennis for two weeks a year. There's a reason mens tennis is given the bigger stage that's because its more popular. "After all, playing more tennis = worth more money" , you may not like it but that would appear to currently be the case. Happy to hear your views on other sports, not just the downtrodden female tennis players

That's the case for plenty of other sports, I'm not saying it will never change but ultimately its popularity that drives the financial rewards. Women footballers, cricketers, golfers etc earn nowhere near the equivalent men. If you want to highlight a sport where women are treated significantly worse than their male counterparts there are plenty of better examples imho.

In your opinion, which is fair enough. In my opinion, given a choice Id rather pay money to see a mens game and a Nadal epic like yesterday than your typical womens match 6-2 6-2 over in 45 minutes. Not saying either happens all the time but just my choice. Same typically applies to womens football, rugby etc the mens game is at another level, otherwise why arent they all competing alongside each other ? As for pay at the slams women earn considerably more than the men for the actual tennis played.

Womens tennis is almost a different sport from the mens the power difference is so big. As such, it is at the moment generally considered inferior to mens in popularity, as is football rugby and most other sports. I doubt that will change anytime soon. Women tennis players are about the only sport that get parity with the men (arguably they get paid more) just the way it is.

This deal is no different to any other deal that political parties make when needs must. The fact that people are bleating about a deal where an extra 1bn is being spent on public services is priceless. oh the irony ! Sturgeon wouldve done just the same to Corbyn if the situation allowed, As for claims that the deal is risking the good friday agreement again, really ! more money being pumped into northern ireland is going to cause a return to the troubles !!!!!

Im not all that surprised to be honest. Thatcher is dead, a lot of unionist people who didnt want a referendum and are right of centre politically looked at the options and voted Conservative. for the past 20/30 years the tories and labour have been two sides of the same coin. Now you have a a socialist labour and a right of centre Tory party so people can make a choice. Prior to this voting labour or tory really made feck all difference and pissed off with thatcher and the tories scotland could vote labour in protest and the outcome was effectively the same. I would also argue form what I have seen Ruth davidson did a good job campaigning. If she keeps it up. we could have a Scottish, female PM. How feckin odd would that be !

You've made your bed ......

Great story, well pleased for you. Let me know if youre going to wembley next season and i'll buy you and your son a beer ;-)

Fabulous story

Currently the top 1% of earners pay just over 25% of the total income tax take in this country. Now I'll agree that wages are piss poor in loads of jobs but that's a whole other debate. Just clobbering the people that earn the most isn't the answer Either . Imho ?

This. Some people have more money than you. Life isn't fair never has been never will be.

Whats wealth got to do with it thats income tax. this is about paying for local services etc. Why should a retired couple pay extra because they bought their house 50 years ago and its now worth a few quid ? Presumably now the democratic deficit has gone the SNP given their socialist leaning will introduce something similar to the poll tax ? Everyone over 18 in gainful employment pays their fair share, seems fair enough to me.

Nope rape is criminal. I suspect we are talking about an extremely low number of cases here and this clause has become a stick to bash someone with. a better solution is needed granted but if a solution isn't in place I suspect the number of third child "rape" claims would spike significantly as people play the system.

Just because people objected to paying it doesn't make it abhorrent. I would've thought left leaning individuals would've had no objection to paying their share towards the community cost. One of thatchers more socialist policies. Oh the irony !!!

All right i'll bite on the Poll tax. Why was it abhorrent that everyone over the age of 18 pays towards their community. Presumably they use the same street lights, refuse collection etc as everyone else ? why should a house owner /tenant be responsible for everyone that lives there ? Probably one of the fairest taxes there was !

Its not on. Methinks the day job may have blinded him somewhat. I have a feeling the lions are going to get tonked !

No army British or otherwise has an impeccable record and the victor generally writes the history book. What I see is that when called upon over the last few centuries the poor British "cvnt" when called upon has stepped up and delivered, probably from your family and mine. Judging history by today's standards is generally not a good idea. Granted we had bastards in charge, I'm just glad for a poxy little island our bastards were better than theirs. History tells me that every now and then having a nasty in charge isn't necessarily a bad thing. That's not to say we shouldn't strive for nirvana but I'd rather have Theresa may speaking to Putin than Corbyn for example. I would also add that I'd rather Mickey Mouse spoke to putin than trump ?

No I suspect they were of their time like those in the IRA were. No one gets covered in glory from this whole episode. Your perspective changes depending upon which side you thought was in the right. To label the British army as "cvnts" is perhaps a tad harsh its like labelling all Irish nationalists "cvnts" the truth as always is somewhere in between.

For me the IRA were fecked the day 9/11 happened and the so called "war on terror" commenced. As for what he was, I suspect he was a scumbag that did a lot of shitty things. However "one mans terrorist " and all that. You're going to get one of two responses about him and each are perfectly valid opinions !

Somewhere in Manchester Pistonbroke has cracked open the bubbly

Speak to someone there's plenty of places you can go and it will be a stranger. Mentioned my mate, he was about your age and a had a successful business and north of 7 figures in the bank. Went out one night and had a nose full, battered some teenager half to death and got 6 years for gbh with intent. By the time he got out his family, business and money were gone . That's embarrassing , speaking to someone and getting yourself sorted isn't !! I'm not saying your headed for that but with two kids and a great Mrs you need to have a think about where your priorities lie. Don't mean to preach but I think you've worked them out for yourself now you just need to do something about it! Good luck ?

Marching powder at work, and binges for days would seem to imply you've gone past he casual user stage !!. Im sure on here will be more useful but get yourself some help if you cant jack it in on your own. With the best will in the world I would also suggest changing your social circle, one of my best friends lost everything because of that shite and is still trying to piece his life back years later. Listen to Zammo ;-)

Scotty you are madder than a box of frogs. Is Prince William still due to whip his pitchfork in in the near future ? I will say this though you do brighten this place up its been right boring of late so keep up the good work