Arizona

Manky, soggy, tasteless, revolting little b*stards.

Ramirez and Puncheon ripped them to pieces. Lallana and Clyne were also quality. Lambert was everywhere, Morgan and Davis brilliant, Yoshida won everything... What a choice, but Gaston edges it for me. World class!!

Well, don't expect to see anything of Mike on matchdays. He is usually propping up the bar in town from midday onwards.

So you were stalking me when I was at school.

You'll have your work cut out. Make sure you do your homework when it comes to cramp:lol: 2 legs and you're a shoe in. For me the highlight of last years game was this (off camera) gem.

W000000T!! Did we ever get those missing pictures up from last years game?

I've always wanted a trip to Vauxhall Motors.

That's about the ballpark I ended up in with my post A Levels training. No guaranteed job on the end of it either. No student loan either. It's harsh, but I've never moaned about it. I fully support people doing a useful degree like medicine, law, accountancy, physics, chemisty, mathematics etc. It's people doing courses like art, transport management studies, mdeia studies, sociology with no idea what job they're hoping to get on the end of it that bug me. They're only doing it because uni seems like the next natural step and they're going with the flow.

No, I was answering your question.

Wotton?

Bit of polage. I voted DH and RC, but I wouldn't be unhappy with any combination of the three TBH.

20 years ago nobody in the UK gave a crap about Afghanistan. Infact at one point the US was flogging weapons to support what was basically the Taliban to fight against the Soviets. We can only make educated guesses as to the threats the UK might face in the future. I'd personally want to be prepared for the worst case scenario in order to prevent it. Remeber Neville Chamberlain, walking off the plane... "Peace in our time". I'm just guessing hypothetical enemies here, but there are plenty of people out there who don't like us. I know you're probably being tongue in cheek with the "armies massed in Calais" comment, but in 20 or 30 years technology will probably have moved on so far that you don't have to go places to start a war. Kim Jong Il could launce nuclear missiles from his back yard and have them land in a smiley face pattern on Southern England. Just to reiterate. I'm not saying these things WILL happen. The threat of nuclear war doesn't keep me awake at night, but I do want to be prepared incase it becomes a threat one day. It seems like a high cost, but when the steaks are THAT high, it's worth taking IMO. It's like paying car insurance. I'd wager most middle aged people have been driving 20 years without an accident. I'd also wager most of them go the extra cash for fully comp. insurance, even though they haven't had any accidents and aren't expecting any in the future.

I'm fully in support of intelligent students going to good universities to do useful degrees. I left school 4 years ago and I'd say 90% of people in my year went to uni. The problem I found was it just seemed to be the norm. It was just assumed you would go to uni. All the teachers were completely obsessed with UCAS applications and getting everyone in somewhere. It didn't matter whether it was scratch-your-arse-ology or piece of wood studies, it was just taken for granted that all their students would go to uni. Some of them looked possitively disgusted when I told them I wasn't going, but ironically I ended up with a job when most of my year was barely half way through their course. In some ways I don't think there should be any school help at all with uni applications. I think it should be purposely difficult to get in, so that only those who are really committed and passionate about a certain subject go to uni. I'd say a fair chunk of those at uni are just going with the flow.

How is nuclear war not a deterrent? You don't get it. Nobody wants to use nukes, that's exactly why you have them. To DETER people from attacking you. The way you're painting it, Britain needs nukes so we can go and blow the crap out of countries bigger than us. That's not the point at all. We need them so that if in 20 or 30 years Russia, China, N. Korea, Iran or otherwise decide they don't like us, we can put them off attacking. What if Iran develops nuclear warheads and we haven't got any? That's a terrible scenario. Name two nuclear powers who have ever gone to war. Nukes are the main reason the cold war stayed cold. Both sides knew if there was an escallation in any conflict it could lead to worldwide annihalation. Not a risk either side wanted to take. The closest it ever got was the Cuban Missile Crisis and even then both sides were desperate for an excuse to back down, without losing face.

I don't get why people are so keen to cut trident. It's THE deterant. If someone like Russia or China decided they don't like us, 90 F2 Typhoons isn't going to keep them out. I know it's a paranoid view on the world, but we need a deterant incase the worst case scenarios unfold. I certainly wouldn't chuck it away so a few a few more students can go to uni.