Special K

I agree. I got fish and chips from there 2 weeks ago. First time since the old fella gave it up and it was gash compared to the old nosebag.

More chance of a **** off the pope.

If this ******** has legs, it's just a shame they are injured ones.

"And now over to Sylvia, who spent the weekend bobbing up and down on Nick's boat" Clegg show, c. 1995. Couldn't have got away with that on London radio.

Graduation gives you nothing more than an academic qualification and a probable appreciation of having to think for yourself. Even with vocational degrees like mine, you know precious little about the application of the job when you find yourself employed and the learning process starts again. However it does give you a leg up onto the bottom rung, but it has to be appreciated that there will be a number of years for young graduates where they need to apply their skills to progress. I've worked with many graduates and had many work me. I have noticed their expectations of salary and benefits to be generally greater more recently. Now, whilst all are not the same, there is a definite increase in the "maximum salary, minimum effort" work ethic, even from very talented people who can achieve. FWIW i have had much more successs with placing post A level students through day release courses. There is a much better appreciation of the workplace and what is required to progress. Personally i will always look to employ these candidates over graduates. This sounds like another boring snipe at graduates, which it isn't meant to be; there are a great many hard working, talented individuals who will excel given the right environment. Obviously they are all Saints fans , so good luck to you all seeking work. Just don't be too unrealistic in your targets. There are many good bosses out there who will reward hard work and endeavour.

We performed well on the back of two long away trips in the space of a week. If we looked knackered, then for me, the effort put into Barnsley & Ipswich away showed a little. Without a midweek game, we'll be more "96 minutes" against Leicester next week.

She had more balls than the bunch of ****pigs giving it large behind the safety of a line of coppers. ****s.

http://www.parentingscience.com/picky-eaters.html Interesting reading.

The sentences are over the top, which is bloody stupid as the courts will find themselves tied up with a load of appeals, more likely than not funded by the public purse. Better to put them to work for the benefit of the society they chose to damage. Make them wear garish fluorescent overalls and clean the streets and look after the community facilities for 5 days a week for 6 months. Maybe then they will learn to value something they have looked after and will be one of the ones who seeks to protect that when the next bunch of pikes come along.

Blokes who say English birds are rough have a chip on their shoulder because they're too ugly / weak / fat / girly / poncy / inept to score with anyone decent. There are plenty of top quality English lasses out there. But like all nationalities, we have our fair share of munters. Having said that, Parisienne birds generally dress fabulously and make the best of themselves, even if they are a bit minty. Remember people, the language of love is universal.

And all from open play. Take a bow fellas. Great stuff.

Good old Saints!! Always make it a nervy ride.

2 tonnes o'fun

I disagree i thought the line "Hey, I'm an open-minded guy but to be honest, you're clearling a total f*cking nutjob" was the best on this thread!!

It's interesting in a Dan Brown novel type of way, but all things considered, it's a load of old pony and is spoilt when it comes up with crap like "those who want to enslave you" and banging on about mind control through TV. And the train cancellation is a load of old ******** too, cos if they were going to catch the 7.40 (which was delayed and hence the argument they couldn't have been on the tube) the previous train was delayed and left at 7.42, after they had arrived. Chances are they got on that one, eh?

My only experience of them is north of the High Street, where they are fine. I've got the youngest in Shirley Infants atm, and that is a very good school - well run, excellent teachers and a very happy environment. The boy is in Shirley Juniors which is ok, but seems to lack a bit of cohesion. The head changed a few years ago and i think it's going through a transitional phase. Nonetheless, it's still a fine school. They don't do anything in the way of competitve school sports teams until the final year, which is a disappointment. At the risk of sounding sexist, the teaching unit was very female in profile, but they've got a few male teachers in there now, which helps the older lads and hopefully the formation of a football team! Upper Shirely High (used to be Bellemoor) has a good recent ofsted inspection and although they were knocked back with the BSF funding cuts, it seems to be very well driven by a committed teaching team. Looking forward to going around there in september as we've got to make a decision on where the boy goes next.

For an inspirational read from a footballer, try Riding Through the Storm by Geoff Thomas (he of massive miskick fame as played out by Baddiel & Skinner on their footbal tv show whose name escapes me atm). Or for something amusing (and completely non sporting) take anything by David Sedaris, most of which is vaguely autobiographical but quite marvellous.

I prefer evidence to be factual, not anecdotal.

Maybe, but there is a case to suggest the jobs taken by the large migrant worker population should have been filled by Brits. Go to any care home, hospital or building site and you'll see huge numbers of migrant workers doing (so called) menial or not so menial jobs. I reckon the jobs have always been there, but there is a strata of society that chooses not to work these jobs because a) the jobs are not "valued" by society (whatever that means) b) they are hard work and require dedication and c) it's easier to toss it off on benefits, whilst supplementing this income with the odd bit of tea leafing / drug dealing along the way. Obviously cannot generalise, but by the obvious lack of morality of those looting, i wouldn't be suprised if there was a large number of this demographic who would rather live out their "gansta" fantasy than put the effort into getting up for work every day.

I thought they were doing their old mate the Dirty Digger a favour. All this rioting at least got his ex-employees off the front pages.

Two Jags also beats up the proles, so he can't be accused of discrimination.

At least the rioting seems to have petered out, just like this thread. And like the political aftermath, this thread is left with a couple of blokes waving their tapered little bell-ends at each other.

Can't think of anywhere too out of the ordinary, but i did finger a bird at work once, whilst she was answering the phone. And i had a bird once whose old man really didn't like me and made it quite plain. We went to stay at her parents place one Xmas and i persuaded her to give me a festive nosh in the old mans study whilst the parents were downstairs, which ended up with me monking all over his desk and keyboard. Merry Facking Christmas!

Heard a cracker the other day from an Australian mate - He's grinning like a w@nking Jap!