Special K

Who gives a toss if he named Glenn Cockerill in his all time 11? Who give a toss if he doesn't have a ST? Who gives a toss if he gave another nipper a blowey? He called someone from Southsea a scummer on air, so he's alright by me.

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/8939126.Southampton_Vixens_are_tops/?ref=mr I say, tip top! Well done girls. http://www.freewebs.com/southamptonvixencheerleaders/ Splendid stuff. I think the Club need to celebrate this award by letting them loose on the pitch at the last game of the season. Hopefully it'll be a hot day

I remember playing Eastleigh & District tyro football almost 30 years ago. There was the odd handbags between parents when there was a cup game or decent league fixture, but mainly it was all good natured banter. Don't know what it is like now though as my nipper wants to play cricket instead of football, but a mate manages a Winchester under 11's team and he says the main problem is the "coaching" from the sidelines from parents who think they know the game inside out after watching MOTD. Suprisingly though all are reluctant to actually get involved in the running of the team. It frustrates my mate no end.

I gave up posting on the main board. Too many precious, fickle types who get upset when the TV coverage doesn't include the pass in the build up to the goal, so they actually write in to complain or who get upset because Andy Townsend doesn't mention the fact he used to play for saints every time he's on the TV, booo hoooo. I dislike that too many of our fans are so bloody petty. Some threads on there are informative, but the better craic is found in teh Lounge.

What are the chances that Verbal's grandad and Turkish's grandad were thrown out of The Dell for scrapping each other under the east stand?

Because they put the responsibility for financial regulation and control with the toothless FSA which saw/sees it's job as trying to get financial institutions to comply with the rules rather than coming down on hard on them when they try and con the consumer (endowment mortgages, etc). Successive governments are/were happy to have a loose regulatory body - something they could use in hushed tones to encourage more and more to move to the City. What the Coalition has proved is that no government has the ability to stand up to the City as it depends on it so much. So after a period of (barely) false contrition and lip service the City will be back to what it does best - conning the consumer to pay for it's short term bonuses.

Window cleaning??

I'd say this is not strictly true. Whilst it is not wholesale, i know, for instance, HCC Architects department actively pursue work outside of the council contracts they get and LA building control can now operate in the marketplace alongside private BC operators. However, i take your point about commercial flexibility, but would question as to whether they would be able too anyway? If they were streamlined and efficient enough to compete, why are so many LA functions outsourced to the private sector in the first place? Presumably because it is cheaper and more efficient than perfoming the task in house. But by virtue of outsourcing, LA's are taking advantage of the flexibility of the private sector for their own benefit. You say they are hamstrung, but my guess would be that a lot of private sector organisations would be very happy to have a guaranteed turnover for the next year sown up already! And you may well be paid more outside the public body you work for, but i'd hazard a guess and say that you'd get less holiday and work more hours if you did. You also risk losing your job more often. And recent times have meant a large reduction in salary for some in he private sector. In my field, tradesmen have dropped their hourly rates by between 30 and 40% over the last 3 years.

Did you get disciplined for that?

On the A31 as you approach the intersection lights for Farnham. For anyone that doesn't know the road, it's (briefly) a single lane after plenty of dual carriageway and then divvies into 3 lanes before the lights. One bloke in a silver beamer (why is it always them!) took exception to someone in a Focus who was observing the merge in turn at on the approach to the single lane and at the lights jumped out of his car. He went over to the Focus and started shouting and balling, waving his arms about as the lights went green. He's still there acting like a demented **** as cars want to move, when some fellas in a scaffold van got out, grabbed him and threw him back over his car telling him to get going. Loads of people drove passed him giving him the ****** sign, etc and he looked really ****ed off. Serves him right, the ****.

That's not the point. All large organisations are complex, be they public bodies or multinationals, by virtue of their size. Your point was of comparison, which, imho, was not a fair one to make. If your input is already secured, you don't have to worry about a significant element of your business.

Yeah, i'm my own boss too!

More than someone who "runs a company" whose finance is already secured. It's not a case of running a business, just determining how to spend what has been allocated in the best way possible - not a fair comparison.

I won't quibble over a couple of hours :-)

It will be interesting to see if there are the number of jobs created in the private sector over the next 2 years to cover those lost in the public sector. I suspect not as there will be too many external influences on a Co's ability for job creation along with the fact that spending cuts in the public sector will also mean private sector jobs are shed in certain areas. Also you have to question the suitability of some potential employees from the Public sector. It won't be the same union protected, 35 hour week, flexitime, 35 days leave a year job that some council staff may be familiar with.

The Sound Stylistics - Play Deep Funk - it's getting me moving at work today.

I can think of a few on here who would be good as a fluffer.

Great news on Corporation Tax - Well done that man.

Offer your hand, just make sure you haven't picked your nose or scratched your arse immediately beforehand.

Interesting. An elderly relative of mine passed away last year and i wasn't upset by it. The way i looked at it was that she was a good old girl, had a good life, lived it well and had a bloody good innings to get to her early 90's. A year or so earlier, a couple who i am close to lost their baby at 4 days and i was quite distraught by this. I guess there were a few more emotions going on, but i know where you are coming from.

What a bunch of miserable ****s some are. If you don't like it, turn the ****ing TV off, morons. You are not forced to give money. You can, if you choose, completely ignore Comic Relief or any other televised charity event, unless of course you feel the need to watch it only because you want to whinge and whine and bore people senseless with your inane diatribes on "washed up celebrities" or "fackin' starvin' fackin' africans, not while i'm eatin me fackin' curry on a friday night, for facks sake!"

It must be difficult for the news channels that provide 24 hour coverage to fill the time, but this does tend to lead to repetition and inane reporting. It's the same on any big news story, however, i agree with Phils point about numerous news crews from all over the globe decending on the place as soon as they can, when really all the available supply routes should be kept open for aid and helpers. Perhaps if they dropped the cameras and picked up some shovels they would be able to help a bit better. The presenters do ask some awfully embarrassing questions though. I'd love it if someone gave them a load of verbal to the "how are you feeling right now?" type questions.

How can it be low carbon if it burns this amount of fuel? I understand it may be more desireable than burning fossil fuels, but surely this is still a high carbon producing method. However, i know very little about it, so any advice would be appreciated.

I have one along with the 16K ram pack that plugs into the back

Cracking idea fella. We often donate clothes that the nippers have grown out of to various charity shops, although i'm not in charge of it myself, like (Mrs K's role). But i'll have a gander at home and see if there is anything i can muster.