Patrick Bateman

Yes apparently it has and apparently people have nothing better to do that read a 900 post thread to check it hasn't been mentioned on there. Losers.

Yes, it's funny.

How has no one noticed this yet?? http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/crime/9379881.Arrest_warrant_issued_for_Pompey_owner/?ref=fbrec

That was quite funny! p.s. only joking Verbal, about you being Greg ... I wouldn't wish that upon you, he is a very very odd individual! Last night's one, where he actually screamed at the woman in her face to shut up. How he hasn't been belted I don't know!!

So, I caught this on catch up last night - didn't realise they were in Southampton again! Anyone know any of them from this forum? I did wonder if Greg was Verbal ... ? Watch it and you'll see :-)

Is it easy to dismiss this as Daily Mail propaganda, but then I was thinking about my own work environment. My boss, is American. My immediate peers consist of 2 English (I am one), 1 French, 2 Indian, 1 Hungarian. My own is team all outsourced abroad ... so ... for a London office, it's very cosmopolitan with an awful lot of work permits floating around. These are very well paid jobs too. I guess that's what you get working for a multi-national company, but I hadn't actually thought about it until I saw the news!

Agreed. Read a good article somewhere recently about the differences between 2 families with a combined family income of £50k. The family down here were cutting back on holidays, sharing a car, getting rid of pay TV, thinking carefully about what they spend as the income didn't go as far. Up "north", think they were just outside Newcastle, that family had 3 cars, had exotic holidays, owned a bigger house and were affluent. £20-£30k in London really doesn't get you very far, at all.

Totally agree - or removing graffiti, delivering meals on wheels, hospital portering, etc.

I got a "low sense of" for everything. Incredibly an incredibly low sense of anger ... er, LOL!

This is only true if you're an elitist snob, of which there are still many in the media industry. But generally, someone who gets a 1st, or even a 2:1 from ANY uni will be well thought of.

For the sake of 1.5 years, you'd be foolish to drop out now. Your CV will look appalling and it'll show you can't commit yourself and stick to something you've started - you will struggle to justify it and find interviews harder to get, especially as you'll have more explaining to do. You've got yourself to uni, on a good/interesting degree, you are halfway through - finish the job. You're only losing interest as you've been concentrating on it so long. Once you start your dissertation on a subject you're really keen on, the interest in the subject will come back. I was bored to tears on years 2 and 3 of my degree (Computer Science in the mid 90s), but by the 4th year, I was really fired up to get a good grade, really enjoyed my dissertation and was being interviewed left, right and centre for graduate software jobs. I know times are different in terms of jobs now, but you can still get that interest back, it does happen. There are loads of avenues with someone with your degree, including as Jackanory posted, a PCGE - schools are still crying out for male teachers! Anyway - stick with it and finish what you started, you'll regret it otherwise as my friend does who only did 2 years of a degree.

Not at all illegal. If there are business challenges to be met that taking holiday means may harm this, then a company is perfectly allowed to do this. Equally if your friend has left it too late too book and other people in a similar position have already booked the time off, meaning they would be short-staffed if your friend was also off, then again they can block holiday. Should have booked time off earlier and booked something up! I get my Christmas booked and flights sorted in the summer.

Enhance our lives with tales of your travels, where have you been? Why? What did you discover? Did you miss us? What did you miss most, sausage rolls or a good cup of tea? Or even nice toilets? (I mean, what is it with the ones in the US and their huge gaps down the doors and as for the French, squatting. Horrible)

Well, there are all bumders!

Well played Totton!! Totton vs Saints 3rd round, would be brilliant, Totton vs Skates 3rd round, would be awesome ...

Women and football ...

Nah, Beattie got 2, Pahars got the other I think - I remember Ripley playing WELL too!!

I can't recall ours being that bad, but I did go to Middlesbrough during the Stuart Gray (or was it Wigley, I get those two disasters mixed up) when we won 3-1 and there weren't more than 3-400 Saints fans there!

Who cares what a load of bellends think on some naff social media site? We'll know who we sign, when they sign, when it's announced on the official website. The trouble with everyone today is that everyone is so impatient.

No. I have asthma and Bronchiectasis (so in other words my lungs are boll*cks) and I'm fine with dry ice.

So, currently reading Neil Ruddock's autobiography on my daily commute. Reminded me what a c*nt Branfart was, messing with his Saints career because of the headbutt and generally signing bad players, selling good ones for cheap and being tactically inept. Anyway, great read if anyone fancies it. He states Saints is the club where he enjoyed himself the most.

Having had to work in Coventry, I can confirm it is a dull, concrete sh*thole, full of boring w*nkers. I hate their tinpot crap club with their crap support. Vile, soulless place, typical sh*t midlands dross.

I thought you lived in Fleet??

This YouTube clip is so addictive! Can't think of the words for De Ridder though, I have no imagination - but so long as "fast" is not said like a Northern monkey.

I lost my temper with a gas/electric salesman. I was cleaning my car in my drive (actually down on hands and knees scrubbing the alloys) at the time. He appeared and asked if I knew how much I spent on gas and electric and that he could guarantee me a much better deal. Having just changed 3 months previously to what was a very good deal, I politely told him I wasn't interested. He then tried again. I said again that I wasn't interested. He then said I HAD to sign to say he had called and had a folded bit of paper. I (still) politely refused. He again was insistent that I HAD to sign and that he would wait for me to sign. I stood up and told him where I'd stick his paper and pen before he then left sharpish. I hate these w*nkers. I am perfectly capable of finding my own deal, in my own time.