miserableoldgit

"He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword!!" Touche!

I went to school in the 50's and 60's and grammar, spelling, and puntuation were very important and great emphasis was placed on their teaching. Now, they don't seem very important at all. How do other people feel about this?? In this day and age of texting, internet forums etc, does it matter? The things that I find particularly irritating are the use of "of" instead of "have" ("I could of..." instead of "I could have...") and the inability to differentiate between "their", "there" and "they're". Do the rules of the English language matter or is this just natural progress.

Bloody hell! How long ago did he join them?? Not paid for yet?

Sherlocks other brother???:confused:

Good morning everyone! I can hardly wait to see what comic shennigans our Fishy Friends from the East are going to present for our pleasure and delight today. How do they do it?? Each day they top what they did the previous one. Pure Genius!!

So was my dad! HMS Forester.

Tee-Hee!!

What an incoherent message board that is. How many replicated posts are there on there?

So what is the basis for your "views"? Certainly not any facts or knowledge apparently. I am old enough to remember Saints in the old Third Division (South). I guess you started watching them after this time then.

And this, posted by a P*mpey fan on there:- Pompey have signed a unique co-operation deal with Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO). “Yet the indigenous people of these countries have been so taken with the poverty at Fratton Park that the latest news of the probable non-payment of wages has led many of them to volunteer to play for the club for the remainder of the season.” One of the first volunteers was Zimbabwean midfielder Fiddel de Books, 44, who said: “I was moved by the plight of this poor club. From the pictures I have seen they have no running water, no money and are riddled with corruption. “We Africans are only too familiar with this situation. Some of my friends do not understand why I would be prepared to fly to a foreign land and work for nothing, but it feels good to give something back.” A Pompey spokesman confirmed the deal, while signing a five-figure cheque for the club’s chief executive. He said: “This is just the sort of forward thinking this club is becoming renowned for. Volunteering is the new working. Given that we’ve given up all hope of avoiding relegation already, we are only too happy to have overweight foreigners playing at no cost while our existing players walk away from their expensive contracts. “Rest assured we are not in danger of administration with this sort of player recruitment policy. By the way, have I ever told you I’m a lawyer?”

Caravan, surely!

Their figures are dropping because it is a waste of money. I read the Echo for over 50 years, and in more recent years I only bought it to read about Saints. It is now full of classifieds, adverts and amateur journalism. I stopped having it about a year ago and I don`t miss it one bit. I think that Ian Murray has inflated ideas of the Echo`s "importance".

Stop beating about the bush!! Say what you REALLY think!

Read the rest of the sentence from the original post. He was questioning as to whether NC brought the club to ML`s attention.

Didn`t he then??

Yes I heard that but it is strange that they didn`t say anymore about it.

Not even "The Bestest Fans in the World?"

Football nowadays is a squad game. It is not always about "the best 11" starting a game. The manager will pick the eleven players + subs, that will fit into whatever system that he thinks will win games appropriate to the opposition. We can disagree with his selections (one of the beauties of football - debate/discussion/opinions) but he is paid to get the best out of THE SQUAD. This coupled with the amount of games being played must come into consideration. I happen to greatly enjoy watching Waigo and would like to see more of him but we have to assume ( Until he proves differently!!) that AP knows what he is doing. I certainly don`t think that sending him back to Fiorentina because he is not playing every game is the answer.

I wouldn`t mind betting that it will be at 12.30pm on the 13th.

Can we stop this rumour please? Let`s not give the Skates anything to feed on!

You can read books for nothing if you join a library.

A favourite band of mine, with something like 20 albums behind them always say at gigs that they are quite happy for people to copy their CD`s etc because it gets their music known by those that have never heard them before. I guess that this is an instance when piracy is actually spreading new (to some listeners) music.

I thought that their last album was quite good!!

I have all of their albums and the first - which was Melody Makers "Album of the Year" in 1976 - is my favourite. I`ve bought other peoples albums sometime just because Kate and Anna have been on them! I had the first series of "The Transatlantic Sessions" on DVD as a Christmas present this year, and the MacGarrigle family are featured on it (I love their rendering of "Hard Times Come Again No More") and I will not be able to ever watch it in the same way again. I am surprised how much this news has affected me TBH.