TopGun

Mushrooms are the food of the devil as everyone should know. The thought of slimey glistening fungus with a rubbery texture makes me nauseous.

I was going to post exactly the same. Incredible naivety displayed by Oxo and sheer greed rather than looking out for his interests by his agent. What Oxo needs to do is concentrate on his game so he starts the season with a couple of belters that satisfy clubs like Arsenal enough to stump up a fee before the transfer window closes that Cortese is happy to accept for a player with years on his contract. Not whine to the newspapers.

Agreed.

If Cameron resigned and there is no other insider knowledge or corruption about this in the Tory Party there would not have to be a general election and in the short term Clegg would deputise as TDD suggests. However as the largest party in the coalition the new Tory leader would become the new PM. As others mention, a hard right winger like Gove or Lansley would not work as the LDs would refuse to comply and a general election would be the result which Labour would probably win. If I had to pick a rising Tory star it would be Philip Hammond, the Transport Secretary.

Can't agree with much of that at all. We need to look forward not back.

Apparently Guardian has info to be published this week on Stephenson's ties with Neil Wallis that make it untenable for him to stay.

I am deffo a handwriting incompetent these days as I so rarely pick up a pen. It feels like a strange tool.

Undoubtedly word of the day!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-14028013 The life of an 80-year-old Southampton football fan is the inspiration behind a new play. Lifelong Saints fan Phillip Douch wrote Herbie and the Saints to reflect the "ups and downs and ups and downs" of fans in recent years. The storyline revolves around Herbie Taylor, 80, from Swanmore, and a group of Saints fans on an internet forum. Mr Taylor said: "It shows the joy of seeing our club saved from extinction to promotion in just two years." Herbie Taylor first watched Saints play at their former Dell ground in 1940, at the age of 10. He won the Football League's Fan of the Year award in 2010 and still works as a tour guide at St Mary's Stadium. When he heard about the play he said he was "surprised, flattered, and embarrassed" at the idea. The production team is currently looking for community groups to host the play. It will also be performed at the Berry Theatre, Hedge End, on 28 July and the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, on 30 July.

Prof David Barrett is one of the world's top knee surgeons and is based in Southampton where he divides his time between NHS and private practice. Viking should ask for him. My dad had one knee replaced 10 years ago by Barrett and had to follow a demanding rehab programme to get full manouverability back which took three months. Because Barrett was pioneering a new technique my dad is on his research programme and goes back each year to have the knee assessed to see how the surgery is standing up. At the moment there is no degradation at all in the replaced knee. As a result of being on the research programme Barrett will be fixing Dad's other knee later this year with a less drastic operation. My dad has utter faith in Barrett because of how successful the first op was and would recommend knee surgery to anyone to get back their quality of life.

Now the Portsmouth News is saying £130K has been spent on refurbishing their training facilities... http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/great-matches/meagre_playing_numbers_gives_plenty_of_food_for_thought_on_blues_return_1_2832508

Shockwaves? Some obscure Tory MP who never got anywhere after election might have made some Enoch Powell post-1950s comments. Wowser!

This is a half sensible post by Dune. If he posted more of these without his usual sweeping and ridiculous generalisations and pigeon holing, he'd be a half decent debater.

Love the postie comment!

The issue you have is that you are unable to distinguish groups or sub-groups of people effectively. That's why your views are considered laughable by others. But you are entitled to have those views as the mods recognise. And I think that's okay as a member of the liberal elite/socialist underground that is destroying this once great nation.

Unsurprisingly, Dune mixes apples with oranges. Go do that QT Special please Dune.

But a good insight for a lawyer who runs a pub I'd suggest...

What nonsense. The only EDL demos are local and chosen specifically for the demographics. There has been no national demo.

I noticed on her FB page that she was campaigning against both Islamic and Jewish ritual methods of slaughtering animals... but I think that's a bit of a diversion as our abbatoirs are no better, just not so public.

Clearly that would be pointless. Not sure what you mean though.

Working as a 16-year old temp in a bonded warehouse in Soton Docks with a load of seasoned crims who thought it was fun to roll massively heavy rubber bales from the top of a tall pile down towards me to collect and put on pallets. I thought I was going to die. It was like Frogger. I lasted a day before I quit!

I have a female friend who lives in Stockport who goes on these marches. She's actually reasonably intelligent and states she is not racist but against islamic radicalism in the UK. I believe her when she says this but she is utterly blind to the fact that the majority of those she demonstrates with are hard core nazis with no jobs or skills to offer to the nation. The EDL selects areas that have festering social problems to campaign at. Where I live in the north west demonstrates this clearly - impoverished, unskilled and high unemployment white areas such as Oldham and Burnley which abut asian neighbourhoods.

I think there should be a Dune QT special. It would be hilarious.

They're all over the place. I have a sneaking admiration for the strutty buggers though. But they obviously raid other nests for the eggs.

I blame it on the magpies which seem to be everywhere now!