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Take a look at this:- http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/feb/22/teenage-pregnancy-rates-england-wales-map#zoomed-picture Lots of areas that have much more working class areas do better than Southampton.

Southampton is something of a statistical blip when it comes to teenage pregnancy. It's way over the England average, and is also over the South East average too, according to this article in the local newspaper. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11161821.True_cost_of_teenage_pregnancy_problem_more_than___4m_per_year/?ref=var_0 I can't really afford to be judgmental. I'm the product of a teenage pregnancy myself, and I wasn't quite 20 when I knocked ms pap up with Juvenile Unit #1 - so I know, it happens. It's definitely not advice I would give either of my daughters; I've told them they'd be far better off waiting until they're financially established and secure. Why Southampton? Does it have any unusual qualities that makes it different from almost everywhere else around it?

Aw look, mum. Attention seekers.

I'm sure the mods are moving heaven, earth and five pound notes to accommodate your request. In the meantime, that David Moyes eh? What a sacked bastard he is.

Ah, quiet you wannabe moderator. Either that, or correctly suggest General Sports.

Moyes' sacking isn't super-surprising. The only precedent for keeping him about after such a season would have been Fergie's first couple of years in the job. Unfortunately, I think football and particularly United are in a place where they cannot afford to waste any more time. The lack of CL football will hurt them financially and in any attempts to rebuild the side. They'll need a Liverpool-esque season to come back up. In many ways, Moyes' arrival at Man Utd was the opposite of his installation at Everton, a club that had been flirting with relegation for years and had suffered the likes of Mike Walker and Walter Smith as potential saviours. Everton was a club in a tailspin; Moyes managed to right it before any serious damage was done. Contrast that with the situation at United; yes, they may be an ageing squad - but they were an ageing squad that were champions in the previous season. To go from that to where they are now can hardly be termed progress. The United board probably wondered if there was light at the end of the tunnel and came to the conclusion that there wasn't. It's a shame for him, but there are few excuses for some of the bizarre decisions made during his tenure. 4.5m over the odds for Fellaini was madness, and never really justified on the pitch.

Yup. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27107795

If Moyes goes, he's going to need time in the wilderness before he comes back.

And we're done on The Hunger Games trilogy. Overall, I'd rate it well worth the time, but I do wonder how relevant these books will be in 20 years time. The power of celebrity is a huge theme, so it's the sort of thing that'll look eerily prescient if we continue on our current trajectory of having surgically-altered celebs plastered all over the news, or dated if we ever have a punk-esque rejection of celebrity culture values. Katniss is a superb protagonist. The tough-but-vulnerable trope is done masterfully here, largely because she's pretty human too. She's not an emotionless robot and is deeply affected by events around her. She makes some very interesting decisions - none of them feel forced or cheated. Haven't seen the second movie yet; the fam tell me it's very good. The movie series has every chance of carving its own place, though - if I had a criticism of the books overall, it's that the action is a bit of a muddle, particularly in the third book. I didn't really get a sense of what places looked like or even how some character deaths played out at the time. The medium of film will do that last part of the story a lot of justice. Never boring though, and a proper earner of reputation points with the Teenage Units.

When Moyes was first appointed Everton manager, the joke around LFC fans was:- "Why have Everton appointed David Moyes?" "Because he knows his way to all the first division grounds"

Bump! (blame Dave. Apparently we are a Christian country) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/david-cameron-fostering-alienation-and-division-by-calling-britain-a-christian-country-9272961.html

After much prodding from all human members of my family, I started reading The Hunger Games books. I've seen the first movie a couple of times, and quite liked it. Probably the right order to do it; they made something of a hash of that film in getting a couple of key plot points across. I've apparently done what most people do; dawdle their way through the first book and then zoomed through the others following its conclusion. I'm beyond the Battle Royale comparisons really. If you want to get picky, you might argue that Battle Royale ripped off every movie with a gladiatorial bent. The depiction of the country of Panem is pretty interesting, and although they do revisit Games territory in the second book, it's a real change up. Have to say, it is a bit girly. There's a lot of stuff about outfits and boys and suchlike. However, it all moves at a fair old whack and the series is not afraid to put its major pieces in play. One aspect of the books I really enjoy is the horrifically frivolous way that science is used by the Capitol.

Why does Alex Crook support United, then? Is he from Salford?

Still listening to AC/DC, and have finally given some serious time to Powerage. It's the least recognised of their early albums. Aside from Sin City, a single from the album that is itself a bit overlooked, not much of this album gets played at concerts. That's both a shame and a blessing. There is perhaps one weak track on it, meaning that anyone approaching it fresh is in for a treat. It's also surprisingly dancey [video=youtube;ErXbMB9R5-0]

I watched the entire manual you posted. Approved, especially the tough love at the end.

Not exactly, but the Wigan fans did sing "town full of Polish" at us last year. Doesn't get sung every week, but it does happen. Small town in Portsmouth is more regular, tbh.

I do have that ability, oddly enough. The skills are transferable, so it works on web pages too. I saw Window Cleaner's qualification about the boxes suddenly transmitting on a different frequency toward the end of their lives. Even if we take that at face value, it's another stretch in a long line of stretches, all with equally fruitless results. The UN tells us that to the best of their knowledge, no airliner crashed, exploded or was detected hitting the water. You may believe that the idea of the plane landing somewhere is fanciful. Intelligence services won't, and that hypothesis grows stronger every day the plane isn't found. You can straw-man Diego Garcia as much as the fancy takes you, but all it really requires is collusion and silence, something the FiveEyes could probably manage, judging from the way they colluded in the PRISM program. Aside from that, I'm not really that interested in DG. Others are doing the idea far more credit, iPhone up the arse story obviously excepted. What I do find interesting is where this leaves Malaysia, in many senses a bit of a problem country for the West. It's a moderate Muslim country that doesn't have nice things to say about the US or Israel, and doesn't admit Israeli citizens as a matter of course. The exposure the authorities have received over MH370 has not painted them in a glowing light. China, the nation that allowed them to stick a couple of fingers the West's way, is the nation most aggrieved by its disappearance. I would not be entirely surprised if there wasn't a new government there soon, potentially with a lot more love for the US's planned "Pivot To Asia" and a lot more tolerance at border control.

We'll see. Microsoft have a release parity policy that usually means that multi-platform games have to be released on XBox at the same time (or earlier) than versions for competing platforms. Can't see Activision holding back the game on every other platform just for MS (they learned from Titanfall ), so Microsoft will either have to go back on their policy or do to Activision what they threaten smaller developers with. Can't see them chancing it. Found out that this isn't even the first game; Tropico 5 is coming to PS4, PS3 and 360, but no XBox One version as yet (it is being considered). http://gamingbolt.com/kalypso-focusing-on-tropico-5-for-xbox-360-xbox-one-version-to-be-considered http://www.tropico5.com/us/ Interestingly, they made their call in January of this year. These are commercial decisions; there are now seven million PS4 owners out there. Companies are evidently deciding that they can make enough money on other platforms, or see the One as a commercial risk. There's clearly no contractual problem with Microsoft - both games are coming out for 360.

Hmm. While this isn't the end of the world for XBox One owners, Amazing Spiderman 2 has been "indefinitely postponed" for the platform. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-04-17-activision-indefinitely-postpones-xbox-one-version-of-the-amazing-spider-man-2 Didn't expect this to happen quite so quickly.

Could be something else entirely. You Just Don't Know. I accept that. I just find it amusing that you can feast on state-sponsored breadcrumbs.

Pings not even at the right frequency. http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04/07/race-to-find-mh370-intensifies-as-search-gets-two-hours-and-more-of-pings-but-frequency-is-fading/

The ping stuff is all based off the Inmarsat hypothesis, right? And has turned up just as much.

Are you guys still treating the Inmarsat data as gospel? Hasn't turned anything up yet, nor has the raw data been independently verified.

Depending on how many of these you tick off, you might be having a mid-life crisis. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/you-having-midlife-crisis-check-2020597#.U0582xHBW-k.facebook I didn't even bother counting. I know I am Are you mid-life mental?

I've always wondered about these. Got a 5:1 setup for the office ( ms pap didn't want wires in the front room! ) but wouldn't mind something with a bit more oomph. Does make me laugh how sniffy we've become about tech, though. I remember being blown away when I got my first console with separate audio jacks! (or for that matter, my first personal colour TV).