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Daughters' high school might be getting closed at lunch.

Where's Barry and his weather forecast? I'd like to compare experiences.

Very little real power? Please. Bills aren't law until they get Royal Assent. Apart from HRH, no-one in this country legally owns any land. If you strike oil under your house, it belongs to the Crown. We have the right of tenure, nothing more. The Queen cannot be nicked. It is legally impossible for her to commit a crime. How many other people have that power? I suppose the monarch has no real power if you choose to believe that. I know that people say that these days, the Crown is really Parliament. They forget that Parliament is transient. It's the institutions that persist that retain true power and influence.

I thought you were a man of the world, Jamie. If you think scouse women are the same as Romanians, you've obviously never had a hot Romanian minx whisper "I hate you" sexily in your ear.

What do they call cocaine? Nose snow?

FFS lads. Basic verb conjugation. "He has taken us to the Premier League." The beauty of that is people can still sing the old song. Phonetically the words are close enough. Not like many of you pronounce hanging "g's", is it?

Don't worry TDD, at this rate 29m people from here will move to Bulgaria or Romania. Romanian lasses have very nice accents, btw.

Not a very good tale of snow woe, trousers. Go outside. Have some sort of snow related calamity. Come back in and write about it. There's a lad (How many words do they have?)

Eskimos famously have about 80 words for snow. We Brits normally have two - "oh boll*cks". With most of the country covered, and opportunity arises to tell you tales of snow woe. In December 2009, I tried to overtake a gritter on the way to the ferry in a RWD. Didn't work out too well for me.

It's ok. He is from Barcelona. He learned English from a book.

Oi! I've pulled nice women down South. Far easier here, admittedly. They don't tend to be as much hard work either.

Cov's alright. Incongruent sh!thole, but the people are humble. Colin must lord it over them 24/7 I reckon.

Soz, only just seen this. Liverpool does have a huge Irish influence. That doesn't preclude it from having a huge Scottish, Welsh and English influence too. I also know people from Southampton who have Irish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry, so what you say is partially true, but nothing like the extent you make out. If Southampton is such a hotbed of Irish influence, just under half of all Southampton's schools ought to be Catholic schools. Certainly wasn't that way when I was growing up. Springhill, St Georges and St Annes, isn't it? I'd like to see your concluding debating technique turned into a chat-up line. "Anyway, glad we've ended up agreeing that I will be boinking you tonight". Arf!

Sony haven't done a decent product launch since the PS2. They trade on technology but sometimes miss the obvious point. It's all about the games and the connections people make with them. I do love my PS3, and in Sony's defence, they have gone to great lengths to turn the whole Playstation value proposition thing up. Playstation Plus is brilliant value for money. All those free games released every month? Must really annoy pre-owned retailers. But, the PS3 era has to be seen as a commercial disaster for the company. Too late to market, downright arrogant in their hype ( "HD doesn't begin til PS3 launches" ) and managed to lose an incredible amount of market share in the West.

All the cities you mentioned in your post were English, bar Cardiff - which is why I specifically singled it out. My comparison was English versus English. Of course Edinburgh is different. Northumberland is obviously informed by its proximity with Scotland. Who said that Liverpool wasn't British? I admire your attempt to promote an emotional yet empty argument, but you made that leap, not me. Liverpool is a melting pot of people from all British countries. Of course it's British.

Dude, I live here. I have two of the f**kers in the house. I know. When they are not talking about Liverpool FC, they are both reasonable people.

The Everton fans make a lot of hay with this one. Bit of truth in it too. I've had loads of beers with Dutch and Danish supporters who have travelled over for the game.

Badger thinks Everton and Liverpool fans are all cvnts.

I think I got confused at the part where you said Liverpool had little new or of interest for the past 20 years. It clearly has. As for what Liverpool has that other cities don't, I think it's a sense of detachment from the rest of the country. With the exception of Cardiff, all those other towns are English cities. Technically, Liverpool belongs to England. Culturally, it's very much it's own place. The Irish don't call it the 33rd county for nothing.

Yeah, again - I'd disagree. The city centre has been transformed in my time here. Some might dismiss Liverpool One as yet another monument to consumerism, but they'd miss the obvious point. Liverpool city centre is now connected with its waterfront area. Contrast that with the desolation of High Street, Southampton. Got a permanent arena for musical performers in the last ten years. Then you have institutions like LIPA, the revival of the creative quarter, all the stuff that was built when Liverpool was named Capital of Culture. Before that, you had the likes of Cream informing the national dance scene (and coach loads of people from all over the country turning up for it). You really couldn't have picked a worse city if your objective is to find one in stasis. Outside of London, Manchester and potentially Glasgow, perhaps you'd like to suggest another city that has improved as much as Liverpool has, or put on as much of a spectacle.

That is for others to decide. I prefer to see it as setting your stall out. I don't share your assessment. Most scousers I've met couldn't give two f**ks about what southerners think of them. Probably another reason people don't like them. I love them for it.

I take your "experience" and raise it by about 17 years, sir. I'm being generous and have attributed a year of experience to you. People come to this city and take out what they put in. Come up here for a laugh, and that's what you'll typically get. Come up here with the "all scousers are victims" mentality and you'll probably be one yourself.

Anyone who is talking about scousers instead of Liverpool FC fans.

Nah, the idiots who buy crap music are responsible for the above. Whatever, Southampton's responsible for what? Craig David? Aaron Soul? Howard Jones? If Chris Packham has a decent singing voice you might even get a boy band out of that.

Don't normally get involved in these regular Liverpool bashings. Most of the posters on the thread are bigoted small-time arsewipes, at least in the context of their points here. As it goes, I do find a lot of Liverpool FC fans annoying, but the flipside of that is having a giggle at them when their team fails to meet its lofty expectations. That's as far as it needs to go, really. As for why people get their knickers in a twist about Liverpool and its people? Jealousy, probs. That city has consistently managed to keep a high national profile for over a century, be it in its capacity as second city of Empire, mover of 40% of world trade, incubator of rock music or all-conquering football city. You do make me laugh, southern brothers. All you have is the reflected glory of expensive London. There is nowhere in Hampshire remotely as interesting or as culturally significant to our collective history as Liverpool. Southampton itself is about 100x more boring. I'd argue that a large part of that is because rather than have fun, too many of its residents are basking in their own inferiority complexes and having a go at scousers to make themselves feel better. Someone remind me. Who are the victims supposed to be again?