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This is entering into the realms of a Golden Thread. Anyway to hack into those Average Speed cameras they have on the M3 these days? link that to facial recognition software could try use the FB stuff and that all helps ensure Trousers can drive safely rather than staring into every passing car

Flawed logic - could be on BA to T5 - so why not try a different route - call all the taxi firms in Southampton and see who has a pick up at LHR mid afternoon to Staplewood? Simples

Which sort of sounds like it is him coming to The Beautiful South

Fatally flawed theory. This will be the OUTCOME of a collapse and yes it will allow balance to return to the global economy after some months of pain, but like all "economic theories" it misses ONE pretty damned critical point. It assumes an ORDERLY collapse. It took countries waiting to JOIN the Euro around a year to set up new software systems, new currency distributed through banks, new ATM's, vending machines etc and then on one magical moment the computers converted DM's Francs et al into the new currency at the same moment in time. The PROBLEM is how to UN PLAN that? Sure, a country could give notice of leaving the Euro, but how long will THAT take? The speculative attacks during that period will cause mayhem. In addition even the UK would have to bring in Capital Exchange controls as cash floods "safe havens" how would your importers be able to pay their bills - what would be the rate against a new Drachma? How would your food chain be affected with so much coming in as imports? Sure the half baked idea of the Euro is dead in the water, but there could be UTTER chaos IF it is not managed and planned. And the ONE thing the Euro nutjobs have shown through all of this is an amazing ability to stick their heads in the sand and say "there is nothing wrong" Europe could be in one hell of a mess for several MONTHS. Like most great ideas (which the Euro SHOULD have been IF it had been done properly) it is the implementation that is the problem. Sure UK won't have a problem you think - but no point having a strong Pound IF you aren't allowed to send any overseas... OR more likely your bank goes bust and you lose all your savings. There will come a point in a Banking collapse where the Government will be taxing you all at 120% of income just to guarantee your savings & pensions. There's a zillion blogs out there but this one

You reckon anyone's gonna be able to afford to play golf? Although I suppose we'll all have plenty of time for it....

Ah. at last. A replacement for Saint Lee. Those heady days of Chardonnay and Paul Allen seem so long ago now.......

Ah, but for you lot IF the Eurozone goes pop then you have to look at where holiday countries have their currency linked to - many scenarios show Sterling could go through the roof but then others show the dollar doing it. Best bet? Camping in Cornwall Ambrose double barrelled nme in the Torygraph has been blogging this for ages. Fact is the Germans screwed the Euro by having a false exchange rate to make their export based economy boom. They hold the key. IF the Euro splits their goods go up in cost they get a pounding. So the decision is simply which will be LEAST painful for them. A split Eurozone with the French keeping Euro2 down a bit or a return to the DM? Which hurts them the least - that will be the solution. If it goes pop you won't have ATM's and planes probably won't be flying because insurances will be invalid with no currency to determine the value of risk.

I read that as needing to sober up after New Year But between the 500 lines, seems some good points in there

This

Right that's it then off to cheer my self up by watching a dodgy DVD brought back from my hols I can't rant, I did that in an email to Emirates earlier today, suppose all I can say is Nige - sort it out mate, tactics 2nd half - you were too slow to change things and a point with 10 men is a good result. Yeah that's polite...

Red Card for Brighton Forte flattened and Saints player cuts out

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Ha we miss ANOTHER open goal....

Game over. Panic time. Wheels are well and truly off the bus.

Yeah no need to worry, the Mayans have it all sorted anyway And we take off Lallana for Reeves......

hmmmm THEY shoot from distance and THEY score.... AND they carve us down the flanks..... We didn't see THAT coming

Think NA needs to switch the formation playing 2 up front or even 1-1 with 10 men they are carving us to pieces

Picked a hell of a day to give up drinking.....

Johno Quick day

FFS, what was wrong with the whiskey?

Arm flung backwards and into the face OK it was El Abd but

Pantomime season Reeves coming on Oh no he's not Oh yes he is Oh no he's not Lambert straight red FFS

Blimey a busy start to the 2nd half

Ben Reeves coming on

Guly hamstring by the sounds of it