Hamilton Saint

Three important points: 1) add a layer of top soil before you lay the turf; 2) lay the turf down like you're bricklaying (overlapping and staggering); 3) keep the lawn well-watered for a week or two until the roots are well developed.

Come on, Saints!

I remember when René Lévesque was Premier of Québec in the 70s, a newscaster in the States pronounced his name as Ree-nee Le-ves-queue.

'Twould be a good name for a band - Le Tissier Skills.

This thread is a load of Nanki-Poo.

59 Grew up in Hythe in the 60s. Went to St. Mary's College in So'ton. First game was at The Dell ca. 1964. Favourite memory was promotion to the First Division in the mid-60s.

A few miles from here, airforce veterans at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum have restored a Lancaster bomber to flying condition. Most weekends throughout the summer they fly it over the city. It goes right over my house. There's nothing quite like the sound of those engines as the thing approaches - instantly recognisable! http://www.warplane.com/index.html

I presume you mean that it's a mental thing - i.e., a matter of self-confidence; in which case I agree with you. Lambert radiates an aura that says, "This is going in - there's no way you're going to stop me!" James Beattie had the same attitude. He would put the ball down on the spot and, without looking at the keeper, would walk back a few steps, turn around briskly, and hammer the ball into the net. Yes, mental toughness is a big part of being a successful penalty-taker.

Which bit do they like so much? Killing people? Getting killed? Getting maimed by a IED? Getting PTSS?

Come on, Saints! Three points, please.

Yeah, saw that earlier. Thanks!

Let's put it this way, after listening to the game on Saints Player each Saturday, I immediately check the scores for the 6 or 7 teams below us and quickly work out the points difference between us the other top 8 teams. Also starting to study the run-in for us and the other top teams. Oh, and I'm not convinced by Merrington's bold assertions that we are definitely going up. Many long weeks ahead of us yet!

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That is funny!

Agreed. I can't abide radio with commercial advertising. In the car I listen to the CBC for news and such, and I listen to BBC Radio 4 podcasts that I download each Sunday. At home I don't bother with radio; I listen to my large collection of vinyl LPs and CDs.

Yeah, don't you hate those liberals: all that toleration of different ideas, faiths and beliefs - that concern for the other guy. Must be wimps, eh?

There are half-a-dozen people on this forum who talk too much. They want to dominate every thread and don't really listen to what others are saying. They think insult and sarcasm is a debating tool. They can be so tiresome, don't you think?

I hate to be pedantic (but, then again, maybe I don't) but your opening page features this howler: "You're responses will remain completely anonymous ... " And you're [note the correct usage] hoping for a degree?

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So you said! Dormant as in sleeping, right?! But as Jesus said, "Get off your f***king bed and walk!"

You are kidding, right?! You're telling me that all those people who answer in the census that they are "Christians" are even remotely Christian in their philosophy of life? As I said before, they're just vestigial Christians. I mean, are any of the so-called Christian churches (of whatever denomination) really Christian in character? And I mean believers in the radical, social views of the prophet Jesus Christ. Not adherents to a Church, or intermittent visitors to a church.

"Dormant Christian" sounds quite positive. I would use the more negative term "vestigial". What you describe is people using the church, or Church, when it suits their need or purpose - like a cultural tradition, or a social club. Church-going, in that sense, served an important social function in the past. I didn't get married in a church because I don't believe in, or hold to, the words the priest or minister says. I don't want to be a hypocrite. Likewise, I didn't get my children baptised because I don't believe in those sacraments anymore. Again, don't want to be a hypocrite and say or promise things I don't believe in. The only time I'm in churches these days, sadly, is to attend funerals for family and friends. Many people who participate in these "religious" events don't believe in them. They do it for social reasons. They are "religious" in the most mundane and debased way. They are certainly not Christians. Paying lip-service to a tradition because it's convenient or makes you feel nice and sentimental for a few minutes does not translate into Christian belief or a true religious attitude.

It is truly astonishing how ignorant and uninformed some people are on here. Some people don't seem to understand, for example, the basic notion of the separation between church and state. Or the meaning of the term "Christian". Or the difference between Old Testament and New Testament. Or the principles of the Enlightenment. If you can't define your terms, or articulate the meaning of some of these basic distinctions, don't bother arguing about them.

"It's nice to be nice to the nice". M*A*S*H, Frank Burns

Yes, I remember it well - May 3rd., 1966. Scoring a hat-trick, of course, in the Cup Final.