Dimond Geezer

I live in Bitterne Park, just off the approach for the airport. I was waiting for the Spitfire to take off this morning & it flew right over the top of me, circling a couple of times before flying off to Southampton Water, I managed to get a couple of pics. Twenty minutes or so later, I just happened to be walking out of my front door, as it came into land. It scared the living cr@p out of me, the roar of the engine as it flew about 50ft above me was awsome. This afternoon we were treated to a free air display for about 10 minutes as it looped & dived over Bitterne Park & out over Chilworth direction. I've been fortunate enough to see several Spitfires take of & land over the years. It never fails to make the hairs on my neck stand on end. It really is a beautiful machine & the sound of the Merlin engine is just something else. I can imagine that seeing a whole squadron taking-off during the war would have been breathtaking.

A much fairer system would be for the top 3 to be promoted, it's a lot simpler and a lot fairer. Unfortunately though it doesn't make any money. I for one would be pretty ****ed off if after finishing 3rd, someone like Colchester, or who ever, finishing 6th, beat us in a one-off game.

Peter Pod & the Peas. In the late 80's they once supported the Glitter Band (without the kiddie fiddler) at the Railway Institute in Eastliegh. PP&TP played their bit, then everyone left. The Glitter Band played too about 20 people. I was with about 10 of them & we only stayed because the beer was cheap.

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Maybe he just enjoys playing footy.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/League-One-side-Peterborough-have-launched-a-season-ticket-costing-15-000-that-is-seven-times-more-expensive-than-the-priciest-Premier-League-season-ticket-article709567.html

Why? Man U won on Saturday & lost last night didn't they?

It says 7 on here: http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=23702 with Chappie & Spiderman on 6 each.

No probs. I thought you were doubting the possibilty of being knocked out by a football, as you say it does seem along time.

I once knocked out my right back. I caught the ball from a corner & tried to quickly launch it upfield. Unfortunately he didn't get out of the way quick enough & got the full force from about five yards away. It took him 5 minutes to come around, by which time the ambulance was on it's way.

He got away with it. I wonder how many others would've. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/9409644.stm

Terrible news. Far too young. Rip Deano

I'm sure full instructions are posted on the ticket machine. All you need to do is check here first before approaching the barrier, that way you can avoid looking a tit at the said barrier.

England v France tomorrow, I'm looking forward to this immensely. I think it will be close, but we'll scrape it by 3 points, then the Grand Slam is ours - onwards to world domination. Will be back from SMS for the second half, but not sure whether to watch the 2nd half live or rewind & watch from the start, probably the latter.

Just for the record the fool that started the thread has admitted to being a Man Ure fan, his only interest in Brighton is that his boyfriend is a fan.

I think he is apologising for the time taken for the govt. to get their arse into gear. A lot of other countries had already started evacuating their nationals, whilst our lot were still sat around the lounges in Whithall chatting about it. Then the plane chartered (just the one) to get our chaps & chapesses out was sat at Gatwick with 'technical problems'. It appears the penny has finally dropped & the government have now realised that something does need to be done, and have (I believe) sent a couple of Hercules transporters out as well.

I never went to the zoo, but I believe it is on the site of what is now the Hawthorns Nature Centre. If I'm right, it must have been tiny, a couple of elephants & it would have been full up.

I'm correct, everybody else is wrong. My gran lived in BP all her life & it would drive her mad when people started referring to it as Bitterne Triangle. Apparently this started in the early 70's. It makes sense though, the Triangle must be a couple of miles from Bitterne & is synonymous with Bitterne Park.

This. Get the early train from Llanberis, then it's a relatively easy walk down (my lad did it when he was 6 years old), stopping at the cafe on the way. Make sure you wrap up, it gets wet & cold very quickly up there. Then spend the rest of the day, at Electric Mountain. It's about 10 minutes walk from the Snowdon train station. (The bottom one, not the top).

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If we are taking just their time at Saints into consideration: Shilts Flowers Niemi Jones Budgie Beasant If we are talking about their entire careers: Shilts Brucie Flowers Niemi Woods Beasant

Not that much different to the JPT final, to be fair.

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