Petersfield Saint

You don't think they would actually have read any of his work, do you? Dickens are what they give their sisters after a night out.

Coffee all over keyboard; cheers!

A GREAT post! Just about sums thing up perfectly. Just turning over in my head as to who will be the first "nay-sayer" to respond......

Yep, pretty well sums up my feeling too. Well said *Halo*

The rise in food prices in recent years is down to a combination of stock market speculation on food, and to a lesser extent the US switching to Biofuel crops - linking food prices with oil prices. The third factor is the rise of a Chinese middle-class, and their growing taste for meat.

 

I'm as pro-environment as they come, and I can se Biofuel for the green wash that it is - it works only on scrub land that is currently unproductive, but doesn't work when arable land is taken out of food production.

 

So if we were more veggie and less Capitalist the world would be a better place.

Can't wait for Dune's response to this!

The greatest failure of humanity has been its inability to determine how resources are shared. Capitalism just isn't the answer. Nation states don't help.

 

The focus needs to be on global problem solving, irrespective of cost. It is a travesty that millions of people die every year in third-world countries through starvation or easily preventible or curable diseases, and a damning indictment on Western societies that we can just sit back and ignore it.

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German (the missus is from Berlin) and Spanish though that's rapidly fading as I never get to practice it these days; same with French which I used to be good at but have almost forgotten now. Seems my brain can only cope with one foreign language at a time!

Far from putting you at a disadvantage, I've found that the French really appreciate you trying to speak their language and are usually very helpful.

+1 - same in every country I've ever visited; the locals appreciate you "having a go" even if it's only a few words.

Maik Taylor and Kevin Davies, by the managers who let them go

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Good Luck Marian

 

 

ps he will probably get injured though giving the team talk. lol

Loved little Marian but this made me lol

I think Docker-P should have the casting vote

Davina McCall. Very annoying.

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If only we'd held on to Lawrie Mac...

I seem to remember it was defined as 26th December in the 'Bank Holiday Act 1871' when we discussed this last year.

 

Do we have to go through this every year? It's bad enough with the Christmas jingles on the tele ads but nowadays the Boxing Day debates start earlier and earlier.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/good-questions-boxing-clever-over-christmas-daze-1468545.html

Not local but had one of these last Christmas. Fantastic, no comparison with turkey. Pricey but worth it for once a year.

http://www.coedwynog-geese.co.uk/

+1; spent Xmas in Germany last year (the missus is from there) and had goose - absolutely bloody fantastic and I love turkey normally!

Richmond NCP or Hammersmith Kings Mall car park then tube to Earls Court; as others have said parking around earls Court is almost non-existant.

Used to go to the SISA meetings there back in the day; feels like centuries ago now.

Get in!!!

Eh? What is this crazy notion?

Exactly! He's watching us for God's sake; let the poor man drink to forget!!

I'd go.

 

better to die thinking 'at least i gave it go' rather than 'what if...'

This.

Brussells or Bruges ??

 

Looking for pubs, clubs & hot tubs.

Brussels better for the above

Listen, we have a hard working bunch of professional posters posting on here. We need everyone to stick together and be a team. Be a team together. We need to work hard and keep working for Southampton Football Club and this forum. This is a big forum for a big club and other posters are going to come here trying to make things difficult for us. But we're a big forum and if we post well, it will give us the opportunities to push on. Never underestimate those posters who want to ruin threads by hijacking them. If we all get behind the posters then we can all enjoy the opportunities that good posting can bring. Listen, when I came into this building there were a bunch of hard-posting professionals here and with the fresh start we're working hard to push-on towards, we can all enjoy winning more friends and climbing to the premier league of forums.

Get behind Saint Fan CaM FFS!!!

Personally it would be a shame if Baj and Granty decided to call it a day for this site. The interest will grow again once we start our progress back up the leagues and the debates as volitile as before. Bring back Burley then you would see

Burley was the best thing to happen to this forum in recent years!

Count me in. TSW is the only thing that gets me through a dull, working day.

This, and this lurker is in!

God, yes. Has there ever been a worse player in the history of Saints? I think we paid £400k for that pile of siht too.

The silver lining being that he made Benali look world class!

I think you're being unfair, but if you feel like that then that's up to you. Alpine isn't that bad tbh, but if you really have an issue just put him on ignore. Personally i've always found he has a good sense of humour and can laugh at himself - the acid test to who's alright and who's a nob. I would suggest to you that you are endemic of the minor problem, if you debate with Alpine he's fine and not at all rude, but you have been rude remark about him in your post complaining. Alps also has a little double act with SOG and it doesn't hurt anyone - i rarely read the exchanges, but they don't bother me. Of course you're entitled to feel the way you do though and i'd prefer it if all the sleepers put in a bit more input - even if it's just to slag me off - i'm used to it and thick skinned.

Amen to this too!

I'm starting feel sorry for Baj now. Don't get me wrong he's made a horrendous area of judgement in the way he has treated his friends, but having seen what Baj does on this site over many years, and having been helped by Baj, I think we all need to cut him some slack. Is the Baj the sort of person who would have done this to his friends had he realised how it'd be seen? NO. I think he's hurting as much as they are and i'd really respect him if he did the right thing, said sorry and meant it, and the old mods accept the apology and get this place back to normal. And contrary to the moaning there is nothing wrong with the forum - it is currently the best a saints forum ever has been - although we all sometimes look back through rose tinted glases. That said it would be nice to see some smaller forums popping up with a few regulars because this is mainstream and a bit of variety makes life more interesting. Baj you could be really decent and encourage and allow new forums to b advertised on here. Let's be honest this is not a business, it's you trying to hlp fellow fans out, so stop worrying about fivers and stop worrying about it going slow now and then during a match - you're doing your best and it's hardly a matter of life and death. In fact why be brave and put your faith in all of and stop the £5 and do like Keith did and ask for donations. I promise i'd donate £20 and others would donate generously too be a great of us value what you provide. Come on Baj - you wanted a radical relaunch then scrap the £5 fee - make everyone a full member and I am very sure that you'll bring in more money because we are a bloody good fanbase who look out for each other and we we're a family on here of a sort.

 

And my final word on the mod situation.

 

Stop being big girls blouses the lot of you and start acting like grown men who are friends. Frankly this whole episode is embarrassing - sort it out - and get rid of this cringeworthy thread.

 

And to think i'm called immature. You should all be infracting yourselves for making such tit's of yourselves.

 

P.s Baj if you've found this post helpful there is the little matter of my request for a Porn Forum which i sense you've not fully ruled out.... It'd be a great addition if you could somehow limit users to over 18's.

Dune, well said mate. I don't agree with your politics but I always find your posts entertaining and this forum would be a poorer place without all the characters like yourself, Alpine, Delldays, SRS, Dalek etc. I don't post much but come on here everyday for a read and a chuckle and still think this is by far the best Saints forum out there (and one of the best in general btw). I think the current atmosphere on here is just down to the recent happenings on and off the pitch at SFC - and that things will soon pick up again. I think personal abuse should be frowned on but at the same time people should also be a bit thicker-skinned too; it's the debate and banter that really makes this place what it is.

I would also say go for it, and I am also a Hero owner. I also agree that battery life is dreadful although at least the battery is removable unlike the iPhone and to be honest most smartphones drink their batteries. However I would also say if you can afford it to buy one sim-free then shop around for cheap sim-only contracts. I had to tie myself in with 3 for two years to get the Hero plus if you google around the web you'll see what a painful experience it is getting Android OS updates if you're on a branded contract phone. Next time around I will pick an Android phone again but I will definitely go sim-free.