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No, the stewarding-related highlight was the fat ignorant c*** of an SFC steward eventually getting out of our way.

Alpine_Saint or Deppo then.

He's fast, fairly tricky (but a little greedy) on the ball and if only we'd moved the goalposts to Row Z he'd have been a prolific goalscorer for us.

A famine in those overpopulated countries would help them to reduce the drain on their resources. Maybe it will wake them up to what they're doing and in future reproduce and live within their means. We should just let nature take its course.

If you're honest with yourself, you probably can't afford to be too choosy. If you're anything like this in real life, you're not going to have people queuing around the block to be your friend. I say hang on to these ones: suicide is probably only a couple less friends away for you.

You could get a wheelchair with Saints hubcaps and sit in the front row.

Patrick Bateman?

We switched over to Question Time for some light relief and far more more chuckles.

Anyone with some spare time could have lots of fun after setting up some fake player accounts :-)

SIM free iPhone at £505 (£499 pre-VAT increase) is the best way to go. No 18m/24m contract, choose your own SIM only deal (cashback via Quidco etc) and be free to switch between telecos if a better deal comes up to suit you or if your needs change. I pay £20/mth on O2 for 600mins, 1200 texts and TRULY unlimited Data (I've used 1.23GB in this period with 11 days of my billing month still to go, so work out the excess data charges with Voda/Orange etc!) I could get it a little cheaper with GiffGaff, but can't be bothered to switch. I have a spare Orange PAYG SIM that I stick in for Orange Wednesday deals and when travelling abroad you're able to source the best local SIM deal to stick in for the duration of your stay to avoid hefty call/data charges. Plus, the handset is factory unlocked and at any time it will achieve a greater resale value than a contract/locked one. A SIM-free iPhone is easily the best option, but I can understand those that plump for a contract deal - despite the restrictions - if they can't afford the initial outlay.

The best £505 you'll ever spend.

Exmouth?

Livingstone Road is away from the main roads in that area (Portswood Road and Lodge Road) so it's not noisy with traffic. Virtually the whole of Livingstone Road, Gordon Avenue, Alma Road etc is full of student houses, so you'll get enough noise, litter, puke and taxi engine noise etc. You'll be well served for food shopping there. Besides Waitrose, there's a large Co-Op store, International Foods if you fancy cooking or the Farm Foods Store is probably more suited to you. It's Studentville around there so the house will be sh1t though.

I've no idea. The 'imagine' story was made up. I've never owned a copy (allegedly) but would like to take a look at the Mac App Store :-)

Imagine, for instance, that I wanted to 'reinstall' Snow Leopard after reformatting one of my machines, but 'couldn't find' the original disk. I would imagine that someone who currently uses Snow Leopard would feel really sorry for me and wouldn't mind loaning me their copy of the installation disk. So, if anyone has a copy and wants to be really really helpful: let me know ;-)

It is only 'legal' to do that if it is her car and she is the main driver. Insurance companies aren't stupid - she'd also have to state how many cars are in the household and if she owns or has use of any other vehicle. Assuming that she has her own car, she'd have to lie a lot. She'd also have to hope they're stupid enough to believe that although she's however old she is and, probably, been driving a much better car for years: that it's pure coincidence that this old cräpheap has just been bought and registered in her name at the same time that her son has just become eligible to drive. Of course, assuming that she's a convincing liar and the insurer is dumb, if/when the son has a prang she'll have to remember the lies she told when she comes to report the claim. She'll also have to hope that the son doesn't have an accident to/from college or work (because as a named driver his use cover would be for social excluding commuting normally, or else he'd be deemed the main driver), that they don't do a simple DVLA check on other household vehicles which would prove she lied and committed fraud, or that they don't employ one of many other tricks to expose the lies and render the policy null and void and leave the son liable for damages and prosecution. I ran a motor insurance brokerage for many years before becoming a claims assessor and owning a motor claims business. If you listen to some of the foolish suggestions on this thread then you do so at your peril. The only way to do it is to register the vehicle in your son's name and hope that he builds up some NCB by not hitting anything. Putting you or your wife on as a named driver may help keep the premium down with some insurers. I've been out of the business too long now to know which insurers are best for young drivers now. I'd suggest he asks his friends or other young drivers who they're insured with for ideas of who to get quotes from; But ignore those who tell you to put it in a parent's name. False and stupid economy to not be indemnified in the event of a claim.

You miserable c***. You should just Kill yourself.

I'll save my best chuckle for you xx

NYE is full of people going out with the expectation of having an amazing night and then miserably failing. I don't care: I will be working through until 6am when the double tariff ends, chuckling as I take their money.

You are so wrong!

The 'Union' doesn't represent me or any drivers I know. It's run by the usual suspects with their own agendas. Many of them and their members own multiple Red Plates and will make the same amount of money from renting their cars/plates out regardless of what the tariff is. The same group of people maintain a stronghold on Southampton's taxi trade and have a vested interest (when Red Plates are fetching £45k at the moment) in opposing the deregulation and unrestricting of the Hackney numbers when almost all other cities in the country have done so. The same group of people who scare people into thinking they should use only white licences Taxis and not PHVs because of the safety for lone females etc; When, in fact, if you call a taxi firm there is a record of which car and which driver is sent, taxi cameras and GPS data boxes in most PHVs, which is much safer than jumping in a white taxi where there's no record of your journey. I'd never let my daughter use a white Hackney from a rank (someone else has mentioned foreign/unlicensed drivers) only a pre-booked PHV. Don't ever agree a price up front with a Hackney; make them rub the meter and ask to see their badge so you can record their details and the car's licence plate to inform the council if they refuse to run the meter.

Anyone who lives outside of the City boundary and hails a taxi or jumps in one on a rank is an idiot if they then moan about the 25% boundary charge. Phone Radio Taxis (023 8066 6666 or follow on Twitter @Radio_Taxis) to pick you up and you'll never be charged a boundary charge (even if it's a Hackney that leaves a rank to get you!) Some other companies have followed suit and don't apply boundary charges also. With regards to the Christmas charges: Tariff 4 used to commence at 8pm Xmas Eve until 6am 27/Dec, then 8pm New Years Eve until 6am 02/Jan. Now it's 11pm Xmas Eve until 6am 27/Dec and 11pm New Years Eve until 6am 01/Dec (just 7hrs!) Tariff 4 is double the daytime tariff: so yes, on Xmas Day during the day a £10 fare would be £20, but the usual night time fare (11pm-6am) for the same journey of £12.50 would be £20 - a 60% increase, not double! Therefore, it's pretty much time and a half for us to be out taking drunk people hone at 2am on Xmas morning, or missing NYE celebrations with family and friends to be working through until 5 or 6am. How many of you would choose to work those days and times for time and a half? When it was 8pm that tariff 4 started, it was worth working. This year I'm not working Xmas Eve night for normal pay. I'm also considering not working NYE until after midnight because why should I do it for normal rates up until 11pm? Instead I will batter the hours on Boxing day (still missing any family plans) and the 7hr NYE Tariff 4 period. I don't blame the driver at all. Our costs have escalated - I've spent £3800 on fuel in this financial year so far, £1000+ on insurance, 2 MOTs a year, Council Licence fees have risen, a new compulsory Taxi Camera is £800 fitted: yet fares haven't increased in 3+yrs so this is all eating away at our profit. Would you be happy if, for the one brief period of the year when you can make a but more for working the unsocial hours over the festive period, you were told you had to do it for less money?

Oh noes my nan is ded PMSL xx

1. Stella 2. Sandeesh 3. Paloma 4. Laura 5. Liz 6. Joy 7. Melissa 8. Joanna I don't get the Liz thing. She reminds me too much of Posh Spice and Cheryl Cole - all three have monkey faces.

No he hasn't, you numpty. It gets heavily bandaged for matches and taken off afterwards.