Lord Duckhunter

Why is it the Leftie's praise people who were wrong on every issue, and had the whiff of KGB money about them in Foot and Jones, and yet have a blind hatred towards a women that the British people elected 3 times. To compare her to Hitler is shameful and ignorant. In the 10 years from 1979 to 1989 more people owned shares and houses, the Unions were put in their place, it no longer took weeks to get a phone line fitted and Britain was no longer the sick man of Europe.All measures oppossed by Labour. They lost the arguement, abandoned clause 4,and embraced much of Maggie's agenda. They had 13 years in power and yet did not repeal any of the union laws, did not renationalise anything, let market forces prevail and even made the bank of England independent ( a move considered too radical by Mrs T).The Labour movement had to move towards Mrs T and away from the Leftie heros like Foot and Benn, perhaps thats the reason they have a pathological hatred of her.

Thanks for all the advise.The internet is full of confussing info, so I thought some of people on here would be more like us and would have been through the same. As I said, he hasn't lost any of the existing fish, just ones added lately (4 of them, and all catfish)). He does have a couple of silly ornaments (he is only 10) and a few rocks, but they have been in there since he started, and 2 months ago the Phosphate was fine. Whats confussing him is he has stone suckers that hang around the bottom,and an ugly misreable looking thing, that looks like Avram Grant ( I think it's called a clown plec, but not sure) who hangs around the bottom and they are all fine, but as soon as he adds catfish,who pick at stuff on the bottom( he's tried bronze and Albino ones), they dont last very long. What he's done is clean the filter and replace one lot of carbon, changed 20% of the water and is going to change 20% in 2 days time, followed by another 20% 2 days after that, he's turned the lights from 10 hours to 6 and I've also told him to cut down on the Algie wafers for the Avram Grant thing.He's tested for Nitrate and it's fine, it's just a lot more algie than he has had and high Phosphate. Fingers crossed he can sort it out and add some catfish.

He adds some sort of minerals to the RO water called Re-Mineral Tropic, it states on the label No Phosphates.

I've just had a look and the plants seem to have some sort of "fur" on them, not sure what it is, there is also a lot of algie, which he hasn't had a problem with before. He's asleep now, so I can't ask him how long it's been like this, but I'll check with him in the morning.

That's the strange thing, no fish have died except when he's tried to add a couple of cat fish on 2 separate occasions. They swam round like they were drunk for a couple of days and then went off to meet their maker. We were told that the water was proberly too hard, so that's when he started using RO water. He tested the water for phosphate 2 months ago and it was fine, tested again last night and it was high. I tested the RO water for him today and there was none at all, so it's something in the tank ( I know that's obvious, but we are novices)

He's got about 3 live plants. I dont think he's overfeeding because the nitrate levels are perfect. He feeds them once every 3 days. I'll get him to clean the filter and see if that can bring them down. He gets the water tested once a month and it's been ok until now. What's confussing him is he is doing nothing different.

My little lad has been keeping tropical fish about 8 months. All of a sudden he has started to get high Phosphate levels and we dont really know what to do about it. I was wondering if any forum members had any advise for him. He has an 80 Ltr tank, with about 20 fish in. He has an RO water maker, and the water he puts in shows no Phosphate at all. When he tests the water from the tank, it shows a level of about 3.He changes 10% of the water weekly and 20% once a month. Does anyone know the cause and the cure of his problem, as we keep getting conflicting and confusing advise.

I'm sure Cup and play off tickets will be ST holders first, followed by members, and then the data base. In my opinion that makes it worthwhile despite it costing me £42.00 (if my memory serves) for the family last time they ran it.

I think memberships are a great idea and after the Pompey ticket farce, where you only have had to have been to 1 previous game, will make ticket distribution fairer. I would like to see it set at a high level, with some sort of money off for games. Maybe £30 and no £3 transaction charge for tickets . That means go to 10 games and you get your money back.

Put it like this; Had the present lot taken over in 1997 and not Lowe and his gang, we wouldn't be in League 1 now.We'd be up with the Villa's, Everton's and Fulham's chasing a Europa League spot.

In a similar vein to the Cash stuff is this video from Willie Nelson Willie is underappreciated in this Country and unfortunatly will proberly have to pass before getting the recongition his talent fully deserves. He's playing Glastonbury this year, so he may pick up a few of the younger generation.

There are some real gems in his American recordings, (although towards the end they got a bit patchy). Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus is one and Nick Cave's Mercy Seat is fantastic. The fact Cash was coming to the end of his life, is reflected inh his voice and I think that's why his version of Hurt is so memorable. Whoever wrote the songs doesn't really matter, he had an original take on them.That's what a great cover version should be about. I'd heard his shows could be poor due to ill health and other issues, but he was on fine form when I saw him.

I saw the great man at The Albert Hall around the time of his first American Recordings Album, one of the best performances I've ever seen.

We're looking at it from a "Southampton till I die" point of view, a business man will look at it differently, that's the price we have to pay for ML's money. The key here is the silance around the decision, it's like they think we're too simple to understand the reasoning. If they laid out the reasoning behind it, and did it early, 75% of the complaints would go away. They've made the story bigger than it needed to be, and caused more bad feeling than they needed to.I haven't got a S/T so it doesn't affect me, and yet I'm still a bit puzzled by the handling of it.

The timing of this is pretty poor customer service really, it should have been announced around April time to allow for people to try and adjust their spending. I was playing 5 a side last night with a senior Manager of a large retail Company and we were talking about this. He said they used to throw "store cards" at everyone who came through the door, but the last couple of years the finance Companies are charging the store more and more to administer it. He said the cost was starting to eat into the margin of already heavily reduced items. Therefore the cards are not actively sold to customers, not advertised and only used for high ticket items, when the customer is clearly going to spend at a rival. I suggest the same thing has proberly occured here. If the cost to the Club outweighs any advantages of getting money up front and they'll get more from people buying their tickets one at a time, then clearly they'll do that. I know people wikll say pass the cost onto the customer, but if the cost is more than the saving, then people will not take out the installment plan anyway. I can't see any other reason for the Club doing this, if the installment plan meant more money up front, guarenteed attandance every week then they would do it. They are not fools, and although the thing has been handled badly PR wise, there will be a sound business reason for it. I do feel sorry for the guys who have to find this large amount of money in these difficult times, money that they haven't budgetted for, but sometimes things do kick you in the balls.

Two years ago John Prescott said "I don't want to be a member of the House of Lords. I will not accept it." Whatever political opinion anyone has, surely we can all agree that saying one thing then doing another is hypocrisy.

I've just had a thought. Wasn't it supposed to be Laws appearing on QT, perhaps he had a whiff of this story,and the Campbell thing was a smokescreen. I know that the press will have asked him for an explanation before going to print, it's just whether he would have known on Thurs evening.

I bet Nick Clegg's regretting his holier than thou attitude during the general election campaign. The LIb/Dems despite trying to make out their somehow different, are as sleazy and greedy as every other party.

It does work perfectly well in other Countries. Perhaps we could have a lottery for the role.Or ask the tourist industry who'll generate the most money,only thing is it can't be a Catholic. I presume you agree with people sitting in the House of Lords on the basis of their forefathers as well.

Labour hypocrisy in all it's glory. Brother Prescott, the great class warrior nobled by the man who pledged a 100% elected House of Lords. He joins Lord Kinnock, another Brother who fought the great Socialist fight.

Have been watching the BBC show and although I was dissapointed with it, it got me thinking. What is people ideal band? For what it's worth, here is mine from people at the peak of their careers. Singer-Rod Stewart Bass-Rick Danko Guitars-Eric Clapton & Steve Cropper Drums-Levon Helm Keyboards-Leon Russell Backing Vocals-Mavis Staples & Claudia Lennear. From that you can tell I'm a bit of a dinosaur and I can't believe I've nobody from The Beatles, The Who or Stones. In fact I've ended up argueing with myself trying to fit everyone in. Justs shows how difficult it is. I would be interested in others opinions and perhaps some of the reasoning behind it.

With The Faces back in the news this week, thought this would be a good time to post them in all their glory. Just shows what a great singer Rod was, until he went all soft (I blame Britt Ekland)

The head of state matters.

Does Nick Griffin's refusal to allow blacks into the BNP impact my life? No, is it wrong? of course. Does having international rules on Human rights impact on my life? no, shall we abolish them then? MP's expenses, that didn't have much impact on my life, but I still think they were wrong. I employ people and if I sacked them for being a Catholic, or didn't promote them because they were a female, the law would come down on me like a ton of bricks and yet I'm expected to bow and scrape to a posh old biddy whose german forefathers killed, maimed and cheated their way to the British throne?

People seem happy that we are ruled and reigned over, by someone on the basis of their attraction to, and help for, the tourist industry. I prefer to stick to the basic prinicple that everyone is born equal, that you shouldn't discriminate against someone on the basis of sex (male heir's first) relegion (no catholics allowed), or the fact that your German ancestors managed to kill, rob and maim their way to the crown. It seems really strange to me that everyone is banging on about an elected house of Lords and getting rid of the Hereditary peers, but there's no difference whatsoever in the Queen's status.