Lord Duckhunter

George Cole

My understanding is a bet is a debt of honour and not enforcable by law. Bookies can't sue you to pay a gambling debt but they dont have to pay out on anything.They obviously pay out 99.9999% of the time, otherwide people wouldn't use that firm. However, this guy has no chance of winning through the courts.He may get something to make the bad publicity go away, but he wont win the fukll amount or anything near it.

Growing up my family used to use it, but only in the context of a "good mush". As in he's a good mush.

My understanding was that it was a Southampton word and this was reinforced when I worked abroad.I met a lot of English lads working abroad in the 80's, most of them Northerners. When they found out I was a saints supporter loads of time I would get "you're a mush then". Nowadays it all seems to be Scummer, but then a lot of them called saints supporters a mush.

I dont think anyone is saying that schools should remain open under any circumstances. However, there are areas of the Country where they can, Poole being one of them.So why the school shut at 1pm is beyond me.We're turning our children in to a bunch of softies.

If it is because of worries over Childrens safety, then get the teachers in and have a teacher training day, then cancel one from later in the year (they have enough to choose from). If the teachers can't get in, then dont pay them. My staff have been told they can stay off, but it's unpaid. Surprise surprise, they all made it in, bar one bloke who lives in Sailsbury.Yet the school closed early so the teachers could get home.

It's the Nanny state gone mad. The school have a text service to let you know if it's open or not. The one today said it was open and then went onto add "come to school carefully as the roads and pazements are icy". Lucky I got that, otherwise I wouldn't have known and would have driven dangerously.

They closed my kids school early on Weds although we had no snow settling on the roads in Poole. They said it was so the teachers could get home ok.

I spoke to the head who said "what else could I do", I said "struggle home like the rest of us have to". They finish at 3pm anyway, and 3pm would be an early finish for everyone else.

Bloody joke.

Apart from his Dad and Lowe/Jan nobody else in football seems to rate him. He's hardly played any games for a number of differant clubs.

Will they be rocking Fratton tonight with their "One Peter Storrie" chant?

Some of them are ok, including my boss and one of my best mates, but most of them are complete planks. As a group, they are the biggest bunch of idiots in football, from dancing on the pitch when they lost to WBA, to the love/hate of Harry, and chanting Storrie-Tellers name. They've now become a serious embaressment to the Premier league in terms of finance and support and the sooner their relegated the better.

If they folded I would feel sorry for the decent ones amongst them, but not for some of the planks(95% of them). I recall going to QPR with my QPR supporting cousin and his mates for a Saints game. There was a load of his mates and me in a pub in Ealing the night before and one of his mates had brought a friend along. Turned out he was a Skate, instead of a bit of banter, he took a swing at me(before i'd even spoken to him) and all hell let loose. I don't think there is another team that have support that is filled with so much hatred (baring Celtic and Rangers) as they are. For that plank back in 1993 (or there abouts) I hope they end up in the Wessex League.

Best

Watford at Villa Park

Last game at Dell, what an ending.

Sheff Utd at SMS

Crouchys Peno-Did a Dads dance down the steps and embaressed my 15 year old son.

Forset away last season-The support that day, convinced me we'd still have a Club and a spirit no matter what happens.

Worst-

Tranmere in the Cup

Skates 4-1 away, we were lucky it wasn't 6 or 7.

Blackpool 0-1 last season, outplayed by a poor side,knew then that Lowe's madness was going to lead us down.

I have just received exclusive footage of the new tune they will be running out to before the next home game!

 

Granty, you dirty old man!

I think Clubs will be in for Pardew as well, but hopefully he's here for the long haul.

Hmmmmmmmm, I wouldn't be so sure, Brown has been getting better recently and been actually winning a lot of his pmq's with Cameron and so on. Cameron is good, but I don't think he has much substance, so I think Brown could come off well, but to be honest, I think the Lib Dems will come off best.

PMQ's are structured in such a way as to give the PM a massive advantage. He always has the last word and is not pressed to answer any questions. He just throws sound bites and a line of attacked worked out hours in advance. When Brown has been surprised or unprepared, he has come across very poorly.

An example of the lack of balance was at PMQ's recently when Brown said Spain was a member of the G8, when it is not. DC had ran out of questions, so couldn't press him on it, but someone like Paxman would have ripped him apart.

If the debates are structured in a way that means they have to think on their feet and the Chairman presses them for answers and picks up on any lies/spin/ mistake, Brown will take a hammering IMO.

Throughout the history of the charts there have been manufactured pop acts that have released cover versions. Back to the days when Pat Boone released sanitized versions of Little Richard tunes, through the 60's, 70's and 80's. This pap has existed alongside, and even out sold some of the greatest music of the past 50 years.

I can't stand X factor or the hype that goes with it and would rather listen to Westwood's bell than the latest Simon Cowell promoted pop sensation.

However my daughter loves it, who am I to tell her what she can like, what she can buy/download?

The charts are meaningless nowadays, so can't see why people are getting their knickers in a twist over this. The classic songs are still there for the kids to listen to (obviously, this isn't a classic cover), it takes the form of adverts or cover versions. If this leads them back to the originals, then surely it's a good thing?

Sounds like 'I'll fly away' but actors name escapes me, sorry.

Thanks, that's it. Just googled it and the actor is Sam Waterson.

It was a pretty good show.

1. NYPD Blue

2.Curb your Enthusiasm

3.Frasier

Can anyone remember the name of a series about 15 years ago, set in the deep South. Which dealt with the racial issues of the late 50's/60's. It was pretty good, had the bloke from Law and Order in it. I can't for the life of me remember the name of it.

Goldie Horn was stunning in her 40's.

That bird from sex in the city (i think she's over 40). Not the one from Porkys, Sarah Jessica Parker, or the ginger lesbo, but the other one. Not sure what her name is, but she's pretty fit.Long black hair, and was married to a baldy in the show.

What about this band

Eric Clapton

George Harrison

Ringo

Jim Keltner

Billy Preston

And the great Leon Russell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-RiahNtyqw&feature=related

What a band.

You tube has to be the greatest website. (after TSF)

I can't think of a finer band.

The Beatles

The Band

The Rolling Stones

Slade

The Who

CCR

Cream

Steely Dan

Got to hand it to the Skates, their great at clutching straws.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A60539411

A friend of mine works for a press agency. They have people calling them all the time with alledged wrong doings by famous people and in particular footballers at nightclubs. During JB's last 2 years at Saints they had more calls about him and a certain hobby of his, than any other footballer at that time.It is not a Southampton based agency, and yet they had call after call about him.

If a fellow professional is complimenting us off his own back after a defeat we must be good.

That's great news, I can't remember this happening since Chris Iwelumo. Get Mr Byfield on the O/S.

The other way is to highlight all your songs in itunes and bump up the volume slider (it's on one of the tabs in the 'getinfo' menu). I've done this and it works fine, but you have to remember to do it with each new cd you import etc.

I've found the above makes a little bit of differance, as does using better head phones rather than the ones provided. You can also change the equalizer preset to acoustic, which seems to make it a touch louder. There are programmes that claim to remove the volume limit, but they will invalidate your warrenty. I didn't think it was worth the risk.

I've finally joined the digital age, with the Mrs. buying me an iPod for Birthday. First download, and can't stop playing Leon Russell's Retrospective. The most underrated man in Rock music, pure genius.

 

As for 'The Wire' - bring back by beloved 'NYPD Blue' I say .

Agreed, Andy Sipowicz's is TV's best detective, bar none.