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norwaysaint

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  1. I couldn't take up a stance as simplified as banning all abortions, there are too many factors that can be involved for any blanket decision. However, after having children and having kept up to date with what would be happening with the baby's development right through pregnancy, I would have trouble ever getting over it if any woman had my baby aborted. They "exist" as an entity, a life of their own, a lot earlier than many would have you believe. I would raise a child on my own rather than have it aborted if that were a choice. I've been sickened in the past and actually found myself permanently distanced from a friend who saw abortion as just the next method of contraception. He thought it wasn't any big deal that a couple of different girlfriends had had them. I am anti-abortion in most cases, but not as an overall decision. What's your view Turkish? You seem to be just playing devil's advocate, but you must have a viewpoint too.
  2. Great quiz. I got 152 and can't believe some of those I missed. remember those great years when we used 7 midfielders, 2 defenders and one striker. The years of the multi purpose, average-wherever-he-plays player? I missed Hughes Berkovic Perry Dryden Saejs Palmer Nielson and plenty more Goes to show why Mills, Cranie, Best and Blackstock moved on when they never made those lists, but so many poor players did. Was a bit surprised Jesus didn't feature. Our defence was horrific in the wilderness years.
  3. We had "We have all the time in the world" by Louis Armstrong
  4. Top 50 here. Beatts gets a mention. I'd forgotten David Bardsley, at the time I was house sharing with a QPR fan who told me that they used to sing "Bardsley for England!" ironically at Loftus Road. He couldn't believe it when he was actually brought on. Graham Taylor could fill this team without even trying. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1211522/The-List-Sportsmails-worst-England-international-footballers.html
  5. I think you've hit a point there that lots of people don't really get. You need some players that can do a job, but won't get disruptive or leave just because they're not first choice. You don't want too many squad players, but Harding is an excellent one who doesn't complain, but is good for back-up when needed.
  6. I'm glad you've spotted he's deppo. It's an excellent piece of detective work.
  7. Erik Huseklepp has announced in the Norwegian press that he doesn't want to play for pompey in league one. Not too surprising as he is keen to keep his place in the national side and would probably like to get paid now and then too.
  8. I've seen a few people fail to settle in Norway. Nearly all of them were ones who came over without any connections here to try it out. I think you need to have a partner, some family or a good friend who's native to get into life here. They can help you find out how to really enjoy it without it costing much money. People who come without an "in" often find it expensive and find it difficult to make friends.
  9. Yeah, you're right. Just the 1942 posts so far.
  10. If anybody is confused by dune's oddly changeable "voice" on SWF, I think the root of it all is this: Sturomseysaint or Turkish deliver a steaming great turd of an opinion/viewpoint over on The Ugly Inside and their new bestest mate/biggest fan dune eagerly scoots up behind them onto his knees and laps up the whole putrid mess, hoping that the big boys will appreciate him. Then he proudly rushes over here and opens his mouth to show us all what he's been swallowing. See such gems as "Joey Barton is just the kind of player we need" or dune's new found interest in how people dress at matches, coming shortly after they were shat out by his heroes. Does that sound about right to anyone else?
  11. There's a lot of talk about that in this week's episode. I think they're moving on from the nudity now they've got our attention. I don't think the blonde one will get them out again, probably in her contract just to do it in the first series. I'd imagine that if the viewing figures drop, tits will return. Not the most exciting episode this week really.
  12. None of you have any idea what north really is.
  13. Wow this thread makes me miss living in England. smokers visible tattoos graffiti music being played loud for everyone to hear people making throaty noises, then spitting a green lump on the pavement gum chewing, and the remnants on the pavements and lamp-posts casual littering, especially cigarette debris and fast food packaging strong local accents sportswear as leisurewear parking on the road rather than in a driveway, garage or parking bays cars with a door/wing/bonnet a different colour to the rest of the car mostly terraced houses
  14. I'd say most of the decent comedy for years has been left wing. The only right wing "comedy" I can think of off-hand would be Jim Davidson and Jeremy Clarkson. As for left wing comedy off the top of my head: Stewart Lee George Carlin Bill Hicks Bill Maher Eddie Izzard Richard Herring Alexei Sayle Jeremy Hardy Chris Morris Mark Thomas Mark Steel plus just about every bit of satirical comedy in the eighties. but I would say that Dune's idea of funny is a bit closer to Jeremy Clarkson than most of those and Clarkson is hugely popular. There's no right or wrong, it's just a preference.
  15. Hawk eye was invented in Romsey up at Roke Manor, so I guess it's a fitting venue.
  16. What was that then?
  17. Well, I particularly like Hardangervidda and have crossed it a couple of times(2 hours from Bergen), but there are hundreds of places I wanted to go to , but didn't reach before I had kids. Not especially around Bergen, which is where I live. Breheimen was next on my list, but there's also Rondane and Jotunheimen and plenty of others. For an easy one, there's always Nordmarken, just by Oslo.
  18. You should try Norway, you can walk across the mountains for days, staying cheaply in beautiful mountain cabins run by the tourist association, you just become a member and they give you the key. If you stay in one or eat any of the food they have there, you pay, based purely on a trust system. They are lovely places that are mostly maintained by volunteers and mean you can walk across huge breathtakingly beautiful unpopulated areas and have somewhere warm and cosy to sleep. I've often turned up late at night at one before and met other friendly groups who invite you to share their dinner and booze. I often wonder if the same system would work in Britain or if people would just break in and vandalise them and nick anything that wasn't nailed down.
  19. Well don't ask Junction 9. He knows **** all about this sort of thing.
  20. I actually know Ben Turner fairly well. He's not only a good player but a very intelligent lad. I was his teacher years ago and he was top of his year group in pretty much all subjects. He once promised to clobber Leon Best in training for me when they were both at Coventry. He used to play in midfield and captained a team that won everything in the Birmingham area, he played just in front of Manny Smith who's now at Walsall.
  21. It's an awful song and I wouldn't see any good reason for singing it (this from before I emigrated and I am still British), but I wouldn't be idiotic enough to boo it either. If you don't approve of it, silence sends a far clearer message. It won't change any time soon though. All of the alternative songs are poor too. Ideally a new one would be written, but of course at least half the population would hate it whatever it was. Anthems can be proud and relevant, I enjoy Norway's and always join in on 17th May. Like most people I only know the first verse, but it's relevant to me and anyone else living here. The first line is "Yes, we love this country" and it doesn't contain anything about the current monarchy, that's the kind of thing I prefer.
  22. I wouldn't like to see saints aiming for the CL as that would be silly and could end up stretching us far further than we can go as a club. I'd like us only to concentrate on a decent league position (top 10 is a good target). Good cup runs are nice, but should never be our focus, why would we put the cup above the league? Europa league would be amazing. If we ever got into the CL it would be on the back of results that could never be predicted or expected. It would probably be partly down to fluke a one-off run and would doubtless create future expectations that we could never live up to. I don't want to see it in any serious plan, but I would like to see Saints aiming for Europa league qualification sometime in the next five years.
  23. Yeah, I wasn't sure. Still holds up as one of our best ever managers for transfers, I don't think any of them cost much and they were all very good for us.
  24. He did well in finding some good players for us (I think: Beattie, Davies, Pahars, Marsden, Kachloul, Dean richards), which was his real success as a manager with us, but the football was never great. It kind of worked to have Hoddle after him as hoddle was terrible in the transfer market (Petrescu and who else?), but seemed to get the best from the team. On those grounds, you can see why somebody said he laid the foundations of the team we became.
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