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Free Sat from Sky though, not quite the same as normal freesat, but not much different. I have both and I actually prefer the Sky box.

Yeah, bastrads! AND they make you switch on your lights when it gets dark. AND they try to stop you driving on the pavement. Stupid nanny state.

Odd, I rely on comments from people at the match to get a real idea. At the start of the season, a lot of people put our great beginning down to Connolly being back and clearly being a class apart when he's fit. He was often touted as being our only player in that class and it was a shame we couldn't rely on his fitness. Now he's come back and hasn't hit form in two games, he's being put on the scrapheap. I've only seen him last week where he was obviously poor, but that's just from reading comments on here. One extreme to the other with no real middle ground.

I used to coach one of the Cardiff CBs, Ben Turner, when I was his teacher, he's a great lad and has apparently has been excellent for them, as he was for Coventry, very intelligent too and I'd love him to play for saints. I hope he has a **** game today, naturally.

I have Freesat, I'm not fussed about HD, but everything's okay with it generally. I just really hate the menu system which isn't user friendly at all. I also have an old sky box (no subscription) and tend to just use that instead as it gets most of the same channels but is nicer to use, no HD though.

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Teaching RE isn't the same as teaching creationism. It's teaching people that there are different beliefs. You're not going to learn much about Hinduism by going to your local C of E church. As I said in my post, I'm an atheist, but I thank my religious education for being able to make an informed decision on that. RE lessons shouldn't teach you that God made the world, they should teach you that this religion believes that their God made made the world. I think you're having trouble stepping outside a limited view of what education is. It's not the teaching of a belief, it's laying the information out for people to learn and develop their own opinions.

It would be very good to teach these kinds of things in school. The problem is that there are only so many hours available. Whatever is trimmed down to make way for it will have an equally large group up in arms. This would be a subject that would have personal value, but not value in particular to future employers or further education centres. There probably wouldn't be any kind of exam for it either. I'm not saying more exams are needed, but exam results are where schools are put under pressure, so that would affect how much emphasis was given to the subject. You would also get the usual types screaming "Now they're doing courses in how to rent a flat! It's PC gone mad! No wonder our kids can't read or write properly!" or tabloids ranting that kids are having classes in how to claim benefits. Ideally this sort of thing should be available as a voluntary, free or partially subsidised evening/out of school class.

Why knowledge about people of the world is forced on kids in school? This is a pretty typical comment from the people who don't actually get what religious education is. It isn't like a church education, teaching people bible stories or how God made the world. Religious Education is a subject teaching about religion in the world. The major world religions, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Judaism are all looked at, in theory with no bias on one or the other, just an education to explain the core beliefs of each. As an atheist myself, I consider it extremely important that, for anyone who is to make informed judgements and to avoid prejudice based only on ignorance, education is vital. Religious education was very important to me when I was younger and rather than forcing a religion on me, it made me see that the presence of so many religions in the world must mean that they are all in some way right (The idea of one group being singled out to "get it" seemed ridiculous) or none of them were. I hope my children also get a broad and unbiased education that will help them make up their own minds one day.

Last night we were easily over-run in defence and midfield, which is a bit worrying with us playing what we thought were three midfielders who were good enough. I haven't seen anyone calling for new midfielders. In defence we were utterly hopeless. Nobody defended well except Jos and the distribution from defence was probably why we never got back into the game, we just kept punting it back to no-one in particular.

Dune's problem is that he lives on the internet, so he has no choice but to believe every rumour he hears. Get out into the real world and live a bit, Dune. Then come back with some slightly more worldly ideas and people might give you some credibility. At the moment you spend waaaaaay too much time on various internet message boards to be worth listening to. Pretty soon all of those "kids" you think don't have enough real world experience are going to overtake you as you sit glued to your screen. What age was it you realised you knew everything anyway?

Funnily enough the second sale of Davies was also very good for us. He was turning in awful performances on the occasions he was picked, seeming fat and lazy (but without MLT's regular moments of genius), but he was on enormous wages (about 20,000 a week which was loads back them) and a long contract. He was a drain on resources it looked like we'd never offload. It seemed incredible when Bolton actually bought him. Worked out very well for everyone.

I did a lot of the work when we built our house, but when the in-laws offered to get the bathrooms tiled for us, I was happy to accept. I did learn to tile a roof last year though and that is a lovely job on a summer's day.

On a similar issue, megaupload has now been taken down, wiping out linking sites like icefilms, which I always found handy for watching TV series I'd missed.

The swaddling thing is discouraged by some experts too as it's not good for skeletal development. I said about this to my sister when she said we should do it, to which she said our mum always did it to us and it went okay. I had to point out to her that all three of us have suffered with back and joint problems since our late twenties and that she's been in for surgery about it three times. Odd how people sometimes have blindspots like that.

I tell my students that one of the hardest things to do, but handy if they don't want to sound like foreigners, is to develop a native accent. However I do warn them to make sure it's the right one. I used to share a house with a Spanish girl who spoke perfect English in a "perfect" brummie accent. You would've thought she was born there. She would've been so much better off keeping her Spanish lilt. My sister in law is married to an Irishman and also lived in Scotland for five years and Bournemouth for three. Her accent is very pleasing on the ear, just a few nice Celtic intonations. I'd say Scottish, Irish and simple "well spoken" home counties/southern accents are actually my favourites on the whole, although there are bad examples of each. My least favourites are the worst of Brummie and Welsh. One thing I've often found odd is how similar Norfolk and Cornish accents can be. I used to live in Norwich and travel regularly to Cornwall to see family and there's a lot that's the same in there.

Hadn't been following these but have caught up with a couple on Icefilms and it seems ok. I've read most of the books over the last year and I'm fully in favour of reworking the stories. To be honest, while the character is excellent, a lot of Conan Doyle's stories are pretty weak and I don't think he really had much inspiration for them. I guess that's why he tried to kill Holmes off. All of the fun is in the off hand observations he makes early on in a story, but the actual mysteries are often dull. It's also interesting that Moriarty comes up so often in Holmes adaptations as in the books he's only really in one short story at the end of the first run and isn't involved before that at all. Irene Adler also crops up a lot in films and on TV, but she's also only in one fairly bland short story. It's also been interesting to see how at first Holmes cocaine use is mentioned a lot, but later it's downplayed a lot, obviously a sign of the times. The films were OK but had nothing in common with the characters from the books. I can't imagine Watson getting into a fight and there was little of Holmes trademark deduction.

Even without that kind of stuff (I sort of understand the ideas of it being dangerous to try to make your home in a country where you have no idea how the culture works), I've never understood the appeal of Dubai. It seems to be for people who love big cities and hate beautiful nature. Despite only being a teacher, I have a very high standard of living in one of the most beautiful countries in the world. A big city-state like Dubai is my idea of hell.

According to wiki, he's been with Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus and Villareal, but has never played in a first team match for any of them. He could be amazing or he could be a player that never lives up to his potential. We may actually have to judge him by how well he plays.

Careful everyone, he's trying to draw you into a sensible discussion based on the facts and merits of the actual situation. Don't let him drag you to his level.

It's certainly a good story.

It always makes me laugh when Turkish and Dune criticise this place. A forum is only as good or bad as its most regular posters and there are few who spend as much time on here as those two. If it's ****, that reflects on them pretty heavily. From what I've heard they're also regulars on at least one other forum. Unbelievable two people's lives can revolve so heavily around internet forums, they need to get out into the real world and live a bit, as should anybody who feels the need to post on here more than three times a day.

Yeah, as said before, our owners have the wealth, but we're far from the fourth richest club. United, City, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool are just 6 clubs who could easily outbid us for players still. But if we get promoted, I can see our level of financial support moving us up the rich list. I know a lot of them have debts, but part of being wealthy is how much debt you can work with without getting into trouble.

That doesn't make much sense. They put down cats by overdosing them on anaesthetic, so they literally fall asleep and then die with no pain or suffering at all. How is the amount of time relevant? I don't know if it's illegal and it's not morally wrong, but I'd hate to take the chance of ****ing it up if I cared about the animal.

I know that the poster Junction 9 works with this and has helped out quite a few members on here before. I'm pretty sure he charges reasonable "mates rates" for saints web members too.