
Wiltshire Saint
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2. The problems in Africa are not caused by the previous colonial powers. The Empires of the past did a lot of good in raising living standards and building infrastructure - basically we superceded the tribes and proved that Africa could work. The problems in sub saharan Africa would exist today whether we had been there or not due to the nature of the tribal culture. I agree with you about the map of Africa, and it's a sad fact that stability is still tenuous, but in the modern world tribal enclaves cannot exist alongside prosperity so in effect there is no map that could fit and sadly therefore no solution.
The problem here is that I will never convince you that you're wrong and you will never convince any right minded person that Africa's colonial past has not caused many of the problems seen today.
The building of Empires created more problems than solutions, you are just choosing to ignore the problems (which is bizarre because they vastly outnumber the benefits). The dividing up of land by the Europeans is a fundemental cause of the political instability that is seen in many African countries today and can be directly linked to the rise of Military dictatorships. In countries where war and in-fighting is constant, because of tribal conflict caused by the Europeans (not just in boundary terms, but because the British, for example, set tribes up against each other and played each other off......often setting one tribe up as the administrative assistants and the other as the labourers in order to cause conflict and not allow those groups to try and work together to overthrow the Empire) development will never take place. No companies will ever wish to invest in areas where conflict takes place and the conflicts that are taking place can often be traced back to power vacuums left after independence.
5. The AIDs epidemic is not my problem. Don't get me wrong I feel for those with the disease (particularly children born with it) but America should be held to account for this disease because I believe it was the American millitary that developed the disease and distributed it through WHO vacinations when communism was on the rise.It doesn't really sound like you do feel for those with the disease after your opening line of "The AIDs epidemic is not my problem". Maybe you should think about the way you express yourself so people don't think you're a bigoted, heartless cretin. The issue with AIDs is that it is a disease that not only kills many, but removes the ability for a country to develop and therefore aid is needed. The loss of Doctors, teachers, nurses and other key workers would be tragic in any country, but in the poorest
places on earth it is disastrous. Those affected by illness cannot work, fail to earn money and because of the lack of a welfare system, they and their family slip further into poverty. The flippant point you make about the NHS in this country is irrelevant to those in poorer places, as the health care costs are not free and if patients can't pay, they won't get treated.
If this isn't a strong argument for giving aid, then I don't know what is. Maybe being a massive racist stops you from seeing things clearly.
You have no counter argument I see. I say it how it is and you don't like it.You choose to ignore most sensible arguments and therefore it is pointless presenting them to you. I am suddenly filled with a slightly empty feeling knowing that I have wasted 10 minutes of my time presenting arguements to you that you will ignore because you're so blinkered by your racism.
While I'm here:
Dear TheDellDays,
I have addressed your point about why we are giving aid to India, but you don't seem to have understood and keep asking the same question. Please don't start threads on issues that you are incapable of understanding once these things have been explained to you, it is pointless.
I'll sum up the situation in some short sentences for you.....
1. Aid is not to do with helping country's that are in poverty, it is about creating links with countries who we have a wish to deal with (whether that is for military alliances, future trade relations, government contracts)
2. India may well have many wealthy people, but it has FAR more people in absolute poverty. Stop asking people if they've been to India. You may have been but you haven't seen the whole country have you? You may have gone to some cities, where wealthier people live, but did you go to the rural areas? I doubt it very much.
3. This country has poor people in it (according to people like you, SRS and Dune, normally white, English people) but in March we launched the UK Space Agency.....why are we doing this when we still have people in poverty? According to many of the right wingers on here we're completed screwed as a country, so lets cut any frivilous expenditure and only spend on healthcare and education.
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Anyway, anyone who believes that international aid (of the bi-lateral nature) has anything to do with who actually needs assistance is sadly mistaken. One of the biggest recipients of USA aid is Israel, a country which would be well down the list of countries in need of assistance (9th highest amount of aid fromn USA in 2003-2004). In that same period, America gave Russia $737million of aid, the 4th largest recipient. What happened to all those countries in poverty, with millions starving, with poor water supplies and sanitation? Aid is a tool that is used to forge and cement relationships that benefit the donor country. It is a sweetner, a way of manipulating countries. It's all about getting others, who have something to offer you, on side.......sub Saharan Africa offers the world sod all - there is no point building relations through aid with them. Aid is nothing to do with poverty or helping others.
Pakistan have recieved aid from America in return for use of their airspace and allowing American military to land planes on their soil during the first gulf war.
Strategic locations of country's is more important than poverty. Alliances against nasty and naughty country's is more important than poverty. Securing energy supplies is more important than poverty. Defeating communism, socialism and anyone not towing the Western viewpoint is more important than poverty.
Not only is aid not given to appropriate country's it is also often tied to conditions. Anyone in doubt of that should look at the disgrace that was the Pergau Dam. A truely shameful moment in British history, showing not only the lack of scruples that Thatcher had but also the complete waste of aid that occurs.
Aid is important, but only if it is used effectively. Bi-lateral aid should be abolished and multi-lateral aid used exclusively. In the 1970's the UN set OECD countries a target of 0.7% of their GDP to be used as aid..........have a gues how many countries have ever achieved that.
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I agree with TDD. We could eradicate poverty completely in this country, have a better education and health service and compete better with other EU countries if we just stopped wasting money on things like Trident. I don't see why India or any other country should have nuclear weapons or a space programme. Good shout TDD!
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I would rather trim it back from wasteful expenditure that does no good at all, like the navy.
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A 3 parter question.....you have to get all 3 correct to get the question right and win the chance of asking your own question:
(a) What year did Saints last win the FA cup?
(b) Who were their opposition on the day?
© Who scored the winning goal for Saints? (clue: his Grandson plays for Hibs at the moment)
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Which Southampton FC player went on to present the weather in Finland after retiring?
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What about some mute players? They cannot hear or speak, so need to find some unspoken understanding, far deeper than any Argentinians. Maybe AP should be searching the world for the best mute players because even if they've just average, their unspoken understanding will elevate them to world beaters.
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never bought it just looked at it in the shop' date=' thought it was a waste of money[/quote']
Well stop bloody moaning about it then. FFS, you haven't bought it or wasted any money.....find something else to moan about rather than books you don't own.
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I cried at the last game I went to because I couldn't hear the PA system properly.
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Disappointed in whole book' date=' pictorial history it said then pages about the JPT, WAS EXPECTING older pictures[/quote']
Why didn't you look inside the book before you got it?
This book is riddled with errors, a very slapdash publication which could have been 100 times better if they had spent more than an afternoon cobbling it together.I think we found 8 errors on the first page.
We have written and complained to the Echo
I thought we found 9? I enjoyed writing that letter with you, look forward to their response.
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Luther was dog$h!t in Italy! AC Milan fans often referred to him as Luther Missit (5 goals in 30 games). Rumour has it that AC thought they were signing John Barnes.
Back to the original question, it's a bit difficult to answer, as you can have a real mixbag.
Based on Delgado, we'd pan Ecuador, but Wigan fans might give a different opinion after the decent service and profit they got out of Luis Antonio Valencia.
If you buy an Italian, you might get a Zola or you might get an Andrea Silenzi.
In Tim's defence, the USA is producing more and more decent players, I was recently out watching Borussia Monchengladbach and Michael Bradley was immense as a midfield workhorse. Given how solid Friedel, Howard, Keller, Hahnemann etc have been down the years, maybe we should look there for a keeper?
Regardless of where someone is from, if they're good enough then sign them, just don't take a telephone testimonial from someone claiming to be George Weah recommending their cousin......
So, if I have understood correctly, you're suggesting that individuals are different regardless of what country they have come from and that any discussion of which country Saints should buy players from is a waste of time? Is that what you're saying? Because if it is, this entire thread is pointless and you have made the OP look like a right knobend by asking such a stupid question. What you're basically saying is that where someone is born makes some impact on their footballing ability (given the prominence of football or other sports in that country) but is mainly irrelevant and the same as asking if ginger haired players are better buys than blonde players (the answer is clearly blonde, by the way).
Anyway, back to the original point, Luther Blisset's memory should not be sullied on a thread on a painful forum like this. I know the black and gay community remember his death in a way that he would like, by recreating that run and goal that he scored against Brazil in 1984. I think that's a beautiful way to be remembered......a lod of gay fellas, dressed in tight shorts and england tops and afro's, jinking their way into a Brazilians box and scoring. Long live the memory of Luther Blisset, RIP.
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Huh?
I think you mean John and Justin Fashanu???
I don't mean "John" and "Justin" Fashanu. I mean Luther Blisset. John Fashanu, as far as I am aware has not hanged himself. Maybe you are confusing him with someone else? I also think that John Fashanu, despite qualifying to play for Ivory Coast, was born in this country, unlike Blisset who was born in Africa and brought up on a farm (I think) and worked as a goat-hand before moving here in his late teens. From memory, he struggled to fit in because of the racism he faced (the sort of thing Junction 9 was typing) and killed himself along with his gay brother. That's why Watford adopted the goat as their mascot, out of respect (something that a few on here could learn). Nothing to do with the Fashanus....get your facts sorted before you have a dig. Maybe you've got an agenda like Junction 9 as well? Let's not turn a decent thread into a race hate (and possibly anti-homosexual) debacle, there's enough of that in the Lounge.
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Qualify for what?
Qualify to play football. I have often noticed your posts and you're clearly a very intelligent poster, but you are displaying a level of stupidity that surprises me. Unless, of course, what you are actually getting at is some kind of race issue regarding whether blacks and Asians can play football? Maybe you need to be reminded of players like Luther Blisset? A man who came from Africa and struggled hard to overcome the kind of prejudice that you are displaying. He failed in that battle and hanged himself, along with his homosexual brother.
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So you're not expecting problems obtaining work permits?
Wot, in THIS country! No way! They let all the blacks and muslims in before the good white people! Pretty soon all the Southampton players will be black muslims rapists and paedophiles and none of them will speak English. This bloody country!
That is frankly laughable and shows pretty poor knowledge of football. There is no way you should have Belgium higher up than Brazil. Brazil should beat least ten places above Belgium. They're one of the best teams in the world FFS.I think you're a bit upset because the following teams are all ranked above Norway:
163 Nauru
164 Navassa Island
165 Nepal
166 Netherlands
167 Netherlands Antilles
168 New Caledonia
169 New Zealand
170 Nicaragua
171 Niger
172 Nigeria
173 Niue
174 Norfolk Island
175 Northern Mariana Islands
176 Norway
You're not even as good as the Nigers.
Ron Davez?It's the Ponty magic.
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I was thinking about this the other day and I hope that as the World Cup approaches, NC and AP and also compiling a list a countries where players should/could come from. My list got to be quite extensive, and not just countries that are competing in the world cup. I think it would be really foolish to just limit our potential players to being just from World Cup qualified places.
My list at the monent:
1 Afghanistan
2 Akrotiri
3 Albania
4 Algeria
5 American Samoa
6 Andorra
7 Angola
8 Anguilla
9 Antarctica
10 Antigua and Barbuda
11 Argentina
12 Armenia
13 Aruba
14 Ashmore and Cartier Islands
15 Australia
16 Austria
17 Azerbaijan
18 Bahamas, The
19 Bahrain
20 Bangladesh
21 Barbados
22 Bassas da India
23 Belarus
24 Belgium
25 Belize
26 Benin
27 Bermuda
28 Bhutan
29 Bolivia
30 Bosnia and Herzegovina
31 Botswana
32 Bouvet Island
33 Brazil
34 British Indian Ocean Territory
35 British Virgin Islands
36 Brunei
37 Bulgaria
38 Burkina Faso
39 Burma
40 Burundi
41 Cambodia
42 Cameroon
43 Canada
44 Cape Verde
45 Cayman Islands
46 Central African Republic
47 Chad
48 Chile
49 China
50 Christmas Island
51 Clipperton Island
52 Cocos (Keeling) Islands
53 Colombia
54 Comoros
55 Congo, Democratic Republic of the
56 Congo, Republic of the
57 Cook Islands
58 Coral Sea Islands
59 Costa Rica
60 Cote d'Ivoire
61 Croatia
62 Cuba
63 Cyprus
64 Czech Republic
65 Denmark
66 Dhekelia
67 Djibouti
68 Dominica
69 Dominican Republic
70 Ecuador
71 Egypt
72 El Salvador
73 Equatorial Guinea
74 Eritrea
75 Estonia
76 Ethiopia
77 Europa Island
78 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
79 Faroe Islands
80 Fiji
81 Finland
82 France
83 French Guiana
84 French Polynesia
85 French Southern and Antarctic Lands
86 Gabon
87 Gambia, The
88 Gaza Strip
89 Georgia
90 Germany
91 Ghana
92 Gibraltar
93 Glorioso Islands
94 Greece
95 Greenland
96 Grenada
97 Guadeloupe
98 Guam
99 Guatemala
100 Guernsey
101 Guinea
102 Guinea-Bissau
103 Guyana
104 Haiti
105 Heard Island and McDonald Islands
106 Holy See (Vatican City)
107 Honduras
108 Hong Kong
109 Hungary
110 Iceland
111 India
112 Indonesia
113 Iran
114 Iraq
115 Ireland
116 Isle of Man
117 Israel
118 Italy
119 Jamaica
120 Jan Mayen
121 Japan
122 Jersey
123 Jordan
124 Juan de Nova Island
125 Kazakhstan
126 Kenya
127 Kiribati
128 Korea, North
129 Korea, South
130 Kuwait
131 Kyrgyzstan
132 Laos
133 Latvia
134 Lebanon
135 Lesotho
136 Liberia
137 Libya
138 Liechtenstein
139 Lithuania
140 Luxembourg
141 Macau
142 Macedonia
143 Madagascar
144 Malawi
145 Malaysia
146 Maldives
147 Mali
148 Malta
149 Marshall Islands
150 Martinique
151 Mauritania
152 Mauritius
153 Mayotte
154 Mexico
155 Micronesia, Federated States of
156 Moldova
157 Monaco
158 Mongolia
159 Montserrat
160 Morocco
161 Mozambique
162 Namibia
163 Nauru
164 Navassa Island
165 Nepal
166 Netherlands
167 Netherlands Antilles
168 New Caledonia
169 New Zealand
170 Nicaragua
171 Niger
172 Nigeria
173 Niue
174 Norfolk Island
175 Northern Mariana Islands
176 Norway
177 Oman
178 Pakistan
179 Palau
180 Panama
181 Papua New Guinea
182 Paracel Islands
183 Paraguay
184 Peru
185 Philippines
186 Pitcairn Islands
187 Poland
188 Portugal
189 Puerto Rico
190 Qatar
191 Reunion
192 Romania
193 Russia
194 Rwanda
195 Saint Helena
196 Saint Kitts and Nevis
197 Saint Lucia
198 Saint Pierre and Miquelon
199 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
200 Samoa
201 San Marino
202 Sao Tome and Principe
203 Saudi Arabia
204 Senegal
205 Serbia and Montenegro
206 Seychelles
207 Sierra Leone
208 Singapore
209 Slovakia
210 Slovenia
211 Solomon Islands
212 Somalia
213 South Africa
214 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
215 Spain
216 Spratly Islands
217 Sri Lanka
218 Sudan
219 Suriname
220 Svalbard
221 Swaziland
222 Sweden
223 Switzerland
224 Syria
225 Taiwan
226 Tajikistan
227 Tanzania
228 Thailand
229 Timor-Leste
230 Togo
231 Tokelau
232 Tonga
233 Trinidad and Tobago
234 Tromelin Island
235 Tunisia
236 Turkey
237 Turkmenistan
238 Turks and Caicos Islands
239 Tuvalu
240 Uganda
241 Ukraine
242 United Arab Emirates
243 United Kingdom
244 United States
245 Uruguay
246 Uzbekistan
247 Vanuatu
248 Venezuela
249 Vietnam
250 Virgin Islands
251 Wake Island
252 Wallis and Futuna
253 West Bank
254 Western Sahara
255 Yemen
256 Zambia
257 Zimbabwe
I must admit to having doubts about Afghanistan, but don't want to limit our choices by restricting AP into only buying players of certain nationalities, because that would be dangerous and incredibly stupid.
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oh my god...that is so funny wiltshire
I knew you'd like it. I always like to make you laugh because you're normally quite miserable and sad.
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I watched it once and it had P-O-O but not in that order. I think it was something like:
W-R-V-A-O-P-E-O-D
POOED (as in "he pooed himself")
I saw an episode last year where the letters were
S-P-U-C-U-T-N-N-K
I made SPUNKC*NT from that but wasn't sure if it was in the dictionary. I checked C*NTSPUNK and that wasn't.
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There is no given right to winning this or any league. It will only come through good planning, preparation, and execution. Every team in the league will be raising there game to play us. So we could have 46 cup finals on our hands. Assumptions about walking it are wide of the mark.
46 cup finals? I think it's foolish to have so many cup competitions, especially when no one seems to have heard of most them. That's the problem with football nowadays.....too many stupid mickey mouse cups. I guess people are just desperate to make some money. I think we should leave it as it, 3 big cup competitions is more than enough. And imagine this board! It all kicked off when we won the JPT, with people saying it cost us promotion. Imagine playing in 46 finals.....we'd be relegated or something.
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Stu****Saint
Stu****Saint
Fatty Saint
Fat Tw*t
FatLoserSaint
UglySaint
BumholeSaint or The Romsey Bumhole
Ignorant****StainSaint
Stu(pid) and Fat
Prize ***** no.1
Heart Attack Saint
StuPieSaint
Stuey 7 bellies
GammyEyedUglyTw*tface
Daft as a brush saint
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WOW!! What a huge bump!! LOL! You have made me spit my coffee all over the keyboard and screen! I have never seen such a big bump! What made you think of it? Whay have you done it? You're f*cking crazy!
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Most gyms have short term memberships available either this month or next month ( 3 month memberships for the summer )
Even if they don't, all have a clause which means when you have your op you will be able to freeze your membership for up to 6 months.
I am just starting on my lard-off again, I started it after Wembley but tore my hamstring which set me back, but getting back on it.
I am going to train 6 days a week and follow my 'diet' 6 days a week. My day off I will drink beer ( in proportion though ) and eat what I want.
Drink 2 litres of water a day. No more than 3 coffee/tea a day.
My diet is simple. I won't eat any Carbs, so no bread, potato or pasta... chicken or tuna and veg for lunch and veg and lean meat for tea.
I will split my 6 days on with one day cardio, next day weights.
I reckon I will lose a stone each month, although I only really need to lose 2 stone max.
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next season. My request is for a better PA system, this really spoils the day
Agreed. It really spoils the day for me which is why I've stopped going. Season ticket holder for 34 years, but enough is enough. I refuse to go and have to put up with something like that which really takes the shine off a win for me. You should have seen how upset my grandson was after the Huddersfield game. We scored 5 goals, but the PA system just ruined it for him. He couldn't hear the interview before the game and was in tears the whole game. Sort it out SFC!
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Makes an excellent read really pleased I was one of number 635, maybe we can add some more to the list.
http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2052683,00.html
I don't think we can add any more to the attendance now, but if we can I'll pretend I was there. 636.
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Diddums. Are you feeling a bit sore about events?
Nothing to do with feeling sore about anything, I just don't like Clarkson. I don't like him because he's a c*ck and the I think that asking people if they like him is a great barometer for judging stupidity. When the revolution comes someone should go around asking people if they like Clarkson. Anyone who says "yes" should be treated like the obvious c*nt they are and shot in the head (hopefully the bullet will find a brain). Their worthless corpses should then be piled high on ferries, set on fire and sent on their way to France where they can be scattered in public lavatories for the French to p*ss and sh*t all over them.
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You have no counter argument I see. I say it how it is and you don't like it.