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  1. 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 The Empires of the past did a lot of good in raising living standards and building infrastructure - basically we superceded the tribes and proved that Africa could work.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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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!

  4. 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)

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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. :lol:

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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

  16. 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.

     

    :lol:

  17. 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!

  18. 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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