EastleighSoulBoy

Docker, many thanks for the answer. I'm beginning to think that DD spends far too much time concentrating on the negative aspects of following Saints. I'm over the moon that we all have a club to follow!

That's why I pity them rather than hate them. While all the time looking to have a chuckle at their expense.

I'll be happy to finish 17th or above and with a stable, improving finish to the season. Not a lack of aspiration on my part, more a feeling that once this season is done we can then push forward through the close season and into 10/11.

And just exactly where, in the above, does rick mention a hatred of another club? Schadenfreude maybe, humorously almost definitely but not a hatred!

Don't they all dribble down that way?

A fair summation and it raises two observations in my mind. Teachers. Presumably they (or more largely, the school) are in loco parentis ? With this in mind and your comment about their social integrity being in question, one can understand why a teacher will, if at all possible, avoid a contentious issue or situation and who can blame them? Parental guidance. This is a skill in itself and can sometimes come naturally but mostly is learned through a hit and miss experience coupled with considered thought. By our acts and omissions as parents we are imparting the parenting tools to our children. Maybe most parents would view attending Parenting Classes as an admission of failure? Overall, shouldn't us parents work with the school to form clear, focused routes for us and our children to follow? My Mrs and I are pretty good at parenting but we are not without fail! There is also a fine line between the rare slap in punishment and brutalising a child. Children do learn from parents, most try to do better than their perception of how their parents fared. Those that can't, or can't be bothered, will sadly perpetuate the punishment/violence routine.

Probably.

They should, but watch the likes of Corp, PFC123 and MongerEvian crow if they do!

What on earth do you mean by saying if Corp is right? He is never wrong :---), as we have all learned, also never going missing when what he has told us comes to . . . . err . . . fruition?

You are obviously thinking of the cultural ambience of Turd Town.

Spot. On.

I'll take a guess at the censored word. Tories lack the depth and sensitivity to be called that. On a more serious note, Tories are people with differing opinions from those of other political persuasions. Some extreme, others mid stream and others are New Labour. I don't necessarily agree with their views but in this democracy (something I strongly support) they are entitled to their views.

As a left wing, tree hugging, loony I have to say you've summed things up perfectly well. There are no boundaries now, and the scrotes know it! The pertinent question to me is How do these kids, the future adults, get to be like this though? Surely the root cause is errant parenting? Not setting rules/codes of behaviour? I still think that the majority of parents do set these boundaries and rigidly enforce them. Our son, almost 8, knows those boundaries and respects them despite the fact that we have not had to smack him or the like. Set a good example and the kids will tend to follow.

Brilliant, in my opinion. Thanks.

I'd rather be a Scummer than a Skate (no offence J) Oh! Call them lot to the West 'Bompey'

Ask some of us older ones to spell arithmetic and they fail!

Oafish Ali, down at Pompei, might find it a better buy than his latest acquisition.

The kids will be safe anyway because they'll be related to most of the crowd.

"Oh Maggie, Maggie, I love you!"

Count me in on that statement.

And they keep coming back for more!

You couldn't make it up!

Kind of shoots a hole in our arguing that the Skates are poorly supported then?

No, call it "Getting Sacked En Masse" instead. Sorry, bored, the pedant escaped. Infractions accepted. :smt085

A difficult task I imagine!