Verbal

Saw it too and came to the opposite conclusion. Trotman flicks the ball into the goal - he doesn't give it a swinging kick. That suggests to me the keeper didn't have it fully under control. In any case, what a great poacher's goal! You don't see many centre backs nicking goals like that.

I don't think the scientists had any real say in it - and have never heard any scientist making such a claim. On the other hand, plenty of scientists will say that manned missions are an expensive distraction from doing real science. I remember when Apollo 13 took off, public apathy was such that virtually no one was watching. And that was less than a year after the Apollo 11 landing. Without public support, and in the midst of the Vietnam war, the massive cost of the Apollo programme could never be sustained.

The water - or ice - is at the poles. The moon landings were close to the 'equator'.

'Can't manage?!' Of course they can manage. NASA has been sending landing probes to Mars - a tiny bit more challenging than the Moon - since the mid 70s. If NASA decided to invest precious resources in trying to quieten the few paranoid noodleheads who believe the Moon landings were faked, they'd find themselves in a vicious circle. New evidence would in turn be dismissed as fake. The problem is that the 'moon truthers' are, by any other name, just another internet-wired cult. No amount of evidence would ever satisfy them. It would be like trying to prove or disprove the existence of God.

Nothing and no.

Ditto. That would play incredibly badly in Saudi. Just as badly as when someone in the middle east works out exactly what the Pompey club badge actually means and where it came from.

It's a bit like asking why a gorilla should play the drums. I have no idea. But it just works. The people who dream this stuff up (like the Argentinian who came up with Phil the Gorilla and the bouncing balls down the San Francisco street) get paid a FORTUNE.

We'll have to think very carefully about whose career we want to curse with next season's player sponsorship.

He walked away because as Lowe drove more and more youth players into the first team, they were getting slaughtered on here. Sad, really.

And there are signs of a good understanding with Harding...and he'll score goals. Definitely a rising star.

I'm not one to call for censorship, but in this case, I think this thread should really be closed now. It's been clear to many of us for ages that the OP was an EDL/BNP organiser, and it does us, collectively, no favours to have this thread run on.

I'm sure the US crews tried their hardest to convince the deicison-makers ten years ago. If they did, they failed, clearly. And the only reason the issue was dropped was because the king of all knuckle draggers, George W, became US president and hauled in his mates to kick the Pentagon back to the fifties.

It's not a press release though, is it. It's a statement made in Congress. Where people take, you know...decisions.

Nope. None of the actual decision-makers on this in the US have ever mentioned the reason you've given.

"The Navy was under enormous pressure a decade ago from the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services to open the submarine community to women. The committee at the time was an influential 34-member advisory group to the secretary of defense. In 1999, the Navy allowed several members of this group aboard different classes of submarines while under way. For a few days they lived aboard. But they returned to shore unconvinced that the gender ban was appropriate. That fall, the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services unanimously recommended that the Navy secretary and the CNO "commit to the integration of women in the submarine community and develop an implementation plan." http://www.islandpacket.com/lowcountrylife/story/985133.html Actually seems an old story.

Well, it does look like there's been a real knuckle-draggers' party going on while I've been away. So presumably then the story that started this thread is pure fiction. Just to remind you... 'WASHINGTON - American women may serve aboard submarines of the US Navy, an official said here Friday. “This is something the CNO (chief of naval operations) and I have been working on since I came into office,” US Navy secretary Ray Mabus said in a statement. “We are moving out aggressively on this. I believe women should have every opportunity to serve at sea, and that includes aboard submarines,” he said. Women making up about 15 percent of the US Navy’s officers and sailors, however, they are not assigned to serve in the Navy SEAL special forces units.' So that gives an interesting twist on delldays' claim that letting women onto nuclear subs 'is a risk that no nation is ready to take.' The US not count as a 'nation' then?

Brilliant! Formation knee-jerking from all the usual suspects from the EDL thread.

Ah, another non-reader.

No, that's Al Fahim. Or are they both tommac? I'm confused.

Just a question. Can you read? Once again, I judge your expertise by your comments on here, which are in my opinion those of a lazy default to misogyny.

I'm judging your expertise solely by your comments on here. Doesn't amount to much, does it?

No one's sticking up for 'the girls' as far as I can see. I'm just questioning your lazy, knee-jerk assumptions - aka your 'expertise'.

Probably an ingenious disguise. Like Tammoc.

That gave me a nasty start, trousers. I never thought I'd see the name of that little twerp tommac appear on here again. I think you might have forgotten that tommac - probably accidentally, knowing him - ramped the club's share price so high with his tosh about PA that any prospective buyer would have run a mile. He caused immense damage. As for us, well you're quite right - we are a force for good and all that's right in the world. Even Delldays. (No...what I am saying?)

After all that's been said you're sending out xxx's? Yikes! If you're the expert, at least try and give us a reason anyone can reasonably argue with, rather than the casual mysogny you've dumped on us so far.