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But whether you admit it or not, you have a consistent record of going after posters' families - as this thread demonstrates. Whether it's Wes's wife, or Daren's mother or Corky's children, or whoever, you should be more than a little ashamed.

Hypo, I think you've had a little flashback there to the dear-departed scooby - Sundance's one and only friend, who, it turned out, was living a little fantasy of his own.. Even the 'boot boy' label might have been his as well. No, Sundance's/19C's MO is more the deeply personal insults - usually attacking posters' families. (Wes, Daren, Corky/hasper, etc)

Oh, the irony.

If the team is improving in inverse proportion to the sinking IQ on this thread. let's hope we achieve true imbecile levels soon-ish. And to those with the Hammond organ witticisms - stop it, you're showing your age.

Sorry about that. One of yours is pretending to be one of ours.

Don't worry, Hasper. I'd only question the motives of anyone who were of such a delicate state as to read anything malicious into your children's reaction. We seem to have suffered a hopefully temporary plague of self-righteous hysteria.

But as I recall, you were part of the SOS gang of four who were actually given advance notice by Wilde that he was going to team up with Lowe to oust Crouch - but decided to keep quiet about it, even though Wilde had lied flat out about how you, as a group, wanted him to return as chairman. It also took you and a few other ITKs a while to wake up to the dangerously crackpot antics of tommac. Not pointing fingers, just saying that, as with other events in the club's recent murky past, not everything is really cut and dried.

Don't bother. I just wonder whether there's another football fans' forum anywhere that has its own noxious Dr Doolittle, lecturing the oiks among us on how to rear their proto-racist children, or how we're to selflessly buy season tickets in support of the cartoon character who came within days of destroying the club, or who pontificates on the serious and overhwelming misdemeanours of the one genius of a player who did more than anyone to see us through the enveloping chaos of the last few years... etc, ad nauseum. If you tell a story about Saints fans - any story - it's like a red and white striped rag to a mangy old bull. Eventually, he come galloping in towards you, but he'll headbutt you with all the force of a Southsea haddock.

Is he pacy? Because the best way to use his long throws is for him to take them and then scoot round and nod them into the net.

CoHo, if you're going to go on at this length, could you do a 'digested read' for those of us without the energy? Along the lines of 'P*mpey are screwed.' You get the picture. Thank you in advance.

Cowes is a world unto itself. The conspicuously rich build their second homes facing their yachts so as not to have their gaze polluted by the hoi polloi. One lot is in the east, the other in the west. Consequently, Cowes is sh1t.

East or West?

The clue is in the word 'Friday', the day on which, throughout human history, nothing has ever happened.

Did you try Cocu's Den, the restaurant owned by Iqbal Hussain, the guy who paints portraits of Lahore's prostitutes? Western visitors I've taken there have a really hard time getting their heads round that little paradox.

You have form, was the point I was making.

Weird. isn't it? Seems like we have some very sensitive souls posting on here - plus the odd ranter looking for yet another keyboard battle about how disgusting Saints fans are.

SWF doesn't do Agony aunts and Uncles. But if it did, they would probably be the worst in the world.

No lens is THAT long.

I've had Donkey's years, I'm sorry to say, and it all started when I went to work for a now defunct ITV series called Survival.

Thanks, BTF, I was looking for that, because I'd heard plenty of horror stories of MRSA infection. But I was too busy attending a death panel.

Here’s another way to look at the relative merits of the two health systems. Compare how much the US and the UK spend on health as a proportion of GDP. Then test this against the ultimate measure of their effectiveness: life expectancy. According to the OECD, The US spends around 15.2% of GDP on health. The UK spends 8.2% of GDP on health. For all that massive difference in spending, life expectancy in the US is 78 years. In the UK, it’s 79.1. Which is better? Hmm, I wonder. So what accounts for this massive waste in the US? Well, you only have to look at the financiers of the vicious campaign against the Obama health reforms for the answer to that. ‘Health’ is a very dirty business in the US.

Yeah, but good to see some decent strikers among the subs. May need them in this game.

You should perhaps re-read the OP. How the hell this thread got turned into a depressingly dim version of the Moral Maze beats me.

The rainforests of eastern Madagascar. A mountain in Borneo, climbed in the worst humidity I've ever experienced. Polar bear-spotting in Spitzbergen in the Norwegian Arctic. In -35 temps. Freetown, Sierra Leone, staying in a hotel where a massacre had occurred a few years earlier - and travelling to a small island in the jungle where the SAS had rescued British hostages during the civil war. Goree - the 'slave island' in Senegal. The 'devil's anvil' in Jordan - in 129F degrees. (If you know your Lawrence of Arabia, it's where je nearly died in the ferocious heat trying to find his Arab guide.) Crac de Chevaliers, in Syria - the largest Crusader castle in the Middle East. Ran - a tiny 1k x 3k island next to an active volcano in the Banda Sea. The only way to get access to it was to row in a dugout among a sea of shark fins, and within 200 metrers of the larva sliding into the sea. In the seventeenth century, the British and the Dutch swapped Ran for Manhattan. East Timor, while the war of independence with the Indonesians was still on. Swat Valley, Pakistan - two journeys through the valley in 2007, shortly before it was overrun by the Taliban. Plus many other adventures in North and South America, Africa, South East Asia, Australia, etc. Never been to Wales though.

Sounds like Roops has got himself a full-time job.