Saint in Paradise

Fans love the trips to Wembley and the glory of winning, I suspect most chairmen prefer the bigger cheque for finishing higher in the league. Guess who "controls" or if you prefer "makes suggestions" to the manager? Wonder what the players who are rested think, do they have any of the same Cup magic feelings that fans have ( had ) or are they like the chairmen and don't really want to be bothered too much?

A long but interesting article about the Brazilian navy http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2013/12/look-brazilian-navy/ I am sure that John I Thorneycrofts in Woolston built some ships for them in the middle of the last century ? .

Seriously DON'T come to NZ the Tax people are bringing in a new law that will mean any private pension lump sum will be taxed to the hilt as well as the actual pension. They are also making it back dated until the year 2000!!!!

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The day I post even 30% of the rubbish you post will be the day I am taken away in a strait jacket

OUCH !!!! Dubai, where property prices have surged more than 40 percent this year, will allow landlords to increase rents at a faster pace as economic growth in the emirate accelerates. Under the decree, issued by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, landlords can raise rents by 20 percent if contracts are 40 percent or more below average prices, as measured by a government index. Previous guidelines allowed for increases of as much as 20 percent for rents that were 55 percent or more below market value. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-22/dubai-to-allow-rent-jumps-of-as-much-as-20-.html

Oh dear looks like the US security lot will keep a very close eye on you lot if you go to the US :lol: When that film came out, the FBI labelled it as subversive - a vessel for communist propaganda. During the Red Scare after World War II, FBI informants claimed the film's portrayal of wealthy banker Mr Potter as a greedy villain was a sure sign of communist influence. Recently-published FBI documents also reveal that investigators had their eye on 'It's a Wonderful Life' and screenwriters Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, a husband and wife duo who were accused of associating with known communists. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528752/Was-Its-Wonderful-Life-really-communist-propaganda-FBI-investigated-classic-Christmas-film.html

How very sad that card is.

Get used to the Govt. apologising as if it's anything like the Govt. over here in NZ they keep on saying sorry and giving lots of money out as compensation to a minority for events that happened in the 1800s. Resentment might only be growing very slowly but it is growing. It is a very long way from the amount of resentment in the UK about the UK being in the EU mind and all those stories against immigration etc that the Daily Mail likes to print. Oh yes and Merry Christmas to 99% of you ( it's been Christmas Day here for over 8 hours now .

Agree with this and also what Verbal says is correct. As it's Christmas I shall refrain from making any derogatory comments about some posters but they did make me smile and shake my head at their innocence and lack of real world knowledge.

With a man in charge like NC do you really think that any player wouldn't try his best? Just because they don't seem to be playing at the high standard demanded by some supporters doesn't mean that they should be vilified on a football forum. God it must be hell for those perfect people on here having to live with mere mortals.

Perhaps one of his children or another close family member is not very well ? Now that would stuff up most normal people. Maybe he has heard rumours that Saints want to sell him and he doesn't want to leave so by playing not at his best no-one will try to buy him ? The opposite of how some players wanting a new contract play well until the new contract is signed then they go off. At the end of the day it isn't really anything to do with supporters it's between the player and club.

You do know she used a body double ( Shelley Michelle ) in her 1988 film "My Stepmother is an alien" ?

In his BBC interview he said that "some can't even train on a daily basis" ( not moaning about agent Connolly surely??? ) He was asked if it was because of fitness and he replied "many different reasons". I wonder what they are then? Better not post my theories

To whom on here it may concern. https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1503419_10203256200872961_832049680_n.jpg .

How long before "diversity training" gets harsher as people are still not being "educated" as well as the lefties demand? All dictatorships usually end up with "camps" for those who refuse to reform. North Korea has been mentioned but remember U.S.S.R. China as well as Argentina in South America where people "disappeared".

But guess what ? I don't care as I for one believe this is 100% true. Can a good Muslim be a good Westerner ? This question was forwarded to a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia for 20 years. The following is his reply: Theologically - no. . . . Because his allegiance is to Allah, The moon god of Arabia . Religiously - no.. . . Because no other religion is accepted by His Allah except Islam . (Quran, 2:256)(Koran) Scripturally - no. . . Because his allegiance is to the five Pillars of Islam and the Quran. Geographically - no . Because his allegiance is to Mecca , to which he turns in prayer five times a day. Socially - no. . . Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews . Politically - no.. . . Because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America , (the great Satan) , U.K. and the rest of the free world. Domestically - no. .. . Because he is instructed to marry four Women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Quran 4:34 ) Intellectually - no. . Because he cannot accept the UK since it ( UK ) is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt. Philosophically - no. . . . Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran does not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic. Spiritually - no.. . . Because when we declare 'one nation under God,' The Christian's God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as Heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in the Quran's 99 excellent names. Therefore, after much study and deliberation.... Perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. - - - They obviously cannot be both 'good' Muslims and good Westerners. Call it what you wish it's still the truth. You had better believe it. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our countries and our futures.

When the kind-faced mocha Yoda named Nelson Mandela passed into the great beyond last week, the world joined hands like one big giant Coca-Cola commercial to canonize and lionize and deify and sanctify his memory. The torrent of treacly encomiums and mawkish panegyrics hurled at Mandela’s glowing feet surrounded his legacy with a force field of such pulsating holiness that anyone who’s remotely skeptical or inquisitive would be able to discern it was all a mountain of ****. This isn’t to say there was nothing to admire about the man. His stoic perseverance against all odds is the stuff of which heroic legends are made. But to keep such legends unsullied requires a vigilant and ruthless pruning of inconvenient facts that would undermine the carefully sculpted image of Human Goodness Incarnate that surrounds what was possibly the world’s most famous man. The 20/20 special peddled such obviously fraudulent lies as the allegation that Mandela’s African National Congress was “committed to nonviolent resistance.” Not a peep was made about the fact that Mandela was sentenced to prison not for “treason”—which is the only charge the show mentioned—but that he pled guilty to an indictment accusing him of complicity in “the preparation, manufacture and use of explosives—for the purpose of committing acts of violence.” Nothing was said about the radical guerrilla army he founded called “Spear of the Nation” that was linked to hundreds of acts of violence and sabotage. Nothing was said about his claim that “violence in this country was inevitable.” Nor was it mentioned that he was offered freedom from prison in February 1985 if he agreed to foreswear violence but that he refused. And they certainly didn’t dare to show a clip of an ANC “necklacing” that’s one of the most brutal snippets of mob violence I’ve ever witnessed. Nothing was said about the Church Street Bombing or any of the other bombings and violent acts committed in the ANC’s name that in other contexts would have Mandela dubbed a violent terrorist. Instead, 20/20 referred to him with the much cheerier sobriquet of “freedom fighter.” We hear glowing reminiscences that Mandela was a voice of “democracy” but not a word about the fact that he was a lifelong committed Marxist. Even though he shrugged off accusations of being a communist, the South African Communist Party claimed on Friday that “At his arrest in August 1962, Nelson Mandela was not only a member of the then underground South African Communist Party, but was also a member of our Party’s Central Committee.” Nothing was mentioned about allegations that he handwrote a tract called “HOW TO BE A GOOD COMMUNIST” that claimed “THE CAUSE OF COMMUNISM IS THE GREATEST AND MOST ARDUOUS CAUSE IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND.” http://takimag.com/article/mandela_what_the_obits_omit_jim_goad

Best viewed full screen http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=10b_1386199300 . No it's NOT a link to a NZ news sight

Have a look here:- http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Travel-g255055-c3001/Australia:Sydney.To.Brisbane.Coastal.Route.Drive.html Remember though that Aussie cops are red hot on speeding even if only a small amount over. They also have loads of speed cameras.

When you get the cambelt changed don't forget to change the water pump at the same time. Sometimes a failure of the original water pump after a new cambelt is fitted could well lead to disastrous consequences. Water pump bearing failure can lead to breaking the new cambelt which in turn often results in extensive engine damage (valves hitting pistons etc). Can end up to be very very expensive in relation to what you paid for the car in the first place.

How about an award/bonus payment for the first Mod who deletes these award type threads that seem to appear at this time of the year?????

Comedian Randy Liedtke had the brilliant idea of baking an iPhone-shaped cookie and pulling up next to police while driving around Los Angeles. "I'm honestly gonna drive around wih my iPhone Cookie today and see what happens!" he tweeted on Thursday. It didn't take long for an officer to take the bait, but things didn't quite go as planned. "Just saw a police car going the other way. Gonna turn around and see if I can catch up and drive by it. #iphonecookie," his update on twitter read. "OH MAN IM GETTING PULLED OVER STAY TUNED!" After being pulled over and sharing a photo of the police car in his rear-view mirror, Liedtke told of the officer's initial surprise when he started to eat his 'phone'. "Took a bite out of the cookie. He was so confused and angry. Told me to hold tight, he is back in his car now." But when the policeman returned things turned sour for the comedian. "Says I have a warrant for unpaid parking tickets? Making me go with him. Letting me text gf but Im tweeting this," he said. There was twitter silence from Liedtke as he presumably sweated it out in the slammer, eventually emerging 10 hours later a defeated man. "Wasn't worth it. I'm an idiot... No more iPhone Cookies." http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8770706/comedians-iphone-cookie-prank-backfires .

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan football fan unable to cope with Manchester United's loss to northern rival Newcastle United committed suicide over the weekend, a senior Kenyan police official said on Monday. John Macharia, 28, plunged to his death from a multi-storey apartment block in Nairobi after David Moyes' men suffered a second home defeat in four days, denting the champions' chance of retaining their Premier League title. "Macharia jumped from seventh floor of an apartment at Pipeline Estate after realising that his team Manchester United lost 1-0 to Newcastle at Old Trafford and committed suicide," Nairobi's County Police Commander Benson Kibui told Reuters. http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/football/news/article/-/20242693/kenyan-fan-commits-suicide-after-man-utds-loss-to-newcastle/

Final Part:- Conclusion Putting aside my disagreements with the erudite and highly personable Michael Fargher, I cannot help but be struck by the galling injustice which often frames this debate. I am terribly sorry, but when a government that I have never voted for squanders hundreds of billions of Rands of taxpayers' money not on schools nor on hospitals nor even on bland civil service jobs but rather on submarines that we don't need and fighter jets that we can't fly; when this same administration pursues the genocidal policy of denying those infected with HIV access to anti-retrovirals whilst recommending that they alleviate their agonising deaths by eating beetroot and garlic; when this monstrous regime applauds Robert Mugabe's desecration of Zimbabwe and then has the audacity - the mind blowing hypocrisy - to blame a highly economically productive, peaceful and largely self-sufficient racial minority for rising economic inequality I find myself possessed by the overwhelming and irrepressible urge to tell that regime and all who defend it to get stuffed. Richard Wilkinson is currently reading for a Masters of Law degree at the University of Cambridge.