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I, for one think that a Greek exit from the EU is just as/more likely as the UK leaving. In fact, it is possible that Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain could leave, as the eurozone continues to struggle. A Bertelsmann Foundation study suggests Grexit would have a limited impact on the world economy but warns of a ‘severe worldwide recession’ should Grexit cause other members to leave the eurozone. The UK economy stands to lose either way, the study suggests, with UK real gross domestic product expected to decline by €6bn under the Grexit only scenario and by as much as €738bn in the event that Portugal, Spain and Italy also leave.

Here speaks another person who hasn't realised that for the past 40 years the population of the UK have been continuously bribed by the EU with their own money, with no say how it's spent. At long last we have a say.

Read all about it here...

After the game, I heard from a source at the club that Pelle simply didn't turn up to training. No message, not answering his phone and couldn't be contacted, despite being selected to start today. That's arrivaderci then..

Some old favourites:

Today, I made my mind up. It wasn't an anti-Cameron decision. It wasn't a defiance of the scare-mongering of the professional politicians and big-business leaders whose bleating, masks their self-serving reasons for staying in the EU. It certainly wasn't a love of Boris Johnson. No, it was the realisation that the only thing that ever attracted me to the European Economic Community, previously know as the Common Market, was the promise of economic barriers to mine and my companies progress were to be removed. The politicians conned us. They slowly removed references to markets, to economy and replaced it with a European Union. An unequal union the creation of which we had no say in and for much of what affects our lives we have no vote today. Still, I thought, nothings perfect, better the devil you know, don't rock the boat, be careful what you wish for etc, etc. Then, today, I recalled the trade deals we had forged over many years. The commonwealth trade that came through Southampton docks and, more interestingly, EFTA. The British helped set up EFTA, the European Free Trade Association, with Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland in 1960. Of the founders, only Norway and Switzerland remain in the trade organisation today. What did this memory do to change my mind regarding the EU? It made me read an article in the Telegraph about EFTA, that has, for the first time, made we realise that we have an exciting future if we vote to leave, rather than uncertainties painted by the ruling elite. In other words, we will be in control of our own future. Here is the article. Read it and feel optimistic.

Total b0££0x. There has never been any such confusion. The reverse scale lasted all of two years from 1742-1744. Centigrade was used as a scale from the 18th century until 1985 by the Met Office, when they switched to Celsius. Confusion regarding water boiling at zero centigrade? Only when you have dementia.

To put it all in perspective:

Always good to hear from an expert.... Definition of centigrade : relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point.

As we're talking about temperature records from 1900, I think I'll stick to Centigrade...

Behave....

I think your 12 year old may be able to tell you the difference between Centigrade and Fahrenheit. Try again dopey...

Pop Science?: Contributors: John C. Fyfe1 Gerald A. Meehl2 Matthew H. England3 Michael E. Mann4 Benjamin D. Santer5 Gregory M. Flato1 Ed Hawkins6 Nathan P. Gillett1 Shang-Ping Xie7 Yu Kosaka8 and Neil C. Swart1 1: Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Environment and Climate Change Canada, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 2Y2, Canada. 2: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado 80307, USA. 3ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New South Wales, New South Wales 2052, Australia. 4: Department of Meteorology and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA. 5 : Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA. 6: National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6BB, UK. 7: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0206, La Jolla, California 92093, USA. 8: Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan

The global variation is plus 0.2C to minus 0.2C per decade since 1900. You really have sh! t for brains, don't you?

Thanks for explaining such a complex set of results. All I could see, when I glanced at the graphs, was that the climate has "changed" at a rate of between +0.2 to -0.2 C per decade since 1900. I bet you reply to all those Nigerian emails looking for a home for their money.

Contrary to the views of that well known scientist, Leonardo De Caprio, it has been confirmed by the authors of a peer reviewed paper in a major scientific journal (Nature) that there has been a 15 year hiatus in global warming between 2000-2015. Those who are open minded should read this and worry about feeding the world's growing population, instead of climate change.

Southampton manager Ronald Koeman is out speaking to the media, previewing Tuesday's game away to Arsenal. But there's no escape from the rumour mill... On any potential transfer deadline day deals Koeman says: "We did our job with Charlie Austin and I think if you have to do your business today then you are nervous or you don't know what you have to do. "We might let Jack Stephens or Harrison Reed out to play on loan maybe, that will happen today, but not any other big business."

Any excuse:

You're right, I'm wrong. Sorry...

You're not the sharpest tool in the workshop, are you, Jonny?

Exactly....

I thought Bill Cosby deserved a look in. Playing a decent human being must have been a real stretch.

I have also decided to introduce the MOGO awards. My first nomination is Ed Sheeran, with a lifetime achievement award for Mick Hucknall...

I have decided to complain about the MOBO awards. Not a single white person has ever been nominated.

He looted most of his successful material from Marc Bolan of T Rex. Bolan died at the age of 30 and was everything to me that Bowie wasn't. Later he stole most of Kraftwerk's creative genius, going so far as moving to Berlin. Some more observant of you may notice a resemblance of the "Thin White Duke" to the legend that is Ralf Hütter of Kraftwerk, below: