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Parents aren't trained in anything. When my son was born I was quite daunted about what lay ahead. You get advice but the only way that you really learn is by doing it. I suppose that we think back to what our parents did but times and society change and it can be quite a challenge. We had some help in that Mrs ecuk268 was an infant teacher so was used to handling small children and was quite good at coping with any behavioral problems. So we muddled through and he turned out fine, but there were a few worries along the way and we never even thought about smacking him..

It'll be interesting to see what happens if/when Howe leaves. The pundits are always telling us what a wonderful manager he is and, you have to admit that he's done a good job there. He couldn't hack it at Burnley but you would think that, if he's got any ambition, he'll go if a "big" club comes calling.

And that could all have been prevented by giving them a good whack?

Like Man U spending £60m on Fred.

Boris has just lost his 7th consecutive vote in Parliament. God knows what Lady Bracknell would have said.

So he loses his first six votes as PM in six days, now he's been shown to have misled the Queen. Can't be many PM's who've been so incompetent in such a short time.

I was reading a book by the musician Joe Jackson who grew up in the Pompey area. This is his description of Paulsgrove: "Our neighbourhood was ugly. Paulsgrove consisted of council flats and semi-detached houses, like ours, the top half of which were covered with corrugated iron, which was in turn covered with peeling paint and dents made by bottles, stones and cricket balls. Some of our neighbours were kindly, but many of them were sinister, sub-human creatures. Their homes had broken windows, permanently patched with bits of wood, and kids sprawled outside them in a miasma of dirt and rubbish, dismembering toy soldiers or rusty bikes. Mothers screamed at them through clouds of fag smoke. Fathers were at work on in the pub. Some of the kids were truly wretched, snotty-nosed guttersnipes right out of Oliver Twist. Once, on my way home from school, I passed a house where a young boy was calmly taking a **** on the front step. He returned my look of astonishment with a rude gesture".

A serial liar who spouts utter b*llox is obviously the best person to conduct vital negotiations.

They have toilets??

According to Rees-Mogg, cheaper shoes.

Journalists never let the truth stand in the way of a good story.

Sajid Javid was tying himself up in knots on the Andrew Marr show saying that they would obey the law that compels them to ask for an extension but that they wouldn't ask for an extension. Appropriate logic for these strange times.

I said "hello" to Benny Hill on Southampton Common.

You said that the Guardian article proved that Labour stopped the deal. How? If all the Tories had voted for it, then it would have passed irrespective of what Labour did.

It's because people who can't hold a reasoned and intelligent debate fall back on insults.

How could it have been Labour that stopped the deal when 34 Tories voted against it? If they'd toed the party line , it would have passed easily. Maths not your strong point?

I'd say it was more Rees-Mogg and his cronies who stopped us leaving. If the Tories had got behind May's deal, we'd be heading for an orderly exit.

If we leave with no deal, the border will be a smuggler's paradise. There are nearly 200 crossing points and that's just public roads. Also numerous farm tracks. During the Troubles the army tried blowing up a lot of these tracks only to find that the locals promptly filled them back in.

My sad old git's season ticket works out at £24.70 per game. Very good value compared with day tickets.

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Not sure if it's been mentioned already but the Fan's Forum is tomorrow night on Radio Solent at 19:00.

No, I don't think that we'll score 8.

We get this bed wetting every year. As long as you have it before the first home game, who cares? What else do you need it for?

That's the way it is.

The club are on a hiding to nothing here. With a fan base of 25-30000, there will always be a proportion who moan at whatever they come up with (and also if they did nothing).