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Me and ecuk268 junior will be there. Not many tickets left.

There was an article in the Independent recently on how Muslim professional footballers cope with Ramadan. There's a surprising number of them in the 4 leagues. They still maintain their nutrition to stay fit but cut out the luxuries and have a much plainer diet.

Agreed. This is when tribal differences come to the surface. The rebels from the East and West Libya are distinctly different and it'll need a strong leader to hold it all together as The Colonel did.

But we are completely beholden to them as regards Trident. We lease the rockets from the US Navy. The warheads use US components and are built by Lockheed-Martin at Burghfield who own much of the critical machinery used in the manufacturing process. The targeting software is bought from the US and possibly contains hidden "worms" that give the US some control. The maintenance base in Plymouth is owned by a US company. Hardly independent. Even Maggie Thatcher's government was forced to admit that we are entirely dependent on the US for our nuclear weapons.

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I would have thought that the obvious advantage would be regular attendance at St Marys. I assume that you have raised them as Saints fans.

Lurk in the bushes with a bucket of water or a hose and give them a good soaking. One of those kid's water guns are useful as they have quite a good range. Cats hate water. Do it few times and they should stay away.

We started putting it on some ancient PC's (10 years old) and using them as thin clients to our Terminal Server. Works fine. Certainly a lot faster than Windows. I've got it at home as a dual boot on my PC. It comes with a lot of software and it's quick. Compared to Windows? Plusses and minuses, but certainly worth a look.

Chevvys Cafe Woolston.

I see that the BNP has offered Dr. Dave a "Gold" membership (whatever that is).

We are number one at cricket at the moment.

The Waterside is fine as long as you don't work in Southampton. I commute from Southampton to Hardley and see the queues going into town in the morning and out in the evening. Wouldn't want to do that every day.

Funnily enough, one of the best schools in the country is in Shirley Warren. They may not be top of the league tables but their Ofsted results put them in the top 10%. Ofsted mark a school on a number of criteria and award marks between 1 and 4. Most schools are delighted to get a 2. Shirley Warren got 1's in every category due to outstanding work with their intake, many of which come into the school with little english.

Just got Agincourt from the library and enjoyed what I've read so far. Also reserved the new Stephen King. 11.23.63 about the JFK assassination.

Depends what you're after ie. a flat or a house with a garden. Any kids (schools to consider). I live in Upper Shirley near the Common and Sports Centre. Good range of local shops and takeaways. Quick access to the motorways or into town. Reasonable bus service if you don't want to take the car. My nipper went to Hollybrook Infants and Juniors which were fine. Upper Shirley High (ex Bellemoor) has a good reputation after a short dodgy period. We like it here. Never had any problems. Only thing I don't like are the number of good family houses being bought up to be demolished and blocks of apartments taking their place.

Tahir el Khalej's finest moment when he kicked Dyer up in the air. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/1978536.stm

You certainly have a way with words. if you continue to express your views with such scintillating logic and well-reasoned argument, you could get a job on the Daily Mail.

Toxteth and Brixton in '81, Poll Tax in '90 and now Tottenham. You only get decent riots under the Tories.

There's a free labour market in the EU. The Eastern Europeans have got off their arses and come to a foreign country to work. They get the jobs because they turn up on time and work hard. Channel 4 did a programme last year from Lincolnshire where there is a large population of migrant workers on the farms. While some of the locals moaned about them "taking our jobs", when they took a local farmer down to the Job Centre he couldn't find one person to work on his farm. They didn't want to start work at 6.00 or be outside when it was cold and wet (the poor things).

Usual garbage from the Mail. The jobs patently aren't out there. ONS figures show unemployment at approx 2.45m and vacancies at 420k, so if all vacancies were filled there'd still be 2m out of work. Still, the Mail never lets the facts get in the way of good rant. He refers the the rioters as "they" as though they were one amorphous group all from the same background. It's clear from the procession going through the courts that they come from a wide variety of backgrounds, ages and ethnic groups.

Jensen received a large amount of funding from the Pioneer Group, which that lefty rag -The Sunday Telegraph - described as "a neo-Nazi organisation closely integrated with the far right of American politics. So it could be argued that he has an incentive to give them what they want.

Schrodinger's Kittens : And the Search For Reality Mind-stretching stuff about quantum physics. Does a reasonable job in putting it in terms that a thicko like me can understand.

But we've just seen Dave's Big Society in action. Bands of citizens joining together to better themselves. They don't rely on Government to fulfill their needs, They use their initiative and help themselves (to flatscreen TVs and anything else from a broken shop window).

What, a senile 85-year old woman? You don't think much of Cameron, then?

I met her once. She's a lot shorter than you think.