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Yeah I raised an eyebrow when I read that bit too. What I would like to know is... Where are the historical records for the rate of glacial melt from 3,000 BC? Surely records have only been kept for, at most, only about 300-400 years - if that. How does anybody know that this current melt is at a rate unseen for 5,000 years? Answer: they don't.

But why does it have to be though? I started following the Saints in the lat 80s and by this time the hatred between the two clubs was probably at its worst. I was only 13 at the time so I too was swallowed up by the whole "I'm from Southampton ergo I must hate Portsmouth" attitude. I've joined in a few anti-pompey songs over the years I will admit, but over recent years I have come to realise just how stupid, immature and pathetic this rivalry is. I'll concede that I don't particularly like the city of Portsmouth and I certainly wouldn't choose to live there (though I was never that keen on Southampton on the whole if truth be told, that's why I moved away!) Why should I hate anybody just because of where they were born and which football team they support? I respect anybody who supports their local team, so why should pompey fans be excluded from this? There's just no reason for it. I took a lot of stick from some very blinkered people on this forum in the run up to last year's FA cup final when I openly declared that I would rather see a team from my home county win the cup than one from a different country entirely. I think it was StuRomseySaint who described my attitude as 'sickening'. I think a lot of folk need to get a little persepctive.

Amen 1976 child. I too am skeptical about global warming. I have no doubt that our climate is changing but, and I will concede that I am not a scientist and by no means an expert on the matter, I have yet to read anything which proves beyond reasonable doubt that the current changes to our climate are anything other than part of a natural cycle. However, it does no harm to clean up our act anyway. You only have to look at the amount of pollution in the world's major cities (take Beijing for example) to realise that our current energy-production methods are not good for the health of the world's human population, even if they do not affect the rest of the planet.

Oh yeah completely forgot about the Old Oriental. They used to do the Ikon nights in there if I remember rightly. Got a few mashed memories of that place.

Nah it wasn't that long ago. Late 90s/early 00s I think.

I only ever went to the basement once, but I spent a lot of my clubbing youth at the Escape club before it became the Rhino. Right little sweatpit that was.

And here, I've finally found it. I thought I was going mad cos nobody else ever seems to remember it...

This has to be one of the greatest IMO...

Actually Jill, if you bothered to read up about it, you would realise there is a hell of a lot more to it than that.

Oh dear. That would appear to be David Bellamy's reputation well and truly destroyed then. Anyway, I wouldn't worry about climate change. The world is going to end on Dec 21 2012 anyway (perhaps as a result of the current climate change? Who knows?)

I didn't, I'm too young. But Jimmy was captain when I started following the Saints, and I loved his attitude from day one. Legend in my eyes. Out of interest, who actually is our captain these days?

Jimmy Case.

I thought he was talking about percentages TBH.

I was in despair when I watched Golden Brown on the news yesterday trying to distance himself from the whole Lloyds/HBOS affair. It was his govt initiative that recommended the takeover last year and he and Alistair "eyebrowman" Darling were happy to take the credit for a successful deal at the time. I also thought he had the look of a cornered animal when he was being questioned by MPs about the banking crisis, and he just used the age-old politician's trick of not actually answering questions directly and instead started bleating on about how his initiatives to revive the economy are being copied by numerous other countries so they must therefore be correct and fantastic. I have absolutely no faith in the ability of existing shower of ***ts inhabiting whitehall to get us out of this mess. What is even more scary though is that come election time, the good people of this country are probably going to vote in David Cameron on the grounds that he can't possibly be worse then Golden Brown. In the mean time, the industry that I worked in for 8 years and have loads of certificates for is on its knees and it has taken me the best part of 6 months to finally fix myself up with a crap 3-month contract agency job that I don't want to do and pays sh1t money, but it is actually all that is available and it means that, for a while at least, I don't have to visit that skanky sh1thole they call the job centre to sign on.

Sadly I think you are right.

Not exactlr rocket science is it. So why is Lowe the ONLY chairman in the entire football league who can't see that? Oh of course, it's because he openly admitted he know **** all about football when he took over the club, and 12 years later he still doesn't have the slightest clue. I wonder how many of us would last 12 years in a job if we never actually learned how to do it?

All of them. Every single employee of SFC, including the tea lady.

Really not surprising, but just as sickening. 5 mins left and chasing the game, and our genius manager takes off the only player in our entire squad who knows where the goal is. He is just as inept and clueless as the clown that he replaced. I am 100% certain that we will be relegated now. We don't even seem remotely capable of scoring, let alone actually winning. I can't wait to hear Wotte's excuses. See you at Yeovil next season guys.

That was just sooooooooooo inevitable though wasn't it?

In fairness, that is what was originally posted. I'm not assuming anything. True, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that there was more to it than that, but I'm just curious where people get the idea that he was hurling abuse at them as nowhere has that been claimed as yet.

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