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Take this one step further for more effect:- If it is going to go ahead, then season ticket holders are going to be included in the official attendance figures anyway, so their stayaway can be ignored by the club as they'll have their attendance included anyway. I don't suggest that anyone buys a ticket just to march out, but ALL SEASON TICKET HOLDERS who want to join Stuey's march should go in to the stadium. People without tickets can remain outside, singing OWTSGM Out. Then, say, when the scoreboard shows 5mins play, all of the season ticket holders get up, start singing Oh When The Saints Go Marching Out, and leave the ground to join those outside, THEN march away from the stadium - maybe after a circuit of the stadium with a loud rendition of OWTSGM Out that all parts of the ground can hear from inside. This will have the added visual impact inside the stadium that everyone can see the season ticket holders who have had enough. The thought of these making their views heard and the knowledge that at least all of these may/will not renew next season shows a guaranteed slump in ST sales. This will surely make RL & MW wince more than being able to ignore empty seats at kick off but still being able to include the ST holders in the official attendance and thus gloss over the march. So, why not:- 1. Let the Bargate March to the stadium go ahead at whatever time it is planned. 2. Get the Stayaway March organisers to be at the stadium when the other lot arrive and have the chance to speak to them to get more on side. 3. Let all season ticket holders go into the stadium before kick off and the remaining Stayway marchers (those without STs and who haven't already bought tickets) stay outside with their peaceful protest / singing OWTSGM Out. 4. At 5mins into the game, all those who have gone in on STs or already bought tickets get up, sing OWTSGM Out and leave the stadium to join those outside. 5. The March does a circuit of the perimeter of the stadium singing OWTSGM Out (unless RL gets his heavies to stop it, which I wouldn't put past him) and continue on to wherever the planned end point is - I'd suggest a large pub who agree in advance to have the game on the radio. All of that is going to have a better impact than just not going in the stadium and letting them count your attendance anyway! You're welcome Stu

What? It was full of Saints fans on that particular stretch just before kick off?

Why are people calling The Bargate a castle? It is not (and never has been) a castle. I find it ironic that some of the very people who are bemoaning the fact that others should understand and 'fight' to protect the history of Southampton's football club, are themselves a bit thick and ignorant when it comes to the history of our great city. They should not be directing strangers to the gateway to Southampton's old town by calling it a 'castle'. I also hope, for the safety of the marchers, that there is not a mob of Swansea en route to the stadium who, on seeing a few hundred Saints fans chanting on a march through the city, think that it's our 'firm' calling it on ;-)

Yes, the written quality of a person's posts does give the reader a clear indication of the writer's intelligence. To me, it reads as if your school has been entirely vindicated in their decision to demote you to a divvy class.

Microsoft Windows 7: Review of reviews (From The Telegraph website http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/3358965/Microsoft-Windows-7-Review-of-reviews.html ) I'll highlight the most salient points for you. By Ben Leach Last Updated: 12:15PM GMT 25 Nov 2008 The curtain has been raised (slightly) on the next installment of Microsoft's Windows operating system - Windows 7. Microsoft hope it will bring the internet, mobile phone and PC closer together. But reviews have so far been mixed, although reviewers have been limited to trying the (pre-beta version). The full version is expected to be capable of working with a touchscreen screen, navigating documents and the Web similar to Apple's iPhone. It is officially released at the end of 2009. InfoWorld "I have seen the future, and it is bleak. Windows 7, the next big version, the one that was supposed to fix everything that was wrong with Vista, is here (at least in pre-beta form), and I can now say - with some confidence - that Microsoft has once again dropped the ball. "Overall, I'm extremely disappointed with Windows 7. Far from atoning for Vista's sins, Windows 7 simply carries them forward, visiting them upon yet another generation. Windows 7 is no panacea. Rather, it's just more of the same: slow, bloated, and frustrating as hell." The Register "When it comes to Windows 7, Microsoft hasn't just learned from the mistakes of Windows Vista. It has picked up a thing or two from Apple's OS X, judging by first impressions. Techradar "It's not clear how big the changes are so far. If you put the beta-build of Windows 7 side-by-side with Windows Vista, you'd be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Yes, some of the icons look slightly different and there's no sidebar, but it's essentially still the Vista look and feel. But that changes when you start to use Windows 7. "For a start the OS won't nag you as much; many notifications are banished to a control panel, you get to approve icons before they show up in the system tray and Microsoft has reined in Vista's useful but annoying UAC prompts; you can choose which ones you want to see or turn them off altogether." ZDNet "Initially Windows 7 looks similar to Vista, but there a lot of new features that have been added. Under the skin, Microsoft has been working hard. Boot times have been reduced, and certainly the review laptop Microsoft provided has a fairly snappy boot time. "Microsoft has been working with OEMs to improve battery life - simple things such as reducing the timer frequency can improve battery life by up to 10 per cent. The networking stack has had new diagnostics added to help users figure out exactly where the problem lies. PC Magazine "So, is this all a big deal? It's not a change to the fundamental core of Windows, and most of the improvements sound relatively small. But taken together, they seem to address many of the issues people have had for Windows. I'm looking forward to trying it out, starting this afternoon."

Oh, silly me: I thought I'd already read that he was able to use his bundled software on his Dell machine, but when he tried to install it on a new machine that it wasn't authorised to be installed on, it would't install. What else is it, exactly, that you are waiting for him to find out? LOL.

No, it'll be Dell's usual trick (like most mass suppliers) of having loads of crappy little programs (think MS Works etc) preinstalled on their machines and the backup disks will only run on that machine. You could upgrade the operating system no problem, but you can't, for instance, take the disk that is supplied with that machine and install it on a different comptuer... oh, just like the original poster has experienced : r o l l :

The moral of this story is 'never ask mewsta or saint_stevo for computer advice; or listen to any they try to give.' The software would be bundled for the original Dell machine and only installable on that specific configuration of hardware. This is why it was still able to be installed ON THAT MACHINE after the OS upgrade to XP. Now you are trying to install it on a different machine with different hardware, it won't. If you still have the old machine and it runs, you could try just saving the clipart files to use in whatever program you're now going to use.

At least she doesn't look like one.

a) The council sets the tariffs. b) The council have gradually taken away the increased tariff period over the last few years. Up until 2006, Southampton City Council's New Year's 'Tariff 4' ran from 8pm on NYE until 6am on 2nd Jan. Now it is 11pm NYE until 6am on 1st Jan. That means those of us who choose to work NYE now have just 7hrs of Tariff 4 (which is double the daytime rate, NOT double the night rate as some think). And that means having to work 11pm until 6am. How much would YOU expect to be paid to spend NYE working, not having a drink and away from your family, friends and loved ones to ferry drunken idiots around with the inherent risks of having someone puke in your car, become abusive, stab you, try to do a runner or at the very least act like a tw*t? Tw*t.

Whilst it makes good tv, it clearly takes a certain type of person to actually go and watch it live: The sort of people who look like grubby Northerners, who'd count Butlins and Benidorm as their dream holiday destinations and whose favourite things in the world are Bingo, Karaoke and fags. A live spectator 'Sport' for the thick and fat underclasses. I hope Stompe wins.

Get the aluminium MacBook. Don't listen to the oiks and their suggestions of crappy make plastic lumps with inferior Operating Systems, or you'll regret it.

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Aiming to work Christmas Eve and finish around 3am Christmas Day, then start again at 12.15pm Christmas Day for a few jobs, then a few in the evening. Probably won't work Boxing Day this year as the fvkcing council have taken away the double tariff charge on Boxing Day, the bastards. Working on Christmas Day makes me a hero.

LOL Not worried about the current Firefox scare? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/17/mozilla_3_0_5_and_2_0_0_1_9_updates/

That's a great help for him then.... post some specs and be all smug about your purchase, even though it's not going to help him one bit. : r o l l :

Would rather work thousands of miles away for half the year than live with you permanently Either selfish or she hates you; probably hates you. They could easily invite you, knowing that you will otherwise be on your own... but they don't want to spend time with you. Ditto this pair; but at least you won't catch any nasty viruses from them. Even though he doesn't want to live with his mum full time, it's still a better option for Christmas than having to spend a single day alone with you You should go; you'd be right at home in a trailer park. Oh... I see... you've not been invited there either. Do you ever get the feeling people are trying to tell you something? Merry Christmas.

Men: "Yes I've got a headache, but I'll drink plenty pf water to rehydrate and maybe a couple of paracetamol if it gets really bad; it's no big deal" Women: "Ooh, I can feel a migraine coming on; I get these this little pain and some funny lights, then I feel sick sometimes; I can't stand the pain and will have to go home from work and lay down etc." It's the same headache. Migraines are just headaches for women. You Nancy.

That name stinks.

On that basis, you'd better keep a close 'horse watch' on Master Bates then Calvin.

How ironic - parents complaining about the misrepresentation of New Forest Lapland, when they themselves have no doubt been cheapskates and tried to pass this off to their kids as 'Lapland' and told them lies about the existance of Santa Claus. LOL.

"Have a goodnight at work, you've made it a good day for me." It's no wonder you're still a virgin MB.

Sack & Brick

You come up with some right old rubbish normally, but this really takes the biscuit. How you can be so idiotic to believe that a fellow human being deserves to be charged and potentially mauled, no matter what their view is on animal spectator sports, is amazing. Maybe your lefty animal-lover spectacles aren't as rose-tinted as you think and you are just incapable of showing as much love for fellow human beings as you do for animals.

haha this joke is really funny, thanks for sharing it. Know any more? lolz.