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Seem to recall one of those awful 'test the nation' programs showed preferred music vs IQ. If I remember correctly there was a vast difference in IQ between the pop dance and country fans and those who listen to rock jazz or classical.

To be honest egg, I don't think their would have been so many posts, had the second post not been so inflammatory and negative.

His wife didn't like the area? One of his relatives has been taken ill, and he is moving away to support them? He's decided to join an old school friend and start a company selling a revelutionary new doorbell? His partner has been offered a new high paid position in the States? Etc....

There are numerous reasons why a company and and employee part company. My company has had to terminate the contracts of people who had very impressive CVs, because they simple didn't perform. Let's face it, the marketing has been the most criticised part of the Saints over the past year or so. If you were Cortese, would you have been happy with the lack of, well, any obvious marketing whatsoever? What really annoys me, is how predictably negative certain posters choose to spin any news that comes from the club. I'm surprised that Hypo wasn't able to spin the signing of Cork into an anti Cortese rant. Seriously Hypo, what is your problem with the Saints?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etSivpBHUmE&feature=player_embedded

Good post Duncan, and good luck with whatever you end up doing next.

I would almost agree if the choice were genuine, but here in Surrey, I've really struggled to find a high quality secular school. My options were either to send my child to a good religious school, or a bad secular one. I opted to move house instead. All schools need to be secular and balanced, religion should be taught, and all religions should have a balanced time allocation. Ideally former religions (ancient Rome etc) should be also included. Oh, and BTW, Dune, fairly sure that isn't a Churchill quote, fairly sure I read that it was actually attributed to someone else, and has only incorrectly become attributed to Churchill over the past decade or so. Oh, and I have a problem with all radicalisation, whether religious or not. This includes both radical Islam, radical Christianity, radical Judaism, and the radical EDL.

Good player, with plenty of potential. Simply not good enough for a place in our current squad. Best of luck Oscar.

Why is a negative slant placed upon every sniff of news? Seriously, we have demonstrated spending muscle in the past, and no doubt, we will demonstrate it again. We will not go advertising our spending power. We equally won't go about buying average players or paying too much.

Isn't Tensor one of Mitre's range of balls?

So you're a Conservative whenever it's others who are suffering, and a Socialist when it suits you?

And what were the away attendances for those games? You can't include those matches where we sold out the home end, but were let down by poor away support... After that you have what, 2, perhaps 3 games a season on average left?

... and 1.7 million people...

Note in my post I suggested 45k if we were top 6. Think that answers your question. We'd overtake them, if we were out performing them on the pitch (c.f. Chelsea).

My folks had 3 season tickets in the Prem. Average about 10 games a season between them now... think that's three for your list

Turkish. Back in 2003 (or so) Deloitte conducted a survey of football team fan bases. Saints were ranked at 16th in the UK, (14th if you remove Celtic and Rangers). I can't remember the estimated fan base, but it was c. 300k or so (worldwide). Hampshire has a population of 1.7m or so, with only the blue few to compete with (and I guess Reading and the plastic fans). Quite simply, Saints have a large fanbase, and a larger potential fanbase. So the problem isn't the potential, nor the existing fanbase, but whether or not we can price the games competitively enough to attract large numbers to turn up. IMO, were we to be mid-table Premiership we would easily average c.36k +; if we fulfil the Liebherr dream of getting into the top 6, IMO we would fill a 45k stadium every game (even vs Wigan etc). Based entirely upon our previous Premier attendences - we will continue to sell 32k tickets almost every game (variations would be more to do with away attendance than home attendance). 32k is sufficient, but IMO, not really enough.

+1 . It's like watching a classroom, with the smart kid being bullied by the 'lads' at the back of the class.

Perhaps Dune finds it funny because Blackpool elected a Tory? Or perhaps he is laughing at a Tory wasting parliamentary time (if you're going to stand up and talk in the Commons, get to the point...)? Hardly funny, but hey this is Dune's sense of humor we're talking about...

You're right Trousers, but Hypo also falls into that same trap himself;albeit, he dismisses anything remotely positive, but jumps on the slightest whiff of negativity. He either has an agenda or a problem.

Decriminalise all drugs. Allow a free market to develop. Tax moderately (enough to put people off; not high to the extent of allowing a black market to exit). Spend a small proportion of the additional revenue generated on rehabilitation and information schemes, which can also ensure that quality standards are assured. Net result: less drug use in the UK; Crime funded by the current drug black market wiped out; economies of producing countries (say Afghanistan) stimulated, causing support for extremist groups in producing counties to fall, enabling a massive saving on overseas military adventures; oh and hilarious outrage in Daily Heil and Express rags, trying to provoke dumbed down Britain to express their disgust.

If hypo keeps this up, I might find myself agreeing with him.

UK, Ireland, Denmark, Belgium x2, France x5, Germany x3, Austria, Andorra, Spain x3, Portugal, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Greece x2, Cyprus, Egypt, Jordan, USA x3 (lived), Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, China x2, South Korea, Thailand x3, Laos x2, Cambodia x2, Vietnam, Malaysia, Australia (lived), Czechoslovakia (pre separation)

Ghosts exist just as much as the great orbiting teapot does. There is no god and there are no ghosts.

Ha! You speak about evolution as if it has a purpose. If the species still exists, isn't endangered, and is still reproducing regularly, blind evolution must be doing something right.

So to conclude, the only plausible way for a deity to exist would be if they are incredibly well hidden. In fact, said deity must have gone to great efforts to hide any evidence of their existence. Although the same deity must also be prone to fits of schizophrenia, because at irregular points of time they have engaged in religious advertising campaigns, sending us their son or appearing before young girls in the guise of a horny bull or multi-armed elephant. Of course during these campaigns they must have scattered plenty of real, tangible evidence of their existance, which they must then have studiously rehidden, for some unknown reason. And of course, the reason all this sounds so crazy, is because this deity occupies an alternative reality with different laws of physics, and not in any way to be misinterpreted as being because said deity simply doesn't exist.