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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by TheSecondStain, Jul 15, 2014.

  1. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    https://uk.news.yahoo.com/student-group-votes-for-racist-prisons-to-be-074848304.html

    If you want proof that the inmates are running the asylum. :steam:

    It was a bit like this when I was at University....reasonable students often avoided the NUS because it was where the nutjobs met. They persecuted anyone who tried to take an active part in the Union and actually recognised how crazy they were. In my day, you had to join as it was a closed shop....don't know whether that is true now.
     
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  2. Whiteley Saint

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    Think you may be able to opt out now. I wonder sometimes whether some of these students have actually lived in the real world or whether they have just been living in a bubble created by their parents.
     
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  3. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    Student leaders are interested in promoting themselves as they see a future in politics (fair enough I suppose). It was Neil Kinnock when I was at Cardiff. That is rather frightening though when you consider the leader of this group....scroll forward a couple of decades and watch her deny these comments when she is offered an important post.
     
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  4. Le Tissier's Laces

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    In fairness, much of the bellendery is due to the need to hype a match up and sell tickets. Unfortunately even a 'naturally' decent bloke like Joshua will be under pressure (particularly from the American networks) to over-egg the pudding eventually. All the boxing matches I've been to, in all honesty, have been a fairly 'interesting' cross-section. You wouldn't want to look at anyone the wrong way!
     
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  5. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    I would imagine it was rather upsetting.
     
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    That's interesting... I took it that he was in pieces laughing. Funny how the written word can be taken so differently.
     
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  7. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Two clues. No smiley, and when someone mentions about being in pieces that's a euphemism for being very upset. Besides, i wouldn't have thought the subject was a laughing matter.
     
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    Real or fake?
     
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    Real alligator, bloke filming is tiny though, and they are actually on a mini golf course. :emoticon-0102-bigsm
     
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    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Looks real enough.

    I've read that they walk across whatever gets in the way, including golf courses, quite often in Florida, to get from one watery feeding area to another. It's a biggie though. But then what is there in Florida to stop them getting bigger.? I don't think they have any natural predators except themselves.
     
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    Schrodinger's Cat Well-Known Member

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    I assumed it was funny too FLT, although I have heard people use the term "in bits" meaning they are upset
     
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    Real, I'd say. What amazing creatures but not one I'd like to meet up close and personal!
     
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    Amber Heard screamed to Johnny Depp in the middle of their argument last week, "Stop hitting me!!!" Problem is ... when she screamed Johnny was more than 6 yards away -- so claim 2 witnesses.

    Sources connected to the case tell TMZ, 2 security guards -- Jerry Judge and Sean Bett -- were standing in the entryway inside Johnny and Amber's apartment unit, giving them space during the argument, when out of nowhere they heard Amber scream.

    The guards say "within a second" they bolted into the living area and saw Johnny in the kitchen and Amber on the couch in the living room -- it's an open floor plan. Both guards say Johnny was at least 20 feet away from her.

    We're told according to Johnny, both he and Amber knew the guards were in the entryway and the scream was a badly executed attempted setup.

    The guards -- both of whom are expected to testify next month during the restraining order trial -- also say throughout Johnny and Amber's 15-month marriage, she was the one who flew into rages ... screaming at him, throwing bottles, and charging him. They claim they frequently had to pull her off Johnny.

    Amber claims her alleged injuries were caused when Johnny hurled an iPhone at her. The 2 guards support what the responding cops say ... she had no visible injuries. Amber claims there was broken glass on the floor and even submitted photos in her legal docs, but the guards insist there was no broken glass, and the cops say nothing was amiss.

    http://www.tmz.com/2016/05/31/amber-...curity-guards/
     
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    Let's wait and see..... I've heard it used for both laughter and sadness.
     
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    Having had another look it certainly comes across as laughing. Would he say it was brilliant if it was the opposite? Smilies are so important :)
     
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  17. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Guest post incoming....
     
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  18. Whiteley Saint

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    Oooh exciting! :cool: Is it Ronald?
     
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    Le Tissier's Laces Well-Known Member

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    Bit slimmer.
     
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  20. Whiteley Saint

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    Not Sammy then..;)
     
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