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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by TheSecondStain, Jul 29, 2013.

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  1. Downthe36

    Downthe36 Well-Known Member

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    Again, we seemed to get better once we got the 1st team outsiders off the pitch!
     
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    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Talking about covering leagues in football, what happened to all that hoo-ha about the Beeb abandoning the FL..? The Football League Show is on from next Saturday..!
     
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    Dead right, the true heroine of The Crimean War was Mary Seacole, but she was virtually airbrushed out of history by Victorian Britain because she was a black West Indian.
     
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    Just added four new albums to my MP3 player, that should refresh it somewhat hopefully :D

    KT Tunstall, Green Day, Coldplay and La Roux.... Bit random.
     
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    Just like in the previous game...
     
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    Woohoo! Proper football again, I do enjoy the football league show, less faff than MOTD and more football.
     
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    I am having a massive football binge this weekend.

    Especially with it being the 125 games.
     
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    We'd be on for about 20 seconds at 1 O'Clock in the morning. *sob*
     
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    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Indeed. There was very much a backlash against Florence Nightingale several years back when biographers reckoned that she caused more deaths than she prevented. The truth is somewhere in between. She made a significant contribution.
     
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    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    No doubt I'll watch. Mind you, it'll really be for the Cherries and Yeovil. But there are plenty of other Southern and Coast clubs who'll I'll be interested in seeing. Yep, even Pompey.
     
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    Mary Wollstonecraft was a true pioneer for women's rights (in an age when it wasn't fashionable) and is far more deserving of a picture on a banknote than Jane Austin in my humble opinion.
     
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    iPlayer is your friend. Who is your first fixture?
     
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    Oxford at home. Sell-out of 18,200.

    Is it bad that I knew that?
     
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    The same can be said for Mother Teresa. She was just concerned with converting people to Christianity so they could go to heaven, and her patients would live in disgusting facilities where the "nurses" were untrained, knew nothing about hygeine and re-used dirty needles.

    Also, on the subject of Florence Nightingale, I bet a lot of you didn't know there's actually a recording of her voice from 1890. I find this stuff strangely fascinating.

    [video=youtube;Dpl-pBy5Vms]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpl-pBy5Vms[/video]

    She speaks frustratingly slowly. They've also recently found one of Alexander Graham Bell.
     
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    Fair play, you really can't knock that. That must be some sort of record attendance for League 2, no?
     
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    Yeah, apparently the capacity of the Park has been reduced by over 2k due to health and safety concerns which is annoying.

    But I've got my ticket for Oxford! Hurrah! I won't be intending to stay up till 1am to watch 20 seconds of Portsmouth on the FLS. If I am up at 1am, I'd rather be watching American Dad or Family Guy.
     
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    I'm annoyed that Darwin is being replaced. Darwin is cool.
     
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    It was announced a while back that Elizabeth Fry will be replaced by Winston Churchill, at which point there will be no woman on a note, and that's what set off the bank note fuss in the first place.

    Depends who you believe. Some people claim her medical achievements have been overstated. As TSS said about Florence Nightingale, the truth is probably somewhere in between.

    Completely agree. There are comparatively few significant female figures in history for exactly that reason and putting someone less deserving on a note for the sake of it seems counter-productive. I completely that Jane Austen doesn't really compare to Darwin or Dickens, who came before him.
     
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    What media was that recorded onto?
     
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  20. Joe!

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    It was recorded on Edison's wax cylinder I believe.
     
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