Craig

For the umpteenth time: I said that Souness needed time to prove himself one way or the other. He's used that time to prove that he isn't good enough. Which doesn't make me wrong because he still needed that time to prove his inadequacy in his role as manager of Newcastle United (not Liverpool, Blackburn, or any other club he may have been at in the past). It was simply the true, 100% correct statement that "A new manager needs time to prove himself" that makes me RIGHT and not WRONG. FACTARAMA. 73891[/snapback] Gemmill, you were wrong because you thought he was the man for the job when he came here. That is all I am saying, just admit you were wrong on that aspect and I will never bring it up again. 73902[/snapback] I didn't think that you knobber! When I first saw his appointment I remember it vividly: I was abroad and I saw it on the BBC website and was as underwhelmed as anyone else. But after the initial disappointment I just thought "Ah well, he's here now. Let's see how the bloke does." Meanwhile, in Newcastle Airport's departure lounge........CARNAGE!!! 73910[/snapback] The first post I read after coming back from Barcelona (nearly 2 weeks after his appointment) was you saying something like "The more I think about it, the more I think Souness will be good for our club.....". Followed by "Anyone who doesn't think he should get AT LEAST 2 years in the job is a f*****g idiot". Anyway, this is getting beyond pointless now, and I can't prove it, so we may as well drop it. 73914[/snapback] Well Souness became manager when we were all camped out over at the backup forum at http://s7.invisionfree.com/toonchat/ so you can go over there and have a sift through the threads and find the comment you reckon Gemmill made. I'm pretty confident he didn't say that like, but it's for you to prove he did...

Oliver was on SSN earlier saying that Souness would have to win the FA Cup to save his job and that without Owen, he has no chance....

ditto, he was at it again yesterday moaning about Stevie G and Sissoko 73703[/snapback] Sissoko's challenge was fucking horrid tbh. Any manager in the league would have moaned about that one.

Shame you can't say that at HMRC though, eh?

Cheers peeps... Was listening to 'Wires' by Athlete today and despie the fact that I've heard that tune so many times, I actually paid close attention to the lyrics for the first time.... The coincidence to what I've experienced this last week was bizzare.. PS - Dr Ken, I'll let you off with the typo seeing as it was early on NYD!

Cheers peeps. Just to note he came home today and is a lot better. Little monkey woke up for a feed on the chimes of Big Ben as well. Happy New Year to all!

Sats is a shortened word for oxygen saturation. Basically it's measured as a percentage and it's an indication of how much oxygen is being carried by the red blood cells around the body. Sats are measured at the peripheries of the body with a probe on a finger, toe or ear. Full oxygen saturation is 100% and as a nurse I'd be concerned if a patient of mine had sats of below 95% unless they had some kind of long-term respiratory problem. With kids, their sats drop rapidly and dangerously and you can start to see them going blue before your eyes - it's horrible. 72302[/snapback] seen and witnessed that now - and you're right Cath, it is fucking horrible, worse when it's your own kid. Thankfully it seemed to be the end of the nasty stuff as the little man has rapidly improved over the remainder of the day. I've left him tonight with no oxygen linked up and the monitor taken off - they're going to check it every two hours during the night but they feel so long as there's no deterioration over night, he'll be home sometime tomorrow.

Come on, anyone who watches BBC2 at 8pm on Sundays should have a fair idea... 72252[/snapback] Take it that's where the Top Gear lot do their time trials then?

Well it was like a scene from Holby City today... The cannular in his arm has given up and therefore his las lot of antibiotics were going into the tissue rather than the vein. Poor little man was screaming for the half hour it was syringe-driven into him and his sats dropped to 66% and his BPM raced to over 220! Lots of worried nurses in the room and two very anxious parents. They've settled him now, but there's no way he'll be home anytime soon.

Not really Brock.... He seemed to be improving today as his temperature lowered and the amount of oxygen he was needing was reduced. In order to be told we can even be considered to go home, he has to be totally off the oxygen throughout the night. He came off it totally at 7pm but at 9pm the warning tone that his sats were too low kept sounding so he's back on it Best we can hope for is that it can be taken away again tomorrow and that he sleeps through tomorrow night. Only problem is, they don't normally discharge at weekends so it's very likely that he (and his Mum) will spend his first New Years Eve in hospital and me and his sister will be at home. Not what we'd hoped would be the case....

That'll be the Isle of Wight ferry.... And yep, there's been some 'parking damage' with those over the years. I see the Pride of Bilbao is about to dock - that only happens every week and a half. 50.808333, -1.112387 72095[/snapback] fook me .... a ferry anorak! 72096[/snapback] Or someone who has lived in Portsmouth and regularly visits the grandparents-in-law who live in one of those two tower blocks on the Gosport side of the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour

Good old Silverstone Shows how much image stitching is going on though - there's a race going on on both the international AND grand prix circuits at the same time

That'll be the Isle of Wight ferry.... And yep, there's been some 'parking damage' with those over the years. I see the Pride of Bilbao is about to dock - that only happens every week and a half. 50.808333, -1.112387

You've probably got your settings on Degrees, Minutes and Seconds rather than just Degrees. Go Tools > Options and change that Lat/Lon in the Rendering section to Degrees...

Unfortunately not. Actually we're thankful it's in his arm - I have heard reports that some young kids get them in their skull! Then bit I forgot to mention is that he actually has a splint on that arm as well to make it straight - at the end of the day, it's a needle sitting in his vein - if he bends the vein, I wouldn't even want to begin to contemplate the mess it'd make.

Nope, he's got a cannular in there for drugs administration. As he's only 10 weeks old, he's no idea what it is and would most likely flail his arms around and in the process rip it out. So what they've done is bandage his arm up so that its protected. Thing is, he's been scratching his chin with the plastic of the cannular so they've temporarly had to bandage over that as well. It makes changing his bodysuit fun and games, I can tell you!

No real improvement I'm afraid. They took the oxygen off him today but his sats dropped to 85% so he's got it back again. They're continuing to control his feeding as the mucus that the milk produces makes him worse so he's getting 50ml of milk every 2 hours. He's demanding more than that so the bottom line is that we're effectively starving the poor mite for his own good. That in itself is breaking my heart.... Couple of pics I snapped today:

An F-14 is actually called a Tomcat - although they were featured in the film Top Gun

Is that a blue Fiesta parked over the road?

Cheers guys, I know there's not a lot you can do from the other end of a network link, but the offer is very much appreciated. Have changed the title of the thread as the xmas side of it was only minor...

I'm still lookin for Beirut tbh ??? 71675[/snapback] the real Beirut? or the one where you live? if its where you live then stick ya postcode in. Meanwhile heres another car factory (and this ones British) 52.561090,1.179598 71677[/snapback] That'll be Proton! (Formerly known as Lotus )

Magny Cours anyone? 46.866942, 3.166849

That is Ferrari-land! The test track is either Fiorano or Mugello (I can never tell which is which tbh.)

Different areas are updated at different times. My brother's place is on there with his old car in the drive and the garage he had knocked down 3½ years ago! They keep expanding the detailed areas. And yes Pud, I had seen where it reckons Gateshead is. Perhaps that's why Sammy has been getting confused

The American military must love this tool.... Anyone wanna know where they make black helicopters? Have a butchers here.... 33.471319, -111.726254