Reply to: Southampton area

[BA to the Stars]

Word of warning though, you may need to change your football alliegance....they're pretty passionate about their local team (currently languishing in League 1).

This is stains fans you are talking about.

Do you know how many of them it takes to change a light bulb
None - they are happy living in the shadow of Pompey

[PRC1964]

Is it a good place for a family living? Any nice place nearby? I see that is also kind of commut(ish)able to London/Surrey.

Well, the city was saddened not to win the nomination for the 2013 City of Culture so it has pushed ahead in other ways and is now proud to be teen pregnancy capital of the south

[Flubster]

No way mate. You can change your wife, nationality or religion but you can never change your football team. Forza Roma, forza lupi.

Supporting a foreign club may well be forgiven. I made the mistake of sending my youngest to football training in a Reading strip. It wasn't just the kids who ripped into him, but the parents too....until they saw me wearing a Reading bobble hat and then quickly backed off.

[OrangeHopper]

Not quite the reaction I was expecting.

[Moscow Mule]

Barbel (the fish) have whiskers for feeling the river bed.

So, is it a bearded lady?

[doodab]

Yep, have to agree that Soton is full of chubs and trouts. Not sure what a barbel is, but I'm pretty sure you'll find some hanging around West Quay if you look hard enough.

Ok, chubs = fat people & trouts I understand but barbels is lost on me. Can someone explain this new fangled slang?

[deckster]

Has some of the best barbel and chub fishing in the country.

Not forgetting the best trout river in the country!

Yep, have to agree that Soton is full of chubs and trouts. Not sure what a barbel is, but I'm pretty sure you'll find some hanging around West Quay if you look hard enough.

[Francko]

Word of warning though, you may need to change your football alliegance....they're pretty passionate about their local team (currently languishing in League 1).

No way mate. You can change your wife, nationality or religion but you can never change your football team. Forza Roma, forza lupi.

[Francko]

He he - coming back then after so many posts slagging off the UK?
Ne-er-do-wells try all sorts of things but the one thing they can't leave behind is themselves.

I wasn't slagging off the UK. I was just slagging off London. :-)

Besides that, you still realise London is something unique in the world.

Anyway, it's nothing definitive, just an idea...

[OrangeHopper]

Has some of the best barbel and chub fishing in the country.

Not forgetting the best trout river in the country!

[Moscow Mule]

http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/tol_...rsityguide.php

Number 111th out of 114 universities.

Just 95 behind it's neighbour - they have pulled themselves up.

I see that the courses they offer are still chock full of "academic rigour".

[Paddy]

I sit corrected.

Do they still offer the BTEC National Diploma in flower arranging?

http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/tol_...rsityguide.php

Number 111th out of 114 universities.

[Menelaus]

I sit corrected.

Do they still offer the BTEC National Diploma in flower arranging?

Not the first clue. A friend @UWE gave my number to them for a lecturing gig in analysis and statistics which I didn't apply for.

[Moscow Mule]

I think the Institute is now Southampton Solent University ...

I sit corrected.

Do they still offer the BTEC National Diploma in flower arranging?

[Menelaus]

I went to Uni in Southampton.

It's full of hot student totty.

I went to the uni, but the Institute has it's fair share of gullible, impressionable girls too.



I left quite some time ago though, so it might be a tulip hole now.

I think the Institute is now Southampton Solent University ...