Supercasino can be built in city (From Daily Echo)

Another ridiculous plan! and another smack in the face for the general public in a recession!! however 'pretty' it makes the waterfront this is sheer lunacy! I hope the nearby residents kick up the biggest stink and put a stop to it! If you go into any of the casinos already here, they are noticeably empty (surprise surprise no-one's got money)!! We don't NEED another casino, we don't WANT another casino and we shouldn't HAVE aanother casino!!!!!!!!!!

freemantlegirl2 wrote:
Another ridiculous plan! and another smack in the face for the general public in a recession!! however 'pretty' it makes the waterfront this is sheer lunacy! I hope the nearby residents kick up the biggest stink and put a stop to it! If you go into any of the casinos already here, they are noticeably empty (surprise surprise no-one's got money)!! We don't NEED another casino, we don't WANT another casino and we shouldn't HAVE aanother casino!!!!!!!!!!

How do you know the casinos are empty if you are so against them? In my experience, they're always pretty full.

The peeps stepping off the cruise ships will love chucking their money away into this casino, and it can only be a good thing for the city.

The only 'sheer lunacy' is coming from your mouth. Something needs to be done to this city, and it's people like you that put a stop to anything happening. Fool

I don't give a hoot about a new casino, but if the Mayflower Park/Town Quay area is redeveloped as part of the project, so that Joe Public can have somewhere nice to go near the waterfront then lets go for it. What we have there now is embarrassing.

"However, before a brick is laid Southampton residents will have their say on whether the plans will get the goahead."

Will this be like the water poisoning consultation?

Very few people actually live anywhere near that part of the waterfront so who would there be to consult?

Adrian-Smith wrote:
"However, before a brick is laid Southampton residents will have their say on whether the plans will get the goahead." Will this be like the water poisoning consultation?

Interesting comment, and probably right.

I wonder if crime will rise(even steeper than it currently is) to fund the gambling addictions in the way drug (ab)use is being funded.

freemantlegirl2 wrote:
Another ridiculous plan! and another smack in the face for the general public in a recession!! however 'pretty' it makes the waterfront this is sheer lunacy! I hope the nearby residents kick up the biggest stink and put a stop to it! If you go into any of the casinos already here, they are noticeably empty (surprise surprise no-one's got money)!! We don't NEED another casino, we don't WANT another casino and we shouldn't HAVE aanother casino!!!!!!!!!!

freemantlegirl2.....
.....in the last paragraph it states the following.

Quote:- Councillor Royston Smith, Cabinet member for economic development, said that the council would not speak to casino operators until after a public consultation was held, and that this would not happen until next year because there are still no detailed plans for the waterfront
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So it seems likely that if we do see a casino it will not be for at least five years by which time we will be long past this recession and looking forward to the next one!!...........and by this time your family would have grown up and will be looking forward to it !!

Saint Cope wrote:

freemantlegirl2 wrote:
Another ridiculous plan! and another smack in the face for the general public in a recession!! however 'pretty' it makes the waterfront this is sheer lunacy! I hope the nearby residents kick up the biggest stink and put a stop to it! If you go into any of the casinos already here, they are noticeably empty (surprise surprise no-one's got money)!! We don't NEED another casino, we don't WANT another casino and we shouldn't HAVE aanother casino!!!!!!!!!!

How do you know the casinos are empty if you are so against them? In my experience, they're always pretty full.

The peeps stepping off the cruise ships will love chucking their money away into this casino, and it can only be a good thing for the city.

The only 'sheer lunacy' is coming from your mouth. Something needs to be done to this city, and it's people like you that put a stop to anything happening. Fool

I do go to Harbour House, and have a Mint membership card actually! Harbour House was taken over by Mint as it used to be under private ownership. I also go to Maxim's in Terminus Terrace (only for special nights I'm not much of a gambler!). They HAVE been noticeably empty my friend. My point is that we don't need any further casinos, Harbour House IS right on the Waterfront, there's another at Leisure world, another in Terminus Terrace why do we then need a third?? BIG isn't necessarily better! Any 'fool' can see that in a time of recession building another Casino when three others already exist nearby (and others too in the city) is lunacy. I like the plans for the waterfront, just NOT for a Casino (I have commented on the plans for the Waterfront in the appropriate column!).... so please get your facts right before accusing people of being fools please. All very easy to sit behind a computer screen slagging people off but don't go assuming things that aren't there. I care about this City, we don't NEED another casino and it could make the existing ones go out of business!

Lone Ranger wrote:

freemantlegirl2 wrote:
Another ridiculous plan! and another smack in the face for the general public in a recession!! however 'pretty' it makes the waterfront this is sheer lunacy! I hope the nearby residents kick up the biggest stink and put a stop to it! If you go into any of the casinos already here, they are noticeably empty (surprise surprise no-one's got money)!! We don't NEED another casino, we don't WANT another casino and we shouldn't HAVE aanother casino!!!!!!!!!!

freemantlegirl2.....

.....in the last paragraph it states the following.

Quote:- Councillor Royston Smith, Cabinet member for economic development, said that the council would not speak to casino operators until after a public consultation was held, and that this would not happen until next year because there are still no detailed plans for the waterfront
---------

So it seems likely that if we do see a casino it will not be for at least five years by which time we will be long past this recession and looking forward to the next one!!...........and by this time your family would have grown up and will be looking forward to it !!

Thank you Lone Ranger, I shall go to that consultation :)

Please don't make assumptions about my family using casinos. I go 'occasionally' as I've said in my above post, with friends for a meal and a bit of a flutter. As for my family, my eldest son is already 'old enough' to use it, and prefers clubbing, football and sport I'm afraid. His words are and I quote 'Casinos are for 'olds' and my two youngest sons are severely disabled and will sadly never be able to use Casinos because of severe learning difficulties. I wish some of you would be careful before commenting on people's families. These are my opinions, not those of my childrens.

I'm pro the plans but we don't NEED another Casino!

freemantlegirl2 wrote:

Lone Ranger wrote:

freemantlegirl2 wrote: Another ridiculous plan! and another smack in the face for the general public in a recession!! however 'pretty' it makes the waterfront this is sheer lunacy! I hope the nearby residents kick up the biggest stink and put a stop to it! If you go into any of the casinos already here, they are noticeably empty (surprise surprise no-one's got money)!! We don't NEED another casino, we don't WANT another casino and we shouldn't HAVE aanother casino!!!!!!!!!!

freemantlegirl2..... .....in the last paragraph it states the following. Quote:- Councillor Royston Smith, Cabinet member for economic development, said that the council would not speak to casino operators until after a public consultation was held, and that this would not happen until next year because there are still no detailed plans for the waterfront --------- So it seems likely that if we do see a casino it will not be for at least five years by which time we will be long past this recession and looking forward to the next one!!...........and by this time your family would have grown up and will be looking forward to it !!

Thank you Lone Ranger, I shall go to that consultation :) Please don't make assumptions about my family using casinos. I go 'occasionally' as I've said in my above post, with friends for a meal and a bit of a flutter. As for my family, my eldest son is already 'old enough' to use it, and prefers clubbing, football and sport I'm afraid. His words are and I quote 'Casinos are for 'olds' and my two youngest sons are severely disabled and will sadly never be able to use Casinos because of severe learning difficulties. I wish some of you would be careful before commenting on people's families. These are my opinions, not those of my childrens. I'm pro the plans but we don't NEED another Casino!

I was not making assupmtions re your family....its just as time goes by attitudes change...and somethings that you may not like or approve of is sometimes embraced by others...perhaps family.
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No offence intended

Condor Man wrote:
Very few people actually live anywhere near that part of the waterfront so who would there be to consult?

A family member lives in Bugle Street, there is housing right up there and beyond, I'm assuming that they also mean businesses as well as domiciles? I can't see Mint being keen on the Casino idea can you?

Condor Man wrote:
Very few people actually live anywhere near that part of the waterfront so who would there be to consult?

Very few people need extra Fluoride in their water - but we all have to suffer the consequences. A massive no vote was rejected by the authorities - but for our own good.

If you include the residents of all the nearby apartment blocks then you actually have a large population. If the consultation includes those within a 1km radius then good - if it covers further afield then that is bad, because those people (myself included) would probably vote YES but would not have to deal with the immediate consequences.

"All very easy to sit behind a computer screen slagging people off ..."

I can't get behind my screen, it's all wires and plugs and linked to my 40" tv screen, and cables and in the corner, there's a spiders web there too and I can see what is on the screen if I sit in front of it.

Lone Ranger wrote:

freemantlegirl2 wrote:

Lone Ranger wrote:

freemantlegirl2 wrote: Another ridiculous plan! and another smack in the face for the general public in a recession!! however 'pretty' it makes the waterfront this is sheer lunacy! I hope the nearby residents kick up the biggest stink and put a stop to it! If you go into any of the casinos already here, they are noticeably empty (surprise surprise no-one's got money)!! We don't NEED another casino, we don't WANT another casino and we shouldn't HAVE aanother casino!!!!!!!!!!

freemantlegirl2..... .....in the last paragraph it states the following. Quote:- Councillor Royston Smith, Cabinet member for economic development, said that the council would not speak to casino operators until after a public consultation was held, and that this would not happen until next year because there are still no detailed plans for the waterfront --------- So it seems likely that if we do see a casino it will not be for at least five years by which time we will be long past this recession and looking forward to the next one!!...........and by this time your family would have grown up and will be looking forward to it !!

Thank you Lone Ranger, I shall go to that consultation :) Please don't make assumptions about my family using casinos. I go 'occasionally' as I've said in my above post, with friends for a meal and a bit of a flutter. As for my family, my eldest son is already 'old enough' to use it, and prefers clubbing, football and sport I'm afraid. His words are and I quote 'Casinos are for 'olds' and my two youngest sons are severely disabled and will sadly never be able to use Casinos because of severe learning difficulties. I wish some of you would be careful before commenting on people's families. These are my opinions, not those of my childrens. I'm pro the plans but we don't NEED another Casino!

I was not making assupmtions re your family....its just as time goes by attitudes change...and somethings that you may not like or approve of is sometimes embraced by others...perhaps family.
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No offence intended

My attitude is fine towards Casinos, as I said I use the ones that are in existence and so do friends of mine (some too much lol)... but I just don't see the need for a 'super casino'. I do want improvements but not for a casino - although I do appreciate that for the scheme to go ahead that 'may' be a sacrifice that will have to be made. I appreciate you didn't mean to offend but it is sometimes hard for me to know that my sons will never do things that the rest of us take for granted, so a rather sensitive thing for me but thanks for responding :) I appreciate it.

Brite Spark wrote:
"All very easy to sit behind a computer screen slagging people off ..."

I can't get behind my screen, it's all wires and plugs and linked to my 40" tv screen, and cables and in the corner, there's a spiders web there too and I can see what is on the screen if I sit in front of it.

Yawn.........

I think this would be a great idea. Another way to make Southampton stand out with something that is the biggest. We get enough cruise ships in and what do people on there do they gamble! They have casinos on them so why not have the biggest super casino in southampton?!

The fact that this will make the boat show even bigger and more global can only be a good thing. They should make the supercasino a hotel as well then it would really be Vegas style!

I think the public should name it though...

Dreadful idea.

Making Southampton a gambling mecca is hardly going to HELP our social problems is it?

More debt, more poverty, more distress, more desparation, to line the pockets of a few.

So if I have this right, there are no plans to build one at this time?

Why is this news?

For once I would like to see something built inthis city to make it a better palce to live rather thanjust to make money for the specualtors. We have casinos and as somebody said you can gamble 24 hours a day on the internet.

Mayflower park and that area should be made into a facility for peole in southampton to enjoy. Not seen as an empty space ripe for development.

When you have friends come visit you from outside the town and you take them to see the sites the first thing you do is leave the city. The spinaker tower, The New Forest etc etc.

I have lived here all my life and this city has less to offer the people who live here now than it did 30 years ago.


Lets se the council have a real consutlation about how to make this city great.

Very good point about internet gambling (although I personally don't agree with it, it's a slippery slope but it's a person's choice whether they do that or not), and I would like to remind those who are saying about cruise ships that there are also casinos on board too! So with the three already situated on and around Town Quay, do we really need another???? It would be like builing another cinema complex, we already have Leisureworld, Ocean Village and Harbour Lights in the vicinity we don't really need another one. I appreciate that developers do have to raise revenue for this from commerical ventures but a bit more imagination wouldn't go amiss. Casinos only benefit those over 18 as well, and do not benefit a broad spectrum of people and families. Can we not have more restaurants, and revenue raising leisure facilities without a casino? Would present businesses be prepared to relocate to a prime location like this?

I seem to remember we had all this before with regard to a SUPER CASINO, then it was the general consensus social problems could quite well arise and it proved not to be a popular idea. However, one should be more concerned how determined the 'powers that be' are in getting what they want - As in the light of Fluoride, and the arrogance of these 'dictators' never let go and ignore absolutely what the majority of people's concerns are. I would not mind betting a debate on this will be totally ignored or like the Fluoride question they will be seen to be doing the right thing then ignore us and get on with the job! After all capitalists' RULE in this Country.

goard

Bad idea, hope majority of people will oppose it at consultation stage, and their views will not be ignored like in the case of adding fluoride to drinking water.
But if majority supports the idea then society itself will be responsible for gambling with its own future, because extensive gambling will produce huge jackpots of social problems.
For a change I agree with Liberal Democrat councillor John Slade who thinks that the social cost going to be a price too high to pay and am disappointed with the views of New Labour’s Cllr. Derek Burke, who as usual seems to be living up to his name…

freemantlegirl2 wrote:

Saint Cope wrote:

freemantlegirl2 wrote:
Another ridiculous plan! and another smack in the face for the general public in a recession!! however 'pretty' it makes the waterfront this is sheer lunacy! I hope the nearby residents kick up the biggest stink and put a stop to it! If you go into any of the casinos already here, they are noticeably empty (surprise surprise no-one's got money)!! We don't NEED another casino, we don't WANT another casino and we shouldn't HAVE aanother casino!!!!!!!!!!

How do you know the casinos are empty if you are so against them? In my experience, they're always pretty full.

The peeps stepping off the cruise ships will love chucking their money away into this casino, and it can only be a good thing for the city.

The only 'sheer lunacy' is coming from your mouth. Something needs to be done to this city, and it's people like you that put a stop to anything happening. Fool

I do go to Harbour House, and have a Mint membership card actually! Harbour House was taken over by Mint as it used to be under private ownership. I also go to Maxim's in Terminus Terrace (only for special nights I'm not much of a gambler!). They HAVE been noticeably empty my friend. My point is that we don't need any further casinos, Harbour House IS right on the Waterfront, there's another at Leisure world, another in Terminus Terrace why do we then need a third?? BIG isn't necessarily better! Any 'fool' can see that in a time of recession building another Casino when three others already exist nearby (and others too in the city) is lunacy. I like the plans for the waterfront, just NOT for a Casino (I have commented on the plans for the Waterfront in the appropriate column!).... so please get your facts right before accusing people of being fools please. All very easy to sit behind a computer screen slagging people off but don't go assuming things that aren't there. I care about this City, we don't NEED another casino and it could make the existing ones go out of business!

Yawn. Stop telling lies

Brite Spark wrote:
I don't give a hoot about a new casino, but if the Mayflower Park/Town Quay area is redeveloped as part of the project, so that Joe Public can have somewhere nice to go near the waterfront then lets go for it. What we have there now is embarrassing.

if mayflower park do get developed, then it become an area for the well off, and not for the likes of joe public, it will be like the marina in between eastern docks and town quay, they would not want you wondering around near the boats,

freemantlegirl2 and Paramjit Bahia good posts
may i also add, may be the council should send some one over to las vegas and other gambling places around the world, and look at the social problems that come with it, las vegas, monte carlo type place's have very big social problems connected to gambling, oh it might look very nice walking down the gamblin area, but once you get out of the main area, then you start to see, what problems it can cause, and the seedy under world that comes with it to.
no keep them small and more managaeble.

Mr Tein you are so right. I have been banging on about this for ages. I am Southampton born and bred and there is so little done to make us residents proud, or even want to stay here. Make the boat show bigger? Let's clog up West Quay Road even more shall we? The money brought into the city benefits the few, while the majority of us locals just have major inconvenience. We don't need a huge casino as well. Please can we make Southampton the city it should be, for ALL to enjoy!!

Im just glad no one mention the ice rink again.

Saint Cope wrote:

freemantlegirl2 wrote:

Saint Cope wrote:

freemantlegirl2 wrote:
Another ridiculous plan! and another smack in the face for the general public in a recession!! however 'pretty' it makes the waterfront this is sheer lunacy! I hope the nearby residents kick up the biggest stink and put a stop to it! If you go into any of the casinos already here, they are noticeably empty (surprise surprise no-one's got money)!! We don't NEED another casino, we don't WANT another casino and we shouldn't HAVE aanother casino!!!!!!!!!!

How do you know the casinos are empty if you are so against them? In my experience, they're always pretty full.

The peeps stepping off the cruise ships will love chucking their money away into this casino, and it can only be a good thing for the city.

The only 'sheer lunacy' is coming from your mouth. Something needs to be done to this city, and it's people like you that put a stop to anything happening. Fool

I do go to Harbour House, and have a Mint membership card actually! Harbour House was taken over by Mint as it used to be under private ownership. I also go to Maxim's in Terminus Terrace (only for special nights I'm not much of a gambler!). They HAVE been noticeably empty my friend. My point is that we don't need any further casinos, Harbour House IS right on the Waterfront, there's another at Leisure world, another in Terminus Terrace why do we then need a third?? BIG isn't necessarily better! Any 'fool' can see that in a time of recession building another Casino when three others already exist nearby (and others too in the city) is lunacy. I like the plans for the waterfront, just NOT for a Casino (I have commented on the plans for the Waterfront in the appropriate column!).... so please get your facts right before accusing people of being fools please. All very easy to sit behind a computer screen slagging people off but don't go assuming things that aren't there. I care about this City, we don't NEED another casino and it could make the existing ones go out of business!

Yawn. Stop telling lies

No lying going on from me, try making some constructive comments for a change yes?? I don't mind people disagreeing with me whatsoever, as long as they do is constructively. Notice you've not taken any male counterparts to task about their opinions or called them fools so perhaps it's just a 'gender' thing, in that women aren't allowed opinions or to be members of casinos ;)? or made out to be liars. Grow up!

A gender thing huh?
You should come along to "The F Word" cafe at The Art House in Above Bar on the second Tuesday of every month....
It's a place to share ideas and thoughts on how to challenge those personal and individual experiences of sexism which affect all of us at one time or another. It's a space where women can share and support one another over the things which niggle, annoy, anger, hurt or enrage us about being a woman in modern Britain. The next one is on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 at 7.30. See you there.

Saint Cope wrote:
A gender thing huh?
You should come along to "The F Word" cafe at The Art House in Above Bar on the second Tuesday of every month....
It's a place to share ideas and thoughts on how to challenge those personal and individual experiences of sexism which affect all of us at one time or another. It's a space where women can share and support one another over the things which niggle, annoy, anger, hurt or enrage us about being a woman in modern Britain. The next one is on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 at 7.30. See you there.

Now that IS a constructive suggestion! I may well take you up on that :) if I can get a babysitter (live in sitter is starting Uni on Monday). We are all guilty, me included, of assuming things. Thank you for letting me know about that, I am genuinely interested :)

Maybe I could also show you my Mint Casino card whilst I'm there ;) I promise you, i may be a few things, bolshy, independent, feisty but i'm not a liar :)

freemantlegirl2 wrote:

Saint Cope wrote: A gender thing huh? You should come along to "The F Word" cafe at The Art House in Above Bar on the second Tuesday of every month.... It's a place to share ideas and thoughts on how to challenge those personal and individual experiences of sexism which affect all of us at one time or another. It's a space where women can share and support one another over the things which niggle, annoy, anger, hurt or enrage us about being a woman in modern Britain. The next one is on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 at 7.30. See you there.

Now that IS a constructive suggestion! I may well take you up on that :) if I can get a babysitter (live in sitter is starting Uni on Monday). We are all guilty, me included, of assuming things. Thank you for letting me know about that, I am genuinely interested :) Maybe I could also show you my Mint Casino card whilst I'm there ;) I promise you, i may be a few things, bolshy, independent, feisty but i'm not a liar :)

aww its a date.............lol
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Redback wrote:
Dreadful idea.

Making Southampton a gambling mecca is hardly going to HELP our social problems is it?

More debt, more poverty, more distress, more desparation, to line the pockets of a few.

But on the upside - more prostitutes!

Just checking peoples irritability levels today!

Seriously though - if we are going to gain a Vegas style casino, lets speak to someone like Trump or Steve Wynn and do a dirty great big showpiece Casino Hotel project - something that we can all enjoy. How about a Titanic replica? - How about the QE2 back? Something big, over the top and basically vulgar - works for Vegas!

we need this casino! do you not realise this is just the governments way of getting back the dole and social money they have paid out!
i went to a casino ONCE and i have met a better class of people in the park drinking cider.

freemantlegirl2 wrote:

Saint Cope wrote:
A gender thing huh?
You should come along to "The F Word" cafe at The Art House in Above Bar on the second Tuesday of every month....
It's a place to share ideas and thoughts on how to challenge those personal and individual experiences of sexism which affect all of us at one time or another. It's a space where women can share and support one another over the things which niggle, annoy, anger, hurt or enrage us about being a woman in modern Britain. The next one is on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 at 7.30. See you there.

Now that IS a constructive suggestion! I may well take you up on that :) if I can get a babysitter (live in sitter is starting Uni on Monday). We are all guilty, me included, of assuming things. Thank you for letting me know about that, I am genuinely interested :)

Maybe I could also show you my Mint Casino card whilst I'm there ;) I promise you, i may be a few things, bolshy, independent, feisty but i'm not a liar :)

freemantle girl
i like your posts.
however One thing that worries me a little you mention babysitter issues for a night out at the f word but you're |Ok for the casino.
Not for me to pry but it doesnt add up

It is said that a mug and their money is soon parted, so it will be sited where there are plenty of mugs with money!

I just wonder where these mugs keep getting all the money they are soon parted from.

Are they bankers that are out spending their exhorbitant bonuses?

I have read this article 3 times now, no where does it say as Casino is being built.

This is hype

well veracity, Sholing first of all you need to know how to count, once you learned that then you see it do add up.

Will the new Casino look nice?

Obviously yes!!

Do we actually need ANOTHER casino??

NO!!!!!!!!!!!

freemantlegirl2 wrote:
Very good point about internet gambling (although I personally don't agree with it, it's a slippery slope but it's a person's choice whether they do that or not), and I would like to remind those who are saying about cruise ships that there are also casinos on board too! So with the three already situated on and around Town Quay, do we really need another???? It would be like builing another cinema complex, we already have Leisureworld, Ocean Village and Harbour Lights in the vicinity we don't really need another one. I appreciate that developers do have to raise revenue for this from commerical ventures but a bit more imagination wouldn't go amiss. Casinos only benefit those over 18 as well, and do not benefit a broad spectrum of people and families. Can we not have more restaurants, and revenue raising leisure facilities without a casino? Would present businesses be prepared to relocate to a prime location like this?

In the interests of a consietent argument you should apply your principle of "do we need another casino when we have three already" to your call for more restaurants......don
't we have enough of those already? And some of those are half empty. Oh actually, that also goes for pubs, bars, shops and so on and so forth.

I believe it is called competition and freedom of choice.

And - how is it that you can state quite happily that "Internet gambling is a slippery slope" when you attend casinos. Don't say "it's a different thing"....and unless you are a qualified psychologist it's best not to try and back up your argument. People are people, they will gamble heavily if they have addictive natures whether that is the internet or in a physical casino. I don't gamble and don't believe in it, but if others want to then more power to their elbow. If another company want to build a major casino and it fails then it is their problem, at least we will get a re-developed waterfront as a quid pro quo. And yes...before you say it, I am naive and gullible ;-)

Monty

veracity wrote:

freemantlegirl2 wrote:

Saint Cope wrote:
A gender thing huh?
You should come along to "The F Word" cafe at The Art House in Above Bar on the second Tuesday of every month....
It's a place to share ideas and thoughts on how to challenge those personal and individual experiences of sexism which affect all of us at one time or another. It's a space where women can share and support one another over the things which niggle, annoy, anger, hurt or enrage us about being a woman in modern Britain. The next one is on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 at 7.30. See you there.

Now that IS a constructive suggestion! I may well take you up on that :) if I can get a babysitter (live in sitter is starting Uni on Monday). We are all guilty, me included, of assuming things. Thank you for letting me know about that, I am genuinely interested :)

Maybe I could also show you my Mint Casino card whilst I'm there ;) I promise you, i may be a few things, bolshy, independent, feisty but i'm not a liar :)

freemantle girl
i like your posts.
however One thing that worries me a little you mention babysitter issues for a night out at the f word but you're |Ok for the casino.
Not for me to pry but it doesnt add up

I too like her posts. Many times in recent weeks SHE has referred to her family life and her children. Now she is expressing shrill outrage that others are referring to her family life and her children. This too doesn't add up.

clausentum wrote:

veracity wrote:

freemantlegirl2 wrote:

Saint Cope wrote:
A gender thing huh?
You should come along to "The F Word" cafe at The Art House in Above Bar on the second Tuesday of every month....
It's a place to share ideas and thoughts on how to challenge those personal and individual experiences of sexism which affect all of us at one time or another. It's a space where women can share and support one another over the things which niggle, annoy, anger, hurt or enrage us about being a woman in modern Britain. The next one is on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 at 7.30. See you there.

Now that IS a constructive suggestion! I may well take you up on that :) if I can get a babysitter (live in sitter is starting Uni on Monday). We are all guilty, me included, of assuming things. Thank you for letting me know about that, I am genuinely interested :)

Maybe I could also show you my Mint Casino card whilst I'm there ;) I promise you, i may be a few things, bolshy, independent, feisty but i'm not a liar :)

freemantle girl
i like your posts.
however One thing that worries me a little you mention babysitter issues for a night out at the f word but you're |Ok for the casino.
Not for me to pry but it doesnt add up

I too like her posts. Many times in recent weeks SHE has referred to her family life and her children. Now she is expressing shrill outrage that others are referring to her family life and her children. This too doesn't add up.

Thank you gentlemen, what I mean is I people shouldn't 'assume' things about families, and I'm sure that people don't keep a log of my posts, to check up what I've said and haven't said if they're not regular readers lol. It would be a bit strange if they did wouldn't it, or mean that they had a fixation with me ;). I don't 'gamble' that much - I have a policy of NEVER spending any more than £20 betting in a casino (I can't afford any more tbh), and I ALWAYS have to book sitters for any nights out. My point was that my son won't be 'as available' as he HAS been and my other sitter is doing a nursing degree and is away on placement (she hasn't been before). I'm so chuffed that you're worried about my social life!!! ;) oh and I laughed like a drain at the psychologist thing because guess what my degree is in? ;) Psychology and Sociology! not that it makes me an expert whatsoever! Calm down people these are only opinions. I take your point about 'competition' about bars and restaurants, but there is only so much competition with certain business, like the example i gave about cinemas before it becomes saturation. I don't 'believe' that Southampton is a place that can sustain that amount of casinos, it is a relatively small city. Either that or it's a conspiracy theory by the Council to turn us all into serious gamblers so we won't notice what else they're getting up to whilst we're all in there drinking, gambling and making merry! ;)

Saint Cope, I've added myself to the F'word/Art House Group on FB, if you're there would you give me a head's up?

another casino is a stupid idea,theres already 2 in soton and with the ression going on,what an idea!i think the goverment need to sort out the propertys 1st and only seem to focus on that side of the water,everywhere else in soton doesnt look nowhere near as nice as the waterfront side!