Comments on: Guns don’t kill people, Xmas trees do

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:54:05 +0000

They don’t. It’s just the local council said they “could” do in order to save money. However, I’d love to show them how a Christmas tree could kill someone.

By: grace vogdes

grace vogdes — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:18:24 +0000

how the hell do christmas trees kill people???????????
like reeeaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllly?

By: Pete Mack

Pete Mack — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:14:51 +0000

I was horrified to notice from the photographs that the people of Poole are allowed into public areas without any type of protection on their knees and elbows and without any type of safety helmet, disgraceful. I imagine that in the 25 years that Poole rather irresponsibly did have a real Christmas tree that the local hospital was overrun with victims of festive municipal tree injuries.

I must finish now before all this typing causes repetitive strain inj……. AAAAARRRRGGHH!

By: Soft Mick

Soft Mick — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:34:32 +0000

The Saints are WELL marching on. They’re the 4th richest team in the country, they’ll go up in the play offs this year and go up to the Premier League the year after. They’ll be European champions two years after that. You mark my words. Barcelona might be doing alright now, but have they got Rickie Lambert and Adam Lallana? Your silence speaks volumes…

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:16:17 +0000

Let it go Mick – The Saints aren’t marching on anymore.

They’ve never really recovered from losing Benali and Monkou.

By: Soft Mick

Soft Mick — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:40:58 +0000

Ah, Franny Benali. They were the days. Him together with Ken Monkou and Jason Dodd always meant a tough day at the office for any opposition forwards. Today a new generation stands in their place (not literally – the Dell’s been turned into flats, now) and the likes of James, Schneiderlin, Harding, Murty Jaidi and Trotman must be begging for someone to kick-start their goal-scoring careers. Morgan Schneiderlin especially – unlike James he’s been starting in midfield all season and is still yet to score. Missed an absolute sitter at Boundary Park, he did. You should go and nick his car or something.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:19:30 +0000

Erm, read the small print in your “Cone-tract”.

Dave Clifton: This is “T-Pau”

Alan: Fanny

Haha, well I wouldn’t know anything about nicking Christmas trees from Southampton football club reception, leaving a “ransom” note saying “drop Benali or the tree gets it”, then dragging it up Hill Lane leaving an incriminating trail of Christmas decorations behind before plonking it down in a lounge that it was too small for and which had a bath virtually hanging through the ceiling.

And then watching Francis Benali score his first ever goal in over 500 games for the club in the very next fixture that Southampton played. And then reading about the whole incident in The Pink newspaper.

I wouldn’t know anything about that officer.

King Road…King Road…

By: Soft Mick

Soft Mick — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:39:37 +0000

What’s the matter, Nick? Cone you take a joke? Are you off to watch a film later? Cone-an the Barbarian, perhaps?

On a serious note, at least that tree would be quite difficult for someone to rob.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:03:35 +0000

@Tom, It sounds almost as weird as the “Cone Tree” although at least yours was made of real pine – not Astroturf.

@Jessie, Do you work for Poole council? I don’t understand why new decorations had to bought every year for the traditional tree. My mum has a tatty old box of Christmas decorations she’s been using since about 1973. Why can’t the council stick the decorations in a box until next Christmas like she does?

Or even better, why not encourage local schools to get the kids to decorate it every year?

I’m sure at night it looks nice but everything looks nice at night with lights on. Even a pig walking around town with Christmas lights tied to it would look rather fetching. The point is that during the day, it looks an outdoor-5-side football pitch on a cornetto or some kind of 21st century tribute to the Wicker Man.

And I simply don’t believe a huge number of people complained that the tree was “taking up too much space”. For God’s sake, don’t let these people near Poole Park. It will look like a car park by the time they’ve stopped complaining about the number of trees “taking up too much space”.

By: Jessie

Jessie — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:51:06 +0000

All sparked off by classic skewed Daily Mail reporting again – it’s the local traders who decided to do this, not the Council. And it is reusable, unlike the £4k a year spent on a traditional tree, which the public complained about taking up too much space. See it with the lights on, as I have have, and its actually rather nice.