WhatAboutTheFinish

 What a tit! 

Betfair currently offering 4/1 on a top 10 finish. I’m feeling bullish! 

17 minutes ago, snowychap said:

Runners and riders for next Tory leader:

Good line from David Mellor (yeah remember him!) on TV earlier, 'If you've got 17 runners in a race and each of their trainers is saying they have a chance, it means there isn't a good horse amongst them.'

1 hour ago, Chindie said:

The Beeb starting it's parade of smug Tories.

I was just watching and hadn't realised that Tory Boy had gone on to be the Political correspondent for the FT!

5 minutes ago, imavillan said:

apologies if it's bin Dunne 

 

 

Unfortunately it has been done...by Dave Allen about 40 years ago!

33 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said:

Now if you’re having a bath with the missus(or bit on the side for some of you ) then I make sure I have everything washed and I make sure she’s washed thoroughly.

Me too!

A joke I remember fondly from back in the 80’s, retold today with love given the circumstances...

Cher decided that her labia had grown too large with age and given the skimpy outfits she was prone to wearing decided to have surgery to have them removed. Obviously the hospital was under strict instructions to keep the operation a secret and prevent any leaks to the press, nobody must find out.

So as she comes round from a successful operation she notices three cards on the side of the bed.

’What!’ She exclaims to the nurse, ‘Nobody is supposed to know I’m here!’

’Open them and see’ the nurse says politely.

She opens the the first card, ‘Get well soon, your Surgeon’. ‘Oh that’s nice’ she thinks.

She opens the second card ‘Speedy recovery, all the best,  the nurses on your ward. ‘Lovely thought’ she says. ‘But who could this third card be from?’

She opens it up and it reads ‘Thanks for the ears, love Niki Lauda’

When I moved to Spain, there was a legal requirement to register my address with the government.

When I moved Poland, there was a legal requirement to register my address with the government.

When I moved to Finland, there was a legal requirement to register my address with the government AND they made me attend an interview at the immigration office.

This faux outrage about the UK introducing a system that appears to have been standard practice across other EU countries for many years seems somewhat overblown (and slightly ironic).

7 hours ago, mikeyp102 said:

I wouldn’t be surprised to see an Arya spin off. They literally can go anywhere they want with it.

HBO will turn it into a travel documentary where Arya discovers that west of Westeros is the east coast of Essos and then undertakes a road trip back home.

Meanwhile, Sky have lined up Drogon to replace James Corden as host of A League of Their Own.

5 hours ago, snowychap said:

Grauniad letter:

 

Surely a clerk of the House of Commons for over 30 years would know that the party members elect the Leader of the Conservative Party, not the prime minister? 

1 minute ago, rjw63 said:

What the **** is this yellow apparition?

Would! 

Wow...The Israeli Alan Parsons Project! Bring back the contestants, all is forgiven. 

4 hours ago, bickster said:

As an aside, this is exactly the reason I gave up playing Rugby. When I went to Uni, I'd played since junior school, school captain and also played club rugby, had county trials etc I was a good player for my age group and position. I went to the first Uni training session, where they sorted out who was in which squad for the season, I was told I made the 2nd team (of 5 I think), which I was quite happy with. Then I went to the "compulsory" after session "session", after half an hour I left. What a bunch of absolute pricks and I was used to the rugby drinking culture at my club. Initiation ceremony my arse, it was just bullying by a bunch of private school rocket polishers. I left and never went back. Never played a game since

Weirdly enough I could also tell this story almost word for word! The only difference being it didn’t put me off playing rugby for good...just in England! 

15 minutes ago, bickster said:

 

Sounds like poor old Alastair isn’t pulling the strings at the BBC anymore, I almost feel sorry for him.

This from a man who regularly gets airtime because...well, for what exactly? 

7 hours ago, Shropshire Lad said:

Let the hamster jokes commence...

Why did the hamster quit his office job? He wasn't happy with the celery.

But yeah, Feddie Starr, I always found him about as funny as that joke. Remember others in my family thinking he was hilarious though.

If Danny Baker and Roseanne Barr had children....

Too soon? 

On 01/05/2019 at 14:55, imavillan said:

The system i have is wireless with rechargable batteries. You can see the battery status for each camera in the app.

How long do the batteries hold out before a recharge? 

On 12/04/2019 at 23:07, bickster said:

The number of wars European Countries have been involved in since WWII

As an aside to this, I think I remember reading once that during that same period Russia has not engaged in any war in a foreign country without a request for assistance from its official government.

7 minutes ago, turvontour said:

Would the £60 million (if true) make him the most expensive British player ever?

Not bad for someone who only dives. 

I think Gareth Bale has got that covered!

I’m sure a little thing like being selected won’t deter Hourihane from getting in a good rest over the 90 minutes ready for the playoffs! 

46 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Can't read the bottom centre one. 

Edvard Grieg.

If I was Chopin and lower on the billing than Elgar, Liszt and Schubert...I’d be disgusted! 

8 minutes ago, desensitized43 said:

Even the most ardent remainer would admit it's not a perfect organisation by any means. I guess where we would differ is that I believe it's possible to correct those problems and leavers clearly think it's irredeemable. i certainly can understand that point of view even though it seems like giving up to me. I'd rather work with our friends (the ones we have left) and try and put it right.

You’re position is perfectly reasonable and I respect it.  You are also right that it is where we differ, as I feel there is no desire to change from the EU. They don’t really think there is a problem. All noises coming from Brussels relate to strengthening the current institutions, not modernising or reforming them. As far as I can see the ‘reform from withiners’ might as well get themselves off to the unicorn party with the ‘renegotiate the dealers’. 

Ultimately, it is a system of government I would oppose in London, why would I prop it up just because it is in Brussels. 

18 minutes ago, desensitized43 said:

Are you saying that's analogous to the current EU-UK relationship?

EU Commission - EU Parliament relationship.

9 minutes ago, desensitized43 said:

I'm just curious how people get to the positions that they do...nothing more than that.

The way legislation is made is always subject to debate. It's called parliament (UK and EU). No legislation is just blindly accepted as it has to go through a process. I'm interested why people think our parliamentarians are more capable than those sat in Brussels or Strasbourg. I think if the last 3 years (and more tbh) has taught us anything it's that our parliament can't be trusted with more powers to make legislation.

I think that if in the UK someone proposed a system where only an unelected second house (the Lord’s) had the power to introduce new legislation and MP’s merely rubber stamped it, we would think it was farcical! I mean sure, MP’s could lobby the Lords to introduce things but this happens behind closed doors. What happens when you’re not happy with the legislation that is introduced? Lobby harder behind those closed doors?