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  1. Crowe will be on at least 9 of the top 10 teams in the DDP next year, a lock.

    With great sadness I agree. What a batting sensation he was, when he and the great Richard Hadlee wiped condescending smiles from the all-conquering Aussies' faces. The inventor of one of T20's forerunners 'Cricket Max' (look it up, coding's shit on the tablet), he made a huge impact on the game both as a player, and instead of taking the path of administrator, he became a broadcaster who gave us the hit and giggle game purists pretend to dislike.

     

    As much as I hate to say it, sure thing for 2015.

     


  2. Gunjaboy's friend's mother asked her son what LOL means as the boys have the mildly annoying habit of saying it at every nerve grating opportunity.

     

    "Lots of love mum" the chum told her.

     

    A few weeks later when a family friend died and the mother said "Oh you poor thing. LOL." at the funeral.

     

    Laugh? I nearly shat myself.


  3. Is this the only place left where people still die?

     

    I am getting increasingly irritated hearing that somebody-or-other has "passed".

    Not passed away, or passed on, time-honoured euphemisms both, but just "passed", like it's a driving test or summat.

    Seems like people these days are afraid to say the word die (there I said it)

    Due to my boundless maturity, whenever anyone talks about someone 'passing' or having 'passed', I like to silently add the word 'wind' afterwards. Only with great effort could I keep a straight face when a work-mate told me his grandmother had 'passed'.

     

    I'm sad for him but really wish he'd had the nads to say 'died'. A euphemism for a euphemism?

     

    Good Lord.

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  4. BREAKING NEWS-Shumacker remains in critical condition and in a coma this morning and has lesions on his brain (whatever that means) acording to doctors press conference. they say they dont know whetehr he will recover or not

     

    I've always found this a funny way of putting things; 'Leave alone you big nosed doctoring cunt, you dress badly and the curtains don't match the decor. That's what I think of your half baked clinic..'

     

    Critical?

     

    They wouldn't know the half of it.


  5. Christmas, I loathe it and despise its disciples who worship at the temples of consumerism and preach vacuous sentimentality.

     

    I have sent not a single card nor bought a single gift, no decorations adorn my abode.

     

    The cult of Christmas can get fucked.

    That's the stuff Tempus, good to see you're getting into the spirit of things.

     

    Merry Christmas to you too.


  6. Spoke to what one might call an 'unrepentant Afrikaner' yesterday who reckons Mandela died in July/August and has been kept on ice until the infrastructure could be put in place for the funeral and after-match function.

     

    Anyone else heard anything similar?


  7. Two of the older guys at work were talking about the sad news the other day;

     

    "Gee Cyril, all that jail food must have agreed with him."

    "Why's that mate?"

    "I don't know anybody that's lived to the age of ninety five."

     

    Priceless.

     

     


  8. I don't think Monty Python is that funny, and I don't think the reunion will be either. Give me one good example of when a comedy 'classic' has been successfully reignited? I bet you can't. This is clearly driven money-driven.

    I really liked the Sex Pistols' reunion tour 'Filthy Lucre'. Up front about the whole thing, not trying to hide behind any pretentious clap-trap or altruistic drivel-driven-money.

    Gold medal for honesty Gents, take another bow.


  9. That's half of the team that made Starsky and Hutch look like a pair of half arsed amateurs gone. Hell of a shame. Smarter, tougher and infinitely cooler, helped along by the

    . Wailing horns, screaming guitar, balding Scottish man sensibly dressed in tweed, it's got everything.

    Good on you Lewis, a very sad day.


  10. I transferred all my compact discs to my whizz-bang new tablet the other day and was stoked to hear this

    from the Toy Dolls, Sunderland's finest. I was genuinely very surprised to find it still on YouTube and pleased too, just quitely (although there's no video as such, only a still from an old album cover). Posting an audio file is far beyond my limits of ability and patience.

     

    While I'm on a roll, two posts in a month - Star Crossed would cack himself; now that the Savile thread has become by default the 'Used to be on telly and now waiting buttocks clenched for the police to get in touch' Thread, how about altering the title to The Sir Jimmy Savile Memorial Paedo Threado, or some such. Your one stop dirty old man shop? Anyone?

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  11. Poor old Joost. I was about to post a similar link but checked first, hence this garbled nonsense.

     

    The part that really gave me the shits in the usually reliable New Zealand Herald was;

    Van der Westhuizen scored 38 Test tries in 89 appearances in the green and gold by the time he retired in 2003

    For fuck's sake, there's even a picture,

     

    joost_460x230.jpg

     

    Green and white! Green and fucking white!!! Australia's Green and Gold not South Africa.

     

    They both play rugby like girls though.


  12. I can't think of the Nolans without associating them with the Two Ronnies, were they regular guests? Or can I only remember the one episode they appeared on?

    Either way, it's sad that one fifth of one group has caught up with half of the other.

     

    I suppose then it's goodnight from me and it's goodnight from her.

     

    Goodnight.

     

     

     

     


  13. I must admit that the level of debate on this site is wonderful and goes to show what an erudite bunch the Deathlist attracts.

     

    I know a lot of Republicans (on both sides of the world) seems to be of the opinion not to do anything until QE II dies but but in my opinion that will be too late because the atmosphere will not be right for the debate and the juggernaut of tradition will swing into action and King Charles III will be crowned before they have had chance to open their gobs.

     

    However I am a supporter of the monarchy but think that it is better to have a reasoned debate about the choices rather than follow a blind path through tradition.

     

    This is the view of a Brit and I do not pretend to have an understanding of what the average Australian would think of the matter.

     

    You got me on a sober day.

    Cut the cord I says.

     

    And get a new flag while you're at it.


  14. I'd be about as neutral as any you'd find on poor old Maggie. There's a few things worth considering though; how progressive Britain looked by being the first old world power to have a woman running the place, and for such a long time. Apart from the odd spot in the colonies no other country has come close.

    If it weren't her it would have been someone else. Britian was dying on its arse in the seventies, the

    reforms brought in under her leadership have been a model for many countries and those who haven't, ie most of Europe, would regret not having made those difficult choices earlier.

    Manufacturing in the western world, with a few exceptions, is fucked. Having the foresight to realise this twenty years before the rest of the world and change the focus of the economy was either visionary or blind luck. Imagine that sort of social upheaval now, would it be any worse? Probably not, but who ever instigated, or was the figurehead for similiar policies would be equally demonised.

    I've had a couple of thoughts over the last day or two; firstly, if the status quo remained in Britian how many English plummers would be in Eastern Europe now undercutting the locals? And secondly, the twentieth century's 'greatest' prime minister having to do the same thing; "We shall sack them in the dock yards, we shall sack in them in the mines, we shall lay them off in the factories and in the railways..."

     

    Rejoice? Seems a bit harsh doesn't it?

     

    If manufacturing is such an irrelevance, how come China's done so well?

    The blind luck was North Sea Oil, without it she would never have got away with it. Shares in utilities and council houses were sold on the cheap. Now we have nothing left in the cupboard to flog...

    Not sure how many Western manufacturing workers would be happy with China's rates of pay. To quote New Zealand's 'seventh most popular folk/paordy duo' The Flight of the Conchords "They're turning children into slaves just to make people sneakers, what's the real deal cos the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper, what are your overheads."

    One of the reasons China's doing well I believe.

     

    Of course Thatcher was all for the worker's being well paid, wasn't she?

     

    Interesting she didn't fight the Chinese whatsoever over Hong Kong...

    My original point was that manufacturing in the western world is fucked. The western world. Western. I'm not sure this includes China.

  15. I'd be about as neutral as any you'd find on poor old Maggie. There's a few things worth considering though; how progressive Britain looked by being the first old world power to have a woman running the place, and for such a long time. Apart from the odd spot in the colonies no other country has come close.

    If it weren't her it would have been someone else. Britian was dying on its arse in the seventies, the

    reforms brought in under her leadership have been a model for many countries and those who haven't, ie most of Europe, would regret not having made those difficult choices earlier.

    Manufacturing in the western world, with a few exceptions, is fucked. Having the foresight to realise this twenty years before the rest of the world and change the focus of the economy was either visionary or blind luck. Imagine that sort of social upheaval now, would it be any worse? Probably not, but who ever instigated, or was the figurehead for similiar policies would be equally demonised.

    I've had a couple of thoughts over the last day or two; firstly, if the status quo remained in Britian how many English plummers would be in Eastern Europe now undercutting the locals? And secondly, the twentieth century's 'greatest' prime minister having to do the same thing; "We shall sack them in the dock yards, we shall sack in them in the mines, we shall lay them off in the factories and in the railways..."

     

    Rejoice? Seems a bit harsh doesn't it?

     

    If manufacturing is such an irrelevance, how come China's done so well?

    The blind luck was North Sea Oil, without it she would never have got away with it. Shares in utilities and council houses were sold on the cheap. Now we have nothing left in the cupboard to flog...

    Not sure how many Western manufacturing workers would be happy with China's rates of pay. To quote New Zealand's 'seventh most popular folk/paordy duo' The Flight of the Conchords "They're turning children into slaves just to make people sneakers, what's the real deal cos the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper, what are your overheads."

    One of the reasons China's doing well I believe.


  16. I'd be about as neutral as any you'd find on poor old Maggie. There's a few things worth considering though; how progressive Britain looked by being the first old world power to have a woman running the place, and for such a long time. Apart from the odd spot in the colonies no other country has come close.

    If it weren't her it would have been someone else. Britian was dying on its arse in the seventies, the

    reforms brought in under her leadership have been a model for many countries and those who haven't, ie most of Europe, would regret not having made those difficult choices earlier.

    Manufacturing in the western world, with a few exceptions, is fucked. Having the foresight to realise this twenty years before the rest of the world and change the focus of the economy was either visionary or blind luck. Imagine that sort of social upheaval now, would it be any worse? Probably not, but who ever instigated, or was the figurehead for similiar policies would be equally demonised.

    I've had a couple of thoughts over the last day or two; firstly, if the status quo remained in Britian how many English plummers would be in Eastern Europe now undercutting the locals? And secondly, the twentieth century's 'greatest' prime minister having to do the same thing; "We shall sack them in the dock yards, we shall sack in them in the mines, we shall lay them off in the factories and in the railways..."

     

    Rejoice? Seems a bit harsh doesn't it?

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