En Passant

Clearly you haven't read DL rule #354.4. Namely, "Under no circumstances shall any member attempt to get the drop on the field by posting puns before the starters flag is waved."

Ah, Hollyoaks and Brookside. The two biggest piles of soap shit ever invented, even El Dorado was better than those two steaming piles of utter cockspaff. <cough>Triangle</cough> Oh yes, that really was crap. They made up a ridiculous scenario of a woman travelling back and forth for months so that her dog didn't have to go into quarantine. There are lots of people who travel regularly on ferries, I used to myself, so it would have been easy enough to include some regular faces among the passengers without going to such implausible lengths. Implausible? In a soap? ha. These people apparently stumble from one dire crisis to the next with hardly a pause for breath, for years on end, you can add 'why isn't there a suicide every episode?' to the list of implausibility. Not that I've actually seen one since about 1979 mind, so I'm an unreliable witness . Whilst I've got my rant hat on, I don't understand why all tv drama to one degree or another has to be so obviously manipulated to give cliff hanger endings and overtly and overly emotive content. I end up watching most of them waiting for the love interest to be slipped in (fnarr) and the inevitable ramp up of some awful pending disaster to be started towards the end of the episode. Yes I know, sometimes they get it right even for somebody as sceptical as me (The Wire, Edge of Darkness, more recently Line of Duty), but more often than not it looks far too contrived. Most films are equally guilty. Some drama's are worse than others but without question all soaps that I've ever seen were execrable . /rant mode off

I wonder if we can have a strange double header? As the alleged abuse occurred at a Billy Graham event? G'day President Mugabe, Reg Grundy died on the Australian television awards night.... Cliff to top himself on Eurovision night? I like this thinking, I think he will top it during Wimbledon, he is always there in the royal box, goon. You never see any black people in the royal box do you, or at Wimbledon. White colonial sport that must be banished. Dodi Fayed was nearly black and he got in a royal box. Tickets for which were allegedly far less exclusive than the one at wimbledon however.

Aaliyah. There's a chav known to me who has named her daughter Aaleigha. Sometimes I despair. After the bloke that reads the news on BBC sometimes? Cool.

Something needs to be done about these toddlers guns. FTFY

He needs to try harder, he'd have called them slanty eyed and rude.

To be honest, even if I knew nothing else, the fact that Cameron is trying so hard to keep us in is probably enough to push me to vote out . On one level this really pisses me off, the idea of one europe and eventually one world, is surely an ideal to strive for in most people's minds? But there's so much else going on in all this that has nothing to do with that as an objective it's hard to use it as a voting yardstick. Wanders off to watch Game of Thrones humming, "I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony...."

Well, I reckon, all those wanting out will now be changing their minds after Cameron advised us that leaving the EU will probably lead to WW3 Well he didn't actually say that but alluded to it. Im off to dig a hole in the garden..not to build a bomb shelter but to bury that cunt Cameron in it. The politics of fear. The last ditch grasp at your basest emotions in the hope of overcoming your rational response that we've all been sold down the river on Europe for the last 43 years. It may very well serve the corporations and their tax arrangements extraordinarily well indeed and as a result also those who own them by virtue of shareholding (cough, eton and oxbridge politicians, cough), however the relaxation of 'trade barriers' seems hard to swallow as a 'Joe Blow' when you still can't bring back unlimited fags from a cheaper source and sell them here for a small profit as an individual (as an example). Oh no, that's not 'trade' and 'relaxation of embargoes and tarriffs' that's 'smuggling'. I could be entirely wrong about all this, but as I've said before, somewhere above probably, finding unbiased information is extremely hard. And even if I am wrong, you aren't going to convince me with this shyze about terrorists, you've used this ploy as a last resort far too many times.

Born just too late for the Bodyline Warr. best I can do with it, I'll get my coat...

So, it's all done in the name of corporate profits and has precious little to do with sport. I am not so naive that I wasn't aware of this, I have a vague recollection of this all emanating somewhere in the days of the birth of Sky Sports, thus Murdoch probably has a hand in it. Also the top players feeling the money due to them was being distributed too far down the system, "The punters pay to see us on tv not Fort 'can't find the ball never mind kick it' William from somewhere in the arctic circle" (sorry mary). Heh, tell that to the baseball fans of Montreal and the gridiron supporters in St Louis (amongst others).

So, the premiership isn't in the football league? It's some sort of separate entity? Which you get into by winning the league below*, which is in fact the top of the entire football league.... ok. *though it isn't 'below' is it? It can't be since it's the top of the entire football league, it must be a sort of sideways move. 1,2,3,4 never seemed so appealingly simple before now .

I didn't need to look, I knew I didn't need to look, but I did anyway. Shot. Argue over a cheeseburger and hacked brother to death with a stanley knife? No. Beaten repeatedly over the head with an alabaster statuette of the Virgin Mary? No. Head held under water in the ornamental Koi pool? No. I've thought about it, and frankly I don't care if I sound like a broken record on this subject.

Can't reciprocate I'm afraid, it appears I already liked your effort the first time around

Apparently, this. Cheers. Thought it would've been the post confirming Clive Dunn, Ronnie Biggs or Thatchers death. I think they went a step further and disabled guest posts all together. On the main forum front page, down at the bottom, there's this: The Moderating Team Today's Top Posters Overall Top Posters Most Liked Content 35 users are online (in the past 15 minutes) "Most liked content" takes you to the forums greatest hits, as chosen by the posters themselves. By clicking like. Much to my surprise, one of them was mine. I wondered why I received a like on a post from nearly a year back. Had assumed you were trawling historical posts, something I sometimes do, I wasn't even aware of those links. Surprised me to find myself there also, particularly in such lauded company, some of those on there are very worthy.

Why do people watch programmes detailing the fictitious lives of a bunch of folks who stumble endlessly from one personal crisis to another, for 20 years or more on a thrice weekly basis? Why do people go out and get drunk and fall over and wake up and not remember what they did and feel absolutely awful for the next 24 hours, and then go and do it again, and again, and again? Why do people pay sometimes 50 quid and upwards to be fed something from a kitchen they can't see when they could have beans on toast at home for 50p and be just as well fed? I may not have put that terribly well or have chosen poor comparisons by your standards, but some form of transport spotting enthusiasm seems no worse to me than any of these and markedly better for your health/finances in 2 of the cases

On the ground 0830 hrs GMT. Remind me never to give you vague details about flight plans. Is this a hobby of yours, plane spotting? Yeah but only for about the last 40 odd years. The PC term for it nowadays is aviation enthusiast. Apropos of absolutely nothing, I am also guilty of this sin to a degree even to the point of learning to fly one. Perhaps strangely however I find watching them the more interesting, once airborne I found the actual business of flying rather tedious :S. Besides, I was rubbish, got utterly lost on my first NFT.

Yeah, I don't understand these caucus things at all, you should have something simple like the Additional Member System. Completely with you on that don't understand it either, I can see how Clinton might turn Arizona green with enough caucti, it is after all a desert state mostly. But blue? This GMO is getting out of hand.

Odds are that Hillary will win the general election not Trump. I agree with your comment on Trump but decorum forbids me from labeling Clinton. It doesn't prevent me , whist Trump is a cock (according to the above), Hilary hasn't had any because her husband was too busy sticking it up interns.

The silly being so named because you'd have to be silly to stand that close to a bloke smashing a cricket ball at you .

It's not a position its a type of delivery (read pitch). The closest baseball equivalent is perhaps a knuckleballer, somebody who doesn't do fast deliveries/pitches and is named after what he throws not where he stands. Thus a legspinner throws legspin deliveries.

My local barber just got arrested for selling drugs, I've been his customer for 6 years, I had no idea he was a barber.

FTFY

I'd like Oscar Pistorius to be shot, since there doesn't seem to be much prospect of him ever serving a proper murder sentence in an actual prison. Again, I would I've seen discussions of "my long list" hereabouts. Yours appears to be a variation on the usual theme.

Cardboard box under Vauxhall bridge, food from the bins round the back of Tesco's, maybe a dog on a string. Or.... house, multiple cars, job on the telly. Tragedy? it's all relative.