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Mahoney wrote:Mahmood gets a clean bowled on a no ball. Most exciting thing to happen so far.

(Is it a hell of a fluke that England should have had two S Mahmood's in 15 years, or is Mahmood a really common surname?)

It's pretty common

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The lack of any sound and the between over mouse is ofputting to say the least

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slick wrote:
croyals wrote:Registered last night, got the confirmation email, tried to log in just now and apparently my account doesn't exist...
Do it again.

Don't tell Bimbo.

Cheers. Lips sealed

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Rumour is club cricket is just a couple of weeks away from returning, according to a fairly reputable source of mine. That and the pubs stay open and all is well. Saliva will be banned on the ball? I would have thought this was unenforceable It is but then so are all the lockdown rules really. Fwiw...

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Registered last night, got the confirmation email, tried to log in just now and apparently my account doesn't exist...

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Rumour is club cricket is just a couple of weeks away from returning, according to a fairly reputable source of mine. That and the pubs stay open and all is well. That'd be brilliant - I really miss club cricket, even when I'm not playing I enjoy popping up the ground and watching. It isn't summer ...

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Rumour is club cricket is just a couple of weeks away from returning, according to a fairly reputable source of mine. That and the pubs stay open and all is well. Saliva will be banned on the ball? I would have thought this was unenforceable It is but then so are all the lockdown rules really. Fwiw...

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Rumour is club cricket is just a couple of weeks away from returning, according to a fairly reputable source of mine. That and the pubs stay open and all is well.

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Have the week off and very much at the ‘fudge it let’s go to the coast’ stage

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I've spent very little so despite taking a pay cut am financially better off than I was before the crisis. Not sure how sustainable this is.

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On the 'England Saxons' brand - it's a crap brand and we pretty much all said so at the time. On being exclusionary - I've banged this drum a few times and one of the underreported changes in English attitudes since the 90s has been the decline in people believing that to be English you must be whi...

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On the 'England Saxons' brand - it's a crap brand and we pretty much all said so at the time. On being exclusionary - I've banged this drum a few times and one of the underreported changes in English attitudes since the 90s has been the decline in people believing that to be English you must be whi...

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On the 'England Saxons' brand - it's a crap brand and we pretty much all said so at the time. On being exclusionary - I've banged this drum a few times and one of the underreported changes in English attitudes since the 90s has been the decline in people believing that to be English you must be whit...

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iarmhiman wrote:What's worse?

Swing Low sung by the rugby fans or

12 German bombers sung by the football fans.

It would be ten for a start

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I would much rather we sang Jerusalem but this is clearly pretty silly.

JMK's point has some validity, but having been born a fair time after this happened to me and what I suspect is the vast majority of England fans who weren't at Twickers that day it is simply the song of England rugby.

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The PC memorial is brand new. What is the reason for the original column? I think it's just a gate by Parliament. So he’s pissing on Parliament? Give the man a medal! Yeah as much as the group he was part of is complete scum I have some sympathy for him as I sense he had no idea there was a memoria...

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Sandstorm wrote:The PC memorial is brand new. What is the reason for the original column?

I think it's just a gate by Parliament.

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CrazyIslander wrote:
croyals wrote:Not sure whose phrase it originally was but I use 'any fat tourist with the right equipment' pretty regularly in normal conversation.
Is that originally from the bored?

IIRC it came from a discussion about climbing Everest. Certainly I'd never heard it before the bored and I love it.

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Frodder wrote:2m rule now under official review. Thought it was under review before but let's go with it

They've worked out you can't open pubs and restaurants and make any money whilst that's the rule.

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AND-y wrote:dozeebear

The codez

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Not sure whose phrase it originally was but I use 'any fat tourist with the right equipment' pretty regularly in normal conversation.

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Channel Islands Collaboration - The Guernsey Evening Press, February 20, 1941: https://i.redd.it/jia730ifn3451.jpg If any of you are ever over there I recommend the Jersey Military Museum - in a bunker on the west coast of the island. They have the front page of the Jersey Evening Post from the day...

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This week my company started the redundancy consultation phase with the people identified as having their jobs at risk. I'm guessing come July 31st they will get the bullet. Just wonder how many of the near 9 million on furlough will be let go on the same day. Expect at least 3 million unemployed. ...

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Was just reading a story about a 15 year old who got crushed in a farming accident. The father reckons he's only alive today because covid has emptied the hospitals and everyone is on heightened alert. So from accident to ICU went much smoother. While he may have died under normal circumstances, he...

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8398095/BBC-blasted-Black-Lives-Matter-protests-largely-peaceful-headline-despite-27-officers-injured.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-52960209/violent-end-to-day-of-mostly-peaceful-anti-racism-protests https://twitter.com/bbcnews/status/126957497968070...

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I made the argument in an Irish context that at the very least we need verification of accounts and was largely shouted down. I think people have zero idea how quickly this cancer is spreading. It is rotting people’s minds and allowing disinformation to spread like wildfire. Moreover it has become ...

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Mullet 2 wrote:I think Twitter might be the worst thing to hit Weatern politics in 20 years.

No doubt about this whatsoever. Think we need to have a serious conversation about shutting down the shite - making these companies responsible as publishers would be a start

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Just on this, to me the main reason for the rise of populism is the absence of any purpose for the United Kingdom. The UK is unique to an extent as a country; it was formed to a great extent for mercantile reasons, to enable trade and imperial ambitions globally. Of course Empire played its part bu...

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Chruchill is a classic example of someone where no balanced discussion can take place. He is simply a hero in the eyes of most and they will simply not listen to the balanced historical view of him. It's seen as an attack, when it is a desire for historical balance and truth. I see it more as Churc...

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Devil's advocate here - is it that millions of Chinese are emigrating in an unusual pattern or is it just that there are 1.5bn of them and they emigrate in the same proportion as any other country, thus creating what looks like an exodus to us?

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It’s an appropriate time to bump this topic. His status has been boarded up. https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1271378019878346761?s=21 As has the statue of Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela’s statue in London has been boarded up amid fears of attacks by the Far Right as concerns about street viol...

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The Uk has gone a bit crazy. Will we be expecting Downing street to be renamed because Sir George Downing was a bit naughty in his day? The door of number 10 could do with changing colour too. There left is truly eating itself. This is the thing - if polls can be believed this stuff is supported by...

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I see that Australia and Canada and UK are making moves against China in both coronavirus, Huawei, and Hong Kong. Where is New Zealand? I thought they are part of the same. It is a little funny - trying to keep trade going or just not worth it given the lesser clout? Would be nice to have us all to...

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I see that Australia and Canada and UK are making moves against China in both coronavirus, Huawei, and Hong Kong. Where is New Zealand? I thought they are part of the same. It is a little funny - trying to keep trade going or just not worth it given the lesser clout? Would be nice to have us all to...

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I'll say one thing, the Scots are the only ones on this bored who can have a civilised discussion this far into a thread. The one thing that always annoyed me about the UK union was how institutions that are supposed to be for the entire UK tend to be England centric. Scotland, Wales and NI have th...

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Scottish attitudes to immigration are similar to the rest of the UK. Immigration doesn't have the same political salience in Scotland as it does in England as there are fewer immigrants and there is more space. Simple as. Fewer immigrants definitely but let's hold off people in England complain abo...

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brero wrote:Scottish attitudes to immigration are similar to the rest of the UK.

Immigration doesn't have the same political salience in Scotland as it does in England as there are fewer immigrants and there is more space. Simple as.

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The BAME thing is related to them being out of their evolutionary environment, isn't it? As in they receive less vit D from the sun compared to a 'native' because they genetically expect higher intensity sun? I understood it to be closely linked to incidences of diabetes and multi-generational homes.

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I like Cummings but I cannot understand how people are defending him. He's broken what has been a pretty unified national response to this - more from the cover up than the cock up itself. He had to go. Now there's been so much political capital invested in him I can't now see what benefit there wil...

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There was talk of British aircraft carriers vs US ones earlier in the thread. I just finished this https://www.amazon.com/Kamikaze-Hunters-Fighting-Pacific-1945/dp/0230768199 The British carriers sounded pretty awful, unsuited to the pacific with inadequate ventilation which made life onboard for t...

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