Once again marooned alone on a sea of justified and ancient bitterness will be us long suffering Bluenoses in our unbounded contempt and loathing for our lovely neighbours. Still, at least they are even more skint than we are, and so will be stuck with barrowloads of unsellable average Spaniards for the forseeable, and they'll probably have to sell two of Torres, Gerrard and Mascherano just to balance the books. Not all bad news then. :))
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I was told today by someone who knows, that the ant is the only insect that never sleeps.........
.................as ants do not have eyelids, how can you tell?
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All the fairweather football fans who come out of the woodwork to follow Ingurland in international tournaments (hopefully) every two years seem to think they have the right to say how crap we are. NO YOU DON'T - us real (ok, tv couch potato) football followers reserve that right thank you very much.
We were not even good enough to be classed as abject. We had as much football intelligence as the inventor of the chocolate teapot had a handle on thermo-dynamics.
How would all you keen gardeners out there like it if I, who recognises flowers with ill advised statements such as "ooh that's a nice blue one" were to berate you for the failure of your broad bean crop, eh?
And they attempt to console you by saying "Well, we've still got Andy Murray". One, he's Scottish and I bet that statement irks all Scots no end, and two, tennis - not a real sport is it?
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No more biscuits, cakes, crisps, lard sandwiches or tripe for breakfast for me as I attempt to reduce a shockingly high cholesterol level discovered after a blood test suggested by my doctor a few weeks back, now I am, shall we say, "a certain age". I refuse to give up beer. The target date is 13th July, when I hope my blood will only be 80% unsaturated fat.
Suffice to say I was happier not knowing!
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Have you ever joined in a so-called debate on any of the various pre-moderated BBC blogs? If so, you'll know what a frustrating experience it can be. As an example the chief BBC football writer Phil McNulty frequently blogs on all things footy related, and, as a rule, is a fairly decent scribbler. The problem comes when you attempt to reply to a comment previously made, only to have to wait for a ridiculous amount of time between posting your comment and seeing it appear.
I've just checked the last McNulty blog I entered my tuppence worth on, which at the time entailed a mere 20 minute wait, and some poor sod at the head of the "awaiting moderation" queue has been waiting for an hour ant ten minutes for his comment to make an appearance! It's not as if there are thousands of replies awaiting moderation, as I counted a mere eight below this particular entry awaiting scrutinisation by the slowest reader at the BBC. Perhaps they are using the blogs as a reading lesson for people queuing for the citizenship test?
This endless hanging around renders any attempt at debate utterly meaningless as inevitably people will get fed up waiting and log off.
Never done this before, but I've actually logged a complaint to the Beeb about it, not that it will make one iota of a difference!
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A Jewish man goes daily to his local synagogue to pray for a big win on the lottery. Over the weeks his prayers become increasingly desperate, until one day, as he is walking home, the clouds part and a booming voice intones -
"Manny, give me a break already, buy a ticket".
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