Whitey Grandad

If you do buy a bat, make sure it's a cricket bat and not a baseball one. That way you can justifiably claim that it was normal for it to be in your bedroom and it was the only thing that you could lay your hands on.

As I understand it, a magnetic field cannot exist inside a superconductor which is how maglev trains work. This quantum levitation is new to me. It's the memory effect that I cannot quite grasp. Basic magents are bad enough, I don't think anybody really understands permanent magnetism. I do remember a school experiment with a tube of liquid oxygen (which is paramagnetic) hanging on a bit of string and being pulled towards a big horseshoe magnet. It's all magic too me.

Indeed. But as far as I can tell, none of the present climate models take any account of the cosmic activity of the sun, and for very understandable reasons. Until now there has been no science concerning this interaction and so it could not be included, but more importantly nobody can predict what the sun is going to do anyway.

There must be an application waiting somewhere for this: http://www.wimp.com/quantumlevitation/

Other points of view: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100102296/sun-causes-climate-change-shock/ http://www.science20.com/science_20/cloud_and_cosmic_ray_climate_change_blow-82089

Even if such warming is staving off an ice age? The scientific concensus when I was younger was that we are in an inter-glacial warm period and that we are overdude another period of global freezing.

It's very difficult to prove a negative (non-correlation) but there may be other influences: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/24/breaking-news-cern-experiment-confirms-cosmic-rays-influence-climate-change/

Rather global warming than an ice age.

It's not the 6-game form that interests me, rather the 46-game form. I look forward to a 20 point lead at the end of this season.

Er... what's a mortgage?

Those who live by the sword....

Agreed. There's no point having a flag if it's never used.

Thanks for that, incredible, and strangely disturbing.

I'm undecided. What are Snickers like when they're deep-fried?

I give in. Who is she?

I care.

There was an article about this in the Daily Mail yesterday (Wednesday). Green is the most difficult and it is bloody expensive: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2035900/Tattoo-removal-Like-Megan-Fox-beginning-regret-inkings.html

That's like, an infinity percent mark-up?

Oh, well done, but that was almost a year ago. I completely agree with you, by the way.

That raises another question. Are the officials in wireless contact in this League?

Ah, my memory was from late Saturday night after a couple of celebratory beers. Having watched that I agree with you. He is patting his pocket which means that he thinks it should be a booking (it's where they usually keep their yellow cards). Of course, he may just be checking that he hasn't dropped his wallet. Red cards are often kept in a back pocket so if he pats that it shows that he thinks it should be a red card. Or that he has an itchy bottom.

Quite correct. The wording of the Law is 'trip, or attemp to trip'.

As one ref to another, remember that you don't always have to give an explanation of your decisions. You only need to give a clear signal of what you have decided. To give an explanation is to open the matter up for debate. Of course, it can help your control of the game if you have a quiet word with the players now and again.

He was flagging with his left hand and with his right he was pulling his shirt in a clear indication as to why he was flagging. Shirt-tugging is also a bookable offence.

I thought he had a good game. I don't know what all the fuss is about.