badgerx16

Are you as unpleasant in real life as your persona projects on here ?

Don't worry. Us Northerners, both sides on the Pennines, will miss out next time, nothing further North than Nottingham for the next home Ashes. ( Which according to the bloke from the ECB on the radio yesterday means that there will still be a 'northern' test. Not sure he has a grasp of geography ) And if you are complaining about "shitty northern weather", Leeds is wetter than Manchester,

https://inews.co.uk/news/train-companies-make-310m-profit-after-being-put-on-new-contracts-during-pandemic-union-claims-2070558

Blaise

Did their sports writers even watch the dire, turgid, disjointed match where England beat Haiti 1-0 ? Hardly "Roarsome".

Super

The number and scale of climate related disasters is increasing, but we are getting better at planning for, mitigating, and recovering from such events. https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/weather-related-disasters-increase-over-past-50-years-causing-more-damage-fewer

Just as much of a bribe.

On the news this morning they were trying to work out if the Chancellor might be able to fund tax cuts ahead of next year's election. Isn't that the Government giving people money ?

Of their own accord. How many Wagner troops were killed or wounded during that excursion ?

Report on alleged casualty numbers for Wagner in Ukraine; https://www.kyivpost.com/post/19639 In summary; Wagner had 78,000 thousand fighters in total. · 49,000 of these were convicts. · 22,000 were killed. · 40,000 wounded

Travis

Somebody needs to remind them how batting points are awarded.

Something that mildly amuses every time we get home; a house 3 doors down from us have 2 cars, a black BMW estate and a Mini. I am not sure of their politics but the number plates are NA51GER and NA51USA.

So, is Boris Johnson dead yet ?

Which 'unbiased' sources do you rely on ?

Increasingly they are adapting anti-air missiles for use as long range surface attack systems, which are much less accurate than specifically designed cruise missiles. The problem for Ukraine with naval launches against Odesa is that the incoming missiles can only be targeted by local defences, whereas attacks on Kyiv or Kharkiv might pass over hundreds of kilometres of defended territory, and multiple layers of AAA systems.

It took me a while to get round the fact it is 'based on' rather than an adaptation of the Asimov trilogies. ( A bit like watching The Two Towers and resisting the urge to shout out "The Elves were never at Helm's Deep". )

Correct. Why could you not have simply said that half a thread ago and left out all the 'Jewish policies' malarky ?

Somehow Holland has pulled Hants back into the match.

I'm not sure Pog was 100% before the Tour started, and his efforts on the couple of stages before the second rest day were a desperate attempt to paper over the cracks he knew were there. I think he went too deep yesterday and today's crash, even if slight, was a psychological hammer blow. ( Jealous of your piccies from the Alps ).

craving

According to President Zelensky the grain destroyed by the Russian attack was destined for China.

They are thought to have just about exhausted pre-war stocks, and rumoured to be producing around 60 cruise and tactical ballistic missiles per month. Firing 30 in one attack in a fit of pique at (1) the Kerch bridge being attacked again and (2) nobody giving in to their attempted blackmail over the grain export deal, does not seem to make a great deal of sense. If they repeat this level of attack daily for the next fortnight then the rumours are probably wrong.

My wife did Politics at Uni, decided that she was too ethical and honest to make that her career, so went into teaching.