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+1 Apart from the cycling and a couple of track finals I shall try to miss as much of the Olympics as possible.

So how do you think the world will look to your grandchildren and great-grandchildren ? Do you think that the entire region between the tropics of cancer and capricorn will be turning to desert ? Do you think that the main food producing tracts will have become semi-arid ? Will the Greenland icecap have completely thawed and the Arctic Sea be completely open to cruise ships in summer ? Will there still be hydrocarbons to burn in inefficient combustion chambers driving rubber clad steel wheels ? How do we as a species 'adapt' technologically if we don't change socially ? Do you subscribe to the 'weak' Gaia theory, or the 'strong' one ?

There are 5 weeks left of the transfer window. Let's leave the post-mortem until Sept 1st.

"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists." John Kenneth Galbraith.

To be fair, thanks to multiple browsers / PCs / locations, at least 9 of those 'NO' votes were me.

G4S "security" in the news again http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/community/olympic-security-fiasco-firm-face-embarrassment-1-4767555

Accepting a piece of paper that has been thrust though your window does not mean you'll read it, let alone side with the authors. None of the mercenaries gives a toss about the club, they want their money.

"We are now going to draw the raffle tickets" - priceless.

For question 8, what to you define as 'social media' ?

And of course Wiggo lives in Lancashire :)

Lord Ashcroft is apparently 'donating' £5M of the tax he has avoided paying.

Meanwhile, in a bleak and faraway place, where you are made to face the consequences of your actions, Rangers FC are not yet out of the woods, in fact they could still disappear : http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18941515

That's better

The 'Big Society' is now taking to the water. Is it significant that it's going to be a sailing ship - powered by wind and bluster. And on a technical note, and there may well be somebody out there in TSF land qualified to answer, what use is a heli-pad on a sailing ship ? How often, at sea, would it be upright ? ( Not to mention the 4 masts and associated rigging. ). ( And before anybody points it out, I know it will have an auxiliary engine ).

Looks like you'll get your wish for the 4th day.

As long as he was still breathing his team would carry him round and the opposition would neutralise the race. The last day is all about cruising into Paris, and letting the sprinters loose - Brad will be part of the SKY train pulling Cav to victory.

Having sorted the mess from line 1 I hope you wash your hands before putting your face in your palm !

They're already fully clued up. http://fansonline.net/gillingham/mb/view.php?id=167052

We will hopefully have had him scouted extensively, and NA was a GK so should know what he is looking for.

Gills fans have already started calling Tommy "Fourpast". Have we done to them what the Spuds did to us when we were landed with him ? At least they haven't signed him on a 4 year contract.

It's the Plan B that Georgie said he didn't need.

That's as maybe, but Ms Adlington is a swimmer, and this is a thread in celebration of lady cyclists. More specifically the subject of the documentary currently on BBC1.

Between us, my wife and I need to earn more than our children manage to cost us !

By law, all bicycles sold have to have a bell fitted, even Victoria's.

Go for a bicycle ride ? Yes. Also with Rebecca Romero ...