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| Quote: Live Wired "It's only worked if it has a 100% success rate, ergo, it's failed.
Don't really matter, as there will be no Muslim terrorist threat, it's Ramadan.'"
And pray do tell what makes you reach that conclusion?
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| Quote: Mintball "And pray do tell what makes you reach that conclusion?'"
Eyup, Peg, you've done it now... she's off
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| Worth every penny
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2051.jpg The older I get, the better I was
Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy
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| Quote: Cibaman "Worth every penny'"
Aye, at £310 millions per medal, an absolute bargain
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| Quote: cod'ead "Quote: cod'ead "Worth every penny'"
Aye, at £310 millions per medal, an absolute bargain'"
And if they'd only spent half as much, the performances last night wouldn't have been as special.
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2051.jpg The older I get, the better I was
Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy
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kirkstaller wrote: "All DNA shows is that we have a common creator."
cod'ead wrote: "I have just snotted weissbier all over my keyboard & screen"
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"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin." - Aneurin Bevan:2051.jpg |
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| Quote: Rock God X "And if they'd only spent half as much, the performances last night wouldn't have been as special.'"
No doubt at the conclusion we'll have Cameron claiming it's the tories' investment in sports that was responsible for TeamGB's success and to further incentivise young athletes for Rio 2016, Gove will announce a further round of cuts to schools sports funding.
Oh and Gideon will blame the triple-dip on the Olympics
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| Can't get too excited about these Games.
Twenty years ago you wouldn't have got the TV controls out of my hand. I'd have been watching blanket coverage.
Cynicism Rules OK!!!
Anyways, go on Luke my son.
Bring that boxing GOLD back to St Pauls in Hull.
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2051.jpg The older I get, the better I was
Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy
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kirkstaller wrote: "All DNA shows is that we have a common creator."
cod'ead wrote: "I have just snotted weissbier all over my keyboard & screen"
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"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin." - Aneurin Bevan:2051.jpg |
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| Quote: WIZEB "
Anyways, go on Luke my son.
Bring that boxing GOLD back to St Pauls in Hull.'"
Or St Paul's in Lowestoft, as they said in commentary on his first bout
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| Quote: cod'ead "Or St Paul's in Lowestoft, as they said in commentary on his first bout'"
Before his first bout on BBC Lineker said Scotlands Luke Campbell.
Not bad research for someone who was born in 1987, in Hull, England.
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| Quote: WIZEB "Can't get too excited about these Games.
Twenty years ago you wouldn't have got the TV controls out of my hand. I'd have been watching blanket coverage.
Cynicism Rules OK!!!
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I felt a bit like that before the games started, but the achievements of the athletes have brought me round. Last night was just a wonderful, historic, sporting moment, and I'm glad I watched it unfold.
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67953_1341943970.jpg Someday everything is gonna be different, when I paint my masterpiece
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| Quote: cod'ead "No doubt at the conclusion we'll have Cameron claiming it's the tories' investment in sports that was responsible for TeamGB's success and to further incentivise young athletes for Rio 2016, Gove will announce a further round of cuts to schools sports funding.
Oh and Gideon will blame the triple-dip on the Olympics'"
Colin Berkeley Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan, Tory politician, Olympian, former Chair of the British Olympic Committee, Member of the European Olympic Committee and Chair of LOCOG, is now urging the Government to seize this opportunity to back British sports and invest in the next generation of state schools, asserting that the balance of public school educated medal winners is too high. rlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9446407/Team-GB-chief-dominance-of-public-schools-is-unacceptable.htmlrl
Being as he was a Member of Parliament in Thatchers government, nay, Sports Minister in Thatchers government - you remember, the government who gave permission for schools to sell off their playing fields - then thats where my irony meter exploded and I'm now trying to find somewhere to get it repaired.
PS - This 2km long rowing lake at Eton Dorney that we've all paid for - remind me again which school will be using it as their very own private facility after the Olympians have left ? rlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/8709978.stmrl
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| Quote: JerryChicken "Being as he was a Member of Parliament in Thatchers government, nay, Sports Minister in Thatchers government - you remember, the government who gave permission for schools to sell off their playing fields - then thats where my irony meter exploded and I'm now trying to find somewhere to get it repaired.'"
To balance that out, though - albeit to a very small margin I suppose - it was after our solitary gold at the Olympics in Georgia that John Major decided to first redirect some Lottery money into funding sports. That began the snowball effect as we have subsequently improved our medal haul and performance in certain fields as well as gradually increased financial support of sports (including corporate sponsorship).
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| Has Cameron yet taken credit for the Gold medals Team GB has won yet ?
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1977_1349889235.jpg "You are working for Satan." [i:2886spie]Kirkstaller[/i:2886spie]
"Dare to know!" [i:2886spie]Immanuel Kant[/i:2886spie]
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive" [i:2886spie]Elbert Hubbard[/i:2886spie]
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." [i:2886spie]Oscar Wilde[/i:2886spie]
[url=http://thevoluptuousmanifesto.blogspot.co.uk:2886spie][color=#4000FF:2886spie]The Voluptuous Manifesto[/color:2886spie][/url:2886spie] – thoughts on all sorts of stuff.:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_1977.jpg |
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| Quote: Rock God X "I felt a bit like that before the games started, but the achievements of the athletes have brought me round. Last night was just a wonderful, historic, sporting moment, and I'm glad I watched it unfold.'"
The sport has, by and large, been magnificent.
And yes, last night was superb – but let's not forget others, including the women's team pursuit, who won gold in the sixth world record they've set in six successive races.
Which reminds me: Laura Trott – Turnford Secondary School
Danielle King – Hamble Community Sports College
Joanna Rowsell – Nonsuch High School
Stuff that in your pipe, former Miniature for Sport.
I would add, however, that however fantastic this is, it does not detract from the attacks on local businesses, civil liberties and goodness knows what else, and the obscene groveling to the corporate elite.
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1977_1349889235.jpg "You are working for Satan." [i:2886spie]Kirkstaller[/i:2886spie]
"Dare to know!" [i:2886spie]Immanuel Kant[/i:2886spie]
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive" [i:2886spie]Elbert Hubbard[/i:2886spie]
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." [i:2886spie]Oscar Wilde[/i:2886spie]
[url=http://thevoluptuousmanifesto.blogspot.co.uk:2886spie][color=#4000FF:2886spie]The Voluptuous Manifesto[/color:2886spie][/url:2886spie] – thoughts on all sorts of stuff.:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_1977.jpg |
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| Quote: JerryChicken "... PS - This 2km long rowing lake at Eton Dorney that we've all paid for - remind me again which school will be using it as their very own private facility after the Olympians have left ? rlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/8709978.stmrl'"
Some local comp?
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