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  1. tigerscanada

    tigerscanada Well-Known Member

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    Is this a sketch from "Drop the Dead Donkey" by any chance ?
     
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    Fortunately I can't see anything. Once something has been seen it can't be unseen.
     
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    Have a quick gander at the replies to this tweet <laugh>

     
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  4. Mr Hatem

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    The reply by W0nderW0manRtns is the best.
     
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    Fantastic investigative journalism. I see at the bottom of the story, it advertises that ' we pay for your stories, do you have a story that... Email or contact at...'
    With that sort of creativity, you could become a rich man Ernie This is the niche you have been searching for.
     
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    Remember the Chelsea fans that racially abused Sterling?

    One's got a life ban from Chelsea and five others have received temporary bans.

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  7. Ullofaman

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    Callum showed off......................Good Bye Callum!!! She was hoping the same thing.

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  8. Chazz Rheinhold

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    Terrific article from mr Samuel
    Lump to the throat
    What a gentleman

    Tom Watson knew, sport just isn't fair
    Tom Watson, who retired from golf on Sunday at the age of 69, delivered one of sport’s most valuable lessons the day he explained how he came to be among the finest links players in history.

    When he first came over to compete in the Open Championship, Watson said, he hated it. He couldn’t understand how he could hit what he considered a good shot, and it would get a kick or a bad roll, and end up in a disadvantageous position.

    ‘It took me a while,’ he concluded, ‘to realise that golf was never meant to be a fair game.’ Having done so, Watson went on to win five Opens and, later in life, three Senior Opens.

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    Tom Watson officially retired from golf this week, and taught us some wise lessons on sport
    He played his final round in the latter competition this weekend, having never missed a cut in 18 visits.

    He is only bowing out now because he no longer feels he can be truly competitive.

    And he’s right. Sport isn’t meant to be fair. Not entirely fair. Handling those moments of adversity, or misfortune, or circumstances beyond control are what makes great champions. It wasn’t fair that Liverpool should have to play Barcelona 3-0 down without Mo Salah or Roberto Firmino — but they did, and won.

    It wasn’t fair that Chelsea should take on Bayern Munich in the Germans’ own stadium, with Jose Bosingwa at centre half and a callow Ryan Bertrand at left midfield — but they emerged victorious in the 2012 Champions League final.

    And it wasn’t fair that England had a goal not awarded against Germany at the 2010 World Cup, when Frank Lampard’s shot clearly crossed the line by a yard — but that doesn’t excuse the ridiculous, gung-ho display in the second-half that ended in a 4-1 defeat.

    Watson’s words could apply to each of those instances. Sport is not just about excellence, but about the reaction to adversity, even in the harshest conditions.

    He took his own advice, too. Watson was never in the least bitter about the eight-foot putt he missed at Turnberry in 2009 that would have given him a sixth Open title at the age of 59.

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    Watson was never in the least bitter about the eight-foot putt he missed at Turnberry in 2009
    I was at Lord’s, covering the fourth day of the Ashes Test that afternoon, except England’s attempt to bowl out Australia was being played to a largely empty press box, with a significant number gathered in the back room to watch what would have been the greatest major win in golf’s history.

    And when it didn’t happen, we felt heartbroken for Watson. But then we got on with it because, as the man said, it was never meant to be a fair game.
     
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  9. Mr Hatem

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    A few more nicked from here and there.

    It's proving very difficult to find a shop selling 'Left Guard' for my other armpit.

    My friend came second in a Winston Churchill look alike contest.
    Close but no cigar.

    My dog tried to sell books of his poetry, but none of the bark odes would scan.

    I was the getaway driver for a robbery at a paper factory in Bristol last night. We took the A4.



     
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    Yes, yet another good article by Martin Samuel. And about a sporting great.
     
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    This must be one of the best photo's I've ever seen.
     
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  18. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    This made me chuckle.

    Originally Answered:
    Which places in the UK are the most dangerous and why? (Because apparently quora changes the question after i’ve Answered.)

    Hull

    It’s not the weather here, it’s not even that you’ll get stabbed (even on hessle road or Bransholme, as long as you don’t piss someone off)

    It’s dangerous because of this;

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    This place is so cheap you don’t even realise you’ve had 4 drinks, because you came out with £50 and somehow you’ve still got £46. You’ll keep drinking, doing shots until it kills you.

    Or you go home with someone who will. Not out of malice, but through crushing you, as you’ve had so much to drink that you think that 400+lb person is attractive.

    Hull. Avoid at all costs.

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  19. Barchullona

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    Glad to see someone posted that. Tried to myself but it kept ****ing up.
     
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