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Why do you call them scares?My life has been transformed by my ****** , they were great as **** and now they take me out to the pub.

Records are broken for a variety of reasons.Times are better now because of better equipment, track surfaces and training.Put Ursain Bolt in to 1936 shoes on a 1936 diet and get him to run on a 1936 surface and look at the times he attains.That's why it's difficult to pick an all time best.

And Derbyshire men too.

High fat isn't bad for everyone, it's just very bad for about 30% of the population which has a particular genetic makeup.It's within this group that premature deaths and heart problems occur.For 40% of the population fat makes little difference and for the remaining 30% a low fat diet seems to...

The UK is regarded by many as the food capital of the world.Every second programme on TV is a cookery one and the shops are full of exotic foods from around the globe.Scotch beef is acknowledged as the best in the world.

I have long understood it (for many decades) to have originated in Northumberland so it's not by any means a new idea.But the fact is that people have always moved around from place to place and taken their ideas with them.It's never going to be possible to tie down the actual place of origin.

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But then you're a muggle.

The Johnson to Bell one was instrumental in the England collapse.Good job we bat deeply. Swann's dismissal didn't alter the outcome. I was just enjoying watching him play. When two bowlers score half the side's runs it makes you wonder.But Swann's Test average is 34 and Broad's is over 30...

All of them. All they do is kick a bag of wind round a muddy field.

But as Gary Player said about golf-the harder I train and the more I practice the luckier I get.

Yes, it's a matter of making the most of what's to hand too.Most peasant dishes are designed to spin out meat with starchy food.

People pay more for that cod crap than for haddock or plaice which are in a different league? My ****** was in the fish business when we still had a fishing fleet. In Grimsby they couldn't give cod away , it was sent to London.Harry Ramsden refused to sell cod in his chippies because it wasn't...

The bullet takes several seconds to travel to the target during which the target my move.The path of the bullet is curved , it will have dropped by around 200 feet in 4 seconds and windage will carry it sideways too so the sniper has to aim off.Yet despite this snipers do score some amazing hits...

I bet I can get better fish and chips than the Dorchester can offer. The chips need to be fried in beef dripping not in oil. Haddock not tasteless cod and lashings of mushy peas.

It does ramp up the final Test though-everything to play for. If England had been 2-0 up it would have been a dead game. Pity about Swann's dismissal-he was giving the crowd some good entertainment and nowhere near touched the ball he was "caught out" from.

Both sides have played quite inconsistently , both sides are missing key players.Mind you , without the Nottinghamshire contribution (Broad and Swann) things would have been a lot worse. Throughout the series the bottom 5 English players have scored about as many runs (914) as the top...

Who were all these people who watched the memorial? I can quite honestly say with my hand on my heart that I don't know of ANYBODY who watched it.No doubt though I've been counted in the billion.

No. The myth that they were lions led by donkeys just doesn't stand up to investigation.They were lions OK but the donkeys bit is a massive injustice.The basic problem was this; that the armies had dug in and were equipped with formidable defensive weapons.Attacking troops had to advance under...

This is a gross distortion of the truth.Officers had a disproportionate number of casualties, a lot more generals were ****** than in WW2.I once knew a veteran who served the whole 4 years-he was an educated man but refused a commission several times because he knew the life expectancy of...

Profit is not in itself a bad thing.It after all provides employment and good living standards.Business is all about making a profit because without it it would die. What is less good is the pursuit of profit above all else. Capitalism is held up by many posters as the ideal-and then they...

There's rationing now, it's by price. If you want a situation in which everybody immediately gets the best treatment it will use up most of the GDP.There's always rationing for services.

His funeral took place today. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8187417.stm

The definition of middle class is if you get out of the bath for a ***.

The thing about him was how he carried it. A year in hospital from a war wound-nowadays that would be a big pay out but he quietly got on with his life.He never made anything of it , perhaps because he was only one out of millions of maimed soldiers , he went on without therapy or counselling...

The number of the ***** is actually 616 but I'm not sure what it means anyway.

From the viewpoint of the guys on the ground in the 1940s your argument makes no sense. The Japanese had behaved in such a way that they were scarcely accepted as normal human beings.No commander or politician would have accepted American casualties to prevent Japanese ones.The problem was that...

From what was known at the time, there was very little option but to use the bomb.Although warfare ideally is between armies it had long before been extended to whole nations.But although Japan was already defeated (one main reason is often overlooked which was the submarine blockade) it never...

All ****** is Scottish. In Ireland it's ******* From elsewhere it's ******* substitute.

Better still, not on the rocks.

In many cases it doesn't perhaps matter all that much except that it can give a biased and misleading view to historical events.In the case of U571 though the families of the men lost in the real capture of the Enigma machine and code book would perhaps have liked to have seen them credited with...

There were in fact several American pilots serving with the RAF during the Battle of Britain and later in 1940 there were three Eagle squadrons formed of American volunteers which on the US entry to WW2 were transferred to the 8th Air *****.

If you believe this you will believe anything.

Going back over 6o years when the UK was embarking on its national health scheme the same arguments were aired.The medical profession was strongly against it and just having come exhausted out of WW2 there were many who doubted whether we could afford it. Surprisingly the impetus came from the...

U571 which was a mockery of an actual event in WW2 in which two Royal Navy men died.There were many events in that war of which the US Navy can be justly proud , why they had to make such a film is beyond me. The film's plot, though a complete work of fiction, is minutely based on real events...

Nitpicking perhaps but people from Scotland are Scots (note the upper case S) not scotch or even Scotch.That word is reserved for their ****** ,ale , beef and for some reason eggs wrapped in sausagemeat.

Pity we lost a full day because of rain.

You already can but it's a dreadful system.Insurance premiums are risk based.Say you are diagnosed with a major illness-what's going to happen to your renewal premium even if the insurers will still cover you?If you are too ill to go to work how are you going to pay for premiums? Remember that...

Double post.

The only charge in the UK for ER treatment is if you are injured in a road traffic accident ; this will be covered by your car insurance. Regarding the thread title "Right-Wing Says You'll Die If Health Care Passes" it's very true.You will also die if it doesn't. Immortality isn't an option folks.

I've always understood it to be from Northumberland. I suspect though that similar concoctions have been made locally everywhere as people had to make the most of what was available.

Never mind, keep quiet about it and nobody will notice.

Also many UK shows are made with a view to being sold in the US.

If you look at the European set up you will find that each country has its own way of operating its healthcare system.There are many different but still relatively successful models to choose from.What is holding so many of you back is the negative mind set which tells you that government...

If you go south of Dover you will find it very wet.

Yes. Many years ago the Parish Brewery in Leicestershire (still in business) brewed a **** at 23% ABV. It was at the time the strongest **** in the world. I feel that all these extreme beers miss the point-**** is for ******** , it's for quenching thirst and to spend an evening in good...

My *** said there are three things a gentleman never does. 1. Wear a hat indoors. 2. ***** from a bottle. This is a disgusting habit but becoming increasingly common. 3 .Leave the toilet seat up.

If he'd decimated them he would have taken one wicket.Decimate means to destroy one tenth.

Off licence, off sales both mean that alcoholic ***** can be sold for consumption off the premises.A pub or club has an "on" licence which means you can ***** on the premises, which is probably while you're there anyway.Usually an "on" licence also includes "off"sales so you can buy a bottle at...