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    Quote Originally Posted by Awryly View Post
    This was a reference to David Beckham, recently described by the New Zealand prime minister - no less - as "thick as bat$#@!". No red carpets for him.

    There have been squeaks of protest from most bats I know; including some who have taken on human form. As bats tend to do.

    Why do the Poms exalt this excruciating game and pledge undying allegiance to small groups of otherwise unemployable men in funny shirts who wander round paddocks wondering what to do? And who once in a blue moon delegate the poking of the ball (which most of them seem strenuously to avoid) into a net.

    It's harder to understand than quantum physics.

    We have thousands of kids here who "play" this charade. But most of them are the refugee off-spring of parents who are earnest in their desire to protect them from anything that resembles a sport, and might thus lead to minor abrasions.

    Just say . I don't like Football , probably because I don't understand it . No need for a Cedric .

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    Do you like metric football?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Do you like metric football?

    All beautiful things retain their beauty regardless of the clothes they wear .
    But some spectators lose the ability to see the beautiful game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carygrant View Post
    Just say . I don't like Football , probably because I don't understand it . No need for a Cedric .
    Nothing to understand, mate.

    Except why anyone watches it.

    We have a similarly boring game which, unfortunately, we are rather good at (unlike England). It's called netball. The difference is that it's played by totty. So the uniforms are filled more strikingly.
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    An "honour" indeed that is unbelievable.

    Actress Kate Winslet says receiving a CBE from the Queen for services to drama was an 'unbelievable honour'. Speaking outside Buckingham Palace, Winslet revealed Elizabeth II congratulated her and asked her if she liked her job. Winslet told her she loved her job, but not as much as motherhood, to which the Queen told her 'motherhood is the only job'
    Winslet plays even comedy with an air of determined tragedy. She is the finest extractor fan for otherwise salvageable scripts in the business.

    I hate to think that she is mentoring kids.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carygrant View Post
    All beautiful things retain their beauty regardless of the clothes they wear .
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    That sounds pretty gay, dude....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carygrant View Post
    All beautiful things retain their beauty regardless of the clothes they wear .
    But some spectators lose the ability to see the beautiful game.

    The really strange thing is that (a) anyone sees beauty in a game that would bore the tits off an armadillo and (b) what it is about the British psyche that makes them have to pretend they enjoy it.

    Are there no more exciting "heroes" to exult than Arsenal? Or more exciting milestones to read about than how Ronaldo (who is not even British) moved to a new club for $30 trillion?
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    Great report by Lord Leveson.

    His headline summary presentation was exquisite. Lawyers at their best are great communicators.

    But I see Cameron is already positioning for a way to do as little as possible with his recommendations. No doubt to please his press mates - two more of whom will shortly land up in jail. Which is exactly the type of capture the whole bloody enquiry was about.

    Leveson will be a shattered man. He made it glaringly clear that self-regulation won't work without legislative under-pinning.

    But who knows? Maybe, for once, Clegg will show some balls. There'd be votes in it (though they will not save him), since 80% of the population has been polled as saying something dramatic must be done.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20543936
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    Quote Originally Posted by Awryly View Post
    Great report by Lord Leveson.

    His headline summary presentation was exquisite. Lawyers at their best are great communicators.

    But I see Cameron is already positioning for a way to do as little as possible with his recommendations. No doubt to please his press mates - two more of whom will shortly land up in jail. Which is exactly the type of capture the whole bloody enquiry was about.

    Leveson will be a shattered man. He made it glaringly clear that self-regulation won't work without legislative under-pinning.

    But who knows? Maybe, for once, Clegg will show some balls. There'd be votes in it (though they will not save him), since 80% of the population has been polled as saying something dramatic must be done.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20543936

    It appears that Cameron's aggressive attack on Leveson has lost him the support of at least 70 of his own party. Plus the support of his coalition partner and, of course, the opposition.

    The man is a strutting and , by all accounts, rutting fool. His idiotic intransigence over something he could have easily controlled with a piss-weak legislative sop to the British public may well lose him his job and plunge Britain back into social democracy.
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    This is a hoot. Cameron standing tall for the Press but shrinking like thirsty parsley from taking his own advice when it comes to passing supporting legislation.

    David Cameron has told national newspaper editors they must implement the Leveson report recommendations in their entirety if the government is to hold off introducing a new press law. The prime minister gave them until Thursday to demonstrate they were making progress on agreeing a reformed structure of regulation.
    But Cameron was never one to not make something out of nothing. Stridently in front of the cameras.
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