Another Drive4show 'Anything goes' thread

[super_realist]

First topic message reminder :

Rugby players are too fat to catch us Davie.

[navyblueshorts]

T20 may not be to everyone's tastes but watching Darren Sammy smashing the aussies is great. In fact he is my current favourite player.

Oh, definitely agree with you there. Not a lot better than that sort of thing, especially when one of their mouthy players makes some dumb remark about the Windies. Obviously, he was too young to remember Tony Grieg and what happened to England after his remarks on that famous tour. Now, if the Aussies can just do the right thing and fail to get out of this stage, so much the better!

[beninho]

Think the aussies are out like us now. Terrible bowling performance by England. Good to see palace win today aswell.

Now anyone on here good with cars and have any knowledge?

[mystiroakey]

As a palace fan I am pretty impressed with us today.. 

Onto england . Dernbach is worse than useless- but amazing effort with the bat all 3 games..

We have been good enough to progress- the DL NZ result cost us bad , and unfairly.

I have a Golf, never had a great car ben. Its a nice car but its just a car,

[incontinentia]

Anyone watch the Louis Theroux documentary on end of life care in America? One of the patients was a young chap who went into a coma after an overdose. He didn't wake up after 72 or so hours and the doctors told the family that the best case scenario was persistent vegetative state, he wouldn't walk, talk or know who he was for life. A couple of months later he walks out of hospital! Doctors were way off. Love them Theroux docs   

[westisbest]

Recorded it, will watch some time this week.

I do like his programmes.

[McLaren]

Due to the seriously unfair way that people are made to pay for healthcare, for most Americans end of life care begins at 55, when you develop anything more serious than a splinter.

[incontinentia]

Recorded it, will watch some time this week.

I do like his programmes.

Think I ruined it for you, sorry!

Mclaren according to that programme, some states pay healthcare costs.

[westisbest]

Ah no bother, will watch anyway.
 
Saw some of the one last week with the dogs.
 
Do like his shows. Very good.

[super_realist]

Hillsborough - Yawn.

[incontinentia]

It seems the Scottish currency will be changed to feature the head of your 'Dear Leader' if the the independence vote goes through.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/scottish-politics/10735711/Alex-Salmond-to-replace-the-Queen-on-new-Scottish-pound-coin.html

[super_realist]

It seems the Scottish currency will be changed to feature the head of your 'Dear Leader' if the the independence vote goes through.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/scottish-politics/10735711/Alex-Salmond-to-replace-the-Queen-on-new-Scottish-pound-coin.html

That's quite a funny April Fool, Captures the fat slovenly creep's likeness very well.

[incontinentia]

Ha ha, damn I thought you might have bought that one soup!

[Davie]

Did anyone see the story today about Miley Cyrus being the musical act for the opening of the Ryder Cup ceremony?

[super_realist]

Without a doubt it will be something crap, parochial, unashamedly Scottish and downright embarassing like The Proclaimers, Deacon Blue, Runrig or Wet Wet Wet (to match the weather)

[kwinigolfer]

Is Kenneth McKellar still alive?
That's more O'Grady's style, surely?

[pedro]

1st of April

[Davie]

1st of April

Well blow me down .. you don't say ...   

[JAS]

Without a doubt it will be something crap, parochial, unashamedly Scottish and downright embarassing like The Proclaimers, Deacon Blue, Runrig or Wet Wet Wet (to match the weather)

What's wrong with any of them??...

Lights blue touch paper and stands back

[MontysMerkin]

The Proclaimers are the only decent scotch export. Closely followed by the Krankies.

[MontysMerkin]

The Proclaimers are the only decent scotch export. Closely followed by the Krankies.

Oh and those square pink faux sausage things.

[JAS]

scotch make tape Monty and Yanks sometimes refer to whiskey as scotch.

[JAS]

....and pink??? Do you eat your sliced sausage raw??

[MontysMerkin]

Only saying what I see JAS. Many a fine night spent in the Monifieth Hotel (probably long gone) dining on the finest fish fingers and oven chips money could buy. Breakfasting on pink slices of something vaguely resembling meat after being assured that it was indeed a scotchland 'sausage'. I think it was awarded the title of one of the greatest hotels near Dundee. The heavy was good though.

[raycastleunited]

  

Only saying what I see JAS. Many a fine night spent in the Monifieth Hotel (probably long gone) dining on the finest fish fingers and oven chips money could buy. Breakfasting on pink slices of something vaguely resembling meat after being assured that it was indeed a scotchland 'sausage'. I think it was awarded the title of one of the greatest hotels near Dundee. The heavy was good though.

struggling to understand most of this most

[JAS]

  

Only saying what I see JAS. Many a fine night spent in the Monifieth Hotel (probably long gone) dining on the finest fish fingers and oven chips money could buy. Breakfasting on pink slices of something vaguely resembling meat after being assured that it was indeed a scotchland 'sausage'. I think it was awarded the title of one of the greatest hotels near Dundee. The heavy was good though.

struggling to understand most of this most

What you struggling with Ray? Sliced sausage being pink? The Heavy being good?

[JAS]

So...just over a week to go to the Marathon...who fancies a go at time prediction? Here are the clues
in 2008 I ran 4:11
This year, training hasn't quite gone according to plan, there have been some injury gaps but overall better than 2008 (I have managed 2 x 20 milers - one of which was an organised race 2:57:21 - but finished dying on my arse).
Apart from the calf injuries I've been plagued by runners knee, particularly the left, I've had to abandon 3 of my longer runs because of it. A knee strap now helps a bit (reduces excruciatingly painful to just annoyingly sore).
I'm targeting 4 hours hoping to go through 20 in about 2:55...because of the lack of background mileage I do expect to fade quite a bit from 20 onwards but do just enough to hang on to the sub 4 mark. This will be my 5th marathon. Ok...guess away!!

[kwinigolfer]

4.00 on the dot; that's not including time spent calling on an official for a ruling, nor an injury time-out a la Harrington, or a bacon sarnie and a beer after 9 miles.

My daughter ran her first (and only) marathon last year in just over four hours, sure you'll beat that.

Good luck JAS, stay thirsty.

[mystiroakey]

3:47

[incontinentia]

4 hours and 1 minute

[Plunky]

3:50 on the nose.   Good luck JAS !

[puligny]

JAS some of want to know how your running mate did in the second 20 miler? Did she get away?

[JAS]

Yeah she did it Puligny bless 'er. Sure she'll complete it on the day too, probably around about 4 and a half hours though.

[super_realist]

Jealous of you guys doing that.

[JAS]

If you'd only said last week Super... I'd quite happily have traded you some of the post 20 mile pain to make you feel part of it

Actually did a good few miles of the route as well so it was a really useful outing, reminded me how dull and uninspiring it is around docklands as opposed to the great feeling of those last 2-3 miles on the Embankment, Birdcage Walk and the Mall.

[super_realist]

Docklands is always the bit I dread the most, lonely, windy, cold and the most boring part of it, and worst of all, at a bad mileage for your morale.

[incontinentia]

Was Peaches in your dead pool super?

[super_realist]

With a name and family background like that she'd have to have been short odds Inco.

It's not remotely surprising is it? I'm surprised the media is making such a story out of such a talentless no-mark

[pedro]

Poor Pixie and Fifi Trixibelle.( )  Bob, save your family, not Africa.

PS. Can't tell whether it's Bob Geldof or Gareth Bale who has his own emoticon...?.  

[incontinentia]

The issue of climate change has been in the news a lot recently.
An Irish environmentalist had a meltdown on live radio yesterday whilst being interviewed on the matter. He had this to say:
“All of the media is being irresponsible about climate change. It is unequivocal that climate change is real, and it’s happening now.
 
“We knew tobacco smoke was damaging health yet the deniers were allowed to keep the confusion and doubt going for years, and millions of people died in that time.
 
“The truth is we’re facing the biggest we’ve ever faced as humans beings. It is going to have devastating effects.
 
“The media don’t seem to get it, they don’t seem to read the science.
 
“If there was a programme about the holocaust, would we give equal time to holocaust deniers?
 
How do you feel about this issue, and have you done anything to reduce your carbon footprint?

[GunsGerms]

"Tell me why I dont like Mondays"

Unfortunate song lyric choice?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDxFtQgoWt8

Sad news, RIP peaches.

[McLaren]

I feel unbelievably frustrated about the denial of climate change and the simpleton moronic way that most people look at it.

The science is simple, we (humans) have cause climate change and at some point this is going to impact us big time. Probably starting with the death of the oceans before we see any real scorching of the land masses.

I like the quote

"Gravity is only a theory so why not try throwing yourself from the 10th floor"

[super_realist]

Why don't we just start learning to deal with the effects of climate change instead of pretending we can do something about it.

I don't really care about climate change, climate change has always happened, it's never been a constant, the cause of it is irrelevant. How we deal with it isn't.

[beninho]

Of course climate change is real, am i concerned, unfortunately not. Should i be? Probably. Have i done anything regarding my carbon footprint? Nope, not intentionally anyway. Just brought a diesel car, does that make any difference?

[Davie]

The science is simple, we (humans) have cause climate change

There's the problem in a nutshell though .. statements like that which have no basis in fact yet stated as an undeniable axiom

As Super says, climate change has always happened and always will happen. Naive in the extreme to say we have caused it. This has never been proven, and never will be. Dealing with it is the important thing, not (trying to ) stop it

[super_realist]

I don't disagree that we may have made a contribution as a species to global warming which in turn may have led to climate change. I disagree we "caused" it in entireity as the climate is dependent on much more than one input.

Trying to reverse it is stupid though, especially when any contribution the UK has ever made is dwarfed by India, China, Africa and America.

Learn to deal with it, that doesn't mean "dredging" rivers, as that would have made zero impact on the recent floods.
Actually not building on an active floodplain is the sort of measures you need to take, the flooding isn't even a concern.

[MontysMerkin]

Main reasons for not having children. Why would I condemn my lineage to suffer the outcome of our immense stupidity. The amount of crap being manufactured the world over using resources that we really should be looking after is beyond comprehension. Still as long as we can buy cheap tellys why should it bother me?

[McLaren]

Davie

When science tells you that gravity or the laws of thermodynamics are true do you believe it?

If so then why deny humans contribution to climate change when science tells us this is the case?

[Davie]

Don't be stupid Mac .. give yourself a break from it. Gravity or laws of thermodynamics are demonstrable. Human involvement in climate change isn't. It's an opinion, nothing more. No one can know what the climate would be doing if we weren't here

[incontinentia]

"Gravity is only a theory so why not try throwing yourself from the 10th floor"

isn't gravity a law?

In terms of learning to deal with it- I would have a hard time learning to deal with the storms we had over the winter, if they were to become a regular occurrence.

[McLaren]

Davie

Read the peer reviewed literature on climate change, and then feel free to comment.

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