leicsmac

1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

This incident really has brought it home what a monstrous bunch of evil ****s we have on the "right" of our politics. Racist, ableist, thick as ****ing mince and exploiting every incident for their own ends regardless of the facts. Scum of the ****ing earth. ****S. 

The masks have been off for the last few years imo. 

1 hour ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

The artificial ice pyramids saving India's mountain villages - BBC News

 

https://share.google/79w40KghADutj1cX4

 

 

It's been thought for at least the last decade that the glaciers of Kashmir are going to become a major vital resource flashpoint. 

Yeah, objective moving very quickly from "win match" to "save match". And I'm not sure this group of players have the discipline to bat out 4-5 sessions to do it. 

Off to a good start, need to keep creating and taking chances.

Have to get them all out for 250 maximum, then. Possible but tricky. 

16 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Didn't they do it to Jamieson first? 

No idea, if they did it does show why doing it in the first instance isn't a good idea. 

Great last stand by the tenth wicket pair, this. 

3 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

Jeez that would've been nasty without the grill. 

Why do bowlers just want to hurt other bowlers  seem to lose interest in taking wickets.

O'Rourke looks a good bowler but hes a grumpy looking bastard.

 

All it took was one failed ramp shot from Fisher to make new zealand change tactics. 

It used to be etiquette that you didn't target the head of bowlers batting for the other team in that way because if you did, they would respond in kind. 

I wonder what Fisher will do if he is bowling to O'Rourke later?

18 minutes ago, CornwallFox said:

Spend £14m "fixing" a large reflecting pool with supposed American flag blue paint.

Algae blooms ruin the pool.

Try to fix it with hydrogen peroxide. 

The hydrogen peroxide pulls all the paint off the pool. 

Wonderful to see.

All the scientific knowhow one would expect of this administration. 

16 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

I'd back this England team to chase anything under 300 and likely half of all things up to 350 in these conditions, so it's just going to come down to how many runs the bowlers will have to play with to keep the target to that amount. 

And it looks like it won't be many. 

I'd back this England team to chase anything under 300 and likely half of all things up to 350 in these conditions, so it's just going to come down to how many runs the bowlers will have to play with to keep the target to that amount. 

1 hour ago, Jon the Hat said:

I am not sure I believe he does, I think Trump was just sold on the glory of fixing something no one else could fix, because he is a moron with a massive ego.

That's a possibility too. 

8 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

Its actually quite funny Trump is going to try to dump this terrible deal, and no doubt the associated terrible decision to go to wat in the first place on Vance and Netanyahu.  They deserve everything they get.

Yep, one thing Trump excels at is finding fall guys to blame, and watching the fallout is going to be funny. 

An observation on this; if Netanyahu really has some form of compromat on Trump (Epstein related or otherwise), it will be interesting to see how far things may go before he decides he may as well make it public. 

In more international news, Vance is now making comment on the Israelis that "you can't kill your way out of every national security issue".

That's a bit of a departure from the normally stated theme, I must say. Mind you, Vance has always been a difficult one to pin down exactly. Sometimes there's just the reptile there and sometimes there's something...else.

Interestingly enough, even though polls stated that the combined value of Reform and Restore votes would likely be more than Labour at this one, the actual result had that combined total short by about 6000 votes.

Unusual for the pollsters to overvalue Reform's performances, up until now it's been mostly the other way round and they've been underestimated.

2 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

Well yes, I don't think any of us expected Starmer to implode this quickly.

 

Still I have said Starmer needs to go and it looks like Burnham is the man to oust him.  If he makes a few tweaks and sells policy better he has more of chance of winning the next election than Starmer.

...which is the crux of the matter and, of course, what a few people seem to apparently fear. In spite of every viable stated other option at the present time being demonstrably worse.

Anyhow, reasonably routine win in the end. Leadership challenge to follow imminently?

5 minutes ago, Sampson said:

The by-election talk is extremely quiet considering this is essentially a vote for if Burnham becomes the next pm. I thought it would be the most talked about by-election in many years.

Yeah, that is a little odd.

My own thoughts is that it's considered a foregone conclusion, so there's not much to discuss until Burnham actually arrives in no.10.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vy5l62622o

Kegsbreath in being hypocritical and condescending on matters of killing people- sorry, "defence" shocker. 

Some good news:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c621z28z138o

Children vaccinated at age 12–13 against HPV (human papillomavirus) have close to zero risk of dying from cervical cancer before the age of 30, landmark new research reveals.

The first study of its kind, external shows deaths have fallen sharply since school-age girls began being offered it in 2008, and around 200 lives have been saved in England so far thanks to the vaccine.

Between 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24 - the first time that had happened over a five-year period.

Not bad for a vaccine some leading lights in other nations decry as "entirely unsafe".

Brook taking seven balls to get his eye in before going for a haymaker, then. 

Unusually restrained for the man. 

20 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Gay and Root looking good

You and the commentary team putting the mockers on there. 

Nasty short ball to get just after you get your 50, though. 

Oh, Emilio. 

You owe Duckett a pint and the game a big score after that one. 

15 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Well, that's about 100 more runs than they should have got. 

 

Given it's only four sessions into the match, time may not be as big a factor as I thought, especially since you'd assume England will also be looking to score quickly. 

Yep.

Well, that's about 100 more runs than they should have got. 

Given it's only four sessions into the match, time may not be as big a factor as I thought, especially since you'd assume England will also be looking to score quickly. 

Going to either have to get on with it or only bat once, then. 

2 minutes ago, FoxesDeb said:

It usually isn't, just very dry and very windy, and tbh it doesn't really matter if it is deliberate, the results are the same

Exactly.

As well as them getting larger in terms of regularity and ferocity year on year.