I just can't get excited about a sporting event where the government has spent millions funding it, yet the people live in squalor and deprivation. Where drugs are rife and life expectation is very low.
But enough of the Commonwealth games in Glasgow, the World Cup started last night.
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Spain 2014 , the worst defence of a cup since Mick Philpott tried to justify his 'Dad of the year' mug.
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If you're a Liverpool Fan you are currently doing one of these three things:
1) Defending Gerrard
2) Defending Suarez
3) Kissing your sister...
1) Defending Gerrard
2) Defending Suarez
3) Kissing your sister...
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What's wrong
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Health News: The NHS has revealed plans to scrap traditional anti-bacterial drugs and instead replace them with generous measures of gin.
The move comes after a number of warnings about the growing threat of resistance to antibiotics that could cast the world “back into the dark ages of medicine”.
“It’s obviously very unsafe to mix medicine with alcohol, so we intend to stop using medicine altogether,” said a senior NHS spokesman.
“Gin has many excellent medicinal properties that would benefit patients – it can dull all kinds of mental and physical pain, the slice of lime served in a gin and tonic is packed with vitamins and antioxidants, plus LIDL Club gin is less than eight quid a bottle, so we’ll be massively reducing costs.”
“Our studies on this subject have indicated that patients who receive regular, large doses of medicinal gin tend to be much quieter and hardly ever complain about hospital food, paying five quid a day to watch TV, or having to put up with some knob from the government turning up for a photo opportunity.”
The move comes after a number of warnings about the growing threat of resistance to antibiotics that could cast the world “back into the dark ages of medicine”.
“It’s obviously very unsafe to mix medicine with alcohol, so we intend to stop using medicine altogether,” said a senior NHS spokesman.
“Gin has many excellent medicinal properties that would benefit patients – it can dull all kinds of mental and physical pain, the slice of lime served in a gin and tonic is packed with vitamins and antioxidants, plus LIDL Club gin is less than eight quid a bottle, so we’ll be massively reducing costs.”
“Our studies on this subject have indicated that patients who receive regular, large doses of medicinal gin tend to be much quieter and hardly ever complain about hospital food, paying five quid a day to watch TV, or having to put up with some knob from the government turning up for a photo opportunity.”
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Do they still put quinine in tonic? That would be an extra bonus.
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And the lime for scurvy!!
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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Dozer
You're quite right about the deprivation and squalor, so that's you down as a yes vote then?
You're quite right about the deprivation and squalor, so that's you down as a yes vote then?
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You're quite right about the deprivation and squalor, so that's you down as a yes vote then?
I not eligible to vote, but I suspect that despite the trauma of separation, England would end up benefiting from Scotland voting for divorce.
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Erudition
Steven Wright is a
famous Erudite (comic) scientist who once said:” I woke up
one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and
replaced by exact
duplicates."His mind sees things
differently than most of us do. Here are some of his
gems.
1 - I'd kill for a
Nobel Peace Prize.
2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it
back.
3 - Half the people
you know are below average.
4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5 - 82.7% of all statistics
are made up on the spot.
6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel
so good.
7 - A clear
conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 - If you want the rainbow,
you have got to put up
with the rain.
9 - All
those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
10 - The early bird may get
the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 - I almost had a psychic
girlfriend... But she left me before we met.
12 - OK, so what's the
speed of dark?
13 - How do
you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
14 - If everything seems to be
going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15 - Depression is merely
anger without enthusiasm.
16 - When everything is coming your way,
you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having
enough sense to be lazy.
18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off
now.
19 - I intend to live
forever... So far, so good.
20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have
to buy her friends?
21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet
engines.
22 - What happens
if you get scared half to death twice?
23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't
repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
24 - Why do psychics have to
ask you for your name.
25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that
you tried.
26 – A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27 - Experience is something
you don't get until just after you need it.
28 - The hardness of the
butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29 - To steal ideas from one
person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30 - The problem with the gene
pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time
you'll have to catch up.
32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of
your body is required to be on it.
33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some
just don't have film.
34 - If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
And the all-time favorite:
35 - If your car could travel at the speed of
light, would your headlights
work?
Steven Wright is a
famous Erudite (comic) scientist who once said:” I woke up
one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and
replaced by exact
duplicates."His mind sees things
differently than most of us do. Here are some of his
gems.
1 - I'd kill for a
Nobel Peace Prize.
2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it
back.
3 - Half the people
you know are below average.
4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5 - 82.7% of all statistics
are made up on the spot.
6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel
so good.
7 - A clear
conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 - If you want the rainbow,
you have got to put up
with the rain.
9 - All
those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
10 - The early bird may get
the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 - I almost had a psychic
girlfriend... But she left me before we met.
12 - OK, so what's the
speed of dark?
13 - How do
you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
14 - If everything seems to be
going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15 - Depression is merely
anger without enthusiasm.
16 - When everything is coming your way,
you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having
enough sense to be lazy.
18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off
now.
19 - I intend to live
forever... So far, so good.
20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have
to buy her friends?
21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet
engines.
22 - What happens
if you get scared half to death twice?
23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't
repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
24 - Why do psychics have to
ask you for your name.
25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that
you tried.
26 – A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27 - Experience is something
you don't get until just after you need it.
28 - The hardness of the
butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29 - To steal ideas from one
person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30 - The problem with the gene
pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time
you'll have to catch up.
32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of
your body is required to be on it.
33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some
just don't have film.
34 - If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
And the all-time favorite:
35 - If your car could travel at the speed of
light, would your headlights
work?
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It's often difficult to attribute quotes to one person or another....
Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back, is often attributed to Oscar Wilde
Whoever said it....I agree!
Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back, is often attributed to Oscar Wilde
Whoever said it....I agree!
"'The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain
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"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."
Steven Wright
Steven Wright
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Dr Who has changed a lot since I was a kid!
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Our thoughts are with the people of Swansea.
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I think they were probably ok as they had plenty of packets of these as welldozer wrote:Our thoughts are with the people of Swansea.
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