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That should do it.

Just heard someone describe talks around Newcastle's takeover as a “mimefield”, which I enjoyed immensely.

Did a proxy vote for the EU elections. Wild.

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Just heard someone describe talks around Newcastle's takeover as a “mimefield”.

I didn't hear anything.

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Just heard someone describe talks around Newcastle's takeover as a “mimefield”, which I enjoyed immensely.

Did a proxy vote for the EU elections. Wild.

People thinking inside the box?

It was quite a performance

Where was the Fist, Flipper?

Antipodean Fist 2.0

G'day ricko... how's it going?

'Summer' ended here only last week... it lingered on for a while. Gale force blasts of freezing polar air now.

Not very glorious here either. Went to the sevens on Sunday and took sunscreen and a hat instead of Goretex or Jack Wolfskin. Looked a bit foolish.

Galted wrote:Not very glorious here either. Went to the sevens on Sunday and took sunscreen and a hat instead of Goretex or Jack Wolfskin. Looked a bit foolish.

Whereas if you'd worn Goretex or Jack Wolfskin you'd have looked a bit foolish.

JuliusHMarx wrote:

Galted wrote:Not very glorious here either. Went to the sevens on Sunday and took sunscreen and a hat instead of Goretex or Jack Wolfskin. Looked a bit foolish.

Whereas if you'd worn Goretex or Jack Wolfskin you'd have looked a bit foolish.

With the shorts and sandals I was wearing, possibly. But with jeans and Rockports I would've stolen the limelight.

Galted wrote:Not very glorious here either. Went to the sevens on Sunday and took sunscreen and a hat instead of Goretex or Jack Wolfskin. Looked a bit foolish.

Went to the 7s here in February... so hot. I had to come home early to avoid sunstroke. I would have looked silly in Goretex or Jack Wolfskin.
They had these water mist sprays placed around the concourse... everyone was casually walking through it. I wouldn't have survived otherwise.

They have the water/mist sprays here too, we call them the sky.

Galted wrote:They have the water/mist sprays here too, we call them the sky.

No rain here. It's ridiculous. It was 28 the other day.
Supposed to be winter from Saturday... although there has been record early snowfall in the last 24 hours... down souff. Hence the chill factor.

I ran through a water/mist spray machine during my triumphant 10K run on Sunday.

Play water misty for me.

Grey, and miserable here today.

Fist.

Sicond

Clear sky sunset here. Very still out there.

There's a CWC tipping comp if anyone's interested.

https://www.606v2.com/t68801-2019-icc-world-cup-tipping-competition

We have our own one here, I am usually last.

How is life, Peej?

Good thanks, Rick. Very civic actually.

How's life old dart?

All good here, went to see Godzilla last night, which was excellent, nice chilled weekend ahead with any luck, and the slight possibility that my Football club will lose its odious owner.

All I need now is the weather to buck up and we are all gravy.

What's going down in your world? Any Air B'n'B stories?

Cricket's going to be frustrating, was going to buy a Sky sports pass but if there are two things Galtova hates they are cricket and me enjoying anything on TV. Cricinfo it will be.

Morning all. I'm looking forward to the cricket on Sky Sports.
Did I mention my triumphant 10K run last Sunday?

rick_dagless wrote:All good here, went to see Godzilla last night, which was excellent, nice chilled weekend ahead with any luck, and the slight possibility that my Football club will lose its odious owner.

All I need now is the weather to buck up and we are all gravy.

What's going down in your world?  Any Air B'n'B stories?

Plenty. Some real characters have stayed here. Have a short break until the 9th.
Got some folks from Madagascar coming. That'll be a fist.

JuliusHMarx wrote:Morning all. I'm looking forward to the cricket on Sky Sports.
Did I mention my triumphant 10K run last Sunday?

I was about to say... well done Jules. A big achievement.  

I have a friend who is obsessed with running. He did Chicago and Buffalo/Niagara marathons in the space of a week or 2... came home... then back to NY 2 weeks later to run that. He runs around 3hrs 20 minutes for each marathon. Not bad. Another guy took over 6 hours with absolutely no training whatsoever. He just did a quick stretch in the hotel room on the morning of the run.

I bought a really nice bike for myself - starting to clock up some miles these last few weeks. Such a great feeling on these flat roads... some gentle hills.

I've thought about cycling as it's easier on the joints, but more risky because of the traffic.

I'm doing my first half marathon in October - that's probably my limit. Aiming for around the 2 hour mark.

10k is a good effort, Jules, well done.

My time was 53.03 which was over 6 minutes quicker than last year - that's why I call it 'triumphant'.

Well done Jules - good effort.

Mrs Superfly has caught the running bug and has started doing marathons (did Berlin last year, Edinburgh last week and is signed up to do Frankfurt later this year). She managed 3hrs 51 at Edinburgh and is looking to gradually bring that down to 3hrs 30.

I couldn't do those times on a bike.

Very respectable time, I expect you will be leaving here for the bantz on the parkrun thread soon?

I might go check on the tipping comp. All the points scoring is sorted out now. Very simple and effective. So easy to sign up...

https://www.606v2.com/t68801-2019-icc-world-cup-tipping-competition

I expect to see Supes give Duty a damn good hiding, tanning and stringing up to dry in the sun... as usual.
Jules, did you say you were going to watch some cricket match or something?
C'mon Ricko. This ain't no office pool sweep stakes... this is the real golden opportunity!

I did enjoy Duty placing well down the field in the last Ashes tipping competition. It ran contrary to his numerous posts where he's claimed to have won big off the bookies.

superflyweight wrote:I did enjoy Duty placing well down the field in the last Ashes tipping competition.  It ran contrary to his numerous posts where he's claimed to have won big off the bookies.  

You're most welcome to rag-doll him until the frays turn to deep gashes and eventually... loss of limb.
Otherwise it's just Jules and myself who will have to show him his place.

Happy Friday notcherinos!

Fist.

Sicond, hope your Friday is everything that you expected it would be and more.

Pal Joey wrote:

superflyweight wrote:I did enjoy Duty placing well down the field in the last Ashes tipping competition.  It ran contrary to his numerous posts where he's claimed to have won big off the bookies.  

You're most welcome to rag-doll him until the frays turn to deep gashes and eventually... loss of limb.
Otherwise it's just Jules and myself who will have to show him his place.

Don't know what he went for in the tipping competition but his predictions of a Pakistan win on the World Cup thread have not aged at all well.

Late fist, interesting weekend of Sport...

Follow up sicond fist.

Yeah rick. It's on all hours.

I might switch some lights on. A bit dark. Howling cold wind out there.. but still no rain.

Trump landed. I'm no Trump.

Mid-morning tird. Good laugh on Tw*tter over the weekend with the Champion's League final and the Joshua defeat, there are some very angry, bitter people about.

Bangladesh beating SA was pretty funny as well. Wonder where Raf is these days?

Feel sorry for SA. They've just lost their mojo. Quite sad to see. Like Australia in rugby.

It was quite funny to see them wear the Aussie yellow. There's only one banana republic and that's us! We own da yellow!

I think SA concentrate so much on mental preparation they haven't bothered practising any actual cricket.

It seems like they are at the start of the re-build phase, where all their old players are on the way out, and the new ones are not bedded in. Same with Sri Lanka.

Pakistan are perpetually in this state

At least Pakistan perpetually win the odd tournament.

There is that. Usually by the skin of their teeth and barely being worthy of getting to the final

With the obvious exceptions of the Aussies and India, the other countries would be fairly happy with that.

This is an odd position to be in to be honest. Dissing Pakistan cricket team and it being defended by a white boy/ladyboy

It's due to years of worshipping Akram and Inzamam.

Me too but as much as i love inzamam it's a miracle he hasn't been run over by a parked bus. He's the chief selector and each decision is usually dumber than the last unless forced into it..like bringing Amir back.

He's immune from criticism after calling for a bat from the dressing room to clump an Indian supporter who was giving him gyp.

Galted wrote:He's immune from criticism after calling for a bat from the dressing room to clump an Indian supporter who was giving him gyp.

his finest moment. That's why Ijaz Ahmed is the greatest legend of all time, you see him running towards inzamam thinking the big man is going to stop the other big man and instead he hands him his bat.