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yeah like is there a sound to one hand clapping in the middle of a forest if there’s no one to hear it yeah stuff like that keeps me awake at night and has my milk gone off even though it’s supposed to be last another four days but its a 2 litre and I bought it from tescos yesterday skanking bar-stads i know its all too deep……………………………..
we came second in every penalty decision over three matches.
but no sour grapes, congrats scousers and i’m with you lot against the scum
These youngsters have fought so hard this season.
Led the Premiership until just a few weeks ago, were soooo close to the CL semis, great performance when knocking out the holders Milan. Even the reserves nearly made it in the other competition but I forget who won that.
Walcott’s career is about to explode……..and no team scores as many late goals as the gooners.
Watch this team grow with all the admiration you can muster……………..
(and Matty – respect……..looks like you were right this year)
lol
second half’s gonna be a cracker
yeah, I shoulda bought more Sinatra albums……………
minim wrote:When countries have boycotted the games, it has actually helped result in major changes.Gosh mims, that notion’s so half-baked I don’t believe you even turned the oven on.
The African boycott in 1976 was carried out because the New Zealand rugby authorities rather fancied a lucrative tour of South Africa during the preceeding winter. It achieved nothing except to hurt the athletes concerned, and did not even begin to make a dent in the wall of apartheid. Third World peoples were deprived by their own governments of the chance to add some heroes to their fledgling national identities. Yet it is a sad fact that sports like cricket and rugby (and these old Empire activities aren’t exactly popular worldwide now are they ?) did not honour the concerted ban that South Africa faced from all Oympics for over thirty years until that ugly regime finally fell.
The partial western boycott of Moscow 1980 was led by the Carter administration in the USA, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A few brave American sportsmen questioned its right to do that as the Games are in essence non-political, and for that found themselves subject to IRS scrutinies and the like. Some even had their businesses shut down for speaking out. Here, Thatcher did not actually carry out her threat to withhold the passports of our sportsmen and women, but many who worked in the army, police or civil service found themselves put under a lot of pressure not to take part if they happened to value their careers. A real glorious chapter in our history that one.
The tit-for-tat Communist boycott of Los Angeles 1984 was expected and duly happened. Such were the antics of super-powers during those cold war years. This had the effect of giving, for all true sports fans, innumerable opportunities to hear the star-spangled banner in the most one-sided Games of modern times. Even yanks got sick of their own TV coverage. Who’s fighting in Afghanistan now ? And did you know that the number of countries making up the International Athletics Federation – which governs the chief olympic sport – far exceeds that of the United Nations, and nobody has veto options either.
Fortunately Olympic Games since then have been free of any such large scale political machinations. Those of 2008 do not belong to China – they are merely the appointed hosts this time round. Young sportsmen and women from all round the globe will gather during a festive occasion, and for many this is a once only chance; to meet their counterparts, to learn about other cultures and to make life-long friends. Because this is what happens when young people meet. I could no more take away their aspirations than I could from a promising musician or artist.
Politics must never interfere with sport unless it is to encourage participation, and when boycotts happen, it is only the athletes (and fans) who suffer.
yes they did, Amy Turtle is a good one.
we can all blame lancsman for suggesting that…….
@minim wrote:
What did you decide to call it anyway?
The children involved decided upon Amy……..and that’s no good for a chuman ladybird reader, lol, when there are so many obvious alternatives huh ?
however I may re-name the turtle
@sword wrote:
Rename the thread… :wink:
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feck right off in tiny jerky movements cos I re-name for no man
err…..wink
