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Get ESPN with my Virgin package, wouldn't pay for it otherwise though. They were supposed to be showing Bundesliga earlier but instead it was basketball.

Bummers are deaf.

Unbelievable!

Ooooooooh. Things just got interesting.

That said, a decent podcast or similar will keep me on an exercise bike for an hour plus without even realising my legs are moving. So aye, sign up to Smodcast or the Football Ramble or Vaguely Tomatoey Pasta Sauce Weekly or whatever it takes.

I do understand that, it's just that CT - and I do think he's a lovely bloke, as taxi drivers go - is so close to getting it right that a bit of gentle kicking and coercing is exactly the right approach. I mean he obviously knows a decent bit about nutrition, he isn't afraid to ask basic questions in the Cookery thread (and it's not like any of us were taught the basics by our mams anyway), he just needs a nudge or three in the right direction to get fit enough to help him live to a decent age - and that's what we're talking about really, not being some kind of health freak, but being perky enough to stick around for your family longer than that 41st Gateshead fella in the papers last week who noshed on pie sandwiches every night. ...I would suggest, anyway...

Wonder if you can get it with numbers on the back. "PERCH 14" would round off the effect nicely.

On a related note, repeatedly getting hit in the back of the legs by someone's trolley or pushchair in the supermarket queue. How is possible not to notice that the thing you're pushing has encountered an object of some description?

I think you're right insofar as it's not the hugest issue in reality - you just have to look at the state of the country to see that. But it's suicide in political terms because of the way the relationship between parties and their voter base works. I don't think the LibDems necessarily had much choice in the matter really - let the coalition fall over it (or don't enter into the coalition in the first place) and they'd have been accused of being incapable of mature government, not fit or willing to assume power when the opportunity finally came their way, etc. Damned if you do and damned if you don't, basically. So in a way maybe it's better to bite the bullet and hope that a five-year term is enough time for them to "sell" the good they've done and undo some of the damage over tuition fees. Unfortunately (for them and anyone looking for a more diverse choice than "red" or "blue") I suspect the opposite will be true - I can see them losing the vast majority of their MPs next time (and Clegg is definitely a goner) unless they effectively campaign as the "coalition" and persuade the Tories to get their supporters to vote tactically across the board. But that'd be a pretty tough sell for a party looking to improve their battered reputation.

Although obviously it was ridiculous for one of the key compromises made by the LibDems to be on tuition fees, given their typical voter base. It overshadows a lot of the actually quite decent work they've done in keeping the Tories to mere "evil" rather than "galactically evil".

That's because people don't get that the whole point of a coalition is that neither party gets to enforce their manifesto in full (not that that ever really happens in a one-party government either, but still). We're just not used to the concept of compromise government in this country - foreign muck, don't trust it - and obviously with the inevitable collapse of the LibDems at the next general, we won't have another coalition for at least a generation anyway, so everyone will be happy. Except the LibDems.

Modibo Maiga starting for Mali on Eurosport now. Let's see what we could have won.

Aye, whatever his skills and character traits, a sparkling personality certainly isn't one of them.

They're all quite flattering to him.

Now that's gonna throw up some rotten boroughs.

it'd be Woy if it wasn't 'arry wouldnt it? I could see them doing something idiotic like asking Beckham.

She's Labour and she's a pretty decent sort, actually. Safe Labour seat, though, so that changes your voting behaviour. If I lived somewhere more marginal then I'd be likely to think more tactically.

No idea yet. Depends what happens over the next few years, what constituency I'm living in at the time, etc. Fairly obvious really.

Willy is much better than Quim.

http://www.gofasterstripe.com/cgi-bin/website.cgi?page=videofull&id=11569 Ohhh yeah.