Happy Face

Should have had Hot Chip, Mumford, Coldplay, Pj Harvey, The XX, Adele, Katy B, Dizzee Rascal, Florence & The Machine, Kasabian, Estelle, Arctic Monkeys, Leona Lewis, Calvin Harris, Snow Patrol.....etc. Many of them not my cuppa at all, but only 5% of last night had any acts from the last 10 years....and 90% of those that were did karaoke covers of songs from earlier than the last decade.

Not aware of any official body that classifies all of the sports.

As discussed in CTs golf thread last week, I've just took on a month of twilight golf at Tynemouth. £50 to play as much as you like after 5.30pm. Played irregularly for 20 years, but never so much golf, so frequently since I was 16. In a fortnight I've been up there five or six nights and I'm seeing a marked improvement already. Lost 8 balls in 9 holes the first day but I came home with one extra ball from Saturday nights round, hitting half the par 5 greens in 3 shots and barely missing any putts in the five to six foot radius of champions. Still fucking up my scores with one or two daft holes where I take 4 to get out of a bunker or get too Billy Big Bollocks after a par on one hole and scuff 4 swings in a row trying to cane it on the next hole.

We've all heard the one about people eating a spider while they sleep or creepy-crawlies going somewhere they shouldn't while we snooze - but for one poor woman the urban legend has come true. She arrived at China's Changsha Central Hospital with an itchy ear, only to learn the cause was a spider that had crawled into the ear canal. To make things worse, doctors believe the arachnid had been in there for five days. Fortunately for the woman, there was some good news - doctors told her the problem would have been far worse if she had tried to scratch it. At first the medics planned to use tweezers to grab the spider and pull it out - but they were worried that creature might bite the patient. Instead, Dr Liu Sheng and his colleagues poured a saline solution into the ear and waited for the spider to leave on its own. Fingers crossed it didn't lay any eggs...

Wines. Best bit is When they play the James Bond theme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcPWEMwGJVQ

Cheers, it is http://www.parklandsgolf.co.uk/driving-range.php didn't realise Wallsend club has one though. I think I'll pop along that way for some wood work http://www.centurionpark.com/driving-range/

Holy Shit! http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19205365 No mention of them being used to kill people on this report, which has been the primary use so far, but scary enough as it is. That one that couldn't be kicked over and that swarm at the end are like Cyberdyne systems. We're living in the future here like.

More or Less BBC Radio 4 podcast

I'm still hitting irons well enough tbh. I just won't accept that i can't hit a wood off the tee any more, so I persevere and grassy or slice 15 out of 18 tee shots. I might see how I go with a 3 iron off every tee, see how much better my score is. On this note, does anyone know where the best driving range is from Tynemouth? I don't want to have to go all the way up to Seaburn, but can't find one on the North side.

Did the front 9 in 47 last night (+11 I think), managed 1 birdie and 1 par I'm not good. Played regular for a few years when I was 13-16, but since then it's only been a couple of times a year tops (so that's almost 20 years). I used to walk all over the shop when i was using public transport. But having bought a car a year ago my pregnant lady look has gotten out of hand. So the golf is just an effort to get back to walking as much as I did before.

Is this a question about the existence of reality or a straight question? You answered it yourself... The fair bit in that situation would be to jail the laughing shoplifter and to give out a stern warning to the desperate woman that she has anoter chance so don't abuse it. Different sentences are fair, and that's how they work. Now if you ask how we can jail the laughing shoplifter when jails don't exist....or shoplifters....or laughter....then I'm done.

Then we've answered your question... I've seen many crimes in the paper in my town where people are sentenced for the very same crime, yet one will get a slap on the wrist, while the other gets a much more severe penalty. How in the hell does this work out?

The last 3 words of my post were a piss-take

That doesn't need a but. You don't want any nuance allowed when a judge hands down his sentence. You wouldn't care if the defendant was a first-offender single mum shoplifting a phone to sell and buy food to feed her kids having been sacked from work and dumped by her fella that very morning, when her mam died the week before and she'd been in councelling for a year already for depression. She'd get the same sentence as a recidivist gang member who filmed themselves robbing the same item on their other phone and did so laughing as they went, and sold them only to buy some new Nike Air?

Not sure. He didn't like to go on too much tbh.

I'm playing Tynemouth 3 or 4 times a week now. £50 for the twilight membership. Play as much as you like after 5.30pm.

Aye but for a long timer you only ever popped up once a month to WUM Leazes.

I think mods need to be a friendly face to the majority of people. Once you've called every single poster a mug directly, you're struggling to be that friendly, approachable, impartial, concerned, contributer. I try not to get into personal abuse, no matter how extreme a disagreement might get. I like to think think that's why I got the golden PM. This isn't self congratulation or owt, or not meant to be if it comes across like that, I'm also a rather grey poster I think, so it's swings and roundabouts. But people are why not them. The entertaining people, the ones that rage at each other and get creative on how much they can call each other cunty chop, twat, prick, twat, fucks aren'tt ever likely to get the job, even if it goes another 50 years and changes hands dozens of times.

I think you need more specific (linked) examples to back up your thoughts. Then people can argue the reasons why one was a stronger sentence than the other. There's many reasons why sentences might vary. There's a difficult line to walk between empowering judges who could apply the law with prejudice..but can apply discretion and alternatively having a mandatory sentence for crimes that doesn't account for mitigating circumstances and doesn't allow for liklihood to reoffend offset against the cost of punishment. Do you see the role of the courts simply to punish, or to keep the public safe and rehabilitate? I prefer the latter and welcome varying sentences to facilitate it.

The parallels are uncanny. Leazes has just gone off the cliff and he called me a bell.

" I don't wanna be the same as everybody else. That's why I'm a Mod, see? I mean, you gotta be somebody, ain't ya, or you might as well jump in the sea and drown. "

ok, I'm back. What did I miss?

me too

3 SportsDirect.com logos on a season ticket the size of a credit card. He fackin laaaahvs it.

I always wonder what people have to hide when they don't link to a source.