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OMG Daz - what a week. Stay strong and remember the good times.

"Payne's Poppets" - little boxes of them were a staple in the vending machine at the public baths (as they were called) when i was a lad. I suspect if i had one now i would be able to smell the chlorine and verrucas!

That ain't Kate (looks more like Lady Cholmondley-Warner, if you ask me). My Mrs had abdominal (gynae) surgery 5 years ago and it was 3 months before she was back in circulation. Not that i particularly give a shit about Kate or the rest of the royals, but leave the poor girl be to recuperate...

He got hit for 3 sixes in his first over today! EDIT: But has just got Jaiswal out stumped for 57. Good breakthrough

From 137-2 to 218 all out (after winning the toss). Another fine example of the failings of Bazball! Maybe they were looking at the jaw-dropping scenery. India 96-0 in reply.

Apparently Haley has pulled out, so it is a Biden/Trump re-match. Heard today that something like 70% of US voters don't want either of them. Didn't realise they were that sensible!

This comment could easily belong in the "Things that annoy you" thread, but as it has a political theme, i will keep it away from there:- The undermining of Parliamentary process by "leaks" of proposals in the Budget does my fuckin' head in! All of it should be embargoed until the Chancellor...

The Lords, when populated with experts and all-round good eggs like him, is no bad thing - the appearance of hereditary peers IS!

Hardly in common use though, I'd venture. Forgive me for not having a link to Urban Dictionary in my Bookmarks bar!

I think SBD was suggesting you use "wishful thinking" as a description of my ramblings rather than a street term that no-one has ever heard of, not that it was valid for me to adopt it (whether i did or not).

Living in Ukraine has clearly taken its toll on the "teenager" in the middle!

Never heard it used in that context, but then again, i am rather older than 10.

(don't know what "cope" means)

If they are their constituents they can't stop engaging with anyone - that's what they are elected to do. Maybe don't engage with them through the railings of the Palace of Westminster or on the QE2 bridge. Is that what they mean??

There is "representative" and "statistically significant" - they still poll quite small numbers (usually in the single-figure thousands) and their methods may not reach all of the electorate, that's all.

My prediction is that it will turn out nothing like this. It is based on large swings in small numbers of by-elections, and ludicrously small samples of skewed demographics by the pollsters. Labour have plenty of opportunities to fuck it up between now and then.

Fuckin' shysters! They have no shame! Good for Jon Sharp sticking it to them.

I wish there were more independents running for parliament. There may be local issues to campaign on, but just saying that they would vote freely with their conscience, rather than with the Party whip would get my vote. I lived in Central Beds a few years back and our town councillor ran for the...

Maybe "white folks" with traditional Labour values who hate what is happening in Gaza??

Indeed. Although you probably wouldn't want to run a pub on the route home for the team bus, such was their legendary drinking habit and propensity for "high jinks" (picking fights with locals, etc).