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London Welsh tried Oxford, and it really didn't work out well for them. I can't see (London) Wasps doing much better. I think the clue is somewhere in the teams' names, but I can't quite put my finger on it. 😄

Entirely my personal opinion Pete, but I don't think that sort of person would actually be allowed to be a part of the current Labour party. They're currently too busy fighting for the Daily Mail vote to allow someone who stands up for the poor, the oppressed, or the working class, to rock the...

I'm so sorry to read this. I never met Mark in person, but you always knew that an OSB58 post would be calm, well-reasoned, and pretty much impossible to pull apart! We probably differed on a few things, but it was always done with such grace that it was impossible to take offence. Plus he was...

I did wonder about this idea of old tanks as artillery, turns out it's not a brilliant idea, but if you're scraping the bottom of the barrel it's a possible option. (TLDR: Nowhere near as good as proper artillery, but they will at least survive for a bit, unlike in combat against modern...

That's as well thought through a post as I've seen for a while. I appreciate that's a pretty low bar, but still. 🙂 I think the one place where we might politely differ, is that there are some open goals that Labour seems to have moved away from since Starmer took over. I can't imagine that...

You didn't see many of them about even in those days, as I recall. I'll rewatch! My old man had both a Chrysler 180 and a Chrysler 2 litre at some point. I loved how they looked as a kid. They really are incredibly rare these days. Knowing my old man, I suspect he bought them because he could...

I always assumed it was a safety feature so you could hear them coming. Talbot: Loud tappets save lives! 😄

Fwiw, my experience of taking young kids to the Butts is to sit in the stand, take fruit shoots and sweets in with you (because the club don't seem to cater for kids particularly well, imho), and have a tablet or phone with plenty of charge for when they inevitably get bored. 😁 If you're under...

The cars! Two Austin Landcrabs, a Reliant Robin, Vauxhall Viva HC estate (properly rare), couple of Series Landys, and a surprising amount of Talbots. When's the last time you saw a Talbot on the road?! Poor lane choice on Four Pounds Ave though... 😁

Fair point on what he was (or claimed to be), NW, but you've only got to look at his Twitter feed to see what he is. And yet strangely, the BBC have never pulled him up on their social media guidelines...

Yeah, except for Andrew Neil, Alan Sugar, and Nick Robinson, who were overtly Tory, and Kuennsberg who interviews Tories like they're her best mates whilst actually making up stuff about Corbyn, and Bruce who for reasons known best to her and her millionaire Tory husband, went out of her way to...

It's gone a bit bananas on Chrome on my Android phone. I'm thinking Nick has been dabbling with something. 😁

I'm not for a moment saying you're wrong, but I'd always much prefer instant coffee to any of the posh stuff. And unless I'm dozing off, I'd always prefer a big mug of tea to either. Despite all pretence to the contrary, I am a clearly a deeply uncivilised man, I apologise. 😁

I'm not for a moment saying that there isn't a large element of playing to the gallery for the politicians involved, especially Johnson. However, isn't it also fairly obvious that without western support, Russia takes a sovereign, democratic, European state, by force. Is that acceptable to you?

In the sense of providing weapons and ammunition to enable Ukraine to defend itself. I'm trying to understand your point of view, but it's hard to gauge your argument from the odd pithy remark. Why not explain where you're coming from?

That's not really what I'm asking mate. In your opinion should we support Ukraine against the Russians or not?

Liz Truss is a complete twat, FP, I think we can all agree on that. What I'm confused about though is where you're coming from on Ukraine. There are two choices here, support them, or let Russia take over the entire country. What would you do?

I wouldn't expect too many surprises, just more threats and bluster. Maybe further conscriptions to "defend the motherland". At home he's obviously pitching it as a war against NATO, in reality of course he knows that his only real hope is to try to keep the west divided and indecisive.

Changing a policy platform? Really? They were cast iron commitments that he made to the membership as a condition of his leadership campaign. Then, as soon as he got power he rolled back on them immediately and started the purge. I get that integrity means fuck all to some people, which is...