This appears to be a pictorial record of a sporting event for which the number of police/security/marshalling personnel (in yellow and orange)almost outnumbers the spectators.

Surely no worthwhile sport/game requires such huge levels of control?

What is this sport?

My two penn'orth

(That's two pennies worth)

between 5-20 years experience

if the hyphen (which typographically-speaking should be an em dash) stands for the word "to", then "between" is utterly tautologous and should be omitted

Love the Pulp Fiction-style screenplay

and the litle tease at the end!

200 kilos is about 441 pounds – so he was half right

TJ

You've highlighted only one of the recent examples

How about the young man who just got pardoned by Jack Straw and claimed he was sustained by people who told him he'd "never walk alone"?

St Christian's Middle Class Sectarians versus Oiks Primary School?

HL2
ARMA – Armed Assault
COD 4

Saying KILL – OMMITER rather than KILLO – MEETER

They wouldn't say KILL – OGGRAM for KILLO – GRAM, would they?

Igoramuses

for short term ski instructor work

It means whatever the government needs it to mean in order to show that "education x 3" is still working.

As a rough guide, A*, A, B grades mean lovely hard-working articulate well-organised kids from nice middle class homes with two parents

E, F, G and U grades mean something else

I've got more than the average number of legs

True to your name, you're not making much sense to this human.

Translation please

I claimed with M&S travel insurance when BA lost my luggage on the way to a summer ski week in Switzerland.

They paid up without quibble on the max £300 allowed on the policy for buying/hiring gear.

My luggage turned up on day 3, so I got a new goretex ski-jacket, new ski pants, technical top, gloves and hat out of the deal

I'd recommend them

Anyone else noticed her name looks like "Castrated Semen"

Is there a clue there?

There Will Be Blood

= There Will Be Bloody Boredom setting in if this movie doesn't find a point to make

Merino does not shrink

It's quite warm

And it's unbelievably, incredibly itchy and uncomfortable

Stoner I share your outrage but can't just at the moment find a link.

Maybe Google "female executions in Iran"; "genital mutilation in Somalia"; "women driving in Saudia Arabia"; "the burqua in Bradford"?

Or maybe just "Islam and women"

Because the Islamic superstition is riddled with ferociously mysogynistic attitudes (just like the Roman Catholic, Jewish, Christian, Sikh, Hindoo, Buddhist and Shintoist superstitions)

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings

That will do me.

But you don't have a pilot's licence, do you?

And you're not Irish either, are you?

Go back to your dictionary of quotations and find something more fitting

max 3-4hrs from edinburgh/fife

Head South! That sort of time frame will take you comfortably into England (Cumbria/Northumberland) where you will find infinitely better food and much nicer people.

Ubiquity breeds indifference.
Another standup gig on the BBC from the Apollo?!

You don't know what ubiquitous means.

If its another standup gig on the BBC from the Apollo
it means that's the only place you've seen him

So he's not ubiquitous – he appears in a very limited range of media outlets

Jamie Oliver is ubiquitous
Gordon Ramsay is ubiquitous
James May is ubiquitous
Richard Hammond is ubiquitous
The Royal Artillery is (are?) ubiquitous

The Times – a newspaper whose financial viability is inextricably tied into advertising revenue from vendors of goods and services

Wine vendors – merchants whose financial viability is inextricably tied into advertising in newspapers

Cui bono?

Accidents and acts of terrorism are all the same then?

Accident? FFS!

Of course, on a US warship's defence systems, a civilian airline flying a consistent course at a consistent altitude at a consistent speed closely resembles the attack profile of an enemy fighter-bomber armed with deadly air-to-surface missiles, doesn't it? Understandable mistake.

I screamed from start to finish

So did your mum when she had to force your head down her vagina, past her labia and into the outside world.

Yout mum's great – but not because she went on a rollercoaster today.

Dixon, of Dock Green

A decent copper, capturing ordinary decent criminals like Ronnie Biggs or the Krays, and putting them in prison

And then I'd like to be the chief prison guard from the Shawshank Redemption, and beat them to death in their cells

And in amongst all this there's the small matter of a civilian Iranian jet getting shot down by a US warship and nobody even getting his pay docked.

What tyres for German girl-on-girl action on a wooden floor?

Did you just get better in the end?

thanks for your concern, chakaping

I'm still getting better – hours on the bike this year are about 25% of last year, mainly because the lungs don't seem to work as well as they did

Getting off the painkillers was the worst thing – they don't tell you what the cold turkey can be like

Staggering! If only they'd given him a violin.

These are not benchmarks

It's normal practice to code posts like this with:

<pedant mode> "your pedantic post" </pedant mode>

Shows people you're not being an arse

And of course you are absolutely right: these are milestones, not benchmarks

Wish I'd spotted that

in the space of an hour!!

I tell you, watching the grey pubes develop is like watching a werewolf B-movie

you can actually see its come from an animal

Agreed. It's just that it's debatable what animal it's come from.

Adobe Premiere Elements will import and export a vast range of media types.

It doesn't hold your hand like Windows Movie maker or Pinnacle, but it's easy to pick up the basics and when you're ready there's loads of real power and flexibility under the hood. Less than £100, bundled with Photoshop Elements. A bloody bargain.

I went into hospital at the beginning of this year with excruciating chest pains.

They tested me in various ways and said I'd probably got one or more of:
a) pneumomia
b) pneumothorax
c) a massive, old blood clot on my intercostal muscles
d) pleurisy
e) cracked ribs
f) muscle spasm
g) hypochondria

They kicked me out of hospital after three days with no diagnosis but a massive cocktail of drugs

1) antibiotics
2) anti-inflammatories
3) steroids (to counteract the antibiotics)
4) anti-depressants (I only discovered this afterwards when I looked up the drug name)
5) powerful analgesics (took me four days of cold turkey to get off them when, after three weeks, I felt better)

Modern medicine – pah!

I'd have settled for leeches and cupping

the second grey pube

"Toasting a malt loaf is like painting a moustache on the Mona Lisa – only an Englishman would detect any improvement"

Samuel Johnson, 1768

Find recipe for making home-made cereal bars

replace all cereal-type ingredients with bombay mix

munch on mess-free bombay bars

patent recipe

get rich

even more weird than that is when you pretend to be posh, and not like football.

Even more weird than that, is when you actually are posh, and really like football

Of course it's protein – throw away the "sides" of beans, coleslaw etc.

Peel off the crispy, fat laden coating

Pull the thin slivers of off-white flesh away from the central bone

Realise how much it reminds you of slivers of rat meat

Vomit

Cheaper just to get your penis enlarged 🙂

researching your family tree

what do you find?

If you're lucky, you turn up some stunted factory workers in the 19th century

If you're even luckier, you turn up some diseased and stunted agricultural workers in the 18th century

Then you disappear into history and realise you are a nonentity who is simply carrying on a great family tradition

the first grey pube