Peace.

In my time and for our children

My great grandfather and all of his platoon disappeared without trace on the first day of July 1916.

I WILL respond to the OP’s point about the EU, you are entirely correct. A united Europe is far, FAR more important than a load of bullshit posturing about identity by folks who have never known anything but peace.

This so bad it’s amusing.

Totally inept, disjointed, lacking in any kind of character.

ONLY GOOD when they play alongside and are coached by FOREIGNERS!!!

I hope for our sake we don’t scrape past Iceland. It’s been a pathetic tournament for England. We deserve to go home.

Watching England limp into second last night was as predictable as it was annoying.

Why do we consistently feel the need to play the best 11 players regardless of duplication. No-one else does! Pick your spine, pick your 2 or 3 genuine talents and pick everyone else to slot in around, give width and win the ball for the creatives.

Looking toward to us either losing to Portugual next or France in the quarters.

What. A. Load. Of. Bollocks.

Only for a chocolate bun

That was bloody IMMENSE.

asked me to put £5 on Wales/England HT/FT, and just got £150.

Are you sure he’s your old man? :D

What is a “shirter” ? (not a soccer fan)

A shirter is a football supporter who wears the team’s replica shirt etc. people in team colours are not usually part of hooligan firms and are considered to be off limits to violence.

A cursory scan of a few well known websites and Facebook pages this morning tells me a few things.

1. Unlike Marseille, there are a considerable number of genuine English and Welsh hooligans now present. They are not interested in fighting the police, or the French or anyone except the Russians. The trigger for their arrival was the attacks on families and shirters in Marseille.
2. The French police very successfully it would seem prevented a clash at the train station yesterday afternoon by kettling the English hooligans whilst moving on the Russian group. I imagine this was on the advice of their British counterparts who are extremely good at fan management these days.
3. The problems in Lille last night stemmed from how the English and Welsh fans have decided to work. Rather than spreading out across the bars they are all sticking together. large groups of young men get bouncier than little groups.
4. The Russian ultras were conspicuous by their abscence yesterday, I suspect they haven’t gone home yet.

In that context I’d say that the French police did a pretty good job yesterday! With the potential for very serious disorder, 36 arrests is nothing and I reckon a number of those were preventative rather than responsive. If the English, Welsh and Russian hooligans do meet I think there could be fatalities as the talk is all of revenge. :-(

I get the impression that the proper english hooligans are all on travel bans, those arrested are just drunken idiots who decided to respond to teargas with bottles back at the french police

A guy I know, who has rather too much knowledge of this stuff, said the same thing today. Low-level dickheads was his assessment. His opinion was that the vast majority of ‘proper hooligans’ would be confined to barracks for the euros and that things with the England fans would cool down considerably if the alcohol embargo was imposed plus slightly less aggressive/more protective policing. His opinion was also that there would be serious disorder next season if a Russian club was drawn against an English club in the Champions League or Europa cup

Excellent performance by Ireland so far. Mustn’t back off one inch though.

tournament would be for Wales and Slovakia to go through from the group stages.

That’s bollocks mate

Football is a mirror. Always has been, always will be.

The French police haven’t managed this very well. Not an excuse for English behaviour, however there are ways to effectively look after this kind of situation and they’ve got things wrong. Who’s bright idea was it to put England fans in Marseille?

There’ll be a lot more trouble before the tournament is over I reckon.

18.9 standing charge
14.29 per unit

Ecotricity. I’d rather pay more to them and trim usage tbh

Religion or recumbents? Hmmmm. Good beards in both…sandals…self righteous smugness…hmmmmm

Mint sauce keyring

3. The search for otherness fascinates me. I suspect it’s likely to be delusional bollocks in the end but I remain fascinated by the search.

Hornbeam ftw

Yup control.

Don’t beat yourself up for what you could have done. Yes, it would have felt great to have kicked his head in. For about 10 seconds. Yes it would have felt great to call him out. That would most likely have led to kicking his head in.

If you haven’t got your grand back in a decade then it can’t have been ‘that’ important.

Canyon make some pretty light hardtails.

One of ours is called Isis. Was named long before the shitheads in the middle-east rocked up. My mum delights in calling her ‘so called Isis’. Good one mum.

Yours should be called shrimp.

Uniqlo denim. Genuinely excellent for 40 quid. Far better than the majority of ‘cool’ brands.

The whole total war series is fantastic, so immersive.

Company of Heroes, actually I prefer 1 to 2.

Speedball 2

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jun/27/julian-cope-interview-visionary-state-wild-beast

Badger baiting

No:

Sweets
Processed food including takeaways

Less:

Booze
Bread
Pasta/Rice
Potatoes

More:

Riding
Sleeping
Water
Green vegetables
Fish

MFP to track what you eat. I reckon a change in attitude to food not just a change in what you eat works best long term. Smaller plates and rewards that don’t involve food or drink.

I was chairing a fairly serious meeting at work (why I was chair god knows) and we reached a case which involved a department that supported people with very bad mobility issues. After hearing the report all I said was ‘well this one’s got legs, which is unusual for that department’……

I know what I meant, but unfortunately the some of the others round the table were crying with laughter. Bad man, I know.

another yes vote over here. I’m another grand canyon owner, its fast, light, not overly twitchy and pretty damn comfortable for long rides. It also deals with the techy stuff better than I thought it would. Only changes I’ve made to the spec are wider tubeless tyres and a wider low rise bar plus shorter stem.

I suppose we were riding the same trails a decade ago with steepish head angles and 100mm forks. It was still fun then right?

Apparently the suspect package has been identified as a ‘trophy’.

How can you call an indigenous wild animal a pest?

Total bollocks IMO. Sums up where we’ve gone wrong.

Dwarves – blood, guts & pussy

You did the right thing for your mate.

lol

It’s an absolute stinker

Me listening to an upset female student who’d broken up with her boyfriend

‘Yer (sobs) I relly fort ee loved me. I let im finger me when I woz avin me period an everyfing (sobs)

I’d say that city fans are far more discerning and just generally better than Chelsea fans.

Chelsea fans seem to think that their inheritance was fully deserved and just a matter of time. City fans appear to view the whole sheikh thing with amusement and like winning the lottery. Just another haphazard chapter. Prefer them all day long to Chelsea.

Not a city fan btw.

Cheers DD :D

E – nothing til much, much later
D – everything
L – Oxford supporters celebrating promotion

Sore head tomorrow

Any one of those would be fine for what you want. More a question about price and what forks/kit you prefer.

I just don’t think im going to get them.

We’ll be the judge of that thank you very much!