Jonathan Ford

Don't you have to be 13 or 16 to join Facebook or something?

Yeah, it's 13. That's your get out of jail card right there

I have nothing to add about ice baths, other than saying that there's no way on God's Earth that I'd get in one, but I can't speak highly enough of a warm down. Even on leg day, 5 gentle minutes on the cross trainer at the end of the session makes me feel a world better the next day - I can really tell if I skip it.

Cook has been part of teams that have played like that but if you trace the timeline of Flower's management, England have never really been that kind of team. They have always been an accumulative 'save the game first' team that is the antithesis of Duncan Fletcher's 'let's win the game first' attitude. I think Cook can instil that attitude again, which is why I would maybe keep him on, but move Flower on because I don't think he can change that mindset. I saw someone suggest Michael Vaughan as possible coach the other day, I'd certainly go for that.

I don't know what coaching experience Vaughan has, but his England side certainly had the mettle that's been replaced by apathy under Flower.

It's the mindset that's the problem, and I'm not sure how that can be changed without replacing either Cook or Flower. The difference Damien Martyn has made to the Aussies just with a change of attitude is remarkable. I'd trace England's problem back to the tests last summer against New Zealand. I can't remember which test it was, but at the end of the first innings we'd got a healthy lead and should have enforced the follow on...but we didn't. We went back in to bat, fannyed around for a bit and in the end were very lucky to win the test when the weather turned. Why we didn't keep the pressure on New Zealand, stick them back in and get after them I have no idea??

Fast forward to the 3rd (maybe the 3rd - it's been like watching the same test match on loop) test a few weeks ago. At the end of the first innings, Australia had a reasonable lead, but not a game defining one. The came out for their second innings and smashed 130 odd from not many overs, and it got me thinking - if the boot were on the other foot, how would England have played it? Surely they'd have conservatively pushed and prodded their way to 60. The big difference was the psychological impact of being smashed around the ground. We simply have to be more aggressive.

Ha.. I can assume it's not your first kid if you've only taken 20 pictures since November!

Yes and no. My partner has two girls from her previous relationship, who were aged 5 and 1 when I met them (now 18 and 13), who I love as my own. Amelia is my first biological child.

For what it's worth, I had a new baby on November 18th. I've taken less than 20 pictures of her, and haven't mentioned her existence at all on Facebook.

I doubt it'll happen but I think it'd be kind of fun if the next Doctor was John Hurt, at least for a little while. They are going to have to reveal the terrible thing he did at some point and it'd be a nice swerve if it happened in the near future rather than the past.Granted, the Doctor shouldn't really know about his future incarnations but considering that Smith's about to meet Tennant and he knows where he's going to be buried, it shouldn't be totally out of the question.

Watching Deal or No Deal (not my fucking choice, if I was on that, I'd just go through the boxes in numerical order just to take all the fun out for the people who watch it).

As would I. It's a game of chance, FFS!

Also, has anybody else found white Australians to be fairly casually racist towards Greeks and Italians?

And the British. A mate of mine worked over thee for a couple of years, and said that the racism against him and his wife on a daily basis was pretty rough.

My contribution comes courtesy of my Stepmothers now deceased mother. We were going somewhere in the car, four of us, on the motorway. In the middle distance a minibus was broken down on the hard shoulder with it's passengers, all school children stood high up on the grass verge out of harms way. As we got close, she started to say "Oh, isn't that a shame that those poor children have had their day ruined". As we got closer, and she could make out faces, she followed up with "Doesn't matter, they're only Paki-doodles"!

Yeah, it's good when I'm having one of my many fake shits at work.

My average shit at work ten years ago: 3 mins

My average shit at work since getting a smart phone: 10 mins

Getting out in 10 minutes is an achievement. Since I got an iPhone, I'm often in there so long my left leg goes completely dead, and I have to stand at the sink for a couple of minutes until the feeling returns and I don't hop around like a Joey.

I can't see what's already been discussed re: malware, but Google Chrome has a fit of I try and view the Random/Quirky photos thread, or page 222 of this thread.

I thought both McGann and Sylvester McCoy were excellent in that shite TV movie. Plus, McGann was the last Doctor to dress like an utter twat, so they might be able to have some fun with that!

McCoy and Davison could probably get away with it. It wouldn't surprise me to see Tennant's half human Doctor reappear at some point.

I'm sure some of you do, but i'm not sure who. Who here creates/designs/hosts websites?

He's not a forum member, but my website was done by VV Web Solutions, based on the Isle of Wight.

And as you can see, no IDs as yet. Someone in that thread mentions that most of the girls on Dancing Bear are actually local strippers and prostitutes so the chances are that she's not a professional and has not done any other porn. I'd keep an eye on that thread but as it's been nearly 2 years since it was started, the chances of a positive ID are slim. Sorry, friend!

 

Is there anything to the theory that the women with the wristbands (or some other means of identification) are the ones hired to do the cocksucking and the rest are local women paid a much smaller amount to basically act as extras, with the men knowing to only stick their cocks towards the wristband wearing pros?

 

Absolutely. It's a method that's been used before and it will be again.

 

Reminds me of this video, in which one of the "extras" gets a bit, well....extra.

That picture, right there, is a microcosm of everything that is wrong with James Bond post-Licence To Kill.

In many ways, I absolutely agree. Too much style, not enough substance....same as the flippy-display type shit in Quantum of Solace and the microchip in the arm in Casino Royale. I love Daniel Craig as James Bond; like Dalton, he plays it as a guy who would kill you for fun. Therefore, this Bond doesn't need a Q or a Moneypenny...just belting spy stories where he gets to kill people with his bare hands and make us suspend our disbelief. Using poncy gadgets and invisible cars and such shit is wank.

Annie Cruzis absoluley gorgeous.

You see, Gladders, I'm exactly the opposite. When I sit down to watch Bond, I want to see a spy story, so From Russia With Love, The Living Daylights and Casino Royale are my type of Bond film. Though I grew up with Roger Moore, and must have seen The Spy Who Loved Me more times than I care to mention, I can't take Roger Moore seriously, to the point that he is without a shadow of doubt my least favourite Bond ever.

Anyway, favourite Bond scenes:

Anyone know if Tammy Oldham has ever done any boy-girl stuff?

Nope, but I wouldn't rule it out in the future.

Anyone know if Tammy Oldham has ever done any boy-girl stuff?

I need this....for a project.

Ian Botham has just walked past my work on one of his charity walks. I clapped him and he nodded and said thanks. I think I'm in love.

He was a prick to me in the late '90s. I was in a hotel lift that he got into, early evening on one of his walks. As it happened, I worked for the same hotel group at the time, though he wasn't to know that. I said "Good evening, Mr Botham"...he replied "don't fucking bother"!. Prick.

DanChilton got himself banned in hilarious fashion just the other day after people shat in his pyramid scheme thread.

FFS! It was a Ponzi scheme! :angry:

 

Is '...The only thing I sold was stock about 2 weeks ago before terrorism scared the market and I made a hell of a lot of money, so you can stop the you-sold-out chants right now' the best off-the-cuff remark in a promo ever...?

 

Ace.

Never thought I'd say it, but I really miss JBL.....

Stevie Wonder announces John Lennon's death to his audience while onstage.

That's a great find. Anyone reckon the news reader at around 0.50 may have been the inspiration for Ron Burgundy??

Drove past a BMW on the A38 just outside Derby yesterday afternoon sporting the plate B160 MAR, set out to read B16 0MAR. Your pal, Mr Houchen?

Apparently, bigfoot/yeti etc. are ten a penny in Siberia.