Posts by Mark Thomas
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At the end of term that bastard teacher took the magnifying glass from his drawer, placed it on his desk, took out a hammer and asked the rest of the class "shall I give this back to Barnes or should I smash it?"
the adorable mascotte, a barrell of TNT with tiny legs and arms
They were burning a pile of rags on the middle of our concrete pitch, it was really quite a raging fire, but he reckoned we could play around it.
Wow, this whole thread reads like one of Roald Dahl's stories. Fantastic stuff!
Unfortunately for me, I think I had a pretty pleasant, unremarkable childhood in Beachlands Primary. I can't seem to remember anything as macabre as the above
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they'll repeat it right?
endlessly
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You're telling me I missed the women's pole vault?
Dude! It was just on TV one. You were right about pole vaulters, they're totally hot, in a muscley superhero kind of way.
Speaking of superheroes, it is now quite clear to me that Dmitriy Klokov is actually the incredible hulk. He still couldn't beat Andrei Aramnau in the weightlifting though
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How about that Usain Bolt? He smashes the 100m record, cruising with his arms out wide from about 80m, all with one of his shoes untied (supposedly).
Michael Phelps, bah.
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Even university dietitians are in on the olympics pervathon:
__"I'm not surprised, dear," says Professor Janice Thompson, head of Bristol University's department of exercise, nutrition and health sciences, when, belching quietly, I return to my desk. "There's no way you should be able to eat what Michael Phelps eats. This is not even a normal athlete. I would not recommend this kind of diet for even a fit and serious competitor in, say, a 10km road race. This man is in a very, very different place to the rest of us. He's 6ft 4in and 192lb of pure joy. From a female perspective, obviously. Though I probably shouldn't say that."__
amusing article, by the way
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ah, dammit. i meant the fifth
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Oh come on Mark, you can also have tiny little pre-adolescent stick-figures with faked birth certificates. Geez, fussy.
ha! you're just illustrating my point. all these giants and midgets, its like the circus. did you see the under-46kg womens weightlifters? the gold medal winner lifted something like 115kg! yikes
while i'm being shallow, i found this report amusing, particularly the fourth comment. Cringingly LOLworthy
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Aw c'mon, get it right. They only brought in beach volleyball in the interests of equality.
As you've pointed out, the laydeez get all the eye candy. Whats in it for us men (and similarly inclined wimmin?). Gigantic muscular female freakazoids. Not my cuppa tea.
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And lets not forget, that while Iraq was a mistake originally, it hasn't turned out all that bad. The silence now from the left-wing media on Iraq says it all...nothing much remains to criticise.
the ends hardly justify the means
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Fantastic post, Russell. I was looking for an analysis of this whole debacle that made some sort of sense.
Anyway, Russia is back, and it looks more like the Russia of the Tsars, with the sort of expansionist foreign policy that was constantly being checked by the British Empire, than the fear-driven policy of the Soviets.
Yes, agreed, and much emboldened by the US failures in Iraq and stalemate in Afghanistan. Georgia will be seen as a major blow to US ambition and foreign policy too, as a much weakened Georgia with likely a new leader is a probable end game here.
it does seem that way. How profoundly depressing...
Oh well, back to the Olympics. Yay!