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Government =good Freedom to choose = bad And remember, they are always doing it for you own good. And they in no way spend a lot of time "educating" our kids about things too. A whole generation of snivelling little c***s toeing the state line and not realising it.

Well, the predicted tupping happened although there might be glimmers of hope from the twitching corpse of that England team. Bell is still in reasonable nick, Root played a VERY nice innings in the second effort, I felt he handled himself beautifully and potentiall came of age as a test batsman. He played straight, he ducked and weaved, he clearly got right up Johnsons nose by grinning like a total fool at him after virtually every delivery and he put away the bad ball nicely. Pity he didnt crash on for a deserved ton actually. Prior got runs again for the first time in many innings, he will feel better about that and err, thats about it really. Cook is in no form at all, Carberry looks relatively unflustered but is he a massive improvement on a boring digger like Compton? Maybe, maybe not. Root will now bat three and did well enough there. Pitersen batted pretty well and with his game head on for once for his fifty. We know he can do it, and he probably will get at least one big score in this series.. Bell looks good. The problems are with Cook, the number six and probably Prior, although he might have batted away a bit of his slump there, time will tell. The batting has been bad and they are now trundling down from a slow flat wicket to a fast bouncy result pitch that MJ is going to have a raging hard on about bowling on. Thats the wicket that Jeff Thonson bowled a bouncer which went on to hit the sight screen without bouncing... Will Swann play there? Or will England have to go for four seamers? If so, does that mean Tremlett reappearing from butlering duties at the Adams family mansion? Australia have been well worth their wins so far and will now be full of confidence. It will still be massively enjoyable simply to see if England can find some fight here and if so, which players do it.

The irony of some faceless Jambo cretin having an attempt at amateur head reading in a thread where miserable c***s are group hugging is tremendous.

Nobody likes a snivelling grassing c**t.

He has done things like this before. It is the off days that have always been his issue. He is a bit like Devon Malcolm for England back in the day. He could be horribly bad sometimes, but when he was in the mood and snorting fire he too must have been a hostile mess to bat against. He has hadtime away from test cricket and he has mucked around with his run up rythym and trying not to collapse away too much at delivery and it has worked so far. He is maybe being handled better by the team management too as he seems like a lad that needs a bit of looking after at times. He can do the raging bull thing fine but he can be very fragile when its not happening and his captain needs to handle him well. I thought Clarke was excellent with him in the first test. He gave him a few overs while the England punters jeered him and tried to get under his skin, he was alright, but he was just turning his arm over a bit. Took him off for a bit then threw him the ball again and told him to take some wickets. He hasnt looked back. I'm looking forward to see him skittle through the England side who are now clearly shitting themselves. The bouncer is something we dont get to see much of these days thanks to stupid rule changes and one day cricket wrecking it. But this is test match cricket. Let the umpires decide whether the batsmans lifeis in danger or not and let them play like men.

Englands batting is mentally shot to pieces now. They are getting out doing stupid things at stupid times which is a tell tale. And MJ can feel them fearing his pace which he is absolutely feasting on. Its actually great to watch a genuinely fast bowler like him tearing through a bunch of underpant soiling wankers. Johnsone has always been quick, but when he is toiling for form he is easy enough to play against at test level as he has only got two ways of playing. Fucking brilliant or fucking shite. If he could get himself into an area where he can deliver something half decent when he isn't at his best and the force isn't flowing through his system then he would be a very good bowler. Maybe this series will be the making of him? I hope so, because I like the guy and he is good to watch. Anyone that can swing a ball at over 90mph is going to be devastating at times. As for England? That was horrible stuff. Cook is suffering from being captain by the look of it. If they had just left him to be a batting obsessive he would have been fine. Carberry is doing a reasonable job for a newbie and you cant really lay into him now. Root? I reckon he WILL become a good test player, but .. Pietersen is class but he gets out stupidly and brainlessly too much before he sets up his innings. Bell is good. Prior is finished. Stokes? Dinno about him as a batsman yet. And then youre into the tail. It has gone from looking formidable to looking like you couldnt wait to bowl at that lot in just over a year. The signs were there in NZ and all last summer, the first innings scores are just not getting racked up enough now. The bowling attack looks fine to me. Anderson is always going to struggle to do what he does in English condition and with a shitty Kookaburra ball in his hand and on flat dry surfaces he lacks pace to penetrate a batsmans defences. He doesnt get awkward bounce either like Broad can extract. But he is good enough to know his limitations and deal with them down there. He wont be a matchwinner that often though. Broad is the key bowler and has looked ok. Stokes looked OK Swann looks non threatening these days and he isn't getting much turn either now in comparison to what he used to do. He is getting on though so its just nature taking its toll. Monty will do alright this winter if he plays. Back to back series was a terrible idea from an English perspective. They should have fecked off to the Windies or something like that, enjoyed the ashes win in the summer, rebuilt under less pressure, and tried to get ready for the Saffies series and the Indians at home. Playing a wounded and motivated Aussie side so soon after despatching them while in obvious decline themselves just a few months later was a bad move and it has cruelly exposed the weaknesses. Its not a particularly good Australian side, they have a decent bowling line up when they are all fit and raring to go but their batting will wilt under pressure. England just arent good enough to apply any.

Ive chosen not to.

Yeah it's proper group therapy in here. If you are a bit mental then maybe seeking advice of professionals instead of a bunch of fucking stookie heids off a football forum would be a better direction of travel?

England arent looking good here . It will take a big effort now to save this one. The two guys in now are inexperienced at test level. Lose them quickly and you are into the guts of the batting and an out of form Prior and a debutant to come. England are batting under pressure too nopw so I reckon they could disintegrate. Was impressed with spray it everywhere Mitchell in the last test, he is looking confident and when he is confident he is a top cricketer who will damage good batting sides never mind a shaky lot like England have turned into. The wicket is definitely an utter road but England were right to pick the two spinners and the ginger ninja bowled really quite wellas third seamer. I hope he can settle into this team and also get some runs under his belt because it will mean Panesar can be in the side a lot more and I think he can still do a good job in tandem with Swann. Its the batting thats no good with England just now. Trott is gone, probablynever to return, Cook has been scratching around for a few series now after golden patch, Bell was magnificent in the summer but isnt going to be at that sort of level and Pietersen will do it at times of course. Root is being persisted with in spite of not really looking established and Prior hasnt scored runs for ages now. It just doesnt look too reliable and with the Aussies smelling blood its only going to heap the pressure on. If England lose this they are in for a hell of a gubbing this winter I reckon. If they can draw it and draw it relatively comfortably then it will keep the series alive. Its a big morning session for the two guys batting just now, if they can stick around and make the Aussie bowlers toil a bit then it will be helpful.

Which figures do you dispute exactly? Are you saying that Scotland DOESN'T have a population that is ageing faster than the rest of the UK as a whole? That was the crux of this story. It has subsequently been backed up by all the available evidence including just over a week ago by the IFS report which fully backed up what I have been saying for a few years now. Find the figures you are disputing and get back to me, unless you have simply picked up a ball and are running with it even though you have no idea what you are saying or doing.

What is it you're specifically looking for?

He isn't going to. He is making a complete mess of the whole thing so far, there's no suggestion that he has got anything up his sleeve either. I think in the lead up to the white paper there will have been a number of the no brigade who would have been shitting a brick in case the wily old fox had managed to come up with something to change the game. But as it turned out, they had nothing to worry about at all.

Maybe the SNP do need to have a night of the long knives with the fat b*****d and get Turgid installed as the new dear leader in the run up to their defeat. Try and emulate what the French did in Canada before they narrowly lost their referendum. At least make the final ten months a bit more interesting.

27% in the immediate aftermath of the WP470 is catastrophic for the nat clown collective. Looks like the Belgians are the next outfit after Spain to point and laugh at Salmonds europish. Going well. All to play for. The doorstep is telling me good things.

And they really built it up beforehand only to let off the dampest squib ever. But they will cling to the notion of private polling and word on the street of course as their political masters need useful idiots to chap doors and deliver leaflets for them.

It will be somewhere in the 35 - 65 plus or minus a few percent either way. Its been fairly obvious right from the start that the yes camp were flogging a dead horse. An easy one to predict and once again I'll be proven to be correct.

I thought some member of the nat clown collective would have had the latest poll up this morning. Taken in the aftermath of the WP670 it shows support for independence sitting at 27% All to play for!!! The doorstep is telling me so and I consult it every night before going to bed.

I'm having him in next years dead pool. Unless he has snuffed it already?

There's no "lingering" smell on your clothes like you get from the pre made ones. If anyone knew someone that smoked a pipe back in the day, you'll understand. There's the normal smell of tobacco being burned, some of that smell alone is awesome beyond words. But there is none of that sour, lingering vile smell you are thinking about. That Mac Baren stuff I was actually blowing it down my t shirt the other night so I could still get a whiff of it when I came back in the house. Its beautiful. I think if everyone was smoking all different tobacco types then youd lose the subtelty of different blends and it wouldnt work. Plus the reek would be massive. You should just go into a tobacconist, a proper old fashioned one and smell the place. Thats pretty much the smell youd have in a room with folk smoking quality tobacco.

You get a tremendous head rush off proper tobacco too. Something which has been taken away by legislation from the state controlled environment of factory fags. There's not a lot that the state can do about raw tobacco leaf cut into little strips and smoked. Although they are even interfering with they types of paper that can be used. We will see the tobacco market in this country heading down the roll your own route very shortly. Its also FAR cheaper, although eventually the state will cotton on to the shift in smoking habit and will tax it harder.

Right. To get this thread back onto decent topics like quality tobacco. This week, I have some Peter Stokkebye Balkan tobacco, which is completely different to any of the normal Virginia lighter tobaccos we are used to here. Its an acquired taste but it is actually lovely. Probably a Marmite effort, youll either like it or hate it. It was £4.25 for 25grams (an ounce) I also bought a tobacco called Mac Baren silver cube, and if anyone likes the flavoured stuff then Id recommend this. The smell alone is incredible, its really fruity and it tastes unbelievable. Ive never smelled an aromatic tobacco as beautiful as that before. My stock tobacco is still Pueblo although I have been buying the new Pueblo blue which is a bit milder than the yellow original. I also bought a zig zag rolling machine for about a pound which is quite good if you want to roll up a batch if your going out or something and dont want to look like a fucking jake. And again, I must emphasise just how much real tobacco doesnt stink like that shit they put into factory cigarettes. It just doesnt linger at all. I cant believe I wasted s0o much time buying utter garbage. And with the fire safety pish coming in then factory cigs are going to become worse and worse. I have also noticed that many of these brands are now bringing out loose tobacco to di into what will become a much bigger part of the tobacco market. There's nothing like Tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live. Moliere

nice

Also, I got an ounce of blueberry flavour tobacco yesterday. oooft!

At this time of year in 732 the forces of good defeated the vile muslim Saracen c***s that had been raping and slaughtering their way up through Africa and into Europe. This was their first attempt at conquering Europe and they were driven out slowly precipitating Charlemagne and the Holy Roman empire And then the crusades in response to this attempt to set up a worldwide caliphate. Unfortunately, over a thousand years later, the west is once again being taken over by this vile ideology. But we seem to be a lot more welcoming this time. I think it's all over for us now. But anyway, we can celebrate the destruction of their first attempts and the creation of "Europe" as we roughly know it as a result of this significant victory in the city of Tours in 732