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Last 1st round group games today, I'll post a table after the results are in. Tuesday 19th June Fixtures... GROUP A Russia v Egypt (19.00) GROUP H Colombia v Japan (13.00) Poland v Senegal (16.00)

It's appalling that any MP would send out such a Tweet, nothing more than 'traitor' dog whistling. I wonder if she applies the same 'cricket test' to Asians who attended faith schools etc? Interesting to hear some Brexit vox poppers saying that they are annoyed that there is no overall 'Brexit Dividend' for the NHS as promised by the Leavers. A Sky poll yesterday also reported that a clear majority don't believe there is one either. Slowly but surely some people do appear to be waking up from what they have sleepwalked into. It's quite incredible that a Prime Minister can brazenly claim there is a dividend, when clearly there isn't. One theory why she said that is that it's to act as a sweetener to the Brextremists ahead of big concessions she'll have to make at the next EU summit at the end of this month. Prepare for more disgruntled Brexit voters...

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have you any views on garden birds... Had a few sightings recently of the Lesser Spotted Malumbu (drearius lazius stereotypus). Despite it's exotic name, a rather dull sounding bird, with it's feathers easily ruffled. Not native to these parts, it has a monotonous song but a very distinct mating call of ''Yous...Yous....Yous''. Quite a chirpy little number...

Thanks for pointing out the nuances of the interweb malumbu. An exclamation mark means light hearted humour, smiley face means misplaced humour at best. Got it. Have to admit though that it's all a bit irrelevant, as I tend to read your posts with a dreary Brummie accent in my head...

But you were complaining about a bloke on a bus, not in your bed...or did he not alight at his usual stop?

Surely the morning shower supercedes the 'last thing at night' shower anyway?...

Unlike humans who don't use the popular 'ED Nature Watc'h thread...:)

I wouldn't get too holier than thou about the illiberal Russkis. Save it for when a top flight footballer feels they can safely and openly 'come out' here in the UK...

Saturday 16th June Fixtures... GROUP C France v Australia (11.00) Peru v Denmark (17.00) GROUP D Argentina v Iceland (14.00) Croatia v Nigeria (20.00)

Leslie Grantham aka Dirty Den... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44494734

You can't beat a Manchester Tart...

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > kings dream Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > rather snobish attitude to have > > If that was aimed at me, I was actually eating > Frosties at the time... Ordinary Cornflakes not good enough for you then!...

Friday 15th June Fixtures... GROUP A Egypt v Uruguay (13.00) GROUP B Morocco v Iran (16.00) Portugal v Spain (19.00)

Trumpy needs to brush up on his maths before telling porkys... Trump claims, preposterously, that parents of Korean War veterans came up to him during the 2016 campaign and said, "when you can, we'd love our son to be brought back home -- you know, the remains." The Korean War ended in 1953.

The Scots are revolting...:)

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ''If she f**ks us, she's f**ked''. > > It's like something from a Quentin Tarantino film. > Of course if she f**ks them she's f**ked. > She's f**ked whatever. > > The UK hasn't planned for a no deal so it would > totally broadside us .. but I hope the Express and > Sun sink first before the rest of us :( In the interest of balance...:) Senior Brexiter: ?If Theresa and Julian have sold us out here they are in real trouble. She reassured us all at the 1922. There is no way she can recover if she has now f**ked us over.?

Parky should be joining up soon, so nearly a full house. After tomorrow's opening fixture, there will be group games every day up to the 28th June, so don't forget to keep making your predictions on a daily basis until then...Bonne chance!

Ooh la la!...https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44467548

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Isn't No Deal a distinct possibility as there is > no way of resolving the Irish border question > without going back of their word or upsetting the > DUP? Absolutely, but May using ''No Deal is better than a bad deal'' as a threat to the EU in negotiations would be a non-starter if the Tory rebels get their way, which I'm sure they will. The EEA option supposedly solves the Irish border conundrum, hence why I think May will eventually have to backtrack on one of her red lines e.g. not staying in the Customs Union. > Mind you I'm still hoping the whole thing will > collapse a bit like a game of Jenga. Personally, even a soft Brexit like the EEA option is still Brexit and bad for the economy and country as a whole, so I'd also prefer to see the whole thing come tumbling down. Ironically that could happen if No Deal was the only thing left on the table after negotiations. It would get vetoed by Parliament, and then a full-blown constitutional crisis develops. That could lead to the People's Vote idea, but would there be enough time, ditto another General Election? So there might only be time to revoke or ask for an extension to A50. And why would the EU extend it knowing that our only other option is to revoke it? Would they want to spend more time and money on further negotiations with such a shambolic/dysfunctional country? Ditto, are there enough Brextremists to torpedo the EEA option or any other deal that doesn't meet with their ideology? Would the EEA or another option pass Labour's 6 tests? Unlikely as one of the tests is that a deal must have the ''exact same benefits''. I can't see any deal in the short time we have left would provide that. The more you dig, the bigger the clusterfuck becomes...

Getting tasty this evening, DExEU released a contentious statement about the concession, one of the rebels' response is ''If she f**ks us, she's f**ked''...:)

That'll be a can of the fudgiest fudge. If rumours of May's concession are true, No Deal Brexit now dead in the water. I think we'll end up with an EEA deal, forever in limbo until we decode to rejoin...without the current benefits. Will be interesting to see how the Mogglodytes respond... ETA: Just to clarify, I was referring to May using No Deal as an option/threat to the EU in negotiations. No Deal could still happen as it's the default option on Brexit Day should the EU and UK not arrive at any deal by then.

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The headline in the Express today is very > provocative again. "Ignore the will of the people > at your peril". Being owned by Trinity Mirror > (now Reach) I thought they might be more > responsible. The Sun's front page is a hotch potch of badly Photoshopped 'British icons'... Windsor Castle...built by a Norman duke; The Mini...designed by a Greek; The Shard...designed by an Italian; And not forgetting The Sun itself...owned by an Australian now an American resident. The best one is the Loch Ness Monster...fictional, just like Brexit :)

There was a campaign to get the Royal Mail to produce a set of 'commemorative' Brexit stamps. Instead we have a set of Dad's Army stamps. Excellent trolling Royal Mail...:)

If you think Corbyn has lost the plot, check out his brother, completely unhinged... #toomanyhashtags

L'alcopops!...