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a) staying in the US (forgiveable)
b) turning up late for the video link (disrespectful)
But will he be punished by the GBP?
I have my suspicions.
My prediction of the outcome
1. Murray
2. Farah
3. Ainslie
I think that's how you announce it Everyone is only here because of immigration, if you want to play that game. If you start allowing for British Immigrants it gets impossibly muddy. Third generation, and you're not British? Fourth generation? But everyone who is White, 2nd Generation, counts as British? It's not as if all the White British aren't immigrants, by your standard.
I propose a simple measure: Immigrants are foreign-born. Nice and clean, but it doesn't support your equivocation.
Marf-lol
I like the McDonalds logo...
I've just spent the day in the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, with my best friend and his six-year old daughter. It was packed. At least more than the one in Milton Keynes ...
The daughter was buzzing at the end. I was just knackered.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-25390071
Lol.
SLab can't even get their 'hilarious' tweets right.
And congrats to Andy Murray!
Great show from Aunty.
Then I would have worn a onesie.
Murray - good choice imho - after winning Wimbledon, how could it have been anyone else!
Well done to the young Scottish fellow.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25333691
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin1/100250631/to-survive-the-tories-must-throw-the-kitchen-sink-at-ed/
I'm not a fan.
The date they've picked is the same day/evening as The Eurovision Song Contest.
Grrr@ Gay Marriage, I've not missed a Eurovision song contest since 1994
The warm up band were pretty good.
http://www.eleccionservel.cl/ELECCIONES2013/vistaPaisSegundaVuelta
With 96% counted, Michelle Bachelet has won. She leads with 62.2% of the vote.
And now when I wake up the Ashes will be gone. They may be some time coming back. This team looks finished.Bit like Spurs really. Hey ho.
I'm actually hopping mad with the selectors putting so much faith in Prior that they didn't take another Keeper they would ever hand the gloves to. He's completely shot.
Even gay people are embarrassed by my musical tastes.
All we need now is one cap wonders, and every debutant being hyped as the new xxx
Who can forget Mark Lathwell being hyped as elegant as David Gower, or Gavin Hamilton as the new Botham or Jason Gallian as the new Gooch.
I always think those that make the tired joke about how peope only care about the Olympic sports every four years, hardy ha, are missing the point, intentionally or otherwise, in that the fact people don't care about it between Olympics is the main reason we care so much about the competition when it does roll around. It's things and people we don't normally get to see or cheer on, many of whom are closer to being ordinary people than the typical sports star. It's one reason why there is some dissonance in having the Tennis pros there - I recall the opening athlete presentation at Bejing the cameras continually focused on the Tennis stars, because unlike most of the other competitors, they are world renowned figures.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/stage/theatre/article3950062.ece
When you think of some of the ropey old winners of the past and consider that a man who won the Tour de France did not even make the top 3 this evening, it shows how far we have come in the world of sport in the last fifteen or so years.
Eagle-eyed readers can sometimes spot a bit of betting value if they take the trouble to sift though the various threads.
I was particularly impressed by this post copied from yesterday.
stjohn
December 14 edited December 14
I'm surprised how well Farah has done in that Opinium poll.
Here are two newspaper polls.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/sports-personality-of-the-year/10476288/Poll-Andy-Murray-is-favourite-to-be-named-Sports-Personality-of-the-Year-but-who-gets-your-vote.html
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/poll/2013/dec/12/bbc-sports-personality-year-award-2013-poll
I backed Murray before Wimbledon to win SPOTY so I already have sizeable net winnings on this year's event having been paid out by Ladbrokes and having cashed in on Betfair.
Since then I backed Ainslie on the back of the America's Cup win but that achievement hasn't really made a splash and I think the bet is sunk.
I've had a small bet on Froome too but the wheels seem to have come off his chances of winning as he doesn't seem that popular and lots of people seem to be fed up of cyclists winning.
I probably should have jumped onto McCoy for SPOTYdom when he won his 4000th race and was value for this.
So I've had one final Try to make some more money from SPOTY. For two farthings I think Leigh Halfpenny could convert his Welsh SPOTY win into a podium place in tomorrow night's SPOTY. He does very well in the Telegraph poll and with Murray not turning up he may benefit from an anti-Scots vote as well as having the built in support of all of Wales and all British Lions Rugby fans.
The Opinium poll has dented my enthusiasm for his chances but I've had £5 on him to win at 999/1 on Betfair and I've backed him to win without Murray at 19/1 and to be in the top 3 at 4/1.
Do you reckon there's a p8ss up after SPOTY? If so, I bet that's a good do.
Large number of fit young things of both sexes about the place....mucho copping off....??
As I disclosed a few threads ago, I am Italian.
When challenged to 'get back from where I came from, you don't belong here' I point out that my race has been here longer than the English. Confused? Well, Britain was part of the Roman Empire!
SeanT The soccer team suffers from the fact it is the main sport for most countries in the world, thus it has more competition than the cricket and rugby teams
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2523034/Beyonce-pays-tribute-Madonna-new-Haunted-video.html
http://www.bustle.com/articles/10729-beyonces-haunted-music-video-is-a-freaky-nightmare-so-naturally-we-broke-it-down
Must be the lighting...
Life sure can be funny peculiar; seven and a half years after making their international debuts within two hours of one another in the first Test against South Africa in Johannesburg, Michael Vaughan OBE has gone on to meet the Queen, sup with Tony Blair, be feted throughout the land as one of England's 2005 Ashes' heroes, and become captain of his country;
Gavin Hamilton, hailed as 'the new Ian Botham' by some cricket experts at the time, has gone on to become captain of East Bierley CC of the Bradford League.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/2308884/Hamilton-out-to-put-the-record-straight.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/4129888.stm
On the soccer, yes we will win it again, probably our best bet is when we next hold the world cup, so maybe 2030?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2KVBpLm30c
of course in reality Hubble is much more exciting, but for pr and iphone kicks the moon will do fine
(plus they probably want to plant a few flags around , claim some territory and mineral exploitation rights)
Generally, though, the Moon is a diversion. Mars is somewhere worth going, as people could ultimately live there in a self-sustaining way.
There seem to be a few non-state attempts to get to Mars. In some ways this is back to the past, when some exploration was conducted by private expeditions.
Science fiction/science reality. good fun, isn'T it?
Have the Greens blown it in Brighton?
After sweeping to power in 2010, the party talked of building a utopian future for British politics. But bitter infighting and the realities of austerity have left their dream in disarray
Faisal Islam's (Channel 4 economics correspondent) book The Default Line is on Amazon Kindle for 79 pence.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Default-Line-Faisal-Islam-ebook/dp/B00AZ17W6Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1387167232&sr=1-1&keywords=faisal+islam
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
This is one of his latest efforts, where he attempts - successfully - to make himself look like Beyoncé in her new "Haunted" video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ0qAJAjg3U&
This is his "Greyscale" look:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDabfDlbeZg&
However, in Luna, we have a ready placed space station with enough gravity to be comfortable with, while still being able to launch large space craft. One of the extreme problems and costs involved in space travel is in escaping the gravity well of Earth, which is obviously going to be cheaper with smaller lighter craft going into orbit, the passengers transferring to larger craft, built on Luna, then moving on to Mars or which ever other planets orbit to land (and be able to take off again from that gravity well).
Luna is well placed for solar power with at least half of the planet in sunlight for 14 days, 6 arrays around the equator plus 1 at each pole should be able to produce more than enough for factories. While there are probably enough minerals in the asteroid belt to keep them running.
Ah! but this is all science fiction, but I have an niggle in my mind that the Chinese don't think so.
And just for fun, Luna was at one time 14k miles from the surface of Earth. Just think of the tides on the Earth then.
The books are well worth reading though; especially if you are on a flight to Australia. 2000 pages to keep you going on the 'plane and then you can use them as weapons to club the deadly wildlife when you get there.