Get the excuses ready whistle:
No excuses needed ~ The current England team is simply not good enough.
I do if that's ok lol:
Somebody had to do it....
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Oh dear, Mr Rooney has hurt his ankle
Change alert status to DEFCOM 3 noooo:
Oh dear, Mr Rooney has hurt his ankle
Change alert status to DEFCOM 3 noooo:
Feck that. We have Eurovision to get through first. happy088
Oh dear, Mr Rooney has hurt his ankle
Change alert status to DEFCOM 3 noooo:
Feck that. We have Eurovision to get through first. happy088
Oh dear, Mr Rooney has hurt his ankle
Change alert status to DEFCOM 3 noooo:
Feck that. We have Eurovision to get through first. happy088
You best resurrect your thread and put us on countdown like noooo:
Shall we have a sweepstake like?
I must pop over to Woodchurch tomorrow, like
Argentina coach Diego Maradona appealed to FIFA to extol the virtues of their Fair Play campaign during this summer's World Cup as his side prepare to get their campaign under way this weekend.
Watched both of yesterday's games.
SA v Mexico was OK(ish) .... at least some looked as if they were trying.
Uruguay v France was dire until Henry came on but sadly even he is not the player he was.
If this is "World Class" football I'll go back to watching the lads in the local park.
lol: lol: lol:
Go Greece happy088
Nope ~ I don't
lol: lol: lol:
Go Greece happy088
South Korea 2 : 0 Greece
never mind ~ better luck next time.
I want one! eveilgrin:
Who won then?
Is it just me, or are those bloody Vuvuzela's getting on every one elses tits now too?
Sounds like the stadium is full of bloody wasps.
FFS! SHURUP!! Banghead
Who won then?
A draw... noooo:
Well I'll be fucked... noooo:
I went to a 'football party ' last night ....I had to consume much voddy to get through the evening noooo:WTF is a FOOTY party when it's at home like?
Ooooh my head ( I know better than looking for sympathy Growler lol:)
I went to a 'football party ' last night
I went to a 'football party ' last night
Are you sure that isn't where you got the bruise?
I went to a 'football party ' last night
Are you sure that isn't where you got the bruise?
Perhaps she scored?
I went to a 'football party ' last night
Are you sure that isn't where you got the bruise?
Perhaps she scored?
Unless she had her no score draws on...? whistle:
Is it just me, or are those bloody Vuvuzela's getting on every one elses tits now too?
Sounds like the stadium is full of bloody wasps.
FFS! SHURUP!! Banghead
The North Koreans must find being abroad a bit of a shock. What with there being hot water and stuff. Mind you, Miss D is .... oh, what the fook
Keeellll Rooney! Keeelll Gerrard!
Bloody scousers, couldn't even nick a victory.
"Nice to hear your home fans booing yer".
Couldn't catch the last sentence from the ignorant ginger bearded little prick though.
How much is he paid?
I imagine Mrs Potatohead can spend that much on handbags and shoes and suchlike noooo:
I imagine Mrs Potatohead can spend that much on handbags and shoes and suchlike noooo:
Oh yes, and a lot more besides. Hate the majority of them tbh., and that includes that little arse wipe Gerrard.
They (nearly) all strut around thinking they're all so so so so bloody marvelous and important, pricks. sick2:
"The players play well during the training. I don't know why it is. I want to see the spirit of the team and I didn't see it this evening" stated Capello.
Do not think they can blame the long european season , most S american players have played some thing like 60 games this season and still seem fresh ,I think it is amasing that england, france, germany and italy could all go out in the first stage... Come on New Zealand.............
Do not think they can blame the long european season , most S american players have played some thing like 60 games this season and still seem fresh ,I think it is amasing that england, france, germany and italy could all go out in the first stage... Come on New Zealand.............
True but those South American Players are mostly playing in European teams ~ which is the pint I am making. ALL the games have been pretty average if not downright poor. Not what you would expect from the "World's Top Players". Even Brazil were not exactly awe inspiring last evening now were they?
Kaka? World's best player? Not on last night's showing noooo:
Portugal 7 - North Korea 0
Now that's the sort of performance I've been expecting to see ;D
Party001: Party001: Party001: Party001: Party001:You're right Uncle ~ he'd have loved it sad24:
If only BM had been here to see it. cry:
I have a tenner on a draw.
lol: lol:
Anyhoo, Brasil vs. Portugal Gotta be some class stuff here rubschin:
I shall pour something long and cool and enjoy Friday afternoon razz:
I have a tenner on a draw.
is the rest on the side table ?
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"Waiters arriving at Gatwick mistaken for footballers"
whistle:
Mine is soooooooo much more tasteful whistle:
Drool: Drool: Drool: Drool: Drool:
Oh please! I've just had me breakfast! sick2:
You're not meant to be in here anyways whistle:
Most satisfied that Ghana got through eeek:
Any player that doesn't sing the National Anthem - with their heart and soul - should not be allowed to wear the shirt.
And don't give me this "in a zone" shit.
Useless, overpaid tabloid fodder, all of them.
Cut the wages, give lessons in humility and start again.
Wankers.
All the flags round here have vanished eeek:
I would eyes:
I would eyes:
Top headline from the Scottish Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/3034035/Scotsman-Andy-Murray-raises-British-sporting-hopes-at-Wimbledon-after-England-World-Cup-debacle.html)
I'd heard they asked for a flight into Glasgow airport because they wanted a heroes welcome.
A bloke at work made a complaint about me having that picture as my desktop background on both my screens. Mumbling about equality and about how a man wouldn't be able to get away with it noooo: These inferiority complexes whistle:
Rooney’s £5million Barbados mansion
All the flags round here have vanished eeek:
Half price England memorabilia in all the Supermarkets . I think even half price is optimistic lol:
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Why pathetic? Did you expect the figure to be higher? Are Mancunian football fans not up to the task?
Should have listened to the Octopus (http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/08/soccer-octopus-world-cup-final)
I want the Netherlands to win...that should seal their fate noooo:
From your kitchen BM?
Does MissD do cephalopods? rubschin:
rubschin:
My money's on The Netherlands.
I bet that octopus is rich noooo:
They are fine, if you enjoy deep fried elastic bands noooo:
eyes:They are fine, if you enjoy deep fried elastic bands noooo:
Not to eat you plank, as a character. ::)
He's my sort of octopus, and if I was a laydee octopus I'd want to be his best friend. cloud9:
Octopus sex is simple, dull and quick - at least that's what scientists used to think. Instead, it turns out to be complex, sophisticated and rife with petty rivalries.
In the most detailed research ever conducted on this topic in the wild, UC Berkeley biologists focused on the mating behavior of the Abdopus aculeatus, one of more than 300 species of octopus. They were stunned at what they learned.
"The main surprise was the fact we had this idea that they were completely solitary, with interactions few and far between," said Christine Huffard, lead author on a study recently published in Marine Biology, a science journal. "But they interacted so much more than we ever expected."
She discovered that the males were very picky and discriminating, that the females would have sex with just about anybody, eeek: and that male competition for females tended to be violent and frequent.
"Christine actually followed the aculeatus from dawn to dusk," said Roy Caldwell, a co-author of the study and professor of integrative biology at UC Berkeley. "Nobody had done that kind of intensive field work on any octopus."
Huffard, who received her Ph.D. in biology from Cal, came across the species while she was living in Sulawesi, Indonesia, helping a friend with research.
"I happened to find them," she recalled. "It was completely serendipitous."
Caldwell said, "We went snorkeling and suddenly realized there were octopus everywhere."
They encountered four or five species the first afternoon. As a research subject, however, the Abdopus aculeatus won out because it was plentiful, lived in shallow water and was active during the day, Caldwell said.
Life among the octopuses
Huffard spotted the eight-armed creatures on several islands, but many were in her front yard - she was living on the water in a little wooden hut with no electricity.
She visited Indonesia six times and spent a total of 2 1/2 years there. In the course of the study - which involved 789 hours of animal observation - 167 individual octopuses were located and identified. Their body sacs were typically the size of a walnut, although a large female was as big as a small plum.
"I spent a year in the water," said Huffard, now a postdoctoral fellow at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing. "I got very, very pruney."
She observed the octopuses while snorkeling or walking on a reef flat, 10 to 17 feet behind them.
"As long as I stayed really still, they didn't seem to react to me," Huffard said. "They were used to seeing large things floating by - dead pigs, dogs, chickens, rats. They were focused on each other and on potential predators they could recognize."
Observing in the wild
Besides being perceived as loners, Caldwell said, octopuses were seen as animals that didn't engage in courtship rituals but just coupled and got it over with. But he noted that fewer than 10 percent of octopus species have been studied, and only a half-dozen in any detail.
"Most studies are in the lab where they don't typically behave normally," Caldwell said. "People had known for a long time that you catch a couple of octopus, throw them in a bucket and very often they start mating right away."
whistle:
Among the findings of the Cal team who studied the copulating cephalopods: They could identify each other by sex from some distance; smaller males would sometimes mimic the opposite sex to sneak a romantic moment with females that were under male guard; jealous males would stay in dens next to their mates for 10 days or more to defend them and sometimes would insert their mating arm in the female when she left her den to forage.
Bigger is better
The researchers also observed males selecting their mates.
"Males prefer large females," Caldwell said. "If you're going to invest in guarding, you want to get the most bang for your buck."
The large females were preferred because they produced more eggs.
"It was very common to have a very large male next to a large female," Huffard said. "He could give her his sperm without leaving his den, and she didn't leave hers. Nobody has to give up their apartment."
Huffard witnessed some unusual moments. "In one case a male successfully chased away a rival even though his hectocotylus (mating arm) remained inserted in the female," she wrote.
She also saw a female cannibalize another individual.
After sex, a short life
Caldwell said the octopuses started mating three or four months before the female laid eggs. Three weeks later, when they hatched, the thousands of offspring swam away and the mothers died within a week, after just a year or so of life.
"She literally falls apart," he said. "Her skin loses color and she's just a ball of mush."
When asked if people thought her work was strange, Huffard laughed.
"Everybody thought I was crazy," she said. "Apparently on that island, spirits come out at noon and make a sound like silverware clanking together. They were really worried for me, and couldn't believe I was spending so much time in the water."
There was another problem, too.
"An octopus with seven arms is the devil, and many were missing one or more arms," Huffard said. "I was playing with fire apparently. Over and over, I'd hear, 'You came from America to do this?' "
Quote"People had known for a long time that you catch a couple of octopus, throw them in a bucket and very often they start mating right away."
Sounds like most blokes then really. whistle:
And beer goggles scared2:
First buy a bigger flatHi Nicky I'm hoooooooooome...... whistle:
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