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Just as I'd hit send, Chesham went in and led with the shoulder, if the Welsh player had ducked down, he'd have been sent off with a second yellow. I don't know if they're all that stupid, but there's a lot of ego in our side and it seems to be coached into them. The trouble is with this lot, it's resulted in mistakes hat aren't being coached out of them. This is a dire game.

I don't think you should need to be 100%. Beyond all reasonable doubt should be fine, and the ref seemed to be there as he was about to overturn. Personally I think the ref should have the option to change if he's happy to overturn. It was his decision originally and he's the one running the game. I'm not a fan of Chesham. I'm sure he's got many fine qualities, but he's not that bright and he makes such dopy decisions at times.

TMO bottled it. I was happy with that grounding. I didn't think he would give it, but when the ref said he was going to overturn! and then the TMO went back once more! Harsh.

This one should be fun. Time to see if Scotland are genuine contenders this year

hahaha oops! My lips are sealed...unlike Lana's when she has a right go at her parents😆😆

We've finished it. It gets better and I like how things are gradually unwinding for Lana's homelife. I think they make her deal with it in a very believable way. Someone with so many ours of Afghanistan/Iraq and seeing people get blown up in front of her might not be the most well adjusted person! So when she just shouts and swears at her mum and dad, it works. No organising therapy, no sitting down and talking about feelings, just reactive swearing and blunt, naked abuse! The plot's no less bonkers, but it's TV entertainment, so I guess that's fair enough.

Then don't comment on something you've not seen and have no intention of seeing. And then don't join the dots in the wrong place. She was talking about McClure's character in Trigger Point (as she was a bomb disposal expert), so not really anything to do with her role in LoD. Oh.

You've not watched any of it, so your argument is a touch moronic anyway. There's absolutely nothing in the plot or the action that a woman couldn't do. In fact, the British Army's first female bomb disposal expert called McClure's character 'a very credible EOD officer'. But clearly you know more than her, despite never having seen it.

Bit awkward that the main antagonist in this series is a woman, isn't it?

Oh it's all terribly silly. Lana's the black knight from Monty Python; a bomb goes off next to her and it's all 'tis but a scratch! Good, vacuous, explody fun though.

Can't. Went fishing this morning and blanked. No mercy, only misery from me tonight.

We've had two matches and we already know who will finish first, second and sixth. A really poor all round display from England. Italy make way too many mistakes to trouble any team that actually knows how to play rugby, so I'm pretty sure Wales will beat them. So it's all about who will finish third to fifth. Not an inspiring competition!

This doesn't surprise me. Given how many experienced players are missing through injury or just unavailable, a completely rooky team would have been a huge risk. We're the only team with an unblemished record against Italy, it'd be nice to keep that going!

Indeed. My parents (in their 60's and 70's) Have been spending a few days in North Wales. They were over in Llanberis for lunch, when a mum and daughter stopped them in the street looking a bit lost. They wanted to know where the start of the Snowdon path was so they could climb it. Did they have decent footwear? Did they have food? No. Did they have water? No. Did they have proper outer wear? No. Did they have a map? No. They just had an idea they wanted to climb Snowdon. In Winter. In the afternoon. Mum, with all the patience of a saint, explained all this, explained the dangers and what the paths were like and what the conditions would be like both on the lowland slopes and at the top and explained how hard evacuations are even on a well walked path. you wonder what would have happened if they'd stumbled over the start to the path before they stumbled over my mother! I doubt Mountain Rescue would have been as polite if they'd been called out on a Saturday afternoon to two idiots in trainers and jeans stuck in the snow in sub zero temperatures. On a separate note, I wish the RNLI were as forthright in their advice giving to some of the loons we get on the sea. I've known MRT teams tear strips of people because of their stupidity. I bet that message sinks in pretty quick!

Sutherland. It's been a few years since we were there, so I'm looking forward to it. We had three weeks in New Zealand over Christmas, but I'm just as excited to go back to the NW of Scotland. Hoping to knock off a few 2-day climbs whilst up there and the fishing kayak may even get there - although it's hellishly far from Dorset!

Because there was a convenient scapegoat. In any normal business, the service user would be complaining, because the company as a whole would be suffering. But because the Post Office contract stated losses had to be made up by the sub-postmasters themselves not the company, there was no need for any kind of accountability. The Post Office could blame the little people and not trouble themselves with asking questions. It suited the two big parties very well and no one worried about the little party...until it pulled the whole rotten house down!

It was -7 when I went to work the other day. I got in my car and thought 'huh, it's -7'. I then drove through the countryside without incident, where I met many people who had likewise driven through the countryside without incident. It's driven so much by the media. Everything has to be sensationalised. They must inform, they must educate. But if people have got to adulthood and haven't learnt that in winter it's chilly, then there's no hope for them anyway.

Yeah, I've been following this on the Iceland Cricket Team's Twitter account. The town's been evacuated and more lava is flowing from another fissure too. Decidedly unnerving

🤣 Even their corrections have annoyed me this time! Dr Goodacre grew up in my home town, she went to my sister's school and was taught by my friend's mum. But she's basically described as 'just some expert,' rather than one of the UK's foremost arachnologist and someone who has even got a patent for a synthetic spider's web that's used in medical procedures. The BBC is usually tripping over itself to extol the virtues of women and show how feminist they are. They get presented with a gilt-edged opportunity to sell the profile of a ground-breaking female scientist and the choke it up. Bunch of spanners.

Spiderphiles have had their day in court! or at least at the BBC. The original article has been substantially rewritten, keeping the same basic gist, but turning it into someone 'claiming' all this. They even managed to track down a spider expert or two. Dr Sara Goodacre (research geneticist and Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Genetics at the University of Nottingham) said she couldn't 'possibly see how it could be true at all because [she knows] about their biology.' The British Arachnological Society just called the whole thing 'implausible'. At least they edited it this time!

I have indeed. The problems are myriad. The basic and most striking is they label it a wolf spider. Wolf spiders as a family are known for carrying their egg sacs around with them - in fact it's a critical ID feature for them! I first saw it on a spider ID page on FB and a lot of people are putting their complaints in. Staggering how bad journalism is just accepted these days. Whatever happened to an editor being able to say, 'wait a minute, that can't be right. Are we sure we've checked this?'

Wolf spider lays eggs in man's toe during cruise - BBC News Just about every detail in this article is wrong: Spider behaviour: Wrong Spider biology: Wrong Parasite behaviour: Wrong Spider ID: Wrong Venom biology: Wrong Spider photo: Wrong. Whatever happened to the unfortunate fellow, what's being reported is so far from the truth that it belongs more in the Alien series. Twaddle of the highest order.

Humph.

Classic pose. Grand photo.

Yeah as finals go, it was hardly a classic. There have been better matches this World Cup than that one! Congrats to SA.