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Craig Beevers

I'm guessing the media will be spinning this as how KP should be dropped to let the golden boy Bopara in. Pretty rubbish batting display in general though given the number of wickets thrown away, bowling is toothless and 500+ was there for the taking really. Could still make 500+ if the lower order ...

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Some assorted cricket anagrams:

http://www.wespa.org/features/cricket.shtml

Should be a piece of cake for folk on here.

Craig Beevers

Interesting day's play. Didn't cut into WALL.E too much either.

A good way to retire Cardiff's Test venue I think.

Craig Beevers

http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2011/content/current/story/516800.html Hilarious (it's a story about a guy who conned his way into a county contract). Slightly embarrassing as a Durham supporter that we didn't dismiss him in his last game, although Mohammad Yousuf did just bag a king pair...

Craig Beevers

I'm looking forward to a few sequels, Dungeon Siege 3, Max Payne 3, Deus Ex 3 and Diablo... 3. Will be getting a new PC soon. Old one needs a re-format and is getting on a bit. Keep playing online games in the meantime. I quite like Bowmaster Prelude and a sequel called Bowmaster Winter Storm which ...

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So glad they gave the first match of the season to the Ashes Test stealers in Wales. The constant cloud cover (the odd time it's not producing regular rain) might just give the bowlers a chance to do something, given the pitch is usually a complete pudding. Slow and low producing dire quality cricke...

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Here is a list of replacements: Aled Jones Alexander Armstrong Eamonn Holmes Gordon Burns Paul Merton Rory Bremner Out of these I would probably go for Alexander Armstrong but I don't think he will do it as he turned down the role before and he now presents Pointless which is in an early evening sl...

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Never tried weed, never tried any drugs* at all, never even so much as had a drag on a cigarette (and I'm not just saying that because my dad's on here). Pretty much everybody else in my circle of friends (from school/college) did (or still does to some degree) but I never ever felt like I was miss...

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Also, my cricket team's season starts next Sunday! I'm a bit of a softcock bottler with the bat though in fairness. http://lyndhurstcc.co.uk/ That's quite late, the 4ths started end of April around here, the 1sts & 2nds started a week earlier. The whole Bopara v Morgan nonsense reminds of when ...

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Heh now the media are doing some glorious back-tracking. Some moron from The Sun (moron is a redundant statement I suppose) saying Morgan's "193 v SL this week was as close to a 'gimme' century against international oppo as you could get." whilst they're banging on about how softcock's 17 ...

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Thank god, no softcock Ravi 'bottler' Bopara in the Test squad after the media kept banging on about how he was a cert for selection. This above Eoin Morgan who has an infinitely stronger temperament for the international game and doesn't whine at the start of the season about the ball they're using...

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Andy Wilson wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:Today I got told I look like the guy on the right in the Portugal entry.
True.
That's nothing - check out the Finnish lad!

Looks a bit like Patrick Kielty.

Craig Beevers

D = I would rather not mention Mine's worse, I get the Daily Mail for D. I boycott them and their website, for amongst other things publishing front pages with things like "Asperger's victim" on them. So I've no idea why it comes up. Anyway: A = Argos B = BBC C = Currys D = Daily Mail E =...

Craig Beevers

Probably been said plenty of times before but it's fucking annoying the way they flash up the answers for half a millisecond and then show Nick Knowles speaking for 20-30 seconds, because we've obviously forgotten what he looked like. Anyone know a website where they list all the answers so people c...

Craig Beevers

The only point I really concede is that AV would create more coalition governments. In my opinion that's true but not a big problem. Lib-Con is going okay and that's about the most difficult coalition you can imagine. Either way it doesn't outweigh the many advantages. A lot of people have said tha...

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2) "AV empowers extremist parties." (People always say BNP but it's just as beneficial to the extreme left.) This is unpersuasive to me, because if 51% of people want to give their approval to the BNP then, well, you gotta let them have their way if you really believe in democracy. If tha...

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Like most shows of this ilk it's really only preaching to the converted. I agree the speech at the end was pretty good though and yeah, the expression on the black dude's face was something else. I genuinely felt they hit a nerve with him which, if they did, for me would make the whole thing worthw...

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Derren Brown: Miracles for Sale on now (Channel 4). It's about faith-healing. Is it any good? Yea I feel much better. Shame the audience at the end was so small (wish they'd have shown the black guy more as the final speech was being read out - would have been hilarious), the program was quite hard...

Craig Beevers

Derren Brown: Miracles for Sale on now (Channel 4). It's about faith-healing.

Craig Beevers

And for me PR is the worst of the lot. We have 10 MEPs round here. No-one could name a single one. Eight of them, to all intents and purposes, are chosen by their political parties. Not my idea of democracy. Democracy is a load of bollocks anyway. But aside from that do you think having a system wh...

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I'm not sure. As a pure voting system it's no improvement. Labour are unbelievably unaccountable as it is without having a system like this in place. I mean Labour have just completely fucked the country over for 3 terms and people still vote for them. Would coalitions stifle their incompetence or w...

Craig Beevers

Arsenal really are like the cartoon villain. You know they're going to fail in the end, it's just a matter of how.

Pretty funny Dalglish telling Wenger to piss off.

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Craig Beevers wrote:My sister
Surrrrrre.

I used to eat some crap but never that bad. Although I may have had 20 small croissants for breakfast the last day I was in Malaysia.

Craig Beevers

My sister has gone through 18 online code things and not won owt. She's had 3 instant wins (porridge, apple pie and a sundae). Has about 20-30 properties.

Craig Beevers

Nice. Make sure you don't pick foreign politics (or whatever it was today) in the final - unless you've studied it obviously. Seem to be a mix of really horrible questions then the odd one which I think a lot of people on here would get a pointless on (elements ending in -IUM, word ending in -OUD).

Craig Beevers

Guess you hear them all being ginger. Reminds me of becoming a pirate in The Secret of Monkey Island.

Craig Beevers

Never got the fuss with GTA 3+. I probably played 1 & 2 more. Just a bit of novelty value fun and that's about it. The controls are tiresome and it's pretty boring most of the time. I liked how you could accessorise the guy though. Surely you found fun in that? Like giving him curly hair and pu...

Craig Beevers

Well if you were wondering about the worst governing body in sport the ICC have not so much put their hand up as jumped out of their chair, ran about the place screaming and waving their hands in the air. What sort of fuckwitted organisation has a World Cup where all the teams are decided with no qu...

Craig Beevers

Never got the fuss with GTA 3+. I probably played 1 & 2 more. Just a bit of novelty value fun and that's about it. The controls are tiresome and it's pretty boring most of the time.

Craig Beevers

Virtually all the pointless answers were recent winners as well. Seemed a bit daft really apart from it being about a non-sport.

Craig Beevers

Hmm a final question on horse racing. Don't think it gets any more pointless than that.

Craig Beevers

People are interesting and funny in an unintentional way. Looking at the odd forum is a good way to kill a few minutes. I'm not registered on RAWK, nor would I ever register on there. That doesn't interest me.

Craig Beevers

A few minutes to kill before bedtime so thought I'd have a look at what the RAWK forum think of Andy Carroll (he's still an uber-slow young version of Crouch apparently!?!) Diversions to the topic produced gems like: Fan #1: [David] Villa is way better than fowler ever was. Fan #2 Reply, followed by...

Craig Beevers

Will probably go camping somewhere for a few days next week. Then maybe again later in April. Then there's the coast to coast walk in early May. Other than that the World Scrabble Championships are in Poland and there's the usual Causeway Challenge in Malaysia where I'll probably stay a few days in ...

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When I saw that this thread had been bumped today I assumed that c4cers must have been posting in their dozens about the weird bit at the end where Richard rounded off a list of pointless answers with "...and UNDERCLOUD", which had just been declared a wrong answer. Maxine even nodded and...

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JimBentley wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:In retrospect I should probably change my vote to Sinclair Spectrum ZX+3.
I'd have voted for the original 48K Spectrum (with the awesome rubber keyboard), but it wasn't a console by any means.

The likes of the X-Brick aren't much more than a console than 48K was. Plus that didn't have Sabre Wulf.

Craig Beevers

I think you are being unfair Liam. I wouldn't expect many people to know the answer to all of them at all..................... The first question you posted about the Rose Bowl I think is very understandable people not knowing that. And the Marshall Plan one. I would have thought most of those were...

Craig Beevers

In all seriousness I don't know how people bother with exercising. For me it's a mixture of enjoying the actual feeling of the exercise itself (I'm a swimmer and road cyclist - I like the sensation of being in water and of going fast under my own steam), and of being able to eat enormous amounts of...

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I'm in okay shape. I do a lot of walking and will do a Coast to Coast walk in a few weeks so will see after that I guess - will do plenty of walking/camping before and after that too. I do a few exercises 6 times a week, do 40 or so push-ups, a lower ab and upper ab exercise, do some bicep curls and...

Craig Beevers

Half a Canon 7D, camping and walking gear to wander about England, a new PC/monitor. I shortly will be spending money on these things.

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Quote: Round 14: 6, 4, 1, 9, 4, 3. Target: 912. C1: - C2: - RR: 912. ((9 x 4) + 3 - 1) x 4 x 6 (10) Score: 94–77 (max 109) ...not with a stinker of a numbers game like that. Rachel comes up with a brilliant method to show them how it's done. Finding Rachel's method looked really easy to me: 912 obv...

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At one time didn't they have a system where the next stage was a continuation of the league, and you carried forward your results against the surviving teams? If Bangladesh didn't make it, England would be very handily placed. I'm sure Rafa could sort it all out. Yep, there have a been a lot of for...

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My god people are unbelievably thick. How difficult is to work out the permutations when it's two groups with 1st playing 4th, 2nd v 3rd, playing against a team from the other group. And there are even pillocks messaging in on Cricinfo like if Australia lose they'll play SA in the quarter finals. Er...

Craig Beevers

Holy crap.

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Also the way Strauss is captaining the team is really awesome from a West Indian point of view. Keep Bresnan on whilst it's not doing owt against the guy who's renown for being useless against decent spin bowling. Then bring the tall bounce bowler back when it might be reversing and before the ball ...

Craig Beevers

Okay the way bottler Bopara ran and got two hands under the catch he just dropped was really nice.

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Same shit again. Some of the most brainless, shockingly stupid batting you'll ever see. That includes schoolboy level or Shahid Afridi.

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Fucking pathetic. Anderson has a maximum of 2-3 good overs in him per match. The other overs are atrocious. Prior is fucking useless no matter what he's supposed to be doing in a limited overs game. Absolutely disgraceful he was selected ahead of Davies. Maybe Andy Flower can remind us again how use...

Craig Beevers

Could go on forever about all the boneheaded things England have done in this World Cup. Hope to god England can somehow win this so I can have a rest for a week or so.

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Ireland I think will become a Test nation sooner or later. It's the Asian bloc that's held them back really, indirectly. The Asian countries were backing Bangladesh strongly to get Test status as it means they have more influence when it comes to future votes. Since Bangladesh have continued to be f...

Craig Beevers

So it turns out our boys are better than England at cricket. Who knew? :o Meh. Only won because we were without Eoin Morgan... Anyway sick of Bopara being brought up every time England are shite. Yay lets be even more shite and play the proven bottler who plays to about 10% of his actual talent, li...

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http://apterous.org/viewuser.php?id=14641 Surely fake. What's fake? The name Steven Gerard? Is it beyond the realm of possibility that there are more than one person with the same name? And even if it is a fake name it's hardly cheating. Should test it out by changing the Countdown clock music to s...

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The message that it sends out is all wrong. People assume alcohol's harmless because it's legal, and that's far from the case. I know people (kids under 18) that have thought that cannabis is 'legal' (it isn't) because it was downgraded. Hell, when I was a kid I thought cannabis was harmless. I rea...

Craig Beevers

I had a watch of that movie. The problem with Zeitgeist stuff is it seems to sprinkle in some good points (often populist ones) with random baseless stuff whilst completely ignoring other issues. The Venus Project doesn't seem to be have much basis in reality unfortunately. I think a resource based ...

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It's good that you take an interest in political debate at your age; slightly scary, though, to think that you're not only too young to remember her as Prime Minister, but even too young to remember the feeling of almost universal joy in the country (it felt like an impromptu public holiday) on the...

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Other than with The Woolwich? There's been lots of headlines recently about where councils are cutting services and the consequent uproar, so where do you think they could save money? My first suggestion is to end free lifetime prescriptions for people with certain medical conditions. NHS services ...

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Was I the only one who had no idea what NME was when the question came up?

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I quite like the daft zombie killing ones on Mousebreaker. Just completed:

http://www.mousebreaker.com/games/deathpenalty/playgame

Craig Beevers

Not sure what will be the best part of Match of the Day tonight. The games or the interview with Arsenal Whinger.

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Interesting stuff. It's hard to gauge the price what with it being partly a panic buy, the likes of Spurs bidding huge amounts for seemingly everyone plus the likes of Man City/Chelsea inflating the premium player market. Also the UEFA rules coming in (don't know much about them, just vaguely heard ...

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