OvallyBalls can now reveal that our operatives have made secret recordings of discussions that took place some years ago. Names may have been changed to protect the not-that-innocent.
Wrigel Nay: Right, chaps, this salary cap is a bit awkward, eh what? If we are to DOMINATE the Premiership and the European Cup, we need you players. And obviously you won’t play as well if you’re not millionaires.
Basil ‘Bog’ Brush: Well, y’need the motivation. I coulda gone inta footba’, and got my money for nothing, and my chicks for free. In rugby, I have t’ make a lo’ o’ no-arms tackles, and tha’ stings a bi’ sometimes.
Maro Match (melodiously): Uhmm, I’ve got lots of arms; I’m like an octopus, mate. Uhmm, but every extra 100 grand grows another arm. Plus, it’s fodder for my political campaign chest.
The Puny Voles: We’ve got our private doctors and personal massage therapists to pay for. It’s not cheap being injured all the time. We are reduced to pretending to go on Z-list sleb programmes to survive. And it’s boring, so the finest Dom is in order.
Maro Match (melodiously): Uhmm, Classic Dom?
The Puny Voles: Nah, mate, Dom Pérignon.
Wrigel Nay: Don’t worry, chaps, I have a plan. You set up some limited companies, and we ‘invest’ in them in lieu of salary.
[Collective sound of gum-guard-sucking.]
Wrigel Nay: I’ll have my people contact your people to explain it all. [Drones on until everyone falls asleep.]
On the telly this week
Friday 8th November
| Connacht 11 – 42 Leinster | 19:35 | TG4 / Premier Sports 2 |
| Edinburgh 20 – 17 Dragons | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Sale 28 – 18 Wasps | 19:45 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 9th November
| France 10 – 20 England (women) | 13:10 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Gloucester 12 – 21 Saracens | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
| Zebre 7 – 31 Glasgow | 15:00 | Free Sports |
| Ospreys 14 – 16 Kings | 15:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Cardiff 30 – 17 Cheetahs | 17:15 | Premier Sports 1* / S4C |
| Munster 22 – 16 Ulster | 17:15 | Premier Sports 1* |
| Scarlets 20 – 11 Treviso | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
*Both of these cannot be right. But that’s what the site says.
Sunday 3rd November
| Exeter 17 – 22 Bristol | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
Ovally Balls 
@Ticht, just read your post about Johnson laying his wreath, and I’m discombobulated by it. I didn’t see any reporting of this on e.g. on the Graun, or any videos on youtube or the Beeb, or anywhere else till now. Wtf?
Also I remember how Michael Foot was hounded and ridiculed for looking a bit scruffy at the Cenotaph, and how devastating that was to his personal status and credibility.
Maybe it was Marina Hyde who pointed out how Ed Miliband’s struggles with a bacon sandwich seemed to have more influence on public opinion than any facts about how he might actually perform in the job.
I’m not comfortable and a bit heartsick about this, but I keep coming back to the thought that if you starve children of a decent education then you are deliberately priming your voters for the future.
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Iks – I did see something on the G about Johnson and the wreath-laying; first it was mentioned either on the Politics Live blog and/or a Crace or Hyde column, and then there was a story on it too. But it wasn’t particularly prominent.
Re the BBC’s trustworthiness, the person I knew who worked for them said, Never, ever, believe anything you see on the telly. This isn’t confined to the BBC, of course, but as you say the Beeb is obsessed with so-called ‘balance’, which means having a nutter like Farage on all the time for balance against a moderate social democrat, or climate change deniers / flat earthers on to counteract, er, scientists.
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@Iks that Miliband picture always troubles me. You could get that type of picture of any politician, why did the media really run with the first Jewish leader of Labour eating bacon?
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FBC – yep, and then the two-kitchens thing, which was apparently because, in kosher-keeping Jewish households (Miliband not being a practising Jew, however), you have to keep the preparation of certain foodstuffs absolutely separate. So he’d bought a house that happened to have two kitchens for that reason.
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Seems all that’s left are my cats and the footprints of the good souls that got me here.
Any protest or punch aimed at this global shower of shits seems futile.
Marvellous.
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Iks – also a good point you make about education. It seems that civics is not taught any more, so a good number of voters have absolutely no idea how our own ‘democracy’ works, let alone that of the EU or other countries.
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Well, just to make you feel REALLY happy, I’m off to see a Prog band tonight!
Hope they play this, one of my faves (and just a bloody good song, whether prog or not).
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Here’s another one, as far as I understand it, Farage has accepted money from idiots to stand as Brexit party candidates, but he has decided that only around half of them will actually stand.
However he is keeping the money from those he is not allowing to stand.
Is this correct?
If so I’m not going to feel sorry for the candidates, but it does show the sort of shitehawk this guy is, if ever there was any lingering doubt
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Ticht – yep. Not only did they have to pay 100 squid to be considered as candidates, but any outlay they’ve made for their campaigns will not be reimbursed.
Don’t forget that The Brexit ‘Party’ is actually a limited company, not a political party.
Nah, I don’t feel sorry for them either, though.
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I guess this is what taking back control looks like.
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A bitter ex-Brexit Party candidate who was sensationally dropped after his party backed out of more than 300 seats has said Nigel Farage owes him £10,000.
Wayne Bayley had been due to stand in Crawley, West Sussex, at the upcoming General Election.
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Mr Bayley, a Scientologist and retired pilot, said on Twitter: “I employed a full time campaign coordinator last week on a two month contract which has cost me thousands.
Brexit Party candidate and Scientologist? And soon the lucky owner of the Eiffel Tower if only he’d reply to my emails.
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@thaum
” two-kitchens thing”
Yep, supposed to keep dairy and meat (I think) prep apart. (It’s all there in Leviticus or it is Deuteronomy?)
Even if you’re not particularly observant (or Liberal rather than Conservative or Orthodox) – chances are you’ll have relatives etc who are – so unless you’re going over to their house every time and never having them over for dinner, you’re going to need the 2nd “kitchen” (usually sufficient – I understand – to have a separate food prep area).
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Trisk – aye, it’s funny how the likes of the Catholic Church and the Prod bible fanatics of various flavours are all in favour of some of those bits (like death for adultery or gay sex – except when it’s them – and flogging if not eternal damnation for various odd infractions), but they choose to ignore separating meat and dairy prep areas, as well as blatantly flaunting Our Lord’s clear instructions on shellfish, swine, and the wearing of clothing made of mixed fibres.
To the hellfires of damnation with them, say I!
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Laverys (premium choice, IMO).
The Bot.
Stokers Halt (which isn’t in the town centre or environs, but is a short cab ride, or the most darling walk* up the Newtownards Road).
*lies
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And, when I say premium choice, be aware that’s relative.
(Laverys is actually OK now, used to be a shithole but that was 20 years ago).
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Must be some good football if they’re not just going to hit the town to get rekt.
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Enzo – THIS Lavery’s?
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Oh, and I do remember one cracking night out at the Bot … and possibly also the Egg … when I returned as a teenager.
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“Must be some good football”
Republic of Ireland v New Zealand on Thursday night. Revenge for the RWC quarter final. Maybe a sharp right turn off just at the start of the Newtonards Road?
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The Bot – if it was the Bot, and not the Egg ; for some reason my memory’s a bit hazy on that point – had multiple storeys with different bands and other things going on on each floor. Reached the top floor, and there was a very good Van Morrison tribute band. People (not me, I hasten to add) were puking out the windows. Ah, ’twas a night to remember … in bits.
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Bot/Egg
Egg/Bot
Sometimes they bleed into each other. Happens to the best of us.
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Thanks Larry
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When someone says ‘successful black woman’ and you have to intervene…
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OK, I’m as drunk as chimpie likes me to be right now, but Diane Abbott is
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Fuck
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She’s a cretin. Absolutely.
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Fuck, I’ll come back to this point tomorrow.
I don think that the graph has been explained though. And that is a failure on the left. Of the left. Whatever.
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I’m really just someone who wants a grown up in charge
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Outstanding, Craigs.
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Ticht – I aim for the highest standards.
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If I think back to why I don’t like Diane Abbott it goes back to when she complained about the nurses in her hospital being Finnish. Whilst she didn’t say this there was the implication that Scandi people were the wrong choice to look after black people.
This really upset my mum at the time who spent most of her career as a nurse and then physio and regularly treated people from black and Asian backgrounds.
It might have been an off the cuff comment but it was careless for a politician.
I also get that she faces a lot of abuse for being black and wouldn’t to ignore that.
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Amazing commitment to both remember and to bother to come back at 6:46 and clarify last night’s mumbling.
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Are you talking about Trump or me?
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Interesting article on the news just now about how the Tories have “bought” certain words and phrases from google so that searches for Labour return attack ads as the top hit, these attack ads push the already discredited Tory “costings” of Labour policies.
How can this be legal?
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@Craigsman
I too can’t stand Dianne Abbott. The epitome of hypocracy and abuse of privilege. Would put some Tories to shame on both counts. Unintelligent to boot.
Yet somehow above all criticism because anyone who questions her idiotic ideas must be done so because they are racist, sexist or both.
Not that I can vote, but I quite like Corbyn and have some respect for McDonnell. Abbott and Milne (not Lorenzo) would make me as loathe to vote labour as JRM and IDS do for conserv.
In summary. Uk politics is fckd up. No win game
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Utna – haha. There’s loads of quotes or instances of her failing as an MP. The ‘case for Mao’ and not turning up for the article 50 vote are two of my own personal favourites.
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I wasn’t a fan until she started drinking cans on the train.
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Best way to start the day.
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bit early for getting back on the booze isn’t it craigs?
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Is it ever too early?
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Probably is, really.
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If you work on certain projects / clients here there’s a nae boozy lunch policy. And you’re encouraged to dob people in who do & get them subject to disciplinary.
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Chimpie – I’m having a break until next weekend.
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Who are these…. ‘clients’.
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Now that would be telling
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And happy GIS day everyone!
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GIS? geographical information systems?
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Yup. It’s world GIS day.
Get out there and, er, do some GISing.
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*Blows chimpie a GIS*
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Well OK, fair enough I suppose.
Fucking hell, imagine doing that. Just no. Fucking Jimmy No Mates grass bastard. No.
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