Couple of quizzes to keep you entertained. There are no real rules; I will post the answers after a suitable period of time. Discussion is permitted.
Cwiz 1: Prisons
1. In which novel did Edmond Nantes escape from the Chateau d’If?
2. In which prison was the Marquis de Sade incarcerated?
3. Which South African prison was named after the Afrikaans word for seal?
4. Which Cavalier poet wrote, “Stone walls do not a prison make”?
5. Which US prison took its name from pelicans?
6. Who wrote
I never saw a man who looked,
With such a wistful eye,
Upon that little tent of blue,
Which prisoners call the sky.
7. Tartarus was a dungeon in Greek myth; for whom was it built?
8. Frank Darabont directed which prison movie?
9. Which isolated UK prison opened in 1809 to house Napoleonic War prisoners?
10. In 1952, the Kray twins were held in which historic prison?
This cwiz is courtesy of ProfessorPineapple
Cwiz 2: Scrambled Plays
1. Forgoing toadwit
2. Meth cab
3. Née in lewd farmyards
4. Limp agony
5. Anal seas fathomed
6. Sex up or die
7. A Leo knocking bar
8. See earthling games
9. I scorn hero
10. Sole had soul
Ovally Balls 
How can anyone be more evil that Ashton?
He did that splash thing. Ate at Nando’s
Literally the worst person in the universe
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Just got sent this email. Sounds legit
‘From Mrs. Caroline Manier
Greeting s. My name is Mrs. Caroline Manier a nationality of Belgium. I am married to Late Mr., schneider Manier nationality of Switzerland who died in plan clash. Though I have not considered this medium to be the best manner to have approached you on this issue being that the Internet has been greatly abused over the recent years and is very unsecured for information’s of vital importance,
I have decided to take the chance seeing that no other means could have been faster and more efficient than the E-mail as my health condition is deteriorating by the day as a fibroids patients I have Five Million United State Dollars (5,000,000) I want you to handle for me in Lord’s glory. So get back for more Information.’
I’ll email right back.
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Someone on Facebook just started a petition to rename our local primary school as the current name has some link to slavery that nobody knew about. It hasn’t gone down well….
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Deebee, I didn’t actually watch the video. Just saw “defensive masterclass” and hoped the knockers would see that Owen F’s a top top defender.
It now seems I may have made a mistake and that the title is ironically mocking the TMA. Or, and I suspect this is closer to the truth, you, as a South African, are making stuff up about Ole Ice in his Veins.
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I hate it when people try to literally erase history by drawing attention to historical figures involved in the slave trade that others did not know about. They’re destroying the heritage of the country that I had no clue about.
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Got to love [1] a good culture war.
[1] not
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Not a fan of these kind of statues in general. Think I’d favour the explanatory plaque (i.e. X was a slave trading toss bag who tried to launder his image) rather than wholesale destruction.
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The young lad doing the petition has tried to find an alternative name for the school to replace the slavery-tainted one. He has obviously decided it has to be a black person but, with this being Upminster, is obviously finding it hard to come up with an example. So he has extended this to Romford, which will no doubt lead to much spluttering on the Upminster Golf Club Zoom calls:
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Stick ’em in a big Slave Traders’ Statue park if it means so much to people.
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Just call the school Slavey McSlaveface.
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Please make this a reality.
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Laser beams have long been used in Argentina. Cough.
The Farrell masterclass sees him either chickening out of tackles, clotheslining, getting bounced, no-arms shoulder charges or getting run over in almost all clips. Two where he almost makes a legit tackle just to remind everyone of just how evil he is. Splashton is Saint Peter by comparison.
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Butch James is Mother Teresa by comparison.
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Bakkies Botha is the Virgin Mary by comparison.
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Boris Johnson is still a complete arsehole by comparison though.
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Dominic Cummings is Bojo’s backside in comparison to Bojo. So roughly an OF ankle tap (never happened in reality).
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Owen Farrell does a lot of work for charity.
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JR-M is DC’s etc etc as we plunge headlong into a rabbit hole of horrific horror, with only the distant glimmer of Sir Keir sharpening his blade as succour.
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Bless him. All forgiven then! Tours of the neck and head injury wards?
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You are a pervert.
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That I may be, but compared to the empty vessels tumbling down the staircase masquerading as leadership, sharp and deadly he is!
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Bakkies Botha is the Virgin
Always knew that Bakkies was an incel
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Deebee,
Now I see why Starmer’s your absolute boy:
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You love to see it.
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Oh dear, where to begin?
@Craigs, quote the whole sentence, not just the Farage Instinct.
@TomP – and how is that description of SKS damning when you have Bojo, Cummings etc al in power?
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That’s fucking brilliant, refit.
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The far-right are very very strange people:
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Deebee – can I just point out that ‘Mother’ Theresa was a bigger monster than even Owen Farrell and Chris Ashton combined?
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when you have BoJo cumming
Deebs, I don’t think you should be revealing that shit on here
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Speaking of archive sport I really enjoyed the BBC’s highlights of the 1984 test at Lord’s when England set West Indies 340-odd to win on the last day and Greenidge knocked them off with the minimum of fuss (though some violence). Aside from that innings Mike Gatting shouldering arms to be lbw twice in the same game and a shot Neil Foster played (or rather didn’t) when he backed away to Marshall and then left a ball that passed an inch over middle and leg which is exactly what any of us would have done were particularly wonderful. Also Geoff Miller getting run out dawdling to the non-striker’s end to a direct hit from fine leg which is the sort of thing that happens to you once as a child and then never again. The throw knocked the middle stump out of the ground too which was great.
Going back to earlier conversations although that series was possible the peak of West Indies’ dominance over England their side in that game was at least one batsman short and much more surprisingly only had two great fast bowlers in it (Marshall and Garner) as Holding was injured and the others were not all that. Hard to think that there wouldn’t have been opportunities for some of those that took the bans instead. Of course they couldn’t know that at the time and in any case they probably got paid a lot more for what they did than what they might have got if they hadn’t done it so it’s easy enough to understand. Also looked up Kalli’s career and was surprised to find that it seems his last test was a good couple of years before the rebel tour and he’d had a couple of years averaging 25 before getting dropped (50 before that). Didn’t realise he’s as old as he is, I guess because he carried on playing for Warwickshire for so long after all that.
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/10/nascar-confederate-flag-banned
This could be an interesting story
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CMW, Larry Gomes was worth two batsmen.Then you have Clive Lloyd, Gordon Greenwich, Desmond Haynes, Viv Richards, Richie Richardson, and Jeff Dujon keeping. Thats some batting side.
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https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/501998-christopher-columbus-statues-toppled-in-richmond-beheaded-in
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@sbt
So are they going to give the native Americans their land back, then? I thought not.
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Thauma, I’ll bet Mother Theresa was more imposing in the tackle area than either Farrell or Ashton though.
Sorry, too early?
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@SBT – Richardson didn’t play in that series, Lloyd was near enough forty and Dujon was batting at six with Harper, Baptiste etc to follow. Not their greatest lineup. Of course with the quality of the best players it didn’t need to be. If you look at their teams through their best period they often had at least one batsman in the side who ended up not really making it. Along with not having a spinner (I know they didn’t really need one) it’s where they compare unfavourably with the best Aussie sides that came after. Obviously they win on fast bowling and having Viv Richards.
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CMW, I remember that series very well. Never been much of an England fan, more enjoyed certain individual players. That final day at Lords was just brilliant. Greenidge was magnificent.
One later test in that year Marshall broke a wrist and still blew England away with 7 or 8 wickets in an innings. Just brilliant control.
The next series in the West Indies they also did the blackwash and Patterson was in the side and really menacing. That was the one in which Gatting got his face re-arranged. I looked up the card for a couple of the tests and saw that Holding was the second change. Simply relentless.
Greenidge and Marshall were both Hampshire guys and we generally thought Hampshire players got a rough deal when it came to England selection – mostly it was that Trevor Jesty never got a chance – so there was a lot of liking of the West Indies. Plus, they had Viv and Garner and Desmond Haynes and all the other guys.
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@tomp
When I was a kid we were convinced Lancashire were getting a rough deal selection wise. There was Paul Allott and Graeme Fowler in the early to mid 80s, Phil DeFreitas when he moved from Leicestershire, and Athers later on, but I don’t remember anyone else in that period. It went a bit mad after that, particularly when Bumble was made coach and they seemed to make up for lost time – Watkinson, Chappell, Peter Martin, Ian Austin, Warren Hegg, and probably loads more.
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I wasn’t really into cricket in 1984 but I do remember this
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Fairbrother played a few times. Crawley, but he might be too late. Who was that Aussie that played for Lancs? Jason somebody, again might be later.
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Gallian. 3 caps.
It always seemed that if you did all right at Middlesex or Essex they’d sling you a cap. They were strong sides at the time so no real surprise about that.
The same “selectors are biased” notions used to hold in Welsh rugby, especially for Cardiff players. Same in English rugby as well. Probably everywhere.
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Even Graham Lloyd played for England and he wasn’t much whack.
Nowt to do with his dad of course.
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Sbt – there a synt flying a confederate flag flying in a garden in a village near me.
I don’t know if they’ve done any research or just watched Duke’s of Hazard but it’s clearly an advertisement that is a fuck wit lives there.
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“In 1987 after eleven successive years in the bottom six, Lancashire finished second in the championship, their highest position in 27 years.”
Think this may go some way to explaining the England side not being full of Lancastrians in the early-mid 80s.
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Didn’t think it was always their weather that stopped them winning the thing for about a hundred years…
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@cmw
That was not the general belief in the northwest at the time. It was the metropolitan elite, or home counties snobbery or something.
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‘Astronauts have created “exotic matter” on board the International Space Station.’
I’ve seen how this ends up. Thanos will come along & bung it in his infinity glove
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@cmw
Plus the idea that Manchester gets more rain is a well trodden myth. It’s the surrounding Pennine townss that get it….
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/myth-rainy-manchester-university-research-6166900
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I think my having spent a long time in Yorkshire might be beginning to show through.
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