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 
Arsehole
I didn’t have anyone in mind deebs. You are revealing much about your own self worth….
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I’m a consultant. I expect to be thought of a slightly more revolting than Donald Trump.
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Willie Thorne RIP
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Deebs – management consultant?
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Rugby?
“The Guinness PRO14 have provisionally planned to finish its suspended 2019/20 season with two rounds of August derby fixtures before staging semi-finals and a final in September in a schedule that also allows for the restart of the delayed Champions Cup and Challenge Cup tournaments. “
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Nothing wrong with being a consultant
*ahem*
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Caveat: the word ‘wrong’ is open to interpretation
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Can’t be a consultant without a good supply of caveats.
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“Don’t use that rock, use this one.”
That type of consultancy?
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That’s part of it. Very important matter in many areas, correct rock choice.
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Yeah, hard rock is always better than soft rock…
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Depends on what you want to use it for
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NOT a management consultant. A management consultant would have called you a ‘load-flexible terminus location for exiting of surplus processed physical inputs’. I called you an arsehole.
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Or as that 70s Poet Laureate of the USA, Harold ‘Dirty Harry’ Callaghan opined, “Opinions are like arseholes. Everybody has one.” Always wanted to use that line.
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‘Yeah, hard rock is always better than soft rock…’
But how about prog rock?
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Best of the best.
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I’ll leave Iks to the prog jokes, I know how much he loves ’em.
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Back to the pro14 I’m not sure how 2 derbies will work for the Scottish, Italian & saffa teams as I think they’ve already done 2 derbies already with only left. Will skew the season slightly but then it’s going to be a skewed season anyhoo.
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Guess we’ll just have to spank Glasgow again.
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Deebs – thanks for adding value.
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Those extra words will cost you. Good value adding for Deebs.
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Weren’t we talking about this a week or so back….
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/17/fifty-year-itch-scratched-glamorgans-alan-jones-gets-his-england-cap-at-last
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This week I learned for the first time someone called Munira Mirza. Today I learned she is from Oldham, and not only that, went to Breeze Hill*, probably the worst school in the town and certainly the most racially divided. So respect to her for what she has achieved in life.
*Whenever Oldham Athletic were playing particularly badly the crowd would sing “Breeze Hill, It’s just like watching Breeze Hill”.
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So quite often then?
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Anyway, fitba’s back! Project Restart is about to errmm…. restart! Project Overbearing Hype has already been overbearingly hyped!
Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Denmark, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden (and South Korea) say “What kept you? It’s been back for ages…”
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OT – me too. Have to say some of the shit being thrown at her is pretty disgusting. Like this long way of calling her an Uncle Tom:
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Throbbers heading for “World Class” San Diego…
…next season (whenever that is)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/17/chris-robshaw-england-captain-san-diego-legion-mlr-major-league-rugby
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OT, Her husband used to put on sex parties for the upper-classes.
This is still the definitive read on her group: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n13/jenny-turner/who-are-they
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BB, Czech football’s been back for a bit. Bohemians raced up the league thanks to 4 wins in 5. Finished 8th. Now they have one of those nonsense split the league into 3 and play more games for TV things.
Fans were allowed in on Sunday, no masks allowed.
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ean-Y-oXgAAONhc?format=jpg&name=900×900
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Tomp – didn’t know you mixed in those circles (Karl).
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Ah, didn’t work. A menu for one of the Members’ restaurants at Parliament.
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Craigs, you’d never heard of her until this morning. Check out some of the stuff she’s written in the past.
I used to work with a really annoying person who was connected to Spiked and all that. A not very pleasant coterie. My cousin’s (step) mother-in-law is one of the people they said lied about a concentration camp in Bosnia. They always seem to have a fair bit of cash and good connections, mind. Toby Young used to enjoy their hospitality, apparently.
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BB, you’re right. A lot of world-class in that article. Also, the team in Dallas has Allen Clarke as coach. Not world-class.
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Sorry TomP, I’d forgotten about the Czech league. It was (as you probably guessed) the relentless plugging of ‘football’ being back, as though there isn’t any other league playing.
I’ll still probably watch those games I can though.
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@tomp
You certainly don’t get many upper class sex parties in Glodwick.
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This is why she’s perceived as a bad choice. Also one of the RCP/Spiked crowd.
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I haven’t read the Spiked article. Half of what I read about her is in here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/15/dismay-over-adviser-chosen-set-up-uk-race-inequality-commission-munira-mirza
Whatever she has written or said in the past it seems like her critics want her to come to their conclusion (agree with David Lammy) before she has even started*. I’m not saying that they are wrong but she should be able to bring her own perspective.
The tweet above basically calls her a Coconut.
*and I admit I could be completely wrong about her.
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Refit – I didn’t know that she had written for Spiked but she might have changed her mind in 10-15 years since some of those articles.
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‘Racial Gatekeeper’
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The one about the Lammy report was only in 2017.
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Refit – fine but the others were 2006-7. Without reading that article or having details about David Lammy’s report I can’t really have an opinion.
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She could be a complete fucking idiot, I just don’t like the tweet. It implies that all non white people should think the same things on these issues.
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Here’s an article she wrote for The Sun in 2017: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4469920/politicians-obsessed-racism-grievance-culture-munira-mirza-opinion/
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Tomp – she doesn’t go into why Lammy’s figures are wrong which is annoying but unsurprising. I’d like to know more about the report and the figures before judging her.
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*judging her conclusion.
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@Craigs – it also seems odd to think nobody should have an opinion on her suitability, she hasn’t been plucked from nowhere.
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CMW – that’s fine. Obviously Labour are going to go for her. But the complaint seems to be that the doesn’t have the correct before the investigation and there is the more insidious racial stereotyping above.
For the same reason, Biden saying ‘if you don’t vote for me, you ain’t Black’ was ridiculous and offensive.
I would much rather people weren’t Tories and were more thoughtful about the situations and circumstances which they live in but I’m not going to defend coercion of opinion based on skin colour.
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Vera Lynn RIP
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