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 
The hen poop / egg production ratio is somewhat high for my liking.
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What have Corbyn, Leicester and furriners got to do with your problem?
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Corbyn is directly responsible for my hens pooping too much
Leicester reminds me of hen poop.
Furriners are totally unrelated apart from being tangentially associated with Leicester.
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Red Leicester
Little Red Rooster
Corbyn
I can see there’s some sort of conspiracy gone on.
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The hen poop / egg production ratio is somewhat high for my liking.
Time to add bbq chicken wings into their diet.
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I’m sure craigs is somehow to blame aswell.
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The full-length Slemen try used to be on youtube (the one on CMW’s link is about 15 seconds short). There’s also this try by Llanelli v the 1969/70 Springboks. It’s been cut a bit short but it’s still fantastic and Cliff Morgan got very very very ecxited at the end:
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I’m sure craigs is somehow to blame aswell.
Probably
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@craigs. Considering getting doom eternal. Is this something you have partaken of?
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Chimpie – I’ve played through the original Doom and Doom 2 and own Doom 2016 but haven’t really got into it. By all accounts it’s glorious.
Have you played Doom 2016?
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I think Doom Eternal has some unnecessary story. Just needs demons eating a shotgun.
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Got Doom 2016 a couple of years ago. Just replayed it for a lockdown activity – it’s such good fun rending demons limb from limb hence the interest once I realised eternal was oot.
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Don’t mind story. I like to know why I’m exploding demons.
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Can’t begrudge an elderly man being sooooo much back in his comfort zone that he’s found his voice again.
Matron, the euthanasia injection!
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Mike Slemen past the ultimate test, like Dave Duckarse he was respected in Wales.
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Chimpie – I plan to give it a go. I’m replaying The Last of Us 2 on the hardest setting at the moment.
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MrIks – as a grudge holder I’m not begrudging another grudge holder for giving his grudges a good, public airing.
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I’m making a big picture out of a small example, but for me it is telling that Corbyn is agitated for the first time since the election debacle, hot on the heels of comrade McCluskey.
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Iksy, I had a look to see who’d been on the wing for Wales in games Slemen played against us. Start of his career JJ Williams and Gerald, of course. He’s not getting in there. Later it was Sarra’s Dad and then Bob Ackerman on our right, marking Slemen,,and Les Keen (???), The Original Billy Whizz and Dai Nicholas (??) on the other side of the field, but in Slemen’s position.
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MrIks – I think he had to say something given the payouts – which weren’t really that high when you think about it.
For me a teeny bit of humility on his part (without accepting that he ran an antisemitic party) would have gone a long way tbh.
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Damn right he did. For example, Sam Matthews’ actions and tears never quite lined up.
That’s a very accountant way of looking at it.
Humility trumps running an antisemitic party?
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Tomp – from his perspective humility does given that I don’t think he believes he did run an antisemitic party.
As an accountant (chartered), it could have been squillions.
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I’m with McCluskey on this. Labour’s legal advice was that they’d win the libel suit. Why have they settled, then? Maybe wait for the full reports to come in? We’ve already seen strong evidence that some members of the PLP actively interfered in the election to try to make Labour lose. (And succeeded, obviously, although there’s certainly an argument – as with the Russian meddling – that it was not all down to their efforts.)
I’m really not happy that my membership money has been used this way.
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@thaum
On balance they may probably have won. But it’s likely there was a reasonable probability they could have lost and in that case it might have bankrupted them. Starmer wouldn’t have wanted to be the leader that was leader when the Labour Party went extinct so he went for the guaranteed survival option instead. I’m no fan of him but the decision is a common one.
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Even if this is a political decision I’m not sure why trying to draw a line under this is such a bad thing.
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I get the ‘drawing a line’ angle, I really do.
But when you have evidence that members of the party deliberately threw an election, why would you capitulate to that? Those members should be expelled.
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Especially when you consider that, if that election had been won, we wouldn’t have the current shitshow in power, and the tens of thousands of excess deaths.
This shit actually matters. I’m (impotently) furious.
Going to bed before I post increasingly angry nonsense.
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Thaum – I completely agree tbh. I only mean that Kier can move forwards if he draws the line.
Doesn’t mean that he can’t weald his axe some more if he needs to.
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See what happens?
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“Bob Ackerman on our right, marking Slemen,,and Les Keen (???), The Original Billy Whizz and Dai Nicholas (??)”
Good grief.
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There is clearly a nastiness still extant within the Labour Party. I back Starmer to have the will, patience and strategy to sort it out.
The agitators forget that Starmer won all three voting categories in the leadership contest by simple majorities – s really they should shut up and/or leave.
This was the party that recruited one Seamus Milne as it’s senior media adviser……………………………….
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@Slade – you should remember he stood as a unifying candidate. If he’s not going to retain significant chunks of policy then he did so under false pretences. If a purge of the left is your thing then fine, but all the bullshit about ‘purges’ that didn’t happen previously will really be shown for what it was.
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weeell……….probably every candidate that stands following a mess claims some degree of unifying ambition – so nothing to die for there.
My ‘thing’ is to tidy the party so that it can claim realistic ambition to win the next election. Nowhere near that yet. If there is no clear and unified ambition then they will not beat the Cons + media.
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If the ambition is to crush any hopes of internal party democracy then that’s not terribly unifying. Though to be fair to Starmer it’s you saying “shut up or leave” not him. And if the ultimate agenda is just to govern entirely under the Tories’ terms just with a little more public spending then that’s not what he stood on. He’s pretty quiet all things considered at the moment, maybe there’s a long game to be played out, but big stuff is happening right now and he really needs to have something to say. Grandstanding to show he doesn’t like ‘lefties’ while the country falls apart is just pratting about really and sticks in the craw when it comes with a certain level of dishonesty.
I’m leaving by default as it happens as I’m only a union affiliate and I won’t be staying in the union when my work finishes which is tomorrow. I won’t be (‘re’)joining the party unless I see something worthwhile though I may still help out at election time if the mood takes me. If I join a union again I will probably let Labour have their little share if it’s an affiliated one, though whether I’ll be disappointed if it’s an unaffiliated union might be another matter.
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CMW – hope you have a good last day mate. Have you found anything else?
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@Criags – I’m taking a bit of time out to do stuff at home so I haven’t approached that bridge yet. As I’ve been working from home since the factory itself closed it’s not going to feel like a real last day. There will be a hangout tomorrow, but I’ll be surprised if anyone’s got much to say – that will probably keep until we can all go for a drink maybe in September. There was a ‘recognition’ call held by the guy who’s closed us down earlier today*. I think we all just about managed to recognise him even though he’s barely shown his face at our place since he took the job three years ago.
*well the last one left standing with any involvement at the higher level – it was really his (now former) boss who ‘left the company with immediate effect to pursue his career outside the group’ a couple of weeks ago.
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Best of luck on the next phase, CMW.
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Good luck CMW. By ‘taking a bit of time out to do stuff at home’, I can only imagine that you will be playing Bloodborne. I’ll see you at Byrgenworth.
Enjoy your time off.
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I’ll be pretending I can do DIY. This was supposed to be interspersed with a fair amount of going to the pub and a completely unreasonable amount of playing cricket. But the best year of everyone’s lives has taken care of that.
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Mole got lost in the Wild Wood and was being stalked by the proles. Thankfully Ratty came after him with a brace of pistols and a club, but it started snowing and they were in big trouble until Mole stumbled over a door scraper. Ratty then found a doormat. Mole didn’t know what to look for next and Ratty showed remarkable restraint in the level of abuse he directed at the thick-headed animal. Badger has a nice gaff.
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Toad’s smashed up a few poop-poops, but Badger’s not willing to do anything about it as it’s the wrong time of year. He’s up for beating the shit out of him until he sees sense when the springtime comes around though.
It’s hard not to hope that there is some parallel in this to the current situation in the UK. Seven iron at the ready Ticht!
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@cmw
I know someone who is looking for an auditor in the rail sector around Doncaster, if you’re interested. Not sure if you’re into your management systems mind….
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@OT – Neither am I! Obviously I’d have to know more to have an idea whether it or indeed I would be at all suitable. If it’s very IT-heavy then I’m not the right person. Thaum might be able to give you my email address – thanks for showing an interest!
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@cmw
It’s probably more 9001, 14001 , health and safety and all that. Not IT.
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CMW, Rio Tinto are looking for rail people for their new mine in Guinea. Needs a 650km line built to transport the iron ore. Lovely job, sunning yourself in the tropics, practicing your French, swatting away pigeon sized mosquitoes, avoiding Liberian rebel forces and possibly stumbling over the odd diamond concession. Shall I put you forward for that? Security of employment too – they’re been haggling with the government and their Chinese partners for about a decade now. On the other hand, I’m enjoying your Wind in the Willows commentary!
Hope your sabbatical is short-lived!
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Deebs – could have thrown in lunch you tight arse.
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@Deebee – Unless they’re using UK signalling infrastructure products I probably don’t have much knowledge that’ll be any use to them. I do have an obsolete rail tester in my garage – looks a bit like K9, you push it along with the rail making the circuit, ‘walking the dog’ until you find a crack. If their rails don’t have the modern coatings on them that render it useless then perhaps a 650km walk through areas infested with mosquitoes, rebels and diamond smugglers could be enjoyable. The beeping rail tester could get a bit irritating after a while though and I’ve never really been sure about the French.
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@OT – I’ve been on the other side of that sort of thing. Not sure I’d want too much of it in my life if I’m being honest.
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Mrs CMW was very pleased when I brought the aforementioned bit of kit home. Delighted even.
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I can imagine there were tears of joy at the rail tester, CMW.
Good luck with the next steps.
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