good grief, how do you reason with someone like this? Really firmly held views and won't brook any nuance

https://twitter.com/BBCWalesNews/status/1130940872445579264

Lunatic!

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/woman-gets-asbo-banning-her-from-sea-after-50-suicide-attempts-that-cost-taxpayers-1m-6597468.html

supposedly the same woman

She is proper mental - she posted her video on Youtube and there’s another 15 mins of her bothering people

 https://youtu.be/9DdisOalDrE

She'll poke that camera under the wrong person's nose soon enough, unfortunately.

Milkshake incoming.

[sorry i am posting too much.]

sorry i am posting too much. just so staggered every day!

So its possibly May's last PMQs. British Steel is in receivership. Dozens of her own MPs are openly plotting to get her out.

Corbyn stands up, mentions none of that and asks multiple questions on school funding (important though it is) and by consensus loses the dispatch box exchange

 

Post more.

 

Keep posting Rich, yours is the best stuff to steal.

Funny you should say that, I already nicked that "clears throat" Post he made earlier. I never claimed credit for it though, mainly as nobody there would ever believe I could write that well.

[sorry i am posting too much.]

sorry i am posting too much. just so staggered every day!

So its possibly May's last PMQs. British Steel is in receivership. Dozens of her own MPs are openly plotting to get her out.

Corbyn stands up, mentions none of that and asks multiple questions on school funding (important though it is) and by consensus loses the dispatch box exchange

 

Post more.

Shamelessly stolen from Next Door's Forum, I was introduced to the delight's of a chap named Jack Handey.

You ever heard of him? He's a new one on me, a sort of really quirky comedian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Handey


Quirky? Well yes, this sort of stuff;



If you're a cowboy and you are dragging a guy behind your horse , I bet it would really make you mad if you looked behind and he was reading a magazine



Let’s be honest: Isn’t a lot of what we call tap dancing really just nerves?


One bad thing about Lassie, she was always warning you about something; let me be surprised for a change.

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We don't do politics on this Diary, but this outbreak of milk-shake throwing is not good, & whilst I have no time at all for Farage, I don't think chucking milkshakes at him or any other prominent Politician is a good thing at all. Gawd knows where it will all end. It'll be Mrs May or Boris next, & that's hardly the right way to oil the wheels of sensible debate. 

Having said that, it does give the newspapers an opportunity to indulge in their favourite hobby of punnage. I'm not sure what it is about puns, they are very Ryanair, we all pretend to despise them, but really we like them.

Today's headlines include;

Shaken, but not deterred.

Shaken & stirred

Politics is not all milk & honey.

Brexit Party shake-down.

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Then again, perhaps not. Lol.

Outrageous.

I was enjoying that. 

No probs Tom, & I'd be keen to hear more about Horse Diving, I did get the impression I had inadvertently touched a nerve, & I know how famously grumpy you can be some days. To be fair, I have a hunch you may know a tad more than I do about horses.

I just found the whole thing extraordinary, & I'm very surprised it still goes on, albeit from lower heights.

I'm not too demonstrative by nature, but I'd certainly baulk at the notion of paying to watch that sort of thing.

^^^^^

Well Giles Coren, (Victoria's errant bro) Tweeted this. Excuse the language, but he does make me laugh with his little outbursts.




"The little *unts should be tied to a real train track and ridden over by ancient steam locomotives until there is nothing left of them but 40 pints of shit flavoured jam."

You probably saw the story of the Model Railway Exhibition in Stamford, Lincolnshire, which was trashed by 4 kids overnight. No financial gain to the kids, who presumably get their kicks just by being mean. Can't help but wonder what sort of upbringing they had.

Many of the exhibits were hand-made & the result of a lifetime's work by their owners. They are irreplaceable.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-48326572

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Saw this on Twitter, from @stevenashphotos, who provides a lot of greyhound racing photos to the Racing Post.

This was taken at Great Yarmouth, & was headlined.....



Split second away from capturing all 24 paws being off the ground



I suppose it can't be that difficult to get a photo with all 24 paws off the ground, but a pretty impressive photo all the same.

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"Yet, the same horses seemed to do that Horse Diving 3 or 4 times per day with no apparent reluctance."


Before I comment further, can I just ask what you are basing this comment on?

I didn't see any footage of the same horses 'diving' from 60ft 3 or 4 times per day with no apparent reluctance.

I did see one horse 'diving' from ~ 10ft once, and it was too far away to see if it was reluctant or not.

Only the body of evidence I saw when I looked it up Tom.


"The horses sometimes dove four times a day, seven days a week"

If you look at the photo, the horse has to get up to the diving board via a long walkway. I know nothing of horses, but I've seen stalls handlers trying to get a reluctant racehorse into the starting stalls at a race, sometimes 6 or 7 burly blokes can't force the horse to move forward into the stalls if the horse decides "not today lads". So I don't know how they got a horse to walk up that lengthy gangway, if it did not fancy it, surely it would dig it's heels in? Hence "no apparent reluctance". Maybe they used electric probes or whatever, but I saw no evidence of it.

I'm like you, & any decent person, I'm repulsed by the whole thing. Not to say it did not strike me as interesting though, in a car crash sort of way.

oioi, Camel ITT.

Morning Mr H, cheers.

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Think Keefy must be out in the states.Can't imagine him missing this.

https://uk.pokernews.com/news/2019/05/negreanu-leatherman-married-34820.htm

Think he was Best Man.

No sympathy for the idiot divers but I do feel for the poor horses.

At face value, yes, of course.

The horses don't seem bothered though. 

In, say, flat horse-racing, a horse that does not want to race - because it's hard work, or if he associates it with being whipped - simply refuses to go into the stalls, & has to be pushed, cajoled & blindfolded, or, when the stalls open, sets himself & just won't move. 

Yet, the same horses seemed to do that Horse Diving 3 or 4 times per day with no apparent reluctance.

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Utter bollocks but no time to reply now.

 

No sympathy for the idiot divers but I do feel for the poor horses.

At face value, yes, of course.

The horses don't seem bothered though. 

In, say, flat horse-racing, a horse that does not want to race - because it's hard work, or if he associates it with being whipped - simply refuses to go into the stalls, & has to be pushed, cajoled & blindfolded, or, when the stalls open, sets himself & just won't move. 

Yet, the same horses seemed to do that Horse Diving 3 or 4 times per day with no apparent reluctance.

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[Vincent Kompany leaves Manchester City to become Anderlecht player-manager]

Good to see him leave on a high;



Vincent Kompany leaves Manchester City to become Anderlecht player-manager


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48325845