The spirit of the game... The success of both bowling line-ups in using bouncers makes it almost certain that short-ball assaults are here to stay this series – even if it was slammed as ‘dull and boring’. Macpherson wrote: “Even before that burst, there had already been more bouncers in this Test than any other in England since records began. We should expect to see plenty more of it in this series, which could become the Bodyline of our time.”
On the other hand: more than 90% of my received likes and inbox messages are from women in their twenties or early thirties looking for men up to age 99. I turn 78 this August, and of course I never respond.
On the other hand: more than 90% of my received likes and inbox messages are from women in their twenties or early thirties looking for men up to age 99. I turn 78 this August, and of course I never respond.
Consumer fireworks are prohibited in Australia since the 70s and 80s, although you can purchase a single use licence. As a pre-teen I recall Guy Fawkes night backyard bonfire and fireworks, and the regular house fires and eye and limb injuries. Australia also has a national day, Australia day, but it gives rise to controversy and strenuous opposition because it celebrates the invasion of Australia by the British - quite the reverse of Independence day!
Poh is both a favourite show and a favourite dish! The smile and the irresistible laugh... A recipe (and embedded youtube) are displayed in the Bundaberg link below.
@op you might like to suspend comments here - no one is actually contributing now, just squabbling and quibbling and quarrelling. Let's retreat to Belarus! (or Bulgaria - oh no, that's where Jock Palfreeman was imprisoned!)
@'journo' So now you assert that to hold an opinion on this matter I must speak Russian? This thread is about chaos in Russia, and invites us to express opinions on the matter. I am not clear on what your opinion is, except that you wish to dispute everyone else's. I am not arguing with you, I have presented some articles that represent my understanding and point of view. What did you actually say that represents your point of view, and why do I need to speak Russian to prove you wrong?
@journalist this blog is about Russia, not Bulgaria. I have little information AND little knowledge of Bulgaria, so I might as well take what you say about Bulgaria at face value. However when it comes to Russia I have both information and knowledge, acquired over 60 some years of observation, more, even going back to the day Khrushchev handed Crimea to the Ukraine - well maybe not quite that far. The articles I suggested you read seemed and still seem to me fairly accurate and realistic. Your protestations DO NOT. Thus I tell you again. Get it?
jing di zhi wa is a well known Chinese chengyu idiom for 'frog at the bottom of a well' from that era of kongzi laozi mengzi zhuangzi. The frog obviously had a limited view, but we can see the pig would have fared much much worse. What would they have seen? Well, just a well!
The quoted 80% I assume is taken from 'polls' of ex soviet countries, and certainly do not reflect the Russian citizen polls. The Russian polls we can suppose are warped to a significant degree, but patriotism is a big factor skewing it over 50%.
Mine seem to alternate between grey and blue, depending on the weather. Overcast (and rainy) days like today they take on the hue of the sky. My mother's I think, hazel, my children dark Asian brown. For some reason I always recall the bright blue of Paul Newman's eyes. No one else in my family (that I know of) has or had blue eyes.
@ll regarding cost of American degrees - I recently enrolled in an online masters in Datascience at Austin U of Texas, where the 2-year course was $10k; similar courses in Moscow and Australia were respectively $24k and $50k - so the American university stacks up pretty well on cost, and Australia very poorly.
@luke my miniscule sample of Russian students (of English) have 100% contrary viewpoints. Of course this is a very biased sample since all have emigrated, or seek to emigrate. Great care is always taken if the topic of Russian leadership arises, naturally. I listen and never comment except on points of verb tense vocabulary and grammar.
Where I came from, I started a career in IT with no degree, but you couldn't do that nowadays. It took 15 years for me to finish my first degree. But as to questioning the father 'why did you let this happen' he/we have no say - my two have incomplete degrees, no problem, maybe they will finish, or not, their choice.
@ten I speak of the situation unfolding in Russia, of which you insist we are not entitled to hold or express opinions, because we don't speak Slavic and don't live there. That is patent nonsense. Repeat - rubbish! Whatever you think (do you think, or just mouth off) I, we are entitled to suppose that Putin's power is palpably weakened by the events just now, and the events of the last 18 months.
@ten no, again. Information is NOTknowledge, but should be a source of knowledge. I know English is not your mother tongue, but I suggest you inspect the two concepts in your native language. I know that every prime number 4n+1 can be represented as the sum of two squares in exactly one way, as in 41=5^2+4^2 or 61=5^2+6^2 - some maths theorems of Fermat are the source of that knowledge.
@ten No, opinion is not based on knowledge, but rather on understanding, thought and information. It is true Western press displays clear bias, and perhaps you could claim @moth may not be aware. But it is equally true that language and locality also carry their own heavy and equally one-sided bias, of which you may be wilfully ignorant. It is perfectly justifiable to ponder on whether 'the writing is on the wall' for Putin. Like Tiger, I too frequently refer to aljazeera - but you refer to them as having Western bias, do you? Really?
@cw No you're not, but you are indeed saying nothing agreeable or pleasant, that's for sure. @op I am not of old, so know you not from before - welcome back anyway!
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Two favourites from the Land of plentiful sheep dung: Footrot Flats:and Hundertwasser Toilets: