Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Even if Fred post's it a third time Greekman won't reply.

Hays,

Yes, unless my nature has changed.

Although, in the past, I have enjoyed playing and watching physical contact sports, but see no pleasure in attempting to seriously physically, or mentally maiming another person.

However, I found the spelling of "circuses", although correct, a little odd and looked it up and found:

"bread and circuses" = Offerings, such as benefits or entertainments, intended to placate discontent or distract attention from a poor political policy or situation."


This reminded me of this present decaying tory "coalition", which I find it far more interesting, with the gladiators Clegg and Cameron competing, or fighting it out for the leadership.

This little circus has similarities to the John Le CarrCircus.
Or are you referring to Bunga-Bunga party over for Silvio Berlusconi?
Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister is facing a vote of no confidence in the Italian parliament.

Worth a look at the video:-





http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8198507/Is-the-Bunga-Bunga-party-over-for-Silvio-Berlusconi.html

Fred, who won't read this as he has - allegedly - squelched me, doesn't seem to realise that Le Carrs circus referred to Cambridge Circus in London, then the HQ of MI6.

aldwickk: no, I didn't get your MAMmail. I've checked my settings, and they seem to be correct. Meanwhile, I have received one from another MAMer, so the system seems to be working. Try again?

Fred
If you lived in Roman times you would probably have gone to the curcuses and enjoyed them. The population of Rome was about 1m at peak. The circus maximus held about 300,000 and the Colleseum held about 55,000. Almost everyone visted the games and tournaments and there were public holidays lasting weeks and sometimes months for people to attend. It is just a change of taste. Pretty much the same with boxing. There are plenty of people who still like boxing. Most people used to smokle, but that has changed. None of these changes indicate that earlier tastes were any worse.

Micro

You my have mail

Hays.

I probably would have like to have gone to see the cuscuses and probably would have liked viewing them.

Have a look.


http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=&q=cuscuses&rlz=1B3WZPB_enGB336GB336&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=TWwGTfDhDcmWhQfHq8zuBw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQsAQwAA&biw=1280&bih=582

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As you have probably recognised, I have not usually travelled with the mob, preferring my own forms of entertainment.

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Fred
In Roman times, you would probably have been eating them as a half-time snack.

Hays,

PS,

Although, I played a few sports at reasonably high levels, I found watching others chasing a bag of wind, or running around a field more boring than watching cars polluting the atmosphere with petrol derivatives.

Although useless at it, I would prefer to go fishing for trout, or grayling.

At least, i could eat the products of my labour.

What do they do with the Spanish bulls killed in the Ring?

I believe that the meat is given to the poor.

That should make the bulls torturers feel good.

Did the Romans get to Australia?

Ellis Cashmore is professor of culture, media and sport at Staffordshire University. Among his books are Beckham and Celebrity/Culture.


So when you learn about the courses or even degrees in for example, "Ghostbusting" (Coventry University), "Surfing" (Plymouth), or "Pig Farming" (East Anglia), assume they are headline writers' shorthand for academically respectable courses.

In the USA, universities offer studies in Madonna (Harvard, no less), dog psychology (animal cognition, actually, at Berkeley) and, interestingly, Oprah Winfrey (Illinois). The latter is a good example of a new eclectic subject area: it uses the American celebrity as a living case study in entrepreneurship, racism, sexism and other areas germane to life in the 21st century.

Coventry University is offering the chance to look into haunted houses, extra-sensory perception and "the survival of bodily death".

Tony Lawrence, director of the two-year parapsychology course, said it would be "controversial yet thought-provoking".

The focus will be the "middle ground" between religion and science, he added.


BSc (Hons) Surf Science and Technology Plymouth
Course summary
This course provides an opportunity for those with an interest in surfing to pursue rigorous academic study of the scientific, technical and business aspects of the international surfing industries. Each year of the course is complemented with opportunities for practical surfing.

Is it true that Hilary has a degree in skiing, a PhD in swimming and worked her way through the University of Bognor by pole dancing?!!!

This is me,

I am reporting you to the Sexist Police regarding your sexist comments re Hilary (although obviously Hilary can be a mans name) I am also reporting you to the Racism Police for your comment re Pole dancing. Why single out the Poles, when any nationality can dance.
You will be commenting on Lap (Norwegian, Swedish and Finish) Dancing next.
Just how low can you get.
Will wait for the obvious reply.

regards Greek (on Sundays you can call me Susan).

The War You Don't See.

Episode 1
John Pilger investigates the media's role in war, tracing the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of the First World War through to the destruction of Hiroshima, the invasion of Vietnam and the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. As the nature of war has changed, who is the real enemy today? Is it the people at home watching TV? And is the journalist's job to normalise the unthinkable? The film contains shocking, never before seen footage from Iraq and Afghanistan and revealing interviews with former BBC reporter Rageh Omaar, former CBS anchor Dan Rather and Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks. SUB
Today on ITV1 WEST from 10:35pm to 12:25am

Might encourage some people to think.

Thank-you Greek - anyone who has never been reported to the Sexist Police isn't a real man!

Hilary is definately all female.

Stan,

Thank you for pointing to John Pilger "documentary".

Very interesting exposure of the abuses of power.

I am glad that there are still individuals, or journalists, like him and Julian Assange, who have courage enough to open the cans of worms and give insights into "said" democracies.