THE BRITISH THREAD II

Saw this on twitter

What, Ballotelli's name on a red jersey? Odd, agreed.

Hey, what genius in the Foreign Office decided it would be a good idea to threaten to force entry into the Ecuadorian Embassy?

As if we didn't have enough diplomatic problems in South America, Argentina/Falklands, Chile refusing British vessels port facilities in solidarity, etc etc. Now this.

I thought we paid those dudes to look after our interests? Back to school for the Sir Humphreys.

Whoever suggested that should be sacked. We should stop doing America's dirty work for them, give Assange free passage to Ecuador, and tell America Gary McKinnon is going nowhere.

I'm absolutely appalled that the Australian Government is not sticking up for Assange, an Australian citizen, they have totally abandoned him! I have never encountered a more inept Federal Government then the pretenders in charge of Parliament House in Canberra today!

Well our government should have done exactly the same with McKinnon. It was one of Cameron's election pledges.

McKinnon is a young man who has aspurgers and an interest in UFOs. He hacked into a federal government computer looking for evidence of UFOs. He was in the UK at the time. If he was prosecuted under UK law he'd get 3 months max. The Americans want to extradite him to America where he could be sentenced to twenty years.

He's very vulnerable, and if anyone had any sense he'd be offered a job with MI5.

Maybe it's next season's strip, ( a sneaky peek).

I wasn't suggesting you bet £100 on Utd. because you think they will win the title. I was trying to get you to test your prejudices.

I knew that "multi-tasking" is a phrase to make sitting on your arse sound good. Thanks Walt.

It's for nothing izzy considering what you get. Sky Sports is fantastic value. And the package has other delights.

Manchester City at the top of the league

Manchester United at the bottom.

ha.

Well played Southampton (So'ton) by the way, City were a bit lucky to scrape a win.
I liked the Saints approach.

The Saints were toyed with Mac.

This might be a tad controversial in the present climate.

Paralympic Games.

I've got no problem with disabled people playing games and sports designed for them. If they want to make up teams and compete, fair play to them.

But I don't think we should all be offered the chance to get involved as if it were similar to the Olympics.

If a man with one leg can swim faster than a man with one arm...it's not a sport, is it?
I don't think this is suitable material for blanket television coverage, which is what we're going to get. It's all a bit overblown for me. It's even voyeuristic.

It's a difficult subject Mac. I'm not sure where I stand on it. I won't be watching any though. But I certainly support their right to compete and a TV company's right to cover it.

They certainly take it to some lengths. What about this "boosting" scandal?
One guy takes a cattle prod to his testicles, to make him go faster.
Trauma self-inflicted to regions where they have no sensation of pain, to improve performance? Increasing the risk of stroke?
I mean.

"Play up, play up and play the game."

I don't know. I think they should be able to inflict anything they want on themselves to go faster. To break a record.

Did you see Sky News Papers Review. 3 women discussing a bloke's dick. It was hilarious.

Maybe good Prince Hal will break the taboo of showing togers in news pictures.

Has Tony Blair been given due credit for the boost to Britain's paralympians he created when he sent Her Majesty's forces to Iraq?

It's too easy Mac saying things like that.

Hey Mac. I spotted Doctor Finlay's Casebook on a channel I never knew existed before. I was flipping through the buttons on the remote to avoid the Go Compare ad.

It used to knock me out.

Anybody who thinks Pinter was funny will love that.

BBC ALBA. 168 on my package.

Do you think there is a lion running loose in the Clacton area or do you think a copper who needs more overtime to get the mortgage paid off has rung in to say, anonymously, that he has seen it?

The public have been advised to stay indoors. The "eye-witness" accounts were from a pub so there might be a lock in going on there and the wives of boozers are being reassured not to worry if their husbands don't come home tonight.

The Gov. of Louisiana has declared a state of emergency which I think means the other 49 states have to wire some dough through.

That's very good, Spendy.

I am at a bit of a loss to understand why, and any significance or symbolism of the fact that we lit a flame with tinder and flint on the top of Ben Nevis and carried it down in the drizzle to light a cauldron of natural gas in Glasgow.

The Olympic Flame fair enough, lit from the rays of the sun on Mount Olympus and that, but there ain't no sun on Ben Nevis. Can we not get away from the flame thing? How about an Olympic fish supper maybe with a deep-fried Mars Bar created in Fort William and borne through the streets of our cities symbolising goodness knows what?

I think it's bloody weird and Herr Goebbels has a lot to answer for.