luckyluke

Did you end up doing the, ahem, reverse Woody?

I see what you're getting at, but That's a bit strong for the captain of a team who's staring down the barrel of 4-0. Anyway, I go to on average a couple of days of test cricket a year but Monday was up there with the best. Not only was the cricket outstanding and the drama - the sun breaking out to let Broad back on to finish it off, but I managed to get the England team to sign a shirt for a critically ill cricket fan on my ICU. Top, top day all round!

Do you mean super hero films? Isn't that the case every year now? Fair enough if you enjoy that stuff. It just all looks the same to me. I did like the Batmans but even they were a bit silly. I liked Kick Ass because it was different, so I'm looking forward to the sequel, but from the trailer etc it looks to be more in line with the usual bumf. Will still probably go see it. I saw The World's End the other week. Dreadfully clunky attempt to follow the formula of SOTD/HF. Quite funny though.

I'm going on Monday too. The last time I was at CLS England gave the Aussies a damn good thrashing (one dayer in 2009). Here's hoping for a repeat.

Cheers guys. You might have guessed from my habit of banging on about it, but Jitsu is a massive part of my life and it really means a lot to me.

Still overjoyed from last night. It was the Jitsu Foundation Summer Ball, where I picked up the award and shield for club of the year and the runner up for instructor of the year, due to unparalleled success at gradings and national competitions over the last 12 months. And even more euphoric after England won the cricket.

I don't hate Australians either, but I want to hump them at cricket and give no quarter doing so.

I don't know what these fucking cunts are thinking who wanted an Australian to get a century in a fucking ashes test but I hope they buck up their ideas quick.

They put the cuffs on him. That doesn't tend to happen unless you're arrested. If he was being such a 'dozy cunt' why didn't they just tell him to move on? If there was a potential shoot out on the cards I wouldn't be within half a mile if I could help it but that doesn't mean I think the police can go around clapping people in irons who cross some arbitrary and invisible line into the realms of Too Close. I find your justification of their actions (and the level of contempt you hold the man in) as troubling as the actions themselves tbh.

Even if he was being a dickhead (not as far as I can tell) then that's hardly a criminal offence.

Congratulations. Can't believe you've not done some statistical analysis to determine your son's name.

I was on ICU resuscitating a clapped out septic patient. The recently extubated overdose in the next bed was watching it on the telly though so I still saw the lot. I find comparing sporting achievements a bit futile but Murray's win isn't even the "best" in his own sport in the last five years, apart from the fact he's British IMO. Nadal, 11 months older than Murray, has just won his EIGHTH French open, after beating a fully fired Djokovic in an epic five sets, for example. If you're after best British achievement I'd put the exploits of some of our more decorated Olympians (Hoy, Redgrave) above Murray's very impressive feat.

Some big words eh?

So CT, are you saying that you agree with the Guardian's stance on Thatcherism in general? Great, glad to see you've come on board. You might be spared come the revolution.

Just use teletext page 888.

Never mind she put millions in poverty eh, we won some toff sports 20 years later so it's all ok.

My aunt got IDd in America when she was 35. I'm not sure what's worse, their blanket policy or the hotchpotch attempt at one that we have.

I ordered a pint in Weatherspoons last year, and the following exchange occured: Her: Have you got any ID? Me: Err no, sorry. Do I really need it? Look at my beard. Her: I'm afraid we have to ask anyone who looks under 25. Me: That's great, but I'm 27. The beard woman! Please can you serve me. Her: I'm sorry, I can't. I would have served you before because it used to be under 21, and you're obviously over 21. Me: Well 21 is over 18, the legal drinking age, so you must be able to serve me. Her: But you haven't got any ID. I stormed off to meet my friends, one of whom took sympathy on me and got me a pint, without being ID'd. He was 19 at the time.

True, but he's immersed in an entirely different culture. He's been coached to be a professional since he was ten ffs. Most footballers don't have that luxury, nor an entourage of coaches etc planning their every move. That's changing a bit now with academies (especially the way Barcelona do it) and so on but most footballers don't have the direct guidance in the way that young tennis players do. There's something bloody odd about how people identify supposed world class potential in seven year olds iyam.

Obviously wanted Djokovic to win but well played Murray. Check out the midget groundsman!

I was thinking that. For all of you cheering on Murray, do you really want to see Cameron/Milliband/Salmon's sex faces?

I think the woman on the phone was a cunt for being so rude in the first place then complaining to the supermarket and the papers, the checkout person was a cunt for asking rudely (according to the phone cunt mind), and the supermarket was a cunt for bollocking its employee.

Cheers for the cunts trick to get Reina sent off.

Great tennis this, although Djokovic making a lot of unforced errors, especially on his backhand. Del Potro is a fucking beast, Karl Drogo-esque.