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Here is the design for Chesham House, a series of blocks rising up to 24 storeys (with 4 basement levels for car parking). Do you like it or hate it? http://www.skyscrapernews.com/news.php?ref=833 Personally, I think it looks mediocre at best. Why on earth couldn't it be a more exciting design instead of another cheap looking box.

Now this is PATHETIC. England have lost by 90 runs in the latest one-dayer against New Zealand New Zealand all out for 210 England all out for 120!!!! :mad: :mad:

I'm sorry, but Unisol does seem to see Sheffield through rose tinted spectacles though.

But there's one difference. Australia slipped to 42 for 4 and Gilchrist was one of the victims.

In 2050, I reckon I'll have been fitted out with a wooden overcoat, but seriously, I think there'll have been another world war by then.

Maybe in a Test match, they'd have a chance of getting 280/290 to win after being 42 for 4, but facing that scenario in a 50-over match where they had to score at around six an over to win throughout the innings - not very likely, not even for the Aussies or any team that has ever existed.

Surely not if they'd tumbled to 42 for 4 chasing 280/290 to win.

Somehow, I doubt the 62 million dead got rich out of it. And it happened because we did nothing to stop Hitler when he could have been stopped at a far lower cost.

What I'm getting at is when we are at war, we should show absolutely no mercy towards the enemy. His mission is to destroy us, so our mission should be to destroy him. Yes, World War II ended 62 years ago, but another war like that could come to us sometime in the future, and if it does, we must fight the next enemy with the same vigour as what we did against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and not be politically correct. And that will upset the lily-livered do-gooders who think we should treat our enemies with kid gloves.

True, and thats after England got off to a flier too - put on 52 for the first wicket, then all out for 155.

When we were at war with Nazi Germany, why should we have felt sorry for their civilians? They supported the Blitzkrieg, the bombing of Britains cities, and wanted to see us overrun, just like Poland, Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, France, and later on Greece and Yugoslavia. They produced the means with which to kill our citizens and Armed Forces personnel and didn't feel sorry for the deaths inflicted upon us. They turned a blind eye to the Holocaust where six million Jews were murdered, saw Jews as untermenschen, and, more importantly, they elected Hitler. What they sowed, they reaped. War has always been a case of 'them' or 'us', and if we value the lives of our enemies above ours, we lose. And didn't Patton say "You don't win wars by dying for your country. You win them by making the other poor ******* die for his".

And the Communist Party of Britain described the war against Nazi Germany as being 'a capitalist war driven by profit' before the invasion of the Soviet Union on 22nd June 1941. My, how they changed their tune after that date. And one well known fact about lefties is that they always want their cake and eat it too. And to be honest, the biggest criticism of Hitler came from Churchill - a critic since at least 1932, and he was howled down and branded as a warmonger by both Left and Right. And Churchill was amongst the first to see the danger posed by Imperial Japan, and warned us about their expansionist policies back in 1937.

Personally the attitude of Jade, and to a lesser extent but still there, Jo and Danielle towards Shilpa essentially comes down to one thing - jealousy. Shilpa is far in front of all three as regards looks and manners, and this gruesome threesome showed themselves as the nasty, horrid creatures they really are. Sadly this threesome is indicative of how 70 or 80% of girls seem to be today and have been for a good 30 years - bitchy and chavlike. And someone earloiuer on this thread donged the bell by suggesting that anyone who is intelligent, law-abiding and welll-mannered gets ridiculed, whilst foul-mouthed oiks get respected and seen as cool. Girls like these (and their male equivalents) are a symptom of much of what is wrong with Britain today.

I agree

They made Australia fight for the runs. Still, England ended up losing by 4 wickets.

The oldest rule of war is that victory goes to the side that is the most determined, and is prepared to do everything necessary. To win World War II, the Allies had to kill the best part of 11 million Axis armed forces personnel and civilians, bomb their cities to the ground and drop two atom bombs. In return, the Allies and the occupied territories suffered 51 million dead civilians and armed forces personnel. And who else could have inspired our country first to hold out against, then defeat the Axis. And these days, all we seem to get is leftie revisionist spin which belittles our heroes, and makes us out to be the bad guys without fail.

And we know the Luftwaffe razed Rotterdam to the ground, killing thousands of civilians. The Dutch had to surrender to the Germans by a certain time, but Dutch time was an hour behind German time back in 1940.

And it probably has to bleed even more for those loyal barcode penguins who managed to see their local heroes for the first time, and copped this 5-1 thrashing.

..... and they're still just as uncivilized 87 years later

Nobody knew our enemies better, or was a more shrewd judge of character than Churchill. Whatever else may be said about him, he was a visionary. He warned against Hitler back in 1932 BEFORE he became Chancellor on 30th January 1933. You can bet he was aware of the contents of Mein Kampf and got a pretty good idea of the kind of person Hitler was. Churchill was dismissed as an Edwardian warmonger by his fellow politicians for describing Hitler as he was before the House. And back in 1938 after Chamberlains return from Munich, he greeted Chamberlain with these words "We have sustained a great defeat. We were weighed in the balance and found wanting" and that "You were given a choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour. Now you'll have war" - words which got Churchill howled down in the Commons. Months later, that same Commons discovered just how right Churchill had been. On top of this, he also foresaw the rise and danger of Islamism 80 years before Ayatollah Khomeini and Saddam Hussein came to power, 90 years before Bin Laden and 105 before Ahmadinejad. He wrote The River War in 1899 when he was just 24 years old, detailing his account ofthe Sudan campaign. He saw the Islamists first hand on the North West Frontier in 1896-97 and in Sudan in 1897-98, and some of his famous descriptions of Islam stand starkly amid the ruins of the World Trade Center like "No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome", and "The religion of Islam above all others was founded upon the sword … Moreover it provides incentives to slaughter, and in three continents has produced fighting breeds of men – filled with a wild and merciless fanaticism" and that second statement explains Islamic terrorism quite like no other. On top of this was his inspiring speeches throughout World War II , where in the words of an American journalist - "he sent the English Language into battle". War leader and prophet par excellence - that sums up Churchill.

So Anglophobia seems to be running at its highest levels in Scotland than at almost any time since the 1707 Act of Union. As we know, 300 years ago, Scottish MPs were pelted with cabbages and less pleasant objects upon the signing of the Act of Union. Scotland was bankrupt back then - bankrupted by futile ventures of setting up Scottish colonies in Central America during the 1690s - colonies destroyed by disease and attacks from Spanish troops, and the Act of Union not only ended bankruptcy but also created a superpower. But forward 300 years from the Act of Union to 2007, and what are we getting today in Scotland and to a slightly lesser extent in Wales? Anti-English bigotry from Scottish and Welsh Nationalists, canalised by the SNP and Plaid Cymru, used to drive a wedge between England, Scotland and Wales - only the other day Scottish Nationalists were banging on about English repression. What English repression? Oh the Barnett formula, which means more allocated per head of population in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland than in England. And Scotland nowadays is one of the most prosperous parts of Britain - if only South Yorkshire had some of the prosperity of Strathclyde, Aberdeen and the Lothian regions. Scots and Welsh rejoice in overwhelming numbers whenever England fail on the sports field - whether its football, cricket or whatever. It would be acceptable if they celebrated only their own victories over England, but at least 70% of them celebrate everybody elses victories over England. This goes way beyond mere rivalry to pure hatred. Hardly a day goes by without some snide anti-English crack from the SNP and Plaid Cymru - but think of this: If Scotland and Wales get outright independence and the Barnett formula gets tossed into the dustbin of history with a terse "You're on your own now", I look forward to the Scots having to pay to put their old folks into nursing homes, their kids having to get student loans and pay their own tuition fees, especially if their economy going belly up - just like we in England have to do, and when that comes, just listen to them wail like bagpipes as they trek southwards down the M74.

So the Bluenoses thrashed the Barcodes 5-1 at St James's Park. And Birmingham did look impressive and a surefire bet to get promoted to the Premiership - makes you wonder what they'll do to Barnsley at Oakwell later this season. And I wonder when was the last time Newcastle lost so heavily at home in a Cup tie against lower division opposition. Perhaps, never before I'll guess.

Lets face it - with the stick Beckham and his wife take here in Britain from the spite-filled lickspittles, who can blame him for wanting to go to Los Angeles, likewise, who could have blamed them for wanting to move to Madrid?

We're now around three fifths through the season and the tables are taking up something which won't be far from their final shape., and Manchester United are six points in front of Chelsea. There are a few candidates for best player in the Premiership. So who is the Premiership's besat player?

England's cricketers face New Zealand tonight in a 50-over one-dayer. If they cant win their matches against New Zealand, then how can they be expected to win the World Cup?