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Finely poised test. Not that usual for teams get almost exactly same scores in 1st innings. Sets it up nicely for the rest of the test.

It's exactly what your own club is doing, yet I didn't see you criticising that? Hypocrite, much?

And as if by magic...

Qatar bid submitted apparently.

How beautiful

Really? It's tiny!

I think it's utterly despicable the police have gone down this route and divulged the personal vulnerabilities to this extent. It's like they're deflecting away from their own shortcomings and handling of the case.

I'm not sure I can agree with this. Approx 1000 people per country is a very tiny amount. And then tarring that country with a whole brush of 'you're a racist country' is unfair. Because that's fundamentally what it's doing. Take Netherlands. 17.5m population. 1000 people surveyed in that country is only approx less than 1%. Are you telling me that % of people is a fair reflective and representative sample of the whole country?!

Fair, lots of Western European countries. But having said that, when you think about the amount of countries (61 or 78) it's relatively small. And only 85,000 people. 'Only' seems odd, but when you think about the populations of all the countries they've surveyed, that's relatively small, too. The survey itself even acknowledges its limitations: The below, also doesn't seem right: The first survey was conducted by the Washington Post and broadly asked if people would like having people of other races as neighbours. Answers saying no were assumed to have some form of racial basis. The second survey was more direct, asking whether respondents had seen or experienced racism. All answers that we not a direct “no not at all”, were considered as a check next to racism. So just because someone had witnessed/experienced racism, meant they were racist? That seems very counter-intuitive and misleading, and dare I say quite frankly incorrect. They also acknowledge that the sample sizes surveyed were not actually indicative of the whole country. And a lot of it can be anecdotal.

Hmm. It classes them, as the title, as 'most racist countries in the world' but clarifies this point almost immediately as some kind of caveat The other potential flaw is that only 61 countries were surveyed in one study, and only 78 in another survey. It's not even half of the world's countries. It's hard to see what other countries were surveyed other than a 'top 25'. Only from a quick look and going through some of the links on the page. Were Western European countries even surveyed? It's such a difficult and subjective topic to cover. It's rare you'll see any large volume of people admit they're racist. But I don't think the questions they ask point to 'being racist'. At least not by way of the definition of racism that we know or follow. Just because someone doesn't want to live next to a 'foreign neighbour' doesn't automatically make them racist. They might have a valid reason for doing so. But they're ticked on a checkbox as 'racist' because they said no.

Do you have a link to this survey?

And so it continues... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64650310

Sturgeon has resigned.

@Tommy, your rock-throwing expertise is required! Forget the loved-up couples, these are your real targets!

I like this response to an utterly pointless question.

I still can't believe he was allowed to play in that game after the first injury. Madness.

Talking about all this algebra stuff makes me think of coming across all old school reports and what teachers thought of you

Like her or not, this was one hell of a shot

I don't have confidence in the theory that just because there is the vastness of space means it is likelier there'll be intelligent life there.

But then it doesn't make sense. If we know so little about our own solar system, why is there a higher probability of their being alien life in another part of space we know even less about? If anything, the probability is lower based on the limited knowledge we have of outer space? Once again, I'll make the point that I think there may be some form of 'life' in another realm of space, but I don't think it's 'aliens' or 'intelligent' life.

Why though?

Sounds like you've hit rock bottom?! (good to hear, in all seriousness!)

I'm really hurt. I need an alien to bring me presents to make me feel better.

I can't stop laughing at the thought of aliens packing presents Ungrateful American bastards!