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Hi All,   Not ideal news, but we've just had a call from Mark, the owner of Hazel Bank shooting ground.   He's informed us that he's having to cancel the shoot "due to unforeseen circumstances", resulting in him and the ground not being in a position to host the planned 'War of the Roses'...

For anyone who's not a member of our forum but would like to put their names down for the gig, there's also our Facebook event page, where you can. Please see this link HERE

Matt's very kindly allowed me to post this here - thanks again Matt. Here are the main details for this year's 'War of the Roses' charity shoot at Hazel Bank SG, at Knaresborough. Whilst ostensibly the event began life as a cod-Plantagenet game of oneupmanship over a pint (Lancashire vs...

Is this the 10 minute pissing contest, or the full half hour? ;)

I managed a 4.

May all your Christmases be as pissed/peaceful* as you require them to be. Have a goodun, all, we'll raise a glass to you. Here's to a better 2014. (* delete as appropriate :) )

Oh, and I've managed to secure tickets to the Monty Python reunion gig in London in July 2014, so looking forward to that, too ;)

Jealous of pretty much everything in that list. Never got to see Zeppelin, but managed to see both Jimmy Page's and Robert Plant's first solo tours. Page had a young Jason Bonham (John's son) on drums, and he did a passable rendition of Bonzo's Montreux, as a tribute to his dad, much to the...

I would caution against the "we suck less than you" approach, Wonk, as it's never been a worthwhile defence. Added to which, before you start waving a flag for the ancestors of the 40 million Irish Americans who make up that proportion of the US populace, I might suggest that you first need to...

I guess it depends on how (and about whom) you define your definition of 'terrorism': I suspect that Afghan families sitting down to dinner and then, through no fault of their own, find themselves getting wiped off the map via a drone strike might not qualify as victims of terrorism in your...

Although, to be even-handed, once the British began to understand that imprisonment without trial, beatings and shootings were not working against the Indian population, combined with Gandhi's approach of non-violent civil disobedience, they [the British] sued for peace and Indian independence...

Although, even citing the examples you do (and to be fair, their sources are of unknown and I suspect questionable provenance; that, and it would be a fool who insisted Wikipedia is anything like a 'reliable source'), any alleged crimes the blogger, 'Back Bencher', might offer up pale when...

Let's just say it hasn't dated well. Also, Anthony Burgess, its author, said it was a book he wishes he'd never written (he wrote it in just three weeks) and was so badly [in his view] misinterpreted as to have no value as art. Mind you, given its linguistic jiggery-pokery, like Sian's daughter...

Again, in the interests of accuracy, if you look at post #26, you'll see that I block-posted everything you'd written at that time in order to reply to it - the bit about banning was not present at that time. Not that it matters, you make some good points above about the state of what gets...

You edited this after I'd originally replied, so in the interests of accuracy, the book has never been banned here in the UK - whereas, both the book and film have been banned and/or censored (and in one case a book-seller arrested) in the US, as a result of neat puritan prurience. Indeed...

Roger that my friend. :)  Although my reasons are pretty straight forward: I try never to mix metaphors or my allegorical literature with reality. Likewise, sincerely - peace and love mate.

Joking aside Wonk - there spaketh a man from the country with the highest proportion, per capita, in the world of its citizens in clink and subsequent re-offending rate.. And a nation which executes people whom, the evidence later proves, to have been innocent. So be fair, Wonko old son, you'll...

'tis true: more people are killed in the UK each year as a result of domestic accidents (à la falling in the bath) than through being shot with a firearm. Problem is, falling the bath, or hitting your head on the kerb whilst pissed, isn't very sexy in terms of headlines.

Wouldn't matter whether every person in the country, as a result of an opinion poll, were in favour of bring it back: the number of EU treaties we've signed means that, since 1994, when the 'setting fire to His/Her Majesty's shipyards, piracy on the high seas, endangering the life of the monarch...

This ^^^^