ianbaker - Comments

Seems like I'm fucked with school regardless of what I do.

Are you still ice skating?

So far we have the cot, which we won in a magazine competition which was nice, the only problem is it looks expensive and any furniture we can afford to go with it looks shite in comparison, but hey that is a first world problem if ever there was one.
My mum has promised to get the pushchair/travel system and numerous freinds who have had babies in the last few years have donated sack fulls of clothes and stuff.

Think it's just feeding stuff we really need now, although I'm sure we'll discover something else we don't have as soon as we get her home.

At its basic level its not that difficult. The version of cricket we're talking about at the minute is One Day cricket where each team has a maximum of 50 overs to bat. An 'over' is a set of 6 balls ('pitches' if you're used to baseball terminology) bowled by one bowler. After that they swap and another bowler bowls another set of 6 balls from the other end.

One team bats in pairs of two and the other team fields. Once the fielding team has taken all of the batting teams wickets (got the 10 batsmen out) or they have bowled the 50 overs they swap over and they try and chase down the score the first team got.

For the batsman to score runs (points) you have to hit the ball, after that the batsmen either physically run between the wicket and you get one run for each time you run from one end to the other or you hit the ball over the rope around the edge of the ground. If it bounces before it goes over the rope its worth 4 runs, if it doesn't bounce its worth 6.

The three most common ways for a batsman to get out are to be caught, bowled, and out Leg Before Wicket. Caught is self explanatory, bowled means that the batsman bowls the ball and it hits the wicket (three stumps with bails on top) that the batsman is defending.

Leg Before wicket is the most complicated, but essentially if the bowler bowls a ball that would go on to hit the stumps and the batsman stops it from hitting them using any part of his body (but most commonly his leg) then he is out.

You can also be out run out (when attempting a run), stumped, hit wicket, for hitting the ball twice, handling the ball, and obstructing the field. The last 4 are fairly uncommon though.

There's more to it than that, some of the terminology is confusing, and some of the rules no one knows, but that should be enough to understand whats happening 90% of the time.

Just 6-7 weeks until the baby is due now and I'm starting to brick it a bit, still not got the spare room cleared out and set up as a nursery, still not passed my driving test and still need to buy quite a bit of stuff.

On a brighter note we did go for a 4D scan the other day which was awesome;

Ffs, missed my uni lecture this morning to go to the dentist, then went work and got sent home for not shaving, despite having like 3 hairs on my face. Tweeted it on twitter and my lecturer from uni saw the tweet /o\

Also Ireland are just better at everything

Do scaffolding and roofing mainly the roofing side for council though. Literally every male for the last few generations in my family has done it

So I fell of a scaffold today and fucked my leg and I feel like its karma for laughing at that last night. Going to be a fun festival and cup final this week barely being able to walk

Don't remember the media and pundits demanding Riise be banned for breaking Alan Smith's leg.

Link to Dyche's video:

Just got the brief for tomorrows shoot, shitting myself abit now ha

I thought at first it was Sturridge who was pissed of most, but Henderson said in the interview he wanted the pen, but Balotelli would have been the obvious choice

If anything more should be made of how greedy Sturridge was for the whole game, disappointing performance from him

Having a birthday on a Wednesday is shit, everybodys at work. Wish I hadn't booked the day off now.

Hoping for Blackburn in the draw as we've had some cracking games with them in the cups, I'll never forget the 6-4 League cup semi final second leg in 2010 and then drinking a bottle of Frosty Jacks with a couple of Rovers fans we met in Tesco after the game.

They're in it for 1 year only

Surely now Lambert has got to get the boot? He must have some dirt on Lerner to have lasted this long.

He's spouting the same tired cliches about great effort and thirteen cup finals coming up. We are going to get relegated with this useless twat in charge. I'm not too confident in our chances even if we brought in some world class manager today, but we are certainly doomed with him, we've just broken the record for least goals after 25 games, yet another unwanted record he has bestowed upon our club. Even Alex McLeish was better than this gimp.

She reminds me of your misses

It'll work when it's a loose legged lady.

Considering how history unfolded after the war, Britain is arguably the biggest loser of the major powers involved. I'm not sure guaranteeing Belgian neutrality is a cause worth losing an empire and 2% of your total population for, if the British leadership at the time had the wisdom of hindsight available to them, I'm not sure that they would make the decision they made.

Imperial Germany were naughty boys, invading neutral Belgium, being the first to use chemical weapons and carrying out indiscriminate submarine warfare, but the First World War was hardly some great battle between good and evil, only a giant clusterfuck triggered by the web of pacts, alliances, agreements and guarantees the great powers of Europe had made in the preceding century. Calling countries not bound by such agreements "spineless nancies" for not entering the war reeks of ignorance and stupidity, especially when you know what an unspeakable tragedy the war was for anyone who was involved in it.

The ignorance of ianbakers comment is is further heightened by the fact that he's chastising a neutral power for remaining neutral, when the United Kingdom entered the war to defend the right of neutral powers to do exactly that. On top of that, had Sweden entered the war it would almost certainly have been on the German's side, the Swedish elites at the time were germanophiles and our greatest historical antagonist was a member of the Entente, recapturing or liberating Finland would have been the only conceivable reason for Sweden to enter the war.

The Hardcore History podcast is absolutely

Been listening to the series about the first world war over the past two weeks and it's just incredible.

Fuck off you ya smartarse!!

Fairly sure Istanbul is pretty safe

ISIS recruitment strategy

Flying back to Australia tonight and wait for it... Reason I'm going back is knee surgery next month

That's bs. From what I've read he'll be looking at about £1.8M per year to start with.

Don't know why you would tbh

That not be normal for winter weather Franck?