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Obviously smarter than its owner then.

The KFC is a moot point because without the chicken you wouldn't have any.

Other than the chicken, which is most useful.

Birds are not pets/useful.

Yes.

As PEWS stated below, we do have a strict rule about illegal streams. As such, I've deleted your post in the thread.

FTR I don't like our our rule about stream discussion either but I'm here to enforce it, not to argue with it, and when I don't enforce it then someone always emails James pointing that out and I get in the ****. Would love to be taking the piss out of it with you.

Yeah, without doubt it's considerably more important for some more than others. I won't deny I'm obviously a big England fan but even so I'm a big fan of favourites too and while I'll always want the English team to win, there have been situations where I've cheered for opposition players against us. I'm a huge Kallis fan and personally do have him ahead of Ponting and I just find it utterly bizarre when people find it laughable (and I mean laughable) to even consider him to be in that level of company.

Yeah, completely agree. Not to get into murky waters, but how much of 'fashion' is related to nationality?

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Minnow basher you say?

Hope so. My squad isn't as strong as it mig have been due to wages. Still I hope we make a good fist of it

I'd be surprised if there wasn't - I'll ask a couple of friends.

Yea I can understand that - if you're interested in ornithology, there's no reason to subject yourself to biochemistry or other general biology courses like that. The course I mentioned wouldn't really require much background biology knowledge and if you've taken a specific course like ornithology like that one you're thinking of taking, you'd be way ahead of the curve I'd think. Just thought I'd mention it since you were interested in ornithology - the evolutionary history of the whole Aves phylum is something I find pretty interesting and I thought you might too.

There may be other related courses that you may find very interesting if you're really into the subject. Look for comparative morphology or vertebrate morphology - something like that. It's kind of cool to trace the history of a species and look biologically at the steps that happen over millions of years. That was probably my favorite course because you can put things "together" and see a common threads and changes across tens of millions of years instead of learning about different species or families and even kingdoms separately.

YEa they should - it's a private university. Sounds like a fun course!

Yes please.

Lemons.

Made Heef's Day
GIMH leaving him a VM on CW

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It was a bunch of politically-inclined mercenaries serving foreign interests. You'd appreciate that Indian Nationalists were not exactly celebrating the occasion. The country was bankrupt after the War ended and it was one of the darker chapters of India's modern history.

Not saying that Rahul Dravid was passing a judgment, but he should have done well to leave this portion out of the otherwise superb speech. By and large I do not agree with the man's political opinions (as far as I know), but he is a champion cricketer and seems to be a genuine guy.

Didn't want to derail that thread any more than I already have, so posted his message here :-)

You mentioned: "a fact about participation in the same conflict as the Australians"

The nation of India did not participate in the War. The colony of India was made to join - partly by political coaxing and partly by arm-twisting tactics. The Indian National Congress (INC) at that time felt that supporting the imperialist master would soften their stance towards the colony and that could help in future dealings.

Majority of the nation (i.e. most people except the blue-blooded royals, the servile Congress lapdogs and their ilk) were against participation in this foreign War where the nation had no stakes. Tactically, it would have been a right time to strike the already war-weakened occupant superpower and further the cause for national independence. Instead, blind servitude by a pacifist organisation meant that Britian could hold on to her biggest colony without much ado.