I see Afghanistan and Bangladesh are competing in the 'Backwards Third-World Dump'

[Burney]

sub-branch of the Cricket World Cup today.

Still, it gives Scotland a break, I suppose.

[Pokster]

sub-branch of the Cricket World Cup today.

Still, it gives Scotland a break, I suppose.

That's Bangladesh who wil be 1 point off 4th place if they win (as expected) today?

[Ash]

I hadn't realised that India struggled against Afghanistan until my India-supporting colleague mentioned it this morning.

[Burney]

That's Bangladesh who wil be 1 point off 4th place if they win (as expected) today?

Yes. You still wouldn't want to live there, though, would you?

[Ash]

Yes. You still wouldn't want to live there, though, would you?

I like the way their fans wave large toy tigers.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

sub-branch of the Cricket World Cup today.

Still, it gives Scotland a break, I suppose.

Remind me again, how many of the Tory toffs managed to get back from Kabul in 1842? They went in in 1839 with a pack of fox hounds and two camels carrying the officers' cigars, so I'm sure they must have had the backward 3rd world dump well under manners 3 years later.

Also, the capital of Bengal, before the 1905 partition, was Calcutta whose uni let in totty about a decade before Oxford or Cambridge did. So definitely more enlightened.

And how many holy rivers flow through Croydon?

[Sir C]

Yes. You still wouldn't want to live there, though, would you?

Often dreadfully wet, Bangladesh.

[Pokster]

Yes. You still wouldn't want to live there, though, would you?

i worked in Bradford for a while......

[Ash]

Remind me again, how many of the Tory toffs managed to get back from Kabul in 1842? They went in in 1839 with a pack of fox hounds and two camels carrying the officers' cigars, so I'm sure they must have had the backward 3rd world dump well under manners 3 years later.

Also, the capital of Bengal, before the 1905 partition, was Calcutta whose uni let in totty about a decade before Oxford or Cambridge did. So definitely more enlightened.

And how many holy rivers flow through Croydon?

A bit like how the US breezed into Afghanistan in 2001, knocked over the bad guys and , um, 18 years later are still failing to get control.

And ONE holy river flows through Croydon. The mighty Wandle.

[Sir C]

Remind me again, how many of the Tory toffs managed to get back from Kabul in 1842? They went in in 1839 with a pack of fox hounds and two camels carrying the officers' cigars, so I'm sure they must have had the backward 3rd world dump well under manners 3 years later.

Also, the capital of Bengal, before the 1905 partition, was Calcutta whose uni let in totty about a decade before Oxford or Cambridge did. So definitely more enlightened.

And how many holy rivers flow through Croydon?

Tbf, g, whilst I bow to know man in my appreciation of the delights of the *ahem* 'developing world' metropolis, you must admit that the term 'thrid world shíthole' coulkd easily have been invented for Dacca. And, by some strange coincidence, I have a new Afghani chum, and he told me recently how he was talk to strip and reassemble an AK47 by the time he was 8 years old because, 'Anyone could try to kill you at any time'.