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The Olympics has a long history of odd events, including poetry I believe, so break dancing isn't that much of an outlier.

Hello Maybe an event could be moving from Platform 3 or 4, to platform 1 or 2 at Smethwick Galton Bridge. It's High & low level station with connecting lifts. I've had calls from travel assistants asking me for help, not just patients.

They will be including "breaking wind the loudest" next

Lol, don't give them ideas. The year they had poodle clipping was strange enough. Yes, that was in Paris too, albeit over 100 years ago. Though to be serious, the Olympics are an odd and largely unfair mix of events. How many nations can field an equestrian team or sailing? Even cycling is now about the bikes more than the riders. I might be more inclined to watch it if there were more random events than set ones. Extreme ironing, followed by the 100m Space Hoppers followed by 'I didn't submit my homework because...' excuses contest. Sport is constantly evolving and it's restrictive to keep it to the wealthy nations traditional sports.

Would that be called "Stinkathon". I don't know how I do it. Did you see the sheep wandering all over a national hunt race course. They were ten to one Barrrr! Ten to one Barrr.

One sad outcome of the desperate search for "higher, stronger, faster" is that stadiums are now so specialised that they are effectively single-purpose, and equipment - those bikes and even running shoes - costs a fortune. Years ago, for example, Perry Barr stadium in Birmingham, like many others, used to cater for speedway on the shale athletics track and football on the infield as well as all the athletics field events. Inevitably, wealthy schools now have artificial athletics tracks instead of grass, giving their students an advantage. Smaller communities simply can't afford to provide the arenas demanded by the sports administrators.

Hello, There are no vacancies in my care home.

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Oooh! You are awful, but I do take your point. What I find unsettling and it's common in all major televised sports events nowadays is the way that commentators pounce on the winner(s) as soon as the event is over for their immediate reaction. They barely give them time to draw breath. I understand that viewers would like to know how they feel, apart from being exhausted, but can't they hold off for just a few minutes? I can't recall how long it's been like this but I always feel sympathy for the poor athletes being put under such pressure.

You would never find me in a Pizza Hut, but occasionally I just fancy a fruity cheese on toast which is what I used to call them. Micheal made two pizzas for tea/supper last evening. From scratch adding his own ingredients. Fresh pineapple, ham, mushrooms. There was none left. This morning, I feel so well. No hangover or anything. Just wanting to get up for my shower & breaky. That's quite a good indicator for my age group. I know when I've gone to bed having eaten inappropriately. I can't remember being awake, until 6.30 this morning. It doesn't get much better than that, hey.

Your friend seems to have made you a Hawaiian pizza. Aloha!

Ok, I'm submitting a serious complaint about the city! I've been trying to fit images to Junction Street for a few years now and getting nowhere. Now I find out that there were two of them That's cheating.

Yes, looking through the newspaper there was one in Hillfields and one in Spon End. Hard luck Helen, they are trying to confuse you.

Hello, Most folk using our forum know that I'm passionate regards our forums wellbeing. I do enjoy kicking off a thought, in the hope of responses, because I love learning. It's not just to keep a flow of topics. I've always been intrigued by mysteries, my first post on this website was trying to find a street in Foleshill. Anyway, there are so many things that remains mysteries. Why do we have an appendix? Google the subject, loads of diagrams & kind of explanations, but no definitive explanation as to what it does, why it's there & when it comes out there are no consequences. Any thoughts. Please, never belittle any opinion or idea that you might have on any subject, as long as it's clean & civil, you might just have the right thought.

I remember being told at school that the appendix was a relic of evolution when we needed a part of the intestines that could hold food we now no longer need to digest, such as cellulose, long enough for it to be digested. It was said to be a nuisance we could do without, rather like tonsils. There has been a dramatic reduction in the number of appendectomies (same with tonsils) because antibiotics have proven able to cure infection of the appendix in most cases. My researches into the effects of a keto-diet found that the latest idea as to the reason evolution has retained our appendix is that it provides a safe place to keep the natural biome of the digestive system if the rest of it becomes infected and enteritis upsets the normal balance. Our recovery would be quicker thus giving an evolutionary advantage. (The tonsils find use to alert our immune system.) Our digestive system has evolved for the diet of the hunter gatherer for hundreds of thousands of years. It may be that the appendix is more vulnerable to the rapid change of diet of the last few thousand years. Our diets changed to include seed grains and root vegetables that substituted for animal fat and protein when we settled into cities and became 'civilised', giving up hunting.