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Reply | Rammed if you do, Rammed if you don't - Derby Vs Qpr Match Thread
at 23:43 4 Oct 2024
Having correctly predicted the 1 - 3 to Hull I am confidently following that with a 0 - 1 to us. Jimmy Dunne with a back post header back across the goal that accidentally drops under the bar and into the far corner. You know it makes sense. |
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Reply | National Poetry Day
at 18:13 4 Oct 2024
As we are talking about kids poems...you know that scene in The Shawshank Redemption where Morgan Freeman's character says to the parole board “So you go on and stamp your form sonny and stop wasting my time because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit”? Well, one year every student in my sons school had to write a poem and to put it politely, he wasn't best pleased. As he stared out the window desperately trying to think of what to write, he eventually thought, fcuk it, I'll just write what I am thinking.
At this point I should add that he went to a French school near Barcelona (stay with me) and he didn't particularly like French let alone poetry. If you can understand French, it scans better as it loses a bit in translation but this is what he wrote...
Obligé d'écrire ce poème
Obligé d'être moi-même
Obligé d'essayer
Obligé de continuer
Je ne suis pas un poète
C'est ennuyeux
Donc je vais être honnête
Je suis paresseux
On attend beaucoup de moi
Mais ce n'est pas un tournoi
Alors pourquoi s'acharner
Mon esprit est dispersé
Acune chance
Acune idée
Pas de confiance
C'est obligé
Should I be worried? Too late now, this was six years ago.
And like the parole board, the poetry boffins loved it!. He had an all expenses paid trip to Paris to pick up an award for coming third in the 'rest of the world' (schools outside of France) category and it's now in a book on his shelf....never wrote another poem, obviously. |
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Reply | I know we're only just into October, but . . .
at 21:41 2 Oct 2024
With Preston and Stoke pulling big wins out of their arse we are back in the bottom three but the 6 teams above us are only a point ahead. Now that Chair is back and JCS and Colback to follow, I think we'll be alright but it will be a slog. |
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Reply | I know we're only just into October, but . . .
at 21:30 2 Oct 2024
Portsmouth have had a tough run of fixtures and this looked on paper the easiest of them all. I even had them down for a cheeky 0-1 win in the prediction comp, oops. |
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Reply | Kolli
at 16:39 30 Sep 2024
C'mon! Tell me it wasn't his inspiration? |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 17:41 16 Sep 2024
Up to episode 6 and it's good but I haven't laughed. It's not really a comedy, more a satirical look at what the Gods could be like in a more modern day setting. It helps if you are up on your Greek Mythology as you will recognise certain characters without them being formally introduced which would otherwise pass you by.
Goldblum as Zeus is the standout, reminded me of his performance in The Fly. A solid 7/10 |
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Reply | Eze release clause
at 17:45 13 Sep 2024
As someone else said in another thread, I hope to hear nice and loud on the stream "Eze's too good for you! Eze's too good for you!". |
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Reply | When you realised there was no meaning to life and no God
at 18:38 6 Sep 2024
I realised something many years ago when I used to work in sales where you had to interact with your customers several times in the course of doing the business and that is, people mirror the person they are with. One old guy who worked there was a bit slow and a bit of a plodder but luckily, his customers were a bit like that as well. On the other hand, the manager was off his tits on something and would bounce up to his customers and say very enthusiastically "HI!!, great to see you again! Coffee? Tea? Whiskey?" and they would all have a great laugh and I used to think to myself "Glad I didn't get them! They're just like him!" and that's when the penny dropped.
"there does in my experience seem to be a measurable phenomenon related to the amount of honesty, kindness, generosity and other such behaviours I bring to the world."
There ya go, there it is again. It's like those silly films where you can't tell a lie or you can only say 'yes' to a question. I don't think there's anything mystical in it, it's just part of human nature, we avoid bad, mean, nasty things/people and are attracted to good, honest, joyful people and then those characteristics/emotions are reflected back to us.
As for the meaning of life, I like to look at it another way. Take us out of the equation and look at the rest of life on the planet. What's the point or meaning in the life of a cat? A mouse? A fly? A plant? A blade of grass? There doesn't seem to be any meaning or point to any of them being here. Most animals spend their entire lives on high alert to avoid being eaten or to find something to eat. It's one huge well oiled machine that churns on and on with next to no help from us or a divine spirit promising eternity in an afterlife.
You look out to space and you can't comprehend the vastness of it all. You look back in time and struggle to imagine what the passing of a hundred million or a billion years looks like. Add in the widely accepted statements that 99.9% of all things that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct and that our own existence here (as homo sapiens, 300k years) amounts to a total of 5.7 seconds if the 4.54 billion years (US billion) of the planets existence was 24 hours. And we think we are somehow the main star of this show? Pah!
We get on the roller-coaster when we are pushed into this world and we get off when our time is up and it's up to you how you enjoy the ride. That's how I see it. |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 14:51 6 Sep 2024
Enjoyed Supacell. As you say, a cross between The Boys and Top Boy.
Just finished Drops of God, a surprisingly gripping tale about two people competing to inherit the world's greatest wine collection.
Currently into season two 2 of Love Me, an Australian drama following three members of a family through different stages/struggles in their lives. Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith, Elrond and V...for Vendetta) steals the show, as usual.
Looking forward to watching season four of Slow Horses, one of my favourite TV series in recent years. |
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Reply | Another Michael Caine Moment
at 17:50 5 Sep 2024
There have been five mass extinction events in the last 541 million years and the largest (sorry dinosaurs, it's not all about you) happened around 250 million years ago when 90% of all life on Earth was wiped out.
This 'Great Dying' cleared the way for the evolution of the dinosaurs...now it's about you. |
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Reply | Kolli online abuse
at 21:17 7 Aug 2024
Our species has succeeded because we live as a society, the definition of which is “an enduring and cooperating social group whose members have developed organized patterns of relationships through interaction with one another”. Some people don't feel the need to follow this convention and have decided that if they want to be openly racist, sexist and homophobic (to name a few), they will be. How this anti social behaviour is dealt with differs from country to country. Some call it “freedom of speech” and others call it “hate crimes” but the underlying message is that, whether what you are saying is legal or not, you are still an arsehole.
It's up to civilised societies not to tolerate anti social behaviour and the first step in doing that is to call it out. That does not mean turning the other cheek, ignoring it or turning it off. A bully, racist, sexist or homophobe that gets away with their behaviour feels empowered to do it again and worse than before.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”. |
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