Off Topic Bill Nicholson Arms

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I am curious to see how The Sun pays tribute to him tomorrow - if they do at all, that is, as it wouldn't surprise me if they buried it a few pages inside so they don't have to acknowledge their particularly unpleasant treatment of him.
They appear to have paid lip-service to any tribute, but certainly fallen well short of any apology. 'Sorry' remains an omission from the Sun dictionary......
 
One of my work colleagues has just has to leave the mine at short notice and return home to Ghana because his sister has been killed in a car crash. She had five young kids. Sort of puts things into perspective. Life is **** and then you die. ou C'est la vie, C'est la merde as the french would say.
 
He'll be remembered for being a thoroughly decent man who kept his dignity after suffering an appalling personal attack by the Sun newspaper.

He loved football and football people and fans. Sadly, so many of today's "stars" love money and nothing else.

The tributes to him from football people today, show how much he was respected throughout the game.

RIP

Beautifully put <applause>
 
Don't know if its been mentioned about the cranes being used for the new ground. Instead of hiring them Levy purchased them for 6mill a pop. Now they have trebled in value.

Gotta love Darth.
 
They appear to have paid lip-service to any tribute, but certainly fallen well short of any apology. 'Sorry' remains an omission from the Sun dictionary......
The first half of their "tribute" is patting themselves on the back for such clever wordplay with their headlines.

For no reason whatsoever, the following is the legal definition of a psychopath...

... antisocial personality disorder (ASPD - which includes) sociopathy and psychopathy. According to the DSM-IV (the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ofMental Disorders), to be classified as suffering from ASPD a person must show a 'pervasive disregard for and violation of the rights of others' as indicated by three or more of a list of several characteristics including a failure to conform to social norms, deceitfulness, impulsivity and lack of remorse.

To be diagnosed as having ASPD, a person must also be over 18 years of age - which presumably shows the influence of concerns about legal responsibility rather than any underlying medical reality....

Psychopathy is primarily diagnosed using Robert Hare's Psychopathy Checklist - Revised (PCL-R) which is a 20 item list containing items relating to both personality and antisocial behaviour. Factor analysis of the list of diagnostic items in the PCL-R has identified two factors.

Factor 1 consists of a set of affective/interpersonal features including shallow affect, failure to accept responsibility, callousness and lack of empathy, grandiose sense of self-worth and glibness or superficial charm.

Factor 2 relates to antisocial or impulsive behaviour, including poor behavioural controls, lack of realistic long-term goals and early behavioural problems.

Apart from these cognitive and emotional deficits, discussed in more detail below, psychopaths can be clear-headed, rational and highly intelligent.
 
Goooooooood evening, Totten-ham.

Back from 2 weeks in China.
Internet control made login impossible (long story but I will explain in time) ,
but I was able to read. A lot to catch up on, but I will immediately give a nod
to Spurlock and his rag-doll treatment of the Ginger tiddler since a certain PL result.
 
The first half of their "tribute" is patting themselves on the back for such clever wordplay with their headlines.

For no reason whatsoever, the following is the legal definition of a psychopath...

... antisocial personality disorder (ASPD - which includes) sociopathy and psychopathy. According to the DSM-IV (the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ofMental Disorders), to be classified as suffering from ASPD a person must show a 'pervasive disregard for and violation of the rights of others' as indicated by three or more of a list of several characteristics including a failure to conform to social norms, deceitfulness, impulsivity and lack of remorse.

To be diagnosed as having ASPD, a person must also be over 18 years of age - which presumably shows the influence of concerns about legal responsibility rather than any underlying medical reality....

Psychopathy is primarily diagnosed using Robert Hare's Psychopathy Checklist - Revised (PCL-R) which is a 20 item list containing items relating to both personality and antisocial behaviour. Factor analysis of the list of diagnostic items in the PCL-R has identified two factors.

Factor 1 consists of a set of affective/interpersonal features including shallow affect, failure to accept responsibility, callousness and lack of empathy, grandiose sense of self-worth and glibness or superficial charm.

Factor 2 relates to antisocial or impulsive behaviour, including poor behavioural controls, lack of realistic long-term goals and early behavioural problems.

Apart from these cognitive and emotional deficits, discussed in more detail below, psychopaths can be clear-headed, rational and highly intelligent.
Are you suggesting I am a psychopath?? :emoticon-0130-devil
 
Goooooooood evening, Totten-ham.

Back from 2 weeks in China.
Internet control made login impossible (long story but I will explain in time) ,
but I was able to read. A lot to catch up on, but I will immediately give a nod
to Spurlock and his rag-doll treatment of the Ginger tiddler since a certain PL result.
My inlaws went to China many moons ago and got sick of the food.They said everything is cooked in peanut oil.
So our Chinese "Chinese" over here isn't Chinese!!!!?

Come in Barrington Dalby..Sorry! Mr RDBD.
 
Goooooooood evening, Totten-ham.

Back from 2 weeks in China.
Internet control made login impossible (long story but I will explain in time) ,
but I was able to read. A lot to catch up on, but I will immediately give a nod
to Spurlock and his rag-doll treatment of the Ginger tiddler since a certain PL result.

Your welcome, nice to see you back Rainman.
 
My inlaws went to China many moons ago and got sick of the food.They said everything is cooked in peanut oil.

Peanut oil is used a lot for stir-fry.
Over here, the danger of nut allergies etc means other oils are used.

I had hardly any stuff that was stir-fried over the 2 weeks (a lot of local
dishes though - which was good to try) .
 
Goooooooood evening, Totten-ham.

Back from 2 weeks in China.
Internet control made login impossible (long story but I will explain in time) ,
but I was able to read. A lot to catch up on, but I will immediately give a nod
to Spurlock and his rag-doll treatment of the Ginger tiddler since a certain PL result.
Good work convincing them to buy Costa. <ok>
 
My inlaws went to China many moons ago and got sick of the food.They said everything is cooked in peanut oil.
So our Chinese "Chinese" over here isn't Chinese!!!!?

Come in Barrington Dalby..Sorry! Mr RDBD.
As I recall from going to Singapore a couple of decades back, after a few days Chinese food starts to become monotonous as most places have a very limited amount of sauces they use for everything.

That's why I've never found Japanese food monotonous in my numerous visits there, as sushi, ramen, tempura, teriyaki and okonomiyaki have plenty of variety within themselves and don;t all have the same three or four flavours that come from using the same finite number of sauces.
 
Right then, Internet access in that there China ...

Google, Facebook. Twitter are blocked. So no Youtube means no ArsenalFanTV. :( :)

However there is a more serious aspect that is not immediately obvious.
A lot of free/commercial web sites use tech provided by the above for
account/analytics/ad management (googleapi etc) . As the China firewalls block
anything associated with those companies, functionality hangs or never loads etc.

The not606 login function is evidently implemented on Google Plus tech, and thus
nobody in China can login to the site. It makes you wonder if businesses are losing
the China market because they have not done website "localisation" to not use/
reference tech/stuff belonging to those on the China black list.
 
Right then, Internet access in that there China ...

Google, Facebook. Twitter are blocked. So no Youtube means no ArsenalFanTV. :( :)

However there is a more serious aspect that is not immediately obvious.
A lot of free/commercial web sites use tech provided by the above for
account/analytics/ad management (googleapi etc) . As the China firewalls block
anything associated with those companies, functionality hangs or never loads etc.

The not606 login function is evidently implemented on Google Plus tech, and thus
nobody in China can login to the site. It makes you wonder if businesses are losing
the China market because they have not done website "localisation" to not use/
reference tech/stuff belonging to those on the China black list.

And yet, according to some article I read this week, we have 45 million fans in China. How do they cope without this brotherhood?
 
Right then, Internet access in that there China ...

Google, Facebook. Twitter are blocked. So no Youtube means no ArsenalFanTV. :( :)

However there is a more serious aspect that is not immediately obvious.
A lot of free/commercial web sites use tech provided by the above for
account/analytics/ad management (googleapi etc) . As the China firewalls block
anything associated with those companies, functionality hangs or never loads etc.

The not606 login function is evidently implemented on Google Plus tech, and thus
nobody in China can login to the site. It makes you wonder if businesses are losing
the China market because they have not done website "localisation" to not use/
reference tech/stuff belonging to those on the China black list.

Is it the same in Hong Kong?