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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
A man is threatening to throw himself from the top of the 210 ft crane on the site of our new stadium. Look mate, it's nowhere as bad as when Gross or Ramos were managers. Janssen will sign and Hugo's not going anywhere!

Come down you silly sausage!
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The up to date position is that the 'gentleman' in question is a Gooner.

"Jump! You ****er, Jump! Into this blanket what we are holding and you will be alright. He jumped, hit he deck, broke his ****ing neck."

Those of a certain age and refinement will know from where this originates.
 
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KingHotspur said:
My heart bleeds.
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Just reminds me of how much Spammers can now do by sheer fluke / dodgy deal / incompetence / luck of getting a free stadium. Was thinking that yesterday when Payet said (allegedly) that he was staying at Spam. They can now of course afford a more expensive squad and/or pay the best players more through no good planning on their part.
 
Right now on Radio 2 they are discussing "The World at War" and asking if it is the best documentary ever made. Well I think that might be the case, but more importantly highlights the problem I humbly suggest a lot of people have which is not knowing about history. The old cliche goes something like those that fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it. I would certainly argue that history is far more important a subject than is currently accepted in schools. It seems to me that very few current issues can be understood without a historic context, and World War 2, the subject of that documentary, certainly still has a major impact on the way the world looks currently. I would even go one step further that lack of historical perspective (at least failure to give it proper value) has led to the neocon economists who now seem to have the controlling interest in just about every aspect of business life, are insistent on imposing an economic "way forward" for the growth of countries that is in fact nothing like the path that the world's major economies historically took to develop to the way they are today. Perhaps if they thought history was more important they wouldn't maintain that their way was the only way.
 
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vimhawk said:
Right now on Radio 2 they are discussing "The World at War" and asking if it is the best documentary ever made. Well I think that might be the case, but more importantly highlights the problem I humbly suggest a lot of people have which is not knowing about history. The old cliche goes something like those that fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it. I would certainly argue that history is far more important a subject than is currently accepted in schools. It seems to me that very few current issues can be understood without a historic context, and World War 2, the subject of that documentary, certainly still has a major impact on the way the world looks currently. I would even go one step further that lack of historical perspective (at least failure to give it proper value) has led to the neocon economists who now seem to have the controlling interest in just about every aspect of business life, are insistent on imposing an economic "way forward" for the growth of countries that is in fact nothing like the path that the world's major economies historically took to develop to the way they are today. Perhaps if they thought history was more important they wouldn't maintain that their way was the only way.
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...cue me kvetching once again that, rather than study the Napoleonic Wars or the Industrial Revolution when I was doing GCSE History, instead we were studying THE ****ING CORN LAWS.
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
...cue me kvetching once again that, rather than study the Napoleonic Wars or the Industrial Revolution when I was doing GCSE History, instead we were studying THE ****ING CORN LAWS.
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I think I did the "standard" GCE (not GCSE!) history O Level of the time (University of London board - do you remember when they weren't private companies?) which was causes of WW1. I found it all very interesting. I wonder if kids today find subjects interesting or they've been turned so much into exam factories that they can only rote learn something rather than really understand it.
 
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I did AEB O Level History.
Which was effectively 20th century world history, with the odd dip back to events the century
before to set any context for what came after.
 
vimhawk said:
I think I did the "standard" GCE (not GCSE!) history O Level of the time (University of London board - do you remember when they weren't private companies?) which was causes of WW1. I found it all very interesting. I wonder if kids today find subjects interesting or they've been turned so much into exam factories that they can only rote learn something rather than really understand it.
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I took GCE History in 1980, we did the causes and events leading up to WW1, The Russian revolution and the suffragettes' all of which are interesting subjects. I still love history today, but like so many things my memory of history at school is of the difference a teacher can make. I had different teachers for the 2 years leading up to taking the 'O' level, the first year we had a young vibrant female teacher who bought the subject to life and probably gave me the love of history that I have to this day, (sadly she left) the 2nd year we had the most boring old fart of a teacher who could make the most exciting aspects of history seem as dull as dishwater! I failed the exam because at this point I Iost interest and my essay about the Russian revolution descended into farce when I decided that it would be better if I used the words of Paul Weller and filled my essay with quotes from Jam songs!
 
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The Changing Man said:
I took GCE History in 1980, we did the causes and events leading up to WW1, The Russian revolution and the suffragettes' all of which are interesting subjects. I still love history today, but like so many things my memory of history at school is of the difference a teacher can make. I had different teachers for the 2 years leading up to taking the 'O' level, the first year we had a young vibrant female teacher who bought the subject to life and probably gave me the love of history that I have to this day, (sadly she left) the 2nd year we had the most boring old fart of a teacher who could make the most exciting aspects of history seem as dull as dishwater! I failed the exam because at this point I Iost interest and my essay about the Russian revolution descended into farce when I decided that it would be better if I used the words of Paul Weller and filled my essay with quotes from Jam songs!
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Nice one, Hope that the Eaton Rifles were included in the Junker Mutiny or the Kiev offensive,
 
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There are rumours that Dier's about to sign a new contract, but I've seen nothing about this one.
Great news. Should be straight into the side from the start of the season and I hope he picks up where he left off.
Was harshly dropped and looked very comfortable alongside Alderweireld.
 
5 year contracts : meh. Not even close to the most attackingest player contracts known to man :

the Leicester release clause.
 
vimhawk said:
Right now on Radio 2 they are discussing "The World at War" and asking if it is the best documentary ever made. Well I think that might be the case, but more importantly highlights the problem I humbly suggest a lot of people have which is not knowing about history. The old cliche goes something like those that fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it. I would certainly argue that history is far more important a subject than is currently accepted in schools. It seems to me that very few current issues can be understood without a historic context, and World War 2, the subject of that documentary, certainly still has a major impact on the way the world looks currently. I would even go one step further that lack of historical perspective (at least failure to give it proper value) has led to the neocon economists who now seem to have the controlling interest in just about every aspect of business life, are insistent on imposing an economic "way forward" for the growth of countries that is in fact nothing like the path that the world's major economies historically took to develop to the way they are today. Perhaps if they thought history was more important they wouldn't maintain that their way was the only way.
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Excellent post on at least two points. "Those who do not know military history are condemned to repeat it" has been the theme of US foreign policy for the last 60 years or so.

Also, I saw an interesting book about how the US got off to a strong economic start. The critical element: funny money. A lot of colonies and others creating laughably unbacked currency fuled the initial US economic surge. Fake money creates real growth. There's a downside, of course. But balancing tight and loose money intelligently is the key to a good economy. Draconian solutions for debtor nations are both evil and stupid.
 
Here's the squad we're taking to Melbourne

Goalkeepers
Michel Vorm, Luke McGee, Tom Glover

Defenders
Kieran Trippier, Kevin Wimmer, DeAndre Yedlin, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Dominic Ball, Kyle Walker-Peters

Midfielders
Christian Eriksen, Erik Lamela, Victor Wanyama, Son Heung-min, Nacer Chadli, Josh Onomah, Marcus Edwards, Ryan Mason, Tom Carroll, Harry Winks, Luke Amos, Anton Walkes, Will Miller

Forwards
Vincent Janssen, Shayon Harrison
 
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