Off Topic A Place to have a Moan about Anything

Without giving my age away I'm old enough to remember watching the great Nijinsky win his triple crown

 

Don't get all,this age secrecy .I'm 62 next in chronological years ,,mentally, who knows ¿

 

Without giving my age away the day after I was born Grundy won the Derby.(true to form I probably backed the 2nd)

 

The first Derby winner I recall was Tulyar, and Charlie Smirke saying, after winning, "What did I Tulyar"

The winners prior to that were all in a board game I had

 

68 years ago, that's good going. I'd have to say Psidium was the first winner I can recall watching

 

I would love to know how the algorithm works at Google Ads that decides what adverts to show you based upon their data mining your online activities.

I just got an advert for “Meet & Date Rainbow Christians”, the Gay Christian Dating App.

This must be something to do with WUM Toby. I can put up with being mistaken for an arse bandit (I own one magenta shirt and I have worn it in public) but I will be in the High Court if they are daring to categorise me as a God botherer. I go to church to get the lead and copper off the roof.

 

be based on your online activity , you may have inadvertently browsed a gay christian site , god grinder ?

 

early post of the year contender

 

Existential, that's a word getting a lot of usage these days. I always thought existentialism was a philosophical idea I couldn't quite get my mind round (it seemed to say that the only true reality was the reality you subjectively experienced, or something like that) but apparently the Nazi opportunist Jean Paul Sartre understood it. Now I hear we have an existential crisis, or that OddDog has an existential embarrassment. Is this right or is it again an example of the yanks trying to be clever by putting an -al on the end of some words? Don't they mean climate change is an existing problem or crisis? If they do then why don't they say just that?

 

In my old dictionary, existential is an adjective with two meanings.

The philosophical one is, as you state, related to existentialism, the idea that someone is responsible for his own actions and nothing else has any meaning. If you are seeing that usage you may be reading something hi-brow intellectual.

The logical one relates to existence, so the usage that you are seeing most commonly at this time (especially with reference to climate change) is existential crisis. In the climate change context, if we do not stop climate change, we will cease to exist; so a crisis of existence. In the political context, if they do not get their act together the European Union and the Labour Party may cease to exist (for differing reasons).

 

existential crisis = my betting wallet.

 

Mine's a bit better lately, but that's only temporary I'm sure.

 

ITV Racing graphics

Why when there was a twelve runner field did they put up a betting show for the first ten horses followed by 25/1 bar? Why not just show all twelve horses – one extra line on the screen? It must be the lucky Media Studies graduate that is not slinging burgers in McDonald’s.

 

Two trainers! The Coles, the Crisfords and now the Gosdens. Why have they started doing this. Totally unnecessary for the punter and bloody annoying as it shows every horse as having its first run for a new yard.

 

But they could all agree on Porto

 

Fans, fans? What are you talking about.
If it was held at Wembley all the UEFA hangers on couldn't come.