Off Topic Bill Nicholson Arms

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.

 

Beautifully put

 

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.

 

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.

 

Are you suggesting I am a psychopath??

 

Imagine how much get Real Madrid will pay to have the Harry cranes.

 

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.

 

Your welcome, nice to see you back Rainman.

 

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) .

 

Good work convincing them to buy Costa.

 

No, tis Tianjin I am trying to get to buy him (effing cold there - big baby Costa will need
an Eskimo parka to go with his gloves) .

 

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.

 

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

 

Is it the same in Hong Kong?

 

No.

 

So our China Fans might be mostly in Hong Kong?