Boo Khaki
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This has just served to remind me that I haven't actually eaten a meal since Saturday evening, and it's not because of a lack of food in the fridge. Just hasn't occurred to me to make anything because I've been too engrossed in other things. Actually Thursday was the last time I cooked, because we got takeaway on Friday and ate out on Saturday, both at the behest of Mrs, else I'd probably be on my 5th night in a row without dinner.
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1 hour ago, geddyalexneil said:
Do the 2 old firm teams have to be numbers 1 and 2 on your piece? Perhaps as other teams supporters have answeredyou more, it might suggest that they are not the teams that have the worst of it media wise? Also you do realise whichever gets the second top spot will not only whinge about you being "unfair" and "biased" but might actually start to hunt you down? Their supports are quite mental and many truly believe their clubs are hard done by (that would explain all the people laughing at your post).
Celtic fans are the Tories of Scottish football. Their club is very wealthy, they get more than their fair share of decisions but whinge like bitches when one thing goes against them. Their fans waffle on about how "right on" they are whilst supporting a PLC. They aren't the brightest!
Are they still having an entirely one-directional love-in with St.Pauli?
SpoilerNo like the Hi-Dees
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3 minutes ago, DiegoDiego said:
Covering up criminal activity on a boat by instigating an investigation into the boat is an interesting tack.
Surely a "wait until in deep water/fling overboard in a tattie sack full of rocks" approach would be more circumspect anyway.
That's what I'd do if I was a merchant seaman with a habit of bringing sex-workers on board and then murdering them. I think.
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So what precisely is the thinking behind this? The shorter distances between collisions will reduce injury and long-term health damage?
Presumably by "No Squibs" they mean the ball must travel into the Blue/Red on the full, because I don't think it's a benefit to the game to start throwing flags when the ball comes off a kicker or Punter's foot funny.
What next? Flags because your QB is wildly inaccurate and can't hit his guy on throws outside the numbers? Mind you, I've been jokingly suggesting incomplete passes will be an automatic penalty on the D before much longer, so
Oh, and have they changed Safety Free Kick rules? Because that is even more egregious in terms of potential for players to get splattered, but presumably they're just going to ignore that on the basis that Safeties are few and far between.
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No Fair Catch.
Cool. Already looking forward to the histrionics in less than a year from now once it's figured out that good NFL kickers can lob it with hang-time into the Blue area, and since it's 10 on 9, the returner will get absolutely fucking buried the moment the ball is in their hands, i.e. like what happens to moron Punt Returners right now who have no idea when to signal FC and when to get the f**k away from the ball completely.
Presumably there is some sort of "neither team can move until the ball is caught" caveat that is absent from that rundown, because it will be complete and utter chaos from a health and safety perspective without one.
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15 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said:
Is 'eating' literally the most basic human function there is? At least outside of automatic things like breathing? I think it might be. How can someone work 70 hours a week from home and be physically or mentally unable to... feed themselves?
Just wanted to respond to this wee bit. I don't really disagree with you in that I also find folk willing to spend £20 or whatever getting a breakfast delivered every morning a bit strange, but then, I'm neither profoundly disabled enough to justify that, or wealthy enough to be able to afford to do it myself.
What I did want to say though is that the work/inability to feed thing isn't all that alien to me. It's the sort of thing that's commonplace with people who have certain conditions known for obsessive thinking, routines, disordered thinking or such. I know that if I'm feeling a bit off kilter sometimes I'll go 48 hours or so before I "remember" to eat anything, but it doesn't stop me doing other stuff, including work, or being absolutely glued to forums/games for hours on end.
Most mornings I get up and one of the first things I'll do is boil the kettle and lay out my favourite mug for making a cup of tea, but now and again I'll be stood in the kitchen at 7 or 8pm that night, looking at the cup, and realising that after I put it down I sat down at the computer, logged in to do some work stuff, and haven't got out of the seat once in the time since. It's not a conscious choice to put off eating/drinking/toileting, it just happens. Brain is so focussed on on particular thing that it completely "forgets" about everything else
The phenomenon of Autistic "special interests" is fairly well understood, and I'm a classic example of that myself in certain respects, but the obsessive fixations to the exclusion of everything else doesn't just apply to things like collectibles, or being fascinated with trains or dinosaurs, or one particular TV show, it can be a problem with just basic day to day living as well. Hyper-focus can be helpful, but it's also problematic.
I'm 99% certain my Mrs is undiagnosed ADHD. She's never been tested for it, but all the signs are there. Her life and her home is utterly chaotic, including things like never being able to feed herself regularly or even throw together a quick breakfast on a work day, yet she holds down a 40 hour per week job that actually revolves around organising, lists, systems, order, catalogues, archives etc. Some people just have brains that can't do certain things in certain contexts, but can in a different context.
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3 hours ago, GNU_Linux said:
Rachael MacLean the MP for Redditch who also has two psychology degrees. In a true show of care for people's mental well being she described Melissa Poulton the Green Party candiate for Bromsbrove who is trans as "a man who wears a wig and calls himself a 'proud lesbian'."To be fair, I think with the rise of mental health awareness there is a concurrent phenomenon whereby people sometimes mistake temporarily feeling a bit down in the dumps about something that is part and parcel of normal life as experiencing Depression, but only in the same sense that you get the moron in the office who talks about "being a bit OCD/Bipolar" and makes comments like "we're all on the Spectrum". The sheer fucking brass neck of the Deputy Chair of the party that has run the UK into the ground over the past 14 years essentially telling people to expect to be miserable sometimes is a bit jarring.
Psychology/Psychiatry Degrees are up (down?) there with shite like "media studies". It's a total black art, the arse-end of medicine, a bit of a laughing stock in the wider discipline, so I really wouldn't put too much stock in the faculties of someone possessing one or even two.
I'm not sure what this supposed "incentivisation" is purported to be anyway. Stinks of this "my neighbour is on benefits but drives a BMW, has a massive telly and takes three foreign holidays a year" shite. I'd urge folk who think it's an easy gig on welfare to give it a try. Especially, in this case, try getting through the DLA/PIP process on the back of presenting with nothing more than a "mental health" diagnosis. Even with Consultant letters and so on you'll have a hard time getting a single penny out of them.
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Jim Spence utterly losing his mind over the Hate Crime legislation. Just a matter of time before he ends up with a full-blown weekly Conspiracy round-up on GB News.
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4 hours ago, SJFCtheTeamForMe said:
Why is every thread with Dundee & Saints fans just a complete waste of time? Why bother starting one?
No one cares about your imaginary dates with someone from Perth in 1994 or what you think of the Perth town centre.
Happy to read any and all stuff about the actual football though
This is why I can't fucking stand the Premiership and far prefer the Championship.
Ok, down there you have to put up with the Morton throbbers, but then you get promoted and the relief lasts only until the first fixture v's St.Mirren, Hertz, or your lot. Every single match thread is a guaranteed cesspit of idiocy, yet it's fine for the most part v's the eight other teams.
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1 hour ago, BFTD said:
Is it weird that I didn't notice any of this?
Where's this search tab?
Top left corner before the first open tab.
Windows version of Chrome.
If yours hasn't changed in the past year at all the its possible Google Update service is not running, or your Chrome hasn't updated and relaunched yet. March update was released on Wednesday, but mine didn't update until this morning.
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2 hours ago, Brummie Clyde said:
Someone was saying yesterday that the Combine track is usually faster than the Pro Day ones.
It usually is, plus a lot of the borderline guys spend weeks training sprints specifically for the 40 time at the Combine.
One of the reasons MHJ didn't even bother turning up for his Pro day. Teams aren't bothered about his 40 times and so on, because all that really represents is a player's ability to train for running a 40 time and isn't really reflective of what happens when they are in football shape and wearing pads. Pretty sure I remember Jerry Rice saying that he believed he'd struggle to run under 4.7-4.8 in the 40, yet this was at a time when he was still topping the league in receiving yards.
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Pish. I saw Dundee win the Tennents Sixes, and that's a Scottish cup.
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Well played Google.
You made an absolute mess of Chrome's UI with your 2023 update, but at least it was correctable by disabling the flag.
March 2024, you put out an update that forces the 2023 revamp on your browser whether the flag is disabled or not. Great. Now you have to put up with the utterly pointless but fucking infuriating search tab in the top left whether you want it or not, and for some fucking reason you have forced a completely fucking awful font on people despite there being nothing offensive about or wrong with the previous one.
Just f**k right off.
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Musgrove isn't looking particularly clever either. He's chucking it.
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3 hours ago, johnnydun said:
Like is Joseph-Day @Boo Khaki?
Total waste of money in LA, but Staley's scheme where more or less everyone sucked. Still, he was a heralded FA when signed after his Rams gig, mediocre across his entire stay, outperformed by players on vet minimum, threw a tantrum when Staley got fired, demanded his immediate release and the Chargers gave him it.
There was a lot of fall-out after Staley was canned with people inside the building saying Staley played favourites and "his guys" were treated totally differently to other players, not held to the same standards, and never held accountable for their poor effort. Pretty obvious SJD was one of Staley's "guys".
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Thought MW would end up signing with Carolina given it's his home State, but regardless, it's a relief because I had an awful feeling he'd end up back in Bolts after the KA13 trade.
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5 hours ago, scottsdad said:
I remember watching The World at War, and one bomber saying that only 3 bombs in every 100 landed within 5 miles of the target.
It's just typical of the Ambrose/Spielberg/Hanks WWII stuff. Completely overplays how heroic and amazing anything US is, and totally ignores shortcomings or anything that paints them in a bad light. That's not a criticism, it's just what these things are. If you accept that before you start then it's interesting enough TV.
Unfortunately I'm a bit of a nerd about these things, and I can never really relax and enjoy them without falling out of my chair at the inaccuracies and bullshit. The B-17's were almost entirely G models by early 1943, yet even in the final episode they are still flying the earlier F model with no G's in sight. It's not just anoraky, the change from F-G was significant because the G's included a chin turret which markedly reduced the vulnerability to the head-on attacks favoured by Luftwaffe fighters. The scenes regarding escorts where Rosie is piloting with Crosby narrating are also just laughably wrong, especially the bit about "P-51's". At no point would escort fighters ever have got as close to or flown through their own bomb groups, yet the series shows dozens of them passing straight through the bomber formations. Also, for the mission portrayed where every single escort fighter is a P-51, in reality only about 8-10% of them were, with the bulk of them actually being P-47's and the remainder P-38's.
There was a lot of "bullshit" in the series that I tried to just ignore for the sake of entertainment, but it was far, far more egregious than either BoB or Pacific. BoB has it's moments, similar to MOTA the Brits are invariably portrayed as incompetent buffoons. The scene in the Netherlands where Miller warns the Brit tankers there's a Tiger lying in ambush and the Com just ignores him claiming "I can't shoot him if I can't bloody well see him" and then proceeds to get the entire column shot up is complete and utter nonsense, but it's typical of these US-centric shows. "Fury" could have been a really great tank movie, but it's ruined by ridiculous crap like the Tiger skipper charging up a hill at three Shermans, the fact they actually have a set piece based on the complete myth that 75 and 76 armed Shermans couldn't frontally penetrate the Tiger I, and the laughable final battle with the SS company where there isn't a single personal anti-tank weapon to hand despite that being practically the only thing the Germans had an abundance of at that point in the war. Likewise the "shooting the driver through his hatch/pulling open the Com hatch from on top of the vehicle" Tiger scene in Saving Private Ryan. Given that these shows invariably employ "technical advisors" (MOTA apparently employed 16!!!) it's astonishing how much completely implausible garbage gets left in and how many obvious continuity/accuracy errors there are that they know will get picked up by anyone with a passing interest. Must be an easy gig.
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3 minutes ago, Swarley said:
Why?
Dobbs is at least a league average backup, and it means they don't have to take a chance on a donkey like Zach Wilson, who there's no guarantee even makes the final roster.
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Wonder which version of Vato they'll get?
Spent years being developed from a walk-on into a starting CB. Tall, and used to be lightning quick, the only Chargers CB who used to be able to run stride for stride with Tyreek Hill in the open field, however...
His recent M.O. is to be eye-bleedingly bad for an entire season, followed by rebounding the next year, only to regress straight back to being terrible again the following year. I think Staley's hopeless scheme hampered all of our DB's, but people gave MD's terrible 2021 a pass because he was dealing with serious off-field issues, he did play far better in 2022, but unfortunately his 2023 was every bit as bad and possibly worse than 2021.
At his best he's an above average CB#2 that you can stick on the opponent's deep-threat and more or less neutralise. At his worst he's a complete and utter donkey that gets picked on relentlessly, blows his assignment, and looks like he's never played football before. Feast or famine.
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12 hours ago, RiG said:
Apparently the Niners will trade a 7th round pick for Zach Wilson.
Daylight robbery by the Jets
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1 hour ago, Ludo*1 said:
Our local media love to put the boot in when the opportunity presents itself and there are a few DABs and St Johnstone fans in prominent positions at DCT and if you read our own club forums, they'd have you believe they are out to get us but the answer is no. They might give a slight wee dig now and then but nothing out of the ordinary from shite local papers tbh. This survey feels very OF orientated as they can be the only two fanbases that are genuinely paranoid enough to think the media is genuinely against them.
Therefore I'll pass on the survey.
The Tully and Courier are no too bad, but its clear the Beano had always had a raging hatred for Dundee FC
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On 16/03/2024 at 22:25, steelmen said:
I thought the concentration camp part was unnecessary and just chucked in for effect. Whereas, why we fight, will go down as one of the best, most harrowing episodes of TV I have ever saw.
The producers were absolutely adamant that this actually happened to Robert Rosenthal. He was a really interesting character. Part of the US prosecution team at the Nuremberg trials post-war. Whether the death camp thing did actually happen though I don't know. He was shot down over Berlin in 1945 and repatriated by the Soviets, that much is true, but I don't know if the whole Zabikowo scene is artistic licence or not. His life is pretty well documented, and I can't recall any mention of it prior to the episode being shown.
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Would have been much more enjoyable if the characters weren't laughable national stereotypes.
All the Yanks - cool beyond measure, free-spirits, invariably heroic
All the Brits - Massive sticks up their arses, plummy, incompetent
All the Germans - Diehard Nazis, irredeemably evil, all dialogue cut and pasted from old "Commando" comics form the 70's. Oh, except for the token "decent" camp guard.
Seriously. I burst out laughing at the "for you the war is over" line. All that was missing were a few "Gott und Himmel!" and a Japanese shrieking "Aaaaiiiieeeee!" as he's shot.
What was the bairn with the floppy hair all about? Wouldn't happen in 1943 England. Then there's the fact a fair few of the US airmen were sporting completely non-regulation cuts themselves.
Unsurprisingly, the series completely glossed over the fact the Norden bombsight was a piece of utterly useless garbage. They'd have been as well using a typewriter. Also completely ignored the fact that despite bombing in broad daylight it was a miracle when the 8th managed to bomb the correct city once in a while, never mind the specific objective.
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17 hours ago, peasy23 said:
From what I've read a lot of the stuff around Williams, like wanting equity in whatever team drafts him, came from his dad. That bit was taken seriously enough for the owners to change the rules.
That was odd at the time, but there's a fair bit more than just that. Two meltdowns/tantrums when they lost to UCLA and Washington, goading other QB's on social media, only handing his medical info to teams he considers worthy of drafting him, refusing exams at the Combine etc.
Again, I don't really have any ability concerns. He has rough edges and does things in college that he won't get away with in the NFL, but that's true of most QB's going pro so it's no reason to be put off drafting him. My concerns are entirely about character, but it could just be a question of him being a little bit immature. One thing is for sure though; if he turns out to be an utter headcase, flames out because of his attitude, or becomes a cancer due to a "me, me, me" demeanour, nobody can say the warning signs weren't there.
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