PongRiddims

I could never see what all the hype was about personally.  It's not as if he ever came on and won a game for or scored any goals.  He's never played any awesome passes or overhead kicks.  Runs about a bit, strokes hair, no shin pads and goes missing on free kicks.  I fail to see anything out of the ordinary.  Same as Gil nothing really special. 

It's the excitement of an attacking youth team player breaking through, we had it with Moore 1, Moore 2, Gabby, probably loads others, everyone wants to see them being the hero, being the saviour, but it rarely happens

Can he play left back, right back or centre back?

This bloke called Sun Tzu has a book that's recommended...

Yeah I've read AoW, it's okay but not really what I'm after, talking more 'practical' business/management

No, they're all shite.

This may be the case but I've been bumped up out of the parapet of anonymity the last few months and it's likely to continue, even if I don't believe the hype I'd still like to be prepared for 'kicking the ball into the long grass' just so I know what it means

Can anyone recommend a decent business or management book please?

Samsung Gear s2 ordered, bit of an impulse buy I'm not gonna lie.

Got to say, that's exactly what I'm going to do. Well, not completely off line, but I'm going to avoid social media. You may not understand the appeal, but Star Wars was my world, for a large part of my childhood. The nostalgia plays a big part in why I'm looking forward to it so much. To have an opportunity to capture some of that wonder again is going to be fantastic, and as such I want to avoid anyone telling me what happens. It's pretty much going to be like that episode of The Likely Lads, where they try not to find out the score of the England game, so they can watch the highlights. I just hope the film doesn't get replaced by figure skating.  

This. Exactly this in fact, as I was only talking today about that episode of the Likely Lads in relation to avoiding the SW spoilers.

If I can make it through to Sunday AM without some **** spoiling it i'll be amazed.

I'm gonna turn up your door and ruin the ending because I already know that Spock dies and the Vulcans takeover the planet and it turns out it was earth after all.

Rarely wise.

Surely that's already been covered in this thread?

May have done but there is over 300 pages!! The girl I work with works in my old department so not directly linked and she works on a  different site from me hence why i am considering it

Don't ever do it mate, honestly, I've done it twice officially and several times 'unofficially' (shall we say, had a mess) and it ends up the same way every time

Reports of a nursery teacher being stabbed in the neck and stomach in Paris

Got a link?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35093799

Reports of a nursery teacher being stabbed in the neck and stomach in Paris

Vultures, the lot of em

D1 is one of the good guys

 

Most expensive work ever auctioned at $142.4m

 

That money could get you Gareth Bale for a season. 

I watched a thing a while back about criminality in banking and the movement of money - and a chap on there made a claim that nearly all the really incredibly high priced paintings were bought for the highest price possible as a way to move money. Moving $142.4m is difficult - moving a painting from one country to another, less so. He claimed that the entirety of that part of the market was about turning the most impractical money into something practical.

 

Sounds interesting, what program was that?

Barry Bannan built the ark but crashed it on the motorway and did a runner

I'm with Dave, if you are taking, take for the 'right' reason fella

Come on Pong he answered. Do I e-mail Nigel Saladu back or what?

FOTC? Yeah but you ruined it by replying a few seconds before me [emoji1]

You can't ruin a FOTC reference mate, you still earned +5 Internet points from me

Come on Pong he answered. Do I e-mail Nigel Saladu back or what?

FOTC?

B ofcourse, cause it's not true.

OK, as would I.

What I read was called Pascal's Wager, his argument was about religion, but his point was if there is a slight chance of something incredible happening, are you not better to believe it could and reap the rewards if it did, than ignore it entirely.

I'd imagine at some point there has been an American who has left a fortune to a long lost relative overseas, so it could happen, it could be true. With that in mind, is the ridicule in believing it worth the money you could potentially receive?

It's a tricky one, because automatic response is always to side on the fact of it being so unlikely it's ALMOST impossible, but imagine if there was $10.000.000 out there with your name potentially on it, and you completely turned it down because you didn't want to be ridiculed.

And it didn't change my mind, I'd still pick the same option, but I'd certainly be more cautious in the future

Genuine question, do you believe it is better if...

A - She believes it to be true and pursues the money on the slim chance it might happen. She either gets rich (unlikely) or she is ridiculed for believing in such a thing (likely)

B - She doesn't believe it to be true and ignores the money, resulting in no slim chance of a(n unlikely) windfall but also no ridicule

I'm not trolling, I used to have a view on this situations until I read something this week that changed my approach slightly.

What did you read that changed your mind ?

Answer the question and I'll tell you

One woman (who is a bit slow) who sometimes shop at the place my mother works has recived a letter from USA that she has inherited millions of dollars from an unknown "relative".

The sad thing is that she really believes she has, and is bursting with joy, my mother tried to explain to her that it's most likely a fake letter and it's very common that people recieve letters like this, she then got angry at my mom claiming she was just jealous 

Genuine question, do you believe it is better if...

A - She believes it to be true and pursues the money on the slim chance it might happen. She either gets rich (unlikely) or she is ridiculed for believing in such a thing (likely)

B - She doesn't believe it to be true and ignores the money, resulting in no slim chance of a(n unlikely) windfall but also no ridicule

I'm not trolling, I used to have a view on this situations until I read something this week that changed my approach slightly.

The person who has the responsibility far cancelling Come Dine With Me but is yet to do so, word removed

1 hour ago, PongRiddims said: Do you go up there often mate? More to the point, you ever watch AFC Wulfrunians play?

Never been up the Butthole. I'm a season ticket holder at Coventry Sphinx and they're in our league. Yet to see Wulfrunians - we're there in April, I might make the trip.

Ah OK, let me know if you're over and I'll meet you for a beer

6 minutes ago, PongRiddims said: I don't need anything else, all bases covered with those three bad boys

I thought they only made 2 [emoji6]

Don't get it, is it a film joke?