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What's the simile behind clearing in the woods?

3 hours ago, Villa 59 said:

Laziness is a  CHOICE and  it's the CHOICE that Barkley makes. 

This type of post is why I started this thread ...  I let everyone  have their little play first

What is the nature of choice? Or in this case "CHOICE".

Is choice like when I set my car on cruise control and the car 'chooses' to regulate a certain amount of fuel and air into the carburetor to maintain a certain speed?  

Here is what I consider to be a fact ... the universe is fundamentally chaotic (in the scientific sense). Football teams, managers, fans and people are part of this universe and are also fundamentally chaotic. Our choices are chaotic.

So ultimately Villa's results and individual performances are going to be chaotic.

Warming up   ... currently -7 °C

2 hours ago, rjw63 said:

yeah I'd rather play at 12.30 than **** eight o'clock.

But it's 12:00 pm for me ...  so perfect  

You can drink while watching ...  but it's a bit early for me  

39 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Those look ace. Why aren't all screws like that? 

Standard in Canada  

On 11/02/2021 at 01:14, lapal_fan said:

There are a lot of different types of screws. 

There's the non metric ones too

But ones with a Robertson head are the best ...

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Lawro ... they have gone win-loss-win-loss-win in their past five games. I think that pattern will continue here, with a defeat.

He said Villa have been a bit up and down ...  true.

But predicting based on a pattern? Or at least there was no other analysis.

4 hours ago, villakram said:

It is never nice to have an uncomfortable piece of information jammed in your face.

Speaking of having an uncomfortable piece of information jammed in your face.

On 08/02/2021 at 13:50, fruitvilla said:

On 08/02/2021 at 13:38, villakram said:

Never said he didn't, but all his giveaway budgets were passed by the Dem controlled house, and on at least one occasion they gave the military more than the generous budget Trump requested.

I'm not sure how voting works in the US ...  But it does not appear the Dems controlled the house in 2017

22 minutes ago, Loxstock92 said:

A lot of people don’t want to pay increased taxes as the main reason (fair enough no one wants to pay more in taxes) however considering the insurance premiums over there, it’s waaaaaaay more than if it were paid for through taxation without realising this fact. 

Oh it's the principle of paying for someone else's premiums that is the issue.

23 minutes ago, Loxstock92 said:

Their idea of socialised medicine (our NHS) is that any proposed treatment had to be authorised by the government before proceeding, so nothing can be done on the spot.

To be fair ... the wait lists may be longer. I remember as a teenager I was put on a wait list for some ENT surgery. I did not want it or thought I needed it. (My parents were being overly protective). About ten years later I get a letter from the NHS saying they are ready here is an appointment. I politely cancelled the surgery. I suspect in the US it would have happened.

25 minutes ago, LondonLax said:

He wants a US version of the NHS that covers every service and every procedure including vision and dental with no cost to the patient.You don’t get that level of government funded healthcare in many places in the world. 

I just googled .... "bernie sanders compared to european politicians"
A couple of hits suggested that ...
In the European – and particularly the postwar German – political tradition I come from, there would be no question that Sanders is, in fact, a “social democrat.” That is not a radical or controversial label in the least. link

That Sanders wants to improve their lot is not in question. Some leftists choose purism over half a loaf, but he tends to vote for what redistributive measures come before him in Congress. He would give Americans universal healthcare, statutory paid leave and other staples of the developed world. This has encouraged the notion that he – and his rival Elizabeth Warren – would Europeanise the US link

1 minute ago, LondonLax said:

I’d say he’s fairly ‘left wing’ by most western countries standards. Could you cite the policies of his you think would be considered ‘middle of the road’?

social healthcare?

3 minutes ago, LondonLax said:

There is a surprisingly large number of people who support Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump as outsider candidates who would break up the duopoly.

The problem with Sanders is that US has moved so far to the "right", now he seems insanely left, whereas in reality he is probably fairly middle of the road. 

Having said that the "soak the rich" rhetoric always goes down well.

23 hours ago, sidcow said:

On 10/02/2021 at 00:43, Genie said:

If we buy it from Amazon we can get one before 7pm tonight or the other one tomorrow pretty much guaranteed.

It's actually beginning to really wind me up (ignoring lockdown) that I am finding more and more things that I can now only buy from Amazon or Ebay.  You know, just stuff. So many shops and specialist sellers now gone. 

We also seem to be engaged in a race to the bottom. 

I live in rural BC ...  recently wanted to buy some machine screws ...  nothing terribly specialist 10# 32

Scoured the local hardware stores and the specialist bolt and screw shop. Looked at Amazon ... eventually ordered from Lee Valley in Ontario. Two weeks later ... got them.

10 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

He's revealed that he's had death threats 

Those Villa fans are not very forgiving.

1 hour ago, nick76 said:

That was a much ado about nothing, it was just a procedure that they didnt know how to handle because it never comes up but we never normally have this situation

My point was the President did not seem to understand the point being made.  Whether it much ado or nothing I will let you decide. But the last hour or so I watched this was the thing I noticed and was not aware of. I can't comment on the rest of the proceedings as I did not see them.

1 hour ago, nick76 said:

Sorry I dont understand, what has that got to do with anything?

A part of US politics?

If you want my opinion of the last four years, all you have to do is ask.

I watched the end of the proceedings yesterday ...  The "President" of the house did no inspire confidence in me.

8 minutes ago, MrBlack said:

What i love about most of that footage, is the lack of diving, the lack of dissent shown the referee when he got a decision wrong or didn't give a foul, the fact the referee actually awarded an obstruction against a defender who was clearly making no attempt to play the ball. The beautiful game...as it was.

I did not enjoy the back passes to the goalie though. 

4 minutes ago, Mjvilla said:

Wow, this thread. It's gone from the bizarre to the utterly insane.

Let me positively reinforce your post Mj ...  You managed to mention Dean Smith in the pundits thread.

9 minutes ago, villakram said:

Never said he didn't, but all his giveaway budgets were passed by the Dem controlled house, and on at least one occasion they gave the military more than the generous budget Trump requested.

I'm not sure how voting works in the US ...  But it does not appear the Dems controlled the house in 2017

Normal Dean Smith service will be resumed as soon as possible.

12 minutes ago, villakram said:

Apologizing is enough for you perhaps. 

His record should have seen him drummed out of politics, were he not of such use to the corporate machine.

Further terrifying plots regarding the ongoing destruction of the economy can be found at this useful read.

"Ten percent of Americans now control 97 percent of all capital income in the country. 

Nearly half of the new income generated since the global financial crisis of 2008 has gone to the wealthiest one percent of U.S. citizens. 

The richest three Americans collectively have more wealth than the poorest 160 million Americans." 

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-top-10-is-doing-just-fine-middle.html

 

Two thoughts ...  correlation is not causation

Trump's policies enriched the ten percent more than the 90%

1 minute ago, Villa 59 said:

You only have one friend?

Not that many. I counted them twice.

I have must admit I have mixed feelings about BCFC

Most of all my school friends followed BCFC ...  I bear them no ill will

Similarly, having vibrant football teams is a sign that the region is doing well

The dark side of me would not object for BCFC to have a stint in League 1

1 hour ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

But we defended WELLER.

Can the players who defended WELLER,  be called WELLIES?

8 minutes ago, A'Villan said:

And what are the foundations and ethos, the culture, of the country that these patriots belong to and hold so dear? I'm insinuating in my initial statement, and following statements, that there is a misleading pretence and facade about the way we go about living in this world we call home, if you subscribe to the narrative offered by the more influential governments of today. I'm sorry but I think Halliburton was pretty down with the invasion in the Middle East, and I'm sure a few weapons dealers were reasonably pleased with the contracts too.

OK you seem to be saying corporations have an agenda.  Yeah. The company I used to work for has a policy not to do exploration in unstable countries. And? 

Whether I subscribe to government policy or foreign bots is a little bit of mystery. But end of the day ideologies and nations still exist and no matter how you twist and turn you are still putting forward some ideology no matter how clumsily you seem to be expressing it.