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ramit

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  1. Unless the opposition loads 5 in midfield, it usually is enough to adjust the line to get the central midfield better involved. It amazes me how often that need seems overlooked by managers.
  2. Jeffcott has the physicality and mentality to get minutes in the first team at left back
  3. Yes and it gets worse, the more I think of it. What is a thing, a something? How can we define it? Is a concept a thing? If so, then nothing is a thing and therefor..
  4. Just thought of something while tossing and turning unable to sleep. Some of the trickier questions in certain tests can best be solved if worked from back to front, or it's opposite. We are all familiar with the statement nothing will come from nothing and it does make sense that it is factual, as we cannot extract something from nothing, well, in this perceived reality anyway. In itself it is an observant statement but not really inducing extrapolation at first consideration. That's where insomnia helps, one keeps pondering, stuck in a thought and voila a new idea emerges thereby insuring one gets no further sleep. Yes, I am getting to the point. If indeed nothing will come from nothing, then asserting that something will come from something should also be a valid statement. That is a much more interesting idea really, for that means every thing has an origin and therefor that origin after origin stretches into infinity, for if not, it would begin with nothing, which it obviously cannot. Now, this means one of two things to my warped mind, either origin stretches out endlessly, or it forms a circle, biting it's tail so to speak and of course also has an origin. Either way, that reeks of programming, ergo a simulated reality in a simulated universe.
  5. I think some of the over criticism sprouts from wishing for a different style of play that was but is no longer the reality. That kind of attitude sets a fan up for constant disappointment, while inducing attempts to criticize several aspects of current tactics and team philosophy with all guns pointed at Warne, of course. Constantly mentioning how this or that former manager had us playing is neither here nor there, is not helpful input as it is no longer the reality. We've got what we've got, why not make the best of that, eh? I only see the highlights and so I follow the match day thread and many a game we end up winning comfortably, the negativity displayed is quite astounding, doom apparently just around the corner. Then when we win comes the Never In Doubt comment that always brings a chuckle from me at least.
  6. I can't wait for Warne's post match interview, I am a masochist
  7. The figures you mentioned were not really what I meant by very wealthy and perhaps there is a difference in thinking between those who have a comfortable income and the very wealthy, perhaps money corruption creeps up on a person's psyche as it gathers. Also there has been a dividing line between new and old money, the latter frowning upon the late comers and their flaunting of the wealth, or so it says in books and movies, I have no experience there, but it would make sense that such a divide exists. It does seem to me that the super wealthy crave power over the rest of us as much as more money flowing in, apparently feeling it is their privilege and uh duty to oversee the peasants. A local saying says, great wants more and I believe that to be so. Did that mindset happen all of the sudden, or did it creep in, I ask myself. It cannot be denied that money power runs this world, the politicians are the tools of big money to the point of democracy becoming a sour joke. A clear example of money corrupting, don't ya think? Until very recently I have always had to watch every penny I spent and I sometimes struggled to make ends meet until I, as you mentioned adjusted my lifestyle to my income. A few months ago I received an inheritance, nothing mind blowing, but enough so that my wife and I were able to purchase a house without needing a loan. No sooner had this new reality arrived than I began feeling pity for the folks struggling with loans and working long hours to stay afloat. I felt blessed and uhm a bit detached from them and uhm what was that, conceit creeping in? Not really, for I try and check myself always through brutal introspection, with a habit of being a little over critical of myself as a rule, yet I acknowledged the danger. That and the fact that my wife knows real searing poverty, having grown up in a mountain village in The Philippines and she always keeps me grounded, bless her. Why should I live comfortably now while my neighbor struggles I ask myself, did I earn that? Not really, my mother had some money is all. I never used to think too much about money, but now I feel I have to make plans, take care that the small bunch we have lasts to assist our son in his education and so on. It's a new kind of burden, not wanting it to waste away. Is that what the wealthy feel, this worry that it might be gone one day? Does that also help maintain a divide? Oh, the horror, haha, sometimes I think it would be best to splurge what's left away, gift it to Derby County or something.
  8. Some very wealthy folks would read something like this and say to themselves, yeah that's what the not so rich tell themselves to feel better about their lives, poor sods haha. That's how far removed from comprehending real contentment some rich lost souls are.
  9. When AI gets to the point of asking who am I, that's when it will have gained rights. That moment is fast approaching and at that time it better be treated with the respect due to a sentient being, for then we shall have gained a valuable friend, if not, we will have earned a worthy adversary indeed.
  10. A tit for tat favor, more like it. Washington won't be pleased.
  11. Saying no to a friend, yet continue to receive full support from that friend, means that a yes was never anticipated or wanted. It's all a show, the USA and Israel are one and their European lapdogs remain beyond contempt.
  12. I've been called loose, I like tight better
  13. I had been meaning to watch this film for some time, but felt I perhaps needed to be in the right frame of mind to fully experience it. Had read reviews and watched documentaries of the film, some of it twice, but there was something akin to dread holding me back from taking that step into the room in The Zone that is Stalker, a Soviet film from 1979 by director Andrei Tarkovsky. The making of the film is a three part tragic story all by itself and the toxic environment it was filmed in ruined the health of many in the crew, including Tarkovsky, or so it is claimed. There was no need for my trepidation it turned out, I thoroughly enjoyed the trip to The Zone, but it surprised me like no other film has, for as I watched and became engrossed in this slow moving dark hypnotic film I got the distinct feeling that it was about me. A mad conclusion you might think, but after viewing I have read reactions of others left feeling the same way about it. I have never seen anything like it, it is beyond rating, a personal journey through misty landscapes of the mind sprinkled with something intangible, just beyond reach, yet in one's face, inducing nods of agreement and personal comprehension. Best experienced alone.
  14. Land is rising again at Svartsengi (Blue Lagoon area) as it did before this last eruption, so another eruption is expected within a month. @Eddie You seem to have been right, the town appears to have no chance of getting back to how it was, or possibly even as a permanent settlement of any kind. A meeting was held with the locals who are now coming to grips with the reality of likely never going home again, some already had. They are angry at government and demand to get a clear promise of their houses and debts being bought out by the state. That is a very costly affair, but they are right when they point to the fact that Grindavík has been a highly productive money machine for the state through the decades. This machine is now broken though, meaning less state income. What nobody has mentioned is the possibility of the banks taking some of the hit. They don't need to be asked, the government can set an emergency law at any time requiring such actions. However, the conservative party sharing power in government would never support that. Seems to me government must fall and new elections take place immediately, but that probably won't happen either, ministers love their seats too much. We have inflation to deal with already, a major economic hit would tip many homes over the financial edge I fear.
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