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I agree with the point Frankie Boyle made years ago. For £100bn it would be easier to just move Birmingham 20 mins nearer to London.

The sad part of it is the 'bait and switch' element of cancelling the northern leg. The suggestion is that the money that will not be spent in HS2 will now be reinvested in infrastructure for the north in other areas. Not sure how money from 2034 is now going to be made available today - for everything else from nurses to school meals we are being told it is not available.

Meanwhile 15 minute cities, meat taxes, banning mobile phones in schools, immigrants as criminals, reduce benefits, Kier flip flopping. In what is likely to be the penultimate conference before the next election these were the key messages to get across? I'm not taking a political side, I'm just observing these are the pillars they chose to build the political agenda on. Not sure it would fill me with confidence if I was a Tory MP that my job was safe.

14 minutes ago, ariotofmyown said:

Good idea. Clowes should stick to his guns, but also start going into the dressing room after a defeat to give the players a piece of his mind!

Drones over the training ground as well, that would help

Oh, I thought this was a different thread

53 minutes ago, sage said:

Alternatively, should someone lose their job for something they have done outside of work that isn't a police matter. 

I agree but I think this person was a fitter so might actually just be a 'sub'. His employer likely has seen it and decided they don't want that sort of person working for them. I guess that's OK but if I was fired for something I did outside of work, that didn't impact my ability to do my job, I'd be taking legal advise right away.

It was a numpty thing to do, but we've all done very silly things after some beers (which were obviously involved). Two weeks ago someone was videoed threatening to cut someone's throat in the away end of a match. I just don't get these Stone Island Clowns who stand and goad the away fans when they have chance at all of anything coming from it. At least the old 'firms' used to meet up and thump each other. You may as well go to the zoo and shout at the lions.

As for the lads involved, I guess they've seen the (significant) error of their ways but I'm totally with @David, our prisons have more important matters to consider.

15 hours ago, TigerTedd said:

so the universe is infinite. It’s a fair theory that it expands and collapses. All that energy and mass eventually collapses into a singularity, creating another big bang. Round and round this goes, without beginning or end.

Sadly, current research suggests this is not the case and that the universe is constantly expanding and will continue to do so. It's beyond our mortal comprehension to understand but the recognised future for our universe is an immense ball of more or less nothing.

But the rest of the theory is spot on, Nobel Prize winning stuff

At least all the loos in heaven will have plenty of bog roll tonight 🙂 🙂 

RIP Franny, proper footballer

On 30/09/2023 at 00:22, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

Agreed. Ill believe it when I see them both in the same venue on the same night with gloves on.

Is Fury still fighting Ngannou? 

Just imagine if Ngannou tags him - for Usyk it'll be like Holyfield sitting in the audience of the Mike Tyson vs Buster Douglas fight and seeing all his dreams drift off into the night. It won't, even if he has a bangers chance, and - joking aside - even if he did I doubt it would affect this if it is signed - just too big to derail.

8 hours ago, Archied said:

Me and you Eddie , just me and you🤷🏻‍♂️😂

No, I got the reference - very clever indeed, probably deserved one of these at the time but you can have it now (even if it was a mushroom they were on about)

2 hours ago, Archied said:

I do confess to having posted the topic on the day I got sad news that a friend had passed away with cancer , younger than me , strong as an oxe , full of life , had it in 2014 , returned this year and he was gone in a few short months , at times you do wonder if there’s any rhyme or reason beyond what we are able to comprehend 

There isn't, the world is a horribly random and brutal place. We are all at the whim of the fates.

Sorry to hear it.

17 hours ago, Stive Pesley said:

As per my earlier post - if you're designing a simulation, where one of the fundamental features that makes it interesting is that the playing characters have absolutely no idea (or at least proof) that they are anything other than "real" then you have to design into the simulation an environment in which the laws of physics (aka the rules of the game) prevent anyone from ever categorically proving that it isn't real. Because then the simulation would cease to be interesting

In that respect the vastness and the unexplorability of the universe is the perfect design

 

Point one would be who are we to say it is detailed and vast? We are only living in the universe we know, if a Space Invader was transported to Call Of Duty they would think the new universe is both immensely vast and detailed.

Point two, I don't believe any simulation as such would be built for us to played like characters in SiMS. More that they would be interested in macro analysis, possibly to try and evaluate what events in their own evolution had led them to where they are (for example, if they had not discovered the wheel at the time they did etc).

Elon Musk is completely convinced his wife Grimes is a computer simulation created for him and she apparently agrees. Make of that what you will.

As for whether or not we live in a simulation, it is has long been suggested (see above) that if we can move from Space Invaders to 3D virtual reality in 50 years imagine what gaming / virtual reality will look like in 500 years. But that still doesn't mean there is ability or even willing to create and manage some sort of simulated universe. Not sure there's much point. It feels a bit like religion, the thing some put in place to justify the utter and complete randomness (and inability for the human brain to comprehend) the utter vastness and meaningness of it all.

But all I know is that if we are in a virtual reality I hope I am not the twonk who can't make it past the Despair Squid. Dwayne Dibley? Please no!

On 30/09/2023 at 15:13, GboroRam said:

So the stars are like the mountains at the edge of Skyrim, just for decoration and you can't actually get there?  

How does the phrase 'edge of skyrim' make it past the swear filter? See, it just proves that we are being played......

Great performance - Hovland man of the tournament for me, especially after he underperformed at Whistling Straights. Great show from Bob McIntyre as well, who many had written off as a weak link. 

Agree with all said above by @Srg but the team spirit wasn't there either. Cantlay played exceptionally well, was probably their best player, but when the whole vibe from their team is about whether or not he wears his cap or whether he thinks they should be paid something is wrong. He should have been taken to one side, told to put his hat on and keep his views to himself till the event was over.

Only downside was that the European fans sunk to the same level as the Americans. It is not going to 'get in the hole' on a par four and booing players is just offside, at any time.

And as for Cantlay's caddy, Joe Le Cava, he should be told to stay at home next time. His behaviour was truly pathetic.

Anyway, on to the Sanderson Farms Championship next weekend - I have no doubt you will all tune in....

4 hours ago, Foreveram said:

Then someone has supposedly corrected him by saying their too stupid 😂

Maybe they really are two stupid

36 minutes ago, ariotofmyown said:

Which other forum Members have you been on a date with? And did you realise any of them were dates?

Now that deserves a poll....

So I'm celebrating the birthday of someone that I've never met, on a date that I wasn't aware of, that I now realise I actually missed.

Joyce being talked as an opponent for Joshua this morning, while even Warren is walking away from him. Joe needs to be saved from himself, even Fraudley looked more confident against Haye than Joe did on Sat. I don't want to start a pile on, he was a good fighter but he found his level and should be proud of his achievements but to know when he has done all he can. It's not like he's 21 and ready to start all over again.

Only five teams have ever got less than twenty points - it is hard to put into words just how unbreakable our record is. And with the pile of very average teams at the bottom of the table all likely to take some points off each other this is not the season it will happen. And, for sure, it won't be Forest who are bottom at the end of this season.

I did a thread last year, that I think now has been archived, to calculate what became known as St Clods Day - namely the date at which no club could beat our record. Would be great if someone could bump that as it did show that nobody, but nobody, has come anywhere seriously near threatening it.

It will not be 'bettered' in our lifetime - I genuinely believe that.

As for Joe Joyce, I don't think he landed a single punch of any consequence. Totally scarred from the first fight and looked utterly beaten on his stool at the end of the first.

Good display from Zach Parker, looked a bit tired towards the end but a clinical disection of a tough opponent.

49 minutes ago, Chester40 said:

Any interest in the Joyce fight?

At his age its a must win. 

Looked outmatched in the first fight so its going to take a big turnround.

Not sure he looked outmatched, he just got targeted with a repeated shot and it closed his eye before Zhang tired. Joyce will win the rematch, neither will trouble the top four or five in the division, even if politics might mean they are an easier match for title fights than many more deserviing yet bound in the BS that is this game.

31 minutes ago, ram59 said:

 

It's just amazing how chaotic our government is. They win one bi-election in Uxbridge by opposing ULEZ and now some think tank consultants seem to think that their only hope of victory in the next election is to embrace the petrol engine. It is just heartbreaking to watch 

1 hour ago, maxjam said:

I didn't escape M'lud, I was playing hide n seek with the guards 😛

Maybe he'll sue the BBC for not saying he was 'allegedly' on the run. To the point of discussion earlier in the thread, it's so hard to see how we stop this sort of time wasting and obviously unhelpful playing around with the system without then - at the very same time - blocking opportunity for those real cases cited earlier to be fairly considered. No easy answers, as said earlier.

18 hours ago, GboroRam said:

Bleedin' hell, someone mark the calendar! 

Even a broken clock is right twice a day 🙂

If he can deny his crimes I guess anyone can