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Always makes me laugh
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One day I am going to grow wings
A chemical reaction
Hysterical and useless
A chemical reaction
Hysterical and useless
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Resting away and borrowed this for some easy reading. Quite interesting so far and MCS, will get to the library for the Pynchon soon:
Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline.
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I've been meaning to get this one.
If you haven't already, you must wrap your seeing apparatus around the brilliant Inverting the Pyramid.
If you haven't already, you must wrap your seeing apparatus around the brilliant Inverting the Pyramid.
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Yeah, MCS. The person I borrowed it from has that as well and will read it next though says some stuff in 'Anatomy' is mentioned in 'Pyramid'. Some brilliant lines so far, but liked this one about England v Hungary, 1953:
"The Express's letters page, meanwhile, proved that vehement but vapid comment is not a product of the internet age and Twitter. Various correspondents insisted there was 'too much football', asked 'why didn't they pick Roy Bentley?' and complained that sport had become 'show-business'."
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
"The Express's letters page, meanwhile, proved that vehement but vapid comment is not a product of the internet age and Twitter. Various correspondents insisted there was 'too much football', asked 'why didn't they pick Roy Bentley?' and complained that sport had become 'show-business'."
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
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Carlos J wrote:"The Express's letters page, meanwhile, proved that vehement but vapid comment is not a product of the internet age and Twitter. Various correspondents insisted there was 'too much football', asked 'why didn't they pick Roy Bentley?' and complained that sport had become 'show-business'."
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
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Chapter One - Graham Hunter in conversion with the great Xavi.
Woof!
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It is worth a read but you need a quiet room!ChrisO wrote:I bought that years ago and threw it in a drawer. Still not read it.roddy wrote:
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I also have this book, first edition. Still to read it.therealHJ wrote:It is worth a read but you need a quiet room!ChrisO wrote:I bought that years ago and threw it in a drawer. Still not read it.roddy wrote:
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Carlos J wrote: 'too much football'
Amazing how a casual phrase can encapsulate so much.
Should be inscribed in a motivational plaque in St George's Park.
PS: On this theme, I once heard someone criticise a legendary album because it had "too many good tracks".
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Reg wrote:Carlos J wrote: 'too much football'
Amazing how a casual phrase can encapsulate so much.
Should be inscribed in a motivational plaque in St George's Park.
PS: On this theme, I once heard someone criticise a legendary album because it had "too many good tracks".
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I'm going to buy that one Chris.ChrisO wrote:I also have this book, first edition. Still to read it.
At the moment I'm reading "Before I Go To Sleep" a friend lent it to me........I felt I couldn't refuse, I've only got 54 books to read.
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I'm reading The Geek Manifesto. It's an eye opener. To think there are so many thick twats running the country, who sack the intelligent people who want to use science based evidence to influence government policy.
Whether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance public health or to generate clean energy, science is critical. Yet politics and public life too often occupy a science-free zone.
Just one of our 650 MPs is a scientist. Ministers ignore, and even sack, scientific advisers who offer inconvenient evidence. The NHS spends taxpayers’ money on sugar pills it knows won’t work, while public funding for research that would boost the economy is cut. Groundless media scares, taken up by politicians who should know better, poison public debate on vaccines and climate change, GM crops and nuclear power.
In this agenda-setting book, Mark Henderson builds a powerful case that science should be much more central than it is to government and the wider national conversation. It isn’t only that scientific understanding is passed over as decisions are made; the experimental methods of science aren’t applied to evaluating policy either.
Politicians, Henderson argues, pay lip service to science for a very simple reason: they know they can get away with it. And that will change only when people who care about science get politically active. It’s time to mobilise the geeks.
Something is stirring among those curious kids who always preferred sci-fi to celebrity magazines. As the success of Brian Cox and Ben Goldacre shows, geeks have stopped apologising for an obsession with asking how and why, and are starting to stand up for it instead.
The Geek Manifesto shows how people with a love of science can get political, to create a force our leaders can no longer afford to ignore.
The geeks are coming. Our countries need us.
I'm not even half way through the book and I can now realise why this country (and the US) is in the mess it's in.
It gives example of pure stupidity, like David Tredennick, MP for Bosworth, who tried to argue that the full moon caused more car crashes, caused blood to clot, and claims surgeons refused to do operations on a full moon.
Whether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance public health or to generate clean energy, science is critical. Yet politics and public life too often occupy a science-free zone.
Just one of our 650 MPs is a scientist. Ministers ignore, and even sack, scientific advisers who offer inconvenient evidence. The NHS spends taxpayers’ money on sugar pills it knows won’t work, while public funding for research that would boost the economy is cut. Groundless media scares, taken up by politicians who should know better, poison public debate on vaccines and climate change, GM crops and nuclear power.
In this agenda-setting book, Mark Henderson builds a powerful case that science should be much more central than it is to government and the wider national conversation. It isn’t only that scientific understanding is passed over as decisions are made; the experimental methods of science aren’t applied to evaluating policy either.
Politicians, Henderson argues, pay lip service to science for a very simple reason: they know they can get away with it. And that will change only when people who care about science get politically active. It’s time to mobilise the geeks.
Something is stirring among those curious kids who always preferred sci-fi to celebrity magazines. As the success of Brian Cox and Ben Goldacre shows, geeks have stopped apologising for an obsession with asking how and why, and are starting to stand up for it instead.
The Geek Manifesto shows how people with a love of science can get political, to create a force our leaders can no longer afford to ignore.
The geeks are coming. Our countries need us.
I'm not even half way through the book and I can now realise why this country (and the US) is in the mess it's in.
It gives example of pure stupidity, like David Tredennick, MP for Bosworth, who tried to argue that the full moon caused more car crashes, caused blood to clot, and claims surgeons refused to do operations on a full moon.
“Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.†- Sam Harris
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therealHJ wrote:It is worth a read but you need a quiet room!ChrisO wrote:I bought that years ago and threw it in a drawer. Still not read it.roddy wrote:
Read it, very good it is too.
'This is like The Shawshank Redemption, only with more tunneling through shit and no fucking redemption.'