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Topic: The Importance of Sport | |
Mick Harper Replies: 3928 Views: 746817 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 1:38 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport |
Who would ever have picked Leverkusen's Xabi Alonso as the world's greatest manager? Well, Bayern could have, he played for them for three years. When someone has worked out why all the best managers ... | |
Topic: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC | |
Mick Harper Replies: 133 Views: 86767 |
Forum: APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY Posted: 10:56 am Subject: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC |
Given the number of maternity units that are under investigation for abnormally large numbers of fatalities (a hundred and thirty, I think it was, in the case of the Royal Sussex) we can only thank th ... | |
Topic: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC | |
Mick Harper Replies: 133 Views: 86767 |
Forum: APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY Posted: 5:46 am Subject: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC |
I too have finished reading it and am now in the process of posting up the result of doing so on medium. | |
Topic: The Tom Sawyer Principle | |
Mick Harper Replies: 686 Views: 183544 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 12:14 pm Subject: The Tom Sawyer Principle |
So they've finally got round to the Carer's Allowance. For those of you who don't care this is eighty pounds a week payable to anyone who is a full time carer of, normally, a family member. But don't ... | |
Topic: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC | |
Mick Harper Replies: 133 Views: 86767 |
Forum: APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY Posted: 10:24 am Subject: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC |
I find it all too heartbreaking to get involved further. Newsnight ran a piece the other evening on a new report detailing the shocking (and presumably sometimes fatal) failings in NHS neonatal units, ... | |
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES | |
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648855 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 11:12 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES |
I beat my record for views'n'claps for a response of mine to this story https://medium.com/picture-palace/why-you-should-never-date-a-filmmaker-b456445a38db
The glamour of it all though means that ... |
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Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES | |
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648855 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 2:35 pm Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES |
Something worth knowing which is obvious, but new to me, was in a medium story about strategy.
He refused to ever deviate from the published price list because he wanted each farmer to be confident ... |
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Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES | |
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648855 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 10:06 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES |
Prizes You Don't Want To Win No 338
Win a trip to the Paralympic Games thanks to Visa This was from Barclays and joins the one from Virgin I mentioned a bit ago that waxed lyrical about winning a ... |
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Topic: AE on Telly News | |
Mick Harper Replies: 2209 Views: 556280 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:49 am Subject: AE on Telly News |
Mark Urban is reporting from swing-state Arizona. Lots of local fruitcakes, a new factory churning out Biden chips, a bit on immigration, all the usual. He wraps up the piece standing in front of USS ... | |
Topic: The Importance of Sport | |
Mick Harper Replies: 3928 Views: 746817 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 7:11 am Subject: The Importance of Sport |
Real Madrid 6 Aston Villa 2
Or Olympiakos to scale it down to second city level. |
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Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES | |
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648855 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:48 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES |
A new wrinkle for me today. I turned on the computer and instead of pressing the start dubry I pressed the turn the computer off dubry. | |
Topic: All Things Roman | |
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 210327 |
Forum: History Posted: 6:45 am Subject: All Things Roman |
This state religion evolves into Christianity.
True, Christianity is a state religion but how you get from emperor-worship and polytheism to Jesus-worship and (theoretically) monotheism seems too lon ... |
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Topic: All Things Roman | |
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 210327 |
Forum: History Posted: 8:55 am Subject: All Things Roman |
According to Wiley the Romans establishd control of the Irish Sea zone and so you get Roman Catholics both sides of the water.
Obviously this is antithetical to my view. Christianity arrived in Engl ... |
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Topic: All Things Roman | |
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 210327 |
Forum: History Posted: 8:44 am Subject: All Things Roman |
You're right to be nicely scathing. it's not what would be called 'firmed up'.
So folks thought it would be a neat idea to adopt a pacifist, mystery religion, HQ Middle East, They were adopting ... |
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Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES | |
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648855 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 4:07 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES |
I'm like a concert pianist who never gets the Nobel Prize for Music.
I'm just putting this here to remind myself to use it some time. |
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