Good luck today, be great to get some updates if you get the oppo

If there's still shares going I'll take 3% please

Tra la la, la la la la.
Tra la la, la la la la.
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Tra la la, la la la la.

One banana, two banana, three banana, four.
Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more.
Over hill and highway the banana buggies go
Comin' on to bring you The Banana Splits Show.

Makin up a mess of fun
Makin up a mess of fun
Lot's of fun for everyone.

Tra la la, la la la la.
Tra la la, la la la la.
Tra la la, la la la la.
Tra la la, la la la la.

Four banana, three banana, two banana, one.
All bananas playing in the bright warm sun.
Flippin like a pancake, poppin like a cork
Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork.

Tra la la, la la la la.
Tra la la, la la la la.
Tra la la, la la la la.
Tra la la, la la la la.

Yes he was

"My feelings as usual, we will slaughter them all"

Still got the T shirt, and mildly connectedly,  only wear it as a pyjama top now

Can you give Dave a 'well done & like your hair:-)' from nirv and sorry that couldn't make it up there to support (working days and all)

To be honest the only move from the BB there is to shove and take it down - will happily show people the move on Saturday

Would be good to see you there, glass of red maybe

Aaron Lennon - runs with his head down and only stops when he has asphalt on 'is boots and the ball is being headed back by a supporter - wossappoint in that?

Does anyone here bet the indices - if so, anybody likely to be backing the FTSE to bounce at around 5100 ?

Thinly veiled 'I haven't been invited to be in the well yet' post imo

I think Man U without Ronaldo look quite ordinary

Genuine lol stuff

Thx for posting this

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Posted by: RED-DOG

For every one who stays and learns something, there will be two who go away and never come back, and two more who will be too shy to post in the first place when they see a fellow newby get a roasting.

This could be so. And I suppose that would be a shame. But we're not talking about refugees or anything, we're talking about people wanting to learn poker. Poker is a tough business I would say. The people who have the tenacity to take a bit of stick are probably those with the most potential. Some of the people dropped out of my martial arts class when they got hit with the stick. Maybe for every two who decided karate wasn't for them one stayed and really learnt to keep those hands up.

That's true if you want to be the best poker player you can possibly be, but many of us have realised we don't want to be a Tikay, or a Flushy.  But we still want to improve a bit, just so we can hold our head up in poker playing company.

Hopefully there's a little hole for us somewhere .

FYP

I find it easier to learn from other people than read lots of books.  They use big words I don't understand and give me a headache.

Books are cool.  Especially ones that are well written.

Whatever

But then, people do that as well.  So I wander round life with a headache, and a confused look.

Me too.  Poker does that to me.

Aha

I generally believe scientists are pretty cool in a nerrdy kind of way ( I haven't done any research to prove this, it's just one of my many bigotted beliefs ).

Geeks rule the world.  Well they should, it'd be a better place (on the whole and in my opinion only of course).

Sure

But there have been some pretty major cock ups.  The bombs stored around the world 'just in case the nasty man over there chucks one at us' are one of the biggest.  But they were always going to happen because that's what mankind is like.  Someone invents something good.  Then someone twists it for their own grredy selfish purpose.

Yep, without science we'd still be killing each other by hand.

Cool

I do happen to believe that there will one day be something like a Big Bang Bomb.  But it won't be in my lifetime, and there's nothing I can do to uninvent it, coz I'm pretty sure that once someone even thought many years ago about the good that this current experiment could do in the future, there was someone else on the same day ( probably a US presidential aide, if Hollywood has it's way ) having thoughts on how to abuse it.

Mankind is in for an extinction-level event sometime in the not too distant future.  I do wonder if it will be man-made, or if a natural phenomenon will get there first.

Tooright

Your plane analogy.  Pretty much spot on.  

Man didn't invent fire.  He discovered it. It's essential for survival, but it can also be used to destroy.  Again, it's not the science that's the problem - it's the application of the science.

Yip

Where we differ is in your view : Whether it takes years or is over in a few bangs doesn't really make much of a difference, does it?

I'd rather like it to take as long as possible.  This is a rather nice planet, and short of the babelfish mentioned somewhere else has pretty much all we need for a good while yet.

To us as individuals it might make a difference, but as part of the 'bigger picture' - we're insignificant.

Yap

I totally understand your comment about your Dad.  Scientific advancement saved his life.  I'll see that and raise it purely for selfish reasons - I had Leukemia several years ago, and it was spotted and treated before it had even started showing physical symptoms.  If the treatment was the same at it had been even 7 or 8 years earlier - I'm dead meat speaking.

Glad you're still with us.  Science is brilliant isn't it?

Uhuh

But looking at these things for a scientific viewpoint, and taking your statement about the speed of the decline of the human race into account.  Then, objectively, he and I are unimportant.  And maybe, to prolong mankind's stay on this planet, maybe we should minimise the benefits we bring to the world.  As individuals we all live much longer than previous generations.  But will our grandchildren's grandchildren have much of a planet left to look after ?

We are insignificant.  Not just me and you, but everyone on earth, everyone who's ever lived.  We're only one species, on one planet, in one galaxy amongst the millions out there in the universe.  The universe as we can observe it has been here for 13.7 billion years.  Humans have been here for 200,000 years.

13,700,000,000
           200,000

Pretty insignficant really.
 
Pip pip

Stupid question, I know, coz trying to get man not to think, is like telling him not to breath.  We are what we are, and we must suffer the consequences, good and bad.  I just wish decent people had more influence over the future of the planet, rather than the evil, selfish ones.

To quote the Stereophonics "It only takes one tree to make a thousand matches; it only takes one match to burn a thousand trees."

Not 'arf

So I'll keep on being contrary, coz it helps me work out what I think, and hopefully it helps others see the flip side of the coin.

Another pint , please.  

Beer is always good. 
 
Skol

the difference at the moment is that I'm in the race whereas before I was running away.

Well done - I think the above statement just about captures one of the keys to winning these which it's easy to forget on a bad trot