Re: road to riches- is there a cricket salary cap? I had no idea, I just thought you spent what you wanted .

This sign recently appeared at a fishery in Oxfordshire.


 

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There's a couple of ponds near me that have had to be emptied because of people stealing the fish and eating them.

The people stealing the fish were Polish but it's probably a bit racist to say that so I won't.

It's not surprising that Polish people steal the fish as a) they are poorer than the general population and b) like lots of Eastern Europeans they eat carp, which we don't really in Britain. See Eso Kral's past stories of his hunt for a Christmas Carp.

Not sure what the point of this sign is though- as I understand it it was on a fishing pond, so surely anyone fishing there will either a) behave themselves or b) ignore all signs of any nature, so the only people affected are Polish people who were planning on behaving themselves. All a bit rubbish.

A little off topic, but in China the largest bill is a £10 note equivalent, and as it's difficult to pay for things in anything else than cash as a foreigner, you end up carry huge bundles of cash around.

Arsenal appoint Sven Mislintat as head of recruitment from Dortmund

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/11/20/arsenal-appoint-sven-mislintat-head-recruitment/

Are they planning on recruiting a lot of people from Dortmund?

Isn't it strange that 10% of women aged between 18-24 think a man asking them out for a drink is sexual harassment?

Isn't there a chance the baby is being thrown out with the bath water?

Perhaps the younger generation will just meet more and more online.

I was talking to a woman last week, and she firmly believed the only acceptable place for a man and a woman to meet was online.

Seems to be the norm now.

Dangerous territory though. Plenty of men looking to exploit vulnerable women on those sites from the women and men I've spoken to. Maybe it's the older divorced women that are more susceptible to guys just looking to get laid. I spoke to one guy last week who is 63 and single. He just wants to shag as many women as possible. Happy to use and abuse. His "golden" advice is to ask plenty of questions to look interested and tell them how gorgeous they are. Awful.

There's been people talking a load of rubbish to get laid long before electricity, let alone the internet.

This stuff isn't rocket science is it? Do you think the target of your action is going to appreciate it? Context is everything. The trouble is that to work this out you need social skills. If you don't know or can't guess well don't do it.

If you are planning on wolf whistling at a random stranger I'd say enough women would be upset or intimidated rather than see it as flattery, so you shouldn't do it as you don't have any other information to go on.

If you are planning on complimenting someone on their appearance, some people will like it and some won't, so you need to know who you are talking to. If you are planning on doing it anyway then complaining when the subject of your comment doesn't like it, then why would you want to give a compliment that someone doesn't like? I think you need to admit that you are doing it for your own reasons rather than because you want to be nice at this point.

Ben Stokes praised by couple ‘after defending them from homophobic thugs’

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4784329/ben-stokes-praised-by-gay-couple-after-defending-them-from-homophobic-thugs

This is more the Sun saying "don't blame us for losing the Ashes".

Squad newly arrived at the WACA

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If you're good at cricket, you get a seat. Everyone else has to stand.

I thoroughly enjoyed this article.


https://geoffbanksracing.com/2017/10/24/is-geoff-banks-the-lamest-bookie-in-the-world/

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Top Tikay trolling this :-). There's only one bloke giving his tongue a wobble here.

The truth of the matter is that anyone who is betting and is in any way trying has accounts with several bookies and will be taking the best price on offer (e.g. Tips for Tikay). So yes, Geoff will have accounts that only bet with him when he is the standout price. According to Geoff, that makes all these accounts an arber/bot trader/whatever and should be restricted.

Am sat here having dinner with a friend whose company in W Sussex make carbon fibre body parts for many of the F1 teams.

He's just told me that Red Bull have gone further than anyone ever for this weekend's race in terms of having quite a lot of new parts with fewer layers of carbon fibre than before.  They are baked for much longer to give the strength needed to still do the job.  Net result is that the cars will be lighter, therefore logically quicker all other things being equal.

I don't know if this will give them the race-pace to win but they should fare better in qualifying as he's not had similar briefs from the other teams he makes parts for.

I'm not putting up a bet recommendation but posting to share the info which Peter and the other F1 followers might want to bear in mind.

EDIT:  As a rule of thumb in Formula 1, each 10 kg slows the car down roughly 0.4% (around 0.3 seconds a lap on a normal track)

The cars are all the same weight. They make the top as light as possible, then make it up to the minimum weight by putting weights on the bottom. So this invention might make things go faster, but it's not chopping a lump off the car.

Once upon a time I read a book called "Hoods" (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hoods-Gangs-Nottingham-Study-Organised-ebook/ - the book review is that it probably started out interesting, but by the time the lawyers said "well, you can't say that, you'll be sued!" there was little of interest left). One of the things I found interesting about it is the idea that the police have lots of cases on the go where they are pretty sure there are some hoodlums who are doing some nefarious activity, but to actually get enough evidence to convict someone takes time and effort and they don't have the budget to look at all of them so they have to prioritise.

My point is that there is usually something else you can do with any case, and the police have lots of cases they are never going to get to the bottom of due to lack of resources. So to say:

It's very simple. I would stop spending when the police officer in charge of the case says, "We have exhausted all avenues of inquiry. Unless new evidence comes to light I think the case should be closed".

means ignoring some other cases that also haven't exhausted all avenues of inquiry.

I read somewhere a theory of business that said that businesses that last for a long time and stay successful are the ones that survive being hit with sudden massive disasters- as in from day to day most things stay the same and they plod on, and then suddenly a massive crisis hits out of nowhere. Some companies survive and some don't. A bit like the asteroid wiping out the dinosaurs. This could be one of those for Ryanair.

Perhaps playing devils advocate but something else to perhaps consider.

Hales apparently was one of the men in the video, and according to some albeit iffy sources, allegedly, he may have been the guy that had two punts at that bloke's head on the floor. Which imo is worse than all of what Stokes did.

It's him alright. Look at his terrible trainers :-).

Wasn't the bloke on the floor holding onto Stokes at the time though? Also you can see the bottle. I don't think anyone's decision making was at a high level though.

Is it possible to tweet deliberately losing bets? E.g. football- in a win/lose/draw market the prices are so close to being "right" that no matter what option you pick you lose the 5% in expectation or whatever. I'd have thought horse races are pretty much the same. If you have the skill to pick options that are more losing than the others, why not pick winners (for yourself or others) instead, as it's just as hard.

It's like you can't deliberately lose at roulette, as all the numbers are equally as bad.

61% of Leave voters say significant economic damage would be a price worth paying for bringing Britain out of the EU (admission,i don't understand this,it perplexes me)

I think that a) a lot of people feel that the economy is some abstract far away thing that doesn't affect them, and b) a lot of people in Britain think that the economy is run for the benefit of other people (rich people, Londoners), don't care if things get worse for those groups and don't think that things can get any worse for them personally. I think they're wrong about both these things.