Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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A spooky twist of fate, I googled Trevor and got this...


http://www.myspace.com/_music_and_wrestling

[tikay]

You going to DTD for the Poker For Heroes day?

Already started planning for it sir.

If Cheryl gets in touch like you asked, ask her to show you the photo of the young lads gravestone from the day a white dove visited - truly awesome pic. I got a message to the lady and put her in touch with a friend who runs a memorial site for all fallen soldiers who is in the process of building a library of pics of the resting places of those fallen, he was delighted to receive a copy.

Geo
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That's grand news, Geo, see you there.

Cheryl & I have exchanged numerous e-Mails about it now, I think the whole thing is incredibly worthy, & I'm treating it accordingly. I'm gonna start "working" it on the Sky Poker Community now, too. Sky Poker have donated a £220 SPT Grand Final Seat, but I think the players next door might like to do something, too.

We shall see.

[kinboshi]

Those people they polled for that guardian angel survey, were they all in churches?

That's the thing Kin. surveys have different outcomes depending on who you ask, how you ask, and when you ask.

Once, I was on the verge of being beaten to a pulp by Trevor Crutchley (Made Man, South Yorkshire Mafia) when he spotted someone who owed him a bag of sand coming down the road towards us. His attention diverted, he loosened his vice-like grip on my throat just a smidgen. 0.05 of a second later, I was a quarter of a mile away, legs and heart going like a trip hammer.

If you had asked me then if I had a guardian angel I would probably have said, "Yes, I do".

If you had asked the bloke who owed Trevor Crutchley a grand on the other hand....

Studies that are correctly conceived and executed take this selection bias into account.  It's the unscientific and poorly carried-out studies that produce nonsense like that.  Usually it's because the people sponsoring the 'study' don't want it to be carried out scientifically and have already decided on what they want the results to be.  This isn't to say that studies where the sponsor has an 'agenda' can't be valid.  They definitely can be, as long as they are done correctly and correctly peer-reviewed and transparent.  Most studies are sponsored by organisations with a vested interest - simply because they cost money to do!  This doesn't mean that they're inherently invalid.

The major problem is that ridiculously unscientific studies are given the same validity by the exposure and way they are reported by the media as those that are actually properly done.  The MMR/Autism 'study' being a case in point.

Trevor Crutchley however can say what he wants.

[pokerfan]

Mildly interesting, vaguely amusing or ever so slightly risqué news item of the day.






"Nearly a third of Britons believe they have a guardian angel, a survey from the Bible Society and Christian Research claims.

In a poll of 1,038 people, 5 per cent said they had seen or heard an angel; 29 per cent believed a guardian angel was watching over them. The highest level of belief was in London, with 40 per cent. The North-east had the lowest, at 17 per cent."

I wonder how a survey of poker players would come out? I'm guessing they might be a bit more cynical.


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Childish I know, but this amused me.

Countdown conundrum
When 18-year-old Countdown contestant Jack Hurst made the word 'Shitface' out of F I D E T C A S H, Mary Whitehouse's influence on Channel 4 became apparent when the show declared it too scandalous to broadcast. Hurst told press: "They knew they couldn't broadcast it, so the producers swapped the C for an R, gave me 'hardiest' to declare instead, and re-filmed it." Hurst scored a grand total of 946 points on his way to becoming an "octochamp", the name given to those who win eight shows in row, before they have to be honourably retired from the champion's chair. [/i]

Wonder why he didn`t put the D on the end for a 9 ?

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Mildly interesting, vaguely amusing or ever so slightly risqué news item of the day.






"Nearly a third of Britons believe they have a guardian angel, a survey from the Bible Society and Christian Research claims.

In a poll of 1,038 people, 5 per cent said they had seen or heard an angel; 29 per cent believed a guardian angel was watching over them. The highest level of belief was in London, with 40 per cent. The North-east had the lowest, at 17 per cent."

I wonder how a survey of poker players would come out? I'm guessing they might be a bit more cynical.


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Childish I know, but this amused me.

Countdown conundrum
When 18-year-old Countdown contestant Jack Hurst made the word 'Shitface' out of F I D E T C A S H, Mary Whitehouse's influence on Channel 4 became apparent when the show declared it too scandalous to broadcast. Hurst told press: "They knew they couldn't broadcast it, so the producers swapped the C for an R, gave me 'hardiest' to declare instead, and re-filmed it." Hurst scored a grand total of 946 points on his way to becoming an "octochamp", the name given to those who win eight shows in row, before they have to be honourably retired from the champion's chair. [/i]

Wonder why he didn`t put the D on the end for a 9 ?

 


But is it in the OED?

[gatso]

shitfaced wouldn't have counted, there's a thread on here somewhere about it

[gatso]

here you go

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=25486.msg1259645#msg1259645

shit-faced is hyphenated

[pokerfan]

shitfaced wouldn't have counted, there's a thread on here somewhere about it

Bugger.

[celtic]

Every paper I open at the moment, mainly tabloids, seem to be going Gypsy mad. Gypsies got talent, Gypsy funerals, Gypsy fights etc etc.

Long term, is this a good thing or a bad thing in your opinion.

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Every paper I open at the moment, mainly tabloids, seem to be going Gypsy mad. Gypsies got talent, Gypsy funerals, Gypsy fights etc etc.

Long term, is this a good thing or a bad thing in your opinion.

We helped to organise "Gypsies got Talent" as part of the Roma History Month last year, and we hosted one of the events in Derby.

I have mixed feelings about all the hoo haa that's going on at the moment. I think it's good that some of the issues, injustices and prejudices that we face on a daily basis are being brought to peoples attention, but that has to be tempered by the damage done by all the hype and lies used to sell newspapers or make TV programmes more interesting.


At the moment I'm involved in a heritage project. I have been taking photographs and recording sound bites and commentary for almost a year.

It's going to form part of an exhibition staged in Nottingham that will run for three months. Afterwards, the photographs and transcripts of the commentary will be made into a book and hopefully, an e-book.

I'm not getting paid for it, but I think it's worth doing. Things like this will prevent at least some some of our culture and traditions from being lost and forgotten forever.

[kinboshi]

I think the current exposure and focus on all things Gypsy is probably a good thing.

It 'normalises' the idea of the Gypsy culture and that Gypsies might be different from other groups in society, but they are also the same in so many ways.  The first step away from prejudice and discrimination is a removal of ignorance - and that's through exposure and education.  Even if some of the coverage is over-the-top and dwells too much on many of the stereotypes, a lot of it will help to move Gypsies from being a group who are separate from the rest of society to a group who have an interesting and fascinating culture and history to share with the rest of society.

Then there's Tom's diet book and DVD that will be out soon as well.

[redarmi]

I think the current exposure and focus on all things Gypsy is probably a good thing.

It 'normalises' the idea of the Gypsy culture and that Gypsies might be different from other groups in society, but they are also the same in so many ways.  The first step away from prejudice and discrimination is a removal of ignorance - and that's through exposure and education.  Even if some of the coverage is over-the-top and dwells too much on many of the stereotypes, a lot of it will help to move Gypsies from being a group who are separate from the rest of society to a group who have an interesting and fascinating culture and history to share with the rest of society.

Then there's Tom's diet book and DVD that will be out soon as well.

Interesting.  Must say I thought pretty much the opposite.  People know so little about real Gypsy culture and reading Tom's blog has educated so many of us and these media portrayals pretty much do the opposite.  It just strikes me that they sensationalise things areas that they know will seem over the top and tacky to the public at large.  The whole issue of "grabbing" being the ebst example I can think of offhand

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Those last two post illustrate exactly what I was trying to say.

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I was sorting through some old family photographs when I came across this one.

It brought back so many memories. A real Nostalgia trip.

It was taken on a camp called "Sheffield Top" I can tell because I recognise the stones under the trailer.

I would have been about 11, coming on 12. Tracy, whith his "Cheswood" haircut, would be about 10, my sister Susie 7, John (Looking proud enough to burst) was about 4 or 5, and Joe, the baby was about 18 months.

Look how scruffy we were. I remember finding that Jersey in a bundle of rags that came from a posh house. My mam wouldn't let me wear it until it had been washed, which is a bit surprising considering the state of it in this picture. "That's just a bit of top muck" She would say, "And it's yer own, not someone else's".

It was true too, it was just top muck. Every night before bed, those dirty clothes were left in a heap on the floor and we were scrubbed until our skin was shiny red before we put on our nightshirts.

Click to see full-size image.

[DaveShoelace]

Weight update please