Kant

I don't think they're fixed as in "he goes down in the third", but the rankings are as bent as fuck. Hand picking bums just to bolster fighters records and make them look like valid challengers for titles.

 

Its like anything where large quantities of money are involved, someone is always going to try and load the dice. It would be stupid to think otherwise.

I dunno, I saw this documentary about it once.

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Good spot, Paulie.

But - male or female - what qualities do you need to make it as a spy?

Brilliant.

Reminds me of last summer when they were going to sign Neymar and Ronaldo, and ended up overpaying about £20m for some teenager in order to try and convince their fans he was a big player.

The latest Freakonomics podcast is about a certain East Midlands-based team's performance in a certain recent sporting contest.

Apart from spending an inordinately long time explaining how European leagues work, for the benefit of the US audience, it's not a bad listen.

The reason I never engage with you on this Stu is because it's thoroughly pointless, you hate religion and that's that. Talking about social behaviour of animals is bye the by, I'm talking about the governing moral dynamics of a human civilisation. I'm not going to get into animal social behaviour, we could go on forever and a day pulling different theories out of our arse, the indisputable truth - and nobody can deny this - is that western moral values are based on the greko-roman Christian civilisation.

Here's Grujic doing the decent thing:

Fans in the upper tier jumping up and down during a game in Nuremberg, as filmed from the lower tier of the stand. Look how much that upper tier is shaking! Scary shit.

 

https://twitter.com/wscsm_/status/733673783115055105

From the BBC:

Dutch football writer Elko Born writes: "According to De Telegraaf, there are plans for Zlatan to become an 'assistant coach' at Manchester United after his playing career.

 

"To be clear: Zlatan will join as a player. He won't become a coach until after his retirement, probably in a few years."

 

Decent move for BR to be going to Celtic. I can see why he's attracted to it.

It's a high-profile job; he'll be operating at the top end of the league, and unless it all goes horribly wrong he'll get that "no silverware" monkey off his back. Plus he'll likely get an easy ride off the supporters for a while because he's (Northern) Irish.

Although I've seen it reported (Daily Record I think) that he's going to lose most of the £10M still outstanding on his Liverpool contract, as the club have him on gardening leave...

^^^

Love the dog in the truck, too.

Not quite the same, but I got fucked handing back a courtesy car recently.

When the guy picked it up he got me to sign regarding the condition it was in; then afterwards he added some marks and scratches onto the sheet in his own handwriting.

Still arguing about it months later.

Merely OK, total filler, as a comeback after 20 years single, it does not auger well.

 

Perhaps they're keeping their powder dry ? Perhaps there is no more powder and they're now as dry as a nun's chuff ?

 

Drown the vocals in an ocean of reverb and hope nobody notices that Browny is an horrendous singer ? Good luck with that.

Anyone remember that old quote (Melody Maker, I think it was): "Best guitarist in the world, best bassist, best drummer...and Ian Brown on vocals"?

I prefer their older stuff, from before they started writing and recording songs and playing gigs.

Fucking sellouts.

Canelo vs Khan 600,000 ppv buys. Thats bad,just shows Canelo not quite the draw de la Hoya thinks he is

Edit: sorry think it was a million

Stig did this for Mrs Kant because she's too fucking lazy and she leaves all the financial stuff to me (apart from spending it, obviously).

The process was dead easy, and they have a great website where you can see the progress of your claims and they keep you well informed.

No luck as yet, but there's still one claim pending.

TK: get it done.

 

Had a bag of these last night. Buying more today. Lovely stuff.

Nice choice. I had a pack of them when I went on the Guinness factory tour in Dublin earlier in the year. Never saw them in the shops like.

As a dinosaur dating back to the time when the only crisps were plain unsalted with a twist of salt in blue paper (hence the phrase "a face like he just ate the blue crisp") I find some of the fuckers on this list scary

 

http://www.crispnation.com/the-crisp-list.html

 

Haggis crisps anyone?

Fish and chips?

Mint sauce?

Cajun squirrel?

Cornish pasty?*

Doner kebab?

Some serious wrongness on that list.

*Actually, Cornish pasty sounds nice.

Pretty sure I saw a censored version of Lethal Weapon where "fucker" was changed to "funster" and "motherfucker" to "muddy funster".

Can't see it.

Deleted already?

Edit: ^oh wtf

Don't like Selby. Talented player but he must have set a record for the number of re-racks he gets involved in because of his fondness for spoiling the game. Always turning frames into long, scrappy affairs and don't often see fluent snooker when he's involved. Hope Ding wins this.

That last frame was ridiculous. Going for two snookers with only pink and black on the table?

Ter Stegen is nailed on for city as one of guardiola's new broom apparently. Might mean hart's available?

Just think of all the grooming products we could shift then.

From fcbarcelona.com:

Luis Suárez is back on top of the La Liga goal scoring race. With four goals against Sporting Gijon on Saturday night, Suárez now has 34 on the season, also good enough for top spot in the race for the Golden Shoe, given to the top league scorer in Europe.

Suárez now has eight goals in his last two games after also scoring four on Wednesday night at Deportivo. Overall, he now has 53 goals in 49 games.

This is the third time Suárez has scored four goals in a game for Barça. The first was in Barça's 7–0 win in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semi-finals.

He now has seven hat tricks this season. He has also scored two goals in a game six other times.

Ambassador? Forgetting that he played for Manchester United for a minute, he has the personality of a fucking billiards cue. 

 

"Greetings from Malaysia, we are delighted to welcome you to our wonderful country occupying the Malaysian Peninsula and part of the island of Borneo. It's known for its beaches, rainforests and mix of Malay, Chinese, Indian and European influences and full of interesting culture, not to mention our fanatical Liverpool supporters! You'll never walk alone!!!!" 

 

"Hi, erm.... I'm Michael. "

 

Tim Ferriss is always on about this subject.

If it's not been mentioned before, here's a link.