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Originally posted by AndyFatBastard View Post
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This is the wayPeople say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View PostI honestly don't know why they don't do the armband thing and rotate captains for each game.
Yellows are cancelled after the group stages anyway
Embarrassing climb down by England/Wales and co IMO.
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
That's some stretch.
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The 1968 Olympics Black Power salute or Kaepernick speak to the fact that the marginalised can be represented by their sporting heroes.
Real opportunity here to put it up to FIFA and Qatar. Set of balls required of course.Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Originally posted by 6starpool View Post
Not really. You are saying Qatar is a fundamentally religious society, as Ireland was to a large degree for a large part of last century when there were lots of restrictions on women and when being gay was essentially illegal also, because of the laws in place at the time, which you are saying a religious country is entitled to have, so (and I'm extrapolating here) you are OK with that. Same logic applies to Ireland at that time when shame and ruling from the pulpit were to the fore in Ireland.
We changed for the better, they are still stuck where they are, nothing I've said can be taken as approval of their culture. But it is their culture and us thinking we have a right to force another culture on them against their will is cultural imperialism.
We can sneer, we can nudge for change, we can be an example of how democracy is better than autocracy but If we want them to change then we need a coherent plan to effect change, just turning up at a soccer tournament spouting platitudes that you are not even willing to follow through on is just bluster.
Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostThis is interesting, what it seems to me to indicate is that kids who have no interest of or understanding of recent history are buying the propaganda of SF/IRA hook line and sinker.
Anyone got the test of the Times article?
There were hugely popular Irish Simpsons meme pages that were basically SF propaganda. Not
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Grinds for an 11 year old is a new one for me to be honest.
Think I'd prefer an average all rounder with friends and some sort of sporty proficiency/team exposure than going down the Japanese route of piling exam pressure on kids so much they have a mental break down.
I do understand that for some careers/courses it's just all about point points points but I think realistically the kids would be better off 'naturally' getting 400+ points rather than artificially getting 500 and then being under crazy pressure in college too.
I do acknowledge points != Course toughness too sometimes.﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
Very evident on the internet.
There were hugely popular Irish Simpsons meme pages that were basically SF propaganda. Not﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostThats a Hell of a lot of extrapolation
We changed for the better, they are still stuck where they are, nothing I've said can be taken as approval of their culture. But it is their culture and us thinking we have a right to force another culture on them against their will is cultural imperialism.
We can sneer, we can nudge for change, we can be an example of how democracy is better than autocracy but If we want them to change then we need a coherent plan to effect change, just turning up at a soccer tournament spouting platitudes that you are not even willing to follow through on is just bluster.
Being gay is not cultural. These cunts are hosting a world event, and opening their doors to visitors. Their stance on homosexuality is no different to racism.
Imagine the following scenario. Scandinavian countries are hosting the WC or the Olympics.
Scandinavian countries (in this hypothetical) have exrreme state sanctioned cultures of Islamophobia.
Although they promised governing authorities they would allow outward displays of Islam, allow the hijab into stadia, they went back on their word and refused entry.
Muslims are afraid to travel there. A reporter wearing a hijab is hailed as brave on social media.
Would you consider it a fair argument to suggest Muslims travelling to Scandinavia are partaking in cultural imperialism, forcing their culture on a misunderstood people?
Replace Muslim with Black.
Fuck Qatar.
I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
OK so we can only have sports that don't involve Islamic countries until they give up their 'oul religion. That's not very tolerant is it?I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostThis is interesting, what it seems to me to indicate is that kids who have no interest of or understanding of recent history are buying the propaganda of SF/IRA hook line and sinker.
Younger people who were alive at the time are less likely to be aware of the full history, less likely to understand the troubles, or the GFA - as the survey shows.
Following from that, it’s prey logically that they don’t understand the implication of “up the ‘ra” or understand what it all means.
I think the same would apply to any major conflict and millennials vrs boomers.
And I’d also suggest that the 55+ cohort would have different results if the poll was taken in 1965.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Both ruled by vicious dictators at the time.
Far more liberal and open I would suspect than this shitshow.
Funny, I was thinking this the other day. What current ME society could host an un protested WC right now?
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Originally posted by Micknail View PostGrinds for an 11 year old is a new one for me to be honest.
Think I'd prefer an average all rounder with friends and some sort of sporty proficiency/team exposure than going down the Japanese route of piling exam pressure on kids so much they have a mental break down.
I do understand that for some careers/courses it's just all about point points points but I think realistically the kids would be better off 'naturally' getting 400+ points rather than artificially getting 500 and then being under crazy pressure in college too.
I do acknowledge points != Course toughness too sometimes.
Extra lessons at a young age is what gives kids the confidence to go out and unlock their natural skillset when the pressure starts eventually piling on, rather than get bogged down in a cycle of negative thinking that other kids are naturally better.
Its a primary school teacher who comes in to give the class, once a week, spends most of her time praising the kid and building up the confidence levels. Confidence is a hell of a drug. Plus those primary school teachers are so well trained they really know how to get the best out of kids.
There also isn't really a 'natural' level of points. Any kid is easily capable of a 200-point swing depending on how they are set up. Lack of support and they probably fall away, having the confidence to think that if they put the work in they'll get the grades, could be 200 points the other way. But its not even about points, its about feeling you can achieve things and growing up with that sense of anything is possible.
They probably won't go to an Irish uni anyway as the points are stupid for even ordinary courses - probably a Dutch uni - and there isn't any points for that system."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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I'm with Micknail.
A kid shouldn't start thinking about being an adult until they're almost an adult.
They're only a kid for a short time, they're an adult forever.
Grinds for grades, grades for uni, uni for a career. Fuck all of that for an 11 year old kid.
Let them play.
I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
OK so we can only have sports that don't involve Islamic countries until they give up their 'oul religion. That's not very tolerant is it?
Tolerance of intolerance leads to some very weird places. Wouldn't rank myself a huge Taleb fan but this is a great point imo.Last edited by Emmet; 23-11-22, 22:41.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
I think you are wrong.
Extra lessons at a young age is what gives kids the confidence to go out and unlock their natural skillset when the pressure starts eventually piling on, rather than get bogged down in a cycle of negative thinking that other kids are naturally better.
Its a primary school teacher who comes in to give the class, once a week, spends most of her time praising the kid and building up the confidence levels. Confidence is a hell of a drug. Plus those primary school teachers are so well trained they really know how to get the best out of kids.
There also isn't really a 'natural' level of points. Any kid is easily capable of a 200-point swing depending on how they are set up. Lack of support and they probably fall away, having the confidence to think that if they put the work in they'll get the grades, could be 200 points the other way. But its not even about points, its about feeling you can achieve things and growing up with that sense of anything is possible.
They probably won't go to an Irish uni anyway as the points are stupid for even ordinary courses - probably a Dutch uni - and there isn't any points for that system.
The extra maths lessons here sounds like a remedial teacher rather than private weekend grinds which is what I had in my head, so apologies.
And I probably should have put 'naturally' in italics rather than using it in the technical sense of the word.
I just meant what the student would get without help vs. non stop grinds for points.
There was a chap in my secondary whose parents paid for him to do 2 extra subjects privately for the LC.
I think it was with a plan of he'd really find it easy in that course in college (engineering or something, can you take that at LC level?).
This was on top of the school doing 7 subjects so basically you could really f up in one and it wouldn't really matter.
Poor bollix didn't get the points in the end for his first choice course as he was spreading himself so thin, did really well in the two extra subjects tho!
I think he eventually had to do a hopscotch from an IT into his uni of choice.
He was defo captain no craic for 2 years in school.﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostI'm with Micknail.
A kid shouldn't start thinking about being an adult until they're almost an adult.
They're only a kid for a short time, they're an adult forever.
Grinds for grades, grades for uni, uni for a career. Fuck all of that for an 11 year old kid.
Let them play."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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On a similar thread to Hitch's,
My sis in law wants my niece to do secondary school through Irish. She hasn't done this in primary school.
Says it's because you can get 30% extra in the leaving.
I'll be quite honest, nobody on the family is fluent in Irish.
Am I right in thinking wtaf?
In this case it's surely better to get grinds in English to bring the grades up if needed, rather than be labouring through 6 years of a dead language?﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿
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Originally posted by Micknail View PostGrinds for an 11 year old is a new one for me to be honest.
Think I'd prefer an average all rounder with friends and some sort of sporty proficiency/team exposure than going down the Japanese route of piling exam pressure on kids so much they have a mental break down.
I do understand that for some careers/courses it's just all about point points points but I think realistically the kids would be better off 'naturally' getting 400+ points rather than artificially getting 500 and then being under crazy pressure in college too.
I do acknowledge points != Course toughness too sometimes.
They just weren't a thing in the north or, as far as I was aware, in Britain. The only person I know who took extra classes outside of school was the underachieving child of doctors. He still failed the entrance exam to the grammar school so the da paid for him to go.
I agree with Micknail and Lazare - can't comprehend the widespread hothousing of kids, especially at a young age. Seems like a lot of projection of parental ambition onto someone so young.
Maybe I'm just naive, honestly. But it would never really cross my mind, perhaps unless a teacher said, 'your son has a real talent for x (music/maths whatever) and would probably benefit from some advance study that I can't give him'.
Now of course that might change in years to come, driven by MrsHiFi probably, should there be a glimpse of slacking off or a target not getting met, who knows.
But I know even the threat of extra classes outside of school - thus depriving me of riding my BMX, hanging with my gang, being in a band, discovering girls, pretending to be in the IRA (only joking SP) etc... - would have fairly made me buck up my ideas.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Meh maybe its different in our case given its a French school where there is largely no homework (as a general policy). There's definitely no shortage of play
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Originally posted by BennyHiFi View Post
Seems like a lot of projection of parental ambition onto someone so young."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
There's naturally a direct transfer from parental ambition to kid's growing up with ambition. Its not a bad thing, its the thing that gets you up in the morning wanting to do things.
Not knocking ambition... nor indeed all types of extra curricular learning, just wary of knee-jerk parental responses to slamming kids into more classes (which I'm not suggestion you or anyone else here is doing either BTW!).
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Originally posted by Micknail View PostGrinds for an 11 year old is a new one for me to be honest.
Think I'd prefer an average all rounder with friends and some sort of sporty proficiency/team exposure than going down the Japanese route of piling exam pressure on kids so much they have a mental break down.
I do understand that for some careers/courses it's just all about point points points but I think realistically the kids would be better off 'naturally' getting 400+ points rather than artificially getting 500 and then being under crazy pressure in college too.
I do acknowledge points != Course toughness too sometimes.
I agree with Hitch that it’s only when you are under performing in something that the confidence really gets hit, and what child/adult doesn’t enjoy the feedback loop of doing well in something, so if grinds are the way forward towards that then great.
Where I would have more of an issue is where parents force their own ideas of a career on a child, most commonly it seems with children of doctors. Some kids just simply don’t have the desire/ability/work rate to follow in their footsteps. You see a similar version of parents demanding their child goes to college regardless of ability or suitability to the course they are doing.
I came from a family of tradesmen and went to college and so I’ve seen both sides of it, I definitely think the work I put in that they didn’t during school has made life easier for me later on, so I’d always advice children to go down that route, where capable, but also acknowledge that if you are driven towards something else then just do it very very well and success will follow regardless of the field. I’d be totally agnostic as to which route they chose, I just hate the idea of half-assign anything. I think it was Jerry Flannery who was talking about playing rugby with Paul OConnell and they used to compete to be the best in all things that required no skill. I think that’s a great mindset.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI won't link to it, but I see our legal eagle in the paper today.
The maddest thing in that story is the address of the property in question."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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In terms of school, I regret not studying more for the fact that even to this day I find it hard to study (when the rare need arrives by doing work certification, etc) as I never really learned how to do it properly when I was a teenager. My coasting was nowhere near good enough to get me top grades, but it was more than enough to get middling ones, which is where I ended up, and picked college courses based on the points I'd likely get, rather than any criteria more sensible. If my kids are ever academically able or inclined then I'll help them in whatever way I can, but I doubt I'll force anything. They both have their own problems though (especially the younger lad), so it might not ever be anything I need to worry about, but if it comes to it there is a lot more to life than university courses.
If I could have my time again and wasn't an idiot teenager when I was an idiot teenager there are far more career paths (some of which would involve college/uni too obviously) that I'd go down ahead of where my 'path of least resistance' life has taken me thus far, albeit in things I have no aptitude or real interest in right now, just that I think life would be less boring doing them. Something like electrician (most gentrified of the trades imo), landscape gardener, zookeeper, even the previously mooted train driver.
I dislike my work in general, but am too locked in to life financially to even consider switching. There are no similar sideways related moves into different roles that I've come across that interest me 'either, so perhaps I'm just someone who is perpetually disinterested in things. Either way, I'd like to imagine kids can make better choices, but the problem there is that a lot of them have to make choices that are very important while they are idiot teenagers.
Youth is most definitely wasted on the young, as they say.
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Child I did 'OK' in her JC but definitely performed below her potential, seems to be a general theme amongst her friends. Would say a few things at play there:- she didn't put the effort in at all, hence my 'get out what you put in' comment
- school not pushing kids to achieve
- covid certainly had an impact on their year, they were hardly taught at all for long stretches
- we didn't push her and there were no grinds etc
- definitely a bit of immaturity factor at play, possibly multiplied by the covid effect
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostFunny, I was thinking this the other day. What current ME society could host an un protested WC right now?
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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The big revelation for me was around the age of 35/36, can't remember, when I retrained in data science. Did maybe 20 courses over the space of a year, and it so ridiculously enjoyable to be learning. Had spent so long giving out knowledge, without taking in new structured knowledge, that I'd grown stale. Its fucking brilliant to learn new things. Like this Chinese course I'm taking is mindblowing - just the whole different perspective on communication."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Interesting to look at the worldwide scores for that btw. Look at those smug Uruguayans beating us out of the top ten,
Russia with an appalling score of 20 (which has presumably gone down quite a bit since then) and Ukraine with a 'partly free' score of 60."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
They do rank these things. But yeah, it's a pretty depressing link to click on.
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View PostQuestion for finance folk . With the increase in tap payments as opposed to Cash. What are the pros and cons ? Is the money vaule the same or does the derect debit system simply make more money for the banks Via transactions charges etc ?
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Originally posted by 6starpool View Post
I like that in the list of all countries, the USA (the land of the free) is only at #61 on the freedom rankings.
Their biggest problem isn't corruption or suppression of democracy imo, it's the almost total polarisation of their political system. The two-party setup was a massive plus for a long time but now looks like a huge structural weakness.
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"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
(1) they're in very short supply
(2) quote to paint entire house was 13k
(3) I quite like doing it, very Zen, a bit like shuffling poker chips
Doors and skirting boards are the worst.
Child #3, who elected to paint her room the shade of yellow that is in the Ukrainian flag, is now having serious buyers remorse but she can GTFO and live with it for a few years."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Just finished this monster of a task (painting own house), saving a big chunk of €€€.
Doors and skirting boards are the worst.
Child #3, who elected to paint her room the shade of yellow that is in the Ukrainian flag, is now having serious buyers remorse but she can GTFO and live with it for a few years.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIts that time of the year when I need an imaginative present for the wife. Any great ideas that have occurred to people recently?"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThe big revelation for me was around the age of 35/36, can't remember, when I retrained in data science. Did maybe 20 courses over the space of a year, and it so ridiculously enjoyable to be learning. Had spent so long giving out knowledge, without taking in new structured knowledge, that I'd grown stale. Its fucking brilliant to learn new things. Like this Chinese course I'm taking is mindblowing - just the whole different perspective on communication.
The plane is being collected by its new owner tomorrow and I'm permanent in work, which I wasn't before I bought it, so my plan for the first time is to try not obsessing over or deliberately learning anything (for a while at least).
With the kids, I just try to keep them structured and disciplined without academic performance being the be all and end all. I think the black box between parental input and child output isn't worth trying to figure out beyond that!
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Should have set aside more than 20 minutes for this. Massage chair, some form of experience to individualise it a bit as the massage chair becomes a house asset rather than a personal asset, and a teppanyaki meal in Chaiyo for the shared time. What would be a good experience? Maybe making something. Like a chocolate making class. Or making perfumes could be interesting."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by zuutroy View PostGod I hate buying presents. As a person with zero creativity or imagination I should get an exemption.
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Originally posted by Micknail View PostShirley this:
https://www.dyson.ie/vacuum-cleaners...ct-iron-nickel
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Originally posted by zuutroy View Post
I was like this with aviation from 2016 when I took it up seriously. Couldn't get enough...learned easily a full BSc and MSc worth of material. Have been like that with various topics since I was a teenager...basketball, physics, materials science, poker, golf, flying, in that order.
The plane is being collected by its new owner tomorrow and I'm permanent in work, which I wasn't before I bought it, so my plan for the first time is to try not obsessing over or deliberately learning anything (for a while at least).
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Struggling to do 1-2 days in the gym for around 6 months but did 7 sessions a week for the 3rd week in a row.
Decided to relearn poker and bought a load of content and down an awful rabbit hole.
I do seem to have hit a point with golf at the moment though where I accept that I’m not good and can’t complain about it because I’m not putting in the work so even when I’m awful I laugh it off.
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Originally posted by Murdrum View Post
I’m very similar, I’m either in or I’m out. I find it very hard to do something half arse or at least my perception of what that is.
Struggling to do 1-2 days in the gym for around 6 months but did 7 sessions a week for the 3rd week in a row.
Decided to relearn poker and bought a load of content and down an awful rabbit hole.
I do seem to have hit a point with golf at the moment though where I accept that I’m not good and can’t complain about it because I’m not putting in the work so even when I’m awful I laugh it off.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIts that time of the year when I need an imaginative present for the wife. Any great ideas that have occurred to people recently?
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