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Reply | Oh-Ma-Ri...
at 08:26 17 Mar 2024
To the tune of Volare (Nel blu, dipinto di blu):
Oh-Ma-Ri
Oh-Ma-Ri
A blue, he's always a blue
A blue, he's always a blue
...or something to that effect. |
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Reply | Becoming Ali Al-Hamadi
at 18:18 19 Feb 2024
Thank you for sharing. I watched all four, and I'm not surprised that Town were so keen to sign him - both for his football prowess and his grounded personality. Hopefully he will achieve great success here and, like his childhood hero Steven Gerrard, become a one-club player. |
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Reply | 1972 Andes Plane Crash
at 12:01 11 Jan 2024
In the early sixties - ten years before the accident, 26 of the 40 passengers were going to the same small primary/middle school. They came from a very connected community. |
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Reply | 1972 Andes Plane Crash
at 20:44 8 Jan 2024
The Mike Goslett book looks like an essential read. I will add it to my list. |
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Reply | 1972 Andes Plane Crash
at 20:24 8 Jan 2024
No I was not. I am a couple of years younger than the youngest survivor. 14 of the 16 survivors are still alive today - almost all living close by to each other. I met one of them in a trip to the crash site in 2013, and now know amost everyone in the community (survivors and those who died), and good friends with several of the survivors. |
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Reply | 1972 Andes Plane Crash
at 19:21 8 Jan 2024
Society of the Snow is well worth watching on the big screen if you get a chance. It is shortlisted for the Oscars in several categories. I had a chance to go to a couple of prescreenings in London in December, and had a long chat with the director. The attention to detail and authenticity is remarkable. I think that 600 hours of footage went into the final editing phase. Although the mountain scenes were filmed in Spain, they are superimposed on extensive footage of the accident site itself, so you are seeing what the survivors saw. |
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Reply | 1972 Andes Plane Crash
at 18:12 8 Jan 2024
It is a fascinating multifaceted story, in terms of the community they came from, the politics in Uruguay at the time, the accident itself, the unprecedented continuation of the search by the parents, the events on the mountain, the return of the survivors to the close knit community where they lived side by side with the families of the dead, etc. The anthropophagy/cannibalism was probably the least interesting aspect of it. |
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Thread | 1972 Andes Plane Crash
at 17:35 8 Jan 2024
I hope the TWTD community will forgive a shameless plug. There is a three-part documentary on the 1972 Andes Plane Crash that will air Tue, Wed, Thu this week at 10pm on channel 5. I was consultant expert for this (though don't appear), and the production was guided by my book on the subject 'To Play the Game' ( https://johnguiver.org/books ). The story is much in the news this week because of the remarkable film 'The Snow Society' which recently appeared on NetFlix. |
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Reply | LOL
at 14:36 29 Oct 2023
Correct. Another perspective is: if a goal is scored every 30 minutes on average in a Championship game (I think that's approximately correct), the chance of scoring a goal in a 1 minute patch of play is also about 3% - so on the face of it not much difference between open play and corner. But in open play either team can score (1.5% for a given team), whereas with the corner, the team to whom it's awarded has the 3% chance. So twice the chance of the team scoring as in open play. |
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Reply | LOL
at 14:11 29 Oct 2023
An average of 10 corners per game, and a 3% chance of scoring from a corner, gives around 26% chance of a goal being scored from a corner in a game (calculation is 1.0 - 0.97^10 as a percentage). |
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Reply | Sheff Wed going German then....
at 16:09 13 Oct 2023
Pertinent clue in the Times Quick Cryptic puzzle yesterday:
Support team that's bottom (8)
Answer: BACKSIDE |
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Reply | ChatGPT
at 22:18 24 Mar 2023
ChatGPT-generated conversation between Ipswich Town fan and Norwich City fan:
Ipswich Town fan: “Hey, how’s it going?” Norwich City fan: “Good, thanks. How about you?” Ipswich Town fan: “Not too bad. I’m just glad we’re not in League One anymore.” Norwich City fan: “Yeah, I bet. But we’re doing pretty well in the Championship this season.” Ipswich Town fan: “Yeah, but you guys always seem to choke when it comes to the playoffs.” Norwich City fan: “Hey, at least we’ve made it to the playoffs. When was the last time Ipswich did that?” Ipswich Town fan: “Fair point. But we’ve got a new manager now and things are looking up.” Norwich City fan: “We’ll see about that. I think we’re going to beat you guys in the next derby.” Ipswich Town fan: “Ha! You wish. We’re going to crush you like we always do.” |
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Reply | Caption anyone-
at 01:21 13 Oct 2022
Moggie dreams of appearing on Kingston's New Year's kit. |
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Reply | Has anyone had to ditch old phone because charge slot became loose?
at 10:14 2 Nov 2021
This happened to my smart phone a few months ago. One online suggestion was to take a pin or staple (paper clip is too big) and extract the accumulated dust from the slot. I tried this and removed a surprising amount. It worked a treat and the connection is tight again. Same fix worked for Mrs Pedrail's phone. |
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Reply | Would you prefer we went for it and risked losing?
at 08:35 8 Dec 2019
If you are a better than average team, it is always statistically better to go for the win and risk losing. The expected points return is much higher. Even an average team would expect to win as many as they lose and therefore get a better points tally going for the win rather than the draw. |
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