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Thread | Dunning Kruger effect
by EdwardStone at 20:13 15 Sep 2025
Is the cognative bias where people of limited abilites overestimate their skill level, as identified in 1999 by the 2 eponymous psychologists
The Danny Kruger effect is similar, but different
First noticed in September 2025, it is where a reasonable sensible Conservative MP decides that his future is best served by leaping into bed with a rabble of ne'er do wells, racists and bigots led by a man with a striking resemblance to Homer Simpson |
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Thread | Ibiza Final Boss
by blueasfook at 17:10 15 Sep 2025
For some reason I keep seeing this guy everywhere. He seems to be "famous" for having a silly hairstyle. it's ridiculous what people become famous for these days. |
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Thread | Nuno
by Wickets at 16:15 15 Sep 2025
Anyone spot him in our Boardroom at the weekend  |
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Thread | I'll never grow up, will I?
by NthQldITFC at 16:02 15 Sep 2025
I've just spent a glorious quarter of an hour bunging - well spinning like a well-thrown rugby ball - acorns up into the howling wind over the river and marvelling at how they retain their upright spinning form as they get buffeted around in all directions.
This sort of thing makes me happy.
What sort of things like this make you happy? |
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Thread | Shout out to the supporter who headed the ball back towards the end of the game.
by WeWereZombies at 15:39 15 Sep 2025
Deserved cheer and excellent to see that it took the Sheffield United player twenty seconds or more to collect that ball (or be supplied with another one) not that we needed to fritter away time but could be useful in a tighter game where we only have a single goal advantage. Think he should keep his place in the seat on the front row of the Britannia (?) for the next home game, first name in the attendees list for me... |
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Thread | Battle of Britain Day
by Churchman at 14:54 15 Sep 2025
Today! 85 years since the Germans launched their biggest attack of the BoB on London. It kind of marks the period of time they began to realise it was a battle they weren’t going to win.
58 German aircraft lost with a further 20 seriously damaged. The RAF lost 29 with 21 damaged. The day was subject to massive over claiming. From the British perspective most of it was by class A idiot Leigh-Mallory’s 12 Group with their unwieldy impractical ‘Big Wing’ promoted by Bader. But the propaganda figure of 185 was allowed to stand.
The Germans similarly over claimed with far graver consequences. They believed through rubbish intelligence that the RAF was down to the bare bones. It wasn’t, though losses of experienced pilots was a problem for Dowding. This misread by the Luftwaffe led to confusion, recriminations and further unnecessary losses. It could be argued that the Luftwaffe never truly recovered from its defeat in the summer of 1940.
Regardless, German daylight attacks began to reduce in scale after mid September and while engagements continued throughout the autumn the pressure on Fighter Command progressively relaxed. The Blitz followed, but while this led to a lot of death and destruction, that was never going to force Britain’s hand.
One famous incident was the destruction of Oberleutnant Zehbe’s KG76 Dornier 17Z. It developed engine trouble and fell behind the formation. It was attacked by plenty of RAF fighters to the point where it was shot to hell. Sgt Ray Holmes spotted it and attacked and collided with it. He said that the tail looked fragile so attempted to knock it off with his wing. He did just that. This account by him differs from his combat report but regardless the Dornier was filmed pitching down, outboard wings ripped off and tail gone.
The aircraft fell on Victoria Station and the surrounding streets. Some of the bombs hit Buckingham Palaces and Holmes’ Hurricane crashed on the crossroads in between. Holmes parachuted and survived that and the war. The German pilot Zehbe parachuted and landed in Kennington. Women attacked him basically with anything they could get their hands on. He died of his wounds the following day. Two other crew members survived, another died in the aircraft.
https://aircrewremembrancesociety.co.uk/Luftwaffe-Losses-ARS.co.uk/styled-17/sty
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Thread | Darren Bent
by WeWereZombies at 14:50 15 Sep 2025
As everyone else has had their own thread now I just wanted to say how admirable Darren's patience was as Lee Hendrie hogged the microphone in the Sky studio, and it was nice to see McKenna greet him with an 'evening, Darren' so that they could get the talking football started. |
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Thread | Transfer Windows for managers
by stickymockwell at 14:10 15 Sep 2025
I was just thinking after reading the Mckenna thread to West ham (not that I believe it). If there's windows for players then surely there should be ones for managers. Managers leaving is far more disruptive for clubs than players going.
A manager could still resign or be sacked but he wouldn't be able to join another club or if sacked then the club has to promote from within until the window is open again.
The club would be protected against a manager spending lots of cash on his players and going and the managers would probably be given more time to turn situations around. |
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Thread | So there's no doubt
by PhilTWTD at 13:23 15 Sep 2025
Those posters who continue to bait one another will be banned if it doesn't stop. I really don't have the time or the patience to deal with it and they've all been asked more than enough times, some in the last couple of days. |
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Thread | women at Colchester
by Sharkey at 13:02 15 Sep 2025
I'd be interested to know how watching a home game at Colchester felt. Anyone here go? From the bit I saw on YouTube, the crowd seemed to be very supportive, - not so easy when you're hardly getting a kick. Were there enough ballboys/ballgirls, or had both clubs left it to the other? Was the children's pre-match area open? Who was doing the 'announcing'? (For what it's worth, I think the ColU guy is very good.) Did they slip in a bit of Modern English at half-time? |
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Thread | Been participating in "a chat" with a Norwich fan this morning
by Keno at 12:57 15 Sep 2025
he reckons
Town got lucky Friday night as all the goals came off deflections
Nunez is an awful player who they didnt want to keep so offloaded him on us
They will thrash us twice in the derby games they have a better more cohesive squad
There is no one in our squad who would make it in their 1st team
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Delia is a better than Ed Sheeran |
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Thread | Norwich Tickets
by ITFCWicklow at 10:39 15 Sep 2025
I came out of the ballot(after applying unsuccessfully loads of times over last couple of seasons) for the Norwich match and got my ticket - usually not that lucky, more a case if I fell into a bag of t*ts I'd come out sucking my thumb ! There are normally three of us travelling to the matches but the other two didn't bag any. We are booking flights, hotels etc this week and the lads are wondering if any chance at all of picking up a couple of tickets near / on match day. We got four tickets through the club site a couple of days before the play off game in 2015 but that was then and it's been way harder in recent seasons to get them. The lads will travel anyway but we are just wondering if the general opinion is no hope for tickets if not secured already . We did the Chelsea and Forest games last season but in hospitality - aside from the cost we haven't found it the same craic as in the stands . Any opinions/thoughts would be appreciated |
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Thread | The Warky Championship Report 2025/26: Scumfield United (H)
by Warkystache at 10:16 15 Sep 2025
Sorry. Shouldn't have called them Scumfield now, should I? Let bygones be bygones and all that, as my late Grandad used to say about the Germans (but not the Japanese).
For those of us unfortunate enough to be in their early to mid twenties in 1997 and holding a ticket in lower Churchmans for the play-off semi-final against Howard Kendall's Blades (you don't get football managers like Howard any more. Short, widow's peak, pinched face, Burton's suit), it was obvious. Forgive and forget? Never. I'd still like to have seen Treacle deck Jan Aage Fjortoft at the end when he sneered in our hero's face. True, they weren't "kick 'em in the air" like Bolton under Fat old Allardyce. But it was a game we should've won and we didn't and it hurt. Like hell. Forget Charlton, they were better than us a bit on the night. Forget Bob Anderson the year after. The first one always hurts the most.
What made it worse was the fact that I encountered the Sheffield United team coach about 6pm driving from Hintlesham Hall, on that bit of back road between Hintlesham and Washbrook. My mate took a detour as the A12 around the ToysRUs was a bit busier than normal and we didn't fancy waiting ten minutes in a queue. We made the obligatory Gareth Hunt Nescafe signs at the smoked glass windows. Then, on an impulse I've fortunately not had since, I leaned out the back passenger window and made a sign pointing down. Three or four of their players immediately came to the front of the coach shaking their heads defiantly. Perhaps they'd had a plan all along? Can't help thinking I might have Jonah'd us that night. I still think I might.
I'm now that bit older and greyer, but somehow Sheffield United still make my insides pucker. You never know what you'll get. Premier League yo-yo club as they were (and something we're hoping to emulate this season), they have nevertheless got a fair smattering of talent. I can never understand why we didn't go for Gus Hamer once we knew Hackney was a no last summer. I quite like that Sydie bloke they have in midfield. Michael Cooper is an upgrade on Palmer (or so I thought before the game. Later I'd think differently) and Tyrese Campbell scores a fair few. They're no mugs.
I was sitting next to Tel in Sir Alf Upper. His SAR neighbour was in Crete and had (magnanimously) given Tel his season ticket. A game watched with Tel is never dull, not that my usual standing perch in SBR Lower isn't, but it's the stuff he randomly says and shouts that entertains. A bloke in the away end declared war early by giving us the old middle finger as Sheffield attacked. Tel then 'watched' him for the duration. "Bleedin' ugly innee? Looks like he's just been fisted by Edward Scissor'ands".
I got a great view of Philo's first, banged very hard into the corner past the despairing Cooper. The rest were all at my usual end so the view was a bit less and, once again, I sort of regretted the move. Tel was in hug mode by 3-0. He smelt strongly of a mix of Spanish lager and Yves St Laurent cologne. His stubble rubbed a sore spot on my nose. Still, 5-0. And we got to see Nunez and Tel raved about Furlong and Azon.
The beers in the local afterwards went down like silk. Mrs Tel was arriving at 11pm after an evening spent watching a screening of the new Downton Abbey movie with Sandy in Freeport. Tel regards Downton Abbey like Crossroads and never watched an entire episode once, even when forced. He always managed to find something more interesting. As a result, he takes the pee out of it. He calls it "Upstairs Downton" and wonders aloud during screenings where Mr Hudson is and why Lady Mary manages to score so many lovers when she's got "Tits like two fried eggs on an ironing board".
Still, Mrs Tel was good enough to offer me a lift home and take his nibs back to Halstead at 11.20pm on a Friday so she's more than entitled to her pleasures. Safely back indoors, that Friday night tang of Chinese food and a lot of beer still rolling in my mouth, I fetched the brandy bottle and a glass. On went the computer and into Youtube looking for the highlights. I never knew George Hirst put it cheekily between Cooper's legs for the third. After the previous no-shows of the last couple of home games, this was like accidentally finding porn whilst looking for a David Attenborough wildlife programme.
The weekend tasted all the better for it. And now I'm off for a few days, having a mini-break in an AirB'n'B in Castleton, ready for a few walks amongst the High Peaks. Packed and leaving at twelve as my accommodation isn't ready until four and it's apparently wet up there. See you for the Blackburn reaction next Sunday! |
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