Hamilton Saint

Highlight of the tournament, so far.

I've been checking out Ry Cooder videos on YouTube lately—in anticipation of a live show tomorrow night at Massey Hall in Toronto. Here he is in 1977 on The Old Grey Whistle Test doing the great song "He'll Have to Go", a single for Jim Reeves in 1960. Cooder recorded this for his superb album "Chicken Skin Music" (1976). Everything he does is great!

Actually, Uruguay have been pretty fair. Not a lot of diving (except for Cavani), and I think they've only had one or two yellow cards so far. Portugal, on the other hand ....

Blatent dive by Cavani in the penalty area. Ref not conned—in fact he scolded Cavani early in the game for that behaviour.

The problem is a wide-spread inability to think critically and express a philosophically-coherent position. As the American political columnist George Will opined, a while back, President Trump is unable to communicate in syntactically correct sentences. Trump is unable, essentially, to engage in sequential thought. This makes it very difficult for his supporters and apologists to back Trump's "policies", because they are incoherent, indecisive, often self-contradictory and illogical, and do not flow from a recognizably authentic philosophical position. How do you engage in dialogue with people whose views are essentially inauthentic and incoherent?

That's an interesting article and it's hard to argue against its main point. This statement at the end really resonates: "In many ways anti-anti-Trumpism mirrors Donald Trump himself, because at its core there are no fixed values, no respect for constitutional government or ideas of personal character, only a free-floating nihilism cloaked in insult, mockery and bombast."

Who was the ITV commentator covering the Poland vs Colombia game? Dreadful. Non-stop barrage of statistics and cheap editorializing—making obvious points over and over. Why not just describe the game and tell us who has the ball—you know, the basic stuff.

No, they call it the "Heisenberg uncertainty principle": you can never know simultaneously the position and speed of a football transfer.

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I took the Hythe Ferry from Hythe every day, and walked up to the bus stop at Holyrood Church.

I found a few good pics of a No. 14 bus via a google search. Taken by David Christie in Sep. 1967 https://www.flickr.com/photos/david_christie/9787926966

Thanks!

Trivia question for you. In 1964-1965 I used to take a double-decker bus from Holyrood Church on the High Street (below bar) through town, through Portswood, and across the Cobden Bridge into Bitterne Park, before getting off at St. Mary's College. I remember it as the No. 14 route. Is that correct?

Absolutely.

John Sydenham: 402 appearances; 40 goals Bobby Stokes: 264 appearances; 55 goals Alan Shearer: 158 appearances; 43 goals I'd go with Sydenham. He was one of my heroes when I started supporting the club in the early 60s; and he went to the same school as me (St. Mary's in Bitterne Park).

Agreed. Looks good.

P - Paine D - Davies C - Channon H - Holmes S - Sydenham

Thatcher & Pinochet Blair & Gaddafi Nixon & Mao Thatcher & Shah of Iran Rumsfeld & Saddam Hussein etc., etc.

From CBC News: "But even though the bid has been accepted, it doesn't mean Canada is guaranteed 10 games in those three cities come 2026. Canada's allotment could be reduced as the FIFA council — a 30-plus-member board overseen by Gianni Infantino, the president of soccer's world governing body — has the final say on the number of games each country gets and the specific locations." http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/worldcup/world-cup-2026-canada-1.4703883

Not 12 groups of 4?

Ha, ha. You win!

Your point is ... what exactly is your point?

I didn't "equate" Trump to Hitler. I parodied your OP in a satirical manner. The jest wasn't aimed at Trump; it was aimed at you. HTH

Thatcher & Pinochet Blair & Gaddafi Nixon & Mao Thatcher & Shah of Iran Rumsfeld & Saddam Hussein etc., etc. [btw, Castro was a "remarkable man"]

All the politicians, millionaire liberal "luvvies", middle class European sheep and most of the rest, were wrong about Hitler. I liked him when I first read "Mein Kampf" back in 1925. Anyone that rubs politicians up the wrong way and is well on the way to achieving world dominion, fair treatment for German workers and jobs for non-semites is OK by me. It just shows what a successful demagogue can do, compared to a serious politician. I look forward to the Nuremberg Rallies.