Whitey Grandad

We have a history of not respecting our history. This is unbelievably criminal: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/implacable-to-the-end

I remember going to the Isle of Wight as a boy. Portsmouth Harbour was full of warships moored two abreast down the centre of the harbour. Now even Fareham creek is virtually empty. Is there a site listing all the ships that served and what happened to them? I was bobbing around in Portsmouth harbour in my Mirror dinghy when Invincible, Bristol and Olmeda (?) returned, a day I shall never forget. Bristol is now the cadet training ship and has just undergone a refit. It always seems a pity that we can't raise the money to preserve some of these. As for the great ocean liners, we have nothing to show.

Some of you may wish to look away now. Hermes was sold to India in 1986 and is now INS Viraat. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ins+viraat&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=-4lMUNiPCYaf0QXIt4G4Aw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=768&bih=928#biv=i|12;d|QX7vbetHFTBRZM: Fearless was broken up in Ghent and Intrepid in Liverpool. Officially they were 'recycled'. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1126951/Farewell-warrior-Falklands-veteran-broken-claim-piece-eBay.html

I find this obsession with empty seats strange. There is a great big swathe in the separation zone that gets taken for granted.at the game the empty seats were not obvious apart from a small block (of maybe 40?) to the left of the dugouts. I must admit to being surprised by the empty corporates though.

What's a calculator? Is it like an abacus?

Oops. I've had bigger bloomers than that. Thank you for pointing it out, I knew someone would ;-) I blame my IPAD. And not checking my results, but at least I showed my working so I must get some points for that.

Are we talking a priori or a posteori? Sticking with the door is 33%. The alternative must be 66% It's called the Monty Hall problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

66% if you change. The goat is removed for you, for free. The choice is first door (1 in 3) or second door (2 in 3) since if there is a car behind either of the two doors you will win it.

It was called BODMAS in my day. Calculators vary in their priority sequencing. HP used to use reverse Polish which confused some people. 1 to the power 0 is 1, so the answer is 6-1+1, which is 1. (edit: that's a load of horlicks. I'd blame my IPad if I could. It's a good thing I showed my working). ;-) It was an exercise for the reader. The answer is obviously 6, derbrain.

This is counter-intuitive. The best strategy is always to change your mind. Think of it this way. Choose a door that you don't want to be opened. The chance of it being a car is 1 in 3, so the chance of there being a car behind one of the other two doors is 2 in 3. The host will get rid of the spare goat for you leaving you with twice the chance of getting the car, providing you change your mind.

It's what Google should have been, had they been able to spell. It's also a jolly big number.

Oi! Watch it.

Googol is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers

It was supposed to be but somebody couldn't spell.

That is now a trillion.

Yes, it scares the willies out of me but what can I do?

Both are now a thousand million.

That's encouraging, thanks for the read.

Mine comes from my grandchildren. One grandfather has brown hair, the other is me.

Agreed, I've been saying his for some time.

Does the club know about this? If not, then I think they should.

It shows how short of defenders we are. If Fox is out for long who do we have for cover?

It may not have been a case of money. Dealing with the Ramirez transfer must have taken up a lot of time, although you'd hope that the club could handle more than a couple of deals at the same time.

Thomas Hitzlsperger also out of contract at Wolfsburg (?). Can he play left back?

Could he be like Shevchenko was to Abrovich? Maybe Cortese idolised him when he was a little boy.