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Tsk. Beeb getting it wrong, saying that guy is their first summer signing, when they've already got Stewart. There will be loads of free agents waiting for clubs to make offers, all holding out for as good a deal as they can get. LND will be no different. Hoping his end of season form is enough to offset the injuries and the managed minutes in that spell. It's a risk. Some players don't get near what they want and end up not taking an offer. Others have to race to get what they can. Ross is in-between: looking for a champ/lower PL deal, but not with the experience there to back it up.

Who knew this innocent game would be a gateway into right wing ideology? If only we'd stopped to ask if the orcs actually had been happily allowed by our government to stay, and we're not raiding parties.

"Saints staff welcome surprise guest Lord Pannick" 🙂

Annual expanded club world cups, with an expanded, investor led, world cup every two years. Then federation tournaments in the gap years. Bringing the world of football to the world. Pesky UEFA and their local issues.

"No Weston. The bottle of whisky isn't to help with your pain. We find being blind drunk helps with the surgeon's guilt. Now, let the sawbones do her work."

Turns out that's just a romance scam to get engineers over to France to fix things, while locked in captivity.

Yup. Different life paths. circumstances and drives also make a huge difference. That results in loads of talented people with all sorts of backgrounds and academic achievements.

A quite scathing, but not always, review of Nolan's film from a translator of Homer's work. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man I think her translation was mentioned as being excellent by the Rest is History podcast.

Thanks for letting me have my grump. I enjoyed that. 🙂 I've found "intelligence" to mean different things over the years, particularly when having to be applied. Focus, wisdom, attitude, willpower, resilience, communication and retention all intertwine too, resulting in a useful skillset. I've known people who were very intelligent, but in a very focused way. They suffered academically and in the workplace. I've known plenty of others with great qualifications who I'd not ask to turn on a light. I'm sure we've all met people falling I to different categories. My point being that intelligence is not enough on it's own, and really has a broader definition. Also, that Big School courses aren't necessarily the best places to not only show intelligence, but to show that you'll be useful in a working environment. I see that 2 of the 3 professions have already been noted, by yourself as not really needing a degree. I'd argue that Doctors really have their own graduate/post graduate/specialty pathway that is distinct from a lot of other courses. Putting myself back in grump mode, apart from unis being based for the elite, the intelligent and/or for key professions, I do agree that the shift in focus is a good step. 🙂

Fluid mechanics? Internet Architecture?

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Welcome to SaintsWeb, Locationremot4! 🙂

As proof I'm only in the centrist club because my views cancel out, that pushed my inner socialist button. 🙂 Who are these elite people for whom university should be for? Firstly, I have a button that rejects "elite" on principal. Thirdly, (inside SaintsWeb gag, from when @Matthew Le God was telling us how smart he was, only to not be able to count to two.) Secondly, what are the key professions, and is university the best place for people to get the key skills for those professions? Thirdly, is a personal anecdote. When I was at Big School, I had to do a day release at a technical college for a while, as they were building new labs. The people on the similar courses there were brighter and more technically minded. They were the people you'd actually depend on, if you wanted something done, over our lot. Even then Big Schools were more concerned with their own profits than courses. In the times I've been back, that's only accelerated. There are "pointless degrees" and there are also plenty of seemingly useful ones, that aren't fit for purpose. It's been an industry for a long time now. Burnham's focus on technical skills are welcome. But it's just part of a needed overhaul.

That time they won the league?