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Wonderful game. This has been a great World Cup ... so far.

Agreed. Besides, there are too many variables and unknown factors to allow for a meaningful comparison. It's just space-filler.

The ref obviously not impressed with Neymar. They have his number.

Neymar is such a cheat!

Brazil on top, but Mexico still in it. They might get a second wind.

I like Mexico's style of attacking—more urgent and direct. They look more likely to score.

Best move by Neymar, so far, was tying up his yellow bootlaces. Update: he has just done his first roll.

It's the annoying commentator again—non-stop blather of statistics, editorializing and irrelevant comment. Let us watch the game and make up our own minds. "This ref has done two previous games. They both ended in draws. If this one ends in a draw, there will be penalty shoot-out. And we had two penalty shoot-outs yesterday."

"Don't listen to the polls ...". https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/01/donald-trump-polls-popularity-approval-rating

Indeed!

Worst types of drivers are taxi drivers. Most obnoxious drivers are in BMWs.

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.