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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Apr 6, 2018 17:31:06 GMT
Scousers are scum. That being said, a bit of a fuss about nothing. BBCI watched footage from the BBC that was from inside the coach and apart from things thrown at the reinforced coach what is the big deal? A hostile reception from the home crowd ahead of a huge game? I thought it was pretty cool. Nobody was hurt. You'd think the City players would have used it to get them going. Maybe it should be like N Korea where you have to sit on your hands in case you might applaud.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 28, 2018 20:28:03 GMT
only season ive ever watched was Roanoke and it was a classic haunted house season I loved every episode Ive never watched any of the other seasons Just curious, if you have only watched the one season and thought it very enjoyable why would you ask if it were time the series to end?
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 22, 2018 2:07:08 GMT
That's what makes him intimidating than someone coming at you with an axe. You sit with him in his office and he wants to kill you and will because you come across as rude or disrespectful. Drink red wine with chicken or play the wrong note on a violin he might come and get you. But I wouldn't be terrified as I wouldn't realize it was him. In a way that makes it more scary. As a viewer. We know Lecter is a maniac but the victims don't.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 22, 2018 1:53:45 GMT
Arguable not horror but some say so, I'd go for Hannibal Lecter. His intelligence and the fact he is a Doctor supposedly out to help you is frightening considering. The guy can talk you in to killing yourself. He's not coming at you with a chainsaw or axe which makes him more frightening because he is usually someone you are supposed to take in to confidence and trust. Hannibal generally kills people he feels deserve to be killed That's what makes him intimidating than someone coming at you with an axe. You sit with him in his office and he wants to kill you and will because you come across as rude or disrespectful. Drink red wine with chicken or play the wrong note on a violin he might come and get you.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 22, 2018 1:26:39 GMT
Who's your favorite? i.e. - you know you're in trouble when you're within 2 feet of this character. Me? Rob Zombie's version of Michael Myers. Go! Arguable not horror but some say so, I'd go for Hannibal Lecter. His intelligence and the fact he is a Doctor supposedly out to help you is frightening considering. The guy can talk you in to killing yourself. He's not coming at you with a chainsaw or axe which makes him more frightening because he is usually someone you are supposed to take in to confidence and trust.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 21, 2018 12:10:02 GMT
Leaning towards evil little minx on this one. Wasn't she a bit like the kid in 'The Twilight Zone' episode 'Its a Good Life' where you think terrible things and they happen?
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 20, 2018 20:38:26 GMT
Getting back to the point here, I'm guessing some of you live in some kind of fantasy world where racial discrimination doesn't exist, where jobs are given on merit to the best candidates. The problem is, that world doesn't exist. Never has done. No, the problem is people thinking it ever will exist. It won't. When should positive discrimination stop, Stan? The fact is positive discrimination, affirmative action, diversity quotas, racial quotas etc is racial discrimination but it is ok because the people being discriminated against are white. The FA is openly pushing for discrimination by making it mandatory to hire ethnic minorities at the expense of a more qualified white guy to show they're diverse.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 20, 2018 20:31:49 GMT
Getting back to the point here, I'm guessing some of you live in some kind of fantasy world where racial discrimination doesn't exist, where jobs are given on merit to the best candidates. The problem is, that world doesn't exist. Never has done. In the real world, with regular jobs, there have been numerous studies where the same CV is sent out multiple times to employers, with the same qualifications, attending the same schools/colleges, with exactly the same experience. The only difference on the CVs is the name of the applicant. Some given "white" names, some given "ethnic" names. And every study shows the same thing. That the CVs with the "white" sounding names are far more likely to get an interview. Here is one such study, where the applicants with ethnic sounding names would have had to send out 74% more CVs to get the same amount of interviews as the "white" sounding candidates. www.natcen.ac.uk/media/20541/test-for-racial-discrimination.pdfSo what plausible explanations are there in the above study, other than racial discrimination? So back to football, there is very likely an inherit unfairness going on here which discriminates against black and ethnic minorities when it comes to coaching and management jobs. It's not an ideal situation, where we have to introduce quotas to try and rectify the unfairness on black coaches (although even with this plan, BAME coaches will still be massively under-represented). So the question really boils down to, which is more unfair... black coaches getting an opportunity? or black coaches not getting an opportunity? Those are skewed stats. The real world is diversity hiring, racial quotas, affirmative action, positive discrimination which is exactly the case here. The fact is having a minority sounding name gives you an advantage. Colleges actually ask minorities who have a white sounding name to provide a photo to prove minority status as admissions boards want minorities and want to exclude whites to push diversity quotas.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 20, 2018 16:13:23 GMT
If you want to hire based on the sake of hiring because quotas then start with English managers in the premier league. How many are there at the moment? Three or four? Or maybe hire on merit instead. There is a problem about the hiring on merit argument in the EPL. There's no way anyone can convince me Alan Pardew for example was hired on merit! I'd say he was hired on experience. He managed clubs before. Pardew and Big Sam are stop gaps until someone else comes up and that someone else will not be English. What is the success rate of English managers in regards to silver? A league or fa cup trophy? Not much at all. What English manager could walk in to the job at Man U or Man City these days. I'll say none.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 20, 2018 15:47:30 GMT
If you want to hire based on the sake of hiring because quotas then start with English managers in the premier league. How many are there at the moment? Three or four? Or maybe hire on merit instead. 6 English managers, 2 Scottish and one Welsh. So 9 out of the 20 are British. Compared to 69.2% of players in Premier League are foreign. (That number would probably be even higher if we only counted regular starters). Edit: it's actually 7 English managers, so 10 out of 20 are British. So if anything English managers are overrepresented. Overrepresented? Big Sam is a stop-gap manager for one. Underrepresented might be better in regards to English managers. 70% foreigners? Why is nobody complaining about that?
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 20, 2018 14:21:53 GMT
About time they started hiring some brothers. Out of the 92 clubs in the football league, there are only 4 black managers. - 22 out of 482 senior coaching positions at professional clubs are held by coaches from BAME backgrounds: 4.6% of all positions of this kind. 9 out of those 22 are hired by just 4 clubs (Palace, Brighton, Reading, QPR) - 10 out of 248 senior coaching positions at first team level at professional clubs (4%) are held by BAME coaches. While more than 25% of players are from BAME backgrounds. www.kickitout.org/news/sports-peoples-think-tank-publish-latest-bame-coaching-statistics/#.WrEQRX8uCCgIf you want to hire based on the sake of hiring because quotas then start with English managers in the premier league. How many are there at the moment? Three or four? Or maybe hire on merit instead.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 20, 2018 14:13:13 GMT
Even if this affirmative action/racial quota/positive discrimination hiring thing was put in to place how long until people like 'Kick It Out' would whinge of 'tokenism'?
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 20, 2018 14:08:54 GMT
Nay. The way things are now no need as you can watch anything anywhere on your tv or computer. Teams have pre-season tours also in Asia, North America which should suffice.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 20, 2018 13:03:33 GMT
Yes, yes it is. Talent is secondary
How utterly demeaning to get a job based more on race or ethnicity than merit. Loathsome. Mandatory? Everyone should have a problem with that.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 19, 2018 22:24:24 GMT
The trailer doesn't do this flick any favors.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 19, 2018 3:15:56 GMT
Crap movie. Has a cool poster. I'd give it a re-watch for early roles of Saul Rubinek and Nick Mancuso. Kate Reid and George Kennedy? It has a decent cast. Been over 30 years since I saw it but I remember not being overwhelmed. If I thought it was crap at 12 I doubt I'd find it any better now. I did quite like 'Ghost Ship (2012). Good spooky atmosphere.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 17, 2018 19:53:13 GMT
Netflix just trying to push their horror films. Seen this over the years horror films had gimmicks to sell. Vomit bags and selling insurance in case you drop dead from fright watching or horror film so bad it was banned in 50 countries. I mean first thing some might want to do after seeing this is to watch and see if you can make it through. Probably the truth is that they are so bad you bin it half way through.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 17, 2018 17:00:33 GMT
Pardew will know there's yet a glimmer of hope as news comes through that Everton have gone 2-1 up v Stoke. If ever Albion needed a goal... There is only one Cenk Tosun.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 17, 2018 13:28:34 GMT
She put her arm around him without consent too.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 17, 2018 2:45:13 GMT
People have to take a deep breath sometimes. This has nothing to do with Hillsborough in any way shape or form. End of story.
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