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Annoying init :)

Bastard foxes.

Is that the animal or the acting family ?

Lol. Now you say it, maybe both.

Is it the mating season so to speak?

Not that I know. All year seems to me.

Palace

This the most lazy shit piece of journalism in history ?
Palace’s by far best performance of the Premier League season so far came against high-flying West Ham last time out, as they eked out a 2-2 stalemate at the London Stadium.

However, that doesn’t change the fact the Eagles have amassed fewer overall shots (20) and fewer attempts on target (5) than any other Premier League side this season.

After going winless in their last 11 London derbies in the Premier League (D6, L5), the hosts look like a doomed outfit, which could pile more pressure on Vieira.

If he ends up on the losing side here and subsequently receives marching orders, the Frenchman will replicate Frank de Boer’s unwanted milestone of being sacked after just four matches in charge of Palace.

More lazy journalism:

Articles that headline rising hospitalisations due to covid without saying anywhere in the article how many of those were fully vaccinated.

Its borders on dereliction of duty.

My mother is 89 and fully vaccinated since May. She has been in hospital twice in the last month with Long Covid, it seems, and a few little extras. She is home now but still feeling quite tired.

Agree, but it's not just journalist who don't report this. It is very hard to get these numbers without some real investigative searching.

It seems to me if the number really showed that a large percentage of those being hospitalized had not received the vaccine, then it would "encourage" people to get vaccinated.

Maybe the numbers are not favourable, so the reluctance to report them.

If its a typical estate agent, the car is hired and the Billy Bullshitting agent owns fk all.

The guy looked about 21 also...

For the UK

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-3CpnLWUA0qC9Q.png

The CPFC Season 21/22 ticket roll out which has turned into a shambles for a lot of people. Also the fact that a post entitled "Palace v Spurs Season ticket access" on which I wrote my experiences and frustration with the mismanagement thereof has been "moved" ? from the "General Palace Discussions" page, almost like a censorship. Where has it been moved to? Who has moved it and why?

Exactly!!!

British f*cking Airways!

Try contacting them to change a reservation that you can't change online.

Over half an hour in a queue and then they cut you off!!

Premium number too!!!

that all adds up to over 100% :confused:


Look: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...th-covid-in-uk

How flippin difficult is it to report "8000 hospitalizations for covid of which 80% unvaccinated" for example?

I MISS SELHURST CELTIC.

Yes, I miss his posts as well. Is he ok or has he got the hump?

It should be in the ticket section. I think I did see a post from you.

I was thinking the same.

Percentages of percentages always does my head in.

For round numbers sake, lets say looking at the 80+ group. 35% unvaccinated and 15% vaccinated. That gives you 50%... are the other 50% in hospital for other reasons, or is this chart "just" for COVID patients?

I believe the numbers were all taken for the latest Public Health England report. A competent journalist should be able to work this stuff out

It’s as clear as mud. Much like the headlines.

I don't know about 'Death by COVID" but I've heard of "Death by PowerPoint"...

Was that in the S*n?

He's busy being Trolley this month.

Optus Sport has set up a whole channel dedicated just to Ronaldo.

Fans based in North America mansplaining the mobile ticketing system.

Not sure they realise what they experience is vastly different/superior to the shit show on offer at Selhurst Park.

you ok hun?

Is that aimed at me? :confused:

No, Robert.

OK... good.

I had made a few comments regarding the ticketing at Selhurst based on my working at a golf tournament that had QR codes on phones and email printouts plus hard tickets, and what a pain it was. I was concerned my input had rubbed wrong.

I hope you got in to the game one way or another. I enjoyed it immensely sitting on my coach, and made the getting up at 4:15am worth it for a change!

There were a couple of bell pieces elsewhere doing a full mansplain.

It actually works quite well where they have installed the genuine North American-style gates but they are enforcing it everywhere, even if it’s not supported.

Glad the early morning was worth it. We weren’t much later than you getting up with the ticket and travel chaos!

The commentators for today's game referring to Edouard and Vieira as the French Revolution. How on earth are they in any way similar? Football is just a game ffs

All this legalised begging at matches on pieces of cardboard.
“Please can I have some dignity….?”

The trend of conducting post match interviews on the pitch meaning it's impossible for the players or viewers to hear anything. Clever shit that because everyone hated the peaceful interviews conducted inside where you could hear exactly what was said.

Me not being able to add nine hours to 12.30 for the kick off and wondering what had happened to the game and getting the wankfest from up North. Luckily Optus allows me to go back and watch the game from the start , so was an hour later than the rest of the World watching the game "live"

The Ronaldo media wankfest.

If the wankers weren't wankers enough they have something else to wank over.

Wankers!

Goes without saying.

The media at the ground are only being fed cake these days

I had set the alarm on my phone for 4am. When I went to bed last night I put the phone on the charger in the bathroom.

Normally when I do this my wife (who goes to bed later than me) usually unplugs it and puts it on my bedside table.

For some reason this time she left it in the bathroom...

Thank God I woke up of my own accord at 4:15am, just in time to get some tea and a piece of toast before the game.

Moral of the story... never depend on your wife to do the right thing!

Dicks that have to stand on their seat during a penalty take when they already have a perfect view of the goal .Inconsiderate tossers

Hope Mrs Hedgehog don’t read this :)

Turns out I lip read without realising

Up in the north west and I cannot understand the locals when they are speaking scouse, and I always could before. The only difference is the masks.

Funny you say that, I was thinking the exact same the other day.

We were out to lunch and the waiter had a mask on and I had to get him to repeat everything he asked me. I think basically you know what the question is, but lip reading helps confirm it - with the mask taking that confirmation away you are relying on voice only (with may also be muffled due to mask).

And I had my hearing aids in!

:lux:

Remember being told years ago by a teacher that they could hear better with their glasses on. The explanation was this. With glasses on they could see the other person's lips moving which helped with the understanding of what was being said.

ESPN for not transmitting in dual language.

Footballers with their first names on the back of their shirts.

Joggers in the early morning who thinks it is okay to jog on suburban roads when there is a path next to them and then give you hand gestures when you shout at them to get out of the road because you cant see them as they have no lights on them.

If i run them down of course it would be my fault.

Mask or no mask, I still can’t understand John Bishop.

Not sure it is an annoyance, but for want of elsewhere to post this...

I wish there was a way to reply, rebut, or comment (like quoting on this site) peoples reviews on Trip Advisor.

I would love to take some of these people to task for their overly good or overly bad reviews... some are so obvious in their ulterior motive, good or bad.

Garth Crooks’ opinion that we wouldn’t have beaten Spurs without the sending off.

People planning a wedding abroad and still expecting you to attend (at your own expense). Either pay for it or don’t be an arse if people say no.

People wanting to have their stag does in Vegas, Barcelona or feckin Latvia. What happened to a good old local pub crawl, a bit of a ruck and a few cheap hookers whose numbers were taken from a unsuspecting shop owner's window advertisement.

Do you reckon he is biased? He forgot to mention, Spurs didn’t turn up

Guy is so past the sell by date it's beyond laughable.

Can only assume once jug ears has been paid there's very little left in the salary budget.

Paddy McGuinness now ruining Question Of Sport. How does the talentless twonk get so much work?

Err I don’t think his calibrations with Peter Kay are twonk my friend try watching Max and Paddy flower

And you were 47 when it first aired so you would of got it.

That was good. Its been all downhill since then.

Peter Kay was (and still is) the one with the talent.

Drunk already, Crybin? Also, Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere was not very good at all.

What did he (or she) make of this part of their duty ?

People who don't know the highway code and understand zip merging !

Drivers on the Isle of Wight. Tourists or locals it’s a nightmare. Tourists will stop for no reason to “look at that” locals will stop for no reason as they are petrified about round abouts or traffic lights. No one seems to know what indicators are for. I rode to Ryde and back yesterday and by the time I got home was an adrenaline pumped Mr Angry spitting abuse. My Mrs even said “I don’t know why you say you enjoy the bike when you come home like that” . She may be right

It's definitely got much worse there over the last year. The sooner they all **** off back to the Spanish resorts, the better. Some absolute scumbags. And you've got the IOW Festival this week. :)

Don’t understand zip merging you mean :)

Honestly it is amazing. We have always had shit drivers here but it seems to have gone up a level. The other thing is the size of the fking things they are driving means if they meet each other they have to stop and let one or the other pass or simply stop and stare at each other. I can’t even filter any more they are so fat

Its lack of highway code knowledge that makes them not understand zip merging but the chicken or the egg will do! ;)

Micro banks. What is the point, a bank with a cash point, a deposit machine that cant take anything but cash and struggles with cheques and a member of staff standing around being bloody useless.

Doh!

I really must improve my proofreading of my posts before hitting submit.

I dunno what micro banks or zip merging are so they don't annoy me.

That's being very kind, even by your standards

Micro banks are banks for little people and Zip merging is a new form of foreplay between consenting adults

Do you really believe your pathetic attempts to wind me up will work ?. I’m as happy as can be and tea total that’s me. I only wish someone would give me the meaning of the word Crybin ?

Pop out car door handles..

Yes, McGuinness is annoying but QOS should have been binned years ago

Agreed, but they only bring the f*ckers back a few years later; Never Mind the Buzzcocks ffs!

Should have gone the way of Old Yellow!

Maths problems on Facebook.....all the effort at school learning how to deal with them. Never used it in real life and then 60 years latter have to remember how to...then find out they dont ever give the answer....

The lack of the correct answer is very frustrating and make the whole thing pointless.

I saw one the other day about solving 5 x 3 by addition. Apparently some kid had written on a test at school 5+5+5=15. The teacher marked it as wrong as it should have been 3+3+3+3+3=15.

Lots of heated arguments the BBS would have been proud of. It's not something I learnt at school as far as I recall, but apparently convention is the latter and the teacher was right.

At the end of the day, 5 x 3 = 15 and that's all I care about at this stage of the game.

The question was what are five threes, not what are three fives. The kid should have been shot.

Is this some sort of "New maths"? It seems such a non-question.

I appreciate the order of components of an equation have significance in Algebra (PEMDAS and all that), but this is a simple multiplication. What value is there in the question posed?

I say this as someone who, without being a rocket scientist, did pretty well in maths at school. I usually came in the top 3 of our year every year at senior school, although to be fair the bar was set pretty low being a secondary school for boys.

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The answer would be the same either way round so unless being pedantic is part of the question then that's bollocks.

A mention of Totalitarianism earlier and now you're shooting kids.

You are Joseph Stalin and I claim my £5

Hendrixs playing this year ?

English people who finish sentences with ‘is all’. It’s probably fine if you’re from Mississippi but sounds ******* stupid otherwise

On the subject of language I find it particularly irksome that people are increasingly using Australian intonation when speaking. Why do people feel the need to heighten the pitch of their voices at the end of sentences, particularly when giving presentations......bizarre

I blame the neighbours.

In science, as in life, understanding the question is often as important as understanding the answer.

Agreeing with Maz.

No but they are thawing out Simon leBon for an appearance.

Teacher is right. It is 5x something or 5 lots of something.

I’ve looked at this three ways, all of which make the teacher ‘wrong’.

First, let’s think about the next step up from multiplication, indices.

5^3 = 5 x 5 x 5 = 125

5^3 /= (is not equal to) 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3, nor is there any way to express things in terms of threes to get to the answer of 125.

Second, let’s say what if the question was -5 x 3 rather than 5 x 3.

Three lots of -5 are -15. Again, the answer can’t be reached in terms of the number three because we can’t have -5 lots of something.

Thirdly, and perhaps most precisely, mathematical procedures should be thought of in terms of functions.

f(x) = y

Here, the first number we are given, 5, is x. The answer, y, is 15. The function is multiplying by 3. I.e. 5 + 5 + 5.

While I don't think the initial question is worth a lot of our time I wouldn't see that any of these arguments are really valid though I do agree that mathematical procedures should be thought of as functions.

In that sense what we have is a function of two variables f(x1, x2) = y. The two numbers we are given are 5 and 3 and the teacher would say that 'the function' is performed by adding x2 to itself x1 times. The function could be defined differently but that is not what the teacher has specified.

You suggest that -5 x 3 isn't valid because you can't have -5 lots of anything but if you think -5 x 3 = (-5) + (-5) + (-5) how would you calculate 5 x -3? The only way round this is to have -x1 x x2 = -(x1 x x2) which solves the issue whichever way round it is.

Fundamentally, this is an intermediate step for young people to familiarise them with the connection between addition and multiplication and in that context the teacher's version is 'more right' than the alternative. It isn't meant to be something to be used once the multiplication operation becomes second nature.

I agree that what we’re having are largely pointless semantic arguments that are not at a level that is useful to whatever age this is being taught at.

However, what I think is wrong in all of this, is to expressly tell a student that they are wrong to say that 5 x 3 = 5 + 5 + 5.

5 x 3 = 3 x 5 = 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 5 + 5 + 5

They’re being taught that this isn’t the case. Because someone, somewhere, writing a syllabus has thought that they’re very clever, when they’re not. And that will cause far more confusion for the student down the line.

It’s one thing to teach hard rules in a subject like English, where you later learn that rules are in fact very flexible and are there to be broken. Or to teach a rule in e.g. chemistry, and later say that that isn’t really true, it was just a useful model. But in the case here, a rule that is completely false is explicitly being taught, for no obvious benefit.

But getting back to semantics … I think it partly comes down to how you verbalise the expression. Some people would say 5 x 3 is ‘five lots of three’ (i.e. 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3). This, as we’ve already established, is true. However, I think it’s more correct to say 5 x 3 as ‘five multiplied by three’, in which case I would think of this as 5 + 5 + 5.

I'm not sure how I feel about the marking it wrong - it does depend what precisely the child was asked to do. The exercise has a point if it is about defining multiplication as repeated addition, practising that and using the examples to observe that the operation is commutative (so that a x b = b x a). It is in part because we have absorbed this important developmental step in number fluency so completely that we struggle to see what the exercise is aiming to do.

It may also just be that the teacher doesn't know what they are doing but before coming to that conclusion I would want to see the context a bit more.

The complete morons on the BBS that are happy to form a pack and find it amusing to bully for no reason. Even worse the sheep that follow. Obviously something is missing or is it just a pathetic sense of inadequacy. I can honestly say it doesn’t get to me I’m strong enough to really not care. If however the big and brave on here look at especially men’s mental health issues, perhaps they might think twice about the damage they could cause someone, who has never attacked or been abusive but are depressed and just want to be part of something.. Imagine the damage your satire and whit and attempts to be intellectually astute can do. If you were truly as intelligent as you would like people to believe you wouldn’t post on a football site.

Other sites are available.

You'll be missed. :hi: