[jules]

Hi Nomis

I thought you would appreciate this, as I explained before "The Shed" at Kingsholm is notorious for "sledging" of a sort towards the opposition team and ref. The usual chant to the ref is "you don't know what you're doing" and a few years ago we played Leicester in an evening kick off and everyone managed to put Austin Healy (England International) off by chanting wiggy at him (he had a hair transplant, and then advertised it!). On Saturday we managed to surpass even that - Danny Cipriani the Wasps fly half (and rival to Ryan Lamb for England when Jonny retires) had an unfortunate incident with a transvestite which was well publisised in the press. The pre match warm up music on saturday consisted of - Dude looks like a lady, Its raining men and Girls and boys, much to everyones amusement.
x

[woodman]

Motor, on Jan 28 2008, 06:37 PM, said:

Just a funny story. Went shopping the other day and some guy came over to me and asked if could demonstrate a sneaker cleaner product. He was serious. I said are you serious does it look like my sneakers ever hit the ground. There still brand new and so outdated. Out of style loooooonnnng time ago. Didn't know here to post this....sorry

Motor,

Lots of A/B people do not know what will help, but feel compelled to to assist. I guess I can understand that as if I were back to normal, I would want to do everything I could to help others who were once like me.

Try not to bite their heads off. There are freaks who actually deserve it, but when you bite back you just end up making yourself (and others like you) look bad.

It's a shitty position to be in, but you are stuck in a place where you will be called upon to summon a more definitively passive and understanding response.

I just got through baiting you about NY vs Chicago pizza; something no New Yorker would EVER let go unanswered, and you just let it slide, so I suggest you use this same zen when offered such assistance.

[edit]
BTY, you can post pretty much anything you want in pub thread.
What the hell!
It's a pub!

This post has been edited by woodman: 30 January 2008 - 02:37 AM

[woodman]

jules, on Jan 29 2008, 03:03 AM, said:

... Danny Cipriani the Wasps fly half (and rival to Ryan Lamb for England when Jonny retires) had an unfortunate incident with a transvestite which was well publisised in the press. The pre match warm up music on saturday consisted of - Dude looks like a lady, Its raining men and Girls and boys, much to everyones amusement.

LMAO!

I love it.

Do ya see, Dave?
...see what happens when you're not careful!

That''ll teach you not to post in the sex forum, eh.

[nomis]

yeah, great stuff Jules. The Shed isn't taking prisoners. Some visitors must dread playing kingsholm.

[jules]

Most teams really dislike playing Gloucester at Kingsholm, we are unbeaten there in 21 matches (all last season and so far this season). The Shed is notoriously loud and one eyed, however unlike at football there is no crowd segregation so if they can get there early enough (about 2 hours before kick off to get a good place) then away fans are welcome.

We've got a week off this weekend, I am off to Twickenham to watch England v Wales hoping for an England win but you never know, plus if Wales win my Dad will be gloating for the next year.

I'm off on a modelling shoot this afternoon, but it's in Tewkesbury (which floods every winter, and even really badly in the summer last year) and we are on a flood warning here in Gloucester (just downstream) so I might need some wellies or a boat to get home.

x

[nomis]

Life aint boring around you.
Watch that water - wear water wings.

[jules]

I made it back, luckily this time the flood planes are doing their jobs, but it isn't going to take much more rain for us all to be sand bagging again. It does look quite spectacular though, I think the river Severn is about a mile wide all the way from Tewkesbury to Gloucester. Here is a picture of what happened to us in July, the car park where the picture is taken is next to Gloucester Quay, where there is normally a 5 metre drop to the riverside.

[woodman]

jules, on Jan 31 2008, 07:25 AM, said:

... it isn't going to take much more rain for us all to be sand bagging again. It does look quite spectacular though ...
attachment

While I am comfortably certain that your flood plains are much wider than ours, here, I know what you mean.

During heavy rains two years ago, a dam broke on Kauai and 7 people were killed. There was also a massive sewage spill (millions of gallons of raw sewage) into the Ala Wai Canal which empties directly into Waikiki Beach.


::Gulp, Gulp... Gulp ... ::

::BHUUUUUURRRPP!::


BTW, Jules, I'm trying to start a new career by establishing myself as the world's first plus-size, disabled, male underwear-model for the over 40 crowd; unfortunately, I find myself falling victim to widespread discrimination in the modeling industry.

Do you have any friends with pull in the modeling business?
I hope so, otherwise I might find it necessary to retain a labor lawyer and file a legal complaint citing violation of the ADA (American's with Disabilities Act).

::BHUUURRRPP!::

Now, who's got the karaoke machine?

http://www.generationkikaida.com/downloads...kaida_open.html

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=MnII-kndPGc

[Illinois Boy]

woodman,

1 Bourbon, 1 Scotch and 1 beer, while I think of a way to Jinx the GOD DAMN PATRIOTS this Sunday.......

My internal Hard Drive is on life support, I have to boot up every other day with my Windows XP Pro installation disk, run chkdsk...... Then she's good to go for a couple more days..... Got a brand new one ready to install, but I've been too busy.......

Jim

[woodman]

Illinois Boy, on Jan 31 2008, 02:46 PM, said:

woodman,

1 Bourbon, 1 Scotch and 1 beer, while I think of a way to Jinx the GOD DAMN PATRIOTS this Sunday.......

My internal Hard Drive is on life support, I have to boot up every other day with my Windows XP Pro installation disk, run chkdsk...... Then she's good to go for a couple more days..... Got a brand new one ready to install, but I've been too busy.......

Jim

Jim,


I have to do websearches to gather pics. Then copy & upload, Then dump from my puter.

I lost the links when my hard drive went tits-up.

[jules]

I like it woodman! You should start up your own agency I have done quite a bit of modelling - it is really good fun - not something I would have been able to do before my accident though (I'm only 5'1". I have done catwalk work and quite a bit of photographic work, it is only for a bit of fun though (although the money is good) my real job is a scientist - people always think I'm joking when I say that - because people think scientists should be middle aged men with beards and glasses!
x

[nomis]

I like the idea of a pint-size part-time model young woman without a beard as a scientist. What kind of science do you do?

[jules]

I am a biomedical scientist and I work in Cellular pathology at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. Cellular pathology is looking at Cells in both tissues and fluids in order to diagnose disease. I have got a BSc, and I'm currently waiting for the results of my masters degree, which I have done part time whilst working.

[woodman]

Jules,

The mortality rate for people in your profession has soared lately.

http://www.metafilter.com/38629/Who-is-kil...microbiologists

After 9/11, microbiologists began dying so frequently that by march of 2002 (only six months later) people were already becoming suspicious.

Here’s a link from May 2002 when the list numbered 11 people.

http://www.chemtrail...TML/000623.html

By 2005, that number had grown, considerably.

What makes it suspicious is not just HOW they died, but when you look at the age of each person on the list, it becomes clear how remarkably few of them made it (or even got close) to average life expectancy.

Nevermind all the conspiricy nuts who attribute this to some grand plan or another.

All I’m saying is that many are dead, and it is very unusual.

If politicians started dying off like this, you just KNOW there would be a massive investigation.



 -----------------------------------------------------------------

November 2001: Yaacov Matzner, 54
--Expertise: Dean of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem and chairman of the Israel Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusions, was the son of Holocaust survivors. One of the world's experts on blood diseases including familiar Mediterranean fever (FMF), Matzner conducted research that led to a genetic test for FMF. He was working on cloning the gene connected to FMF and investigating the normal physiological function of amyloid A, a protein often found in high levels in people with blood cancer.
 
--Circumstances of Death: Professors Yaacov Matzner and Amiram Eldor were on their way back to Israel via Switzerland when their plane came down in dense forest three kilometres short of the landing field.
 
 
November 2001: Professor Amiram Eldor, 59
--Expertise: Head of the haematology institute, Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital and worked for years at Hadassah-University Hospital's haematology department but left for his native Tel Aviv in 1993 to head the haematology institute at Ichilov Hospital. He was an internationally known expert on blood clotting especially in women who had repeated miscarriages and was a member of a team that identified eight new anti-clotting agents in the saliva of leeches.
 
--Circumstances of Death: Professors Yaacov Matzner and Amiram Eldor were on their way back to Israel via Switzerland when their plane came down in dense forest three kilometres short of the landing field.
 
 
November 6, 2001: Jeffrey Paris Wall, 41
--Expertise: He was a biomedical expert who held a medical degree, and he also specialized in patent and intellectual property.
 
--Circumstances of Death: Mr. Walls body was found sprawled next to a three-story parking structure near his office. He had studied at the University of California, Los Angeles.
 
 
Nov. 16, 2001: Don C. Wiley, 57
--Expertise: One of the foremost microbiologists in the United States. Dr. Wiley, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard University, was an expert on how the immune system responds to viral attacks such as the classic doomsday plagues of HIV, ebola and influenza.
 
--Circumstances of Death: He had just bought tickets to take his son to Graceland the following day. He had just left a banquet for fellow researchers in Memphis. Police found his rental car on a bridge outside Memphis, Tenn. His body was found Dec. 20 in the Mississippi River. his family said he was in perfect health. There was no autopsy. Forensic experts said he may have had a dizzy spell and have fallen off the bridge. Why did he leave the keys in the ignition and his lights on? Why was Wiley´s car facing in the opposite direction from his father´s house, which was only a short distance away?
 
 
Nov. 21, 2001: Vladimir Pasechnik, 64
--Expertise: World-class microbiologist and high-profile Russian defector; defected to the United Kingdom in 1989, played a huge role in Russian biowarfare and helped to figure out how to modify cruise missiles to deliver the agents of mass biological destruction.
--Background: founded Regma Biotechnologies company in Britain, a laboratory at Porton Down, the country´s chem-bio warfare defense establishment. Regma currently has a contract with the U.S. Navy for "the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of anthrax".
 
--Circumstances of Death: The pathologist who did the autopsy, and who also happened to be associated with Britain´s spy agency, concluded he died of a stroke. Details of the postmortem were not revealed at an inquest, in which the press was given no prior notice. Colleagues who had worked with Pasechnik said he was in good health.
 
 
Dec. 10, 2001: Robert M. Schwartz, 57
--Expertise: Expert in DNA sequencing and pathogenic micro-organisms, founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, and the Executive Director of Research and Development at Virginia´s Center for Innovative Technology in Herndon.
 
--Circumstances of Death: stabbed and slashed with what police believe was a sword in his farmhouse in Leesberg, Va. His daughter, who identifies herself as a pagan high priestess, and several of her fellow pagans have been charged.
 
 
Dec. 14, 2001: Nguyen Van Set, 44
--Expertise: animal diseases facility of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization had just come to fame for discovering a virulent strain of mousepox, which could be modified to affect smallpox.
 
--Circumstances: died at work in Geelong, Australia, in a laboratory accident. He entered an airlocked storage lab and died from exposure to nitrogen.
 
 
January 2002: Two dead microbiologists: Ivan Glebov and Alexi Brushlinski. Glebov died as the result of a bandit attack and Brushlinski was killed in Moscow. Both were well known around the world and members of the Russian Academy of Science.
 
 
January 28, 2002: David W. Barry, 58
--Expertise: Scientist who codiscovered AZT, the antiviral drug that is considered the first effective treatment for AIDS.
--Circumstances:
 
 
Feb. 9, 2002: Victor Korshunov, 56
--Expertise: Expert in intestinal bacteria of children around the world
 
--Circumstances: bashed over the head near his home in Moscow.
 
 
Feb. 14, 2002: Ian Langford, 40
--Expertise: expert in environmental risks and disease.
 
--Circumstances: found dead in his home near Norwich, England, naked from the waist down and wedged under a chair.
 
 
Feb. 28, 2002: Tanya Holzmayer, 46
--Expertise: a Russian who moved to the U.S. in 1989, focused on the part of the human molecular structure that could be affected best by medicine.
 
--Circumstances: killed by fellow microbiologist Guyang (Matthew) Huang, who shot her seven times when she opened the door to a pizza delivery. Then he shot himself.
 
 
Feb. 28, 2002: Guyang Huang, 38
--Expertise: Microbiologist
 
--Circumstances: Apparently shot himself after shooting fellow microbiologist, Tanya Holzmayer, seven times.
 
 
March 24, 2002: David Wynn-Williams, 55
--Expertise: Respected astrobiologist with the British Antarctic Survey, who studied the habits of microbes that might survive in outer space.
 
--Circumstances: Died in a freak road accident near his home in Cambridge, England. He was hit by a car while he was jogging.
 
 
March 25, 2002: Steven Mostow, 63
--Expertise: Known as "Dr. Flu" for his expertise in treating influenza, and a noted expert in bioterrorism of the Colorado Health Sciences Centre.
 
--Circumstances: died when the airplane he was piloting crashed near Denver.
 
 
Nov. 12, 2002: Benito Que, 52
--Expertise: Expert in infectious diseases and cellular biology at the Miami Medical School
 
--Circumstances of Death: Que left his laboratory after receiving a telephone call. Shortly afterward he was found comatose in the parking lot of the Miami Medical School. He died without regaining consciousness. Police said he had suffered a heart attack. His family insisted he had been in perfect health and claimed four men attacked him. But, later, oddly, the family inquest returned a verdict of death by natural causes.
 
 
April 2003: Carlo Urbani, 46
--Expertise: A dedicated and internationally respected Italian epidemiologist, who did work of enduring value combating infectious illness around the world.
 
--Circumstances: Died in Bangkok from SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) - the new disease that he had helped to identify. Thanks to his prompt action, the epidemic was contained in Vietnam. However, because of close daily contact with SARS patients, he contracted the infection. On March 11, he was admitted to a hospital in Bangkok and isolated. Less than three weeks later he died.
 
 
June 24, 2003: Dr. Leland Rickman of UCSD, 47
A resident of Carmel Valley
--Expertise: An expert in infectious disease who helped the county prepare to fight bioterrorism after Sept. 11.
 
--Circumstances: He was in the African nation of Lesotho with Dr. Chris Mathews of UCSD, the director of the university's Owen Clinic for AIDS patients. Dr. Rickman had complained of a headache and had gone to lie down. When he didn't appear for dinner, Mathews checked on him and found him dead. A cause has not yet been determined.
 
 
July 18, 2003: Dr. David Kelly, 59
--Expertise: Biological warfare weapons specialist, senior post at the Ministry of Defense, an expert on DNA sequencing when he was head of microbiology at Porton Down
--Helped Vladimir Pasechnik found Regma Biotechnologies, which has a contract with the U.S. Navy for "the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of anthrax"
--worked with two American scientists, Benito Que, 52, and Don Wiley, 57.
 
--Circumstances: 'Suicide'
 
 
Oct 24, 2003: Michael Perich, 46
--Expertise: LSU professor who helped fight the spread of the West Nile virus. Perich worked with the East Baton Rouge Parish Mosquito Control and Rodent Abatement District to determine whether mosquitoes in the area carried West Nile.
 
--Circumstances: Walker Police Chief Elton Burns said Sunday that Perich of 5227 River Bend Blvd., Baton Rouge, crashed his Ford pickup truck about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, while heading west on Interstate 12 in Livingston Parish. Perich's truck veered right off the highway about 3 miles east of Walker, flipped and landed in rainwater, Burns said. Perich, who was wearing his seat belt, drowned. The cause of the crash is under investigation, Burns said. "Mike is one of the few entomologists with the experience to go out and save lives today." ~ Robert A. Wirtz, chief of entomology at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 
 
November 22, 2003: Robert Leslie Burghoff, 45
--Expertise: He was studying the virus that was plaguing cruise ships until he was killed by a mysterious white van in November of 2003
 
--Circumstances: Burghoff was walking on a sidewalk along the 1600 block of South Braeswood when a white van jumped the curb and hit him at 1:35 p.m. Thursday, police said. The van then sped away. Burghoff died an hour later at Memorial Hermann Hospital.
 
 
December 18, 2003: Robert Aranosia, 61
--Expertise: Oakland County deputy medical examiner
 
--Circumstances: He was driving south on I-75 when his pickup truck went off the freeway near a bridge over the Kawkawlin River. The vehicle rolled over several times before landing in the median. Aranosia was thrown from the vehicle and ended up on the shoulder of the northbound lanes.
 
 
January 6, 2004: Dr Richard Stevens, 54
--Expertise: A haematologist. (Haematologists analyse the cellular composition of blood and blood producing tissues eg bone marrow)
 
--Circumstances: Disappeared after arriving for work on 21 July, 2003. A doctor whose disappearance sparked a national manhunt, killed himself because he could not cope with the stress of a secret affair, a coroner has ruled.
 
 
January 23 2004: Dr. Robert E. Shope, 74
--Expertise: An expert on viruses who was the principal author of a highly publicized 1992 report by the National Academy of Sciences warning of the possible emergence of new and unsettling infectious illnesses. Dr. Shope had accumulated his own collection of virus samples gathered from all over the world.
 
--Circumstances: The cause was complications of a lung transplant he received in December, said his daughter Deborah Shope of Galveston. Dr. Shope had pulmonary fibrosis, a disease of unknown origin that scars the lungs.
 
 
January 24 2004: Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, 62
--Expertise: Ebola, Mad Cow Expert, top of the line world class.
 
--Circumstances: Died of massive heart attack. Coincidently, both Dr. Shope and Dr. Kiley were working on the lab upgrade to BSL 4 at the UTMB Galvaston lab for Homeland Security. The lab would have to be secure to house some of the deadliest pathogens of tropical and emerging infectious disease as well as bioweaponized ones.
 
 
April 12, 2004: Ilsley Ingram, 84
--Expertise: Director of the Supraregional Haemophilia Reference Centre and the Supraregional Centre for the Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders at the St. Thomas Hospital in London.
 
--Circumstances: unknown
 
 
May 14, 2004: Dr. Eugene F. Mallove, 56
--Expertise: Mallove was well respected for his knowledge of cold fusion. He had just published an open letter outlining the results of and reasons for his last 15 years in the field of new energy research. Dr. Mallove was convinced it was only a matter of months before the world would actually see a free energy device.
 
--Circumstances: Died after being beaten to death during an alleged robbery.
 
 
May 25, 2004: Antonina Presnyakova
--Expertise: Former Soviet biological weapons laboratory in Siberia
 
--Circumstances: Died after accidentally sticking herself with a needle laced with Ebola.
 
 
June 22, 2004: Thomas Gold, 84
--Expertise: He was the founder, and for twenty years the director, of the Cornell Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, where he was a close colleague of Planetary Society co-founder Carl Sagan. Gold was famous for his provocative, controversial, and sometimes outrageous theories. Gold's theory of the deep hot biosphere holds important ramifications for the possibility of life on other planets, including seemingly inhospitable planets within our own solar system. Gold sparked controversy in 1955 when he suggested that the Moon's surface is covered with a fine rock powder.
 
--Circumstances: Died of heart failure.
 
 
June 24, 2004: Dr. Assefa Tulu, 45
--Expertise: Dr. Tulu joined the health department in 1997 and served for five years as the county's lone epidemiologist. He was charged with tracking the health of the county, including the spread of diseases, such as syphilis, AIDS and measles. He also designed a system for detecting a bioterrorism attack involving viruses or bacterial agents. Tulu often coordinated efforts to address major health concerns in Dallas County, such as the West Nile virus outbreaks of the past few years, and worked with the media to inform the public.
 
--Circumstances: Dallas County's chief epidemiologist, was found at his desk, died of a stroke.
 
 
June 27, 2004: Dr Paul Norman, Of Salisbury, Wiltshire, 52
--Expertise: He was the chief scientist for chemical and biological defence at the Ministry of Defence's laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire.
 
--Circumstances: He was killed when the single-engine Cessna 206 he was piloting crashed in Devon on Sunday. A father and daughter also died at the scene, and 44-year-old parachute instructor and Royal Marine Major Mike Wills later died in hospital.
 
 
June 29, 2004: John Mullen, 67
--Expertise: A nuclear research scientist with McDonnell Douglas.
 
--Circumstances: Died from a huge dose of poisonous arsenic.
 
 
July 1, 2004: Edward Hoffman, 62
--Expertise: Aside from his role as a professor, Hoffman held leadership positions within the UCLA medical community. Worked to develop the first human PET scanner in 1973 at Washington University in St. Louis.
 
--Circumstances: unknown
 
 
July 2, 2004: Larry Bustard, 53
--Expertise: A Sandia scientist who helped develop a foam spray to clean up congressional buildings and media sites during the anthrax scare in 2001. Worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. His team came up with a new technology used against biological and chemical agents.
 
--Circumstances: unknown
 
 
July 3, 2004: Dr Paul Norman, 52
--Expertise: The chief scientist for chemical and biological defence at the Ministry of Defence's laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire
 
--Circumstances: He was killed when the single-engine Cessna 206 he was piloting crashed in Devon.
 
 
July 6, 2004: Stephen Tabet, 42
--Expertise: An associate professor and epidemiologist at the University of Washington. A world-renowned HIV doctor and researcher who worked with HIV patients in a vaccine clinical trial for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network.
 
--Circumstances: Died of an unknown illness
 
 
July 21, 2004: Dr Bassem al-Mudares
--Expertise: He was a phD chemist
 
--Circumstances: His mutilated body was found in the city of Samarra, Iraq and had been tortured before being killed.
 
 
August 12, 2004: Professor John Clark
--Expertise: Head of the science lab which created Dolly the sheep. Prof Clark led the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, one of the world's leading animal biotechnology research centres. He played a crucial role in creating the transgenic sheep that earned the institute worldwide fame.
 
--Circumstances: He was found hanging in his holiday home.
 
 
September 5, 2004: Mohammed Toki Hussein al-Talakani
--Expertise: Iraqi nuclear scientist. He was a practising nuclear physicist since 1984.
 
--Circumstances: He was shot dead in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad.
 
 
November 2, 2004: John R. La Montagne
--Expertise: Head of US Infectious Diseases unit under Tommie Thompson. Was NIAID Deputy Director.
 
--Circumstances: Died while in Mexico, no cause stated.
 
 
December 29, 2004: Tom Thorne and Beth Williams
--Expertise: Two wild life scientists, Husband-and-wife wildlife veterinarians who were nationally prominent experts on chronic wasting disease and brucellosis
 
--Circumstances: They were killed in a snowy-weather crash on U.S. 287 in northern Colorado.
 
 
December 21, 2004: Taleb Ibrahim al-Daher
--Expertise: Iraqi nuclear scientist
 
--Circumstances: He was shot dead north of Baghdad by unknown gunmen. He was on his way to
work at Diyala University when armed men opened fire on his car as it was crossing a bridge in Baqouba, 57 km northeast of Baghdad. The vehicle swerved off the bridge and fell into the Khrisan river. Al-Daher, who was a professor at the local university, was removed from the submerged car and rushed to Baqouba hospital where he was pronounced dead.
 
 
January 7, 2005: Jeong H. Im, 72
--Expertise: A retired research assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Primarily a protein chemist.
 
--Circumstances: He was stabbed several times and his body was found in the trunk of his burning white, 1995 Honda inside the Maryland Avenue parking garage.
 
Thanks to Steve Quayle for the latest additions to this file.
 
 

This post has been edited by woodman: 02 February 2008 - 12:55 PM

[nomis]

WAAAOT!!!
Anything positive to add?

[nomis]

My gawd Jules, England downed by Wales. I thought it was a shocker for the sevens to salvage only the loser-loser plate but how did the 15s misfire so badly.
Wales must have an inspirational coach - who is he? Oh that's right, Warren Gatland from NZ.


What a full-on life you must have. You're a treasure. I'm so pleased that you managed to fit a spinal injury into your full life so we can get to share some of you. All the best for the masters and the doors that will open.

[woodman]

nomis, on Feb 2 2008, 01:16 PM, said:

WAAAOT!!!
Anything positive to add?

Lots of possibility for career advancement.

[jules]

I can't believe England were so bad - at least it's not too bad for me, I'm half taff anyway, so my Dad was a very happy boy yesterday (he successfully found his way over the Severn Bridge as a young child), so I was always brought up with both Wales and England and always had both shirts. We also had England U20 v Wales U20 at Kingsholm on Friday night which was excellent, I'm more worried about what this weekend has meant for Gloucester - Tindall got injured yesterday, Ryan Lamb got injured on Friday playing for England A, we have got Leicester next weekend and at the moment we won't have a fly half. Patterson will be with Scotland, Willy Walker (ex highlanders) will be needed at full back, because Balshaw will be with England and Olly Morgan is injured.

As for my career, I think I am quite safe at Gloucester Royal - we're not particularly cutting edge, although I have just been asked to speak at a really big conference in March the speech is on my MSc dissertation - "Cross species reactivity in immunocytochemistry" basically I used slightly altered human anitbodies to try and diagnose disease in pets, and apparently we were the first people in the world to try this.
x

[dave420atya]

Hey , everyone drinks are one me . my seatbelt suit just settled . I didn't get as much as I had hoped for but I did ok if I manage it right. My life is about to change alot but I plan to stay in touch with the forum "gang" and still plan a fishing trip before to long . I'll post a "sign-up " sheet for the field trip. For now I'm looking at house add on and mods. , a new hot rod truck a new chair or 2 , a boat , and a Disney trip for my kids. Oh , and I may pay some old bills .LOL

[woodman]

dave420atya, on Feb 3 2008, 02:50 AM, said:

Hey , everyone drinks are one me . my seatbelt suit just settled . I didn't get as much as I had hoped for but I did ok if I manage it right. My life is about to change alot but I plan to stay in touch with the forum "gang" and still plan a fishing trip before to long . I'll post a "sign-up " sheet for the field trip. For now I'm looking at house add on and mods. , a new hot rod truck a new chair or 2 , a boat , and a Disney trip for my kids. Oh , and I may pay some old bills .LOL

Word of advice, Dave, if I'm allowed to drop a mental turd on the matter.


1.) Consider yourself your own worst enemy when it comes to spending the money; doesn't matter if you're spending it on an investment, either.

Get someone else to manage it, and allow yourself only supervisory role in maintaining it.

2.) Look for financial advisors who get paid by the hour, then hit them up for advice and pay them.

This is a lot better than paying commissions to some bastard who will spend your money on investments which may not necessarily pan out.
That f*ucker still gets paid even if you lose money. F*UCK THAT!

There's me 2 cents.

Thanks for the drink!

[nomis]

Nice one Dave. Enjoy the moment.
cheers

[woodman]

Hey Jim,

3:00 pm Hawaii time right now, and Pats are up at half-time.

I want to see a turn-over.

I don't care who wins. I just want some excitement.

-------------------------------

[edit]
Tom Petty was a VERY cool half-time show. Best in a long time.
The commercials kinda suck. No mind-blowing ideas, there.

Pause, & back to 3'rd quarter.

-------------------------------

[edit II]
34 seconds left in the 4'th.
NY - 17
NE - 13 w/3 time-outs left.

OOOoooooooo!!!

------------------------------

[edit III]

With only 2 seconds left, NE used up 4 attempts to score and all 3 time-outs to stop the clock.

In the last play, NE head coach went onto the field (apparently to complain about a foul) and to demand an extra second, & got he it, but there was NO foul called by refs.

The NE coach stomped off the field and left the team and offensive coaches with the shit that he should have been man enough to face.

This guy is an arrogant piece of shit and he should be fired!

After witnessing that childish display, I'm glad NY won.

This post has been edited by woodman: 04 February 2008 - 03:16 AM

[woodman]

nomis, on Feb 2 2008, 01:16 PM, said:

WAAAOT!!!
Anything positive to add?

nomis, on Feb 3 2008, 01:54 PM, said:

Nice one Dave. Enjoy the moment.
cheers

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=yjnvSQuv-H4

[jules]

Hi everyone

I thought I would come into the pub to chat for a bit, its all getting a bit heated on some of the other threads!

Bad luck in the 20/20 this morning Nomis, I thought it was going to be a bit of a closer finish with Oram still at the crease at the end. Hopefully it will be a good omen for me - I am hoping for my masters results tomorrow.

I have also done a bit of delving on youtube, and I've found a couple of Gloucester clips for you to have a look at, they are not particularly good quality but you'll get the picture, I have put one in which I think someone has filmed on their mobile from the Shed so you get an idea of the atmosphere.

Sinbad's run to give Bailey that try was amazing, but if you ask the England management he is too small and injury prone for Internationals (and of course Wilko isn't!!!)

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Bz0X-xF_S9g

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Ko7KXS9fVn4
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=eF9DKkzVcNU (another sinbad try)

[Illinois Boy]

I guess I can take the needles ouuta my Tom Bradey Voo Doo Doll, now.........

Great defensive football game........

Tom Petty was Great Too.......

Jim

[woodman]

Tom Petty at half-time was great.

The commercials all sucked; ads trying so desperately to exhibit creative wit that they failed to link ideas with reasonable continuity and ended up looking like a bunch of confusing topics smashed into a a 30 second time slot. That's $2.7 million for 30 seconds worth of stupidly silly stuff that is so far fetched that many people won't understand it. WTF?

Here's a blast from the past that might go well in the "outsourced American Jobs" thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=670X2MCWzK0...feature=related

This post has been edited by woodman: 05 February 2008 - 09:43 PM

[nomis]

Blimey Jules, all that high pitched screaming. No wonder my ancestors escaped to the NZ bush on the other side of the globe.

As for the 20/20, we got done. Englan's got some new (to us) exciting players like bowler Sidebottom and the remarkable Dimitri Mascarenhas who seems tailor made for 20/20.

This short form of the game is new to us and we're only now beginning to realise it is being accepted as serious so expect us to learn and improve. I'll take a more serious interest when the one-dayers start but expect England to be a tougher prospect than we've met in recent years.

Watching NY win, I still get frustrated not being able to follow the ball in this game you Americans love. My eye goes with the movement and while I'm watching a bunch of guys pile on to each other some other jerk unnoticed by me is throwing the ball from the other side of the screen. How did that happen. Anyway, it was a relief to see that Tom Petty managed his wardrobe ok. Yah just don't want to think what might have...

[woodman]

nomis, on Feb 5 2008, 02:56 PM, said:

... it was a relief to see that Tom Petty managed his wardrobe ok. Yah just don't want to think what might have...

I loved the close at half-time. I was hoping he (Petty) had the good sense to play this hit, and he did. It was great.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=9eW91-5TC78

I don't mean to use You tube so much, but it is just the most convenient reference at the moment.

This post has been edited by woodman: 06 February 2008 - 04:36 AM

[jules]

Nomis - The noise that comes out of the shed is quite amazing, although we do our bit in the stands too. Especially when the team do their run around warm up.

As for the 20/20 you are right about Dimitri Mascarenhas he is totally suited to the game, his hitting is amazing, he started playing internationally last year, he plays for Hampshire, Ryan Sidebottom was actually first capped about 10 years ago, then dropped after 1 game, he was picked up again 2 seasons ago. I can't wait for the one dayers to start, but the 20/20 is great, when the league started here about 5 years ago no one really knew whether it would take off, I think it has a big advantage in that most of the league games are day/nighters so people can go after work.

Glaws have got a massive game this weekend against Leicester, we are going to seriously struggle, our injuries+international call-ups are huge. At the moment we have not got a full back (Balshaw with England, Ollie Morgan injured, Patterson with Scotland) we will have our 3rd choice fly half and scrum half. We have also got both first choice locks out - we've been playing with our blindside flanker at lock, but we've now run out of back row players so he might be needed elsewhere. I don't think I have ever known a season where we have had so many injuries and call ups. Our backrow is the worst I think (Forrester (8)injured, Narroway -England, Delve - Wales, Strockosch - Scotland, Buxton - playing as emergeny lock!). A few seasons a go we had a backs crisis, which was so bad Forrester (who is an amazing 8 and would have played for England had it not been for injuries) was playing outside centre. He scored 2 tries and did really well!
x

[jules]

I am sat here at the moment, beer in hand for the rollercoaster that is watching the England Football team! At least the 2nd half is an improvement on the first.

This post has been edited by jules: 06 February 2008 - 09:30 PM