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Not so much a problem but would like a none tutors view on things like Malthus and competitive markets and Adam Smith and stuff. Malthus was a nut job who thought that everyone was so sex mad that the worlds economy would collapse due to over population. Smith is most famous for his 'invisible hand' which contrary to popular belief isnt having a sly wank but is the process via which markets deliver optimal resource allocation. Right wing economics owes a lot to The Wealth of Nations. His main idea was to characterise individuals motivation to act in a self-interested manner. Modern economics has been built around developing this notion of a self-interested consumer or producer into something more complex, recognising our inability to always know what is our 'self-interest'. To see where this idea has ended up you should read Steven Levitt's 'Freakonomics'. http://www.freakonomics.com/thebook.php Here he dissects human behaviour into basic incentive structures and explains some quite random phenomena. A good read for non-economists too.

No comment.

Not gone to Play Blaydon RFU with Rockcliff in 1987. I would have all the ligaments in my left knee still working. Every single one snapped.

I'd second that. Strippers in Rio's? The Olive Grove? Whats not to like? Thirded

Shelleys was in Stoke. Legendary night out.

Went to a quality gig last night under one of the bridges over the river. The quite shitly named Rock&Roll who are from Paris were on first and were excellent... www.myspace.com/thenameofthebandisrockandroll http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendID=36867939 and then a band from Montpellier called Koacha who had some good songs http://www.myspace.com/koacha You'll be surprised i reckon.

Nojust very shit iirc, i got over-excited about To the Manor Porn tbh . Penelope Keith doesnt need to be in it though.

That i need to see. Howards Way ftw.

It was all about her arse wasn't it? I liked it when she had little white flour marks on her face after baking a cake.

Legendary. I also enjoy The Goode life for some reason. Citizen Smith is a classic. The Good life had the huge bonus of Felicity Kendall in her prime though. Felicity Kendal is one of those women who was fancied by dads the length and breadth of the country, but who wasn't really up to much at all imo. A 3-some with Felicity Kendall and Helen Mirren 'at that time' is the pinnacle of MILF fantasies.

Legendary. I also enjoy The Goode life for some reason. Citizen Smith is a classic.

These deities on wheels you're sending by are spot on! That smiley should be called 'chapeau'.

Indeed alex. Am sure theres a few on here with the same attitude towards cake tbh.

Context is very important with Einstein though. He was not a believer in any organized religion or a personal God, that is the crux of the present discussion. Your right, from what I know his interest was more in the mystical....As I posted earlier, my beliefs are more to do with spirituality and mysticism (summat I think Pat was touching on) than some organised religion thing. But the quandry is that dig deep enough and you will find most religions are mystical and unexplainable at their core...Catholacism probably has as much to do with black magic and ritual as it has to do with Christianity.. Vintage.

How many people could predict what Mourinhio or Wenger would do? Good luck to him like. Mourinho and Wenger at least look like they have something going on behind their eyes. Clarky looks like hes got 'whats for me dinner?' going on behind the eyes tbf.

Spot on. Do they mention "discovering themselves". Fucking sackable offence imo. If it meant suddenly realising what a twat they were, then a verbal warning is enough.

Brains?

He's "ambitious" though. Which means if he keeps on saying it enough to those around him he will be put in contention for a job he cannot do.

We have a winner! If I was honest I always found the underdog more interesting..... *Parky caught throwing people who had taken 'a year out to travel' in the bin*. Recent graduates into our company have all had 'years off' where they have gone to somewhere like the Gallapagos Islands to do conservation, then trekked the himalayas, then done charity work in Africa. They all discuss it with each other as though its a competition. The sort of person who does all this at the age of 22 is firstly, incredibly impressive (without doubt hailing from the most stable of backgrounds) then secondly, a complete c*nt.

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/newcast...-name_page.html I dont reckon he is management material. Is this the succession line? Fuck that.

Has Rents been on the wacky baccy? I agree with the premise though. Look at the 'world views' 2500 years ago and now and its clear that anyone claiming any form of higher knowledge was mainly spouting bollocks then. Apart from those cultures who were expert astrologists of course.

Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus.

Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas Does quite well up against the Elvis original on this rather pertinent site. http://www.cover-vs-original.com/song-144.html