Monday, November 30, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Can you name the top 200 Premier League goalscorers?
Too much hair on your head? Can't afford a haircut?
Take the 'Can you name the top 200 Premier League goalscorers?' quiz and you will have torn out half your hair in a matter of minutes. I spent five minutes hitting the table top whilst trying to remember the name of a current Premiership striker who scores every bastard week.
Oh, and word of forewarning; don't go near the various well know Scandinavian and Dutch forwards of yesteryear unless you have the patience of a saint and the spelling chops of one of those geeks from Spellbound.
I scored 77/200. You can do better.
Hat tip to 'kained and able' on urban 75.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Mixing Footie and Politics (7) Shankly, Socialism and Glasgow Celtic
Just spotted this.
Ian Bone raises that most important of political questions: 'Is there a socialist way of playing football?'
Ian shows his age (and his dress sense) by mentioning the great Hungarian side of the early fifties.
Arguably the greatest International team never to have won the World Cup, they lost the '54 final against West Germany in disputed circumstances, and one of the great ifs of football pub talk is, but for the Soviet tanks rolling into Budapest in '56, how they would have measured up against the Brazil of Pele and Garrincha in Sweden in '58.
Anyway, back to the matter in hand. I show my good taste and access to YouTube clips by pointing you in the direction of the definitive answer to Ian's question.
Bill Shankly describes the great Celtic side of the Jock Stein era:
That wee nugget should be on a T shirt, not this silly bollocks which is currently doing the rounds on the left blogosphere.
"Socialism without the politics." I like that.
Whatever did happen to World in Common?
Injury time
Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 126
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the 126th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.
We now have 1563 friends!
Recent blogs:
The illusion of freedom WSPUS Manifesto on the War, 1917 1789: France’s bourgeois revolution
Coming Events:
Radical Film Forum
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29th November - Sicko
13th December - Earthlings
Quote for the week:
"Scientific socialism considers our views dependent upon our material needs, and our political standpoint dependent upon the economic position of the class we belong to. Moreover, this conception corresponds with the aspirations of the masses whose needs are in the first place material, while the ruling class must necessarily base itself on the deductive principle, on the preconceived unscientific notion that the spiritual salvation and the mental training of the masses are to precede the solution of the social question." Joseph Dietzgen, Scientific Socialism, 1873.
Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!
Robert and Piers
Monday, November 23, 2009
Word of the day
Mauger
prep. 1. In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding.
A man must needs love maugre his heed. - Chaucer.
This mauger all the world will I keep safe. - Shak.
So, mauger Darren not even knowing that the word mauger previously existed, he just scored 42 points with it on Lexulous.
Does that make sense?
PS
Apologies for referring to myself in the third person. Darren won't do it again.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Strip Pain-T
Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 125
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the 125th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.
We now have 1551 friends!
Recent blogs:
Capitalism or Socialism? A Man Before His Time - Gerrard Winstanley The Myth of Soviet “Socialism”
Quote for the week:
"Money is a new form of slavery, which differs from the old form of slavery only in its impersonality, its annihilation of all humane relations with the slave." Leo Tolstoy, What to do?, 1887.
Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!
Robert and Piers
Meano Keano has a Beano
Like the rest of us, he can't remember the last time Ipswich won two games in a row, but some things Roy Keane never forgets.
In Roy's mansion, FAI stands for 'Feckin' Arrogant Ingrates'.
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