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I can't be the only person who pressed the Play button to view that clip.

I can never quite remember the name they chose for their management consultancy business - did they plump for Consultio or Consultius?

Joneses. Joneses.

That is an excellent and comprehensive rebuttal. Leads no room whatsoever for any doubt, and links to detailed debunking on every single point. It's almost as though the scientific approach is to be evidence-based. (The canard that someone with expertise in a field can speak with authority in an unrelated field is not new. Indeed, it's one of the standard fallacies that are taught when beginning to study things like logic and philosophy: it's the fallacy known as "argument from authority".)

Scott MypantswentBrownwhenhelookedatmebecauseIcanonlypunchdown

This is not true, but the example will work, because of the specific domain. Gmail addresses work that way and are also case-insensitive; but neither of those is required by the relevant RFCs. (In practice, dots aren't generally irrelevant; case isn't generally relevant.)

Compo faeces thread for this muck.

I've no intention of being judgemental on this, but the levels of anabolic steroids and other PEDs that someone has to take to become even close to competitive in WSM are absolutely staggering, and require great care (and probably a degree of luck) to avoid severe health problems. Even at cycle dosages that could never lead to that level of strongman competition, rates of complications and fatalities are very sobering, and dangerous usage (levels and management) goes down much further than anything not involved in strength sports would imagine. When I was a junior, someone from my athletics club with a background in strength training died in his late 20s, with causes that indicated steroid usage. He was ranked around 20th in Scotland. He wouldn't have been the highest-ranked steroid user in that list, to put it mildly. It's simply impossible to compete in WSM without quite dangerous levels of PEDs. It's still a great sporting achievement, requiring tremendous dedication; but I wouldn't be quick to admire it from a health/role model perspective. Maybe others feel the same way, and that's why Tom isn't getting more love in this thread. I could cite other specific cases and historic data in support of this, but I am definitely not trying to make the case that people taking PEDs are "bad"; I'm simply recording the facts that WSM required very high PED usage, and that such usage is dangerous. Last week, I was at an international competition for athletes of a certain age*. That included throwers from the 70s and 80s, and there was some discussion of maximum "natty" strength levels. The consensus from people who have been there is that WSM starts a couple of strata above where natty ends. But that in no way undermines the efforts and dedication that are required on top of the PEDs. It's still a tremendous achievement. * Where I was a team mate of Dwain Chambers - whose levels when he was banned for PEDs would have been at least an order of magnitude below WSM competitors.

He's terrified.

It's easy to take things out of context, and infer that Barton has an enormous ego but is a terrible judge of footballing ability. Why, just a few years ago I recall him implying that he would do well on moving to Rangers, and that his career in Scotland wouldn't consist of repeated failure and humiliation, as well as complete submission to Scott Brown.

In the P&B Illustrated Dictionary, Barton's mugshot appears under "Scrambling for relevance".

Re-readingThe Clicking of Cuthbert and Honeysuckle Cottage (and most others from Mr Mulliner and The Oldest Member) would fit the brief, for me.

Hope Martin keeps an eye out for her.

First time I heard of (and rejected) a mac and cheese was just under a year ago. I thought it was a cheeseburger. Since then, I've rejected it several times on the basis of it having the wrong name.