Thinking of you. Miss your bon mots and perfect English.

My cousin just helped an ailing former POW from WWII write his memoirs. I thought of you when he told of crossing a bridge with a huge unexploded bomb wedged into it.

She did some research to pad out his few memories, and added a story about unexploded ordinance being found in... Frankfurt? During construction?

I can't remember the details, but I do know that when it first happened you sent me a link to the discovery of the bomb.

Hope all is well.

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Never had an interest in joining Twitter, but now i just might https://theintercept.com/2015/09/29/edward-snowden-twitter-snowden/

He's been under intense and frankly ridiculous scrutiny these first few weeks, with the most obvious of smear campaigns, negative phrasing and negative reporting by supposedly unbiased sources. I can only hope it will fade as time goes by and other parties (especially the incumbent one) make their inevitable blunders. However, the smear campaign will not stop.

The question is, have enough people had enough of the same old establishment nonsense? Have enough people begun to see through biased mainstream news? It's hard to see how he could win 2020 for me right now, even though i staunchly supported and promoted him. We needed a figure like him in British politics and i think he has had a huge impact on our politics since being elected already. I think we needed him to change the argument even if he can't win, though i think a decade of socialism would be very good for us.

Thank you sir!

Those were both interesting to see and helped me establish some of the pros/cons of the goalie playing aggressively like that -- thanks!

It is quite similar in many ways to NHL goalies. In hockey, an aggressive goalie will skate relatively far out of their net to cut down the angle on shots from the periphery -- but that can go very wrong if the opposing team can sneak in behind them and get a shot on an essentially empty net. Like the hockey equivalent of the second video there.

And some hockey goalies pride themselves on being able to play the puck; accurately pass it up and out of their half of the ice, contributing to offense (but usually 2-3 or more passes removed from a shot attempt), etc. Some goalies *want* to be good at that, but end up just getting themselves into trouble. In that first video, Neuer looks like one of the NHL goalies that likes to play that way AND is actually good at it -- I'll think of him as the football equivalent of Martin Brodeur from the NHL, maybe.

Thanks again for going out of the way to enlighten me. I've got lots of friends here in Thailand (native Thais as well as Brits and Europeans) that are big into football while I'm usually pretty clueless. I tend to relate to football through the lens of hockey, as I'm sure you can tell. But it is good to get a bit better informed.

Thanks for the explanation!

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Thanks for the promote.

Do you guys have water issues? Drought

watched that just today!
we must be related man.

i want to let you know something,which i may have been remiss in expressing:thank you for your links and your insight in the economic affairs of europe.economics has never been my strong point and your analysis and explanations are so very appreciated.

i admire your agile and nimble mind,and your humanity.
stay awesome brother!

Yes, and thanks Did he cop a penalty?(nvm, found it) At first glance it looked a bit cheeky, but on re-watching it just looked like a racing incident... and he says his braking point was the same as the lap prior, not that it persuaded the stewards

That's certainly possible, but I can think of other plausible explanations:

• Spain's problems mainly involved real estate and non-productive investments. Maybe Greece was doing a better job of employing the borrowed funds, and therefore lost more with their removal?
  
• Spain's austerity program started in 2010, their bailout was in 2012 but they left the program in January 2014. You can clearly see the dip in GDP during that timeframe, although as you say it does seem suspiciously small. Perhaps the effect of austerity was actually greater in Greece because the initial recession was deeper and the period of austerity was greater?
  
• Spain's economy is more export focused, which helped offset the impact of reduced domestic demand (although at 33% of GDP vs 28% of GDP it's not enough).
  

http://i.imgur.com/pBbLKfc.jpg

Have you seen anything about the rise of Jeremy Corbyn (a long standing Labour party backbench rebel) in the UK party leadership election? There's quite an internet "buzz" around it. Almost a kind of British Syriza moment.

I've been saying for a long time that people could just be primed for an honest politician, with the modern social media apps/tech allowing for some real grass roots action.