capt_birdseye

Elvis Impersonator, Blackpool pier. Manics innit.

I think the generic term for someone like this is a "WUM".

The beauty of this league is that it updates in real time. You can sit in front of Gillette Soccer Saturday with you laptop on your knee hitting "refresh" every time a goal hits the back of the net. Not that I would do that....ahem.

Can climate change be reversed using the power of the force?! I would have thought not.

Clearly you have been using the power of Astrology and Clairvoyance to aid you. In my book that's cheating. Stoopid Ronaldo, practically the only one of my players on the field and he gets sent off. And as he's my captain that's double minus points! Maths is evil.

Boston - More than a Feeling please.

Oliver's army please.

Meh.

Shall we draw a line under the name-calling and move on? Big hug.

I think the forum could have done without that mental picture!

I was criticising your debating "skills" not your beliefs or indeed your job. I have by no means a closed mind to some of these alternative therapies but would like to know more about them so that I can make a sound judgement on them. You seem to get hot under the collar quite a lot and come across as being particularly thin-skinned as well as hypocritical in the way you don't like any criticisms of your work but are quite happy to belittle other professions.

What about the cows and sheep? Big offenders with their toxic windy-noises.

Come on Berbatov, pull your finger out of your bum

MadWorld74 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > hmmmmmm bankers don't help others through times of > trouble or improve the quality of people's > lives.(depending on your view towards money that > is!) Bit of a sweeping generalisation there! I'm sure if you took away the hefty amount of tax they pay you'd soon see an effect on the quality of people's lives. The City also contributes huge amounts of money to all types of charities, therefore indirectly helping others through times of trouble.

So disprove them then, that's what a debate's for. Why is it OK for you to poke fun at bankers but not OK for others to poke fun at Reiki?

MW74, I've simply asked for some informed arguments in order to make someone who may be sceptical reconsider. Your approach to debating seems to involve getting stroppy with people who disagree with you, making assumptions about them and telling them to "go and check their share indexes" etc.

I would agree with the Independent's "shooting fish in a barrel" comment with regards to last night's programme. I think most people would agree that Astrology, psychics etc are pure baloney. However, perfectly exemplified by hyounan's recent post, there is a growing trend in "alternative" therapies. It should be interesting to hear what Dawkins has to say about it all next week and it would be nice to have some intelligent responses to his arguments. MW74, this is your area, put aside your dislike for the man's tone of voice, watch the programme this time and tell us why he's wrong.

The astrology analogy with national stereotypes was funny. Germans: this week you will be very hard-working Brits: your stiff-upper lip may be perceived as aloofness

Let's hope it lasts, I'm a seasoned Fantasy Footballer and am still absolutely hopeless.

Semi-lounging: the forum equivalent of limbo.

I liked all the excuses the dowsers came up with to explain why they were unable to detect which containers held water, including: "They should have laid scaffold planks above the containers so that I could walk above the water" and "God likes having a laugh sometimes!" Still fair play to them for taking part in a controlled experiment. I may set myself up as a psychic, looks like easy money. "I've got a message coming through from someone called George...anyone in the forum connected to a deceased George...? No? Joe? Yes, that's it Joe. There's something here about pubs, he went to pubs...? Yes... he was tee-total, that's it, never went to the pub."

Mark Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > you can transfer one player a week without losing > points, after that you lose 4 points for each > transfer. You can move players around in your own > team (sub on and off) as much as you want without > a penalty. You shouldn't be giving tips to the person who is top of the league!!! :)

It's on in 6 minutes! Getting soooo excited.

Fluorescent, waterproof three piece suits.

What should they be made to wear in the meantime? Hemp shirts?