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Every now and again, one of the tech giants gets found out for doing something dodgy around listening in to our conversations or selling off private information about us.
When these companies get caught, they apologise and say all the right things. Then everyone seems to forget that it ever happened and go back to staring at their phones again.
We all know people who have stories like yours about their phone or tablet showing them an advert for something they've discussed aloud but never typed in. So of course these devices are listening.
Amazon were literally giving away Alexas for a while. Why the hell would they do that unless they had some pretty lucrative ways of profiting from them? They're not a charity.
These companies have demonstrated over and over again that they will skirt round legal issues or just downright break the law in order to collect as much data about everyone as they possibly can. Because they can make unimaginably enormous amounts of money by sharing that information with advertisers / governments / whoever's interested & has the means to buy it.
These tech giants didn't get to be tech giants by being nice cosy and helpfful. If you were running the company, why on earth would you NOT be storing all the data being collected from all the various devices we carry round with us, put in our houses and wear on our wrists. The only reason NOT to do it is because it's ethically wrong, but these companies have shown us repeatedly that they don't care about that.
So yes, OF COURSE your Alexa is listening to you all the time, so is your phone. Your movements are being tracked by Google Maps / Strava / sat nav and are being uploaded to a mega-database somewhere. That video camera on your doorbell is sharing what it can see all the time and that little camera facing you on your phone is recording you when you're wȧnking.
Genuinely not a single player that I'm that bothered about keeping. If we get reasonable offers for any of the players under contract, then sell them. The various players who are out of contract at the end of the season, thanks and a handshake. There's the door, bye.
My biggest fear if we stay up is that we won't have the major reset that this playing squad so desperately needs.
I love him but yes, if we can get any kind of decent fee for him then sell him this summer. I'm surprised we've managed to keep him this long really. I guess it's the legal case that has stopped others coming in for him.
As far as I'm concerned every player is for sale, after the last couple of seasons we need a major reset. My biggest concern about staying up is that if we do, we'll just carry on with a lot of the same players which I think would be a massive mistake.
I remember it very well. Les actually missed a really good chance early on in that game too, he should've scored 4!
I was taken by my family to various QPR games from 1981 onwards, but 1989-90 was when I first started going by myself. Had a season ticket all the way through the 90s. The first half of that decade, Wow!! What a time to be a QPR fan!!
Probably my favourite match in all of that was a midweek game when we beat Leeds 4-1 (the same season they were champions) Their midfield at the time are justifiably revered (Strachan, Speed, McAllister, Batty, all really good players) But in that game Super Ray made them all look like absolute chumps. I was right at the front of the Loft, pretty much next to where Bradley Allen scores his goal from. Great days!!
That song was definitely very audible from P block, just after the goal, when he took the throwin in front of the Stan Bowles stand shortly after, and again after the final whistle. Amazing moment, one we'll be talking about for years.
That game when Man Utd knocked us out of the FA Cup & we all sung how Paul Ince is a wánker, I rushed back to London to see Tindersticks play a gig with an orchestra at the Bloomsbury Theatre. That gig was released as a live album, and in my opinion it's one of the greatest live albums of all time.
Another away game disappointment, the Coventry game when Eoin fücking Jess scored the only goal of his Coventry career & pretty much relegated us, I rushed back to London again because I had tickets for Natalie Merchant at Shepherds Bush Empire.
About 10 years ago, a pretty forgettable home win v Cardiff (we won with a late Ashley Richards own goal) then a load of us headed to the 100 Club for an evening of Thames Estuary garage mod-punk in the company of Graham Day & The Gaolers & the modtastic Len Price 3.
I don't live in London these days, so whenever I come down for a home game I always have a good look at what gigs are on. Hoping to get to the home game on 20th April, and then go to see Omni at Moth Club afterwards.
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Still furious even now!
Dickie, Dunne and Dieng simultaneously having the worst game I've ever seen from them. All 3 playing like absolute divs. Aaron Drewe looking like a child who'd wandered onto the pitch by mistake. Most of the rest of the team just completely worthless and anonymous. Every time someone posts on here about maybe getting Iroegbunam back, I inwardly fume as I remember his "couldn't give a single fück" performance that evening.
Adomah coming over towards the away fans at the end with conciliatory hand gestures, good for him I suppose. But his facial expression was reminiscent of Guy Goma when he realises just how deep the shit he's stuck in is.
On my way out of the ground, I saw Clive staring forwards with the thousand yard stare of a traumatised Vietnam vet. I usually say hello when I see him but on this occasion I didn't dare!
I was also at that Shepherds Bush Empire gig. Saw World Party quite a few times in the 90s too. They were great every time. He had a brain aneurysm about 20 years ago, so the touring has been minimal since then. But he did a short UK tour in 2013 and I saw a great gig at RNCM in Manchester where I took this photo. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIagHg8XQAEt5VT?format=jpg
He was a very talented fella & always came across as very unassuming and unpretentious onstage.
Here's a favourite of mine, as it has turned out it's the final track from his final album 😔
I've seen QPR away at 76 of the 92 current League clubs That includes all the grounds in London with the exception of Sutton United who I don't think we've ever played. So I have seen us play at Arsenal, Spurs, West Ham, Palace, Charlton, Millwall, Ch**sea, Wimbledon, Brentford, Fulham, Orient, Barnet.
And I have never seen us win at any of those places!!! You can even include pseudo-London clubs like Luton and Watford if you like, never seen us win at those places either!
EDIT: Actually I’ve just remembered that I’ve seen us win at Spurs. Last game of the season, Trevor Sinclair scored twice. I’m sure I’ve also seen us win at Brentford, but not sure that counts because it was a pre-season friendly. Back then, we used to turn up at Griffin Park as a favour to our lower League neighbours, give em a chance to see a crowd & a proper football team. 😆
Apparently this extra day in February is all down to Julius Caesar. When he was in Egypt, he liked their solar calendar that had extra days every few years to make things line up with the movement of the stars. I think it's awfully inconvenient of our planet to take 365 and a bit days to orbit our star, rather than exactly 365 which would make things a lot simpler.
But I've got another bone to pick with Julius Caesar and the calendar. Before his time, we had September which means the 7th month, October the 8th month, November the 9th month and December the 10th month.
Julius Caesar comes along and quite rightly points out that there should be 2 more months in the year in order to make things align with our orbit around the sun. So he invents June (named after the Roman goddess Juno) and July (named after him)
He could quite easily have put those months in at the end of the year, after December. Then the months that are actually named the 7th 8th 9th and 10th months would still have been the 7th 8th 9th and 10th months. But instead he sticks his 2 new months right in the middle of the year and fücks up the whole naming and numbering system.
I think he just wanted the month named after him to be a sunny one that everyone likes, the vain bȧstard.
I know this is hardly the worst thing that Julius Caesar was responsible for. The slaughter of more than half the population of Gaul is probably a lot worse in the grand scheme of things, but even so WTF Julius?!?!?!
Boat Story on BBC Iplayer. Only watched 1 episode but it's very good so far.
Also I really liked the Polish series Dead End on Netflix. Heist gone wrong scenario, funny characters, very well written. Just 6 half hour episodes so it doesn't drag on and on, like a lot of TV series these days.
Is this, unexpectedly, a season to be savoured after all?
In a word, no!
I was at Blackburn and the second half was great fun, but to quote Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction, "let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet."
Yes we've signed 4 players, 2 of whom looked alright in the 30 minutes we've seen of them so far.
Yes we're a bit better since Cifuentes took over, but we are still averaging just 1 goal per game, which is not enough to stay up.
We've won 2 of the last 10 matches and we are still in the bottom 3.
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