cosmicway

You can't blame a croc for being a croc. By the same token you hate electricity machines. Because if you touch them in their wires you will die. In Crete everyone loved him.

He was a hero.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/30/sifis-the-cretan-crocodile-is-found-dead Evaded capture but could n't stand the cold. Cretan ode to Siphis: Sifis the great lad the pride of Crete passed among the immortals because he was a tough guy. Now in the company of Lefterakis he looks at us from above and to all the Cretan boys he gives courage.

The clock stopped in 1966. We have seen some terrible football since then but also some very good teams. But no luck for England. Between Italy 1990, England (euro) 1996, Japan 2002 they were surely entitled to win one ! But lost all three. The English football Chelsea style is good. Arsenal are the ones at the other end of the spectrum who usually think it is about who will kick the ball higher in the air.

The ex wired him up when he was already on the brink. Looks to me that now she 's made up stuff to get herself morally off the hook.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522

The accident was in the cabin. The passengers quarters were affected later - or so it seems. The Cypriot man was about to start his career as a pilot so he knew things.

Actually the jet pilots saw the trainee in charge of the plane, but without fuel he could not take it any place safe. The man was wearing black, not the colour of the crew uniforms so the air force pilots thought he might well be a terrorist. In any case if that plane went towards habitations they were going to shoot. The fact that he fitted masks to the passengers was ascertained by the autopsies. It appears first the pilots lost conscience, then the passengers but the trainee and a stewardess were able to put their masks in time. But the door could not be opened and there were no emergency codes then - they were introduced after Heliow.

Helios was a huge Greek tragedy with locked door again. The pilots fainted or were already dead as a result of loss of pressure. A passenger who was also a trainee pilot tried for hours to unlock but could n't. War planes were called in and they flew next to the plane and their pilots could even see the passenger trying to open the door but could do nothinhg. Those war pilots had orders to fire rockets on the plane in case it took direction towards the city of Athens, We don't know if the passengers were already dead from pressure loss but the Cyprus guy who was trying to save the plane also went around the seats and fixed mask to them. In the end the door opened as a result of no more fuel left but only seconds were left and crashed on the ground killing everybody. No parts of the bodies of the pilots were ever recovered.

Chrome said cannot translate to English but then I said Estonian to Greek and it did somewhat. Difficult to understand but it appears to give a list of cases of mad pilots who caused crashes in the past.

Has this kind of madness ever seen before ? I know of the jihaddists, the kamikazi and also of self sacrificial actions in wartime. But this is different. There is only the Moorgate disaster in 1975 that comes to my memory. What happened there seems to be that the train driver as a result of momentary amnesia believed the station was to be bypassed and also forgot about the blind tunnel. So it looks to me like this one was something we have never seen before.

An unemployed mechanic decides to open a clinic to make money. The sign outside the clinic wrote "we cure everything for 50 pounds, if not cured we return you 100 pounds". A doctor thought it was a good chance to earn 100 pounds so he goes in. Doctor (as patient) - "Doctor I have lost my sense of taste". Mechanic (as doctor) - "Nurse please bring potion no 22 and give this patient a spoonful" The doctor-patient almost vomits, spits the potion and says "that's no medicine - it's machine oil". Mechanic-doctor - "Congratulations, your sense of taste has returned, 50 pounds please". The doctor pays up and leaves most displeased but a few days later he decides to try again to get his money back. Doctor-patient - "Doctor I have lost my memory, I can't remember a thing, please help me". Mechanic-doctor - "Nurse please bring potion no 22 and give this patient a spoonful" Doctor-patient - "Hey, potion 22 is the machine oil, it's not a medicine". Mechanic-doctor - "Congratulations, your memory has returned, that 'll be 50 pounds". The doctor leaves the premises again in a state of fury but in a couple of days he decides to go again and have the last word: Doctor-patient - "Doctor my vision is impaired, I cannot see". Mechanic-doctor - "I am very sorry sir, I 'm afraid I can't cure this, but take these 100 pounds" Doctor-patient - "But this is a 50 pound note you are giving me". Mechanic-doctor - "Congratulations my friend, your sight too has returned, give me 50 pounds please".

Well I got the creeps back then, because I wanted Real Madrid - should have been easy. I was afraid of the "Allianze". I wrote to the other Chels forum "listen we are going to win this on pens and Peter will parry their last one out with the help of the crossbar".

The champions cup / champions league finals in which one of the two teams was a team of the host country were 12. 6 of those went one way, 6 went the other way. The preponderence of such "home wins" was in the early years.

Can PSG do it and win the champions league at 16 to 1 ? From the others Real Madrid appears to stand at a fairish price right now (4 to 1). Barcelona look good but the price 5/2 is butchered. Bayern are the favourites at 7/4. The bookies obviously believe that the venue of the final (Berlin) gives them home advantage, but I disagree with that.

He's 33 years old. It's the equivalent of 28 for an attacker. Buffon whose father was also international goalkeeper is 37. If we actually do have to sell him, it's got to be many mil, whatever is the maximum for goalkeepers.

Well I did, not at first but my dad told me what manner of layabouts are in Piraeus and decided to follow. Every season in mid July when the players of all the other teams are off to the beaches they write with big letters in their newspapeprs "galacticos", "we will win everything". Every season without interruption from 1953. Then they proceed to lose 5-0, 6-0 to Cyprus teams, Polish teams aso. Olympiakos Piraeus say they have beaten Pele's Santos and they even wrote a song about it. I will tell you the real story so everyone in the world knows. In the summer of 1961 Santos visited Greece and played a friendly against AEK Athens, whom they beat 3-0. Then they played against the champions Panathinaikos and drew 1-1. Whether that was prearranged or they said "let's play one more match" I am not certain, so I have a little doubt about Panathinaikos. But that was definitely it, the Brazlilians retreated to the bungalows in Asteras Glyfada beach and they were having a good time. Yet somehow their managers agreed to regroup them again and play a third match, against Olympiakos and Olympiakos won 2-1. A cousin of mine used to work for national tourism in those bungalows. She told me they picked the Brazilian players from the water and hustled them onto a bus. Someone pressed Pele's tummy a little with his finger and a fountain of beer went up as far as the ceiling. So that's the story of this famous so called victory. Chelsea is different. I became supporter in 1967, a little before the cup final against Spurs (Spurs won it) because we went on family trip to England and stayed in Earls Court road - near Chelsea.

Good win. Video with the goals ? Did n't see the 1-0 and also theirs.

I think it was linguistic error. The fellow speaks English not French and his English are not 100% correct either. I think he meant "sh*t place" and he said "country". It's a colloquial expression anyway. A Belgian who is unhappy with certain recent legislation said to me "we have a sh*t country". So somehow Zlatan made a mistake in his speech.

Linguistic slip most probably. It does n't even connect to speak against the country.

Zlatan strikes again and la Marine Lepen strikes back: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/mar/16/zlatan-ibrahimovic-comments-investigated-french-league-psg-marine-le-pen

There are many politicians who make wild statements. But I guess they don't like peaceful coexistence over there. Bad for both of them. Peace in the middle east is utopia. But war is also utopia because nobody wins and the countries can't move like houses across seas.

The chopping off bit is excessive but he makes sense to me. It's one thing to be immigrant in England and loyal to the state and confront those who are hostile to you and another thing to be an immigrant in England and say "Shropshire belongs to Sweden - Shropshire is a Swedish province".

It's the truth, it's not big talk but some freshening up is required. I see some legweariness.