Sousa and his excuses

[indierich06]

If this thread has done anything for me its that more than anything in the world I want to know who signed Abe. I just dont beleive that it was Sousa.

Why are you struggling so much to believe that a manager of a football club signed a player? Please, please, please enlighten me. Give me one good reason.

 

[bocadillo]

Very clear statement from Skinner during the commentary that Sousa told him/admitted to him that Abe was signed "an owner's signing".

Good enough for me.

 

[Jeff]

Very clear statement from Skinner

Stringer?

 

[bocadillo]

Stringer?

Aye - that's the bloke.

 

[Mawsley]

Was it this one

Or this one?

 

[spionfox]

Was it this one

Or this one?

Nah, it'll be this one.

 

[Ian Marshall]

Sousa will make a good football manager one day.

 

[spionfox]

Sousa will make a good football manager one day.

It's an urban myth.

In the same category as the one that says if you give a thousand chimpanzees a thousand typewriters and leave them for a thousand years eventually they will come up with the works of Shakespeare.

 

[Mawsley]

He was wank - but I couldn't care less what excuses he has, he's gone.

 

[Ike O'Noclassed]

It's an urban myth.

In the same category as the one that says if you give a thousand chimpanzees a thousand typewriters and leave them for a thousand years eventually they will come up with the works of Shakespeare.

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times

 

[Ian Marshall]

It's an urban myth.

In the same category as the one that says if you give a thousand chimpanzees a thousand typewriters and leave them for a thousand years eventually they will come up with the works of Shakespeare.

I disagree.

We were awful when he was here and he has a lot to learn but his ideas are clear. He tried to change us too quickly and we just didn't have the players for the system he wanted to play.

He'll get success somewhere, just very likely not in England's lower divisions.

 

[Macky]

It's an urban myth.

In the same category as the one that says if you give a thousand chimpanzees a thousand typewriters and leave them for a thousand years eventually they will come up with the works of Shakespeare.

Actually spion, it's an infinite number of monkeys, an infinite number of typewriters and an infinite amount of time and they will produce the complete works of not just Shakespeare, but of every piece of literature ever written.

Are you related to Karl Pilkington by any chance?

 

[Jeff]

Actually spion, it's an infinite number of monkeys, an infinite number of typewriters and an infinite amount of time and they will produce the complete works of not just Shakespeare, but of every piece of literature ever written.

It doesn't need to be an infinite number of monkeys. Just one will be enough if he has an infinite amount of time.

 

[Profondo Rosso]

It doesn't need to be an infinite number of monkeys. Just one will be enough if he has an infinite amount of time.

Wasn't that how "Angels & Demons" was written?

 

[Micky]

Actually spion, it's an infinite number of monkeys, an infinite number of typewriters and an infinite amount of time and they will produce the complete works of not just Shakespeare, but of every piece of literature ever written.

Are you related to Karl Pilkington by any chance?

Bet they couldn't manage Horrid Henry or Spot the Dog.

 

[Ian Marshall]

Wasn't that how "Angels & Demons" was written?

That was one monkey in one day.

 

[Matt_B]

Actually spion, it's an infinite number of monkeys, an infinite number of typewriters and an infinite amount of time and they will produce the complete works of not just Shakespeare, but of every piece of literature ever written.

Are you related to Karl Pilkington by any chance?

I once wrote a programme to try this, assuming the monkeys had no comprehension of what they were writing, and just hammering the keys I found so evidence to remotely support this. I had the programme generating random letters for two days (I think I left it running for roughly that long) and it hadn't even generated anything above a 3 letter word, and those were few and far between, let alone anything resembling a sentence.

 

[Profondo Rosso]

I once wrote a programme to try this, assuming the monkeys had no comprehension of what they were writing, and just hammering the keys I found so evidence to remotely support this. I had the programme generating random letters for two days (I think I left it running for roughly that long) and it hadn't even generated anything above a 3 letter word, and those were few and far between, let alone anything resembling a sentence.

:icon_lol: Are you serious? 2 days? The point is there's an infinite amount of time.

It's about random events. Even if the percentage of it happening in one day or even one year is 0.01x10^-999999999999 it will happen given infinite time. The theory is supposed to point out that no matter how unlikely a random event is, there is still a possibility of it happening, in fact there's a certainty of it happening given enough time.

 

[Macky]

It doesn't need to be an infinite number of monkeys. Just one will be enough if he has an infinite amount of time.

Of course, I was just pointing out how spion had got the statement so completely wrong, in such a loveable Pilkingtonesque way

:icon_lol: Are you serious? 2 days? The point is there's an infinite amount of time.

It's about random events. Even if the percentage of it happening in one day or even one year is 0.01x10^-999999999999 it will happen given infinite time. The theory is supposed to point out that no matter how unlikely a random event is, there is still a possibility of it happening, in fact there's a certainty of it happening given enough time.

:icon_lol: Wot he sed

 

[Matt_B]

:icon_lol: Are you serious? 2 days? The point is there's an infinite amount of time.

It's about random events. Even if the percentage of it happening in one day or even one year is 0.01x10^-999999999999 it will happen given infinite time. The theory is supposed to point out that no matter how unlikely a random event is, there is still a possibility of it happening, in fact there's a certainty of it happening given enough time.

I was planning to leave it for infinite time, but my battery died.