Brazilian striker Neymar has become a global joke, a somersaulting clown, a diver and a prima donna.
In a sport where being in the vertical should be a distinct advantage, Neymar, sometimes Neymar Junior (full name, Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior), has accumulated a reported 14 minutes in the World Cup competition thus far, writhing about on the deck in horrible pain, before getting lightly to his feet, sprinting off and scoring yet another goal.
Certainly, if Neymar, was an AFL player, he’d be dragged, forced to sit on the pine and think about what he did. In rugby, he’d be stomped mercilessly at the breakdown. In NRL, he’d almost certainly be killed. In soccer, or football at the insistence of my editor, he’s a gun and may one day become the greatest of all time.
SBS commentator, Craig Foster, declared him “a genius”, albeit a flawed one. Mozart was a genius. Michelangelo, too. No doubt. Unless Neymar is scribbling down a piano concerto in A Major or resolving the intrinsic paradox of transcendental bijection in the spacetime continuum before banging the ball into the back of the net, I suspect he comes up short in the genius stakes.
Full column here.
I say, Mr insider, that was a very fetching short skirt Melania Trump wore alighting from AF1 in Helsinki. If Vlad sees that he may get “lewd” thoughts as did your humble red-blooded correspondent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okf5kkTMQ90
Looked like skin tight leggings to me, HB. My thoughts were “Go, girl! She looked great
Some very powerful people getting cranky with Trump who doesn’t seem to understand the importance of having Russia as an enemy for the benefit of the US arms manufacturers and oil industry.
Pence must be licking his chops.
Do you reckon Henry, if they knock Trump off will they pin it on the Russians?
Methink he’s been ‘spoken to’ by the people in charge JB.
Strange days indeed when Trump’s told to pull his head in.
Might be a first for the orange one. 😈
I get the arms bit JB. Dunno if the oil industry is too fussed.
All this palava about energy policy, the Galilee Basin, renewables, Tesla powerwalls, stabilised grids and rooftop solar against the background of our Chief Scientist’s candid assessment regarding Australia’s futile attempt at Co2 reduction, the fact remains the late great Jack Gibson was way ahead of the pack when he opined that the poor people get all the ice in the winter and the rich people get all the ice in the summer.
Am I right in thinking the blog is behaving itself? Is everything ok for commenters? Hard to tell at my end so please let me know if there are still some issues.
Looks good now, Mr. Insider. Cheers
testing 1
Worked OK
Sent me back to the top of the blog which is a bit annoying when you are down in the guts of it
Testing
Have sent a correction to my last statement Mr. Insider a small problem still exists in seeing new posts which can only be seen when you post a new comment, then it regresses back to the older posts, Apologies.
All good here
Still not receiving the “your comment is awaiting moderation” thing? the comments disappear, regardless of how many sheeple would prefer that of my comments, I shall keep trying.
How about an article on the coalition’s destruction of any sort of independence of the Public service and treasury. Keep fighting JTI
Does the blog ever behave itself Jack??!! Hehehehe
I’ve certainly had no further problems with ”bots”. Only thing is that one cannot see a comment that one has posted and is awaiting moderation anymore.
Everything is okay at my end Jack. The only change I’ve noticed is that my posts have not been initially appearing with the moderation proviso, but that’s no big deal. Your ongoing perseverance and concern is greatly appreciated.
Eight weeks for Nyhuis, clda killed Robbie.
I’ve just watched the replay. Two, I think. Gray copped a similar tackle from Gibbs a couple of years ago. Bryce copped one from memory.
Not exactly. Comment numbers are still going up and down. My name on another comment a few minutes ago came up as Desali, which is a village in Arunachal Pradesh. I can be a village idiot, but a whole village isn’t in my skill set.
No weird names this time though.
Oh yes sir, I am having this name too!
Aha. You’re the desali who’s nom-de-blog appeared in my posting box. There was an email address there too, with a bigpond server line and a significant numeral ‘5’. I noted these in a post to Jack and deleted them. I’m hoping the post got through, as it isn’t here this morning. I turned on my VPN and the desali nom wasn’t in the posting box, but when I turned the VPN off again it came back.
Not behaving for me at all mate, I think I’m jinxed or maybe just a problem child! 🤐
Haved posted a dozen or so comments but hardly any (two) appeared in last month or so
Someone else’s email address popped up in my address box when I went to post earlier. I deleted it and went ahead with my post and all seemed normal, but the ‘Awaiting Moderation’ message is still missing and I don’t know if the post went through. A short post in reply to a comment from Milton seems to have vaporised.
Jack.
The rogue email address is back in my address box, and as I don’t recognise it from the screen name, thought it may not be for the blog, and is just some random error. I’ll put it in here and you can take the necessary action. I just checked the same with my VPN turned on and it was gone, but returned when I turned the VPN off again. I use the Opera browser.
Screen Name Box = Desali
Email Address Box = desandliz5@bigpond.com
Yes, just clear your browser history and that should go. The awaiting moderation sign is a mystery but we will sort it.
I got that one too.
This is the future Carl, nuclear fusion. https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/laser-boron-fusion-now-%E2%80%98leading-contender%E2%80%99-energy
No pollution, no radiation, no special buildings or reactors, limitless power, parts off the shelf. Electricity is generated directly so no intermediate conduit (steam) needed, no turbines or moving parts. The reaction is contained by an electromagnetic torus. Cheap to build and costs nothing to run, as it provides its own power. A recent test produced a petawatt for an attosecond. The solar and windmill brigade are behind the times. A petawatt would power the entire US power grid 4 times over. An attosecond is the time it would take for an electron to travel the length of 3 atoms. Early days, but it works. In the US they are building another that will produce an etowatt. It’s probably 7 years away. But the scientists working on this are starved for funds. At present funding levels, the science here is about a decade away. My vote would be stop throwing money at stopgap soon-to-be obsolete half solutions and back this to the hilt.
I agree Wizz but it is incredibly expensive
Thank you Wiss, very interesting indeed. The creation/advancement of these various fusion energy technologies raises a number of questions, including the obvious one – why has it not received greater publicity, notwithstanding the temperature/density hurdle that appears yet to be resolved.
You mention the solar and windmill brigade being behind the times (no names, no pack drill), I agree. Producing a petawatt in an attosecond also puts Snowy 2.0 in the aberrant diplodocus category.
A reminder to all that you have 3 months from today to opt out of the Myhealth database if you wish to. Easily done online.
Whilst the concept is a good one especially in the event of ”doctor-shopping”, and it would certainly be useful for the chronically ill who do not have much medical knowledge of their condition, I have elected to opt out for now because I have concerns about the data security .
Your local GP has all your history Boa and the security on that computer is probably very basic and extremely hackable.
I could understand doing it if one has had a lobotomy – which I suspect one of the commentators on this blog has had.
After I started having medical issues around 2010, I signed up to it as soon as it was available. The surgery we use kept switching doctors and then I was working in Brisbane 2/3 of the time and ended up seeing random doctors and physios up there. I do not want to go to a new doctor and have to explain the whole box and dice when they can read it in the correct terminology. I want them to have the whole story. I am IN.
When I went to hospital to have a very similar procedure to what Jack had, the admin doing the paperwork came to the ‘Opt In’ checkbox and said out loud ‘No’ because nobody did. Except me. I pulled her up and she was quite surprised.
Sure there might be security issues but that’s the modern world. I’d rather the full, known picture of my medical history to be available to the medical practitioners whom I encounter. Take a deep breath and stay in!
My thoughts exactly JS. I have had the same GP for yonks and would never see anyone else. So no drama. I also request and keep copies of all reports from xrays, blood tests etc. I have my own little database right here at home 😁
I did the same Boa. My last attempt at privacy. But, the truth is that what I have volunteered in recent years makes that irrelevant. I have two biometric passports. I hot a Global Entry pass from DHS when in the US. They did a deep dive through my records, probably including my FBI file. I had to give them a decade of travel history.
When I got married I had to give a lot of detail to the Indon government as well. Plus, notifying both Oz and US governments. Immigration now has my entire family history, and the state of my finances in order to sponsor my wife. Oh, and another police check.
I am planning a visit to Moscow and the Russian government wants 10 years of my travels in the visa application. With as little privacy as I have left, I may as well change my passwords to “password”.
Still, Google and Amazon know more about me than the government.
The agency cherry picked by the government and provided $450 million dollars with NO experience in the area and 6 employees who also have no experience in the research field they are supposed to be working in and run by mining executives is just another example of this corrupt conservative coalition government.
Dismayed
If you are going to cut and paste into this blog, could you at least read the result to make sure that it make sense.
The agency? FBI? CIA? Federal Police? or your local news agency?
And what was the $450 million for?
And what does the agency do?
Geezus JS try and keep up. your coalition awarded $450 million to an “agency” set up by Mining executives with 6 employees to run great Barrier Reef research. No history in the area no experience in the area no tender process. Just half a $ billion to mates of the coalition to run a spurious misinformation campaign. JS don’t have a go at me because you are unaware of what is gong on in Australia. Step out of your echo chamber and open your eye.
I was aware of that contract but is it the only one?
May I compliment you on the first part of the reply. That was all that was necessary.
If you had left the last 2 sentences out, and admitted that you had erred you would have gone further down the road to being an acceptable member of this blog.
Oh, and by the way, there is not a hope in hell that either of the major parties will get my vote in the Senate – both are a bunch of rent seeking, fact twisting, out right lying sods.
It is often not the pollies at the root of this but the bunch that put up the money for the election that is the problem and they rule the roost on both sides’.
You see I can see through the bullshit of both sides – unlike your good self.
What an absolute farce that is & again the puppets had the gall to keep a straight face!
France has won. There is a God! We wont have to be driven to distraction for months with the press going on and about “the afterglow” . Homeless youth in Manchester filled with a new pride, Croation mother who gave birth at the same moment as winning goal is scored names her baby after the entire team, Plucky Belgian fan leaps from tall building with national flag stuck up his date, Queen builds annex on Palace for a holiday home for players……………. update photos of extension………….
That’s it. Bloody cheating frogs, but it will be forgotten by tomorrow. Hallebloodylujah! Except for drug allegations for the next ten years, but hey.
Tennis players have to work harder for their dollars – sorry should be Male tennis players – than that pampered soccer lot who have no eye-hand co-ordination but can do absolutely brilliant stuff with their feet every now and again 🙂
Bloody French, Mr. Baptiste, insufferable at the best of times and worse now am sure. Cheers
Good! Suffer Henry suffer.
Vive la France!
France has won the World Cup Soccer, Mr. Insider and easily too. What great matches we have seen and well staged by Russia too. In Tennis Novak Djokovic is the 2018 Mens Wimbledon Champion and Angelique Kerber the Women’s Champion,
https://tinyurl.com/y8jq4s7n
First reports suggest Pussy Riot responsible for WCup pitch invasion. Go Girls!
I thought it was Dwight.
No, am in Bali not Moscow.
I see Vlad was the first to be covered by an umbrella whilst the rest got soaked and even when extras were brought in the Croatian lady was still left in the wet.
Well done France who still only did what they had to. Croatia played with heart and skill and kept going forward, and whilst they may feel a bit aggrieved by 2 particular decisions they didn’t have the firepower of France.
Not impressed with Martin Tylers shirt – mutton dressed as lamb.
Tracy:
Oh wow, what a bummer for Richie Porte. I feel for the guy but wonder if he is up to the demands of the TDF.
Trek-Segefredo who signed him up for next season last week must be thinking “OMG”!
Not a good day for our Tassie boy. 🚴♂️😢
It was a tough stage Boa, I think most of the main riders hit the deck at some point but at least Froome had his team around him, BMC didn’t seem to be anywhere. Think Bardet was doing his nut when he had yet another mechanical failure and his team was nowhere to be seen……..utter chaos.
In the US the result of their massive company tax cuts saw company tax revenue in the first quarter of this year fall nearly 30%. Who will make up the shortfall? Investment in new equipment and capital expenditure has plummeted while share buybacks have skyrocketed who benefits. the executives not the consumers.