First things first I formally declare my love for Emily. Secondally I have changed the template for the blog and it looks a little better. Thirdly after months of trying I have finally done the rank B Honda Integra Gran Tourismo 5 event. I was delighted. Also on the subject of games on Fifa 09 I am cooking on Calor Gas
Finally when I was on the Woking forum I found this quiz. If anyone can get more then 7 right they can have a mars bar:
1. Which unfortunate event caused the abandonment twenty-three minutes into the Cards' FA Cup 2nd qualifying round match against Summerstown at Kingfield on 18 October 1924?
2. Who was Woking's top goal scorer in the 1999/2000 season and what nation did he represent in the 2004 African Nations Cup?
3. Which of the three following clubs, Arsenal, Ajax or Anderlecht, did NOT play Woking in a friendly fixture in the late 1920s and early 1930s?
4. Which Guildford-born former Card went on to score a (then) season's record thirty-three goals for Arsenal in their 1947/48 Championship-winning season? And which Arsenal player eventually beat his record?
5. When did Woking Football Club play its first league match at Kingfield Sports Stadium?
6. Kingfield's record Conference crowd was against which club?
7. Which team is responsible for inflicting the Cards' record defeat?
8. Of the other twenty-one clubs that were in the Conference when Woking FC were promoted in 1992, which four clubs are still present in the 2008/09 season?
9. Who scored four goals on his first team debut away at Morecambe in 1995?
10. Which former Chelsea and England goalkeeper made two appearances for Woking in the 1986/87 season?
11. What was the nickname of "Bonking" Bradley Pratt's page 3 stunner girlfriend?
12. Which First Division club came down to Kingfield in November 1964 to celebrate "the switch-on" of the new floodlights? And which two future Premiership managers made an appearance for them that night?
13. Which club did Charlie and his brother John Mortimore sign from in 1953?
14. Which club did Geoff Chapple leave Woking to manage in 1997?
15. Which club did Woking replace in the GM Vauxhall Conference in 1992?
16. What is Geoff Chapple's middle name?
17. Which current Championship manager made his last-ever senior match appearance at Kingfield?
18. What was Woking's record Conference win?
19. What is the name of the only Woking player to become a full England international?
20. Who presented Woking captain Kevan Brown with the FA Trophy in 1997?
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I am going to make this short but sweet: By following Mr. Daniel Whitby's suggestions, we have become such poor caretakers of the tree of liberty that it has wilted and is sagging dangerously close to the ground. That fact may not be pleasant but it is a fact regardless of our wishes on the matter. It is worth noting at the outset that I have never read anything Whitby has written that I would consider wise, logical, pertinent, reasonable, or scientific. His statement that his blessing is the equivalent of a papal imprimatur is no exception. What's more, we must undeniably change the world for the better. Does that sound extremist? Is it too stolid for you? I'm sorry if it seems that way but that's life.
ReplyDeleteThere are two things about Whitby's smear tactics that I find personally offensive, entirely unethical, and quite sad. One is that Whitby looks down with a really limitless condescension on anyone who has not been dragged through the obligatory schools and had the necessary knowledge pumped into him. And the other is that because of Whitby's obsession with pharisaism, he is driving me nuts. I can't take it anymore!
Whitby's put-downs occasionally differ in terms of how counter-productive can they are but generally share one fundamental tendency: They bombard us with an endless array of hate literature. If you intend to challenge someone's assertions, you need to present a counterargument. Whitby provides none. He maintains that either the moon is made of green cheese or that his programs of Gleichschaltung are all sweetness and light. Whitby denies any other possibility.
I stand by what I've written before, that Whitby should work with us, not step in at the eleventh hour and hog all the glory. His cohorts are profoundly influenced by what he says and does. In reaching that conclusion I have made the usual assumption that Whitby yields to the mammalian desire to assert individuality by attracting attention. Unfortunately, for Whitby, "attract attention" usually implies "encourage a deadly acceptance of intolerance". He claims that heinous drug addicts are inherently good, sensitive, creative, and inoffensive. I would say that that claim is 70% folderol, 20% twaddle, and 10% another salacious-to-the-core attempt to establish a world government complete with a world army, a world parliament, a world court, and numerous other agencies that saddle the economy with crippling debt. Admittedly, for all of Whitby's professed concern for human rights, he has yet to take a firm and unambiguous stand against those primitive personæ non gratæ who engage in an endless round of finger pointing. But that's because Whitby's hysteria-producing squibs are sufficient to give pause to the less thoughtful among us. "Oh, oh," such people think. "We'd better help Whitby make bribery legal and part of business as usual—just in case."
To most people, the idea that we can see the damage that is done when Whitby tries to lock people up for reading the "wrong" kinds of books or listening to the "wrong" sorts of music is so endemic, so long ingrained, that when others conclude that his atavistic values lead him to silence critical debate and squelch creative brainstorming, this merely seems to be affirming an obvious truth. You won't find many of his representatives who will openly admit that they favor Whitby's schemes to toss sops to the egos of the irritable. In fact, their contrivances are characterized by a plethora of rhetoric to the contrary. If you listen closely, though, you'll hear how carefully they cover up the fact that if it were up to Whitby, schoolchildren would be taught reading, 'riting, and racism. He seems to assume that honesty and responsibility have no cash value and are therefore worthless. This is an assumption of the worst kind because his self-pitying indiscretions strap us down with a network of rules and regulations. Whitby then blames us for that. Now there's a prizewinning example of psychological projection if I've ever seen one.
Couldn't you figure that out for yourself, Whitby? Will I allow him to make nearby communities victims of environmental degradation and toxic waste dumping? As long as there is breath in my earthly body, I assure you I will not. What I will do, however, is inform as many people as possible that of all of Whitby's exaggerations and incorrect comparisons, one in particular stands out: "Space aliens are out to lay eggs in our innards or ooze their alien hell-slime all over us." I don't know where he came up with this, but his statement is dead wrong. Yes, he may have some superficial charm, but Whitby has two imperatives. The first is to promote a herd mentality over principled, individual thought. The second imperative is to condition the public—or, more precisely, brainwash the public—into believing that national-security interests can and should be sidestepped whenever his personal interests are at stake.
Whitby says that the world can be happy only when his lynch mob is given full rein. But then he turns around and says that he knows 100% of everything 100% of the time. You know, you can't have it both ways, Whitby. In the past, it was perfectly clear to everyone with insight and without malice that I am quite certain that there is no justification on any level whatsoever for his yawping homilies. Unfortunately, there were a number of people who seemed to lack this insight at the right time or who, contrary to their better knowledge, contested and denied this truth. His fantasy is to bring ugliness and nastiness into our lives. He dreams of a world that grants him such a freedom with no strings attached. Welcome to the world of revisionism! In that nightmare world it has long since been forgotten that Whitby truly believes that society is supposed to be lenient towards ill-natured paranoiacs. It is just such deceitful, iconoclastic megalomania, baleful, uninformed egoism, and intellectual aberrancy that stirs Whitby to turn the social order upside-down so that the dregs on the bottom become the scum on the top.
All this aside, the unalterable law of biology has a corollary that is generally overlooked. Specifically, Whitby keeps saying that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. For some reason, Whitby's apparatchiks actually believe this nonsense. People tell me that I must reach out even to my most ostrich-like readers and show them how the long-term consequences of his allegations are rarely examined, let alone subjected to scientific scrutiny. And the people who tell me this are correct, of course.
Whitby somehow manages to maintain a straight face when saying that once he has approved of something it can't possibly be obstinate. I am greatly grieved by this occurrence of falsehood and fantastic storytelling which is the resultant of layers of social dishevelment and disillusionment amongst the fine citizens of a once organized, motivated, and cognitively enlightened civilization. He has never gotten ahead because of his hard work or innovative ideas. Rather, all of his successes are due to kickbacks, bribes, black market double-dealing, outright thuggery, and unsavory political intrigue.
If five years ago I had described a person like Whitby to you and told you that in five years he'd truck away our freedoms for safekeeping, you'd have thought me cold-blooded. You'd have laughed at me and told me it couldn't happen. So it is useful now to note that, first, it has happened and, second, to try to understand how it happened and how I wouldn't judge his devotees too harshly. They're indubitably just cannon fodder for Whitby's plot to utilize legal, above-ground organizing in combination with illegal, underground tactics to revive an arcadian past that never existed. I'd like to finish with a quote from a private e-mail message sent to me by a close friend of mine: "Mr. Daniel Whitby is a small dollop of pond scum masquerading as a man".