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Transfers Summer 2017 transfer window or, waiting for Godot
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No need. What did your country invent apart from Lego?
Lego for you and hats with corks for
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That's pretty cool. What's it like to be known as the International Trumpton and Camberwick Green alliance? Pretty special huh?
If you genuinely think that hats with corks is all we invented then I think you need to broaden your horizons a bit mate, you know wifi? That thing you are using to go on the internet right now at decent speed? Invented by an Australian. Pacemakers? Invented in Australia. The 'black box' on planes that has helped make planes safer? Australia. Google Maps (before Google bought the idea)? Australia. Ultrasounds? Australia.No need. What did your country invent apart from Lego?
Lego for you and hats with corks for
I don't want this to be a big American style 'oh look how great my country is' but if you're going to be an ignorant prick while being a xenophobic asshole at least be factually correct.
Well said fellow Aussie!
Dont tell everyone how good it is down here they might consider emigrating and we will have less king prawns, beer, pristine beaches and women to enjoy?
I gotta say i read a lot of his stuff, and try to be really objective about this. But it is seriously an odd article. Im not sure what his point is, we need to spent hundreds of pounds?
To think about it, i dont remember him getting us good credits despite these past two incredible seasons. Maybe not in achievement, but the way we play, come on.
This thread needs a good ol fashioned napalming
Please no. Keep him as far away from here.
Title will stay where it is Joe, you do nothing but needle and annoy other people here, constantly playing the man with a select few.
Who cares about pacemakers and ultrasounds? We invented napalm!This thread needs a good ol fashioned napalming
#America
That's right. Stick that in your didgeridoo and smoke it!
I'm kidding my Down Under brethren :dierpochhug:
We nearly got in shit over that transfer.
Swansea owed a payaway on anything over £5m for Vorm. So by doing the 'swap' deal Vorm's exclub probably quite rightly claimed that we'd colluded to under value both Vorm and Sigurdsson.
I'm not a big fan of signing players to cover injuries. Son and Lamela all back in full swing by October.,,? Then?
And then when Dele is back by the third group game?
Fine if you believe we need a player, I just don't think you buy people to cover injuries and suspensions. It didn't work out last season regarding Dembele and Sissoko
Fuck wifi I want a hat with corks!
We have some decent weed over here, did you honestly thing the didgeridoo just comes in one part!
Süle is shockingly nimble for his size and is going to be an absolute star. He's already playing for the German national team and has gone to Bayern this season. He's a massive talent.
Inventions are never simply "made". Often there is a gradual process where someone has an idea, someone else tries it, and then finally someone else, years later, perfects it. I appreciate you've pulled many of these from a click bait "top 10 things you didn't know Australians invented", but many are a bit iffy.
Wifi - Vic Hayes came up with the idea. John O'sullivan, an Australian, improved it. Some credit there, but to say you "invented it", is a little far fetched.
Pacemaker - This one is true, but it wasn't what we imagine a pacemaker to be like today. In 1920 Mark Cowley Lidwill, Australian, put an electrical needle into a dead babies heart and revived it. Is this a pacemaker or a defibrillator? Weird semantics, but I'll give you that one.
Flight Recorder - The first Flight Recorders were made around 1939. The British used Flight Recorders during WW2, to see how and why a plane crashed. In 1953 Warren, an Australian, added voice recording and made the item more durable. Funnily enough these flight recorders were manufactured by *Drum roll* Britain, because no one else in the world gave a fuck.
There's about 5 countries who have claimed to have "invented" or "patented" the Flight Recorder/Black Box. Adding voice recording to an already existent item does not mean you "invented" it.
I'm not even going to google google maps as it's not really a historical bragging point.
Ultrasound - If you mean Ultrasound in a medical sense I.e. For babies then it was made by a Scottish bloke called Ian Donald in 1956. Australians didn't touch Ultrasound until 1962.
A lot of these are stretching the truth very far. You improved a lot of this technology, but to say you invented it is baffling. The Black Box was around 14 years before you touched it. Ultrasound was around 6 years before you touched it. Wifi already existed before John O'Sullivan touched it, but he made it far more reliable.
Again, anyone bragging about inventions is always suspect to people disagreeing because every country claims to have invented everything. Someone will make the theory, a bloke will patent it, someone else across the globe will invent it, another guy in the middle of nowhere will actually test it and everyone of them is claiming to have invented it.
And Swansea reject a 40 million pound bid for Sigurdsson.
I mean reject and 40 million pounds hardly seems possible, let alone the idea of spending that amount on a player who in fairness would probably not get in a Premier League squad of 22. Insane really.
And today the papers talk of transfers and nada in relation to us.
It is thus far as weird a transfer window as I have seen in a long time.
I mean reject and 40 million pounds hardly seems possible, let alone the idea of spending that amount on a player who in fairness would probably not get in a Premier League squad of 22. Insane really.
And today the papers talk of transfers and nada in relation to us.
It is thus far as weird a transfer window as I have seen in a long time.
I wonder if Siggy is worth that much to them or if I'd rather invest in a few players to balance their squad.
And a manager that can coach a squad so they don't need to rely on one mediocre player to stay up
Surely the thread has hit rock bottom now???
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