The Numbers Game – 2014/15 Review – Pardew’s Palace

See! 😀

I can be grateful for my position, and want to do something for those less advantaged, but that doesn't mean I should feel any responsibility for something someone else did. Nobody should feel responsible for the actions of their parents, let alone generations far removed.

Well, you should at least reckon that you are born with an unfair advantage that is caused by historical wrongs. If you're enjoying it, maybe you should feel a bit responsible for the damage it causes. Particularly as it is not a thing of past. The fact that we buy means to get online with such an ease is due to slavery in Africa - the real Africa, not Jamaica. In tin and cobalt mines more precisely.

That said, history is cruel, all people have fecked all people up all the time, and it's really just been a question who comes out on the top. For the recent history, it was the Western Europeans, until their colonies in America beat them. In their defence, they also came up with universal human rights and abolishment of slavery, which are not small things historically, even if they don't seem to apply in the cobalt mines our enterprises make their business with.

The next winners may be the Chinese, don't expect them to be nice either.

I wrote something, but it was reviewed for one word... cba writing it again, sorry. 😆

Don't sweat it. I'm off to bed now, but this is the DZ. If I came back here week later, we'd probably still be like on the next page from this. 😉 This stuff doesn't disappear until the summer is over.

Most important thing is to foster good relationships between current generations and not allow what happened in history to occur again. At least that's my take.

I know other Irish lads who go on as if the famine was still going on and that the English some how invented the potato blight.

Tbf, I do eat a lot of spuds. 😀

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Haha!

😯 I was born in Ireland and became inebriated, I too am truly Fuched 😉

*inbred.

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It's a small country, can't rule it out!

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Chicken and egg problem there though.

I'm not defending that game - it was absolutely shocking.

Well the socio-economics behind professional tennis is completely different to women's football. But that would literally take 1000 words to unpack.

Women's tennis has had better backing from organisers, sponsors and the media because women playing tennis has been traditionally seen as more acceptable - better prize money, more attention, shares a stage with men's tennis. Plus tennis players generally come from more affluent backgrounds than football players - tennis coaching and membership costs a lot of money - so they tend to have better financial support while they break through.

Tennis also has a pretty long history, which has its fair share of sexism. Originally many considered it too unsuitable for women to do competitively because they could, you know, get all sweaty and that. It took until last decade for the prize money to reach the heights of the men's tennis. It's easy to say now that there's no sexism in it, but still decade and a half ago sexism in tennis was a big issue.

True but people have generally been more accepting of women playing tennis than football. My grandmother (1930s/40s), my mother (1960s/70s) and I (1990/2000s) all went to all girls schools. Every single one of us played tennis at school, as a part of physical education or extra-curricula activities. None of us were given the opportunity to play football. I went outside of school to play football.

there isn't any institutional sexism in those sports, that's the point. you're comparing a sport like athletics where women were first beginning to be accepted back in the 19th century to a sport that's been around since the 70s, of course there's a difference.

No you did. You said they couldn't make it entertaining for audiences. They clearly do beer cause people tune in or turn up.

*because

3 or 4? I was an arts student. Lectures didn't start until 11 most days 😉

Ha, lived with a couple of those. Maths student here, a lot of lecture time and less studying in your own time. A lot of 9am starts and 6pm finishes. Some of the days were so long I think being out five nights a week would've killed me off.

Haha! I was a bit of a pub lurker so I didn't go clubbing every night. The PhD night scene is disappointingly slow 😉

What Art degree Lucy?

History. It can never decide if it's one of the arts or a humanities. Confused. In fact, I'm into my 5th year of studying it and I still don't really know what it is. My area's almost social science.

Ahh right. I'd always thought of it as having been lumped in with the humanities. Though there has never seemed much milk of human kindness in any of the history I've read (which is little and mainly English).

Haha true. Death and war is what people like to read of history, it seems.

It seems to me to be the start or culmination of most of our other bits of history. We only stop fighting long enough to repopulate the working classes so they can make the wealth then get slaughtered in the next round.