dholliday comments...

I've just had a fairly active round of commenting on various Guardian articles (football mainly, but other stuffs as well). So to keep track I clicked on my profile, perhaps a discussion was being continued.

And as this bogroll is chiefly a store for my words I thought I'd just, as of this time, paste the first page of 'last comments made':

Quite funny really...if only in a 'My, don't I write a load of tripe' way.

But reading through these reveals an awful lot about myself. I wonder if the same can be said if I click on another poster's profile page and read through his/her last page of comments? If one proffers opinions on culture, sports and politics over the space of days or weeks then I reckon it must be natural that some shades of personality or even facts of character are revealed.


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Ashley regime shows fans the contempt they don't deserve

My comment Oct 02 08, 6:04am (2 minutes ago)

Ashley is untrustworthy.

His "King Kev" shirt had one of the most predictable bad endings I've seen in football.

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Bad times for Bavarian giants, on pitch and in parliament

My comment Oct 02 08, 5:59am (7 minutes ago)

I like Klinsmann, but wish his team much defeat.

The Bundesliga badly needs one of the Bremens, Schalkes, Hamburgs, Stuttgarts or Dortmunds (or Hoffenheims) to really kick on and maintain a consistent Bundesliga and eventual Champions League challenge these next few years.

My money is still on Werder but anyone will do...hopefully a few trophy-less seasons for the Münchners will make it easier for young stars of other clubs to stay put (what Schlaudraff, Poldi, Klose et al didn't do).

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Should Ramos be held accountable for Tottenham's woes?

My comment Oct 02 08, 5:50am (16 minutes ago)

Minor cups aside...Spurs have always been an average make-up-the-numbers kind of club anyway. At least in my 20-odd years of following football.

Why all the attention? How on Earth do they attract these big names and all this interest?

Spurs are like a miniature version of Liverpool.

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Toon miss out on O'Leary the likeliest lad

My comment Oct 02 08, 5:45am (21 minutes ago)

All the analysis from you lot still doesn't change how far up the table Leeds Utd finished in consecutive seasons under O'Leary...wasn't it top 5 every season for 3 or 4 years in a row? One Champions League semi? All this amongst the disgusting acts of two of his top players and their very long and very public court cases?

Only the chairman is to blame for Leeds' downfall. O'Leary can be smarmy or annoying in interviews, and his Villa record is average, but the guy is a better candiate than Joe Kinnear.

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Jordan makes it crystal clear: life at the Palace has become impossible for a mere millionaire

My comment Oct 02 08, 5:38am (28 minutes ago)

Whoever decided that photo of Jordan should accompany this article...knew what they were doing.

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Why is Zizou so riled about a PSG winger's autobiography?

My comment Oct 02 08, 5:35am (31 minutes ago)

No big deal...Zidane was a hothead anyway, and was not fussed about being fair.

He will be remembered for his skills, not for the headbutt. Just as Maradona is known throughout the world for his amazing feats on the pitch, not the drug use...and outside of England no-one remembers the Hand Of God (got that in there before the clever dicks retort).

Zidane was immense, good luck to him whatever he does.


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No personality prizes in formula one

My comment Oct 02 08, 5:28am (38 minutes ago)

"relentless and robotic Michael Schumacher".

A massively successful German sportsman is denigrated in the usual manner by english kid-journalism.

All sports are like this now: their stars reign in their individuality for mass consumption. Look how bland football players are in post-match interview. The platitudes of golf or tennis champions are just as boring.

Michael Schumacher has little to do with it. If you forget your default German prejudice setting you will notice how the likes of great champions like Schumacher (and the Swiss Federer in tennis) in fact managed their own careers with impressive command and individuality...which comes across in interviews with them.

Emma, I venture because you are a woman, you struggle to grasp such technicalities and prefer an easy-to-digest personality like Rossi's...or Ronnie O'Sullivan. Both great champions for sure. This is not a sexist comment, it is the nature of female sports followers (as well as casual followers) to look for emotion in the protagonists while the male followers will appreciate the mundane operational aspects.

You may disagree with the above, but at least try not to use the lazy 'robotic/efficient/cold' descriptive terminology when referring to German sportsmen (or women). It's old, and you don't need it.

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The worst sports book ever?

My comment Oct 01 08, 11:12pm (about 7 hours ago)

The Ammies play military strategy. The world plays games.

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Same old blues

My comment Oct 01 08, 11:10pm (about 7 hours ago)

Unlike the American election...the Britisch election offers no appreciable difference of policy, character or moral to choose between the candidate parties.

Yawn...

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All eyes on Sarah Palin

My comment Oct 01 08, 11:07pm (about 7 hours ago)

@PresidentD...good answers.

@sarahpalin: I do actually believe you did not name a newspaper because you did not want to show favouritism.

@voters of the USA: Vote Democrat...it's the economy, silly.

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It's all about the Benjamins

My comment Oct 01 08, 10:57pm (about 7 hours ago)

TheEarlofSuave: I don't agree.

I hear so many people talk of New York and San Francisco selling their rough souls to Starbucks, McDonalds and other forms of gentrification.

What happens is that a conformist form of conservatism breeds like the clappers. Edgy and interesting art movements are priced out, spat out, frowned upon.

What you see as a crackhouse is probably a squat where people throw parties, make drugs and consume art.

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Ambitious Moyes must wonder if he will ever fulfil himself

My comment Oct 01 08, 10:48pm (about 7 hours ago)

You speak the truth, Diggin.

Cash is king and has been since Jack Walker and Sky showed the way in the early-to-mid-90's

We used to believe we are a big club: because of 1878, because of Dixie, because of our trophies, because of the 80's. King Cash has dethroned us, and King Cash can coronate us again. And unless there are major changes to the game, this will remain sad but true.

We concede Liverpool's successes in the boot room era had to do with enviable sound management and coaching, but their comparatively little success in the Premiership era has only cash and their global brand to thank.

Ferguson and Wenger are among the world's finest coaches. They did not spend obscene amounts when they started with their clubs, tho' spend they did...but I am willing to allow both their successes, fair play to them. But Man Utd also have a global brand more marketable than Liverpool's.

Chelski we know about.

The debate is a few years old now: how does non-big 4 club break it on a regular basis? How does the top division regain a sense of fairness and unpredictability? The answer 20 years ago would have been to improve the coaching and management of the club. Like Ipswich, Notts Forest, Aston Villa and Everton did.

The answer now is cash. The only answer now is cash.

The most vital question of which there is no answer is: if we solve it by having multi-billionaire foreign ownership for all or most of the 20 clubs...what will that mean for the future of the English game of top-level professional football and its fans?

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Go on holiday, they said. But the internet and my new phone gizmo mean I can never really leave

My comment Sep 29 08, 2:05am

I'll always remember The Happening as the cinema film that accompanied one of the most abject pulling failures of my life.

In mock tense mode during one of those badboy wind scenes, I grabbed her knee (she's got a fine knee) for about 3 seconds.

I say 3 seconds because that's how long it took me to realise she wasn't up for it...in fact she froze so violently that I thought I was turning to ice myself. Haven't heard from her since.

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I've let in 10 in two games so Owen should sell me

My comment Sep 28 08, 10:59pm

Well done. mate...you and your Pompey crew are a rare beacon of light in the ever-cynical monied world of Premiership football.

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The 10: sore losers

My comment Sep 28 08, 10:57pm

Mike Tyson

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Liveblogging the first Obama-McCain debate

My comment Sep 27 08, 4:43am

Did no-one spot McCain calling Mikheil Saakashvili the "great young president"?

Ouch!

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The time has come for a final report on the 43rd president of the US

My comment Sep 25 08, 2:19am

Whitenights claims:

"Bush beat Kerry and Gore's university results"

Source?


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Arranged marriages are not a romantic ideal

My comment Sep 25 08, 2:15am

The truth of it is that arranged marriages aid greatly in the long-term survival of a civilisation.

Discuss.

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Science fiction doesn't have to be gloomy, does it?

My comment Sep 25 08, 1:36am

Stephen Baxter's Manifold Cycle (3 novels) is highly recommended and is neither optimistic nor pessimistic, utopic or dystopic...it is simply an exploration of fascinating possibility.

Or check out Yegeny Zamyatin's We (100 years old now)...a hectic and trippy read.


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The unfortunate case of the tube station and the Righteous Kill poster

My comment Sep 25 08, 12:33am

Nezza, that's exactly what I was thinking.

Pop culture whores, the lot of them.


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I could have clicked on 'Next', but I think that's enough for now...that shit goes back 3 years anyroad.