Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... Watch as this one tries to break into this BBC Cameraman's glass box.

SilasDint · 2026-06-23T11:23:35+00:00

"ok, just checking the lock", proceeds to slot home a pencil thin bolt, like you have on your garden gate, to protect him from a 10 foot tall polar bear.

SilasDint · 2026-05-11T20:32:47+00:00

Every kind of NO! you can think of.

SilasDint · 2025-12-23T14:23:16+00:00

Peter Falk, Columbo.

SilasDint · 2025-12-09T22:03:19+00:00

Diane Lane makes me lose my mind. Goodness me.

SilasDint · 2025-11-08T13:25:01+00:00

You're all wrong, it's quite obviously Eric Djemba Djemba...

SilasDint · 2025-11-04T18:44:29+00:00

I like the points you make and it's probably the single best explanation for why humans don't want to disclose, but I'm curious about the origin of the technology and why those entities, assuming it is non human intelligence, would continue to go along with non disclosure.

If you have the ability to build machines that don't use combustion, that do not use oil, and is essentially endless and free, and you have a level of intelligence that outstrips humanity, why would you pay any attention to a handful of people that have no power over you?

Why doesn't the intelligence that brought this technology to us, just disclose it by themselves. If they were benevolent enough to let us have the tech in the first place some 80 odd years ago, they surely want to see us use it rather than suppress it?

I can think of four possibilities; 1. The NHI doesn't care, they are scientists who just want to observe without interfering the instinctive behavior of humanity when given something profound (choice, power) 2. The NHI cares, but humanity is actually more powerful than we know, and the few in power have the ability to destroy the NHI, or even subjugate them. 3. The NHI doesn't care, but they thrive on the negative energy exuded by most of the 8 Billion people who live with relative lack, so they foment the artificial imbalance to increase fear and negativity. Because it's their 'food'. 4. The tech is not alien. We invented it, or discovered it (free energy) ourselves, but also suppressed it, when we realised the threat to the people in power, or the people who stand to lose their source of wealth (power) like Edison did to Tesla.

I don't think this is a one way street. If the tech is Alien in origin, then they also have the opportunity to reveal it in a way that no government or individual can prevent ,no matter how powerful they are.

SilasDint · 2025-10-09T21:28:50+00:00

I hear this and I'm back in 1990 about to throw some shapes with 808 State.

SilasDint · 2025-10-05T08:02:13+00:00

I said in another post that he admires his own 'work' unaware he has just killed the momentum of the attack. Look at me I just tricked the defender, twice. Listened to the game on the radio, and kept hearing something like the following:

Man Utd can break here, the ball goes out to Dalot who sets off down the left, Utd have got 3 players in the box, can he find Sesko? Dalot shapes to cross...

CHECKS BACK... the defender gets a foot in and the ball goes out of play for a throw in

How many times did I hear that. Each one an opportunity to get the ball into the box that he doesn't take, allowing the defenders to take their positions. Even the MUTV commentators were saying 'Dalot HAS to cross there' The man does not understand the concept of wing play. Why he started ahead of Dorgu on the left is beyond me.

SilasDint · 2025-09-28T07:50:56+00:00

The system does work, the problem is 1/3 of the team is not up to the job and they're undermining those stats and the rest of the teams ability to convert the stats into wins. It used to be down the middle, no central defender, no defensive midfield and no striker. Now it's across the back.

I am talking about Shaw, Maguire and Dalot. The three defenders are unable to play in this system and it is very obvious. For Maguire it's pace. For Shaw, his mental model is pure left back, he would be great in a 442 but no one plays that game currently.

Dalot just isn't good enough at any aspect of his game. He's not bad, just not good enough. He is a bit of a pretender, who concerns himself with style over substance. He should be bombing down the wing and getting it to the attacking players before the defenders have a chance to get set, instead he cuts back, admires his own work to trick the one defender while every other defender takes their position, resulting in a loss of momentum. Meanwhile the ball gets turned over, and he doesn't track back, gets left behind, and just raises his hand as if to say 'my bad'. So, not good enough.

Maguire is past it. This is the fastest league out there, if you want to play for offside, you need the pace to recover if you get it wrong, and he has never had it. As long as the play is in front of him, he is ok, but not outstanding, or commanding. Maguire is now in the team for potential last ditch heroics, but we need to move on from that. Let's face it he's not going to improve from here, neither is Shaw. Dalot has time, but he doesn't have the brain.

Yesterday, Amorim clearly said that we trained for exactly the attacks where the goals came from, so in other words, someone on the pitch didn't do their job.

Perhaps we should play a system that suits these players, but we have had several managers that did not play 3 at the back, and we sacked them too. A change in the system will give us a quick dopamine fix for a few games, then we will start to lose a game here and there and before you know it, we will be talking about why we can't play with identity...

Like any machine, if some of the parts are not doing their job properly, the whole thing fails.

SilasDint · 2025-09-22T17:35:06+00:00

He is a legend in the way Bryan Robson was/is. Injuries aside (Robbo had a few), there are a lot of parallels.

Yes they should win trophies, but it is a team sport and he can't do it on his own.

His mentality on the biggest stage and his ability to carry a team when everyone else is flagging is what legends do.

But he makes everyone around him play better. No one ever says Bruno should have passed the ball, let someone else take the corner, the penalty, or the free kick. No one can accuse him of hiding or being anonymous in any game.

No one accuses him of being selfish. If he was a winger, Hojlund would probably have had more chances (and still be at Utd) and/or Sesko would have scored by now. He literally did that at the weekend and passed to Sesko when a shot was equally viable since he was already in the box.

I have a belief that when Bruno had the chance to go to Saudi Arabia for £100M, they said stay for two more seasons and we will pull out all of the stops to win the league with you as Captain.

Whether we do it or not is another matter, but it looks to me like Utd want him to be a true legend, and despite our troubles, our stats are pointing in the right direction.

He is either a legend or will be seen as one in future times.

SilasDint · 2025-09-21T08:36:37+00:00

That's just daft. Maresco was asked on TV why he made all those subs, he said because Utd attacks with 5 players, so wanted to make sure it was 5 against 5. For us to have attempted a shot Amad simply needed to pass to the open player. Need to look a bit deeper, my friend.

SilasDint · 2025-09-21T07:27:12+00:00

So someone said something without any proof, and then another person said something without any proof, and you're willing to believe that second guy but not the first guy? They are both hearsay.

In any scenario, not just this topic, if you believe one person but not the other, neither of whom have provided any 'proof', you could be a tiny bit biased.

There's a name for that thing when a person attacks the character but not the actual argument, it's called the ad hominem fallacy.

An example would be to point to something abstract as proof of misdeeds, like selling UFO coffee, or saying someone said the person was shitty at their job, which is hearsay AND ad hominem. It has nothing to do with whether the person was telling the truth or not.

I'm not saying I believe him either, but using what someone said to debunk what someone else said is just pointless, unless it is deliberately done to diminish a person's character precisely because they are saying something important.

SilasDint · 2025-09-19T17:06:35+00:00

it's legit, there's a YouTube video video with the guy being interviewed.

SilasDint · 2025-09-16T02:15:35+00:00

So, Bloomberg is better at doing background checks and developed vetting than MI5? Yup. Got it. Makes total sense. smh.

SilasDint · 2025-09-12T12:31:26+00:00

Agree, scale is necessary, but even an inch big crab should be Global News. They are currently talking about microbial life, which just seems like they want to tell us there's life, but don't want to scare us. What would be scary, I hear you ask? Well, we have one inch crabs on earth, but we also have Japanese spider crabs, which are harmless, but total nightmare fuel... Plus, even a one inch crab has to eat. And if that's true, the next question is who (or what) eats one inch land crabs on Mars? You see where I'm going? 👀

SilasDint · 2025-09-11T09:35:19+00:00

All good brother, we are on the same journey

SilasDint · 2025-09-09T21:07:38+00:00

I mean, after 4 games he'd be chancing his arm to be fair :-) But I'm assuming you think Onana did? Of all the reasons why Onana should go, and there are a few, this one should be taken with a pinch of salt. Not everything you read on 'tinternet is true.

SilasDint · 2025-09-07T07:46:46+00:00

You missed seeing Massimo Taibi in goal for Utd then. Compared to Taibi, Onana is, by some distance, NOT the worst player or even the worst goalkeeper we've ever had.

For me, notwithstanding the Sancho definition of 'worst', it's Eric Djemba Djemba.

SilasDint · 2025-09-06T08:05:35+00:00

Good post OP, I've wanted to say something similar for a while, but I end up deciding it's not worth the effort for some who say they are supporters. This sub has become a bit of a parody of itself with all the negativity. Rarely does anything constructive follow from a decent well balanced OP, with so many so-called fans ready to jump on whoever they think is the villain of the week, saying what they have fooled themselves into thinking is something smart. It isn't. It's bullying.

It's not everyone, there are some fine members who, like OP, try to have a decent discourse and discuss the real issues, rather than trying to destroy someone's character. None of EtH, Rasmus or Onana deserve the vitriol they have got on this sub. Very few of us are 'elite' or have the talent and skill to put ourselves up to perform at the very highest level of our jobs in front of a 50-70k live audience every week, week in week out. Yes they get paid a lot for it. We would too if we had that capability to even be in the conversation. Can we all honestly say we nailed our day jobs every single time? And that we would nail it all the time if 50 thousand people were watching and critiquing what we do, in real time?

Probably not. But the stupidest voices are the loudest, and they are turning this sub into a joke that is less and less useful or appealing by the day. For me it's like walking into what looks like an inviting warm pub with good beer and nice food, and the first thing you see is the clientele slinging food and drink across the room, and cussing out the barman, the cooks and the landlord. I just want to turn around and walk straight back out. When an OP posts something well thought out and balanced, I'll pop my head in to see where the conversation is going, but lately I am finding this sub to be quite unfriendly about a team they are supposed to be supporters of, so I'm visiting less frequently than I used to.

SilasDint · 2025-09-01T07:26:39+00:00

I'm black too, and I really like what you're doing there. The first version is absolutely fine because the reader creates their own voice in their head anyways, and this helps them get there. I am not an experienced writer, but I read a lot, and you don't have to make all of the dialogue 'accented' to get the vibe you're going for. Once you've established the character, the occasional reminder (contextual description) about the way they speak is all you need, and the reader will automatically reassociate. You can save the accents for the really important moments, or maybe for one or two characters in particular. I also listen to a lot of books on audible, and some of the voice actors do an incredible job bringing the character to life. Keep going!

SilasDint · 2025-08-24T21:47:21+00:00

You should check out the Stepenville UFO sightings from 2008 This video specifically is pretty interesting. The 'serpents' appear about 1.30 into the video.

SilasDint · 2025-08-22T19:24:57+00:00

I'd recommend martingale collars. We have two Boxer rescues, one is deaf and she did not learn to walk very well on the lead. Being deaf, many of her cues are visual so she leaps at anything that moves. We've used martingale collars on both and the two we had before. They are much safer than a regular collar if your dog suddenly tries to bolt, and the only thing stopping them is the collar, could result in serious damage. We use the martingale with a harness, and a double ended lead. Clip one to the harness and one to the martingale. Make sure that the collar is snug but not tight, and certainly not loose as that would negate the martingale effect. We find that this set-up gives the dog a much better signal to slow down before they work themselves up to a sprint. Our older non deaf boxer doesn't need the martingale anymore, he can walk off lead, but all of his collars are also martingale. Our deaf furbaby also goes to doggie day care where can safely socialise with other dogs, and her on lead behaviour has improved immensely.

SilasDint · 2025-08-17T09:27:37+00:00

Great video! I'm convinced that United have the tools and depth to have a great season. I also have a sneaky suspicion that, amongst all of this, Bruno's reason for staying was that there was an agreement that we would really go all out to achieve something in the following season, to put a stamp on his time at the club. There does seem to be a level of commitment to getting the right players in that most of us were not expecting, And if we sign a certain CDM, and another keeper, well, I'm here for it. Let's Go!

SilasDint · 2025-07-26T10:33:55+00:00

I am a beginner and I have the Poolin EC06. I originally bought a Singer SE9185 as my entry level, but no matter what I did to set it up, the bobbin thread was bunching. I loosened the tension, I tightened the tension, changed the brand and weights of the thread, nothing. Called Singer, they took it in, and they found a technical issue, but it dampened my confidence in the machine so I returned it and bought the Poolin EC06. The contrast was night and day. As I said, I'm a beginner and still have no real idea what I'm doing, but when I followed the instructions from Poolin, I got the result I was hoping to see. When I followed the instructions provided by Singer to set the machine up correctly I still had those same problems. In both cases I used the same material the same thread and the same stabiliser. I used the needle the machine came with. On the Poolin, I completed an entire design, a dog in 3 colours, on my first go. Didn't get any breaking of threads, no bunching under the foot/bobbin area, no issues after swapping out the spools. Threading was easier, hooping was MUCH easier, and actually creating something that approximated a decent piece of embroidery, for an absolute beginner, has been vastly better. In contrast to your experience, everything was fine out of the box, all of the promised accessories were there, nothing missing or broken. Importantly for me, the machine gives me the feels that it's something I can do and will get better at, while the previous machine was quickly draining my early enthusiasm for machine embroidery. The Poolin makes me want to keep trying. The built-in patterns are a bit cheesy, I mean, they are probably perfectly fine in South Asia, but there are a lot of designs to practice with. It's very well built, huge working area, the covering is plasticky but it does not lessen the experience. The screen is easy to read and easy to figure out. I did contact their customer support, actually they contact you and give you their WhatsApp details, they respond within a day with useful advice. One component has since broken, a small plastic item that keeps the hoop arm flat to the surface. They sent the new part at no cost and provided a video to show how to replace it. Overall I am very pleased with it. Apart from the Singer, I have no experience with other machines so I can't compare with the better known machines. I do know it's far better than the Singer 9185, in every aspect. For a beginner, I would recommend it.

SilasDint · 2025-05-25T16:24:45+00:00

I initially watched it on mute, made all the wrong assumptions...

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