England to win Rugby World Cup (sometime in the future)!
Bullshare
- 16 Jan 2015 15:41
Well Dil lets hear it then !!!
Paddy Power current odds:
New Zealand 6/4
England 4/1
South Africa 5/1
Australia 8/1
Ireland 10/1
France 18/1
Wales 20/1
Argentina 66/1
Scotland 100/1
Italy 300/1
Fiji 600/1
Samoa 750/1
Japan 1000/1
Georgia 1000/1
Tonga 1000/1
Canada 1000/1
Romania 2500/1
USA 5000/1
Russia 5000/1
Namibia 5000/1
Too true Mike. I have been willing our friends from the 6N to go on and win. No smug satisfaction at their misfortune from me. Did you get the chance to give Dil's plaque a washing down whilst you were at Twickers?
I was musing at what would have happened if that poor ref had been English. I suspect the delectable Nicola would have seized her chance and demanded an immediate in/out referendum and probably won!
Here's a proper try by one of the boys who works with my kids in the pub when he's not in uni. I keep offering to race him over 50 yards up the lane outside the pub but he always reckons he's injured.
2nd try on clip and it won try of the week. He scored a better one in the first half but they couldn't have caught it on cam.
Are you known for your biting sense of humor? Would your friends call you caustic? Is irony the highest form of verbal art (in your humble opinion)? Then you can also be considered something else besides “sarcastic”: intelligent.
A study out of Harvard Business School finds that sarcasm is the “highest form of intelligence.” The study’s authors delved into “the cognitive experiences of sarcastic expressers and recipients or their behavioral implications” to test and see if sarcasm is a mode of higher thinking.
In two studies, they found that the sassy among us were causing more conflict, but were also demonstrating “enhanced creativity” after following a mock sarcastic conversation or recalling a sarcastic exchange.
In a third study, they found that sarcasm enhanced creativity in the form of abstract thinking. You’ve got to work hard for those jokes, folks. And in a fourth study, they discovered “when participants expressed sarcasm toward or received sarcasm from a trusted other, creativity increased but conflict did not.” Which is fascinating because it implies that you might not be mad at the jokes cracked by the most sharp witted person in the office if you already like that person.
What’s even more interesting, is that our ability to detect sarcasm also says something about our IQ. According to The Smithsonian, “Studies have shown that exposure to sarcasm enhances creative problem solving.” They also found that the brain works even better when it gets sarcasm: “Scientists who have monitored the electrical activity of the brains of test subjects exposed to sarcastic statements have found that brains have to work harder to understand sarcasm.”
So, our suggestion is not to flee from the most sarcastic person in your work life. They may be good for your brain and enhancing your creativity!