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

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!

England coach Lancaster resigns after World Cup failure

I thought Lancaster was the best player England had.

Mind Burgess seemed to have settled down quite nicely!

Bit gutted about Lancaster leaving , going to be hard to find another useless twat as bad as him but I'm sure you'll manage it xxx

Exec post 152 ... it's official then ,I'm MAM's answer to Einstein !


:-)

Forgot about Burgess Fred ... he could come good in the six nations and make a few of us me included look stupid.

.... or he could just piss off back to RL to the detriment of the whole rugby world except England.

I liked him :-)

Jonah Lomu: New Zealand rugby union great dies aged 40

Sad.

A beautiful athlete.

Seems, to have been a nice guy as well.

But, if I was trying to mark him, I would have had to have had a piece of chalk in my hand to mark the way he went.

So sad about Lomu.

Yes so young and a one of the good guys.

New England coach. Ugg

Back to the dark ages

Letting another immigrant in?

Won't make any difference Wales will still win the 5 Nations.

And don't talk about Warren.

He said he had just come home when he arrived in Wales.

Dil's gone missing from the footy thread (can't think why), when he turns up here again tips us the wink will ya? -):