User:Iancaddy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Babel and Beliefs
en This user is a native speaker of English.
4 This user thinks BBC Radio 4 is worth the licence fee alone.
This user does not appreciate tobacco smoke.

Hello and welcome to my page. I'm expanding it with a few pretty userboxes of, at the moment, a non-polemical nature and having discovered just how cool some of the pictures of the day are that's here too.

I'm a budding amateur on Wikipedia and generally I just correct things that I notice are wrong or read badly when browsing through, e.g. typos. I also add little bits of knowledge where I can and update articles where needed. I also like to have my say in deletion discussions etc.. I'm beginning to branch out into writing articles from scratch but, with over a million on here, I struggle to find things that aren't covered and that I might have a slim chance of understanding were I to research them.

If you disagree with anything I've written then please do say although if there's anything controversial I'll more than likely have written about it on the relevant discussion page. Or you could just write me a note to say hello. You could even write it in a different language to help me expand on my pathetic linguistic ability - I only have it up there to put myself to shame in the hope that I do something about it.


Picture of the day
Types of mustard

A collage of six mustard images: Seeds of the mustard plant (top left) may be ground (top right) to make different kinds of mustard. The four mustards pictured are a simple table mustard with turmeric coloring (center left), a Bavarian sweet mustard (center right), a Dijon mustard (lower left), and a rough French mustard made mainly from black mustard seeds (lower right).

Image credit: Rainer Zenz
ArchiveMore featured pictures...



I'm from the which, for better and for worse, is in the and also in the and I've been to or lived...
...for this long... ...in these countries... ...and these places...
Just passing through
A few days Image:North flagproposal1111.JPG
5 days +
10 days +
15 days +
3 weeks +
3 months +
3 years +

Idea and layout pilfered from Lcarsdata, who took it
from NeilTarrant, who purloined it from A bit iffy,
who half-inched it from Calton, who filched it
from Salsb, who stole it from Guettarda,
who borrowed it from White Cat.


[edit] Just a bit of fun... 2006 World Cup

Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                           
24 June - Munich            
 Flag of Germany Germany  3
30 June - Berlin
 Flag of Sweden Sweden  1  
 Flag of Germany Germany (pen)  0 (4)
24 June - Leipzig
   Flag of Argentina Argentina  0 (3)  
 Flag of Argentina Argentina  2
4 July - Dortmund
 Flag of Portugal Portugal  0  
 Flag of Germany Germany  2
26 June - Kaiserslautern
   Flag of Tunisia Tunisia  1  
 Flag of Ghana Ghana  3
30 June - Hamburg
 Flag of Croatia Croatia (AET)  4  
 Flag of Croatia Croatia  1
26 June - Cologne
   Flag of Tunisia Tunisia  2  
 Flag of France France  1
9 July - Berlin
 Flag of Tunisia Tunisia (AET)  2  
 Flag of Germany Germany  2
25 June - Stuttgart
   Flag of England England (AET)  4
 Flag of England England  3
1 July - Gelsenkirchen
 Flag of Poland Poland  1  
 Flag of England England (AET)  3
25 June - Nuremberg
   Flag of Côte d'Ivoire Côte d'Ivoire  2  
 Flag of Mexico Mexico  1
5 July - Munich
 Flag of Côte d'Ivoire Côte d'Ivoire  2  
 Flag of England England  2
27 June - Dortmund
   Flag of Brazil Brazil  1   Third place
 Flag of Brazil Brazil  2
1 July - Frankfurt 8 July - Stuttgart
 Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic  1  
 Flag of Brazil Brazil  1  Flag of Brazil Brazil  2
27 June - Hannover
   Flag of Spain Spain  0    Flag of Tunisia Tunisia (AET)  3
 Flag of Spain Spain (pen)  1 (3)
 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland  1 (2)  


Mmm, an intriguing set of predictions... does my mind really think that this could happen? Of course, any similarities between one of the scorelines here and that of the 1966 World Cup Final are purely coincidental. And somewhat optimistic as well.