Posts by andin
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– using conventional radio broadcast equipment to deliver data -- isn't without precedent on a technical level, but I don't believe anyone has crafted such a compelling application from the concept.
Wow! just wow that is just outstanding.
I'm back to being a sports apathetic. -
Gilliard always sounded more like an Aussie to me.
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Giovanni, apparently
Ahh the Latin luvver extraordinaire..
Lock up your wimmin folk, for they are not to be trusted, when he is aroused. Oh sorry if its too early n'all. mental images etc...3D TV definitely needs a dedicated AV room.
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Yeah, but to me there's a world of difference between a punch and falling over for effect, which mebbe speaks to differences in human psyches.
No offence n'all.
I'd prefer two refs as a possible solution. -
I'd have thought a good compromise solution would be:
* the referee calls it as he sees it;
* anyone caught out on the TV goes before the football judiciary facing fines, or match bans, or whatever it is that people face in football.
Yep, exactly.That's kind of a rugby solution, there must be a way to sort it out on the night.
Sure a fine/match ban for persistent diving, but most of it is spur of the moment stuff. -
It kept Shakespeare in business for a while, that English treachery.
So Mr Semmens heard of Captain Pugwash's first mate.
I jest.
This jocular sports stuff is kinda fun ...... for a while. -
Diving is, in my opinion, the reason why football will struggle to be taken seriously here and in to an extent in the US
It could mean a change in the rules and it would be odd if the ref blew for a foul and then checked with a video ref and was wrong. What do you do then?
A drop ball?
But Sep Blatter doesnt like that new fangled technology. So figuring out a solution wont happen till he F's off.
And all the psychological stuff about under dogs.... underperforming favourites makes my head hurt. -
Clearly someone for whom a conversion to christianity was the lifeline they needed to pull themselves out of a death spiral
An interesting point you raise sir. But it gloss's over so much that is wrong with the way our unintelligently designed society was cobbled together over the centuries, and is in desperate need of an overhaul, and not by the religious, the privileged or the moneyed, and on a global scale. But it won't happen.
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Seeing as disrespectful derision is somewhat frowned on when it comes to the magical thinking of our fellow beings. Lets just start at the beginning and reveal the sordid beginnings of monotheistic patriarchy.
The Adam and Eve story was an ancient monotheistic (or maybe henotheistic) satire/warning off of goddess worship. "Eve" was one of the names of the goddess Asherah, who was the wife of the high god of the polytheistic Israelites. Asherah (like some other ancient goddesses) was associated with fertility, a sacred fruit tree and snakes, and was often portrayed in the nude in art.
So the Adam and Eve story is saying that, because the first man listened to the goddess and not to the god, he was punished. And by making Eve his wife, punishing her and making her mortal, the satirist degraded her from divine status. Over the centuries, the original divine nature of Eve was forgotten. Then Christians re-interpreted the whole satire into a tale of how Satan, not the goddess (in the form of the talking snake), corrupted humanity.
The Adam and Eve story has absolutely nothing to do with Original Sin or the Eternal Damnation of humanity. Rather, it's how those early desert would-be philosophers claim humanity lost immortality and was punished for worshiping/heeding anyone other than the highest god of ancient Israel.
See I can be good.
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The ear trumpet was better.
And I guess I'm not allowed to slag christians.