Posts by giovanni tiso
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I wonder how much FIFA profits from the on-field theatrics?
Huh? How?
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It's what happens already in the case of violent play or simulation. Not hand ball.
Example: Tassotti elbowed a Spanish player in the quarter final of the 1994 WC, the ref didn't see it, but the TV did. Tassotti was suspended for eight matches and that meant the end of his international career. Not much consolation for Spain however.
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And yes, apparently World Cup class football is a cynical game of professional diving, as practiced by nearly everybody.
I liked it the other day when the Chilean striker (I forget his name) dived in the penalty box, was booked by the ref and proceeded to congratulate him. As if to say "yeah, you got me. Fair enough bro!"
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Nah, that was his own pet project. He liked tinkering in the old shed. (Again, though, he did that with plenty of political oversight and an explicit mandate. That is not the issue that people have with genetic modification.)
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Well I know that my bosses would prefer that this was true, but it isn't. One of the most frustrating things about managing scientists is that we actually don't give much of a rats arse about commercial goals.
With all due respect, I'm going to maintain a certain dose of scepticism concerning your ability to operate independently of those goals. Not that there's anything wrong with that per se.
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Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Bob McCoskrie is from Krypton.
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Whilst we're on the subject, could I ask a linguistic question to you all? The Herald is asking its readers if Key did the right thing in apologising to the Chinese, in an article entitled Should John Key have apologised to the Chinese delegation?. But if you read that headline without knowing the story, wouldn't you assume that he hadn't in fact apologised?
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What rubbish. I recorded that segment, re-watched it many times in slow motion and freeze-framed the best angles and you couldn't make out a thing.
You couldn't see the dangling bits because you don't have the obsessive attention to prurient detail of a Family Firster - it's like having Super Vision for cock and such like.
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Although, I have to say that that example is faulty
That example is faulty because "go back to Kenya" is not to the right wing what "Tibet independence" is to the left, I would hope. I don't know what a right winger could shout at Obama - I try not to think about that sort of stuff - but it would have to be better than a racial slur to incite our sympathies surely.
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What compounded Collins for me
"Compounded Collins" would be a great name for a cocktail.
As you were.