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It's the 6th then; you'll have to start using Revitalift and Age Reperfect and other nonwords! They're nice, I think of them as creamy polyfilla.

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smorgsie-

I was only trying to give you some good advice in a manner you might remember it. I don't see why you should be mad at me. You don't have to take it. I don't mind even if you think its bad advice. I just think it is good advice to not waste your scarce resources in case you need them for a rainy day and if the rainy day never comes- good.

I think you are mad at yourself.

I see Mac is whistling in the wind again.

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Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derision
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation

Oh yeah. He might be taking the piss though.

Clary- what's an Aquarian Ascendant? Is she a go-er?

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If you would vouchsafe me your date and time of birth i could tell you what YOUR ascendant was, and whether you were a goer or not, although I suppose you know that already.

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I think I know just about everything I need to know at this juncture.

Stay clear of women is my advice.

It might not be very macho but at least it doesn't leave you staked out in the burning sun with the vultures pecking at your liver and with a microwave to console you it is not so bad considering given the conundrum your Mom and Pa presented you with in the moment of your original manifestation which, I presume, they weren't all that enthusiastic about.

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Are any of you folks watching the Super Bowl?

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No-one watched Germany win the world championship in handball neither, Tico :wink:

(It was on here, though, but too late for me .... after following a couple of football matches and the handball game enough tv-sports as well.)

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Ticomaya wrote:

Are any of you folks watching the Super Bowl?

Some people do follow American sports here, but they're not carried on any of the major TV channels.

I'm guessing, that the Super Bowl is A. Football and the so-called World Series is your baseball game?

Basketball, baseball and American football feature here hardly at all. Neither does ice hockey. But we enjoy watching the razzmatazz on our news programmes.

I had a friend here who liked baseball and he used to sit up late at night to watch/listen to games but he's dead now.

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Ticomaya wrote:

Are any of you folks watching the Super Bowl?

Hey Tico, didn't Prince perform at the opening ceremony or something? Did you watch it? I don't need to ask if he was any good cos he's always good but I need to see it myself somehow.

x

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spendius wrote:

smorgsie-

I was only trying to give you some good advice in a manner you might remember it. I don't see why you should be mad at me. You don't have to take it. I don't mind even if you think its bad advice. I just think it is good advice to not waste your scarce resources in case you need them for a rainy day and if the rainy day never comes- good.

I think you are mad at yourself.

I see Mac is whistling in the wind again.

Quote:
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derision
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation

Oh yeah. He might be taking the piss though.

Clary- what's an Aquarian Ascendant? Is she a go-er?

I think if she wants or needs your advice spendy, she'll ask for it.

She also knows that life is too short too huddle miserly over your last tenner "just in case" your ******* boiler breaks.

Knobhead.

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spendius wrote:

I see Mac is whistling in the wind again.

Quote:
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derision
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation

Oh yeah. He might be taking the piss though.

Not taking the piss, oh no. Just remembering the words of that nostalgic song.

Who remembers who wrote "Hair"? Galt McDermott I think, the music at least. Good stuff.

Let the sun shine in. This means you.

McT

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Dorothy Parker wrote:

Ticomaya wrote:
Are any of you folks watching the Super Bowl?

Hey Tico, didn't Prince perform at the opening ceremony or something? Did you watch it? I don't need to ask if he was any good cos he's always good but I need to see it myself somehow.

x

Yes, he performed during the half-time ceremony. I heard reports from various folks that he was very good, but I wasn't watching.

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Ticomaya wrote:

Are any of you folks watching the Super Bowl?

Sorry, Tico, but it was on during the night here, so the vast majority of the population were either enjoying rumpy or sleeping.
Saying that, even if it were on during the day, I personally would have probably just had a quick look now and then.
I did actually try to watch one about five years ago, but instead of seeing a sporting contest, all I seemed to see were short interludes of play, more stop than start, followed by endless minutes of TV advertising and various bits of razzamatazz.
Am I right in thinking that the actual game only lasts for about an hour?
If this is so, it would be interesting to learn how long it was from the initial kick off, to the final whistle.

Here, at the weekend, we had a major "needle" Rugby game of England v Scotland.
Exciting stuff going on for a continuous 40 minutes, uninterrupted by Coca Cola et al., then a short break for half time, followed by another 40 minutes of uninterrupted tense savagery, culminating in a good win for England and the man of the match (Johnny Wilkinson) having to have 14 stitches put into a split lip.

Now THERE'S entertainment.

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Lord Ellpus wrote:

Sorry, Tico, but it was on during the night here, so the vast majority of the population were either enjoying rumpy or sleeping.

Well, it was live on here, from 11pm onwards - on the football channel (pay tv, we've got it, but only to watch reall football: German 1rst and 2nd Bundesliga, Primera Division, Serie A and from coming summer onwards Barclays Premiership as well).

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

Lord Ellpus wrote:
Sorry, Tico, but it was on during the night here, so the vast majority of the population were either enjoying rumpy or sleeping.

Well, it was live on here, from 11pm onwards - on the football channel (pay tv, we've got it, but only to watch reall football: German 1rst and 2nd Bundesliga, Primera Division, Serie A and from coming summer onwards Barclays Premiership as well).

11pm in Germany would be 10pm in the UK, Walter?
Precisely the time on a Sunday evening when the majority of the nation starts to turn their minds towards making a hot choccie and curling up with "The life and times of Jade Goody", or breaking open the tube of raspberry scented massage oil.

Of course, there would still be a few of us thinking about starting to watch an unintelligable sporting match that is likely to go on for four hours or so, but even the vast majority of THOSE would be fast asleep in front of said match by about midnight, methinks.

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DP wrote-

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I think if she wants or needs your advice spendy, she'll ask for it.

She also knows that life is too short too huddle miserly over your last tenner "just in case" your **** boiler breaks.

Knobhead.

And if I want your advice I'll ask for it although that is a most unlikely possibility seeing as how you said life was "****" not so long back.

And life is not short. And I don't huddle miserly over my last tenner either.

I think it is good advice to put something by for a rainy day. I didn't say everything. It is the usual English way of going about things.

And boilers do break and there are back up systems for when they do.

But your mode of discourse is such as to justify my earlier advice to steer clear of women. They were well known as the "ball and chain" even before this new militant, petulant, self righteous mutation blossomed forth in the hothouse of lady-media for purely commercial reasons.

A happily married couple have one TV licence, read one newspaper, have one of each of the machines etc etc etc whereas the singles double the number of those items of expenditure. Good innit?

You're a marketing ploy on a grand scale.

As far as I'm concerned the modern young lady can shift for herself. She's just too much bloody trouble and strife to balance up the odd moment of glory once in a while.

Your worshippers can suit themselves.

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I imagine it's a bit like soccer over here ... the vast majority of the people who see a game of soccer don't understand it, so they don't find it interesting .... like me watching cricket. Now, I understand soccer, so I can be enthralled with a nil-nil result, if the play was good, but most here would not -- because there's no scoring. There's no gratification if there's no scoring.

I understand football, so I find it interesting ... even though the clock stops every few seconds, and each offensive play is scripted. An NFL football game is divided into 4 quarters of 15 minutes each, so there are 60 minutes of actual playing time. I'm not sure how long last night's game went, but with timeouts, commercials, halftime, stopping the clock after a missed throw, etc., the games often stretch to 3-4 hours. And there's always the possibility of overtime.

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Tico-

I watched it, or some of it, in the pub.

If the general idea is for the opposition not to know where the ball is, as we all assumed, then how does the spectator? By the time anything significant is seen of the ball it's all over with.

What's the injury rate? How many operations or ,say, four week periods on the sidelines.

You'll have to hope that David Beckham lights a fire and then you can take your rightful place on the honour's list of the World Cup after a unfaked tough game with Italy or Argentina.

We watched for about an hour and I never saw a player so much as scratched never mind bleeding and comatose as is a common sight in our sport. I didn't hear any booing either. It seems quite genteel all in all. Not as much as ballet but on the way.

Perhaps I'm mistaken but that's the general impression.

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Yes. Some might say our sports are a little more civilized over here. We insist on protective helmets, pads, and what not for our football. And, yes, I suspect NFL fans tend to display a bit more decorum than the out-of-control mobs you might find at a typical soccer game in Europe.

That being said, I reckon my chances of getting injured playing a game of American tackle football, pads and all, are roughly a 1000 times higher than my chances of getting injured playing a game of soccer.

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Ticomaya wrote:

Yes. Some might say our sports are a little more civilized over here. We insist on protective helmets, pads, and what not for our football. And, yes, I suspect NFL fans tend to display a bit more decorum than the out-of-control mobs you might find at a typical soccer game in Europe.

That being said, I reckon my chances of getting injured playing a game of American tackle football, pads and all, are roughly a 1000 times higher than my chances of getting injured playing a game of soccer.

You obviously don't have any budding Vinnie Jones's over there, Tico.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b358/lordellpus/vj_pg.jpg

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I don't keep a track of these things but I would estimate that at least 10% of the top 300 soccer players here are on the injury list at any one time.

There are a good few of our best cricket 11 who are out of the game for long periods. Jones looks to be finished. Vaughan nearly so. Pieterson six weeks, Flintoff's ankle. Harmison's back. Anderson plays one sits one out.
Giles is recuperating. Hoggard's out and Trescothick.

Pakistan have similar problems.

Injury is caused by flat out, and more, effort. Nothing else.

If Tico reckons-

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I reckon my chances of getting injured playing a game of American tackle football, pads and all, are roughly a 1000 times higher than my chances of getting injured playing a game of soccer.

I would suggest he is playing well within himself.

The question was how many top players in American football are on the injury list at any one time. That's the measure of how tough a game is when it's played with real passion.

I think we vaguely suspect Tico that your football is analagous to your wrestling and we threw wrestling out years ago on account of how silly it was.

Another question I would like to ask is how many of your players are of the build of a Ryan Giggs type? What's their average weight and height?

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