The Beautiful Game
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1200mm Bah! Piker! poseur! Wannabe! http://www.rcopticalsystems.com/32inch.html[^] Focal ratio is apparently configurable, but probably no less than ~4000mm the minimum ~8000mm for a 'typical' (in as much as it can apply to custom optics) configuration.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
I'm tempted. I just need to find a lens case large enough...
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Paul Watson wrote:
Funny how your name is Diego[^]... Football eh?
:laugh: No one would remember that goal if it wasn't an aberration. I remain valid, therefore. ;) Oh, btw, as a Brazilian I agree with the British that it shows that cheating is the typical Argentinean football style.
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
hehe. The problem is so many other sports are called Football too (American Football. Gaelic Football. Rugby Football. Australian Rules Football.) Nothing else is called Soccer though. And where I grew up, South Africa, it is called Soccer even by the players.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Paul Watson wrote:
Funny how your name is Diego[^]... Football eh?
:laugh: No one would remember that goal if it wasn't an aberration. I remain valid, therefore. ;) Oh, btw, as a Brazilian I agree with the British that it shows that cheating is the typical Argentinean football style.
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
Diego Moita wrote:
Oh, btw, as a Brazilian I agree with the British that it shows that cheating is the typical Argentinean football style.
Yeah but as a Brazillian you'd agree with anything anti-Argentinian... ;) Plus the Argie Bargies just know how to play to the ref, not the rules. Every great team knows to play the ref. Much as I hate it.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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That's because it is the Rugby school version of Football. Although the whole William Webb Ellis picking the ball up and running with it to create the game is probably urban legend, it's why Rugby is sometimes called (Rugby) football. It's like Fives - there's a version of that called Rugby Fives, and that's 'cos it was the flavour they invented (?) at the school. I think I might be arguing a completely different point here...
Regardless, its still named Rugby football.
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This picture[^] sums up soccer to me. (from here[^].)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
You have a strange definition of the word "beautiful"...
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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I'm tempted. I just need to find a lens case large enough...
Graham Bradshaw wrote:
I just need to find a lens case large enough...
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: More like a pier sunk into bedrock....
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
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This picture[^] sums up soccer to me. (from here[^].)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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You have a strange definition of the word "beautiful"...
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
Not my definition. They call it The Beautiful Game. No idea why.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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This picture[^] sums up soccer to me. (from here[^].)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
:laugh: Football is such a wussy game. And in cricket we have ball tampering, match fixing, and coach murdering.... :doh:
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
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This picture[^] sums up soccer to me. (from here[^].)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
No offense, but that looks like two mentally challenged guys dancing together. ;P
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.
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Judging by the guys lined up at these games I'd say a Canon 600mm f/4L at $6000 a pop. Might have been a lucky side-line shot with a 70-200mm though... hard to tell where the photo was taken from. Line on the pitch would suggest from either end of the pitch rather than the side-lines, but it may be the penalty box line. Either way, yeah, nice lens.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
the lights in that stadium must be realllllly bright.
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hehe. The problem is so many other sports are called Football too (American Football. Gaelic Football. Rugby Football. Australian Rules Football.) Nothing else is called Soccer though. And where I grew up, South Africa, it is called Soccer even by the players.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
And how many of them primarily use feet rather than hands for moving the ball around (even when the ball ain't ball shaped)??? Yeah, that'll be the one true football :-D
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Not my definition. They call it The Beautiful Game. No idea why.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Paul Watson wrote:
They call it The Beautiful Game. No idea why.
If you'd watched the Spain-Russia game, you'd have seen why - the Spanish attacking play was brilliant. Or if you've seen your team pull themselves back from ridiculous positions to win, showing how much heart they've got...yeah, that's what it's all about.
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This picture[^] sums up soccer to me. (from here[^].)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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digital man wrote:
1: It's FOOTBALL.
I don't know why people don't understand it. It is about conducing a real ball (a sphere like in every other sport) using mostly the foot. I mean, in the U.S./Canada they use the word "football" for a game played mostly by using hands to carry/throw a thing that looks like a small zeppelin or an ostrich egg. Why don't they call it "handzeppelin" or something like that? ;P
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
Diego Moita wrote:
I don't know why people don't understand it. It is about conducing a real ball (a sphere like in every other sport) using mostly the foot.
Since you can use other parts of your body, shouldn't it be called "no-hands ball?" I think Soccer is a training ground for American place kickers. :laugh:
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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Diego Moita wrote:
I don't know why people don't understand it. It is about conducing a real ball (a sphere like in every other sport) using mostly the foot.
Since you can use other parts of your body, shouldn't it be called "no-hands ball?" I think Soccer is a training ground for American place kickers. :laugh:
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
Oakman wrote:
Since you can use other parts of your body, shouldn't it be called "no-hands ball?"
Perhaps, but football is just as much appropriate and easier.
Oakman wrote:
I think Soccer is a training ground for American place kickers.
Judging by the grown-ups performance, I think they don't learn anything. ;P
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
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Diego Moita wrote:
Oh, btw, as a Brazilian I agree with the British that it shows that cheating is the typical Argentinean football style.
Yeah but as a Brazillian you'd agree with anything anti-Argentinian... ;) Plus the Argie Bargies just know how to play to the ref, not the rules. Every great team knows to play the ref. Much as I hate it.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Paul Watson wrote:
Yeah but as a Brazillian you'd agree with anything anti-Argentinian...
Why not? Do you say it as a bad thing? :cool:
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
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:laugh: Football is such a wussy game. And in cricket we have ball tampering, match fixing, and coach murdering.... :doh:
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
coach murdering
You're not serious, are you? :omg:
"Every time Lotus Notes starts up, somewhere a puppy, a kitten, a lamb, and a baby seal are killed. Lotus Notes is a conspiracy by the forces of Satan to drive us over the brink into madness. The CRC-32 for each file in the installation includes the numbers 666." Gary Wheeler "You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer "I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
coach murdering
You're not serious, are you? :omg:
"Every time Lotus Notes starts up, somewhere a puppy, a kitten, a lamb, and a baby seal are killed. Lotus Notes is a conspiracy by the forces of Satan to drive us over the brink into madness. The CRC-32 for each file in the installation includes the numbers 666." Gary Wheeler "You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer "I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon
He's talking about the alleged murder of Bob Woolmer (who died shortly after his Pakistani team crashed out of the cricket world cup at the hands of that cricketing giant Ireland). Initially, the Jamaican police claimed he had been murdered - eventually his death was ruled to be of natural causes. Now, in the world of football - the murder of players and coaches has been known, especially among nations like Columbia.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Oakman wrote:
Since you can use other parts of your body, shouldn't it be called "no-hands ball?"
Perhaps, but football is just as much appropriate and easier.
Oakman wrote:
I think Soccer is a training ground for American place kickers.
Judging by the grown-ups performance, I think they don't learn anything. ;P
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
Diego Moita wrote:
Perhaps, but football is just as much appropriate and easier.
Which is why we call our game football, too.
Diego Moita wrote:
Judging by the grown-ups performance, I think they don't learn anything
Judging by their paychecks, I think they learn everything needful.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
