The Beautiful Game
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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.
1: It's FOOTBALL. 2: The best games, ever, were those where we got caked in sticky mud or a freezing wet day on Hackney Marches or the Hampstead extension. The facilities were mostly old horse troughs filled with freezing filthy water. You could still do sliding tackles and bone crunchers. Ah, those were the days when you could take someone out. Memories.
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1: It's FOOTBALL. 2: The best games, ever, were those where we got caked in sticky mud or a freezing wet day on Hackney Marches or the Hampstead extension. The facilities were mostly old horse troughs filled with freezing filthy water. You could still do sliding tackles and bone crunchers. Ah, those were the days when you could take someone out. Memories.
digital man wrote:
1: It's FOOTBALL.
It's both.
digital man wrote:
Ah, those were the days when you could take someone out. Memories.
Yeah, exactly, memories. Now it is a bunch of overpaid poofters crying foul when their coiffed hair is misplaced by a breeze.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Prolly because you called it soccer rather than football. Because as the picture clearly illustrates only the "foot" is involved in the game. :rolleyes:
LOL. In this case the foot isn't even involved. More a case of hand-ripping-jersey off.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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1: It's FOOTBALL. 2: The best games, ever, were those where we got caked in sticky mud or a freezing wet day on Hackney Marches or the Hampstead extension. The facilities were mostly old horse troughs filled with freezing filthy water. You could still do sliding tackles and bone crunchers. Ah, those were the days when you could take someone out. Memories.
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.
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LOL. In this case the foot isn't even involved. More a case of hand-ripping-jersey off.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Paul Watson wrote:
More a case of hand-ripping-jersey off.
in the wet and mud... perhaps women are no longer holding the monopoly on the mud wrestling industry.
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
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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.
:laugh: :laugh: awesome.
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
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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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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.
600mm? Pah! Get one of these[^]
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600mm? Pah! Get one of these[^]
:)
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.
It's both.
digital man wrote:
Ah, those were the days when you could take someone out. Memories.
Yeah, exactly, memories. Now it is a bunch of overpaid poofters crying foul when their coiffed hair is misplaced by a breeze.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Paul Watson wrote:
bunch of overpaid poofters crying foul when their coiffed hair is misplaced by a breeze
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. (Charles M Strauss)
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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.
The same way Rugby is also called football.
"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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Paul Watson wrote:
More a case of hand-ripping-jersey off.
in the wet and mud... perhaps women are no longer holding the monopoly on the mud wrestling industry.
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
i probably lost man points for posting that.
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
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Paul Watson wrote:
bunch of overpaid poofters crying foul when their coiffed hair is misplaced by a breeze
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. (Charles M Strauss)
Mladen Jankovic wrote:
Look [^] again[^]! [Roll eyes]
Yeah, sucks to be a soccer player[^].
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.
Funny how your name is Diego[^]... Football eh?
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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i probably lost man points for posting that.
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
You know, I wanted to comment but I decided that silence was the best in this case... I wonder what JSOP has to say when he reads this...
"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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Funny how your name is Diego[^]... Football eh?
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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.
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The same way Rugby is also called football.
"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
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...
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600mm? Pah! Get one of these[^]
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
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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.
