Coop wishes everyone a happy Madness Day, while congratulating:
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Listening to:
Limp Bizkit - Livin' It Up
Faithless - Insomnia
Nickelback - How You Remind Me
Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight
Thank you to:
Legnus
At 9/21/11 08:21 AM, Bahamut wrote:
At 9/21/11 03:18 AM, Coop wrote:
At 9/20/11 07:34 AM, Bahamut wrote:
Let's face it, it will be black.
You've got more chance of me dying my beard gold.
Now that's something to show at the Manchester meet.
Did I say beard - I meant pubes. The beard is something I might actually take dye to - you cant' rule something like that out, when you're only 28, after all.
There may be good songs but the horrid ones ruin the concept album experience.
Maybe it's just me being biased then.
Actually, I could be biased as well. I'm saying the album isn't good based on some horrible tracks but my defence is that it's a concept album and that experience is ruined if there's songs you don't even want to touch ever again.
I think that it's something that I can quite happily blend in with the rest of the 1500 tracks on my iPod and I can skip if I want to. Just depends on the mood.
At 9/21/11 03:53 PM, Auz wrote:
At 9/20/11 02:58 AM, Coop wrote:
At 9/19/11 03:31 PM, Auz wrote:
Being an ex-football player I don't really know what that's like. We only have 15 minute breaks and some people on my team already had trouble staying sharp after that...
Yeah, but look at Wayne Rooney and Fernando Torres in the Man U - Chelsea match last weekend. Awful penalty miss, awful open goal miss.
Lol at Rooney. I don't think I've ever seen anyone taking a penalty and hitting his own foot before :p
As for Torres, my God... that was just terrible. I saw some more pretty big misses in the game. Namely the ones by Ramires early on in the match and Javier Hernández near the end. For Hernández that chance came out of nowhere so might not have counted on it, but Ramires should've scored that one.
Well, it'll be interesting to see how the players carry on around those misses. I suspect that Rooney won't care, because one good thing about being a Neanderthal is that he has a short memory span.
Yeah I found it amazing how weird that bowler could make the ball bounce off the ground. I guess they make the field extra smooth for that in professional games.
Smooth is the wrong word. Sure, they cut the grass really short and they roll it a lot, so that the ground is hard, but the surface is quite abrasive and the ball starts to lose shine, from bouncing off it. You can have a new ball after 80 overs, which is 480 deliveries, not counting the times when you bowl a wide or no-ball, which adds one delivery.
I've helped to prepare the wicket for my team, which we do in a combined time of about 10 man-hours. County and International standard pitches probably take 5-10 times that much work. Cut it 5-6 times, each time getting closer to the "scalp", then roll it about as many times, with a 5 tonne roller and put the equipment away, disposing of the cuttings etc. Bring out the marking frame and line it up using all manner of contraptions, to ensure it's 22 yards from middle stump to middle stump. Paint the lines in, mark the stump holes.
Finally, mark the boundary and if you're playing on a Saturday, mark the inner circle out, 30 yards from middle stump at either end and straight lines between the two semi-circles. The players can move sight-screens and boundary markers into position.
Sounds like quite a lot of work :p On our football fields there was a just a guy who repainted the lines like once every few months and the grass was cut like twice a year and was probably kept short by the football players anyway with all that sliding and stomping they do on the pitch.
If everyone pitches in (sorry, that pun was awful), we can get it done in no time at all.
"Hey uh... Coop. We need a fourth player for our card game."
Pretty much. I'm hoping for inconvenience on the part of a friend's anniversary.
It's gotta be a pretty good reason though if it has to be more important than a weading.
But with the circumstances, I'd be willing to make an appointment to go elsewhere and wash my hair. ANything will be better than that.
At 9/21/11 03:56 PM, Addict wrote:
question for you hardcore internet stat folks - has NG made you socially awkward?
Not really - I've come to accept my geeky / nerdish side and I still play games like D&D. If people don't accept you, that's their problem. I just make sure that I don't tell the people I play cricket with about it - they wouldn't understand.
don't delete this post it's just a question which forms discussion which is good in a thread as useless as this.
Don't tell the mods what to do ;)
At 9/21/11 03:59 PM, SCTE3 wrote:
At 9/21/11 03:18 AM, Coop wrote:
Listening to:
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Good song, Plug In Baby and Hysteria are also good songs.
I only have Knights and Plug in Baby on my iTunes :P
At 9/20/11 09:41 AM, SCTE3 wrote:
At 9/20/11 02:58 AM, Coop wrote:
Being the older brother, I only swapped my PS2 with my little brother's, when mine started to give me a bit of gyp with disc reading. He never noticed.
Heh, I did have aanother PS2 but my dad gave that to someone he dated and broke up with a few years ago. Let me tell you, she wasn't the nicest person in the world....
Ouch - nice way to lose electrical goods.
Not really, she went to court system and stuff for unrelated stuff.
Wow, what a bitch.
We'll see. I'm aiming to get myself sorted with that and find a steady diet of flash, to tide me over.
Ahh, I see. Whenever I vote on something in the portal, I'll watch it again if it passes and I liked it so I can give it a good review.
I know there are loads of quality pieces that I can review, but I never seem to have time to review them afterwards. FLying visits to the portal FTL :(
Well I hope yo ucan continue to review in free time anyways. Found a couple the other day that I reviewed. Does it ever annoy you that sometimes when writing a helpful constructive review that people will vote it as useless simply because they don't want to read it?
I really couldn't care less - if they want to be dicks like that, let them. I know that it's useful, it's just whether or not the author wants to make use of the review. I prefer writing reviews that get responses.
*shudders* No, better yet *messes up style slightly*
Why would you do that?
Oh come on. I'm 28. There's no way on earth I want to look like Hairy Pothead
Ahh I see then. Which makes me think, Harry Pothead was humorous game back in the day I think.
I'm not sure - I just use it as a parody name, much like Barry Trotter or the Soddit.
At 9/22/11 04:37 AM, reverend wrote:
At 9/21/11 03:18 AM, Coop wrote:
It's not the sort of sport for playing indoors - the game becomes a little crap on highly polished floors... especially when even I can hit fours, by smacking it off the wall.
I thought we were talking about rugby. Yeah cricket wouldn't work but it would be fun to have it bounce off one wall to hit another.
Confusing conversations between you and Auz, I think. Not to worry. I've seen Arena Football League and that's just silly.
Ah yes. The gesture of solidarity for my cancer-riddled bretheren.
Maybe you can get in free at Disney world or get a pity date from some hot chick.
Pity sex with the terminally ill. Is this spoken from experience? *raises eyebrow*