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Zzippy · 16-10-2016 01:16AM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

This Kabaddi sport on Sky Sports Mix at the moment is mental. It appears to be competitive hand holding with the occasional rugby tackle thrown in.

It's mad looking, couldn't figure it out at all!

Stheno wrote: »

I've a mild concussion, there is a hole in our boat and the other boat is a bit mangled

We're hoping we get our boat fixed this week to race again next week :pac:

Ouch, hope you're ok!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 16-10-2016 01:23AM

Zzippy wrote: »

It's mad looking, couldn't figure it out at all!

It looks like something you'd invent in the school yard in primary school. Still, looked like a bigger crowd than an Edinburgh home game.

pickarooney · 16-10-2016 07:37AM

The runners have to hold their breath all the way. Must be a hard enough game.

errlloyd · 16-10-2016 02:21PM

Felix Jones is God wrote: »

Oh, hang on, so you have to give way to boats coming on your left? Is there blame being attached by anyone? I'm guessing boat repairs are saucy

It's not quite boats coming from your left. The two main rules which dictate right of way for sailboats are Port / Starboard and Windward / Leeward.

So you have to give way if you're on Port tack and they're on Starboard track. Being on Port tack means the wind is coming from your left side, and so actually going into the wind it means the people you're trying to avoid will be coming from your right hand side.

It is possible that both boats will be on the same tack and still on a collision course. (imagine two boats sailing alongside each other but not quite perfectly parallel). In that case the windward boat must avoid.

The thing about these rules is they're designed to avoid crashes, obviously. But they're used to create strategic advantage in races. So you'll often have boats getting very close together in order to force each other to avoid, and occasionally it all goes expensively tits up.

Felix Jones is God · 16-10-2016 02:28PM

I think today's news requires a few stiff drinks

swiwi_ · 16-10-2016 06:27PM

Out at the local pizzeria. My daughter asks for pineapple. I rest Molloy's case.

molloyjh · 16-10-2016 06:31PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

Out at the local pizzeria. My daughter asks for pineapple. I rest Molloy's case.

How do you disown children in Swiss law?

irishbucsfan · 16-10-2016 06:33PM

molloyjh wrote: »

How do you disown children in Swiss law?

drop them off at the French border with a block of cheese and a bottle of red wine.

16-10-2016 06:34PM

Felix Jones is God wrote: »

I think today's news requires a few stiff drinks

I've got the 2006 Heinekin Cup Final ready to go on you tube when the kids go to bed and am about to pick up a bottle of Red Breast.

swiwi_ · 16-10-2016 06:51PM

molloyjh wrote: »

How do you disown children in Swiss law?

Simples. "Daddy may I go to the toilet?" "Sure".

Then we made a bolt for the door.

pickarooney · 17-10-2016 05:53AM

Did you put the bolt on the outside?

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 18-10-2016 11:11PM

Aston Villa won at Reading tonight. First away win in 437 days.

kuang1 · 18-10-2016 11:26PM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Aston Villa won at Reading tonight. First away win in 437 days.

1st match under new manager too (Steve Bruce)

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 19-10-2016 12:32AM

kuang1 wrote: »

1st match under new manager too (Steve Bruce)

2nd match. They drew at the weekend, although how much he had to do with that match I don't know.

mfceiling · 19-10-2016 06:44AM

I hate Steve Bruce and I'm a Wolves fan so this is a marriage made in heaven.

I have a hatred for all those ex united players from the early 90's.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 19-10-2016 10:56AM

mfceiling wrote: »

I hate Steve Bruce and I'm a Wolves fan so this is a marriage made in heaven.

I have a hatred for all those ex united players from the early 90's.

I'm not a fan of Bruce either simply because of his City connections but then again we had McLeish in already, all that's left now is to get Harry Redknapp in and we'll have completed the hat trick of managers Villa fans hate.

Bridge93 · 19-10-2016 12:21PM

Villa have lost as many games as my Newcastle. Their draw ratio is astonishing. If they hadn't scored in the last minute last night it would've been 9 draws in 13 league games I think?

thomond2006 · 19-10-2016 02:11PM

I'm shaking my head wondering how that cheapshot merchant Vontaze Burfict got no ban for this.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/10/19/no-suspension-imposed-on-vontaze-burfict/

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Last year, he was banned for three games for this.

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19-10-2016 02:18PM

Not sure what I'm looking at. I thought murder was legal in NFL. Neither of those are barely manslaughter.

pickarooney · 19-10-2016 04:54PM

Yeah, I'm not seeing what's wrong with the first one. They can tackle of the ball and don't have to wrap I thought. Unless there's a catch all rule against being a gouger.

Clearlier · 19-10-2016 10:28PM

You know for all that the NFL talks a good game about taking concussion and taking head trauma seriously - a 3 game for that 2nd hit tells you all that you need to know about how seriously they actually take it.

Dave_The_Sheep · 19-10-2016 11:01PM

I assume it's for a potential leg breaker?

Podge_irl · 19-10-2016 11:13PM

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

I assume it's for a potential leg breaker?

Would assume it's more likely to do someones ACL or something.

I don't actually think there is anything illegal about going low like that in the NFL. Only a problem if players go both low and high at the same time. They've claimed in fact that they have no choice as going high is now penalised.

Burfict is one of the worst in the NFL. A 3 game ban for conduct in a game is actually quite harsh by their standards.

irishbucsfan · 19-10-2016 11:14PM

Podge_irl wrote: »

Would assume it's more likely to do someones ACL or something.

I don't actually think there is anything illegal about going low like that in the NFL. Only a problem if players go both low and high at the same time. They've claimed in fact that they have no choice as going high is now penalised.

Burfict is one of the worst in the NFL. A 3 game ban for conduct in a game is actually quite harsh by their standards.

It's a red card offense in rugby and a dismissable offense in the NFL, normally only a penalty over there though.

swiwi_ · 20-10-2016 08:55PM

This is a philosophical Q and not in any way a form of critique but I'm always struck by how seriously death and dying is taken in Ireland (in NZ the Maori people are the same) - why is this so?

20-10-2016 08:58PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

This is a philosophical Q and not in any way a form of critique but I'm always struck by how seriously death and dying is taken in Ireland (in NZ the Maori people are the same) - why is this so?

Ehhh.... We do?

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 20-10-2016 08:59PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

This is a philosophical Q and not in any way a form of critique but I'm always struck by how seriously death and dying is taken in Ireland (in NZ the Maori people are the same) - why is this so?

What is the alternative?

.ak · 20-10-2016 09:02PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

This is a philosophical Q and not in any way a form of critique but I'm always struck by how seriously death and dying is taken in Ireland (in NZ the Maori people are the same) - why is this so?

Hard to say, I wouldn't have thought we take it any more or any less seriously than other nations, but I guess not. Can you elaborate?

I wouldn't thought there's anything more serious than death though?

swiwi_ · 20-10-2016 09:10PM

I mean the whole extent of paying the respects, the wake, the removal etc.

Maybe it's more of a catholic thing than an Irish thing.

It's hard to explain but it's just not the same in NZ nor in Switzerland. Nor in France where I've also lived.

I suppose most people on the forum have probably only lived for long periods in Ireland, but I really really noticed it when I lived in Ireland. Especially in cork when we lived there.

Once again not a criticism just an observation.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 20-10-2016 09:15PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

I mean the whole extent of paying the respects, the wake, the removal etc.

Maybe it's more of a catholic thing than an Irish thing.

It's hard to explain but it's just not the same in NZ nor in Switzerland. Nor in France where I've also lived.

I suppose most people on the forum have probably only lived for long periods in Ireland, but I really really noticed it when I lived in Ireland. Especially in cork when we lived there.

Once again not a criticism just an observation.

Tell you what I find strange is in the UK how sometimes it can be anything up to two weeks before a funeral happens.

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