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I'm sweeping with steaks, does that count?
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Jun 2, 2014 23:09
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mrpwase posted:Is anyone bourgeois enough to watch touring cars or rally? Not quite as bad as F1 and the like Rally is fantastic to watch - you get a nice hike, then get to watch lunatics driving at very high speeds then drink your tea and hike back to wherever you parked. Also sometimes you get to tip a car back onto it's wheels, and it's all free apart from the cost of the thermos of tea. (Not that it's all gravy as those poor buggers up in Scotland learned at the weekend) The single best motorsport event in the world is on over in three-legged-land at the minute though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU6LStlITOs
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Jun 2, 2014 23:36
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We've already got >32 for the charity sweepstake 
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Jun 2, 2014 23:42
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Euro-socialists are trying to disrupt the workings of our free markets and con our government into raising taxes! Vote UKIP, referendum now! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...Commission.html quote:George Osborne’s flagship Help to Buy scheme must be reined in and council tax should be increased to stop house prices getting out of control, the European Commission has said.
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Jun 3, 2014 00:43
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Sports own!      
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Jun 3, 2014 01:44
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Are they helping or hurting him? The headlock doesn't look very friendly. I thought grappling round the neck was seriously frowned upon?
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Jun 3, 2014 02:34
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HortonNash posted:Are they helping or hurting him? The other team is just helping him down so he doesn't break his neck haha! But it was an awkward way as he twists* so goes from supporting his shoulders to looks like hes grappling. *Thought he was going to go back over, but got down from the other side etc. Fluo fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Jun 3, 2014 02:48
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goddamnedtwisto posted:
I've never actually seen this from the rider's perspective before  That can go on the list of videos to show people who complain about roads on the UK being too narrow
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Jun 3, 2014 06:29
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Fluo posted:Sports own! Ball sports are rubbish, fake combat sports are where it's at  Such dexterity! Such grace! Truly, the noblest of sporting pursuits 
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Jun 3, 2014 07:16
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The single best motorsport event in the world is on over in three-legged-land at the minute though: When the wikipedia article for the course has a subsection for fatalities on the parade lap, you know your event is badass.
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Jun 3, 2014 07:31
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Renaissance Robot posted:Ball sports are rubbish, fake combat sports are where it's at I couldn't really do this in the park on a nice sunny day though? Accessibility is one of the hallmarks of the great sports! 
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Jun 3, 2014 07:56
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Fluo posted:I couldn't really do this in the park on a nice sunny day though? Accessibility is one of the hallmarks of the great sports! You could if a certain set of someones weren't squatting on the tech for wireless scoring  It's still pretty dear though, even without the mafia-esque annual insurance payments. I have Incorrect taste in physical activities 
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Jun 3, 2014 08:07
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Fencing isnt that pricey though is it? You can get beginners kit with pretty much everything you need for around £200. Most clubs will provide all the gear you need when you start out too. Theres a lot of sports out there that are as pricey if not more so. I mean if you look at footy, a nice pair of brand name boots is gonna cost you the best part of £80. A replica footy shirt is best part of £60 too. Most sports have a high-ish buy in price if you want to do it seriously I guess. I'm awaiting mockery for admitting to fencing. It owned, we were a bunch of useless beginners at an old Polytechnic who would go around competing against ex public school toffs and Naval officers, and not taking it very seriously at all.
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Jun 3, 2014 08:41
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Seaside Loafer posted:Would you say rugby or am-football is more dangerous? imo i wouldnt do either, i played rugby when i was a kid, being tackled by another kid was fine, but an 18 stone brick poo poo house is very different. Honestly? American Football is way the gently caress more dangerous. It's all down to the risk assessment people do when they've got a poo poo ton of protection. Kind of like how boxing became far, far more dangerous when gloves were made mandatory, American football fucks people up bad. In Rugby, if you tackle someone, there's minimal protection so you kind of have to hold back to not actually hurt yourself aswell. In American football, anything goes because you're literally a walking tank. People get hit harder, act more aggressively, and can do some serious damage.
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Jun 3, 2014 09:29
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Thanks for showing my Penguins getting scored on Fluo I'm going to start Curling with the wife now we've moved to Scotland. Anybody done it?
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The first stage of the recovery is now complete: house prices have surpassed the 2007 peak in nominal terms. On to stage two, where they exceed it in real terms! http://www.nationwide.co.uk/~/media/MainSite/documents/about/house-price-index/May_2014.pdf
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Jun 3, 2014 09:32
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Ddraig posted:Honestly? American Football is way the gently caress more dangerous. It's all down to the risk assessment people do when they've got a poo poo ton of protection. Kind of like how boxing became far, far more dangerous when gloves were made mandatory, American football fucks people up bad. In Rugby, if you tackle someone, there's minimal protection so you kind of have to hold back to not actually hurt yourself aswell. In American football, anything goes because you're literally a walking tank. People get hit harder, act more aggressively, and can do some serious damage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Z0aKAkTk0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV_K5foPGqk Rugby union is the best sport.
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Jun 3, 2014 09:40
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I find the "pah, you wear padding, that's for pussies!" kind of annoying as well. It's for safety reasons, and it's a protection of investment, and the like. Also using language like that is kind of a gender-insult, isn't it?
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Jun 3, 2014 09:54
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Ddraig posted:Honestly? American Football is way the gently caress more dangerous. It's all down to the risk assessment people do when they've got a poo poo ton of protection. Kind of like how boxing became far, far more dangerous when gloves were made mandatory, American football fucks people up bad. In Rugby, if you tackle someone, there's minimal protection so you kind of have to hold back to not actually hurt yourself aswell. In American football, anything goes because you're literally a walking tank. People get hit harder, act more aggressively, and can do some serious damage. The real difference in danger is it's illegal to high tackle in Rugby and you only really go for the person with the ball so there's a lot less impact in general. There's scrums and ruck sure, but those aren't nearly as bad as they look unless someone's being an rear end in a top hat and stamping the guy on the ground. If you could high tackle in Rugby it'd be absolutely lethal. Fans fucked around with this message at 10:01 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Jun 3, 2014 09:59
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I honestly think safety is a secondary concern for most. I mean, it truly would be a lot safer than it is now if padding wasn't obligatory (you may get more visible injuries, but real serious poo poo would be cut down) As it stands, people demand more contact and more aggression because frankly it makes for a better spectator sport if you have huge men hitting each other like an impact with a brick wall. George Carlin did a bit about the differences between Baseball and Football and how Football is considered much more aggressive and warlike than the former even down to the language that is used. ^^^^ In American Football there's really very few rules about what constitutes a dangerous tackle. I guess the biggest thing is leading with the helmet (and this was only really recently challenged, IIRC) or tackling towards the head. So yeah, I guess high tackles being verboten makes Rugby safer, but I think that is partly down to the idea that it's obvious such a tackle with little to no protection is a bad idea, but in American Football you don't have that perception since people are tanks and they're not strictly aiming for the head, so that's ok, right fellas? Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Jun 3, 2014 09:59
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Ddraig posted:So yeah, I guess high tackles being verboten makes Rugby safer, but I think that is partly down to the idea that it's obvious such a tackle with little to no protection is a bad idea, but in American Football you don't have that perception since people are tanks and they're not strictly aiming for the head, so that's ok, right fellas?
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Jun 3, 2014 10:17
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Seaside Loafer posted:What consitutes a 'high tackle'? When I was a nipper before starting to get man'ish the PE teacher would encourage us to do head on tackles, not with the head i mean but you sort of ran straight into them, head around the armpit area and arm around the waist, so he ends up his back and you on top. That goes back to my other point, it didnt hurt a bit when we were ikcle kids, but 2 huge dudes must really hurt both of them right? Maybe they dont do head on's in pro rugby anymore? I'm no expert, but that sounds like a correct tackle technique - high tackle means getting your opponent round the neck or head.
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Jun 3, 2014 10:26
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Seaside Loafer posted:What constitutes a 'high tackle'? Anything above the shoulders though this is crazy strict and harshly punished even if accidental so Rugby tackles are a lot lower. They've also got to be tackles, if you're not getting your arm around them it's going to get a penalty, shoulder charges and spear tackles especially aren't on. Not saying Rugby is super safe, but there's a lot of effort gone into really stamping down on the worst stuff like Spear tackles and clotheslines.
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Jun 3, 2014 10:28
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Serotonin posted:Fencing isnt that pricey though is it? You can get beginners kit with pretty much everything you need for around £200. Most clubs will provide all the gear you need when you start out too. Theres a lot of sports out there that are as pricey if not more so. I mean if you look at footy, a nice pair of brand name boots is gonna cost you the best part of £80. A replica footy shirt is best part of £60 too. Most sports have a high-ish buy in price if you want to do it seriously I guess. I fenced at school, and enjoyed it immensely. Also had a similar experience of beating public school boys in competition. Did get absolutely thrashed by Bruce Dickinson once though.
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Jun 3, 2014 10:31
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thehustler posted:Thanks for showing my Penguins getting scored on Fluo I do it fairly regularly. "Lawn bowls on ice" is a reasonably accurate analogy but curling is quite good fun and pretty easy for beginners to pick up the basic principle although you'll regularly get overshots and stones knocking chunks out of the rink barrier. It's a game of some finesse too as inches matter, and can also be quite a thrilling game of turnabout - one knock of the closest stone away from the pin can change the scores completely.
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Jun 3, 2014 10:33
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Visually impressive but it's a pretty safe tackle. Shoulder to chest with a wrap-around, the guy is up immediately. Doesn't really compare to the ridiculous level of helmet-to-helmet, shoulder-to-helmet and flying hits that American Football has. But like hustler says it's a stupid argument anyway, the two games are superficially similar but not really comparable. Americans don't seem to give a poo poo either, it always seems to be some weird English national identity thing where we have to prove we're 'harder' than the Americans.
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Jun 3, 2014 10:35
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HortonNash posted:I fenced at school, and enjoyed it immensely. Also had a similar experience of beating public school boys in competition. I did a bit of fencing as a younger man. Never got to meet Bruce Dickinson, though It was a bit weird because we had fencing for about one year since it became obvious that giving a bunch of rough kids swords, even fencing swords, and letting them at each other was a p. bad idea. It think at the end there was about four people left, everyone else was banned. The toffs let us have their sport for one year and we really done hosed it up. Was fun while it lasted, though.
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Jun 3, 2014 10:38
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LemonDrizzle posted:The first stage of the recovery is now complete: house prices have surpassed the 2007 peak in nominal terms. On to stage two, where they exceed it in real terms! I think that bet of ours looks likely to come to fruition 
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Jun 3, 2014 10:41
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Put me down for the sweepstake, I can't do the form on my phone.
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Jun 3, 2014 11:06
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HortonNash posted:I fenced at school, and enjoyed it immensely. Also had a similar experience of beating public school boys in competition. I've fenced off and on for about 20+ years now, captained my school and my local club. Sabre all the way! Had an 87 year old Hungarian professor of fencing as my first coach; I don't think I actually fought a bout the entire first term that I did fencing during games. Frankly I'm amazed I stuck with it, but basic fundamentals have served me well. Now I train people in fighting with LARP equipment at a school in Hackney as a side job- which frankly loving rules. Though I did break my shoulder during an event over the bank holiday.
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kim jong-illin posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Z0aKAkTk0 That's not a hard hit. This is a hard hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y07yt87lhEA&t=22s (130 mph into a dry-stone wall, fractured pelvis, arm, two vertebra, dislocated knee and collapsed lung - crazy fucker was racing by the next season)
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Jun 3, 2014 11:42
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LemonDrizzle posted:The first stage of the recovery is now complete: house prices have surpassed the 2007 peak in nominal terms. On to stage two, where they exceed it in real terms! Funnily enough, the government got some good advice today which it'll completely ignore: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/02/mortgage-approvals-fall-affordability-tests-housebuyers quote:Britain needs to reform its council tax system, build more houses and make changes to the Help to Buy scheme to stop the property boom getting out of control, the European commission has warned.
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coffeetable posted:Funnily enough, the government got some good advice today which it'll completely ignore: They'll probably just make racist remarks about the author, like when the UN told us essentially the same.
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thehustler posted:I find the "pah, you wear padding, that's for pussies!" kind of annoying as well. It's for safety reasons, and it's a protection of investment, and the like. Also using language like that is kind of a gender-insult, isn't it? Apparently not. Pussy as in being cowardly or indecisive is very old term, contraction of pussy footing which apparently is from the word pusillanimous meaning showing a lack of Courage. It was also used in the context of playing pussy during the war to mean cautiously stalking an opponent using cloud cover. Iirc the reference to vagina is later.
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Jun 3, 2014 12:32
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Is there a good reason not to move council tax to a straight up percentage of property value, re-evaluated at some regular interval, rather than the current banding system?
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Jun 3, 2014 13:52
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HortonNash posted:Is there a good reason not to move council tax to a straight up percentage of property value, re-evaluated at some regular interval, rather than the current banding system? The costs would probably be really high
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Jun 3, 2014 13:54
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I guess it's because that would discourage people from seeing houses as an investment and slow the rise in prices,so no good reason not too. In for the sweepstake.
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Andre Le Fuckface posted:The costs would probably be really high You could do self-valuations with a form, randomly verify samples and really hammer fraud ("your property will be forfeited if you try to dodge"-type penalties). Would certainly make people buy houses that they need, rather than staying in that house in Dulwich that they bought in '56 for £3 8s 6d that's now worth £6m that your kids are salivating over and banking on inheriting.
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HortonNash posted:You could do self-valuations with a form, randomly verify samples and really hammer fraud ("your property will be forfeited if you try to dodge"-type penalties). Property confiscation is a bit of a leftist wet dream and unlikely to happen. All you have to do is incentivise people getting their properties reassessed. The way the system works is that if someone on your street gets assessed up then it is likely you will too. I was thinking give people a major stamp duty rebate when they get their OLD house reassessed for council tax. Another problem is that the banding is too limited, and hasn't (I don't think) risen with inflation. Eventually it will become a flat charge, as everyone will be in the highest band, despite the market comparitive value of their house. I can't think of a single thing to do with housing and property that isn't completely hosed up in the UK.
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