Cheer me up

Afriend_2

wageslave wrote: »

Surreal? Have your read the loo roll thread? It is downright worrisome.

I am as well as anyone who has just watched half her garden fence blow over can be.

Genre for the audiobooks?

Sci fi or fantasy. Alternatively anything that's challenging and makes you think.

There's a Loo roll thread. Perhaps I should avoid going there (excuse the crap joke).

Harry_Powell

Afriend wrote: »

People will be confusing me with broders again. Even broders confused me with Ad the other day.
It's all very surreal on here at times.

How are you WS? Can you recommend any decent audiobooks?

Doesn't it get tiresome in here whenever someone mentions the 'S' word. Suddenly everyone is getting accused of being someone else. So boring and I wish people would stop.

I also wish that Snooze AKA WISHIWASRICH hadn't brought it up. :rotfl:

Generali

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Totally disagree.
It's time for Fifa to get tougher.
They bottled it with the Eduardo incident.
They should have banned him for three games for bringing the game into disrepute.

My fear with retrospective changes to the refs' decisions is it undermines the ref out there at the time. IMO, mistakes are a part of sport and that applies to the decisions officials make as much as the players.

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

I recall I once received a caution for swearing, not at an official but at myself.
I collected a ball in midfield and without any real pressure made a very bad pass. I said in frustration "For Fcuk Sake ISTL" and was cautioned for it.
For me, that ref was tough, but I tell you what, made me make sure I didn't carry out a second bookable offence for the rest of the game.

We were specifically advised not to book players for swearing at themselves unless they're kids. That was advice though not a rule. It came from a FIFA ref who has officiated at the world cup and in loads of qualifiers. He still referees kids games now and again.

IveSeenTheLight

Generali wrote: »

My fear with retrospective changes to the refs' decisions is it undermines the ref out there at the time. IMO, mistakes are a part of sport and that applies to the decisions officials make as much as the players.

I'm not saying that decisions should be reversed, but that does not deter from trying to make the sport fair.
The results would still stand but that the 'cheating player' gets banned for a number of future games.
This allows for 'mistakes' to be made during the game, but punishes those trying to gain an advantage of the rules by missing out on future games.

The best argument you have is that the rules are supposed to be applicable throughout all levels of the game and therefore this could not be applied at amateur, semi or even lower league proffessional level.

I believe though that a tougher stance that resulted in a punishment would in time drive out the rogue element and make the game fairer.

wageslave

Afriend wrote: »

Sci fi or fantasy. Alternatively anything that's challenging and makes you think.

There's a Loo roll thread. Perhaps I should avoid going there (excuse the crap joke).

Demonoid was the place for audiobooks. The files are really too big for anything except torrents.

I d/loaded Orson Scott Card not so long ago. I really liked his Ender series.

Try an Isohunt search. The speeds wont be up to much but what the hell......

EDIT Just had a look at a couple of the public forums. They do some audio stuff but not a lot.

Afriend_2

wageslave wrote: »

Demonoid was the place for audiobooks. The files are really too big for anything except torrents.

I d/loaded Orson Scott Card not so long ago. I really liked his Ender series.

Try an Isohunt search. The speeds wont be up to much but what the hell......

I read Enders Game. It had sockpuppets in if I recall correctly. I haven't read the rest of the series. DW has the books I think. If my eyes weren't so tired after work I'd read them proper. Listening to them will be the easier option.

If you like movies, tropa de elite is a good watch.

Generali

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

I'm not saying that decisions should be reversed, but that does not deter from trying to make the sport fair.
The results would still stand but that the 'cheating player' gets banned for a number of future games.
This allows for 'mistakes' to be made during the game, but punishes those trying to gain an advantage of the rules by missing out on future games.

The best argument you have is that the rules are supposed to be applicable throughout all levels of the game and therefore this could not be applied at amateur, semi or even lower league proffessional level.

I believe though that a tougher stance that resulted in a punishment would in time drive out the rogue element and make the game fairer.

I'll have a chat with Sepp next time I see him and I'll see what we can do.

StevieJ

Generali wrote: »

It was the Hand of Frog.

I noticed Yahoo pinched your headine :mad:

Generali

StevieJ wrote: »

I noticed Yahoo pinched your headine :mad:

I made it up myself but I suspect I'm not the only one - I went to post it on the Football Fools board and someone had beaten me to it. It was a pretty obvious gag really.

ManAtHome

Anyone used "he's the main man" yet..?