 |
| Register | Login | |||||
 |
Main
| Memberlist
| Active users
| Calendar
| Chat
| Online users Ranks | FAQ | ACS | Stats | Color Chart | Search | Photo album |
|
| | ||
|
| Register | Login | |||||
|
Main
| Memberlist
| Active users
| Calendar
| Chat
| Online users Ranks | FAQ | ACS | Stats | Color Chart | Search | Photo album |
|
| | ||
| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - - Posts by Arwon |
| Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 |
| User | Post | ||
Arwon Bazu                  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| It was still a crotch-shot, Danielle.... can't treat that stuff lightly. Also I'm sure Rooney's reputation didn't help. | |||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| I'm not intimidating in the slightest and I've never had anything like this happen to me.
|
|||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| You sir, are a Man™. Well done for keeping a cool head and such. | |||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| I think the proof of the pudding is in the eating in this case. Look at the results. When you compare countries in the developed world there's a fairly clear correlation between robust, frank, comprehensive sex education and lower teen pregnancy rates. Simple enough. | |||
|
Arwon Bazu  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| You can't fix eating disorders in someone else but by knowing and talking you can make them a bit less severe as was said by Kasdarack. They're usually consequences and symptoms of other issues, the classic one being feelings of powerlessness and needing to be in control of something. Don't push.
Do you want her for yourself? I'm assuming as much, that's usually the case in these situations... "help" being in the form of "surely being with me will help solve all your problems". Either that or I'm projecting my own situation onto this as I often do. |
|||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| In Australian Rules Football, on the extremely rare occasion that a grand final ends in a tie, they replay the game a week later. This works because ties are rare in such a high-scoring sport as the AFL.
I could see the argument for replaying a World Cup final (or other big final) in the event of a tie, but the logistics might be too difficult. Plus you might get 5 ties before you get a result. The other alternative is endless extra time and that's gotta be unsafe for the players when coupled with the limited substitutions in socball. The other problem is that in such a low-scoring sport it would be too easy for teams to play for the draw and thus the replay, especially if there's been injuries or cards that change the likely balance of a replay game. Penalty kicks are a bit of a crapshoot, but they still involve a serious element of skill as well as luck... and they test the guts and mental toughness of the teams like nothing else. We all saw the way England wilted under the pressure of that penalty shootout with Portugal... it can't be argued that this was pure luck, this takes away from the toughness the Portuguese showed versus the way England utterly messed up. In the end, you have to split two teams somehow, and penalty kicks after extra time are a gut-wrenching but workable way to do it. Sport is a mixture of luck, skill and circumstance anyway... sport is cruel, someone has to lose eventually. Moreover, all sports are utterly arbitrary in their rules and customs... why do some sports allow draws and others do not? Why do some sports have offisde rules of various kinds, and others don't? Why does basketball have the seemingly absurd foul rules it does? Why does soccer have such a low tolerance for bodily contact? Why is a scrum different in rugby leage than rugby union? Why is Ice Hockey divided into three periods? Why do any sports have the precise set of rules they do? Because they do. There's no objective external logic or rationality to sport.... they're self-contained systems that can only be understood in terms of themselves. (edited by Arwon on 07-11-06 01:28 AM) |
|||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
Originally posted by SilvershieldOriginally posted by Neitzluber...which is the same thing as abortion. No, you consider it the same thing as abortion. Big massive difference. (edited by Arwon on 07-11-06 01:33 AM) |
|||
|
Arwon Bazu  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| Well I, and the majority of the planet I expect, think it becomes wrong (not "murder" mind you, killing != murder) to kill an unborn womb baby at some hazy point between conception and birth. Probably around the second trimester, it's ill-defined and impossible to pin down due to different ethnical systems and so forth. That's why we have laws that say what's okay at 2 months isn't okay at 8 or 9. Simple.
It's worth noting, I think, that the life-begins-at-conception view and the "ban abortion" views are a minority in the United States and far less popular virtually everywhere else. Especially if you're gonna ban it for rape. Frankly the fetishisation of the foetus seems a very strange obsession from where I'm sitting. See also, the ever observant Onion article, New Anti-Abortion Pill Kills Mother, Leaves Foetus Alive If you believe abortion's wrong, don't have an abortion. It's your individual choice just as it is anyone else's choice, within the framework of a legal window-of-opportunity that exists until the potential life is seen as too high a potentiality for its rights to be subjugated to that of its host. (edited by Arwon on 07-11-06 08:20 AM) |
|||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| Exactly. And penalty shootouts fit the particular rhythms and nuances of socball. | |||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| Rumours on the Internets are that he was called a "son of a terrorist whore" or something, which given the news about his seriously ill mother would have been doubly as insulting. | |||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| That's funny, I thought the deciding factor was 'scoring more goals'.
Ho hum. |
|||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| There's a large element of sport that is entirely random, anyway.
"one Frenchman missed his shot, but only by inches, while each of the Italians who shot were successful, and that decided the entire game" It's a game of randomness and inches throughout, anyway. A player is offside by a bare margin. A cross drops just wide of a striker's head. A goalie manages to get fingertips to a ball and knock it wide. Penalty shootouts are penalty kicks, a part of the game. Shootouts are still a test of the fundamental skills of the game, albeit in a controlled setting. After 120 minutes fail to separate two teams, it's entirely reasonable to say enough is enough, and reduce it to such a controlled situation resting on inches. |
|||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| It would have been better if the story was told in a funny manner. | |||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| Jesus. Not a whole lot to say. Except fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
Syria might even end up rolling back in. Ugh. (edited by Arwon on 07-14-06 01:11 AM) |
|||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
Originally posted by geeogree Are you kidding me? Are you really that fucking ignorant? What the hell do you even know about Lebanon? What does bombing Beirut airport and destroying Lebanese roads accomplish? This is full scale war, a very mismatched and one-sided war, against an entire country here. Do you cheer war against Arab countries just for the fucking hell of it? (edited by Arwon on 07-14-06 05:33 AM) |
|||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| No. It's not just chance. Goalkeeping is still a matter of skill, and calling it "pure chance" is rather insulting to that. The fact that goalies aren't expected to stop penalties just reflects the fact that they usually don't. Why would a 50:50 situation be fairer than an 85:15 one? (edited by Arwon on 07-14-06 05:22 AM) |
|||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| Did anyone actually read the story? Seems like there's a fairly sensible rationale behind the policy change here. | |||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| I can't think what Israel thinks its going to get out of this, though I suspect that no-one's really thinking at all. Just because Israel as an actual country has some sort of supposed "right" to start lobbing bombs and missiles around doesn't mean it's a good fucking idea to be baited by the petulant morons in Hezbollah.
I mean, if they're TRYING to strengthen the hand of Hezbollah by restoring their credibility as resistance fighters by giving them something to fight, then this is a good move. If they're TRYING to destroy Lebanon's government and turn it back into a power vacuum that's just begging for Syria to march back in and Hezbollah to take over, then GREAT. If their goal is a new Lebanese civil war then this is perfect! If they WANT to turn Lebanon into an ungovernable haven for all sorts of terrorism and crime, then BRILLIANT! If they're trying to turn world public opinion against them (for example, news coverage here is focussing on the 30 000 or so Lebanese-Australians who're in danger right now) then wonderful! About the only justifications I can think of that might be going through the minds of Israel's leadership that justify this sort of behaviour are "hey, bombing shit is fun" and "if we can solidify all Arabs into a front against us we can have an all-out war between Arabs and Jews!!!" -- which makes the Israeli leadership either morally reprehensible or really fucking stupid. "But he started it!" is not good foreign fucking policy. Even in the Middle East where it's about the sum total of foreign policy on all sides. Oh, and there's plenty of Christians in Lebanon. I'm trying to figure out what the Kataeb/Falange Party thinks of this current war. I suspect they're not fucking happy either. (edited by Arwon on 07-15-06 03:02 AM) (edited by Arwon on 07-15-06 03:08 AM) |
|||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| Sounds to me like they're just gonna not prosecute people for petty shoplifting. Doesn't mean they're not going to stop people they catch. | |||
|
Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
| ||
| Well it's not quite on the level of invading Latin American countries to depose regimes that threaten the United Fruit Company or sugar interests or something... but the difference is only in degree, not type. It smacks of the same conviction that "protecting our business interests" is more important than fussy considerations like sovereignty and self-determination. |
| Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 |
| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - - Posts by Arwon |
