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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 17, 2014 14:41:04 GMT -5
*RANDOM FIXTURE* Brighton 1-1 Middlesbrough
Saturday 18th October 2014 Man City 3-0 Tottenham Arsenal 2-0 Hull Burnley 1-0 West Ham Crystal Palace 1-2 Chelsea Everton 3-1 Aston Villa Newcastle 2-1 Leicester Southampton 1-1 Sunderland
Sunday 19th October 2014 QPR 1-3 Liverpool Stoke 0-0 Swansea
Monday 20th October 2014 West Brom 2-2 Man Utd
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 17, 2014 11:02:30 GMT -5
Okay, so you're saying this thread isn't about Friends even though the thread title is clearly listed as "New Friends Reunion. Kinda."? If you didn't want Friends to be brought up, why call it that? And then why say you'd rather have an 11th Season of Friends? You're not making any sense. Basically you don't like it because I somewhat insulted your precious little show. This new show will just be trying to recapture the success of Friends and it won't work. Friends is over, let it remain dead instead of digging up the corpse. Friends isn't all that great but Scrubs is probably the most overrated show of all time. There, now both of your shows have been insulted. I have Bayley in my sig so clearly you'll just say she sucks so ok. Let's move on. People are allowed their opinions, don't need to go to war over a tv show. You say "lets move on" but the last post in this conversation was over a week ago. You're the one who's just brought it back up....
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 13, 2014 22:30:35 GMT -5
Sounds good to me but there's probably some business reason why it won't happen.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 11, 2014 16:09:41 GMT -5
Germany can off, the corrupt bastards. Pompey didn't win anyway.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 11, 2014 16:04:45 GMT -5
Just recorded my best ever online win. 11-1.
He was down to 8 men :/
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 9, 2014 16:13:14 GMT -5
Pretty obvious the Dudleyz are going after the IWGP tag titles and not the WWE ones.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 9, 2014 15:37:17 GMT -5
There's a difference between saying nice things about American football, which is fine, and comparing it to football in effort to discredit the latter.
The NFL in it's basic form is men throwing a ball, running and catching it past a certain mark on the field. But it's not as simple as that is it?
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 9, 2014 14:58:35 GMT -5
Just watched this and it's pretty funny. Both games are fundamentally about tactics and you need to get that right. Only someone who has followed both sports extensively can say for sure what they perceive to be the more tactical game (i.e. which one has a deeper tactical side.) And it is without a doubt American Football. In football 10 guys need to know how to react to what's going on, where to run, where to pass or shoot and so on. Keeper doesn't count 'cos he literally just has to stand there and have quick reactions. No tactics there. Just stop the ball going in the net. I'm gonna stop you there because you've just shown that you're not thinking clearly. Is the GK a sweeper keeper? Does he stay on his line? Does he come to collect crosses and corners? How does he play the ball out? Long balls? Short passes? By saying that all the GK does is just stand there and stop goals, you've shown you're either being ignorant or biased. Remember, I don't think anyone in this thread has tried to claim American football isn't very tactical or that football/soccer is more tactical. It started with you saying that American football is much more tactical than football and that tactics in football aren't that important at all. That quite frankly, is bollocks. I'm not going to try and pretend I'm impartial on this subject because I clearly love football but don't like American football. But you and the Americans who have come into this thread to praise American football are trying to act like you're not biased just because you watch both sports. All three of you clearly prefer the NFL and are therefore going to favour it over football.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 9, 2014 14:08:09 GMT -5
Okay, so you're saying this thread isn't about Friends even though the thread title is clearly listed as "New Friends Reunion. Kinda."? If you didn't want Friends to be brought up, why call it that? And then why say you'd rather have an 11th Season of Friends? You're not making any sense. Basically you don't like it because I somewhat insulted your precious little show. This new show will just be trying to recapture the success of Friends and it won't work. Friends is over, let it remain dead instead of digging up the corpse. The new show stars 3 of the 6 Friends cast members, so of course it's a reunion of sorts. This thread was no way intended as a "discuss Friends thread". It was simply my opinion on the matter that if they're doing this (as in, returning to TV together), then a friends reunion would have garnered a lot more interest. How do you get from that, that this thread was intended to discuss Friends as a show? You derailed the thread, end of. That's the last I'm going to entertain you, as I'd actually like this thread to remain on topic. I didn't "discuss" Friends. I said that this show which is blatantly an attempt to capitalise on the popularity of Friends shouldn't happen. It's a cheap attempt to make money on a show that ended 10 years ago. And my comment about letting it die was in response to you suggesting you'd rather see Friends Season 11. It's not like this is a thread about Arrested Development and I decided to bring up Friends for no reason.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 9, 2014 11:58:39 GMT -5
As a fan of both sports, the NFL is the more tactical game. I understand the strategical nature in soccer as well such as crosses and timing proper runs, but take a look at these NFL playbooks. You need to know what play to pick against a certain time of defense, then possibly make a change during mid-play to expose the defense. Same goes for defense. Routes run by wide-receivers need to be timed perfectly as well as throws. www.footballxos.com/free-football-playbooks/offense-playbooks/nfl-playbooks/If you think that crosses and running are the extent of tactics in soccer, then I don't think you do understand it's strategical nature. It's like me saying I understand tactics in the NFL like throwing the ball and catching the ball.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 9, 2014 11:55:45 GMT -5
I'm not derailing it. This is a thread about Friends and this new show that's going to be similar to Friends. If you just want people to gush over the show and the new show then create a Friends Appreciation Thread. In the meantime, I'm going to keep expressing my opinions about topics that are the basis of threads. Deal with it. EDIT: Oh and I don't mind Friends. I just think it's completely overrated by this generation.By which generation? This one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MillennialsOkay which probably isn't the current generation, which I implied. My bad.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 9, 2014 11:53:16 GMT -5
I'm not derailing it. This is a thread about Friends and this new show that's going to be similar to Friends. If you just want people to gush over the show and the new show then create a Friends Appreciation Thread. In the meantime, I'm going to keep expressing my opinions about topics that are the basis of threads. Deal with it. EDIT: Oh and I don't mind Friends. I just think it's completely overrated by this generation. No where does this say "discuss the quality of friends". If you want to discuss or bash friends, then create a friends thread for that. This is about a new show, that happens to star friends alum. You did immediately derail the thread. Okay, so you're saying this thread isn't about Friends even though the thread title is clearly listed as "New Friends Reunion. Kinda."? If you didn't want Friends to be brought up, why call it that? And then why say you'd rather have an 11th Season of Friends? You're not making any sense. Basically you don't like it because I somewhat insulted your precious little show. This new show will just be trying to recapture the success of Friends and it won't work. Friends is over, let it remain dead instead of digging up the corpse.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 8, 2014 20:28:36 GMT -5
Hate it. Too stop start for my liking and I can't believe it's the most popular sport over in the United States. I'm sure an American would say the same thing about football but I fail to see how football's boring. As someone that grew up playing both football & soccer (from 5yo to 19yo) I never can understand why people say that soccer is more "action packed" so to speak. I mean, I get it that in soccer you're 90% of the time constantly moving but really, is watching a few guys do triangle passes or watching someone fall to the ground like they got their legs blow off by an IED when they barely got kicked in the shin exciting? Corners, crosses, headers...yea those are the exciting moments just as much as watching a running back truck a safety and dash for 45 yards but watching a ball go from one guy to another to another...just doesnt really sound very "on the edge" exciting to me. Im not trying to knock either sport as I enjoy both but just like hockey, they all have their "action moments". I can see your point, but I think some of the criticisms of football/soccer are stereotypes or misconceptions. Like you said, every sport has boring games or moments. But it really bothers me when people try to act like every football game is just passing the ball back and forth very slowly, and all games are 0-0 or 1-0, and everyone just dives (or flops in American terms).
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 8, 2014 20:19:38 GMT -5
Please tell me that's not a serious question. The quality of a TV show does not dictate whether it is syndicated. Any series with 100 episodes will likely be syndicated. In fact some shows only get extra episodes so they can meet the syndication requirement. According to Jim had eight seasons, was that great too? As for Friends being popular....well yeah, duh. That doesn't mean I have to find it good though. Even if it was the greatest show ever, it ended 10 years ago, it had 10 seasons worth of stories, the characters all reached their natural end. Why dig up the body? You know what would be a great idea? Just leave the thread now. Instead of derailing it in the very first post. In the words of Frasier I'm not derailing it. This is a thread about Friends and this new show that's going to be similar to Friends. If you just want people to gush over the show and the new show then create a Friends Appreciation Thread. In the meantime, I'm going to keep expressing my opinions about topics that are the basis of threads. Deal with it. EDIT: Oh and I don't mind Friends. I just think it's completely overrated by this generation.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 8, 2014 16:05:37 GMT -5
No thanks. Friends itself wasn't even that great. Let it be. If it wasn't great, why is it in syndication? For its time, Friends was a very good show. The series finale of Friends is one of the most watched finales in American television history. Please tell me that's not a serious question. The quality of a TV show does not dictate whether it is syndicated. Any series with 100 episodes will likely be syndicated. In fact some shows only get extra episodes so they can meet the syndication requirement. According to Jim had eight seasons, was that great too? As for Friends being popular....well yeah, duh. That doesn't mean I have to find it good though. Even if it was the greatest show ever, it ended 10 years ago, it had 10 seasons worth of stories, the characters all reached their natural end. Why dig up the body?
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 8, 2014 13:49:27 GMT -5
No thanks.
Friends itself wasn't even that great. Let it be.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 8, 2014 11:14:13 GMT -5
I have a 2 and a half-year-old nephew who I look after quite often. Not once has it ever crossed my mind to spank him when he misbehaves. To be fair he's pretty well behaved anyway but if he does do something bad, I get him to make eye contact with me and I tell him in a firm voice not to do what he's doing and why he shouldn't. I also often bring it back to him and ask him if he'd like it if someone did that to him. Someone earlier in this thread said that you can't reason with kids on an intellectual level but I haven't found that to be true. At least not with my nephew. He listens to me and I can see by the look on his face that he understands what I'm trying to get across to him. And for the record, I was never spanked. It's not common in the UK. It's more likely you'll get a slipper to the arse, not hard but just enough to make you go "Ow, what was that for?". My Dad only did that a couple of times though and it never affected me badly. It was me that said you can't reason with them. I should retract that statement and make it more clear. I do understand that with some children that may work. However, you have to consider that not every child is the same. What works for one may not work for another. In the case of my nephew (who btw lives with me) in most cases simply talking to him does not work. We do not spank every single time he does something wrong. We do try simply talking first. But if that doesn't work, he's spanked. If talking doesn't work, I would punish him in some other way.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 6, 2014 14:59:12 GMT -5
And your next game is on a Monday not a Saturday....against us.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 6, 2014 12:05:57 GMT -5
I have a 2 and a half-year-old nephew who I look after quite often. Not once has it ever crossed my mind to spank him when he misbehaves. To be fair he's pretty well behaved anyway but if he does do something bad, I get him to make eye contact with me and I tell him in a firm voice not to do what he's doing and why he shouldn't. I also often bring it back to him and ask him if he'd like it if someone did that to him.
Someone earlier in this thread said that you can't reason with kids on an intellectual level but I haven't found that to be true. At least not with my nephew. He listens to me and I can see by the look on his face that he understands what I'm trying to get across to him.
And for the record, I was never spanked. It's not common in the UK. It's more likely you'll get a slipper to the arse, not hard but just enough to make you go "Ow, what was that for?". My Dad only did that a couple of times though and it never affected me badly.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Oct 6, 2014 11:58:29 GMT -5
I broke my arm when I was a kid so I needed surgery on it. It's really not bad at all. They just gave me some sleeping gas and I was out like a light within about 10 seconds. No fuss, no muss.
The only part I didn't like was when I woke up and felt extremely nauseous.
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