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  1. Son of L8
    Fucking hell!
  2. Son of L8
    It's completely infuriating. We had an absolutely brilliant game of cricket on the go. Just over 2.5 runs per ball. Well, we know Plunkett can hit some massive sixes. Swing that bat you great lump.
  3. Son of L8
    This game deserves a finish. Fuck off with the weather!
  4. Son of L8
    Its been a class effort. Credit to them, they're playing in the right way. Normally if England were nearing 300 after 38 overs we'd be calling it a fine days work so far.
  5. Son of L8
    Billings goes and we're on the ropes now. Shame because the total was actually looking reachable.
  6. Son of L8
    Well, that's made things a bit more difficult.
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    My Mum, bless her, always struggled a little bit with expressions and slang. Once when I was about 12 and she'd had a few of the neighbours round for tea one night, I made some clever comment at the table -- as I was wont to do as a lad -- and she gave me an impressed look and said "Well, you -- you're not a pretty face, are you?"
  8. Son of L8
    Yeah, no complaints about the approach. We're going at this the right way, the only way that could give us a chance of chasing down such a huge score. A lot hanging on the next wicket or two. The platform for a chase is there, but another partnership needed to push it on.
  9. Son of L8
    Not a bad first 10 overs. All our wickets in hand, scoring more than a run a ball.
  10. Son of L8
    I'm exactly the opposite. Because of having some linguistic background before going after German, I studied the hell out of the formal structures in advance of going conversational. I've got a good handle on all the grammatical peculiarities but can really struggle keeping up with fast-paced conversation, especially with multiple speakers, because my brain wants to parse everything out structurally as if I was reading. German grammar is fascinating though. There's this weird mix of elements recognizable to English speakers, but combined with ancient Indo-European structures that long ago vanished from English. Even what setreal pointed out about the gender of Nasenbluten is interesting -- the accusative article is ein instead of einen because the noun stem is actually a verb, bluten, and a German verb gets turned into a noun by adding a neuter article to the infinitive. It's like describing the act of bleeding as "a to-bleed-ness thing". That's bizarre to an English speaker's brain, but it's exactly identical to how verbal nouns were formed 2,400 years ago in ancient Greek, which is really interesting. ... Well, it's interesting if you're a complete geek for this shit like me.
  11. Son of L8
    Piece of piss this. They didn't even get 400.
  12. Son of L8
    Rashid the pick of the bowlers so far, to go with his 69 off 50 balls.
  13. Son of L8
    Places like Hollywood, New York, Vancouver, etc, are full of these, ranging from earning large incomes from teaching or "consulting" on scripts and indie projects to just blagging their way into women's (and men's) pants. Many of them don't even bother to get their basic facts straight about how the industry works, and get it so outrageously wrong that even a child could tell they were lying... And yet it still works. The allure of success. It's like a drug to those on the industry peripheries, such that you can sell the equivalent of baking soda and washing powder and people will still snort it up like cocaine.
  14. Son of L8
    If you had told me a few months ago that England would make 400 in an ODI this summer, I'd have laughed at you so hard I'd have shit. Brilliant innings all around.
  15. Son of L8
    Exactly. 180-3 to 202-6, but now it's 350 with four overs left to bat. Buttler makes the second fastest English century in ODIs, to go with the fastest one he hit last year.
  16. Son of L8
    Well, bizarro England I suppose I meant. And it's brilliant. Those wickets hit hard, but if Buttler can keep going we're still on for a nice big score.
  17. Son of L8
    England 7.5 runs an over through nearly half the innings. Its bizarro cricket. Root with a 71-ball hundred.
  18. Son of L8
    Root getting it done once again. 67 off his first 50 balls.
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    Languages have always fascinated me, from childhood, and have been a pretty constant hobby throughout whatever I've done with my life. I'm good on German, French and Italian, and can read Latin fairly fluently. Spanish is basic, I can read Arabic script and string basic conversation together, and my reading of Greek is getting better. Next up, I'd love to take a run at Russian, then maybe Japanese. Thing is, once you get started it gets easier very quickly, and progressively easier and easier to learn the more you learn. Eventually your brain understands enough of how languages are built that acquisition becomes almost passive. The only difficulty is keeping your vocabularies separate... If I try to think of a word in one language, my brain will produce the equivalent in three others before I find the one I want.
  20. Son of L8
    Sack all the cunts!
  21. Son of L8
    Match reports saying he was booed playing for Ingerlund. What was that all about? Was he just shit, or something to do with us?
  22. Son of L8
    Admittedly that is a flaw in my reasoning. In my mind, the backroom this year was staffed by a field trip from a special group home. -- I think we'll have Sterling at right wing back this week. Now, who wants an ice cream? -- Yay!
  23. Son of L8
    Whether this is a positive or a negative will depend entirely on who they're replaced with. No sense over-doing the reaction until we know that. Give us some strong, wise football men in the background, and maybe some of Rodgers' worst weaknesses could be controlled. An independent, experienced assistant might have taken him aside and told him "Err, don't play half your squad in positions they're shit at and we might win a few more games..." or something. It does look like his authority at the club has been undermined, though. Whether that's a good thing will come clear next autumn.
  24. Son of L8
    Bell and Ballance should both be left out the ODIs, go play a couple county games and score some runs in the longer form, then come back for Cardiff in July. They're both good players who we'll need to have in good touch if we're to stand a chance against the Aussies, and trying to play one-day innings is not going to help either of them get into Test form. On the other hand, Rashid or Borthwick should have a go in the one-day series to see if they can stake a claim to come in for the Ashes because Ali juts doesn't make sense right now. Is he in the side for his batting or his bowling? Coming in at number eight is a waste if he's picked to score runs, and his bowling figures don't justify selection on their own. edit: just seen the ODI squad announced. Ballance, Bell, Broad, Anderson and Ali all left out. Rashid is in there, so hopefully he gets a chance to bat and bowl.
  25. Son of L8
    Seen on the BBC: "Joe Root: England can chase 455 to win" .....
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