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John Red-Horse wrote:
As far as I've ever heard, there was no hidden agenda to preclude the existence or acknowledgement of other versions of football from the mix of world sport. You never heard because you are not a member of the outer circle of the conspiracy, managed by the inner cartel, controlled by the central cabal. The Gnomes of Switzerland transferred themselves to Wall Street in 1874. Immediately foreseeing that the coming European union and European common currency would become a threat to their hegemony, they developed a long range plan to demoralize the world by diminishing the world's chosen sport by absconding with its very name. Oops; I hear a knock at the door - you don't think they're coming for me, do you? I take it all back. I was only kidding. It's all nonsense! Forget I ever said anything! |
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John Red-Horse wrote:
john (gosh, klaus, this really is more fun than watching football g) Root canals are more fun than watching football. -- Cheers, Bev ================================================== = "I love deadlines... especially the whooshing sound they make as they go by." -Douglas Adams |
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The Real Bev wrote:
John Red-Horse wrote: john (gosh, klaus, this really is more fun than watching football g) Root canals are more fun than watching football. Hey! Any excuse to sit in the sun and drink. |
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:02:42 -0800, "Richard Henry"
wrote: "Alex Heney" wrote in message .. . I still can't get used to you 'merkans calling it just "football". To us, that means the *original* football - known to you as "soccer". I thought the origianl football was now called "rugby". Of course even ruggers have two sets of rules. No, soccer came before rugby. -- Alex Heney, Global Villager Ideas are not responsible for their followers! To reply by email, my address is aDOTjDOTheneyATbtinternetDOTcom |
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klaus wrote in message news:bvsh0k$cq6$
I believe in nonstress situations, 6 is the greatest number of things we can remember as one "unit" (Russ?? you've got to have dealt with this??) Beyond that size you have to break it into subgroups. Though there are individual differences, short-term memory span is typically 7 (+/-2) or basically between 5 and 9. Which is why remberring a 7 digit phone number is right at most people's limit. But yes, you can chunk into subgroups - the 3 number (801) area code, for example, would probably only take the STM space of one "digit". People think STM span can be improved with training. Then again, it can be impeded by other things. (That girl I met while drinking last night... what was her phone number again? Thank god for my cell phone. Oh wait... what was her name again?) btw- today was EPIC out there. -rc |
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I lost track of who wrote what, but somebody wrote:
Absolutely not. I just meant that over-analysis and getting caught up in terms and words can distract a person from the actual situation - at least that can happen if you're a simpleton like me. I just liked russ' "macro-level obs" approach. [snip] Jeez, carry on by all means - I was just trying to let russ know I appreciated his thoughts concerning the empirical. Thank you. My reasons were deeper. I was out recently with some new bc partners (always interesting). Everything was weird (though the snow has turned out to be suprisngly stable through this cycle), to the point that I was only wanting to ski low-angle tree shots. Their (fresh out of avi class) approach was along the lines of "I know that slope is steep, exposed, and wind loaded, but we don't know that it's unsafe until we dig a pit. Maybe our micro-observations will change your mind." In other words, using snowpits and snow crystal/bonding reasons to convince yourself to ski a slope rather than (in my opinion) the more sensible approach of using these things to convince yourself NOT to ski a slope. There's a big difference between the philosophy of "all slopes are safe to ski unless proven otherise" and "no slope is safe to ski unless proven so." Surely, there's a compromise between these two - but I often see people using micro-level observations in the hope of overriding foreboding macro-level observations. Like others here, I trust my ears and ears more than physical chemistry and thermodyanmics. As a psychologist, (though it's way out of my normal area) I've become really interested in a lot of high risk judgement and decision making situations, including (obviously) backcountry skiing judgements and decisions. Today I was skiing in-bounds and was pondering the fact that my usual bc ski partners are probably an average of 10 years older than my usualy resort partners. They probably drink close to the same amount though. -rc |
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