Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I have two but the oldest is 12 and sleeps like a teenager. In fact, he's slept like a teenager since he was about 2.
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Ben is describing my upcoming weekend. I have the bounciest, liveliest daughter in the world, three years old. I wake up and feed her breakfast at about 6am and then put on morning TV and curl up on the couch and hope she doesn't want we for anything other than grunting for a couple of hours.
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What Giovanni said.
The RWC will have large international sponsors, whose signage will have to appear on all the TV coverage. The normal local sponsors will all have the RWC excluded from their contracts as all their stuff will be taken down.
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They moved out a while later and a nice Tongan couple moved in. Not long after we were woken at 5am by the sound of metal rods being hammered into the back lawn and were sporadically disturbed for the next 3 hours by the noises made when spit-roasting a pig (mostly conversation about how the cooking was going).
This would be totally acceptable as long as a decent amount of pig was presented to you. Yum.
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seeing your comment sets me wondering if the Canadian's took their longboards to Dunedin for an attempt on Baldwin Street?
About ten years ago a first year student was killed after deciding to ride a wheelie bin down Baldwin St after a night out drinking. It was out of control and hit a parked trailer about halfway down.
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Yeah, right, "Taken off the road" with a quick nudge of a Police car and then a shovel?. No danger there, eh?.
That's a bit silly. We can't think of any other way to get a skateboarder off the road?
Whether or not people should be risking their own wellbeing in that way is an interesting question. I'm going to fall in behind "people travelling incredibly fast down hills on public roads without brakes" are a risk to others.
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"The dog didn't like that chair in your bedroom, dear, so I've moved it to the kitchen,"
Clearly the woman didn't know dogs at all. My dogs will hump the furniture no matter where you leave it.
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More to the point, it meant he could stand there behind the stumps righteously asking batsmen 'why didn't ya walk? You know you were out' for hours and hours. Real gamesmanship.
And potentially walk when he knew it wouldn't matter (game was already in the bag or impossible to win), and not do it when he felt it mattered. Whether or not he did that...
I always liked batsmen who walked, in much the same way that I liked bowlers or fielders who admitted that it wasn't out or called a batsman back. I feel that it might be winning, but if you're being dishonest or withholding information it's the same as cheating.
It also gives them some standing when they shake their head to the umpire or make some indication that they're not out, or appeal for a dismissal. "Yes I think this is out" is a much stronger statement to be making to an umpire than "go on, will you give me this one as out?"
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You presented a large quote from a medical journal paper that studied an observation of 3 cases. You presented it in such a way as to imply it proved something. That is not the case.
Doesn't Dyan's paragraphs directly above indicate that she doesn't think that it proves anything, just that it's interesting?
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It's interesting that the unwritten rules that are being talked about at present are the 'gentleman' type rules - kick the football out, don't run out that guy in cricket, don't attack in cycling when a guy is fixing his bike.
There's a whole 'nother set of unwritten rules which ain't so nice. In ice hockey if a guy sprays your goalie with ice you sort them out. You don't shoot pucks on the other team's goal during warm up (again, sorting out follows). I presume other sports have similar ones.
While the first set seem to be disappearing from sport (cricket has seen a bunch broken in the past few years), the latter set seem just as strong as ever.