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I NOW HAVE IT. However, I have two assignments due tomorrow, and then two the day after, so I cannot play. FOUR DAY WEEKEND COMING UP, THOUGH. STARCRAFT#$@$#
as chance would have it, today i purchased a litre of locally grown organic chocolate milk. i went to a park and lay on the grass, sipping my chocolate milk and reading kafka short stories
later i went to an independent cinema and caught the double-bill; it was a "zydeco/cajun score" theme tonight. all of this was done, of course, in skinny jeans and sk8 shoes
gonna go listen to some now, now every children. don't even bother clicking; you'd HATE them
I AM SOOOOOOOOOO EFFING INDIE.....................
everytime it hurts, it hurts just like the first (and then you cry till there's no more tears)
Thank you posters for your suggestions. Here is the final preliminary list (prior to the posting of the final list for the poll) in NO particular order:
1. Ben Daswani vs Duncan Smith
2. Gary Ruben vs Duncan Smith
3. Hugh Siddeley vs Duncan Smith
4. Lorne Yee vs Duncan Smith
5. Warrick Rolfe vs Duncan Smith
6. Jordan Berson vs Sheldon Pimentel
7. Vlad Dobrich vs Bindi Cheng
8. Paul Bonham vs Jean Hebert
9. Beckwith & Seedhouse vs Drkulec & Ruben
10. Hebert vs anyone who can speak English
While compiling this list I wondered why discussions get so heated and out of hand here. I came up with a couple of reasons:
1. When your behind a computer screen you can't see the guy's face and physical cues that temper down confrontations in real life aren't visible. That's why road rage exists, you can't see the guy's face.
Wow Duncan Smith has been in half of the TOP fights...he must piss off alot of people. I'm sure Mr. Hebert has had his fair-share of disagreements in french as well.
Monty Python is always funny...
Last edited by Adam Cormier; Wednesday, 28th July, 2010, 09:24 PM.
I NOW HAVE IT. However, I have two assignments due tomorrow, and then two the day after, so I cannot play. FOUR DAY WEEKEND COMING UP, THOUGH. STARCRAFT#$@$#
I almost forgot about the release... I'm dling it now :) even though it doesn't have LAN play... There goes any form of productivity for the next couple of weeks.
Wow Duncan Smith has been in half of the TOP fights...he must piss off alot of people.
predescu-smith and "winchester"-smith could have also made the list
on a related note, i hit up another double-bill at a DIFFERENT independent cinema tonight. two kurosawa flicks. good times for all. know what i brought to the theatre? a salad, consisting of lettuce, mushroom, yellow pepper, red bartlett pear and a balsamic vinaigrette.
THAT'S RIGHT, I PUT EFFING PEARS IN MY SALADS. NOW WHO'S INDIE?! i'm indie. WANNA KNOW WHO ISN'T INDIE?! you, compared to me
p.s. yes, was wearing skinny jeans and sk8 kicks, AS PER USUAL. maybe gonna switch it up tomorrow. SKINNY CORDUROYS?! you know it...
everytime it hurts, it hurts just like the first (and then you cry till there's no more tears)
predescu-smith and "winchester"-smith could have also made the list
on a related note, i hit up another double-bill at a DIFFERENT independent cinema tonight. two kurosawa flicks. good times for all. know what i brought to the theatre? a salad, consisting of lettuce, mushroom, yellow pepper, red bartlett pear and a balsamic vinaigrette.
THAT'S RIGHT, I PUT EFFING PEARS IN MY SALADS. NOW WHO'S INDIE?! i'm indie. WANNA KNOW WHO ISN'T INDIE?! you, compared to me
p.s. yes, was wearing skinny jeans and sk8 kicks, AS PER USUAL. maybe gonna switch it up tomorrow. SKINNY CORDUROYS?! you know it...
wasn't too pleased about being able to smell this during the movie... definitely gonna narc you out next time
I'd like to conduct a poll (unconstructive) to see what posters believe are the All-time TOP 5 fights on Chesstalk.
By coincidence I gave this idea a passing thought myself last week, but dismissed it as being distasteful (what, you say, is too distasteful on chesstalk? :D).
Gary Ruben used to have some pretty heated discussions with Tom O'Donnell. It may be my imagination, but Tom may have mellowed since tying the knot.
Myself, I normally preserve my tussles for the chessboard, though sometimes I get drawn into them. If a person's last post allows one to not reply without much loss of face then as a rule I think it's best to end a developing conflict. Otherwise it can go on for days and preoccupy one completely, sort of like a wolfpack vs. convey WWII battle. The last time I was tempted to continue a 'battle' was when a friend in a certain profession told me that a certain chesstalk poster's views were ignorant, despite their being in the same profession. But I decided to let sleeping dogs lie.
One master once told me that allowing one's opponent in a chessgame to win a post mortem was 'weak for the next round'. I have never been good at post mortems. I just take my wins as they come and often don't mind conceding the loss of a post mortem (though after two particular losses to a GM only in his twenties, he each time thought my chosen opening line was trash; it took me awhile, in my shock, to recall for him that Miles played the one line often, while in the other case a line was also playable, reached by transposition in ECO). In general arguments never prove anything. You have to do your own research.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer
Wow Kevin nice to meet you. It's great that you play chess as well. I really enjoyed your work in "The Usual Suspects" and "American Beauty" was great too.
That's interesting what you say about post mortems, some players are just amazing at them. Are you saying it's weak for the next round to be beaten in a post mortem or weak for the player winning the post mortem?
Wow Duncan Smith has been in half of the TOP fights...he must piss off alot of people.
I think he was going through a rough patch and also paranoid about his daughter's chess results. For example you could say "It's a beautiful day outside!" and he'd take offence to that and somehow think you were criticizing his parental abilities or his daughter's chess skill. Like MMA fighters or boxers he had a short career here on Chesstalk due to too many concussions I think. I've heard he's taken up curling now, I guess that's less painful.
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