Wild Card
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Post by Wild Card on May 6, 2016 22:48:19 GMT -5
Hey everybody. I know it's been a long while, and I'm sorry for that. How's everybody been? Boy, you've been missed, Mae! So glad to see you here again It's good to be back, thank you! I'm glad to be here. I hadn't realized how much I missed this place. But I needed a long break. And it couldn't wait. I really didn't mean to just shut down everything, but life online had gotten to be too much. I have a lot to catch up up on here, and I do hope everyone will allow me the opportunity to do so
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Post by Mormel on May 6, 2016 23:14:21 GMT -5
By the way, pip, how is your Dutch? I understand it almost fluently. I grew up reading Dutch subtitles while watching the Cosby Show, A Different World and LA Law in English. But I would not know how to form a single sentence, it's all passive knowledge. Cool stuff. Conversely, I initially learned much of my German by watching RTL as a child. You guys had all the cool new cartoons before we did: X-Men, Gargoyles, Biker Mice... My peeve of the day: for the past 12 hours or so, Dutch radio news has been claiming that Sadiq Khan is 'the first Muslim mayor of a European capital'. So Tirana, Sarajevo, and Pristina aren't in Europe now?
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2016 1:17:43 GMT -5
Hey everybody. I know it's been a long while, and I'm sorry for that. How's everybody been? Long time, no see and I'm happy to see you back in the hunt of things ... Your presence has been missed!
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Wild Card
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Post by Wild Card on May 7, 2016 2:06:55 GMT -5
Hey everybody. I know it's been a long while, and I'm sorry for that. How's everybody been? Long time, no see and I'm happy to see you back in the hunt of things ... Your presence has been missed! I'm sorry for that, but it's good to be home I'm glad to be back to living
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on May 7, 2016 5:58:01 GMT -5
The sun is out, a slight breeze to even it out, some new vintage comics have just arrived, the house is empty, the grass is mowned, my team is playing tonight their most crucial game of the season, and I have a turntable repairing session to look forward, heaven.
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Post by Wild Card on May 7, 2016 7:33:30 GMT -5
The sun is out, a slight breeze to even it out, some new vintage comics have just arrived, the house is empty, the grass is mowned, my team is playing tonight their most crucial game of the season, and I have a turntable repairing session to look forward, heaven. That sounds super lovely, tbh. Enjoy!
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on May 7, 2016 7:36:11 GMT -5
Well, thank you. Now I just hope that my cousin who's visiting from France with his kids will stay in the city visiting monuments as long as possible today Uncle AGS sure is fun for them, but they've already been here for 6 days, kids just under 3 who discovered they love my comics and vinyls, hahahah.
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Post by The Captain on May 7, 2016 7:40:58 GMT -5
The sun is out, a slight breeze to even it out, some new vintage comics have just arrived, the house is empty, the grass is mowned, my team is playing tonight their most crucial game of the season, and I have a turntable repairing session to look forward, heaven. Who is "your team", and why is today their most crucial game?
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on May 7, 2016 7:56:35 GMT -5
"My" team s the Olympique Lyonnais, a french football team. I've been suppporting them since the mid 90ies. Between 2002 and 2008, they won 7 consecutive french championships and reached one Champions league semi final, their first ones ever, a yet un-matched achievment. What is special about them is that throughout the years, they have a philosophy of mostly using home-brewn players. They also play a very collective and offensive game. So they aren't very physical, and if the adversary is playing rough, unless the refree starts using yellow or red cards, they can struggle. Because they are using so many players nurtured by their own accademy, the titular players are usualy quite young. In the past few years along with Barcelona FC, they've been the team nurturing the most players bought by international top teams. They've also been facing the recent new dominance of Paris. Paris and its PSG club was bought by Qatari interests, who injected hundreds of millions of euros in the team, a team of mercenaries. They've mostly been unbeatable in the past 3-4 years, especially this year. Lyon had a really rough start this year, had to fire their coach midway season. When they were around #12-#13 out of 20. Now with only two games left before the end of the championship, Lyon, has managed to crawl back to a spectacular co-second position, being the first team of this year to manage to beat the PSG. Tonight, they are playing against Monaca, who share this second position. So the wnner of this game will probably secure it till the end since both teams have farly easy games in the last day. What makes the second position very much of a goal is that it qualifies the team directly to the championsleague (the biggest competition in sports in most of the world, just maybe after the world cup). It also guarantees you a 30 million euro cheque, since, in the french championship, the third place only qualifies you for a 2 round pre qualification spot to the championsleague, which is very rough since it means at least 4 games before regular season even starts, shorter holiday, and no guarantee of success. Basicly, most teams would rather finish 4th than third.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on May 7, 2016 7:57:52 GMT -5
Not sure how muchinfo you actually craved, but I like to be thorough (and by the way, I really hope your job prospects are starting to find new paths, Captain!)
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Wild Card
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Post by Wild Card on May 7, 2016 8:07:34 GMT -5
Well, thank you. Now I just hope that my cousin who's visiting from France with his kids will stay in the city visiting monuments as long as possible today Uncle AGS sure is fun for them, but they've already been here for 6 days, kids just under 3 who discovered they love my comics and vinyls, hahahah. Anytime that would be great if he did. One, so he can see much before his return home, and two, so you can have some peace! I suppose it's best to start a love of comics and vinyls from a young age! But I hope your collection is ok?
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on May 7, 2016 8:33:30 GMT -5
Yeah yeah, haha. I'm teaching them well. But for sure, we're mostly using 80ies LP's that I could easily find again if scratches happened, cool uplifting music such as Kid Creole, Prince, Arthur Russell... As for comics, they're allowed around my IDW Disney ducks hardcover collections and Jim Woodring's Frank Hardcovers, thick paper pages, so I should be safe. And they are not even three, so a plastic bag or a sink with water is enough to entertain them for hours anyways, hahaha.
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Post by The Captain on May 7, 2016 8:48:57 GMT -5
"My" team s the Olympique Lyonnais, a french football team. I've been suppporting them since the mid 90ies. Between 2002 and 2008, they won 7 consecutive french championships and reached one Champions league semi final, their first ones ever, a yet un-matched achievment. What is special about them is that throughout the years, they have a philosophy of mostly using home-brewn players. They also play a very collective and offensive game. So they aren't very physical, and if the adversary is playing rough, unless the refree starts using yellow or red cards, they can struggle. Because they are using so many players nurtured by their own accademy, the titular players are usualy quite young. In the past few years along with Barcelona FC, they've been the team nurturing the most players bought by international top teams. They've also been facing the recent new dominance of Paris. Paris and its PSG club was bought by Qatari interests, who injected hundreds of millions of euros in the team, a team of mercenaries. They've mostly been unbeatable in the past 3-4 years, especially this year. Lyon had a really rough start this year, had to fire their coach midway season. When they were around #12-#13 out of 20. Now with only two games left before the end of the championship, Lyon, has managed to crawl back to a spectacular co-second position, being the first team of this year to manage to beat the PSG. Tonight, they are playing against Monaca, who share this second position. So the wnner of this game will probably secure it till the end since both teams have farly easy games in the last day. What makes the second position very much of a goal is that it qualifies the team directly to the championsleague (the biggest competition in sports in most of the world, just maybe after the world cup). It also guarantees you a 30 million euro cheque, since, in the french championship, the third place only qualifies you for a 2 round pre qualification spot to the championsleague, which is very rough since it means at least 4 games before regular season even starts, shorter holiday, and no guarantee of success. Basicly, most teams would rather finish 4th than third. Thanks for the info about your team and league! I only follow Premier League closely (my team is Swansea City, who have had a disappointing season and only guaranteed themselves another top-flight season just last week with their win over Liverpool) and Bundesliga semi-closely (I don't follow any particular team, but I do enjoy watching matches on occasion), so I am well-aware of how the Champions League works. Hope everything works out for your club today! And thank you for your kind words about my job search. I have had a couple of interviews recently and attended a networking event yesterday that yielded some promising leads and contacts, so while nothing has happened yet, I have faith that something great is just around the corner for me.
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Post by berkley on May 7, 2016 8:56:01 GMT -5
"My" team s the Olympique Lyonnais, a french football team. I've been suppporting them since the mid 90ies. Between 2002 and 2008, they won 7 consecutive french championships and reached one Champions league semi final, their first ones ever, a yet un-matched achievment. What is special about them is that throughout the years, they have a philosophy of mostly using home-brewn players. They also play a very collective and offensive game. So they aren't very physical, and if the adversary is playing rough, unless the refree starts using yellow or red cards, they can struggle. Because they are using so many players nurtured by their own accademy, the titular players are usualy quite young. In the past few years along with Barcelona FC, they've been the team nurturing the most players bought by international top teams. They've also been facing the recent new dominance of Paris. Paris and its PSG club was bought by Qatari interests, who injected hundreds of millions of euros in the team, a team of mercenaries. They've mostly been unbeatable in the past 3-4 years, especially this year. Lyon had a really rough start this year, had to fire their coach midway season. When they were around #12-#13 out of 20. Now with only two games left before the end of the championship, Lyon, has managed to crawl back to a spectacular co-second position, being the first team of this year to manage to beat the PSG. Tonight, they are playing against Monaca, who share this second position. So the wnner of this game will probably secure it till the end since both teams have farly easy games in the last day. What makes the second position very much of a goal is that it qualifies the team directly to the championsleague (the biggest competition in sports in most of the world, just maybe after the world cup). It also guarantees you a 30 million euro cheque, since, in the french championship, the third place only qualifies you for a 2 round pre qualification spot to the championsleague, which is very rough since it means at least 4 games before regular season even starts, shorter holiday, and no guarantee of success. Basicly, most teams would rather finish 4th than third. This was cool. I like hearing about why someone follows a particular team. Could be a topic for the Sports thread!
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on May 7, 2016 8:59:16 GMT -5
Thanks for the info about your team and league! I only follow Premier League closely (my team is Swansea City, who have had a disappointing season and only guaranteed themselves another top-flight season just last week with their win over Liverpool) and Bundesliga semi-closely (I don't follow any particular team, but I do enjoy watching matches on occasion), so I am well-aware of how the Champions League works. Hope everything works out for your club today! And thank you for your kind words about my job search. I have had a couple of interviews recently and attended a networking event yesterday that yielded some promising leads and contacts, so while nothing has happened yet, I have faith that something great is just around the corner for me. Yeah, Swansea had such a weird season. Amazing start, then, a goal dryout. I really don't see why they didn't use Gomis more... I watched the game last week end against Liverpool, and you could feel the Reds already had their minds on this past weeks Europa League semi finals. But Swansea took it seriously enough to come through, so that's good. As for Lyon tonight, htey have a much better goal average than Monaco and play at home in their new stadium in which they have never lost since it was inaugurated in January, so "we" have an edge, and hte dynamic is good with 32 points out of 39 possible in hte past 13 games. A huge bonus is that the woman team has reached the Champions League final (against Wolfsburg) by crushing the PSG 7-0 in front of 22000 people in the stadium, a record in Europe for woman football But that's really just all part of the big pink smoke cloud, what matters most is your spirits are up, really glad to hear that, go Captain!
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