Posts by Max Divergent

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Little Britain

by JV in

seeing as i live on the other side of the pond, can all you english folk out there tell me how many seasons of this show there are?

and if it's still going.

much appreciated

Max Divergent

I thought it was a documentary too ... about modern British sociological trends... Mmm... shows how wrong you can be...

Is the English cricket team out of a comedy show too?

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HAHA TAKE THAT U OZZIES

by tijkmo in

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england 179-8. australia 79 all out in 14 overs.

bring it on

Max Divergent

Hi Merry~~Mag~~can! Did u spot the link to an illustrated explanation? http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/cricket/explanation.htm or try www.baggygreen.com

Hi tij - it took Prime Ministerial intervention to get even the tests televised!!

The tension is mounting after the last result... ;-)

Cheers!

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HAHA TAKE THAT U OZZIES

by tijkmo in

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england 179-8. australia 79 all out in 14 overs.

bring it on

Just saw the highlights* of the Bangladesh game!! Wow!! They done real good!! That young guy getting 100!! Cool!! The bookies were offering 500-1 for them to win apparently!! That's so great for them!!

And leave poor old Kim alone!! It was real men - Holding, Garner, Marshall, Croft, Lloyd, Richards, Lillee, Marsh, Chappell et al who got to him... not Poms.

4/166 after 34.4... mmm... hope the bowlers have gotten used to those second rate Duke balls by now...

Cheers!

* no Aussie TV station wanted the telecast rights to the series... too boring to watch us win they said!! I think it's SBS - a PBS eqivilent with lower ratings - with the rights!!

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What do you feel when you see groups of Jehovah's Witnesses on the street?

by nicolaou in

regret, anger frustration?

how about sadness, sorrow, sympathy, understanding, even yearning!.

it can be quite confusing at times.

Max Divergent

Relief I'm out and don't do that anymore. Curiosity about why they are in and doing it.

A vauge sense of comminality - sorta like coming across someone from my own country while overseas...

Judgement if their dress, facial hair, demenour isn't what I was taught it should be... Brother Divergent still comes out sometimes...

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What are the differences between JWs of different countries?

by DannyBloem in

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when i read some of the posts i cant help wondering that things do not go always the same everywhere.

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Max Divergent

Gward... who's translating the pulications into Belgian? Sounds like somthing's being lost! LOL!!

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HAHA TAKE THAT U OZZIES

by tijkmo in

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england 179-8. australia 79 all out in 14 overs.

bring it on

Max Divergent

Oh... and the other rules are:

Rules of Cricket
1. There are two teams. One out, one in.
2. The team that's out try to get the player that's in, out.
3. When they do get him out, he goes in.
4. Then the next player goes out. As long as he's out, he's in.
5. The object is then for the team that's out to get the second player out. When they get him out, he goes in.
6. This process is repeated for each innings until the team that's out gets the team that's in all out.
7. When the whole team is out, the team that was in goes out, and the team that was out goes in.
8. Then they play a second innings until they're all out. Except one player. He remains not out.

What's so hard about that?!?

An alternative explanation is here: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/cricket/explanation.htm

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HAHA TAKE THAT U OZZIES

by tijkmo in

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england 179-8. australia 79 all out in 14 overs.

bring it on

Max Divergent

Can anybody out there in Oz kindly explain the rules of cricket to me?...just so's I can join in all the fun this summer...

You're quite right to ask Australian's rather than the English how the game's played... ;-)

As no Englishman will read this, I can give you the plain version of the Laws of Cricket... the main one is that mental anguish is to be applied to the English by any and all means whatever every two years.

Now... you know how cereberal they like to pretend to be... that means there's a certain art to really hurting them...

If you just walk out there and beat them 100 - 0 sort of thing, then they get all happy and sing and drink the night along as though it's just how things are meant to be... like at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester they just learned how to sing Advance Australia Fair and drank more... but there was no helping that...

So what you have to do is set them up*... give them confidence ... let hope sneak into their little hearts while you get used to the cold, wet, bleak misery of an English summer. If you make the decade for Bangladesh while you're at it, well that's just a bonus for regional cooperation with our SE Asian neighbours...

Now, sometimes giving them hope goes a bit wrong and they actually win somthing worth winning... like the rugby... but that was the first time in decades they got away with it (and a great bit of play right on the final buzzer sealed it). But normally it dosn't matter much if they have a better team, as they did then, we still win anyhow because they're used to loosing and we're used to winning.

Anyway, that's the abridged rules of Ashes cricket. Hope it helps.

Cheers, Max

*Only Bradman broke those rules when he decided it was better not to be beaten at all on an Ashes tour, but that was back in 1948 and Bradman was that sort of guy...

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Hello world, this is my first post ever...

by zagor in

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friends

just wanted to tell everyone how much i love this forum but never had balls to join in.

now that i'm officially dfd i can do whatever i like.

how about that?

Max Divergent

Thank you guys, I was scared as hell to start posting here. But now there's no turning back :)

You were right to be scared... but now you're in... too late... expect bolts of lightning to strike around you any moment...

Cheers, Max

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Ozzie's Wine of the Month - June 2005

by ozziepost in

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it's been a while since we shared our wine tasting notes.

perhaps this weekend is just the right time!

our good navy friends have been keeping in touch from all parts of the globe while i was in hospital, phoning from this or that terminal.

Max Divergent

Well, we did the honours over a 1992 Leeuwin Prelude Cab Sav we got about 1995 for $22 - a lot for a wine back then! The storage had been very poor, but the cork had stayed sealed and the wine was in reasonable condition. It was rich with a lot of flavour, but it would have been vinigar soon I think - it wasn't a perfect bottle by any means.

There's an annual concert at the winery in Margaret River that's worth going to - Sting played this year.

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Guns: Opinions?

by RichieRich in

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my mom isnt a big fan of guns, but after being mugged once, she appreciates the value of a well placed firearm.

she doesn't mind that i hunt and go to the shooting range regularly with my father.

about 6 months ago, i was out in field service with my mother and an elder's 2 daughters.

Max Divergent

Gun ownership is sometimes argued on the basis of rights or freedoms... if there's a correlation between general freedom, freedom to own a gun, and the number of people killed by guns... then we should see the most free countries on earth having the highest gun death rates... Let's pick an arbitary 5 deaths per 100,000 as a stick in the mud...

Here are gun-related deaths per 100,000 people in the world's 36 richest countries in 1994:

>5 deaths per 100,000

United States 14.24; Brazil 12.95; Mexico 12.69; Estonia 12.26; Argentina 8.93; Northern Ireland 6.63; Finland 6.46; Switzerland 5.31; France 5.15;

<5 deaths per 100,000

Canada 4.31; Norway 3.82; Austria 3.70; Portugal 3.20; Israel 2.91; Belgium 2.90; Australia 2.65; Slovenia 2.60; Italy 2.44; New Zealand 2.38; Denmark 2.09; Sweden 1.92; Kuwait 1.84; Greece 1.29; Germany 1.24; Hungary 1.11; Republic of Ireland 0.97; Spain 0.78; Netherlands 0.70; Scotland 0.54; England and Wales 0.41; Taiwan 0.37; Singapore 0.21; Mauritius 0.19; Hong Kong 0.14; South Korea 0.12; Japan 0.05.

I suppose each person's milage may vary, but having been to over half the countries on the list I reckon the average level of civil freedom is at least as great or greater in the second group of countries than in the first group.

Personaly, I don't think civil liberty/freedom is a good argument in favor of widespread, loosley controlled gun ownership. In the US it's probably more a historic thing that's hard to change. That's about as far as the argument can go.

Cheers, Max - a gun lover who shoots regularly with a licenced, safely stored target firearm in a country in the second list