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We all know that football is the correct term for what we know as soccer and Europeans can't call american football "football". So, what would you call it then?
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Let them call it... Lompas.
Large Overpaid Men Pushing And Shoving
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Slacker007 wrote: what would you call it then?
The germans: We call it blitzkrieg.
The Brazilians: That about covers it.
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I've no idea, but OT: my old group (The Woodville Household) once provided the half time entertainment for the London Monarchs (at White Hart Lane, no less). It was pretty mental charging onto the field in full 15th century armour with the crowd roaring.
If I learnt one thing that day it's that Groundsmen really don't like you dragging cannon over their pitch. Oops.
Anna ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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Anna-Jayne! Holy crap! It's been a very long time since I've see you post.
How's life treating you?
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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I'm good...just a very busy bunny these days. That's a good thing, I think. 
Hope things are going well for you too!
Anna
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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Doesn't the "N" stand for "national"?
Oh wait.
We're talking sports mentality, so I shouldn't expect anything resembling common sense.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've started to get into it recently, nothing to do with the London games but because it's on here late at night over the Weekends which suits me well as my Missus is usually studying then so I get the box to myself.
I even know some of the players too, although mostly Quaterbacks.
I'm struggling to choose a team to support though.
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Huh. Nothing about the Dallas team's hashtag? :p
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What is your favorite?
I like my kindle for enjoyment reading. Fiction
But for technical books. Safaribooksonline is great.
Any one else have ideas? Inputs?
super started it on a page after this. I just though I would expand the other discussion from just kindle.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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I liked the racing cars you could put together...mostly I liked the themed toys, I remember once there was a Pink panther collection I had all but one, my parents spent a fortune on eggs trying to get the last one.
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My daughter wanted to collect all the penguins, but she figured out that the ones with penguins in where heavier than the ones with the car kits, which saved me a small fortune.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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For fiction and 'stuff I can get for free using it' I use my paperwhite kindle.
Technical and reference stuff I can't read on a device. I scribble notes, add post-its and brutalize books, so I always buy hard copies.
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Old as I am, I seem to have gone off hard copy. PDF is my staple for technical stuff, and it didn't read nicely on my kindle. So I'm stuck behind my laptop, and a massive pile of tech books to catch up on.
I say "didn't" because I left the thing on the damned train a while ago, and my self employment (read: between jobs) budget is severely under pressure now.
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Over the years, I have accumulated an immense collection of books, because I do an immense amount of research on a lot of subjects.
I haven't even opened one of them in at least five years.
If you're seriously looking for information, hard copy is just too damned slow, and, because all too many books aren't structured in a way that's, shall we say, optimal, it can be too damned easy to miss important details.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have always (with the exception of a certain brand of hair products) heard the word "suave" combined with "debonair" - never standalone (and vice versa).
In the past it has been applied to men like Cary Grant ("Cary Grant is suave and debonair"); in modern times, two obvious candidates for such a description are Pierce Brosnan and, say, Ndamukong Suh.
But I wonder: is it possible to be "suave" but not debonair? Debonair but not suave? If so, please give some examples. e.g., is Ted Nugent suave but not debonair? Is Barack Obama debonair but not suave?
Would it, in fact -- since these two adjectives seem inseparably linked -- actually be a "backhanded compliment" to call someone "suave" OR "debonair" (not both)? IOW, would calling someone suave be tantamount to saying they are decidedly NOT debonair? Similarly, would calling someone debonair be tantamount to saying they are decidedly NOT suave?
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These are really challenging questions. What a time to be alive !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Ha ha ha ha!!!
Jeremy Falcon
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Rage wrote: These are really challenging questions.
Yes, yes. They move The Discussion forward and make you think about the important issues in the world.
My, oh my. Suave or debonair. 
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"De bon air" is heritage, according to the dictionary, where suave is someone who's a soft egg. They can be combined, but need not to.
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Rico is only known to be suave.
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I'd say someone could be suave and working class (indeed that is my goal) but I think debonair requires family money.
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I'd say almost synonyms, debonair applies more towards disposition, family and background and suave to communication, sensibilities and not wishing to offend. Sources: Debonair = of good family; Suave = sweet. Used together implies emphasis.
Compare other terms like "fair and just" or "smart and wise" where the words may not quite mean the same thing but are frequently interchanged.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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