Dayvo
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I don't like cricket. I LOVE IT! 
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mangaman
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long quote from Bonj
I don't know where (or why) to start on this really - but as a player of tennis and cricket
1) A cricket ball is a lot harder than a tennis ball
2) Shoaib Akhtar bowled a ball at over 100mph in Durban - I was there
3) A cricket pitch is 22 yards long and the batsman is standing a few yards in front of the stumps so the ball travels about 20 yards max
A tennis court is 40 yards long and you would stand behind the baseline to receive a 100mph serve, so you have much more time to return it - the linespeople are even further back
4) If it doesn't hit the ground it is not a no ball - where do you get this nonsense
Why don't you find the nearest tramp and ask him some basics about the physics and rules of the games you're banging on about - he'll probably turn out to be Stephen Hawking (true story)
it's a pointless argument anyway - tennis players don't get injured when the ball is travelling at well over 100mph on the serve. This is largely because, a) they can see its direction of travel before it hits the ground (as in cricket), and (the simple fact of it hitting the ground takes a lot of its speed off it. What about when in tennis it bounces on the floor and then hits the linesman? he's fine, because it's travelling slow by then, due to it having hit the ground. If it doesn't hit the ground, it's a no ball.
I don't know where (or why) to start on this really - but as a player of tennis and cricket
1) A cricket ball is a lot harder than a tennis ball
2) Shoaib Akhtar bowled a ball at over 100mph in Durban - I was there
3) A cricket pitch is 22 yards long and the batsman is standing a few yards in front of the stumps so the ball travels about 20 yards max
A tennis court is 40 yards long and you would stand behind the baseline to receive a 100mph serve, so you have much more time to return it - the linespeople are even further back
4) If it doesn't hit the ground it is not a no ball - where do you get this nonsense
Why don't you find the nearest tramp and ask him some basics about the physics and rules of the games you're banging on about - he'll probably turn out to be Stephen Hawking (true story)
Arch
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marinyork said:
Oooh, where can I get one of them?
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- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Speicher said:
marinyork said:
No, I am trying to prove that Bonj cannot even write grammatically correct English.
His second sentence should have read "I have forgotten more than you know that I have forgotten".
Rough translation: However much I think he has forgotten, he has in fact forgotten more than that.
Dayvo
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Meanwhile, back to the cricket!
Anyone fancy facing this?
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ycl4X7ptk&feature=related
Anyone fancy facing this?
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ycl4X7ptk&feature=related
Dayvo said:Meanwhile, back to the cricket!
Anyone fancy facing this?
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ycl4X7ptk&feature=related
No thanks. There was a scary one where he pole-axed Brian Lara. He was stuffed full of steroids though!
Dayvo
just passin' through
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Rhythm Thief
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Dayvo said:
Ouch indeed. You can hear the noise it makes in the slow motion replays.
marinyork said:
isn't it that the phenomena already exists, but the description of WHY it exists that is the theory... whether that 'description' already exists or not, who knows?
A perfect example is fermat's last theorem. Andrew Wiles proved it in the nineties, but did fermat himself know the proof back in the 17th century? We'll never know.
don't know about a lot, maybe a bit.mangaman said:
i doubt that. That means his hand must have been moving at over 100mph when he released the ball from it, which is clearly humanly impossible.mangaman said:
so why DO they bowl it to hit the ground? Why not just lob it straight at the stumps like in baseball?mangaman said:
Speicher said:No, I am trying to prove that Bonj cannot even write grammatically correct English.
His second sentence should have read "I have forgotten more than you know that I have forgotten".
Rough translation: However much I think he has forgotten, he has in fact forgotten more than that.
no, I actually meant what i said, which is "I've probably forgotten more than you know." leaving aside the fact that i wasnt' actually talking about YOU, but actually flying monkey, but talking in the hypothetical you, the explanation of it is that if the percentage of what people have ever forgot to what they know is, say, 10%. Well, saying 'I've forgot more than you know' means that 10% of what I know, is MORE than the TOTAL of what you know - in other words I know 10 times more than what you know.
Rhythm Thief
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Bonj ... you're an arse. A brilliantly entertaining one, but an arse nonetheless.
Flying_Monkey
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The fact remains that bonj is also wrong about what is needed to get a PhD too - which is hardly surprising.
And the University of Life? Almost everyone else here shows more evidence of the kind of hard-won common sense and knowledge of the real world - whatever they've done. There are very few people who sound more naive...
And the University of Life? Almost everyone else here shows more evidence of the kind of hard-won common sense and knowledge of the real world - whatever they've done. There are very few people who sound more naive...