@jegga His two books on Eisenhower were outstanding. I’ll have to give your recommendation a try.

@jegga Stephen Ambrose is the daddy.

@Paekakboyz said in Tommy Robinson:

@jegga that's worse that putting concrete mix in millkshakes.

Far out. left

Fixed.

@Crazy-Horse So what made you pull her over?

@Bovidae said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

Fear not, there's another Toni Street article on Stuff.

Oh no, poor Toni’s not ill is she? Or having another baby?

Stuff have just jumped the shark, with perhaps the dumbest, unfunny article they have published.

No doubt it's to start the conversation or something.

@Bones said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:

@pakman said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:

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Agree wholeheartedly.

I was just thinking the same thing. It summed up my feelings exactly.

@barbarian said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:

I also have a big issue with the tiebreak, on a philosophical level as much as anything.

It implies that fours and sixes are somehow more virtuous than singles, twos and threes. That a batsmen who walks off with 30 (30) with five sixes and 25 dots has batted better than someone who scored 30 (30) with 30 singles.

But isn’t that in fact the essence of the IPL / T20 / Big Bash formats? They assume that punters want to see boundaries. Bowlers are just there to feed runs to the big hitters. I never watch it for exactly that reason, it’s a skill, but it’s not what I like about cricket. And I won’t be surprised that this boundary countback nonsense originated with the same people who came up with those competitions.

@Bovidae said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:

So proud of the team but gutted to get so close and lose in that manner.

There will be (rightfully) some criticism of the choice of Guptill for the super over. CdH would have been a much better option as he has the ability to bludgeon good balls to the boundary.

To be fair, we saw CdH facing Archer earlier on and all the bludgeoning that was going on was by the bowler. CdH got a hiding.

@akan004 said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:

@JC Agreed. That first statement was just me venting. Wasn't anyone's fault, apart from the fat fucker from South Africa.

I really couldn’t give a shit. I hate cricket, only just realised.

Bugger.