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"I hate the f*****g Eagles"
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Mike, I think an important question would be: "If the ref noticed the intentional face stomp would a foul be called?" I don't know soccer rules.
If purposefully stepping on the face of an opponent is against the rules in olympic soccer, then my answer would be yes, it is unsportsmanlike.
If the rules say it's OK, then that's part of the game.
In real football
there are all kinds of personal fouls called for unnecessary roughness. IMO they are important to the game for the safety of the athletes. Even in the big bad NFL an intentional late hit is universally considered to be a cheap shot.Violent Conduct is listed as the second of the seven potential red card offenses.
If the official had seen the foul by Tancredi it would have been an automatic redcard. Player ejection and Canada plays a man down for the rest of the game. Additionally the ejected player would not be able to play in the next game.
Competitive players always push the envelope as far as what a particular group of officials will allow in each game. They play rough but this incident clearly deserves a red card.
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The highlight was Mrs. Enrico Pallazzo singing the National Anthem.
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He doesn't smell too good, that's for sure.
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Porn in 3D on a 60" screen,,,Hmmmmmmmm !!!!!!!!
I'm guessing reaching toward the screen resulting in jammed fingers could become a common household injury.
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I like to celebrate the birth of our nation by blowing up little pieces of it.
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I have two Weber grills, my One Touch Silver 22 is over 10 year old and my One Touch Gold 22.5 was purchased used and about 10 years also.
I use both of these when I have cookouts, If I'm just cooking a few things then just one. My next charcoal grill I want to get this Weber Grill.
James
Weber Ranch, from a previous thread...
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I found it on the computer
Awfully nice of the person that left it there.
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Just mic up the tractor...
http://www.bibri.net/2009/08/31/kapela-hraje-tak-dobre-jak-hraje-bubenik/
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I received a new Nikon 70 - 300 zoom lens yesterday and I have been itching to try it out.
That's the lens I was using on a D80, it's the model with VR, the VR works very well. much better than expected.
dtel,
Yes it's the VR model.
Santa brought me a D300s (my daughter gets my old D80) and I traded in my old 70 - 300 ED and a few other items and picked up this one, so it was almost a wash as far as cost.
The difference between the two lenses is significant, so much sharper and faster focus. Although the new lens is a f4.5 vs f4 on the old one.
The VR really works, I have it on my 18 - 200 as well and it is amazing to watch it work.
But my guess is colter will accuse us of cheating because he brags about being so rock steady.
Check it out, click on the photo a couple of times and enlarge it, the tree was about 20 feet away and this guy was about 30 feet up, (cropped and slightly sharpened):
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Flann, beautiful pic.....that is too funny about the deer. Like dtel said, it's always such a surprise shen you see a deer (animal) where they usually don't appear. One time I saw about eight deer in the back yard....I thought it was a herd of cows that had gotten loose from somewhere...until I saw the "white tails" when they started running. I was speechless...well maybe "somewhat speechless". lol
The funny thing is we see them almost every day.
Does, fawns, bucks, individuals, or as many as a dozen at a time. We've had them come right up to our deck and also look into the windows of our house. If you are up at 2 am you'll see them curled up and sleeping in the middle of the yard, even at 10 below zero and in a couple feet of snow.
They reek havoc on all types of gardens. In the spring they eat the tops off of our bearded iris and they'll do plenty of unwanted pruning to our tomato plants.
Between the coyotes and the deer we could open a game preserve.
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I received a new Nikon 70 - 300 zoom lens yesterday and I have been itching to try it out. The weather today is perfect, about a foot and a half of snow on the ground and a bright sunny sky (finally). So I figure I'll go outside for a couple of hours and see what it'll do.
Before I even leave my yard I take a look at our birdfeeder and there are a couple of Cardinals and a Red Bellied Woodpecker happily munching away. I take a couple of shots from about 40 feet away. They come out sharp as a tack with brilliant colors. I am loving this lens.
As I am looking through the viewfinder waiting for the woodpecker to lift his head up, all the birds explode from the feeder and scatter all at once. I lower the camera from my eye thinking "What the hell? Did the neighbor let out his gd dog again?"
Out of the corner of my eye I sense movement, just as an eight point buck streaks through my yard, perhaps 30 feet away and right in front of me. Of course I stood there with my mouth open having completely forgotten that I HAVE A CAMERA IN MY HAND! Like a dope I watched him leaping through the snow and into the woods at the edge of the property without even thinking to take a picture.
A true face palm moment.
Winchester21 - You sure are right about the corn (as well as a salt lick). Although it is against the law here in Illinois to feed deer. We are so overpopulated with them and the worry is about spreading Chronic Wasting Disease. The state arranges controlled culling of the herds at certain times of the year, outside of the regular hunting season. Which is really necessary, but it still gets protested by the usual collection of idiots that don't understand how much suffering the deer go through when they are overpopulated.
A no deer photo:
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"Hold on, Hold on, Hold on. The name of the Hurricane is... Hurricane Ditka"
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How about the generators that rub against a bicycle tire?
I have no idea what they produce.
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I've always envied those on the forum that had a chance to meet PWK.
Thanks for posting these.
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Could it be seeping from under and then around the edges the slab rather than through or down the wall?
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Or Junior Kimbrough.
"I don' look like I used
Can't walk like I used
Cain't love like I used
Now things have changed
And I done got old
I cain't do the thangs I used to do;
I'm a old man" -
I can't believe no one has posted R.L. Burnside.
"Ain't that cold? That's colder than a Mother-in-laws love. Ain't it?" -
Years ago I was lucky enough to have seen both Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters play. Both shows were in small bars on the north side of Chicago and among the best live performances I have ever heard. I consider myself lucky for having caught them before they passed.
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They get a warning and are put back on the street. Many are mentally ill. You may have seen a scene from Lower Wacker drive in a Batman movie with the bums. It is like that and worse.
My thought is that the guy has a long sheet and is sleeping it off in a garage because he has never done anything bad enough to put him in jail for any length of time.
There are organizations in Chicago which try to help these poor souls. Most of them don't get with the program. it is, I believe, mental illness at the root. They are probably harmless.
You can thank our useless ex-governor Big Jim Thompson for the vast majority of this problem.
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Amy,
I'm sorry for your loss. It will get better though.
- Jim
there are all kinds of personal fouls called for unnecessary roughness. IMO they are important to the game for the safety of the athletes. Even in the big bad NFL an intentional late hit is universally considered to be a cheap shot.
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This is about 3 minutes from my home. If the seller were to offer them at a realistic price and anyone here was interested I would be willing to check them out.