Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
-
- Posts: 10339
- Joined: June 15th, 2011, 5:53 pm
Re: Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
- Sy Borg
- Site Admin
- Posts: 15148
- Joined: December 16th, 2013, 9:05 pm
Re: Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
-
- Posts: 10339
- Joined: June 15th, 2011, 5:53 pm
Re: Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
- Rederic
- Posts: 589
- Joined: May 30th, 2012, 8:26 am
- Favorite Philosopher: Bertrand Russell
- Location: South coast of England
Re: Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
It is at its worst when it deludes us into thinking we have all the answers for everybody else.
Archibald Macleish.
- Sy Borg
- Site Admin
- Posts: 15148
- Joined: December 16th, 2013, 9:05 pm
Re: Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
I know the feeling. We talk about the problem of other minds and the fact that we have these mental domains locked off from the rest of the world, but the infectiousness of moods in groups suggests permeability.Steve3007 wrote: ↑July 10th, 2018, 4:33 amMaybe it's even more abstract than that. I'm not usually much of a follower of football or any other sport but it's almost as if it's possible to flick the "care about the fortunes of my tribe" switch in the brain, and then I start watching matches with great anxiety and jumping and shouting with the rest of the tribe when they score.
I worked out why soccer players fall over after just being touched - the electrorepulsive force. If you think of each player as an electron and consider what would then happen on contact, the surprising trajectory of players after the slightest of touches becomes comprehensible.
-
- Posts: 10339
- Joined: June 15th, 2011, 5:53 pm
Re: Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
Interesting theory. If all players on both sides are electrons, and not, say, electrons on one side and positrons on the other, then it also shows that, underneath those different coloured strips they're really all the same.Greta wrote:I worked out why soccer players fall over after just being touched - the electrorepulsive force. If you think of each player as an electron and consider what would then happen on contact, the surprising trajectory of players after the slightest of touches becomes comprehensible.
Actually, though, I do quite like the theatrics particularly of some of the Latin-American players. Particularly the way they can be rolling in agony as if they've been shot and the next second, as soon as it's clear they're not going to get a free kick out of it, they're fine. No pretence of gradually fighting through the pain barrier back to fitness or anything. Just instant recovery.
You fat bastard, you fat bastard, with all due respect I put it to you that it was you who ate all the pies.Rederic wrote:This is all well and good, but who ate all the pies? (attendence at football matches required to make sense of this).
See also the "piegate" incident.
If it's England v France in the final I look forward to lots of fantastically xenophobic and tasteless chants from the crowd. "If it wasn't for the English you'd be Krauts!" (to the tune of "She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes") is one that springs to mind. Although its historical accuracy is debatable to say the least.
- LuckyR
- Moderator
- Posts: 7987
- Joined: January 18th, 2015, 1:16 am
Re: Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
- Sy Borg
- Site Admin
- Posts: 15148
- Joined: December 16th, 2013, 9:05 pm
Re: Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
England's mood after the match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7lV6-iKiwQ
- Sy Borg
- Site Admin
- Posts: 15148
- Joined: December 16th, 2013, 9:05 pm
Re: Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
Deep, Steve - the One Player Universe, where the uniformity of each player means it's essentially one footballer moving through time.Steve3007 wrote: ↑July 11th, 2018, 4:58 amInteresting theory. If all players on both sides are electrons, and not, say, electrons on one side and positrons on the other, then it also shows that, underneath those different coloured strips they're really all the same.Greta wrote:I worked out why soccer players fall over after just being touched - the electrorepulsive force. If you think of each player as an electron and consider what would then happen on contact, the surprising trajectory of players after the slightest of touches becomes comprehensible.
Note that Neymar, being a special player, is more akin to antimatter so when he makes any contact he is not just repelled but entirely annihilated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS2545hg3vs
I'm actually leery about this "all electrons are the same" jive. Nothing else in nature is exactly the same. They might have small features and structure that we can't yet probe.
Theatrics = theatre :)Steve3007 wrote:Actually, though, I do quite like the theatrics particularly of some of the Latin-American players. Particularly the way they can be rolling in agony as if they've been shot and the next second, as soon as it's clear they're not going to get a free kick out of it, they're fine. No pretence of gradually fighting through the pain barrier back to fitness or anything. Just instant recovery.
As with children screaming until they get what they want, this is just a matter of a subject appealing for benefits or mercy from a master, and of course we clever and imaginative hominids will find any possible way of manipulating any given situation.
- LuckyR
- Moderator
- Posts: 7987
- Joined: January 18th, 2015, 1:16 am
Re: Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
Good luck against Belgium today. Everyone here is watching Macron at Bastille day, making plans for tomorrowGreta wrote: ↑July 11th, 2018, 6:58 pmEngland's mood after the match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7lV6-iKiwQ
-
- Posts: 2181
- Joined: January 7th, 2015, 7:09 am
Re: Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
I worked out why soccer players fall over after just being touched - the electrorepulsive force. If you think of each player as an electron and consider what would then happen on contact, the surprising trajectory of players after the slightest of touches becomes comprehensible.
*back to cries into more beer*
- LuckyR
- Moderator
- Posts: 7987
- Joined: January 18th, 2015, 1:16 am
- Sy Borg
- Site Admin
- Posts: 15148
- Joined: December 16th, 2013, 9:05 pm
Re: Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
When you sober up, Lucky, could you fill us in more about what's happening in Paris ATM? :)
- LuckyR
- Moderator
- Posts: 7987
- Joined: January 18th, 2015, 1:16 am
Re: Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
Several observations: of course everyone "young" went to the grounds around the tour de eiffel (the champs de mars) to see the match, average folks watched in bars, cafes etc. Afterwards several hundred thousand went to the champs elysees. Wall to wall pedestrians walking on the grands boulevards, tons of honking scooters but no cars, folks walking carrying road flares and setting off smoke bombs in red or blue. This lasted in the streets from about 7 local time to about midnight. The team will have a victory parade this evening at 5 down the champs.
Folks on tv news are making a deal out of the fact that the team is 60% children of immigrants and it was very obvious that Macron made a big deal of embracing Mbappé like a son. Pundits are hopeful that the Le Pen effect will be countered at some level.
- LuckyR
- Moderator
- Posts: 7987
- Joined: January 18th, 2015, 1:16 am
Re: Fancy Playing World Cup Fantasy Football?
2023/2024 Philosophy Books of the Month
Mark Victor Hansen, Relentless: Wisdom Behind the Incomparable Chicken Soup for the Soul
by Mitzi Perdue
February 2023
Rediscovering the Wisdom of Human Nature: How Civilization Destroys Happiness
by Chet Shupe
March 2023