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i don't watch the NBA either, but I'm not sure it is a fair comparison. In basketball, people are penalized for using that approach.

If stalling was still part of the game but penalized with yellows and reds, it would still be used sometimes but far less. I could deal with that.

06-16-2012 , 05:42 PM

#6378

younguns87

POG gonan POG

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If I ever attended a golf tournament that's all I would say

06-16-2012 , 05:43 PM

#6379

eyebooger

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 58,700

Quote:

Originally Posted by derwipok

Because it's so much fun when they constantly foul to stop the clock in the last 2 minutes of an NBA game...

That actually doesn't bother me so much.

The endless amount and length of timeouts however.....

06-16-2012 , 05:48 PM

#6380

dkgojackets

DKGOAT

Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 86,123

Quote:

Originally Posted by biggerboat

Pretty low on the scale of stupid crap golf fans do.

Number 2 - Running over where a ball goes out of bounds and standing in a circle staring at it.

Number 1 - Yelling "get in the hole" every time anyone hits the ball.

golf fans have to know the least about the game compared to what they think they know out of any pro sport

i think its because you think you are an expert just because you play golf too, on the same courses even!

06-16-2012 , 05:49 PM

#6381

dkgojackets

DKGOAT

Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 86,123

that constant intentional fouling at the end of basketball games is horrible, anti-basketball and Ive yet to see a good argument in support of it

also the nba giving you the ball at the other teams three point line after a timeout is ******ed.

06-16-2012 , 06:00 PM

#6382

Chips Ahoy

help me help you

Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 28,869

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aksdal

And I was j walking. Could've been bad

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/com...ywalking/1837/

Quote:

It wasn’t always like this. Browse through New York Times accounts of pedestrians dying after being struck by automobiles prior to 1930, and you’ll see that in nearly every case, the driver is charged with something like “technical manslaughter.” And it wasn’t just New York. Across the country, drivers were held criminally responsible when they killed or injured people with their vehicles.
...
“If you ask people today what a street is for, they will say cars,” says Norton. “That’s practically the opposite of what they would have said 100 years ago.”

Streets back then were vibrant places with a multitude of users and uses. When the automobile first showed up, Norton says, it was seen as an intruder and a menace. Editorial cartoons regularly depicted the Grim Reaper behind the wheel. That image persisted well into the 1920s.

Today, livable streets advocates such as New York’s Transportation Alternatives spend a lot of time and energy trying to get people to take pedestrian fatalities seriously. But at the beginning of the 20th century, traffic deaths – particularly the deaths of children – drew enormous attention.

“If a child is struck and killed by a car in 2012, it is treated as a private loss, to be grieved privately by the family,” Norton says. “Before, this stuff was treated as a public loss – much like the death of soldiers.” Mayors dedicated monuments to the victims of traffic crimes, accompanied by marching bands and children dressed in white, carrying flowers.

“We’re talking less about laws than we are about norms,” says Norton. He cites a 1923 editorial from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch – a solidly mainstream institution, as he points out. The paper opined that even in the case of a child darting out into traffic, a driver who disclaimed responsibility was committing “the perjury of a murderer.”
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Public opinion was on the side of the pedestrian, as well. “There was a lot of anger in the early years,” says Norton. “A lot of resentment against cars for endangering streets.” Auto clubs and manufacturers realized they had a big image problem, Norton says, and they moved aggressively to change the way Americans thought about cars, streets, and traffic.
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One key turning point, according to Norton, came in 1923 in Cincinnati. Citizens’ anger over pedestrian deaths gave rise to a referendum drive. It gathered some 7,000 signatures in support of a rule that would have required all vehicles in the city to be fitted with speed governors limiting them to 25 miles per hour.

Local auto clubs and dealers recognized that cars would be a lot harder to sell if there was a cap on their speed. So they went into overdrive in their campaign against the initiative. They sent letters to every individual with a car in the city, saying that the rule would condemn the U.S. to the fate of China, which they painted as the world’s most backward nation. They even hired pretty women to invite men to head to the polls and vote against the rule. And the measure failed.

They also got Detroit involved. The automakers banded together to help fight the Cincinnati rule, according to Norton. “And they remained organized after that,” he says.

The industry lobbied to change the law, promoting the adoption of traffic statutes to supplant common law. The statutes were designed to restrict pedestrian use of the street and give primacy to cars. The idea of "jaywalking” – a concept that had not really existed prior to 1920 – was enshrined in law.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dkgojackets

i think its because you think you are an expert just because you play golf too, on the same courses even!

I played Olympic when I was in high school.

<-- Obvious expert

06-16-2012 , 06:32 PM

#6383

VoraciousReader

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Is there anyone that might be able to call night in my game tomorrow if I am not back in time? I think it is pretty unlikely that I won't be able to at least call it from my phone in the car ride home, but if the restaurant runs extra long I don't exactly want to have to keep glancing at my watch and then make a furtive bathroom run.

Although I did obviously consider the scenario. I am a sick individual.

06-16-2012 , 06:34 PM

#6384

VoraciousReader

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dkgojackets

that constant intentional fouling at the end of basketball games is horrible, anti-basketball and Ive yet to see a good argument in support of it

I understand it when it's a difference of a basket. But when one team is 8 points behind, I just sit there thinking, "really? let it go guys."

06-16-2012 , 06:34 PM

#6385

well named

poorly undertitled

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I can do it.

06-16-2012 , 06:36 PM

#6386

VoraciousReader

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Thank you! I appreciate it very much. Just for that, I will rand() you villager next time...for FREE!

06-16-2012 , 06:37 PM

#6387

well named

poorly undertitled

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woot!

06-16-2012 , 06:38 PM

#6388

Willi

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lololollllllllllllllllllllllll

russia

06-16-2012 , 06:38 PM

#6389

Henrik Sedin

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Quote:

Originally Posted by VoraciousReader

I understand it when it's a difference of a basket. But when one team is 8 points behind, I just sit there thinking, "really? let it go guys."

yeah but, once every million games or w/e something like this happens!:

06-16-2012 , 06:39 PM

#6390

Willi

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inb4 lolrussia undertitle :P

06-16-2012 , 06:42 PM

#6391

DonkDonkDonkDonk

Goose

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Willi

lololollllllllllllllllllllllll

russia

when are estonia playing next?

06-16-2012 , 06:59 PM

#6392

McAvoy

banned

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Willi

inb4 lolrussia undertitle :P

<3 Russia

goat undertitle for Willi

Actually

<3 USA would probably be better

06-16-2012 , 07:05 PM

#6393

gder

veteran

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 3,167

music contest vs younguns, who chose the better set of 5 songs

06-16-2012 , 07:05 PM

#6394

younguns87

POG gonan POG

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 60,870

Beautiful Day- U2
Faithfully- Journey
Free Bird- lynryd skynyrd
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing- Aerosmith
Piano Man - Billy Joel

06-16-2012 , 07:09 PM

#6395

kioshk

Nixonian

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gder in a landslide

06-16-2012 , 07:12 PM

#6396

Supine

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hey willi

06-16-2012 , 07:13 PM

#6397

Henrik Sedin

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kioshk

gder in a landslide

yup, even tho you both picked some real [censored]

Under Pressure & Hypnotize good enough to carry the day...

06-16-2012 , 07:14 PM

#6398

McAvoy

banned

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omg those are some of the worst top 5 songs ever.

I planned to vote gder no matter what but his list is so horribad that I can't. Then I can't possibly vote kony when he has U2 as his first song.

06-16-2012 , 07:14 PM

#6399

wahoopride

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younguns ainec

06-16-2012 , 07:15 PM

#6400

wahoopride

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under pressure best song of the 10 but i couldn't listen all the way through any of gder's other four

younguns list is somewhat boring, lol journey but still an easy win

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