Drawing the line (Qatar)

[Athos]

A thought on the england game. Perhaps 3 of the black players who missed pens and got racist abuse against Italy scored? Which was nice.

Two of the three.

 

[8ball]

richard of york gave battle in vain.

Alternatively, there the "not making up colours" version:

Richard of York gave brilliant presents.

 

[strung out]

Important communique: I've broken my commitment to not watch it, having me tea in a pub with poland v Mexico on the telly. Serves me right, it was shit.

A thought on the england game. Perhaps 3 of the black players who missed pens and got racist abuse against Italy scored? Which was nice.

Only two of them. Jadon Sancho wasn't picked in the squad.

 

[Wilf]

Ah, right. Saka and Rashford? I'd thought Bellingham took a pen back then as well.

 

[friedaweed]

Absolutely. Just name someone who wont play, barring miracles/disasters, as captain and sub them off after five minutes. They were playing Iran, it was hardly risky.

Yup. That would have been the perfect occasion for Gazza's comeback. At least they wouldn't have to worry about him being too tanked up.

 

[friedaweed]

So round ball fans watching this. If you liked rugby would you have watched apartheid era Springbok games? If not, what are the differences?

Nope, and I'm not watching this either for all the same reasons.

I went all the way to Manchester on Monday to a meeting and when I got there they had the England game on with no sound on a large whiteboard. When I sat with my back to it a mate from another service asked "You not interested in watching the game then Frieda?" so I told him and consequently the rest of the room that I was boycotting the entire event.

To be fair they offered to switch it off but I told them I didn't want to spoil their 'MEETING' if there were people who wanted to watch it. The reality was the meeting was so intense no-one noticed the footy.

 

[Idaho]

I'm watching because I like the world cup. I don't really watch much other football. FIFA and various/most nation states have been wankers since their inception - this is not new.

 

[friedaweed]

And if they get knocked out of the group stage?

Messi will show his arse in Woolworths window and pay his taxes.

 

[Storm Fox]

Alternatively, there the "not making up colours" version:

Richard of York gave brilliant presents.

I assume presents you are referring to purple. However ones brain sees purple as a combination of the red and blue cells firing so is not a spectrum colour.

The Color Purple — In Physics

Okezue Bell '23 breaks down the physics of the color purple, explaining how the color is more than what meets the eye.

blog.moravianacademy.org

Purple can be seen on occasion in rainbows when they are supernumerary and the voilet of one box merges with the red of an other so the brain perceives purple.

Rainbow - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Rainbows Don’t Include Purple Light, So Why Do They Sometimes Seem To?

Supernumerary rings, supernumerary rings, supernummrings

www.smithsonianmag.com

While on the subject of brain invented colours, brown is orange with context

 

[friedaweed]

Wasn't Grobbelaar bought for about £40,000 for a single match?

To be fair he was worth that at least watching him go all disco legged for a penno.

 

[8ball]

I assume presents you are referring to purple. However ones brain sees purple as a combination of the red and blue cells firing so is not a spectrum colour.

Brain sees all colours due to various patterns of three cell types firing.

But yes, purple.

Small children know this. They see with their unsullied eyes that “indigo” is bullshit.

 

[Storm Fox]

Brain sees all colours due to various patterns of three cell types firing.

But yes, purple.

But not in a normal rainbow. As there is no single part of the rainbow that would fire the red and blue cells at the same time.

 

[8ball]

But not in a normal rainbow. As there is no single part of the rainbow that would fire the red and blue cells at the same time.

We get a lot of mutant rainbows round my way.

The video about brown is interesting, but my brain seems to be rebelling and turning all the illustrative oranges into brown as a protest.

 

[Storm Fox]

We get a lot of mutant rainbows round my way.

The video about brown is interesting, but my brain seems to be rebelling and turning all the illustrative oranges into brown as a protest.

Technologies Connections is a great channel.

 

[8ball]

Technologies Connections is a great channel.

Yeah, was it you that posted the one about Americans not using electric kettles?

 

[Storm Fox]

Yeah, was it you that posted the one about Americans not using electric kettles?

I have a shit memory, so did a quick search. It was gentlegreen here: My electricity bill has just tripled: how about yours? Alternative suppliers?

 

[8ball]

I have a shit memory, so did a quick search. It was gentlegreen here: My electricity bill has just tripled: how about yours? Alternative suppliers?

Was there also one about magenta, maybe?

 

[Sasaferrato]

richard of york gave battle in vain.

vibygor

 

[Pickman's model]

vibygor

Yeh, two miles from grytviken

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I have been paying attention far more than usual due to the chicanery of this one.

 

[bcuster]

 

[A380]

Home | Rugby World Cup 2023 France

The official site of Rugby World Cup 2023, with ticketing, venue and event information, news and videos.

www.rugbyworldcup.com

 

[Elpenor]

Home | Rugby World Cup 2023 France

The official site of Rugby World Cup 2023, with ticketing, venue and event information, news and videos.

www.rugbyworldcup.com

I’m in Marseille for the first weekend taking in two games.

 

[editor]

Nicely put:

 

[twistedAM]

Home | Rugby World Cup 2023 France

The official site of Rugby World Cup 2023, with ticketing, venue and event information, news and videos.

www.rugbyworldcup.com

I’m boycotting that. Libya.

 

[teuchter]

But not in a normal rainbow. As there is no single part of the rainbow that would fire the red and blue cells at the same time.

I don't think this is quite right.

Start at 4:23 in this video



That video helped me understand a few things that had previously confused me about colour ... like how a linear spectrum of wavelengths can co-exist with the apparently circular continuum of colours that we represent on a colour wheel. It's all about the two peaks in the red cone sensitivity.

 

[klang]

I'm watching because I like the world cup. I don't really watch much other football.

Morally, for every 10 not-watched premier league games you are allowed to watch 1 world cup game.

 

[klang]

vibygor

roygbiv

 

[Aladdin]

Graeme Souness goes out of his way to remind British viewers of Irish treatment live on ITV | SportsJOE.ie

Graeme Souness went out of his way to remind British viewers of Irish treatment live on ITV during their coverage of Tuesday's World Cup, Day 3.

www.sportsjoe.ie

Roy Keane & Souness.

Putting it on the line that the ganes shouldn't be in Qatar because of the human rights violations, treatment and deaths of migrant workers, homophobia and treatment of LGBT people.

And Souness then reminds everyone how the Irish have been treated by the British.

Interesting and very honest and open

 

[ska invita]

Nicely put:

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if england went on with those armbands would the entire team get a yellow card each?