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  What are the differences between JW’s of different countries?

  by DannyBloem in

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  when i read some of the posts i cant help wondering that things do not go always the same everywhere.

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  Gward... who's translating the pulications into Belgian? Sounds like somthing's being lost! LOL!!
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  HAHA TAKE THAT U OZZIES

  by tijkmo in

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  england 179-8. australia 79 all out in 14 overs.

  bring it on

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  Oh... and the other rules are:

  Rules of Cricket
  1. There are two teams. One out, one in.
  2. The team that's out try to get the player that's in, out.
  3. When they do get him out, he goes in.
  4. Then the next player goes out. As long as he's out, he's in.
  5. The object is then for the team that's out to get the second player out. When they get him out, he goes in.
  6. This process is repeated for each innings until the team that's out gets the team that's in all out.
  7. When the whole team is out, the team that was in goes out, and the team that was out goes in.
  8. Then they play a second innings until they're all out. Except one player. He remains not out.

  What's so hard about that?!?

  An alternative explanation is here: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/cricket/explanation.htm
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  HAHA TAKE THAT U OZZIES

  by tijkmo in

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  england 179-8. australia 79 all out in 14 overs.

  bring it on

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  Can anybody out there in Oz kindly explain the rules of cricket to me?...just so's I can join in all the fun this summer...

  
  

  
  You're quite right to ask Australian's rather than the English how the game's played... ;-)

  As no Englishman will read this, I can give you the plain version of the Laws of Cricket... the main one is that mental anguish is to be applied to the English by any and all means whatever every two years.

  Now... you know how cereberal they like to pretend to be... that means there's a certain art to really hurting them...

  If you just walk out there and beat them 100 - 0 sort of thing, then they get all happy and sing and drink the night along as though it's just how things are meant to be... like at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester they just learned how to sing Advance Australia Fair and drank more... but there was no helping that...

  So what you have to do is set them up*... give them confidence ... let hope sneak into their little hearts while you get used to the cold, wet, bleak misery of an English summer. If you make the decade for Bangladesh while you're at it, well that's just a bonus for regional cooperation with our SE Asian neighbours...

  Now, sometimes giving them hope goes a bit wrong and they actually win somthing worth winning... like the rugby... but that was the first time in decades they got away with it (and a great bit of play right on the final buzzer sealed it). But normally it dosn't matter much if they have a better team, as they did then, we still win anyhow because they're used to loosing and we're used to winning.

  Anyway, that's the abridged rules of Ashes cricket. Hope it helps.

  Cheers, Max

  *Only Bradman broke those rules when he decided it was better not to be beaten at all on an Ashes tour, but that was back in 1948 and Bradman was that sort of guy...
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  Hello world, this is my first post ever...

  by zagor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wanted to tell everyone how much i love this forum but never had balls to join in.

  now that i'm officially dfd i can do whatever i like.

  how about that?

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  Thank you guys, I was scared as hell to start posting here. But now there's no turning back :)

  You were right to be scared... but now you're in... too late... expect bolts of lightning to strike around you any moment...

  Cheers, Max
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  Ozzie's Wine of the Month - June 2005

  by ozziepost in

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  2. friends

  it's been a while since we shared our wine tasting notes.

  perhaps this weekend is just the right time!

  our good navy friends have been keeping in touch from all parts of the globe while i was in hospital, phoning from this or that terminal.

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  Well, we did the honours over a 1992 Leeuwin Prelude Cab Sav we got about 1995 for $22 - a lot for a wine back then! The storage had been very poor, but the cork had stayed sealed and the wine was in reasonable condition. It was rich with a lot of flavour, but it would have been vinigar soon I think - it wasn't a perfect bottle by any means.

  There's an annual concert at the winery in Margaret River that's worth going to - Sting played this year.
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  Guns: Opinions?

  by RichieRich in

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  my mom isnt a big fan of guns, but after being mugged once, she appreciates the value of a well placed firearm.

  she doesn't mind that i hunt and go to the shooting range regularly with my father.

  about 6 months ago, i was out in field service with my mother and an elder's 2 daughters.

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  Gun ownership is sometimes argued on the basis of rights or freedoms... if there's a correlation between general freedom, freedom to own a gun, and the number of people killed by guns... then we should see the most free countries on earth having the highest gun death rates... Let's pick an arbitary 5 deaths per 100,000 as a stick in the mud...

  Here are gun-related deaths per 100,000 people in the world's 36 richest countries in 1994:

  >5 deaths per 100,000

  United States 14.24; Brazil 12.95; Mexico 12.69; Estonia 12.26; Argentina 8.93; Northern Ireland 6.63; Finland 6.46; Switzerland 5.31; France 5.15;

  <5 deaths per 100,000

  Canada 4.31; Norway 3.82; Austria 3.70; Portugal 3.20; Israel 2.91; Belgium 2.90; Australia 2.65; Slovenia 2.60; Italy 2.44; New Zealand 2.38; Denmark 2.09; Sweden 1.92; Kuwait 1.84; Greece 1.29; Germany 1.24; Hungary 1.11; Republic of Ireland 0.97; Spain 0.78; Netherlands 0.70; Scotland 0.54; England and Wales 0.41; Taiwan 0.37; Singapore 0.21; Mauritius 0.19; Hong Kong 0.14; South Korea 0.12; Japan 0.05.

  I suppose each person's milage may vary, but having been to over half the countries on the list I reckon the average level of civil freedom is at least as great or greater in the second group of countries than in the first group.

  Personaly, I don't think civil liberty/freedom is a good argument in favor of widespread, loosley controlled gun ownership. In the US it's probably more a historic thing that's hard to change. That's about as far as the argument can go.

  Cheers, Max - a gun lover who shoots regularly with a licenced, safely stored target firearm in a country in the second list
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  Guns: Opinions?

  by RichieRich in

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  my mom isnt a big fan of guns, but after being mugged once, she appreciates the value of a well placed firearm.

  she doesn't mind that i hunt and go to the shooting range regularly with my father.

  about 6 months ago, i was out in field service with my mother and an elder's 2 daughters.

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  ... the occassional accidental shooting (cleaning a gun, kid finds improperly stored firearm, shoots brother, hunting accident because Bubba Joe is drunk, etc.).

  These aren't accidents. These are killings. These are reckless, careless choices people make.
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  Guns: Opinions?

  by RichieRich in

  1. jw
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  my mom isnt a big fan of guns, but after being mugged once, she appreciates the value of a well placed firearm.

  she doesn't mind that i hunt and go to the shooting range regularly with my father.

  about 6 months ago, i was out in field service with my mother and an elder's 2 daughters.

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  Imagine going to a Judicial Committee armed!

  How about field service with a 9mm in the book bag?

  Could you work an old flintlock rifle in to a student talk as a prop? Maybe compare the firepower to David's ass bone?

  A Glock each would add interest to an elder's meeting!!
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  Watched Sunday, JW's at my door 30 mins later!!

  by Max Divergent in

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  i watched sunday this morning, then was on my way out 30 minutes later but guess who was at my doorstep?

  smooth jw elder and a little boy!

  i was very controlled, and had the choice of letting my identity as "an opposed person" or whatever be known, or to retain my cover as an ordinary member of the public!

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  My word he was.... where was Viv? This John guy was hung out to dry. Their silly letter and refusal to speak spoke volumes...
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  Ozzie's Weekend Poll # 135

  by ozziepost in

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  well, what a week!

  health problems have been our overriding concern but, as the song says, "i'm still standing!

  how's things been with you?

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  iThere were just better thinks to be doing... eating, drinkng, sleeping, JWDing, just sitting, watching Sunday, walking the dog, going to Macca's, making mad passionate love, howling at the moon... all sorts of things....