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    Had a 5-a-side tournament yesterday, lots of different businesses in Nottingham playing against each other. We had enough players for two teams with subs. There wasn't much organisation, and everytime we asked what the teams were nobody messaged (we have a group chat at work).

    Even when we get to the tournament, still nobody is answering when we ask what the teams are. But literally two minutes before we're due to kick off the chairman (we have a football society and get some funding from the company, and he's the one that organises matches and stuff) tells us what the teams are. He hasn't tried to balance the teams out at all, he's clearly gone for an A team and a B team, put himself on the A team with all the best players. Well I didn't make the cut and am on the B team. I ordinarily wouldn't mind so much as we still have some good players, me and three others. But the other three players on the team are awful. I'm not talking in terms of skill (I'm one of the least skillful), in terms of effort. They will just stand in one place on the pitch, not mark players, watch players run past them and just walk around rather than chasing the ball or other players down.

    The first match I took an unofficial captain role and played our four best players with one of the lazy players in net. We played well and won 2 nil (it was 8 minutes per match). It would have been a dick move to only play that team every game so we rotated subs. And we didn't win a single match after that. We would rotate subs halfway through the game which in hindsight I think was a bad move as it meant we would always have a some lazy players on the pitch.  In all the time I was on the pitch we only conceded one goal, but would still lose the game as when I subbed off we'd concede three.

    We didn't make it through the group stages, but the A team did. It was already about 9:15pm by this point, so I started to go home. And then the A team shout towards me, "You're not gonna stay and cheer us on? I can't believe it". So after they shafted us when they picked the team they still expect me to stay and watch them play.

     

    I don't know if all this sounds really petty and stuck up from an outsider perspective but it really pissed me off.

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    14 hours ago, drahkon said:

    Fell down a ladder earlier today. Doctor said it's a really bad bruise (contusion? No idea what the correct term is in English).

    Well, only thing I can say is that it hurts like hell.

    Really hope I can play football next Monday. It's the biggest game in our hobby league. The Cup Final. Don't want to miss it, even though we'll probably get wrecked :D

    Bruise and contusion are the same thing, contusion is just the medical term while bruise is the layman. Although contusion tends to sound more severe so use that if you want the most sympathy.

     

    How far did you fall? Is it really worth playing if you're gonna risk injuring yourself further? Or are you the star player and they couldn't possibly compete without you?

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    19 hours ago, Goafer said:

    I looked at his face today and regretted not calling him Garrus. From the front, the resemblance is pretty close.

    Probably not too late to change. I don't think tortoises understand or respond to their names anyway, so you can call him whatever you want.

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    2 hours ago, MindFreak said:

    Alright, trying to make a long story short here. My wife and I had a son last year, he was sick when born and had to undergo surgery thrice - the last surgery fixed him by removing most of his colon. Since then, he has naturally had a higher output rate than other babies and will always have to go to the toilet more often than most people but will other than that be fine.

    Now, the sickness was a genetic disease given by me, and there is a 50 % chance of doing it again. I don't have the disease actively but the genes for it are there. My father and one of my sisters have it, actively. Therefore we will have to go through a process when we want kid number 2 in order to select a cell that with 90 % certainty does not have the gene and put it into my wife to grow a child. Fine. We have three free trials and can afford to pay for 3 more if this is not successful. 

    If those other 3 trials do not result in a baby, my wife wants to have a child with healthy semen, i.e. not from me - of course in a clinic and all that. This is where I'm split. Because I'm not sure that I want more kids if they are not mine and I'm afraid that I will not feel like the father if we get a child that way. I told her the last thing and she told me to see a therapist... She wants more kids, and that's final - but this way, I will not get more kids, if you understand - I will have to take care of another man's kid.

    So... Question is, am I being weird about it, or is this a general man-thing that I just have to get over?

    I've thought about this an not sure I'd be OK with using donor sperm. Wouldn't really be OK with the inequality in parentage, and would definitely worry that it would be more theirs than mine. Whereas with adoption it's something you've done together, and you have the beauty of bringing an "unwanted" child into a happy home.

     

    Definitely not OK for you wife to tell you to basically see a therapist and just get over it. You have more than valid concerns about it and she can't just dictate terms like that.

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    15 minutes ago, somme said:

    I didn't find the Tyler arc was any more or less ridiculous than most other Trek stories. I actually liked the dark tone the arc brought - Klingon torture actually looked frightening for the first time. 

    It wasn't just the unrealistic nature of it, more how it felt just a bit brushed over and written to plug a plot hole.

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    On 2/15/2018 at 4:37 PM, Nolan said:

    About a week ago I googled it to check the release date and a CNN headline put a sour taste in my mouth.

     “Black Panther is for film what Barack Obama was for the presidency”

    I’ll see the movie eventually but that sort of writing/headline/comparison is just vile. 

    What's wrong with that?

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    I thought it was good. Definitely not as good as people are saying but good. The good points have been mentioned so I'll focus on the bad.

    The fight scenes were pretty shit (particularly the last one). No excitement, no tension. Kinda felt like I was waiting for them to be over.

    Would have liked to have more backstory on killmonger, and more spotlight on the internal Wakandan debate of being isolated vs opening up. For me that's the main part of the story but focuses on a single line from Lupita, then Killmonger saying we need to help people, let's do it with war, Black Panther: not with war, I kill you now I just give away our technology like nobody in Wakanda will object.

     

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    55 minutes ago, Eenuh said:

    Can't you get shopping delivered? Or does that cost too much?

    We never leave the house for food shopping anymore, just get it delivered to our door. So convenient! Hated being stuck in the supermarket on a Saturday/Sunday. :)

    Gotta second that. If you're happy to shop at the same supermarket you can get an annual pass so online delivery isn't that expensive. Probably cheaper than fuel costs. Especially if you factor in your time.

    Unless you like to shop at the discounters like Lidl/Aldi.

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    They didn't change the age of vote for men. Contrary to popular belief not all men could vote before 1918. You had to own property and other restrictions (basically only the wealthy could vote).

    The 1918 act saw that all men 21 and over could vote, and that women 30 and over could vote (but women were still subject to restrictions that men previously faced, such as owning property).

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