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On the other hand the Fora are a great place for discussing it because people argue about silly and unnecessary things endlessly here. Try calling the director. Just like at the club - you'll get nowhere fast, but if you want to slow things down and you are really worried, you can always ask before you bid. Mike Lawrence advises people to never ask on the grounds that you will only remind them of their system.

The comment about different smoking habits is accurate, but it must also be remembered that the Italian diet differs markedly from the British diet. In addition, there are genetic subtleties such as thalassemia (Italy) or sickle cell (African-American) disorder that could have differential effects. Finally, I recall being at a hypertension conference where the head of a British Heart Institute (Prof. Anna Dominiciak) remarked that she sometimes referred to the British as "the control group of Europe because they never took their tablets". The point is that there are multiple risk factors in each population that contribute. We still know very little. I congratulate BBO again on picking up the slack as the worlds physical bridge clubs close.

And in case anyone wants a workaround, here is a website that converts long-form URLs into tiny ones until, if ever, the bug is fixed. caveat emptor: I found it on google. tinyurl.com

when saving hands as tinyurls I used to get:https://tinyurl.com/trwtlxk today I got where the (ellipsis) ... bit has been chopped out but is three miles long on my spreadsheet :-( https://www.bridgeba...C5|pc|C8|mc|11|

On a less serious note can we have a place in the forum where people that know what humour is can make posts? Humour is an extremely powerful coping mechanism in times of crisis. See life is beautiful.

On a personal note, like most of you that I have spoken to, I have all of the risk factors in the list. I don't have cancer yet but most of my family die of it. I am a doctor, a scientist and a statistician but I still get colds and I still get fooled by simple things. But I do learn quickly. I have just been in self-isolation for three weeks. Fortunately i have a good GP who tests his patients for viruses so the department can know when the annual influenza pandemic starts. It turns out I had a rhinovirus. Also a RSV respiratory syncytial virus that you can die of. I had to be on antibiotics for two weeks and started taking lessons with Pete Hollands. Now i can play in a 4/4 fit much more successfully. I improved after 2 weeks but then got worse again. My doctor sent me to a drive-in lab. where I had a swab that came back positive for rhinovirus and negative for sars-cov-2! It took me a while to discover that Covid-19 is a disease caused by a virus called sars-cov-2. And I thought bridge was a difficult game. Well I hope you guys keep healthy. Keep thinking: as the Sundance Kid said: that's what we're good at.

Well, here is a picture of Angela Merkel to show you how to do it - presumably at an Aldi

Absolutely. If you can't laugh a little. What's the point anyway? I use skype, line is also popular, WhatsApp works well. I think you're on to something Ken. Now you can choose your friends with great care 😊.

I just wanted to thank the programmers for introducing the new option to use against people that pass to indicate a strong hand when not vul v. vul

Here's a method that might help: https://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/81895-i-got-bored-so-i-decided-to-invent-a-new-game/page__p__991606__hl__bored__fromsearch__1?do=findComment&comment=991606

OK fair enough thanks Steve

LOL Here's what your post says Steve: "2) K from AK+ GIB played the K on 1061/1061 occasions. Whew. Though, given the other results, I kind of find this surprising." And that's exactly my experience as well, which is why I was shocked no, SHOCKED when the King appeared after the Ace. but then I guess I'm easily amused. especially these days.

As Marvin Gaye would say: Just a little something to distract ourselves in troubled times... The GIB System notes say: "If it leads an honor that's part of a sequence, it uses standard honor leads (K from AKx, A from AK doubleton). If it leads from a long suit, it leads 4th best (but see above: it doesn't always lead its long suit). When leading from 3 small, it leads low against both suit and NT contracts." But today! After p1Cp1Dp1NTp2Hp3NTppp At Trick 1, West leads the Ace from AK87. The honoravirus perhaps?

Although, in a way, it's nice to know that somebody cares

My friend had the same problem. Turned out that you needed to have a credit card number with BBO. Paypal alone was not enough. :-)

That would be great. I have asked for this several times and have never had a response.

It's a privilege to know people like this. You are very lucky. I have met a few: it's a very humbling experience.

lol

Bobby Jones, the first player to achieve a Grand Slam, was born on March 17, 1902

Just in, in Australia: "To States and Territories The ABF recommends that Bridge Clubs be temporarily closed for four weeks as from Wednesday 18th March 2020 (or a date next week set by the club) with the situation to be reviewed at the end of that period. A further extension may be imposed if necessary. Almost all the clubs that I am a member of have sent messages saying that they are complying. One of them after discussing it first. I'm surprised that they felt the need to discuss it first.

Yesterday I got logged out in the middle of practice so I remembered being taught arithmetic with Cuisenaire blocks (turns out they still exist - http://www.cuisenaire.co.uk/) so I invented a new game. It's a bit like that card game 'bridge': you might have heard of it?. In fact, I was able to shake out the first deal and put it through the BBO double dummy analysis when it came back online. This is the result. Cheapest dealing machine ever!

Thanks guys

I would like to think that what you say is true Barry. But it isn't. Very little editing is needed. The participation rate in American elections has always been poor. When Trump was elected only 55.5% of the eligible population turned out to vote. Incredibly, Trump became President despite losing this election by 2,868,686 votes. To put this in context, the following year only 2,813,503 people in America died (data from the CDC). How stupid is the world you ask? Here are the facts. 40% of Americans don't know what Auschwitz was.49% of millennials cannot name a single concentration camp or ghetto.More than 50% of Americans believe that Hitler came to power in a coup rather than being democratically elected.More than one-third of Americans believe that fewer than 2 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis.More than a third of Americans cannot name a single right protected by the bill of rights.Only a quarter of Americans know all three branches of government.More than half of Americans believe that undocumented immigrants have no constitutional rights.25% think the Earth orbits the Sun.34% of Americans reject evolution entirely.I laughed until I stopped.

"I'd like to say it's been a pleasure having you." My mother would sometimes say as she waved goodbye to visitors. I learned from a young age that my mother was not entirely trustworthy. The same is true of many adults; teachers in particular. In Washington, it's called plausible deniability. Unfortunately, it seems to have come round and bitten America on the AKx. Here are a few things that teachers say: and what they really mean. Your son could work harder: Your son is bone idle, disruptive and driving me nuts. He should go to military school.Your daughter has a lot of potential: your daughter is incredibly lazy. Please take her elsewhere.Your son is a stable genius: your son can walk, but can barely talk or read and has reached the absolute limit (stable) of what he can achieve because of his complete inability to listen to what others say to him and you will need to care for him for the rest of his life. He is a danger to himself and others. Military school is the only option.And if you think this just applies to children, watch what happens when a people on the street about things like "what's the religion in Israel", or "how many sides does a triangle have". Then ask yourself again why Trump got elected. To be fair, I once heard someone unable to spell ACDC when answering a quiz on a radio station. So I think the problem may be universal.

That's grossly unfair. I took up duplicate bridge 1 year ago so that I could meet beautiful women and handsome men that were well dressed and chatted calmly about philosophy and religion. I have to say its really been working out for me. Although I must say the ones that I meet tend to be doctors, lawyers and engineers. Perhaps they should replace the tape measure with a stethoscope?