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The world is moving on from Bridge. All the young potential mind game players are playing Chess. The days of sitting around the kitchen table and learning Bridge with Grandma are long gone. To pick up Bridge as an older person is a daunting, and often unpleasant, experience.

Most Americans do not think the laws surrounding gun ownership are restrictive enough.

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70% of Americans don't know that Georgia is a country near Russia. 100% of Americans can't spell English words correctly. In the mind of a person asked if their favourite team "legitimately" lost any competition the answer is "no - we wuz robbed". Ask them if they can spell "legitimately" and see how you go. The percentage of bonkers is the same all over the world. But there are so many Americans that the total amount of nuttiness is amplified.

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This Canadian source seems cheap.

Completely straightforward I'm sure.

In 2/1 both partners know for sure not to stop before game. Apparently that is less clear in "Standard".

An excellent question. This exact problem just happened to me this afternoon. I play 2/1 (sort of - I learned it primarily from GIB). My partner plays standard. Playing 2/1 this is pretty clear. What does 2NT mean in "Standard" and if 2NT is wrong what should I bid?[hv=pc=n&e=sak973hk9dqj87ca3&d=n&v=e&b=9&a=p1sp2cp2np]133|200[/hv]

Well, they did make Oliver North President. He and other Republican cronies were responsible for funding a bunch of terrorists who set about murdering, raping, burning and torturing quite a few people. But the victims didn't live in Florida at the time so maybe they don't count as human?

The NRA may have been a kind of Boy Scout movement for older white men when it started but has changed a wee bit into a social movement for toxic white masculinity. Below is the abstract from Melzer's PhD thesis (2004)

BriJpro will let you play any system you want, but only with a robot.

I once read an explanation of how to tell the difference between a pornographic film and art (at the time - read European film). In pornography the 'story' is there only to connect episodes of gratuitous sexual activity. This became an issue after Deep Throat appeared. Violence can also be pornographic if it fits this explanation.

If you hit reply to the post above you'll see it expanded - should be clearer.

Open the tinyurl in a browser tab so that it expands and then copy the complete link. Then put '{hv=' in front of it and }400|300| at the end - you have to use square braces not curly braces. Afterwards add {/hv} - but with square brackets. [hv=https://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?lin=st||pn|pilowsky,~Mwest,~Mnorth,~Meast|md|2SAK87542HK5DKCQ72,SQ3HJT9632DJ954C6,SJ6H4DQT762CAT953,ST9HAQ87DA83CKJ84|sv|b|rh||ah|Board%204|mb|P|mb|P|mb|1C|an|Minor%20suit%20opening%20--%203+%20!C;%2011-21%20HCP;%2012-22%20total%20points|mb|4S|an|Aggressive%20weak%20jump%20overcall%20--%207+%20!S;%2011-%20HCP;%203+%20total%20points|mb|P|mb|P|mb|P|pc|C6|pc|C3|pc|CK|pc|C2|pc|DA|pc|DK|pc|D5|pc|D2|pc|S9|pc|SA|pc|S3|pc|S6|pc|SK|pc|SQ|pc|SJ|pc|ST|pc|CQ|pc|H6|pc|C5|pc|C4|pc|C7|pc|H3|pc|CA|pc|C8|pc|DQ|pc|D8|pc|H5|pc|D9|pc|H4|pc|HA|pc|HK|pc|H2|pc|H8|pc|S2|pc|HJ|pc|C9|mc|10|]400|300| If you want words here add them after the 300 bit.[/hv]

A BBO equivalent of 'retired numbers'? What a great idea.

All very well, mais où sont les étoiles d’antan?

[hv=pc=n&s=s92hakda84c987432&d=s&v=b&b=7&a=1cp1hp]133|200| From a non-robot tournament playing 2/1. What's the best call for South over partner's 1♥?[/hv]

Here? https://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/news_fetch.php?id=6918&v3b=web&v3v=6.3.3

Looks like a Q bid to me.

Chas_P is useful in the sense that his justification for everything is "well that's my opinion and I'm entitled to it". This makes him and his ilk interesting only in the sense that their weltschauung only permits them to agree with statements that terminate with conclusions such as "greed is good". Rational thinking and clarity of thought has no meaning in the universe for people that "know the difference between right and wrong". Entire millenia of philosophical thought from Christ's "do unto others ..." and Kant's golden rule mean absolutely nothing to people for whom the intellectual effort of getting out of bed in the morning is a struggle. I don't think there's any point in discussing morals with such people; if he has any he stole them from someone else (I think I stole that line from "Paper Moon"). What the Chas's of the world don't understand is that harming others is not a matter of opinion. His rambling here suggests that he has no conception of the 'harm principle'. With people like Chas running Bridge clubs it's no surprise that the game is dying. It amazes me that someone with such little grasp of basic societal norms has any success in a game that has as one of its core features respect for others. I was even more baffled to discover that BBO thinks so highly of his judgement and the stagnant cesspit of his opinions that he is a "yellow-jacket". He is a case-study in moral vacuums. An intellectual black hole that sucks the life out the universe. The proverbial shark in the pool; interesting to observe but don't go for a swim.

This comes from Kaplan and Sheinwold (1962) - you can read it on the internet archive. This comes from the foreword where they bemoan the crushing of American teams by Europeans with better methods. Now I know where 2/1 comes from.

Chas_P's war on pigs. Just say no.

Done

Its D-Day. Again.