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Would they call themselves "Vermin" or "Marginalia"?

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Hrotha, GReat question. Only in Goulash tournaments where they are designed to be bananas, and in all the Best Hand tourneys where you know that all the other hands are less than or equal to yours (HCP only). In addition to the randomness of the deals, if playing against robots, you can also be assured of random bidding by your partner and the other two robots. BBO goes to extraordinary lengths to provide excellent service.

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The person that you have quoted is paraphrasing the plot of a very old film called "the Producers" - made first with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. It featured the song and dance number "Springtime for Hitler" and the catchphrase "Be a smarty join the NAZI party." What these people did not realise was that they were making an instruction manual for Donald Trump. That's what you get when you show a comedy to people with no sense of humour. It's hard to satirise things that are completely ridiculous. I suppose that's why Sarah Cooper was so successful. She simply let him say his own words.

Yes, you can. Select the chat that you want to save and use cntrl+C or cmnd+C to copy it. Then you can save it anywhere, or you can click into any white space in the chat area and a menu will appear. One of the options is called "chat manager" - click on that and paste your conversation into the message area and click add. Your chat is now stored in the chat manager and you can access it by opening the chat manager. Personally, I would just copy and paste it into an external document but horses for courses I guess.

According to B&A 1NT-3NT calls for the lead of a major.

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The largest cohort of police officers in the USA are ex-military. The largest proportion of which come from the southern states. Less surprising in context. The same thing in Australia but occupational health and safety trumps everything else here. You cannot work in a hospital in Australia unless you are fully vaccinated against everything. The same applies to all health care workers and multiple other sectors. There are always some that claim religious exemptions but that still means they can't work. - Religious exemption is bogus anyway - it is basically code for "I've run out of stupid ideas" and I don't wanna. Then we have "medical exemption" these are vanishingly rare.

No, you aren't missing anything. I should have been less oblique. The numbers are the marks (totals 6). I was discussing STEM literacy with a colleague yesterday and looked up the proportion of final year high school students in NSW undertaking various levels. The maths that you and I probably took is called Maths Extension 1 and 2 - taken by only 16% of students. Physics and chemistry by 24%. The question was copied from a lower level maths called maths advanced (38%) - the majority of students take a lower form called 'standard'. Only 42.49% took any form of science at all. This is only a percentage of those students that get to the final level of high school. There was almost nothing in the exam that would suggest a big emphasis on being able to work out whether or not one group was significantly different from another. I suspect this explains the unwavering belief that so many people have in things that make no sense at all. Agree about Isaac - it's hard enough trying to be a shoulder upon which he might have stood.

From last years Advanced mathematics paper for final year students in NSW: For Americans living outside Boston, this applies to coffee as well.

Yes, it's explicable, but it still makes no sense. Having a well-educated, healthy and highly skilled workforce that doesn't have to be worried about their elderly parents or children dying for lack of adequate healthcare is also "in the national interest". There are two ways to improve individual sectors in the common wealth. 1. Allow individuals to garner as much of the pie as possible (the American dream). 2. Make the pie bigger by enabling as many of the residents as possible and leaving no one behind (democratic socialism). Australia oscillates between the two.

My point here is that in Individuals, although there is a specified code you can't be certain your partner will use it or knows it. This raises the question: If I make a bid can I refuse to provide an explanation on the grounds that I am not aware that I have a specific agreement (say with a pick-up partner) even if I am hoping that my partner will interpret it as artificial (transfers). I've played in multiple games where people ask me for information about the exact content of my hand as opposed to my expectation of what my partner will think my bid means on the basis of formal or informal understandings. The problem is the meaning of the simple phrase "what does your bid mean?".

What irks me is the endless amount of money that all governments are spending on an arsenal of weapons and yet Rand Paul waxes lyrical about the importance of paying for your own education. If you compare the national expenditure of the largest economy on blowing ***** up compared to offering education to as many citizens as possible, A always seems to outrank B. 1996 is not that long ago. Neither was 1940. I'm still amazed that after the 'flu pandemic lawmakers have the gall to say "well this is a 100-year event - not our fault we didn't expect it" Unfortunately, 100-year events happen nearly every year. It's the millennial events that are harder to spot - like climate change.

Many people enjoy them. It's silly, childish and a bit pointless, but there it is. People also argue about what the best measure is to reflect skill - BBO ranking is not it. But in every competitive sport, there are rankings. Nowadays, the idea of gamification has caught on in the workplace. Eugene Garfield is partly responsible for destroying the effective operation of the scientific enterprise with his "impact factor" and other false metrics of importance. Rankings aren't intrinsically valuable, and they are not an "instantaneous" measure of performance, but they do provide a gentle moving average of performance. You can "earn" gold points in Australia if you pay the governing body to play in large tournaments - but you can't melt them down and sell them. Rankings, points, medals etc., only have an intrinsic worth to the people that have them; it has nothing to do with you. The only one that I find intrinsically objectionable is the yellow star because of its historical association with anti-semitism. There are many people that enjoy the Snark hunt for dubious points, rankings and titles; and a lot of people that don't care about them at all. You seem to be in a very small category of people that don't like other people taking pleasure from something unimportant - like tennis, football and music. Would you extend your displeasure to argue that food guides should be eliminated because they prevent people from enjoying restaurants that are to your liking but not to the liking of the rankers? The Yiddish word for taking pleasure in the success of others is "nachas". The word for taking pleasure in the failure of others is schadenfreude. Is there a word to describe a sensation where you feel displeasure at the enjoyment felt by others?

I find that the stuff that GIB does translates into real Bridge sometimes. Regarding leads, if GIB leads low then it's 3rd down or 4th down - mostly. This means that the rule of 11 is really helpful with GIB. If it leads high it comes from a doubleton - sometimes. If it can lead a singleton in a suit contract it will. If you make a lead directing bid it will assume you have an honour but the chances of getting a lead of that suit are about 50/50. It will often lead trumps in a suit contract if it has nothing better - particularly if it has a singleton and it rates you for a 4/4 fit - eg after a Stayman sequence. Regarding discards. It could be my imagination but GIB seems to prefer to discard high if it makes no difference. I would also like expert opinion on returning leads. Trying to figure out GIB leads makes me work much harder in FTF but it also means my own signalling is hopeless guesswork - mostly.

Over the past week, I have been substituting. About half the invites are for teams. These 'games' have a serious problem in that about half of them do not finish - mainly because people drop out. Can I suggest (adding my voice again to the others that have complained before) that BBO reform the sub. system so that we can choose to be either tourney OR Team OR both subs. Can I also suggest that people that start teams events have the option (for a tiny fee - $0.05 say) of allowing basic robots to fill vacant seats.

There is a great deal of concern in Arizona and Virginia about spending too much money. But not on nuclear weapons.https://www.brookings.edu/the-hidden-costs-of-our-nuclear-arsenal-overview-of-project-findings/

OK, it was a bit of a struggle but it turns out that birds aren't real because the US government replaced them all with drones. The group has a large following and sells excellent merch.

GIB deviates from the system notes when using Cappelletti so it's a good thing that its partner never pays any attention to it. [hv=pc=n&w=sajt3hdat97653c62&d=w&v=0&b=8&a=ppp1n]133|200| Setting aside the question of why West didn't open with a preempt, what does GIB do now?[/hv] You be the judge.

If you want to play without agreements in bidding or defense play in an Individual. If you only want to play without agreements in defense play with the robots. If you want to play with someone whose bidding and signals make no sense at all contact me.

Out of interest, where do you find these people and their claims? Sometimes, when bored, I try to find them on Facebook or youtube - but they only appear when they are being mocked. Maybe we need a thread for ridiculous conspiracy theories. OTOH, Here is a transcript of an interview with mad King Rupert feeling a little sad about the Maldives, but oh well. (there was an equally bananas face to camera interview with Gina Rinehart.

I thought Lightner doubles specifically applied to slam contracts (another misconception?); this seems to be something else entirely.

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Here's something that everybody knows (L. Cohen) [hv=pc=n&s=sakj9hq84da92c732&d=w&v=b&b=4&a=1hp1sp2cp2dp2np3n]133|200| My lack of knowledge struck again for 0%. What should South do? Why?[/hv]