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If there's a chance you may end up having more than a couple of drinks, I'd vote for sushi. I've always felt uncomfortable having heavy (read indian/burritos) with alcohol. I've no experience with italian + drinks. Second choice would be Deli or fish and chips.

I hear you. Unfortunately, I'm addicted.

Indeed - this is exactly why a wdp or a wdo may be considered against the laws. Chatting away after a hand has been played also may interfere with an opponents enjoyment of the game.

Just realized the two rooms need not be kept in sync, just the publication of the results of each hand on vugraph needs to be kept in sync. This should be easy to do electronically and the resulting delay would be of the order of 10 minutes .

If the two rooms are kept in sync, most issues with breaks disappear. The tricky part is how to keep them in sync. One idea is for each room to start every board at the same time. Each table can be handed a new board by the director only when he determines that both tables have finished playing the previous board. State of match information is more difficult to mask. No ideas about how to do that.

Unfortunately (or fortunately if you're certain people) rudeness is not forbidden in the forums or IRL bridge. Unfortunately (or fortunately if you're certain people) rudeness is not forbidden in the forums or IRL bridge. * or IRL *

Yeah, I was busy playing chess with your mom Quality. Indeed, some combinations would have made Kasparov proud.

Yeah, I was busy playing chess with your mom

Second, Dear onoway, I might not want to call you Dear always, but then I might want to sometimes, since I can choose to do it anytime. If you can't take it, don't dish it out. Save your advice for someone who gives a damn, dearest chit.

hey! teacher!, leave 'em kids alone :)

Cerebellum disagrees.

I thought this was already being done in Britain.

Not my toe dear, your foot is knee deep in your mouth. Perfectly sociable people might not enjoy any or all of those things, obviously. LOL i suppose you consider yourself sociable? Yeah, more than you at least. "If your level of maturity is at or below that of Matmat's you might not care about that, but fortunately most bridge players are at least beginning to approach adulthood." heh. wow. you know, most people, when they quote, have the decency to attribute to quote to an author. i guess you never had that lesson? also, I find it fascinating that you can't use your own argument, but rather repeat someone else's. "If your level of maturity is at or below that of Matmat's you might not care about that, but fortunately most bridge players are at least beginning to approach adulthood." - Fred Gitelman. (Ouch)

Not my toe dear, your foot is knee deep in your mouth. Perfectly sociable people might not enjoy any or all of those things, obviously. LOL i suppose you consider yourself sociable? Yeah, more than you at least. "If your level of maturity is at or below that of Matmat's you might not care about that, but fortunately most bridge players are at least beginning to approach adulthood."

Not my toe dear, your foot is knee deep in your mouth. Perfectly sociable people might not enjoy any or all of those things, obviously.

that is a terrible idea. Your eloquent explanations shows us why.

With socially inclusive people like you playing Bridge, who needs antisocial ones.

Perhaps N should open 1NT, also as south I would respond 1NT initially which N can then raise to 2NT

One idea is to have an option to disable chat in some tournaments.

My policy is to only say hi once at the beginning of play and perhaps a couple of wd's during the play.

I would make a -ve dbl with this hand - I know it promises 4-4 in the majors, but AQx in each would certainly do. So I wouldn't think its an inability to negative dbl.

The point of this thread is simply this - Either knowingly and willingly, or unknowingly and unwillingly, some people in real life have tried to make me feel as if I did something wrong at the table when - 1. I had no intention of doing wrong, (hence I have them mirrors still) 2. I followed the rules. Couple of examples - 1. Opponents are having a long auction, with some alerted, and are in the 8/9 round of bidding. RHO bids something, and when it is my turn to call, I ask about the alerted bids, and RHO looks annoyed with me and after explaining, asks me ' why do you want to know, will you bid something now?' (they were already at the 5 level). This is the kind of holier than thou attitude that I find disgusting. Either call the director after the hand, or don't lecture me about ethics. 2. The classic lead the jack from the board and then think about finessing - I have done this on a few hands in the past and think I will do it in the future too - the reason being I'm too lazy, or perhaps I've already got the contract in the bag at imps and wondering about overtricks, or maybe this is the crucial guess - whatever, if someone thinks this is unethical, they should work to get it banned by the ACBL, and get off the podium. Like Joan Walsh said, instead of calling them baby killers and inciting the fanboys, if you believe something is wrong, work to change the laws.

Are you saying for the likes of you, Justin, Josh and the other experts of this caliber, psyching in club games is not ok but it is ok for everyone else? While Fred may think whatever he likes, it was ill advised to call a legal action unclassy. I would get the director called on me if I were to do that at the table whenever I feel someone has done something beneath my very low standards.

Our brains have evolved to react extremely powerfully to "love". It's the highest high and the lowest low. If you're in love, enjoy it, if not, don't worry about it.

Well: 1) I do care what you think (and I appreciate the time you take to post your thoughts) 2) I don't think subs should psych in almost all circumstances. and this was before and after this thread. I agree completely