1eyedjack Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 He made one statement that surprised me: a suggestion that if I flag an opponent as an enemy during a tournament then it becomes known to the TD. Someone tell me that ain't so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 Aint so There is no automated notice issued when you mark someone as an enemy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 :lol: Wherever the guy is from, he is a native English speaker and almost surely a college teacher who, like most of such kind, has been educated well beyond his intelligence. Come to think of it, I do have some hazy, long distant memory that on occasion winning the duplicate could get guys laid. I looked at some other videos the guy posted. He lives in BruneiHis name is David Brown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babalu1997 Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 Aint so There is no automated notice issued when you mark someone as an enemy. What he means is a pebcat tournament player reports a transgression of the tournament rules to pebcat. Pebcat then makes him an enemy, and sends him into the wilderness to be swallowed by the anaconda. The few who survive being eaten by the anaconda often beg to return to pebcat's games, but there is along line at the pearly gates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggwhiz Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 I was once in a Tea shop in South Africa when a local guy from a neighboring table came over and said "Excuse me but my hobby is regional accents. Are you from Toronto?" He only missed us by 400 kilometers. Impressive. I once wrote out a receipt for a man with a truly Brit accent who said his name was "Jakes" and then spelled it Jacques. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nige1 Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 IMO, David Brown is basically right because (like me) he deals mainly in truisms. Thus his revelations include: genes are important in determining our nature; and we want to eat and have sex. AFAIR, Ely Culbertson is said to have marketed bridge onSex - A game for couples (Ely & Jo). Sexy terminology ("Squeeze strip endplays") and so on.Snobbery - Card clubs were for gentry.Women's lib - Women the equal of men. (Labour saving devices had reduced housework leaving women with more leisure time). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdeegan Posted May 9, 2011 Report Share Posted May 9, 2011 I looked at some other videos the guy posted. He lives in BruneiHis name is David BrownOn the Potential Utility of the Abductive Synthesis of an Explicit Semiquantitative Causal Model for the Exercise of Rational Judgment Dr. David Brown, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Biological Computation February 10, 2009 Abstract: The value of semiquantitative modelling to the exercise of judgment in non-trivial decision problems is discussed. It is hypothesised that an explicit causal model can shed light on a decision problem and help point the way to its solution by an iterative, abductive process of model reformulation. Examples in four different domains are given. Number of Pages in PDF File: 33 I rest my case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted May 9, 2011 Report Share Posted May 9, 2011 Out of curiosity, why is the "no" option in the poll singled out for the privilege of being qualified with two exclamation marks? Not a subliminal attempt at influencing the votes, I assume? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordontd Posted May 9, 2011 Report Share Posted May 9, 2011 I once wrote out a receipt for a man with a truly Brit accent who said his name was "Jakes" and then spelled it Jacques.He might have been from the Channel Islands, where many names (people, streets, places) are French words that are anglicised in pronunciation. And then again, how do you pronounce Notre Dame University? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordontd Posted May 9, 2011 Report Share Posted May 9, 2011 I looked at some other videos the guy posted. He lives in BruneiHis name is David BrownI looked at his profile on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/user/djhbrownIt shows his country as France. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shintaro Posted May 9, 2011 Report Share Posted May 9, 2011 I looked at his profile on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/user/djhbrownIt shows his country as France. not the same voice chappies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted May 9, 2011 Report Share Posted May 9, 2011 I started, on your recommendation, but then remembered I needed to wash my hair. And afterwards you couldn't do a think with it? I have the second video on right now, but it is so dull I am going to leave the room to have a fag while it plays. But anyway, in answer to the question in the thread title: Because they enjoy it. Nah, that can't be it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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