The Off Topic Topic

[Capetan Mihali]

The worst are male Ugg boots

Male Ugg boots?  Uggs for men?   I shudder to think.  That is beyond the pale. 

[Sheilbh]

You've no idea

[Syt]

IMO it takes a special kind of derangement to play handball goalie. Those guys need to have crazy reflexes and get hit really fucking hard constantly while wearing no special protection at all. I don't know where the gob is supposed to be, but if you mean the face or the crotch, then then answer is yes, they do get hit a lot.

On that I agree. I've known a few goalies and they were positively deranged.

Handball is not quite as silly quick as basketball, and not so slow as football, though when the offence is trying to look for a whole in the defence it can be a few seconds of passing the ball back and forth.

As said, it's pretty popular in Schleswig-Holstein (the only major professional sports teams there, with Kiel and Flensburg, plus Hamburg around the corner), and even small towns will usually have a couple of teams. I spent many a saturday going to the sports hall across the street and watch two or three games of friends playing while having a few beers and having a bratwurst.

Even caught the occasional Champions League game when I was studying near Kiel. The big nations in Europe, I think, are Germany, Denmark, Sweden, France, Spain, Ex-Yugo. IIRC South Korea is also pretty strong.

[Zoupa]

My dad was on the national team.

[Syt]

Hey man, you gots to FEEL with it. Blindness is moe~

Also it lets you appreciate how loud black people are
I mean really what a vibrant and boisterous race

I mean - don't you appreciate how incredibly offensive that is to people with actual vision loss?

It's like going out on the street in blackface because you want to experience what it is like to be African American.

I'm not sure on that. Over here, there's been experiences, hosted by blind people in pitch black surroundings where seeing people are guided through by blind ones. There was also "Dinner in the Dark", where you would have dinner in pitch black, waited on by a blind person. The main goal was to raise awareness to how blind people live, cope, and actually can live a pretty normal life despite their impediment.

[Syt]

My dad was on the national team.

[Syt]

True story: we have a blind girl with a tapping cane on campus, but she's black and as such

Blind AND black?  What's she doing at UT-Martin, as opposed to Harvard?

Alas, she isn't lesbian.

[Eddie Teach]

Just took a lengthy sorting hat quiz online. I am: Slytherin.   

[The Larch]

Even caught the occasional Champions League game when I was studying near Kiel. The big nations in Europe, I think, are Germany, Denmark, Sweden, France, Spain, Ex-Yugo. IIRC South Korea is also pretty strong.

Yup, those are the top dogs. International titles are almost always rotated between France, Germany, Sweden, Croatia and Spain, with Denmark, Iceland, Poland and Russia appearing here and there. Non European teams are usually quite shafted in competitions, I've never seen one reaching the final stages of any tournament. For some reason it must be somehow popular in arab countries, I remember in the last world cup Spain had to play against two or three teams from there, and in 2015 the world cup will be held in Quatar.

[Josquius]

enka fail

[Eddie Teach]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cM-m0Wcdeo&feature=feedrec_grec_index

Slargos will be appalled.

[Josephus]

You know if you're gonna spam me, make an effort:

Here's a spam I just got today:

Make acquaintance with your allruing nearby girl

Hoot and alluring next door wmoan is marvellous in beid
Catch her private lifee ona http://[removed]

I think IKK is behind this.

[Ideologue]

Went to that interview for scanning and counting shit today.

Prognosis: can point scanner at shit, can count shit.

Outcome: Tentatively hired.  Move on to next round of proving ability to scan, count shit.

Slargos Interest Addendum: only white person in the room.

Pay: $7.50/hr, possibly more because of my management experience and bachelor's degree.  Travel time to site not paid until after 2 hours of travel time.

Start date: two weeks from now at best.

Ideologue Reaction: has no mouth, but must scream.  In all likelihood going to Ft. Worth to get trained at GS-9 step 1 rate, get inside track.

WTF: Apparently my cousin, a partner at a law firm, lives there.  I thought he worked as in-house counsel or as an associate or something like that.  Probably not much use, since I've literally not seen the guy in fifteen years and I am not admitted to the Texas Bar and also, in comparison to him, I suck.

[Sheilbh]

What's Fort Worth likes?  This looks like it could be good news.

[Valmy]

Um he might be your only good chance to practice law.  Take the Texas Bar Exam and use your connection there.