adios

I never really claimed to be smart. Just really fucking awesome. p.s. you still dodge my question admirably. p.p.s. I see no insults. Your persecution complex is worse than mine! In a grown-up world you suggesting I canb't grasp the complexities of a simple argument is an insult, I don't actually have to wait until you call me wee-face. I've responded to you a couple of times, you just choose to read my statement at the lowest possible level.

Have a good one.

What I want to see right now is a lot of hands, but it's probably tougher to read people. It's still pretty boring, so you'd probably have time, I just find it quite difficult to concentrate, it's something I need to work on. Cheers for the advice PokerPants, I will step it up this weekend.

Gold! Sorry Gemmill, but I'm making it my internet project for the year that that one sticks. I may regret it...

Why would someone as smart as you need to resort to insults. Strange..it's almost as if you're not as smart as you think you are.

Not really, if your at the wrong part of the gig thats your fucking trouble so get off your arse and go where you can see and hear properly If you PM me your email address I will send you a bag of these: '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' I've got shit-loads of them!

Indeed! Renton's right, Gemmill is wrong but its been entertaining reading the thread! Obviously a "spastic button basher" or whatever it was Renton called Gemmill has a slight chance of snatching a victory against an expert but that's the same as an FA cup uspet. Get the expert and basher to play a number of times and the expert will cane the "Gemmill" pretty much every time. I was ok at street fighter type games but on the amiga i'd cane anyone at SWOS, Kick off 2 or Speedball 2 and Gemmil can do as much random bashing as he likes to no avail Only in the throes of passion tbh. And "cane the Gemmill"? Starting to worry about this place...

What a vague argument, are you having trouble backing up your claim that skill is not pre-requisite as in other sports? So what we're now going to argue is whether it's closer in comlexity to Chess or Cock/Muff/Bumhole? I've never met anyone who plays Street Fighter at the level of a Grand Master tbh.

Exactly what I was thinking! I got told this as a true story, although I'd be more inclined to beleive it's an urban legend, really: Bono is at a U2 concert in Glasgow when he asks the audience for some quiet. Then in the silence, he starts to slowly clap his hands.Holding the audience in total silence, he says into the microphone... "Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies." A voice from near the front pierces the silence... "Well, stop bloody clapping then!"

In the same way that it isn't a prerequisite for winning at anything, YES. No, but especially. Take a chess grandmaster against someone who has never played before. There's no way the GM would lose. Take a professional football side playing a team comprised of people who have never played football. Take a javelin thrower who has trained for years, compared to someone who has never thrown one before. I could give innumerable other examples. If you said to those people: 'look, just: move the pieces/kick the ball in the goal/throw the fucking thing,' they would not be anywhere close to competing. In a beat-em-up, if you give the d-pad to someone who has never played before, and say 'mate, just press all the fucking buttons in a random order as quickly as you can,' they would stand a fairly good chance of victory. You think a player who'd played Street Fighter for as many hours as a professional footballer or chess grandmaster had played their respective games, would have problems with a button basher?

That's a fine advertisement for VC; I'm steering well clear. I'm turning a profit 4-tabling baby SnGs. I think I have a knack for bullying children, don't really want to step up to the 11s.

In the same way that it isn't a prerequisite for winning at anything, YES.

Snap. Am I the only one who thought this was going to be a watersports thread? Disappointing tbh.

Thinks he's Marty McFly. I've been here: Bodie Ghost Town.... which was canny interesting. It's a town that people settled in when they first came west and which they pretty much all just upped and left. The old saloon, schoolhouse, hooer house and that are all still there. People's houses an'all. It was supposed to be rough as owt, with shootouts in the street and all that. The place is meant to have a curse an'all - if you take anything away that you find there, you're meant to have a pretty shit time of it. Anyway, it's like being in the Wild West, so I thought I'd mention it. Dixons could save a few bob on security with that.

I'm just glad it was dark in there.

Aye, Renton's right, there's plenty of skill involved. Gemmill's sounding a bit like Rob W in training here tttt. I was, and still am, so shit at beat 'em ups, it makes the baby Jesus weep.

The only context in which it makes any sense is if they're commenting on the way it was played, as I think the better players mean it (and don't say it too often); but when people say it just for the cards dealt I assume they're talking to God, as it has fuck all to do with anyone else.

I honestly reckon you may be getting your opinion of theatre from the Simpsons. Some of the greatest writers were also the greatest playwrights, is that just a coincidence? I'm afraid to start mentioning names for fear of what your reponse might be. "Beckett, he's no Oliver Stone tbh" etc.

Wait 'til his Mam gets him the How To Theatre book for Christmas, he'll hate the cinema and love theatre!

I barely went, I barely hung out with the students, I was mainly off my face. I'd probably have more time for KRAZIES now tbh.

That really is taking the piss. Why? Read the bold bit, funny image.

Some of those women at Uni, particularly Indian ones, Jesus Wept! Just to see the other side of the coin, my mother was reasonably relaxed about drinking, even more so about marijuana (I got hash pipes for Christmas from 16 onwards). No one went off on one more than I did in college.

That really is taking the piss.

I hope that's a reference to me living in France!

People who manage to subtly conceal the fact that they're plastered should probably be left alone. I would think the test is fairly straight forward in most cases.