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Association football, often enough.
World-wide viewing? Fox Sports and ESPN have a branch throughout dozens and dozens of countries and they force the broadcast onto notAmerica, but nobody gives a toss about that.
Field hockey?
Ice hockey?
Roller hockey?
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That's the epesoide with the dog in the tent that Mary Whitehouse did not like.
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On the contrary, I've only played field hockey. I was too poor for ice hockey. It's fun when muddy but I don't like watching it. And neither does anyone else!
OVERLOPER!
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You forgot Rooftop Hockey!
Spoiler :
I'm teaching Lord of the Flies again this year.
I lost the copy I annotated last year when I taught it the first time, so I went to a local used-book joint to acquire another. I made the rookie mistake of failing to look inside the book before purchase. Unhappily, the book belonged to a student at some point, who lavished it with her own annotations.
They're crap. Absolute garbage. The student was clearly told to annotate and attempted to do just that in Chapter 1. However, the student mostly just noticed the existence of literary devices like "elliteration [sic]" and "simile" without talking about why the hell that matters. She defined vocabulary words she didn't know, which is fine and good. And that's, like, it. There were few character tracking observations, and the few that were there are wrong. Nothing on symbols or themes, which is hilarious because Lord of the Flies is a book that smacks you in the face with its themes through the use of pretty blatant symbols. That's (one of the reasons) why we teach it.
Fortunately, the student was also lazy, as students are, and stopped annotating after Chapter 1 before picking it up again in Chapter 9. (The book has twelve chapters.) The Chapter 9 annotations are also awful. We see some more "elliteration". She now thinks that every passage is foreshadowing, except that she misses all the actual instances of foreshadowing and picks up on ones that aren't. Hilariously, she also thinks that a thing that doesn't actually happen is foreshadowed. And, of course, none of the important stuff is in there.
(On a side note: when I taught the book last year, one student in one of my classes insisted, during class discussion, that everything was foreshadowing, such that it became a running joke. On those rare occasions when it actually was foreshadowing, I often went to him very ostentatiously. Sometimes he forgot that that was His Thing. It was adorable.)
I know that annotating a book is hard and also boring, which is why I'm only having my students do it for specific short segments of the text rather than the whole thing. I'm not angry at this poor disinterested student. I'm angry at myself for not checking, which trapped me into having to look at this kid's red-pen-inscribed nonsense.
I lost the copy I annotated last year when I taught it the first time, so I went to a local used-book joint to acquire another. I made the rookie mistake of failing to look inside the book before purchase. Unhappily, the book belonged to a student at some point, who lavished it with her own annotations.
They're crap. Absolute garbage. The student was clearly told to annotate and attempted to do just that in Chapter 1. However, the student mostly just noticed the existence of literary devices like "elliteration [sic]" and "simile" without talking about why the hell that matters. She defined vocabulary words she didn't know, which is fine and good. And that's, like, it. There were few character tracking observations, and the few that were there are wrong. Nothing on symbols or themes, which is hilarious because Lord of the Flies is a book that smacks you in the face with its themes through the use of pretty blatant symbols. That's (one of the reasons) why we teach it.
Fortunately, the student was also lazy, as students are, and stopped annotating after Chapter 1 before picking it up again in Chapter 9. (The book has twelve chapters.) The Chapter 9 annotations are also awful. We see some more "elliteration". She now thinks that every passage is foreshadowing, except that she misses all the actual instances of foreshadowing and picks up on ones that aren't. Hilariously, she also thinks that a thing that doesn't actually happen is foreshadowed. And, of course, none of the important stuff is in there.
(On a side note: when I taught the book last year, one student in one of my classes insisted, during class discussion, that everything was foreshadowing, such that it became a running joke. On those rare occasions when it actually was foreshadowing, I often went to him very ostentatiously. Sometimes he forgot that that was His Thing. It was adorable.)
I know that annotating a book is hard and also boring, which is why I'm only having my students do it for specific short segments of the text rather than the whole thing. I'm not angry at this poor disinterested student. I'm angry at myself for not checking, which trapped me into having to look at this kid's red-pen-inscribed nonsense.
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The annotations I can least tolerate are my own. I really thought that was important!
watashi no kondorensu desu
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That should be a rant of its own. That book was kind of meh.
I'll watch Rocket League Hockey on Twitch if there's a tourney for that that I notice. How's that?
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I'll watch Rocket League Hockey on Twitch if there's a tourney for that that I notice. How's that?
If you're ever in southern California at the right time of year let me know so I can take you to a hockey game...how's that?
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There's hockey in southern California? Wouldn't all the ice melt?
Azem.Ocram
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The Tampa Bay Lightning are ranked number 1 in the Atlantic division. They use refigeration to pump heat away from the ice rink. Even the Rain City Pigeons will need refrigeration to keep their ice rink cold.
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NHL has Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks. AHL has the Bakersfield Condors (YAY!!!), the Ontario Reign, and the San Diego Gulls (HISSSSSSSSSS).
In Bakersfield they use heat pumps to freeze the ice in the arena and deliver the heat to a competition aquatic center across the street.
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Most people around here doesn't even know what the Superbowl is. I would like to watch it some day but not TV channel broadcast it afaik.
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Yeah, I already acknowledged that that was half baked, at best, on my part.
tjs282
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My rant was based on experiences in 1987-88 (yes, still bitter!). I'm not that much older than you
And our guy did that, too: I remember during one particularly hopeless session he called us all [something unrepeatable here], and sent us to run/ wheeze/ waddle around the entire southern sports-field. And it was a big field, because the school-grounds were originally some local squire's private estate (though most of it's probably been sold off for development by now...)*.
Thing is, though, (being built for endurance, not speed) I actually quite liked cross-country -- I would happily have done that every week. It certainly would have been preferable to the weekly ordeals that were our football (autumn term), rugby (spring term), or cricket (summer term, so somewhat more bearable than the other two) 'lessons'.
*Just out of curiosity, I checked on GoogleMaps, and it hasn't been. Amazing!
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