Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

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tomw19 said:
Target Field is a great park and one of the newest if not the newest. I've been there 3 times. I'm a fan of the Twins and they're not the best side but they're having a better season than the last 2 already. They have some quality players but their pitching has let them down. I notice they're playing the Baltimore Orioles. That's the team that was in town when I last went there. The Twins won 20-7.
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Thanks for that info Tom, I might be able to blind my American hosts with a little knowledge. When did you last watch them. Glad you said "Twins" as I couldn't remember their name? Do you know why they're called twins?
 
Joe Steinberg said:
I'm not entirely sure if the Chinese do eat cats or dogs, or if that's some sort of urban myth. China has its faults, but it's an up-and-coming, westernising country.

North Koreans, on the other hand, may not have any other choice.
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There was a programme on it, although illegal dog meat is becoming more and more popular. Cat meat is on the rise as well.
 
fatletiss said:
Thanks for that info Tom, I might be able to blind my American hosts with a little knowledge. When did you last watch them. Glad you said "Twins" as I couldn't remember their name? Do you know why they're called twins?
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I can get this - it's because the area it's in (the part of Minnesota with Minneapolis and Saint Paul) is known as the Twin Cities - Twins derives directly from that.
 
fatletiss said:
Thanks for that info Tom, I might be able to blind my American hosts with a little knowledge. When did you last watch them. Glad you said "Twins" as I couldn't remember their name? Do you know why they're called twins?
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They are named for the "Twin Cities" area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, which are the two largest cities in the state (Saint Paul is the Capital).
 
Joe Steinberg said:
It's not just Question Time unfortunately, you seem to get the same thing on almost every "debate show". 10 O'Clock live is the same, and it doesn't help with the embarrassingly partisan studio audience cheering and wooping either. You can also see similar frustrating arguments on American shows like Real Time with Bill Maher, and The Bill O'Reilly Factor if you're brave enough to turn that on. It's probably partly due to the fact that they have limited time to get their point across, and of course there's always one person who takes a lifetime to get their words out. Also it seems to be considered an acceptable strategy to just try and drown out your opponent's argument. I'd put it to these people that the only reason they won't let their opponents talk is that they're scared they might be right.

If you really want to get yourself enraged, try watching a "debate" involving Peter Hitchens, brother of the slightly-less-annoying (and also now deceased) Christopher Hitchens. He's been on Newsnight at least once, including one ridiculous argument about drug addiction between him and Russell Brand, in which Brand comes off looking the far more mature of the two, if you can imagine that.

[video=youtube;SsMU77TwYM0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsMU77TwYM0[/video]
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I really enjoyed that, didn't know the two had been debating at all. They're so contrasting, its a bit of a party piece! Peter Hitchens is just so odd, and so fixed in his views, and ends up being a bit of a parody/spoof like figure. I guess you could lay that at Brand as well, although I don't. I don't like his stand up much, but he's an interesting character, and I certainly prefer his views around addiction and how to deal with it.
 
Fat Le Tiss / Saint Don

It is not the water tower which is someway south. When I came back down this motorway on Monday afternoon I think it was somewhere near the point where the M42 joins the M40. It was certainly North of Warwick services.

By appearance, it is a column with what appears to be a Greek earn on top. I would suggest that it probably dates from late 18th / early 19th century but I haven't managed to find any information about it and having looked on Bing maps , have struggled to find it there as well.

Cheers

Ian
 
fatletiss said:
Thanks for that info Tom, I might be able to blind my American hosts with a little knowledge. When did you last watch them. Glad you said "Twins" as I couldn't remember their name? Do you know why they're called twins?
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I watched them last year. Each year I go to referee in the USA Cup in Minneapolis and have gone to a baseball game each time. Not going this year though. Be warned: baseball is a slow moving sport and beer and food costs a fortune! That's where baseball clubs make their money as it's really cheap to buy tickets. Some as cheap as $8. I enjoy baseball so I like the fact that each game lasts 3 hrs or more.
 
Mayukelele said:
I really enjoyed that, didn't know the two had been debating at all. They're so contrasting, its a bit of a party piece! Peter Hitchens is just so odd, and so fixed in his views, and ends up being a bit of a parody/spoof like figure. I guess you could lay that at Brand as well, although I don't. I don't like his stand up much, but he's an interesting character, and I certainly prefer his views around addiction and how to deal with it.
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Try defending him ( Brand ) at 10 minutes and 26 seconds or os , he is a VERY clever man , but has the most amazing ability to shoot himself in the foot :-(
 
Mr. Nice said:
I don't! I know why San Francisco 49ers are called the 49ers and why Philadelphia 76ers are called the 76ers, though, so that has to count for something.
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Something about the Gold Rush, and I dunno.

Baltimore are the Ravens because Edgar Allan Poe was from there. That's all I've got.
 
I Sorry I Ruined The Party said:
Beat me to it. Well done. Do you know why Los Angeles is called the Lakers?
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I know they were a relocation team originally so I'd assume they were from somewhere around the great lakes. Minnesota again? I know their team which is ridiculously named the Timberwolves was only founded in the last 20 years or so.

Some of the teams are named after some really bizarre stuff, my NFL team the Philadelphia Eagles were named that because they were established at the same time FDR took office and his symbol at the time was a blue eagle to embody hope and pride coming out of the depression.
 
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