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 | Kindle questions - crazy4lsu on 5/22/13 at 11:08 am Does the cheapest model read PDFs? I'd like to read work related stuff while working out, but I don't want to take my iPad to the gym. ...
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Soccer Board
 | re: Richard Jolly's 5 Best and 5 Worst BPL Signings of the Season - crazy4lsu on 5/21/13 at 8:07 pm Without Santi I'm not sure we would be competing for the CL. Considering his price was closer to 10m, he was a steal. Not on Michu's level of a bargain, but for a world class player who was relatively unknown outside of Spain, Santi was certainly a massive steal. That's not to discount the other ex...
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Movie/TV Board
 | re: Favorite movie trailers. - crazy4lsu on 5/21/13 at 6:17 pm Any trailer with Sigur Ros becomes immediately more epic....
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Soccer Board
 | re: Richard Jolly's 5 Best and 5 Worst BPL Signings of the Season - crazy4lsu on 5/21/13 at 6:08 pm [quote]I would also point out that whether he himself continues this performance for years to come for us, his introduction to our side, which desperately needed experienced offensive talent, kept us in the CL which most certainly affected our future.
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Exactly. His influence from the beg...
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Soccer Board
 | re: Richard Jolly's 5 Best and 5 Worst BPL Signings of the Season - crazy4lsu on 5/21/13 at 3:39 pm [quote]Cazorla is 28 and probably only has 2-3 years left at the level he's at.
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Just like Arshavin. No one would doubt that Arshavin was one of the best transfers of 2008-09. Double digit goals and assists in his first season? That immediate value exceeds his transfer price. Cazorla wa...
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Soccer Board
 | re: stoke fires pulis - crazy4lsu on 5/21/13 at 11:04 am Woah. Surprising. He certainly did a good job of keeping them in the PL, but he spent a lot of money. Interesting to see who they hire. ...
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Soccer Board
 | re: EPL's Most Ineffective XI 2012/13 - crazy4lsu on 5/21/13 at 11:02 am [quote]For all the crap they get they are almost always a tough out in tournaments.[/quote]
Well they play a very defensive game that is distinctly British, even under foreign managers. "Bottle" has little to do with it. Also grinding out results means little when you can't grind out results agai...
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Soccer Board
 | re: EPL's Most Ineffective XI 2012/13 - crazy4lsu on 5/21/13 at 9:28 am The next generation of French players will be like the last. Superb technical qualities with the usual egos. Varane and Pogba are as good young players than any I've ever seen. ...
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Soccer Board
 | re: EPL's Most Ineffective XI 2012/13 - crazy4lsu on 5/20/13 at 11:28 pm [quote]With much less bottle. England is in trouble imo, the next generation isn't ready or good enough. Major downgrades at so many positions from where they were 4-8 years ago. [/quote]
What has bottle ever given them? Having courage has little to do with international success. If you are refer...
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Soccer Board
 | re: 2013/14 Official Tottenham Choke Down the Stretch Thread - crazy4lsu on 5/19/13 at 9:43 pm [quote] A 50% win rate in the last 10 matches with CL on the line is weak. [/quote]
That's the win rate I would expect given a team of Spurs quality and depth. If anything they were punching above their weight under a new system. Arsenal just played a lot better than everyone down the stretch, ...
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Soccer Board
 | re: 2013/14 Official Tottenham Choke Down the Stretch Thread - crazy4lsu on 5/19/13 at 5:37 pm Oh. You know I don't banter. I'll see myself out. ...
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Soccer Board
 | re: 2013/14 Official Tottenham Choke Down the Stretch Thread - crazy4lsu on 5/19/13 at 5:11 pm They hardly choked. In their last fourteen games they had nine wins, two draws and only two losses. That's 30 points out of a possible 42. For comparison, only two teams had better form, Man U and Arsenal. Man U won the same amount of points in the last 14 games. Arsenal was lucky to a big extent. T...
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Soccer Board
 | re: Arsenal 2012/2013 Season Long Thread - crazy4lsu on 5/19/13 at 2:49 pm [quote]would kinda be surprised if he didn't move on this summer.[/quote]
Yeah he's a good player, but he is just a moron at times with his positioning. I thought he made a breakthrough at the beginning of the season, but the first Chelsea game it all came unraveled. Has to be a disappointing se...
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Soccer Board
 | re: Arsenal 2012/2013 Season Long Thread - crazy4lsu on 5/19/13 at 1:52 pm Kos has been tremendous this season. Hard to imagine that people were saying Lescott was better a year ago. Kos's game along the ground is superb, he's fast, he's good with the ball at his feet, and he can tackle. He's only received one yellow card all season, which is mighty impressive.
All in ...
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Soccer Board
 | re: Copa del Rey Final - Real Madrid vs. Atlético Madrid - 2:30pm CST - ESPN - crazy4lsu on 5/17/13 at 5:36 pm That ref lost control of the match. Real was unlucky,but their behavior when they went down made me happy they lost.cant believe its been fourteen years since Athletico beat Real. ...
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Soccer Board
 | re: Arsenal 2012/2013 Season Long Thread - crazy4lsu on 5/17/13 at 11:52 am Typical Arsne signing. Auxerre has a good youth academy so he'll be sure to be technically gifted. I will be excited to see him. ...
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Political Talk
 | re: Why People Keep Misunderstanding IQ - crazy4lsu on 5/16/13 at 5:07 pm [quote]There are multiple people with 145+ IQ's.
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In real life? Yes. On this board? I'm skeptical. ...
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Political Talk
 | re: Why People Keep Misunderstanding IQ - crazy4lsu on 5/16/13 at 4:14 pm Well I'm skeptical because I've had the unfortunate luck of being around people who use their "score" to justify their stubbornness or stance when it is irrelevant to the issue at hand. Or the belief in their own genius justifies their arrogance. These are people who are clearly not geniuses. Hence ...
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Political Talk
 | re: Why People Keep Misunderstanding IQ - crazy4lsu on 5/16/13 at 3:47 pm [quote]Well, it's not ALWAYS ridiculous, in those cases where they actually do.[/quote]
Bragging about your IQ on an internet message board is always ridiculous.
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Political Talk
 | re: Why People Keep Misunderstanding IQ - crazy4lsu on 5/16/13 at 3:43 pm [quote]A very feeble attempt to dispute TBC findings that IQ is genetic.
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I disagree. To say that IQ tests test what a specific culture values doesn't discount the heritability of intelligence. The author admits that
[quote]ut what about innate mental ability? Does such a thing even...
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Political Talk
 | re: Why People Keep Misunderstanding IQ - crazy4lsu on 5/16/13 at 3:33 pm [quote]yeah IQ and intelligence is a shifting concept without a clear definition/line
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Well according to this board, there are multiple people with 145+ IQ's, which is always ridiculous when someone claims it.
I'm skeptical of individual IQ claims, but they do seem to be an indicat...
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Political Talk
 | Why People Keep Misunderstanding IQ - crazy4lsu on 5/16/13 at 3:07 pm [link=(http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/why-people-keep-misunderstanding-the-connection-between-race-and-iq/275876/)]From The Atlantic[/link]
Very interesting perspective. Thoughts? ...
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Soccer Board
 | re: Roberto Mancini officially out at City - crazy4lsu on 5/14/13 at 12:16 pm If they got Pellegrini, then I hope they give him time. His teams are awesome to watch. Open, attacking, fluid sides that play entertaining football. Hell, last year's Man City team was a pretty entertaining side. ...
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Soccer Board
 | re: Roberto Mancini officially out at City - crazy4lsu on 5/14/13 at 11:55 am Mancini wasn't ever going to lead them to European glory. He sucked in Europe when he was at Inter, and he sucked at Man City. He was a massive step up from Mark Hughes, who was a fricking idiot on the transfer market. ...
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Soccer Board
 | re: Arsenal 2012/2013 Season Long Thread - crazy4lsu on 5/14/13 at 11:52 am And our defensive shape has ranged from a deep 4-4-1-1 to a 4-2-3-1 this season. Defensively I thought we looked excellent as a 4-4-1-1, though that came apart in the 1st Chelsea game due to TV5 being a moron and Koscielny marking like a moron. We seemed to abandon that rather deep defensive shape ...
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Soccer Board
 | re: Arsenal 2012/2013 Season Long Thread - crazy4lsu on 5/14/13 at 11:47 am I wouldn't be against it. Higuian is sometimes wasteful with his chances, but if anyone can improve him, it's Wenger. Also he's probably a better finisher than anyone we have right now. At times I wish we would go back to the 4-4-2 to take advantage of Giroud's ability to hold up and link play, and ...
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Soccer Board
 | re: Where do they go? Summer Transfer Period! - crazy4lsu on 5/13/13 at 12:07 pm He's Ken Jennings. ...
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Soccer Board
 | re: Where do they go? Summer Transfer Period! - crazy4lsu on 5/12/13 at 11:38 pm [quote]I'm not saying the players they bought are bad by any stretch, but volume-buying players just because they are on the clearance rack is a terrible transfer policy.
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Absolutely, but there isn't any reason why they shouldn't be tactically disciplined. It's not like Pardew is attemp...
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Soccer Board
 | re: Where do they go? Summer Transfer Period! - crazy4lsu on 5/12/13 at 11:35 pm If you go French, and then ask them to play an English style, what do you expect the result is going to be? The French are miles ahead in terms of technical and tactical education, and the English game, at its essence, is brutish in comparison. I think Rudi Garcia would be a great choice to replace ...
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Soccer Board
 | re: Where do they go? Summer Transfer Period! - crazy4lsu on 5/12/13 at 11:31 pm [quote]Pardew was very good for us until this season and I don't think he suddenly forgot how to manage.[/quote]
He's a decent manager for a lower-tier side, but he isn't elite. There are other managers who are more tactically astute. ...
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