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Sorry for the late reply...have been lost in the jungles of SE Asia (long story). Just a small (yet interesting) point - look up "amygdala hijack". This is unrelated to intelligence but an evolutionary adaptation that has kept our caveman ancestors alive (and Dockers supporters). Rather than...

Hey guys, Slightly OT however by a cruel twist of fate I have to spend GF day in Adelaide :( Are there any Adelaide based fans here who could recommend the best place to catch the game? (apart from sitting in my hotel room, sad and lonely...) Maybe there is a pub where Eagles fans in Adelaide...

Just posted the following in the umpire rant thread on the North board, in case anyone is interested (or someone pops an artery and deletes it) Hello everyone, While I acknowledge that posting on an opposition supporters' post-game umpire venting thread will be as popular as a vegan at a paleo...

Hello everyone, While I acknowledge that posting on an opposition supporters' post-game umpire venting thread will be as popular as a vegan at a paleo convention, I thought I might make a couple of points which, depending on the person, will either comfort or further enrage. As someone with...

Have just posted some rudimentary statistical analysis in the Hawks thread here - http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/2nd-qualifying-final-west-coast-eagles-v-hawthorn-8-20pm-aest-subiaco.1111082/page-9 If there are any statistical buffs, please add your thoughts. Depending on skin...

I am guessing by your syntax that you are a neuroscientist or expert in psychopharmacology so keen to get some more insights from you. Are you thinking dysfunction in Buddy's nucleus accumbens or more of a limbic issue? Appreciate you may be occupied with Mensa related responsibilities however...

Fantastic reply Dogwatch - I don't suppose you would be amenable to switching over to becoming a WC fan and posting analysis like this would you? Nah, didn't think so - but worth a shot ;) I guess my thesis would be that determining the answer to this question is certainly possible with enough...

Pat_Footy - you are a Solanaceae par excellence - bravo! By the way, Dogwatch has posted a very interesting (yet, unfortunately, statistically meaningless) analysis of WC free kick counts in the WB post match thread. I love the idea, just not the execution. However as I am too lazy/busy to...

Hey Dogwatch, firstly can I say a HUGE thankyou for doing this. My day job is tangentially related to economics (I can't really say any more as I have colleagues on BF ;)) which require a large element of statistical analysis and controlling for variables. I float around BF post match forums...

<in b4 thread lock> A lot of people seem to be backing Lamb hard. Ewe cannot be serious?! I don't think the MC will try to ram him back into the side against the Hawks. With his lack of experience in big games he will get fleeced - the experienced Hawks will just flock to him, and then he...

Oh wow...suddenly two bits of (what I thought was) unconnected information has just dawned on me as being related - 1. Some of you may remember Qantas making that announcement that they would be altering their flight path during Eagles home games. I could never work out why exactly they would...

^ this I am finding it difficult not to be pessimistic after that game. Unless I find out that the performance is linked directly to the entire team hitting a Gold Coast underage rave the night before, with the boys doing big fat lines of Special K off of Harley's kitchen table until just...

+ Sheed - He has a touch of the mongrel about him which I like - I can imagine him dragging us across the line more than once in the next 10 years (contrasts nicely with a Masten type who has great endurance and disposal but lacks the ability to impose himself on the game) + Sinclair - Gets...

Where this gets truly interesting is, if this is the case, how should WC play this out? On the field he hurts us, yet off the field his currency drops. A fiendish scenario for which I have no answers!

Completely agree that if we are getting towelled up using what has worked to date, we should try any number of alternative tactics (including 1 on 1) to stem the flow. However I would be flabbergasted if 1 on 1 works better than the web and it certainly shouldn't be pre-empted heading into the...

As someone who has worked both within mining (albeit admittedly the white collar side) and outside of mining, I can safely say that mining is a wonderful exception. Unfortunately, despite what the general WA population thinks, mining jobs are only a small percentage of the total number of job...

That's probably the single most measured response I have seen on this issue from the other point of view. And bonus points for making me laugh out loud by making a parallax error joke in between a selection of posts I strongly disagreed with. Also didn't mind the second reply you made to one...

Hey mate...can you please let me know what you mean by "tagging"? No doubt I have done something newbie/embarrassing inadvertently... As far as I know I just clicked "reply" and then typed. However I may have either accidentally clicked something I shouldn't have or not clicked something I...

This line, in a few short words captures the essence of why this topic makes people uncomfortable - 13 yr old girl.... she said "ape" FFS. You really think he hasn't been called worse over the course of his career? Odd time to get offended. As I read this, I barely had time to get over the...

- You are partially right - racism is not the exclusive domain of Caucasians. For example, the Japanese (who I generally love dearly) are the most casually racist people in the world. Their whole immigration policy is probably the single most racist I have seen. They think Koreans and Chinese...

Hey Dark Sharks, let me preface this by saying that I have been a lurker on the Eagles BF forum for ages and during this time you have been by far my favourite poster. I like anyone with a irreverent sense of humour. And I totally get why a lot of people are unhappy at how this topic has...

I will make this quick as I can't type much today...wrist bandaged...and wife has banned me from posting in this thread as I was knocking back beta-blockers like tic tacs yesterday...

Usually I would consider entering into a sad debate on a forum as inconceivable. I am a fairly shy, passive person in general. However there is something about this thread and the broader issue that I find utterly awful, with the lack of basic human kindness shown towards this man an absolute...

Thank you for providing immediate supporting evidence for my claims regarding logical errors. My example of the confederate flag is known as an "analogy". An analogy creates a link between two concepts or scenarios with similarities of some kind. An analogy doesn't typically infer both...

Not sure whether people are deliberately creating straw man arguments, have misread the context or have wonky internal logic (for these people, look up "epistemology" and the various tools which can be used to ensure that your logic is consistent). To reiterate - Booing Adam Goodes, any...

If there was one Aboriginal umpire (actually, even if they were white probably) who was booed mercilessly and abused every time he blew the whistle, and it became acutely embarrassing for the football community due to being completely out of proportion to the booing of the other umpires, I...

No. Hopefully I have been able to set that straight for you. Any time. OK does anyone else have any straw man arguments they would like to make?

This x 1000. This is where the whole "we just boo Goodes because he is a flog" argument falls down. The booing of Goodes yesterday seemed to be on par with the booing of Vickery whenever he went near the ball after that cheap shot on Coxy last year. So, you have a case of a guy who you have...

Hey this is actually an interesting post - I hadn't really thought about drawing any link between whale consumption/war dance/pride. I want to think about this for a bit before replying. Could you please expand on this point in terms of how it relates to this discussion? At the risk of this...

Try heading into the city today, find the nearest construction site and start yelling abuse at the workers. Trust me, hilarity will ensue.