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NeuPolska wrote:

Frievolk wrote:Today, I realized what "Fuck My Life" really means.
Three days ago, I woke up with a sour throat. By the time I'd returned home from my exam, I had a fever of 37.5 (Centigrad). I said I'd go to sleep hope it'll get better. As you can guess it didn't. When I woke up I had a runny nose and a headache too. Yesterday, it all got worse, and today I'm experiencing the worst headache, fit of coughs, sour throat, and fever in my life.
And I have 5 exams in the next week.
Seriously. Fuck my life.

Just see if you can reschedule them and don’t go

Frievolk wrote:

NeuPolska wrote:Just see if you can reschedule them and don’t go

I'd certainly try, but I seriously doubt they'll accept tbh.

Frievolk wrote:

NeuPolska wrote:Just see if you can reschedule them and don’t go

I'd certainly try, but I seriously doubt they'll accept tbh.

Ethel mermania wrote:

DesAnges wrote:Ethel!

Cricket is coming to America!

I have been to matches, I have a Bangladeshi friend who is a bowler, I still have no idea what the hell that game is.

Abserdia wrote:

Ethel mermania wrote:I have been to matches, I have a Bangladeshi friend who is a bowler, I still have no idea what the hell that game is.

Well it’s real simple.
Basically, there's three grabbers, three taggers, five twig runners, and the player at whack-bat. Center tagger lights a pine cone and chucks it over the basket and the whack-batter tries to hit the cedar stick off the cross rock. Then the twig runners dash back and forth until the pine cone burns out and the umpire calls "hotbox". Finally at the end you count up however many score-downs it adds up to and divide that by nine.

The Free Joy State wrote:

Frievolk wrote:I'd certainly try, but I seriously doubt they'll accept tbh.

Why not try calling/emailing your lecturer/tutor/adviser/whoever and explain the situation. In my experience, most are pretty flexible if they know you're not the type to piss about.

When I was a university student, I had to get an extension on my third-year dissertation due to extenuating circumstances.

The worst that can happen is they refuse.

DesAnges wrote:

Ethel mermania wrote:I have been to matches, I have a Bangladeshi friend who is a bowler, I still have no idea what the hell that game is.

You hit the ball and run between two bases, each trip gets you a point. Team with most points wins.

But anyway: USACA have been discredited and replaced by US Cricket, who seem much more on the ball and forward thinking. Soon you might possibly qualify for the pre-World Cup qualification qualifications.

Abserdia wrote:Well it’s real simple.
Basically, there's three grabbers, three taggers, five twig runners, and the player at whack-bat. Center tagger lights a pine cone and chucks it over the basket and the whack-batter tries to hit the cedar stick off the cross rock. Then the twig runners dash back and forth until the pine cone burns out and the umpire calls "hotbox". Finally at the end you count up however many score-downs it adds up to and divide that by nine.

I'm so glad this is a Fantastic Mr Fox reference and not that inane "In/Out" copypasta.

Ethel mermania wrote:

DesAnges wrote:You hit the ball and run between two bases, each trip gets you a point. Team with most points wins.

But anyway: USACA have been discredited and replaced by US Cricket, who seem much more on the ball and forward thinking. Soon you might possibly qualify for the pre-World Cup qualification qualifications.


I'm so glad this is a Fantastic Mr Fox reference and not that inane "In/Out" copypasta.

And hitting it out gets you 6, I get that part, but tests, overs and tea intervals.... oh my.

Ethel mermania wrote:

DesAnges wrote:You hit the ball and run between two bases, each trip gets you a point. Team with most points wins.

But anyway: USACA have been discredited and replaced by US Cricket, who seem much more on the ball and forward thinking. Soon you might possibly qualify for the pre-World Cup qualification qualifications.


I'm so glad this is a Fantastic Mr Fox reference and not that inane "In/Out" copypasta.

And hitting it out gets you 6, I get that part, but tests, overs and tea intervals.... oh my.

DesAnges wrote:

Ethel mermania wrote:And hitting it out gets you 6, I get that part, but tests, overs and tea intervals.... oh my.

An over is a block of 6 balls by one person. They experimented with 4, 8, and 10 ball overs and decided that 6 was the best, so that's why it's 6. There's a lot of cricket laws like that. At the end of an over, you change bowler and come from the other end.

There are 3 types of international cricket, Test matches, One Day matches, and T20 matches. T20s consist of one innings apiece, each lasting 20 overs or until one team loses all their outs, whichever is first. Highest score wins.

One Dayers are the same but 50 overs apiece instead of 20.

Test matches are not subject to innings time restraints, so you bat until you lose all ten outs. Each team gets 2 innings, and the game can last a maximum of 5 days. This is the one where you can get draws after 5 days, because an innings is not judged to be complete until one side has lost all their outs.

DesAnges wrote:

Ethel mermania wrote:And hitting it out gets you 6, I get that part, but tests, overs and tea intervals.... oh my.

An over is a block of 6 balls by one person. They experimented with 4, 8, and 10 ball overs and decided that 6 was the best, so that's why it's 6. There's a lot of cricket laws like that. At the end of an over, you change bowler and come from the other end.

There are 3 types of international cricket, Test matches, One Day matches, and T20 matches. T20s consist of one innings apiece, each lasting 20 overs or until one team loses all their outs, whichever is first. Highest score wins.

One Dayers are the same but 50 overs apiece instead of 20.

Test matches are not subject to innings time restraints, so you bat until you lose all ten outs. Each team gets 2 innings, and the game can last a maximum of 5 days. This is the one where you can get draws after 5 days, because an innings is not judged to be complete until one side has lost all their outs.

The blAAtschApen wrote:

DesAnges wrote:An over is a block of 6 balls by one person. They experimented with 4, 8, and 10 ball overs and decided that 6 was the best, so that's why it's 6. There's a lot of cricket laws like that. At the end of an over, you change bowler and come from the other end.

There are 3 types of international cricket, Test matches, One Day matches, and T20 matches. T20s consist of one innings apiece, each lasting 20 overs or until one team loses all their outs, whichever is first. Highest score wins.

One Dayers are the same but 50 overs apiece instead of 20.

Test matches are not subject to innings time restraints, so you bat until you lose all ten outs. Each team gets 2 innings, and the game can last a maximum of 5 days. This is the one where you can get draws after 5 days, because an innings is not judged to be complete until one side has lost all their outs.

Dammit Ethel!

Kiruri wrote:

DesAnges wrote:An over is a block of 6 balls by one person. They experimented with 4, 8, and 10 ball overs and decided that 6 was the best, so that's why it's 6. There's a lot of cricket laws like that. At the end of an over, you change bowler and come from the other end.

There are 3 types of international cricket, Test matches, One Day matches, and T20 matches. T20s consist of one innings apiece, each lasting 20 overs or until one team loses all their outs, whichever is first. Highest score wins.

One Dayers are the same but 50 overs apiece instead of 20.

Test matches are not subject to innings time restraints, so you bat until you lose all ten outs. Each team gets 2 innings, and the game can last a maximum of 5 days. This is the one where you can get draws after 5 days, because an innings is not judged to be complete until one side has lost all their outs.

WOW! Arne't you a sight for youthful/beautiful eyes!

How goes it, Desanges?

DesAnges wrote:

The blAAtschApen wrote:
Dammit Ethel!

HEY! The Dutch are kinda good at cricket, embrace the Ryan ten Doeschate of it all.

DesAnges wrote:

Kiruri wrote:
WOW! Aren't you a sight for youthful/beautiful eyes!

How goes it, Desanges?

Are you calling yourself youthful and beautiful? Very egotistical.

Kiruri wrote:

DesAnges wrote:Are you calling yourself youthful and beautiful? Very egotistical.

Just the eyes mind you

The blAAtschApen wrote:

DesAnges wrote:HEY! The Dutch are kinda good at cricket, embrace the Ryan ten Doeschate of it all.

It's not that. It's someone geeking out on a boooooring topic, and Ethel is to blame for triggering said geeking out

DesAnges wrote:

Kiruri wrote:Just the eyes mind you

Kiruri is a demon, confirmed.

The blAAtschApen wrote:
It's not that. It's someone geeking out on a boooooring topic, and Ethel is to blame for triggering said geeking out

That was a basic explanation on specific things Ethel asked about haha. I can go all in on it if you want.

The minutiae of the LBW rule are right here...

The blAAtschApen wrote:

DesAnges wrote:Kiruri is a demon, confirmed.


That was a basic explanation on specific things Ethel asked about haha. I can go all in on it if you want.

The minutiae of the LBW rule are right here...

I read 'Penguins stopped play', I already know enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguins_Stopped_Play

DesAnges wrote:

The blAAtschApen wrote:
I read 'Penguins stopped play', I already know enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguins_Stopped_Play

That sounds hilarious.

The blAAtschApen wrote:

DesAnges wrote:That sounds hilarious.

I bought it for the funny title.

It's true what they say about not being able to judge a book by its cover

It's a cricket story

DesAnges wrote:

The blAAtschApen wrote:
I bought it for the funny title.

It's true what they say about not being able to judge a book by its cover

It's a cricket story

Penguins probably did literally stop play at one point in the narrative though. You got what you wanted.

Hurdergaryp wrote:

New haven america wrote:Evangelical, so par for the course.

When I was in Colorado (Evangelical capital of the US) the older pastors and chuch workers would surround my school every few months or so and try to shove Bibles into the hands of people who I guess they deemed to be in need of saving. Happened to me 3 times caused I usually wore mostly black, gray, red, etc...

Personally I always found the evangelicals to be rather deranged, given their various tendencies. Wishing hell upon everyone who's not like them is only one of the grievances, their insane desire for the death and destruction of our world is another.

The blAAtschApen wrote:

DesAnges wrote:An over is a block of 6 balls by one person. They experimented with 4, 8, and 10 ball overs and decided that 6 was the best, so that's why it's 6. There's a lot of cricket laws like that. At the end of an over, you change bowler and come from the other end.

There are 3 types of international cricket, Test matches, One Day matches, and T20 matches. T20s consist of one innings apiece, each lasting 20 overs or until one team loses all their outs, whichever is first. Highest score wins.

One Dayers are the same but 50 overs apiece instead of 20.

Test matches are not subject to innings time restraints, so you bat until you lose all ten outs. Each team gets 2 innings, and the game can last a maximum of 5 days. This is the one where you can get draws after 5 days, because an innings is not judged to be complete until one side has lost all their outs.

Dammit Ethel!

Ethel mermania wrote:

The blAAtschApen wrote:
Dammit Ethel!

I still dont understand it.

Ethel mermania wrote:

The blAAtschApen wrote:
Dammit Ethel!

I still dont understand it.