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Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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Quote from: tikay on May 02, 2013, 07:09:58 PM
Quote from: JamesHartigan on May 02, 2013, 06:51:22 PM
During my days as a London radio news anchor, I used to work for a rather dictatorial editor.
If anyone was caught writing/announcing, "The Metropolitan Police have..." they would suffer a torrent of abuse. This would always contain foul language. Sometimes it would contain threats. And it was often followed by a firing!
Best poker tournament you have ever commentated upon?
Best poker player you have ever seen? (For the purposes of this, don't include me please).
Very hard questions to answer. So, I'll change the wording slightly...
The most enjoyable event to commentate (live) was the NAPT Mohegan Sun in 2010. Vanessa Selbst put on a masterclass at the Main Event final table. And, the next day, Jason Mercier ran like...Jason Mercier to win the High Roller Bounty Shootout. I didn't get to attend the festival in 2011, when both Vanessa AND Jason repeated their wins, but did get to voice the TV shows. Which never aired on ESPN. Thanks, Mr Bharara!
And the most entertaining player to commentate on? Possibly, Calvin Anderson (Cal42688). He went deep in EPT Berlin last month, and was awesome to watch.
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Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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May 02, 2013, 08:06:39 PM »
Quote from: JamesHartigan on May 02, 2013, 07:59:40 PM
Quote from: tikay on May 02, 2013, 07:09:58 PM
Quote from: JamesHartigan on May 02, 2013, 06:51:22 PM
During my days as a London radio news anchor, I used to work for a rather dictatorial editor.
If anyone was caught writing/announcing, "The Metropolitan Police have..." they would suffer a torrent of abuse. This would always contain foul language. Sometimes it would contain threats. And it was often followed by a firing!
Best poker tournament you have ever commentated upon?
Best poker player you have ever seen? (For the purposes of this, don't include me please).
Very hard questions to answer. So, I'll change the wording slightly...
The most enjoyable event to commentate (live) was the NAPT Mohegan Sun in 2010. Vanessa Selbst put on a masterclass at the Main Event final table. And, the next day, Jason Mercier ran like...Jason Mercier to win the High Roller Bounty Shootout. I didn't get to attend the festival in 2011, when both Vanessa AND Jason repeated their wins, but did get to voice the TV shows. Which never aired on ESPN. Thanks, Mr Bharara!
And the most entertaining player to commentate on? Possibly, Calvin Anderson (Cal42688). He went deep in EPT Berlin last month, and was awesome to watch.
Thanks James.
Best film you have seen in the last 12 months, & why do you rate it so highly? 0.00000164 of blondes (includes Tighty) enjoy films. I watched "American Gangster" recently. It was really rather enjoyable.
You lined up for any WSOP commentary this year?
I had an invite to commentate on the WSOP "live stream" for 2 Events last year, but I became otherewise detained in a Tourney, so missed the chance. Quite a relief really, think I would have had me a seriously new arse ripped if I had commentated. Dem kids can be proper cruel. My 2+2 fanbase would have loved it though. Lolprobably.
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Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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May 02, 2013, 08:24:54 PM »
Quote from: tikay on May 02, 2013, 08:06:39 PM
Quote from: JamesHartigan on May 02, 2013, 07:59:40 PM
Quote from: tikay on May 02, 2013, 07:09:58 PM
Quote from: JamesHartigan on May 02, 2013, 06:51:22 PM
During my days as a London radio news anchor, I used to work for a rather dictatorial editor.
If anyone was caught writing/announcing, "The Metropolitan Police have..." they would suffer a torrent of abuse. This would always contain foul language. Sometimes it would contain threats. And it was often followed by a firing!
Best poker tournament you have ever commentated upon?
Best poker player you have ever seen? (For the purposes of this, don't include me please).
Very hard questions to answer. So, I'll change the wording slightly...
The most enjoyable event to commentate (live) was the NAPT Mohegan Sun in 2010. Vanessa Selbst put on a masterclass at the Main Event final table. And, the next day, Jason Mercier ran like...Jason Mercier to win the High Roller Bounty Shootout. I didn't get to attend the festival in 2011, when both Vanessa AND Jason repeated their wins, but did get to voice the TV shows. Which never aired on ESPN. Thanks, Mr Bharara!
And the most entertaining player to commentate on? Possibly, Calvin Anderson (Cal42688). He went deep in EPT Berlin last month, and was awesome to watch.
Thanks James.
Best film you have seen in the last 12 months, & why do you rate it so highly? 0.00000164 of blondes (includes Tighty) enjoy films. I watched "American Gangster" recently. It was really rather enjoyable.
You lined up for any WSOP commentary this year?
I had an invite to commentate on the WSOP "live stream" for 2 Events last year, but I became otherewise detained in a Tourney, so missed the chance. Quite a relief really, think I would have had me a seriously new arse ripped if I had commentated. Dem kids can be proper cruel. My 2+2 fanbase would have loved it though. Lolprobably.
Nice try
But I will avoid delving into poker industry politics and simply answer: No, I haven't worked on the WSOP since 2010.
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Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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Quote from: tikay on May 02, 2013, 07:08:12 PM
Aye up, Hartigan, film bore & top top poker commentator bloke, in the thread.
You have been told.
I know his brother Alf.
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Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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Quote from: kinboshi on May 02, 2013, 04:55:38 PM
Quote from: DMorgan on May 02, 2013, 04:41:47 PM
Sentencing looks like it'll be an interesting conundrum since it would appear that he doesn't pose any immediate danger to the public and if he goes to prison at 83 he'll most likely be there until he is too unwell to remain there?
Punishment and deterrent, as well as trying to protect others from abuse in the future from others (by encouraging victims to come forward confident that they will be taken seriously and the police will follow up on what is being reported to them).
Punishment and possible protection - concur. Never think imprisonment, harsh or otherwise acts as a deterrent
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Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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Quote from: RED-DOG on May 02, 2013, 08:50:49 PM
Quote from: tikay on May 02, 2013, 07:08:12 PM
Aye up, Hartigan, film bore & top top poker commentator bloke, in the thread.
You have been told.
I know his brother Alf.
I chuckled
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Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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Quote from: Claw75 on May 02, 2013, 09:29:42 PM
Quote from: RED-DOG on May 02, 2013, 08:50:49 PM
Quote from: tikay on May 02, 2013, 07:08:12 PM
Aye up, Hartigan, film bore & top top poker commentator bloke, in the thread.
You have been told.
I know his brother Alf.
I chuckled
Don't encourage him, please. So coarse.
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Here's one for you from left field....
How would you define success (as it applies to you personally)? The reason I ask is that I recently reflected on how much my own definitions of success have changed as I have ambled through life, but also something you said a few pages ago which triggered it
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Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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Quote from: Simon Galloway on May 02, 2013, 09:52:23 PM
Here's one for you from left field....
How would you define success (as it applies to you personally)? The reason I ask is that I recently reflected on how much my own definitions of success have changed as I have ambled through life, but also something you said a few pages ago which triggered it
Remind me what I said first, please.......
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May 02, 2013, 10:42:47 PM »
Ahh... we can get on to that in a minute!!
Don't worry, it isn't something I'm going to throw back at you.. it was something you said which triggered a memory from my own reflections, nothing that would directly be taken as a measure of success or failure for your good self.
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Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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May 02, 2013, 10:48:30 PM »
You asked for it (sort of).
I have been trawling through Fowler’s
Modern English Usage
and
The King’s English
to get a nice, clear answer on the plural/singular question. Before I begin, Mr Hartigan has given us what we need and has done so with the level of unimpeachable authority we have come to know and love from his masterly control of that noisy American fellow (is that a tautology?).
However, we like detail ITT and this is most definitely the place for something so self-indulgently nerdy as advanced grammar chat.
Here goesly goesington:
Fowler addresses the question of whether the word MAJORITY takes the singular or plural. This is what he says (as it is written; I’ll put it back into context momentarily):
Three allied senses, one abstract and two concrete, need to be distinguished if illogicalities are to be avoided:
(A) Majority, meaning a superiority in number, or, to revive an obsolete unambiguous word, a plurity (…was passed by a bare, small, great majority; the majority was scanty but sufficient).
(B) Majority meaning the one of two or more sets that has a plurity, or the more numerous party (the majority was or were determined to press its or their victory)
(C) Majority meaning most of a set of persons, or the greater part numerically (the majority were fatally wounded; a majority of my friends advise it). But it should not be used as a substitute for the greater part of a whole that is not numerical, as in ‘it is a book with sociological merits in the majority of it’.
After majority in sense (A) the verb will always be singular. After majority in sense (B), as after other nouns of multitude, either a singular or a plural verb is possible, according as the body is, or its members are, chiefly in the speaker’s thoughts…After majority in sense (C), in which the thought is not of contrasted bodies at all, but merely of the numbers required to make up more than a half, the verb is almost necessarily plural, the sense being more people than not, out of those concerned.
Correct
was
to
were
in
the vast majority of Conservatives was willing to vote for going in to Suez one day and for coming out a few days afterwards
Ok, so what does this mean for our dear old Liverpool?
The key bit is…
After majority in sense (B), as after other nouns of multitude, either a singular or a plural verb is possible, according as the body is, or its members are, chiefly in the speaker’s thoughts
…because it means it depends entirely on whether you are referring to the people or the company/body/organisation.
So, Liverpool ARE on the attack because those blokes in red are running with the ball towards the oppo’s goal.
Liverpool IS set to announce record profits for the year, because it is a company statement to the stock exchange.
This means to answer pokerfan’s question, it would be NEEDS, being a reference to the club needing to respond as a brand; a badge; the club itself.
Again, nobody is going to tell you that it is some form of grotesque crime to use the plural, there. If they do, feel free to punch them in the face and ask them whether you should have punched them more than once, as you obviously can’t be trusted to make that call without their input.
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Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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May 02, 2013, 10:51:50 PM »
Brilliant. That should tell Red what to do with his flatulence nonsense.
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Quote from: Karabiner on May 02, 2013, 07:45:54 PM
BOOM
Scaled a meagre 12st1lb. after today's golf which is a 5lbs. loss since I started playing again just over two weeks ago, you really should try it.
Shot a slightly rusty 87 though.
"Thin" works nicely there, for once.
Well done Methuselah. Very good for one so ancient. Wily, weathered, wise.
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Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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May 02, 2013, 11:01:13 PM »
Quote from: tikay on May 02, 2013, 10:51:50 PM
Brilliant. That should tell Red what to do with his flatulence nonsense.
Just because I like simple fart jokes, don't assume I have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
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Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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Quote from: tikay on May 02, 2013, 08:06:39 PM
Quote from: JamesHartigan on May 02, 2013, 07:59:40 PM
Quote from: tikay on May 02, 2013, 07:09:58 PM
Quote from: JamesHartigan on May 02, 2013, 06:51:22 PM
During my days as a London radio news anchor, I used to work for a rather dictatorial editor.
If anyone was caught writing/announcing, "The Metropolitan Police have..." they would suffer a torrent of abuse. This would always contain foul language. Sometimes it would contain threats. And it was often followed by a firing!
Best poker tournament you have ever commentated upon?
Best poker player you have ever seen? (For the purposes of this, don't include me please).
Very hard questions to answer. So, I'll change the wording slightly...
The most enjoyable event to commentate (live) was the NAPT Mohegan Sun in 2010. Vanessa Selbst put on a masterclass at the Main Event final table. And, the next day, Jason Mercier ran like...Jason Mercier to win the High Roller Bounty Shootout. I didn't get to attend the festival in 2011, when both Vanessa AND Jason repeated their wins, but did get to voice the TV shows. Which never aired on ESPN. Thanks, Mr Bharara!
And the most entertaining player to commentate on? Possibly, Calvin Anderson (Cal42688). He went deep in EPT Berlin last month, and was awesome to watch.
Thanks James.
Best film you have seen in the last 12 months, & why do you rate it so highly? 0.00000164 of blondes (includes Tighty) enjoy films.
I watched "American Gangster" recently. It was really rather enjoyable.
You lined up for any WSOP commentary this year?
I had an invite to commentate on the WSOP "live stream" for 2 Events last year, but I became otherewise detained in a Tourney, so missed the chance. Quite a relief really, think I would have had me a seriously new arse ripped if I had commentated. Dem kids can be proper cruel. My 2+2 fanbase would have loved it though. Lolprobably.
What was it about?
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