haha, thats one of the worst idea's i've ever heard!!!
Windfall Tax (Penalizing Accidental Checkmates)
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Godspawn wrote:
dazbedford wrote:
Every time some one tries to lighten the game with a bit of fun some one has to jump straight on it and put you down! You people are the reason Chess is no longer on TV in this country because it is associated with a bunch of geeks with no sense of humour!!
And the stereotype is mostly right
Apparently te England stereotype is true too
i do drink tea but i don't talk like a poooof
Apr 2, 2011
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#64
derek2468 wrote: Hm... I am not sure it is a pastiche, I maybe think it is a satire
Did you know the French don't have a word for pastiche? Nor satire. But they do have a word for parody.
Apr 2, 2011
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#65
Elubas wrote:
MM78 wrote:
AMcHarg wrote:
It's a bad idea, too hard to enforce and pointless anyway. Arguably every checkmate is luck because you didn't see it from the start of the game.
speak for yourself
(please turn your irony detector on, or borrow one perhaps)
I don't really think it's possible to know for sure the solemnness of his suggestions, unless perhaps he has that kind of reputation (even so, not everyone knows it)-- which I'm assuming he does because you're so sure -- there have certainly been crazier things said that were totally serious -- no need to insult this guy for defending the rules of the game; no need for someone with an actual opinion to be thought of as lower than you, incapable of understanding something that need not be inherently obvious.
errrr, I wasn't talking about the seriousness or otherwise of his (AMcHarg)'s statements, I was explaining that my *own* comment, that I always see every checkmate from way back or even from the start of the game. In other words I was being ironic or sarcastic like Wormrose. I hope A McHarg didn't take offense, none was meant. Personally I doubt it. Sometimes I do mean to offend, hopefully people don't think I'm joking then...
Ok, I'm sorry. It just goes to show how hard it is to tell the direction or intent of some of these posts, cause the irony detector part really seemed to be directed at him in my eyes, like in response to him seriously responding to the OP.
Apr 2, 2011
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#67
I was just making a joke about opinions in general and how people respond to them by trying to discredit the person with the opinion; such as saying "If they knew what was really going on." or "If they knew the true story". As though any opinion which disagrees with thier own is un-educated. The part about faster and slower drivers is from George Carlin I believe.
Apr 3, 2011
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#69
Yes, we need a sarcasm emoticon and another for facetiousness. Maybe they already exist but we are a long way from stand-up comedy in the text format. "Play on words" humor can also easily go astray. But I have found that adding the term "lol" to most of what I say has a negative effect on my digestive system - or at the very least - makes me cringe and shutter. How true that the pen is mightier than the sword; that it is more damaging when it is dull and slashes the innocent when it misses it's mark. Then there are some folks who try to convince us - "They're just words."
Apr 3, 2011
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wormrose wrote:
Yes, we need a sarcasm emoticon and another for facetiousness. Maybe they already exist but we are a long way from stand-up comedy in the text format. "Play on words" humor can also easily go astray. But I have found that adding the term "lol" to most of what I say has a negative effect on my digestive system - or at the very least - makes me cringe and shutter. How true that the pen is mightier than the sword; that it is more damaging when it is dull and loses it's innocence when it misses it's mark. Then there are some folks who try to convince us - "They're just words."
Use Comic Sans MS font?
lol, sorry
. I had thought there was something you didn't like about my post or something.
Like I said, hard to tell! Of course, some people may have specialized at detecting internet sarcasm, but like being good at chess, it doesn't really make you smarter, it just makes you better at detecting internet sarcasm.
In this case, it was either someone joking or another one of those crazy people, usually beginners, who want rules changed because they suffer from them -- they're alive and well!