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Badjas
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Netherlands2038 Posts
July 02 2014 20:36 GMT
#2261
On July 03 2014 05:02 Pazuzu wrote:
Why are some mountains shaped like presidents? Also, what the f&#$ is a clock?

In the past, like 2000 BC or longer ago, presidents were elected based on how triangular their head was.

As for the second, a clock is a plenis.
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Mataza
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Germany5364 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-03 00:55:41
July 03 2014 00:44 GMT
#2262
On July 03 2014 04:46 Najda wrote:
How are the world cup teams formed? I was looking at the rosters and it seems like people from all over the world are on each countries team.

Things I know for almost sure:
They are drafted. In germany it's the german football assocation that drafts and chooses the trainer/coach.
Players can obviously decide against.
Once you have played for one nation's team in the FIFA world cup, you can never play for another team.

Many good soccer players from other countries and continents play for european football clubs for years. Whether or not they have to play for a german club to be drafted for the german team etc. I do not actually know.
It wouldn't make sense to draft someone who can't communicate with the team at all. Possibly it it is legal but just never happened.
Will update if my google search unearths more.

edit: I was right.
The FIFA has national football associations as members. Those associations put together the teams, rather than the nations themselves. That's why England plays in the world cup, not the UK. Wales, scotland and north ireland have their own football associations, even if their not souvereign nations.
You can only ever play for one associations national team that is member of the FIFA.
Basically the rules of football only change when absolutely necessary. This rule was only made sometime after 1962.
If nobody hates you, you´re doing something wrong. However someone hating you doesn´t make you right
Acrofales
Profile Joined August 2010
Spain17982 Posts
July 03 2014 00:52 GMT
#2263
Really? Nobody has pointed out that you have to have the nationality to play in the national team? Same as Olympics. ...
Mataza
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Germany5364 Posts
July 03 2014 01:15 GMT
#2264
On July 03 2014 09:52 Acrofales wrote:
Really? Nobody has pointed out that you have to have the nationality to play in the national team? Same as Olympics. ...

If you say so. Wikipedia articles almost never mention citizenship, and I wasn't exactly sure.
The world is more multicultural than I knew.
If nobody hates you, you´re doing something wrong. However someone hating you doesn´t make you right
Acrofales
Profile Joined August 2010
Spain17982 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-03 01:52:49
July 03 2014 01:50 GMT
#2265
On July 03 2014 10:15 Mataza wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 03 2014 09:52 Acrofales wrote:
Really? Nobody has pointed out that you have to have the nationality to play in the national team? Same as Olympics. ...

If you say so. Wikipedia articles almost never mention citizenship, and I wasn't exactly sure.
The world is more multicultural than I knew.

It basically works like this:

The National football association assigns a manager, who is in charge of selecting the players. The manager can be any nationality, but the players have to be citizens of the country they represent. Almost all African and Asian teams, for instance, have European managers, because they tend to be more experienced than local managers. Similarly, most of the players play for European clubs, because that's where the money is. Even most of the good Brazilian and Argentinean (two largest football nations outside of Europe) players play, or have played, in European leagues at some point.

How the manager selects is generally up to him, but he'll have scouts and trainers helping him out to find talent. Each country tries to send the best team they can make of national players. Sometimes that's a team built around 1 or 2 superstars (Argentina and Portugal this year) with the team built around them, but most teams are more balanced. For instance, on the Belgian, German, French or Colombian squads there are some players who are more important, but without them, the team will still work. Argentina without Messi would be a miserable disaster.

As to why the teams look so multicultural, it's because of:
1. Colonization. Gullit, Rijkaard and Kluivert are Dutch, but of Surinam descent (so are many other Dutch players). Zidane and Benzema are French, but of Algerian descent. On the flipside of the coin: almost the entire Algerian squad was born in France.
2. Migrant workers. Many second-generation (or third or even fourth generation) migrants have a double nationality, and they get to choose for what country they want to play. For instance, the brothers Boateng. Kevin-Prince plays for Ghana, his brother plays for Germany. Both were born in Germany.
3. Football-specific migration. Club football is big business, and players get scouted at very young ages. By the time they succeed and get attention for the national squad, they have been with their club's country long enough to be nationalized. They therefore also get to choose. An example is that Messi could've chosen to play for Spain. Diego Costa did.

EDIT: question for the UK people. I had this discussion with a friend, and neither of us knew: how do you divvy up the players between Wales, England, Scotland and N. Ireland? You don't have separate nationalities, and are all UK citizens. So could Wayne Rooney have chosen to play for Scotland, if he had so wanted (and the Scots wanted him)? Could Bale have decided to dump the shitty Welsh team and play for England? Or do the football associations have some specific rules regarding this between themselves?
PukingMachines
Profile Joined May 2014
Brazil15 Posts
July 03 2014 04:08 GMT
#2266
starcraft related question here: what happened to cArn?
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Orcasgt24
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada3238 Posts
July 03 2014 04:14 GMT
#2267
I got sun burnt awhile ago and now my skin is peeling on my arms and its slow and gross looking. Is there a way to speed the peeling up or at the very least, whats the best way to take the dead skin off?
In Hearthstone we pray to RNGesus. When Yogg-Saron hits the field, RNGod gets to work
urboss
Profile Joined September 2013
Austria1223 Posts
July 03 2014 06:21 GMT
#2268
ez: soak in an HF bathtub to get rid of the skin!
Friedobert
Profile Joined July 2014
Germany38 Posts
July 03 2014 08:36 GMT
#2269
On July 03 2014 13:08 PukingMachines wrote:
starcraft related question here: what happened to cArn?

he's inactive since late 2012, so i guess quit sc2. also his team, eternity gaming "seemingly disbanded".
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Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany11507 Posts
July 03 2014 09:50 GMT
#2270
On July 03 2014 13:14 Orcasgt24 wrote:
I got sun burnt awhile ago and now my skin is peeling on my arms and its slow and gross looking. Is there a way to speed the peeling up or at the very least, whats the best way to take the dead skin off?


Shower and rub carefully with a sponge?
MtlGuitarist97
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States1539 Posts
July 03 2014 11:17 GMT
#2271
On July 03 2014 15:21 urboss wrote:
ez: soak in an HF bathtub to get rid of the skin!

HF = hydrofluoric acid?

Also, just take a shower, use some kind of moisturizing bodywash and rub the skin off. It shouldn't be that hard; I just did that this morning on my upper back.
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44300 Posts
July 03 2014 11:47 GMT
#2272
On July 03 2014 13:14 Orcasgt24 wrote:
I got sun burnt awhile ago and now my skin is peeling on my arms and its slow and gross looking. Is there a way to speed the peeling up or at the very least, whats the best way to take the dead skin off?


I always liked peeling the skin off to make a picture. A few years ago, I peeled off my back to make it look like an American eagle.

+ Show Spoiler +
I'm not actually joking. It was the best I could do given the annoying situation of skin peeling.
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
urboss
Profile Joined September 2013
Austria1223 Posts
July 03 2014 12:21 GMT
#2273
On July 03 2014 20:17 MtlGuitarist97 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 03 2014 15:21 urboss wrote:
ez: soak in an HF bathtub to get rid of the skin!

HF = hydrofluoric acid?

Yes, it will peel off the skin nicely in one go.
Just make sure that you don't pull a Jesse when buying the bathtub.
Pazuzu
Profile Joined July 2011
United States632 Posts
July 03 2014 15:03 GMT
#2274
On July 03 2014 05:36 Badjas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 03 2014 05:02 Pazuzu wrote:
Why are some mountains shaped like presidents? Also, what the f&#$ is a clock?

In the past, like 2000 BC or longer ago, presidents were elected based on how triangular their head was.

As for the second, a clock is a plenis.


This was a far better answer than I was hoping for
I always forget about those 2000 BC presidents
"It is because intuition is sometimes right, that we don't know what to do with it"
3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States3931 Posts
July 05 2014 03:07 GMT
#2275
Does anyone here play War of Omens?
"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
Thieving Magpie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States6752 Posts
July 05 2014 16:16 GMT
#2276
On July 05 2014 12:07 3FFA wrote:
Does anyone here play War of Omens?


I play with Wall of Omens.

is that close enough?
Hark, what baseball through yonder window breaks?
Daumen
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany1073 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-06 03:04:57
July 06 2014 03:04 GMT
#2277
where did the term "Melinda the Banshee" come from? If someone has the Link to the VoD, pls do send it!
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urboss
Profile Joined September 2013
Austria1223 Posts
July 06 2014 06:09 GMT
#2278
How would football games without an offside rule look like?
AlternativeEgo
Profile Joined August 2011
Sweden17309 Posts
July 06 2014 08:45 GMT
#2279
On July 06 2014 12:04 Daumen wrote:
where did the term "Melinda the Banshee" come from? If someone has the Link to the VoD, pls do send it!


Heart vs XiGua in WCS AM Ro16 Group A. You can have the TB edition. It's quite something.

Mark Munoz looks like Gretorp
urboss
Profile Joined September 2013
Austria1223 Posts
July 06 2014 11:02 GMT
#2280
Is there a way to watch today's Wimbledon finale online?
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