[02:36] <cmaloney> heh
[16:44] <cmaloney> Woo woo
[19:38] <cmaloney> Afternoon
[19:38] <cmaloney> so dad-in-law is back home
[19:38] <cmaloney> I think we have a good plan of action.
[19:44] <gamerchick02> plan of action? hope it goes well?
[19:50] <cmaloney> Yeah, it's going well
[19:50] <cmaloney> I think he's OK for now
[19:51] <gamerchick02> ok
[19:52] <gamerchick02> i'm catching the Aus v. England Test 2 day 4. cricket... the Ashes tourney. it's long and looks a bit slow but that's ok
[19:54] <cmaloney> Any particular reason you're watching cricket?
[19:55] <cmaloney> Most folks on this side of the pond don't quite understand cricket. ;)
[19:55] <gamerchick02> i'm trying to understand it better
[19:55] <cmaloney> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEH4ahCCrJo
[19:55] <gamerchick02> some of the guys at work play and follow cricket
[19:55] <cmaloney> Yes, some of them are from India. :)
[19:55] <cmaloney> I tried playing cricket
[19:55] <gamerchick02> and Pakistan!
[19:56] <gamerchick02> i've never tried it
[19:56] <cmaloney> to this day I have NFC what I was doing out there.
[19:56] <cmaloney> That video pretty much explains it
[19:57] <gamerchick02> lol
[19:57] <gamerchick02> overs are like outs, i guess
[19:57] <gamerchick02> i dunno
[19:57] <gamerchick02> https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/cricket/explanation.htm
[19:59] <gamerchick02> Rogers (one of the Aus players) apparently got hit on the head by a ball or whatever the other day and is now dizzy. poor dude
[19:59] <cmaloney> That ball is made of wood and lead
[19:59] <gamerchick02> ouch. yeah. right in the side of the mask
[19:59] <cmaloney> Possibly uranium and other heavy metals
[19:59] <gamerchick02> cork and string
[19:59] <cmaloney> Feels like titanium
[20:00] <gamerchick02> it's like a baseball but red with a stitching around the circumference.
[20:00] <cmaloney> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f481fxMyNbg
[20:01] <gamerchick02> HAH great!
[20:02] <gamerchick02> home runs!!!
[20:02] <cmaloney> Well, considering they're used to more "bunting" than thwacking
[20:03] <gamerchick02> yeah
[20:03] <cmaloney> Those would have been foul balls in baseball
[20:03] <gamerchick02> part of it is that the bowler is throwing high ones
[20:03] <gamerchick02> if they were lower and off the ground i doubt he'd know what to do with it
[20:04] <cmaloney> Likely send it somewhere between New York and LA
[20:05] <gamerchick02> heh
[20:05] <_stink_> cricket!
[20:05] <_stink_> i love it
[20:05] <gamerchick02> howdy _stink_
[20:05] <_stink_> yo
[20:05] <cmaloney> _stink_: You like fewtball too right?
[20:05] <gamerchick02> i'm watching yesterday's Ashes tourney
[20:05] <_stink_> all the foreign sports
[20:05] <_stink_> and most of the domestic ones.
[20:06] <cmaloney> _stink_: Rugby and Curling too?
[20:06] <gamerchick02> not yesterday but 7/19
[20:06] <gamerchick02> i like rugby and curling
[20:07] <_stink_> cmaloney: yes and yes!
[20:07] <_stink_> i played a year of rugby
[20:07] <_stink_> was really fun
[20:07] <gamerchick02> nice!
[20:07] <_stink_> i tried curling once
[20:07] <_stink_> also fun
[20:07] <gamerchick02> i've never tried curling
[20:07] <cmaloney> I think we're going to have to pull _stink_'s 'murican card.
[20:07] <gamerchick02> or rugby
[20:07] <gamerchick02> baseball yes, american football, yes
[20:08] <cmaloney> Rugby (from what I understand) is this: throw a ball and have a pile-on over the ball
[20:08] <cmaloney> and then beat the shit out of each other without padding
[20:08] <_stink_> yes
[20:08] <cmaloney> Whomever isn't completely unconscious by the end of it gets a point.
[20:08] <gamerchick02> yeah
[20:08] <_stink_> pretty much it
[20:08] <_stink_> it's great fun
[20:08] <gamerchick02> oh and the ball can't go forward except for running
[20:08] <_stink_> and if someone does something oyu don't like
[20:09] <_stink_> you stomp them with your cleats
[20:09] <gamerchick02> OUCH
[20:09] <_stink_> and it's ok
[20:09] <cmaloney> Yeah, it's like American Football and Hockey combined with none of the rules related to shoving a skate in someone's face.
[20:09] <cmaloney> and none of those sissy things like pads and timeouts.
[20:10] <gamerchick02> but ruggers know how to hit someone without injury. if a football player tried rugby they'd be in the hospital by halves
[20:10] <cmaloney> I think it's more they know how to pull their head out of the way
[20:10] <_stink_> oh yeah
[20:11] <_stink_> protect the head
[20:11] <gamerchick02> for sure!
[20:11] <_stink_> also in rugby if you tackle a ball carrier in a way that unnecessarily endangers him
[20:11] <_stink_> you get ejected
[20:11] <_stink_> so you can't really blatantly hurt sometone
[20:11] <gamerchick02> of course
[20:11] <_stink_> there are lots of chest up collisions
[20:11] <_stink_> at lower speeds
[20:11] <gamerchick02> football is a bit different
[20:11] <_stink_> than murkian football
[20:12] <gamerchick02> it looks like a grapple when they're in the scrum
[20:13] <_stink_> mauls are the best
[20:13] <_stink_> they hardly ever form at amateur level
[20:13] <_stink_> but they are so fun
[20:13] <gamerchick02> maul?
[20:13] <_stink_> and interesting
[20:13] <gamerchick02> a huge scrum?
[20:13] <_stink_> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTsbiJdea6w
[20:14] <_stink_> it's a type of group play where the ball carrier is not tackled
[20:14] <gamerchick02> you plaied Union, not League, i take it
[20:14] <gamerchick02> *played
[20:15] <_stink_> oh yeah
[20:15] <_stink_> i hate league
[20:15] <gamerchick02> hah
[20:15] <gamerchick02> what's the difference? i've read a bit and i'm like 'huh?"
[20:16] <_stink_> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak_QWAAtvFo
[20:17] <_stink_> the second half of that where live play is shown gives an idea of what you can do off a maul
[20:17] <_stink_> league is essentially no rucks or mauls
[20:17] <gamerchick02> ah ok
[20:17] <_stink_> the phase is over when theball carrier is tackled
[20:17] <_stink_> he get to his feet, defense retreats a few yards
[20:17] <gamerchick02> ok
[20:18] <_stink_> play is restarted when he rolls the ball backward with his foot to a teammate
[20:18] <_stink_> fewer players too
[20:18] <_stink_> smaller pitch
[20:18] <_stink_> i feel like the game is just not as interesting
[20:18] <_stink_> as unio
[20:18] <_stink_> n
[20:18] <gamerchick02> i've watched a bit of Sevens
[20:18] <_stink_> i'm a total snob
[20:18] <_stink_> i don't love sevens either :)
[20:19] <gamerchick02> Sevens is on TV
[20:19] <gamerchick02> the only way i get any cricket or rugby is through watchespn
[20:20] <_stink_> yeah they show lots of sevens on watchespn
[20:20] <gamerchick02> well they also show sevens on NBC i think sometimes
[20:21] <_stink_> they have showed college sevens i know
[20:21] <gamerchick02> yeah
[20:21] <gamerchick02> i don't have fancy cable so i don't get fancy rugby games
[20:21] <_stink_> yeah i don't pay for bein sport either
[20:22] <gamerchick02> i just have the limited basic
[20:22] <gamerchick02> so that gives me most of the OTA stations and CBC, PBS from Flint, and TVO
[20:33] <cmaloney> I'm so pissed that we no longer get CBC
[20:33] <cmaloney> When we made the switch to digital broadcast signals we lost CBC
[20:34] <gamerchick02> :(
[20:34] <gamerchick02> you have an antenna, yes?
[20:34] <gamerchick02> i've never gotten it before living down here
[20:34] <gamerchick02> never had cable
[20:34] <gamerchick02> till moving down here. ahem
[20:35] <cmaloney> Yeah, antenna
[20:35] <gamerchick02> you were a cord-cutter before cord cutting was cool
[20:35] <gamerchick02> my mom was too. :-P
[20:38] <cmaloney> I've been a cord cutter all of my life
[20:39] <cmaloney> though we still pay a cable bill for my dad-in-law
[20:39] <gamerchick02> i had cable in college because it came with the dorm room and apartment
[20:39] <gamerchick02> i have it now for the internet
[20:39] <cmaloney> yeah, we're cabled because of the internet.
[20:39] <gamerchick02> i swear! it's just for the internet!  i'm holding the cable for a friend!
[20:39] <cmaloney> heh
[20:39] <gamerchick02> :-P
[20:39] <cmaloney> bbl
[20:39] <gamerchick02> kk