Sidebar update
Daniel G Davies, who made a brief appearance in my link list under the legend "A guy who's overcome schizophrenia to get a good job at Toxteth TV
", appears to have moved on, got another equally good looking job and a website about, among other things, his collection of old cameras made under Communist regimes. This post is just to note it's the same guy and I've updated the link, while keeping the old link hanging round because I found it rather uplifting. If anyone is aware of any other people with the same name as me please pass on the links, as I am hoping to dominate this space, then presumably monetise it somehow. I'm particularly interested in wingnuts called Daniel Davies to fill out what is currently a rather thin section of the link list.
You have a namesake on Cannock Chase District Council.
ReplyDeletefantastic thanks!
ReplyDeleteI tried Googling "Daniel Davies" wingnut but I'm afraid all the hits were for yourself...
ReplyDelete20-year old Dan Davies from Bridgwater likes tormenting cows, going by the photos.
ReplyDeleteDaniel Davies Brackett is making sense about enterprise software development; oddly enough he seems to be working in the same field as me.
Daniel Davies writes songs.
Daniel Davis (I know) is running for Congress.
Dan Davies is from Arizona.
Micah Daniel Davies is a little boy.
Daniel Davies in Waitakere is Wanker of the Week.
Daniel Davies in Bridgend is a Lisa Lashes fan. (What your fuck? She's still going? Mind you I saw a lamppost poster yesterday advertising Graeme Park playing some dump in Windsor full of poshos, Guardsmen and donkey wallopers. The really sad touch was that he was billed as coming from the Hacienda...)
Linux hacker...
ReplyDeleteIn Nottingham.
In Chester, bodybuilding.
Interviewing Leslie Phillips.
Making history in WW1-era Australian rugby league.
My RSS readers lists a Daniel Davies - coincidentally in its link to this site - that runs a site that's like Brad De Longs but with a more liberal sprinkling of the 'f' word. He sounds a good one to link to.
ReplyDeleteHeh, Graeme Park? Jesus, he'll be ancient. While never having been a fan of "happy hardcore" (despite going to school in Stevenage) I am always amazed at how the likes of Kenny Ken, Slipmat and Jumpin' Jack Frost STILL seem to be DJing, twenty five years and more after the lights seemingly went out on the rave scene.
ReplyDeleteDid we have something called "happy hardcore" in Stevenage? Not in my day we didn't. It was all the Exploited down the Bowes-Lyon Centre. I'm sure QE the QM would have enjoyed it had she ever come along.
ReplyDeleteNot that I ever did, mind.
That you were a St Mick's boy ages you, so the happy hardcore scene was a bit late, mebbe, or more likely not to your taste.
ReplyDeleteStevenage Leisure Centre and the Ice Arena used to hold massive all nighters. A bit odd, seeing as the council owned them both and the raves were not much more than 5,000kids E'd off their heads getting four to United Dance. Apparently:
"For the next three to four years United Dance continued to rock the Stevenage Arts centre making them one of the best recognised outfits on the scene."
Where else would you go to get spaced than a town essentially built to support Hawker Siddeley/BAE Space/Astrium?
ReplyDeleteSince this is a thread of bollocks, no apologies for an OT link on the subject of Mankading.
ReplyDeleteI'm still not entirely convinced that it's a case where "people pass up potential short term gains to maintain an arrangement which suits the long term interest of all".
It's an "ethics of sport" question, really. Most sports have lines which are generally and tacitly agreed, by professionals, should not be crossed, and obligations which although not strictly required according to the rules, are generally accepted. (Kicking the ball out when a player is injured in football, for instance.) In most instances, professionals who ignored these de facto rules would run the risk of being shamed and ostracised by their fellows and therefore, although "the long-term interest of all" is indeed the object, it's probably the potential stick rather than the potential carrot which plays the most important role.
ReplyDeleteMoreover, the question arises as to whether the tact-rules apply - or can be expected to apply - when the short-term gains are very great. Would a team be expected to kick the ball out when one down with ninety seconds to play in a Cup Final? Would Mankading really be frowned on in the last session of an Ashes or an India-Pakistan series?
Justin, I agree. But what I don't get, basically, is what's wrong with Mankading (after a warning, anyway).
ReplyDeleteThe football example is common decency, but I don't really see what long-term damage Mankading might do to the game, which merits its status as a de facto no-no.
Well, Frindall does say that "it's only bad form if the bowler hasn't previously warned the batsman". I think it's just too easy, when backing up, to wander out of one's crease: hence if it were considered acceptable it might happen too often.
ReplyDeleteIf it was considered perfectly acceptable, batsmen would learn to be more careful to keep their bat in when backing up, and then it would become less common again. But it would still happen occasionally, and be quite exciting when it did.
ReplyDeleteBut I do accept that some measure might be needed against individual bowlers who made too many unsuccessful attempts at it.
I think also that fast bowlers don't really want to be worrying about missing Mankadings when they're trying to concentrate on their run-up. So in a way the convention relieves them of the obligation to worry about it.
ReplyDeleteI can see that - plus there is a slight disincentive for any bowler, in that run-outs don't count for their bowling stats.
ReplyDeleteNever mind the cricket - someone on the internet is wrong. It was the Bowes Lyon _Hall_.
ReplyDeleteejh, did you know that The Astronauts are still gigging?
Chris Williams
I didn't know they'd started in the first place.
ReplyDeleteAre the Poisongirls still going?
After extensive research trying to figure out what's going on in Mankading, I've figured out that the batsman who's backing up is walking forward.
ReplyDeleteAre you really touring with Turbonegro and Valiant Thorr?
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