Phydeaux

Well, bad hair days aside … I didn’t find Germany at all convincing today …. Ecuador however … 😎

Defence rules

OK … I’m going with Brazil over Germany.

Logic? :rolleyes: The home “advantage” allows Germany to get right through to the big day, including beating France in the semis (so much for trois – zero). Brazil gets there on the basis of good strikers but more importantly impenetrable defence.

The score? 2-0 Brazil over Germany.

I’ve been dealt a particularly difficult hand. I have agreed to enter a semi-sweepstake thing at work, half is a draw out of the hat (like manc above) and for the other leg I have to “choose the team you think will win the world cup, provide who you think they will play in the final and their winning score”. The last part (the score) is to differentiate between two winners.

Jeez, how the hell am I going to do that?

I need a draw … OK got that
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/group/index.html

Then I need clues about who’s going to win (and be runner up if they might be eventual winners) in each Group … my picks (group/country)
A Germany … no one
B England … Sweden
C Argentina … Netherlands
D Mexico … no one
E Italy … no one
F Brazil … no one
G France … Switzerland
H Spain … no one

Then of course the winnners/runners up play-off
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/bracket.html

I’m sorry, what exactly is the World Cup?

Is that some sort of golf tournament?

Regards,

Captain America

LOL … one of the things I appreciate in this world, not least for its rarity, is an American (of the US variety) who understands irony.

You have a World Series don’t you?

cheers gnome

LOL … here I am thinking wow … these Pommies just go out for a drive and there’s a Lanc and a Typhoon cruising overhead … very cool, my face would’ve loooked a wonder too. Then someone says (throwback to Mr Milligna) “them’s not Typhoons, them’s ‘awks”.

Well confound me – how could you mistake a Typhoon for a Hawk … one’s got this blooody great radiator slung under a hell of a big piston donk …

Oh, the later Typhoon. Oh.

Is there even one of the earlier Typhoons flying these days? That really would be a sight.

Assumption you’re making Jo is that we are in some way superior to, and more deserving than, other species on this planet. It’s an arrogant position we (human beings) tend to adopt without thinking. But given the way the planet’s going, arguably (although not certainly) as a result of our meddling, I’d say that’s far from a proven assertion.

The scary thing about bang seats is their acceleration. 0-60mph in 4 inches and 0-375mph in 6 feet. If that doesn’t rattle the eyeballs I don’t know what will

Oh yeh. I have in my mind that an effect of bang-seats is (always/sometimes?) crushed vertebrae – ie. you trade off a broken back for your life. Is that right – or yet another urban myth?