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In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: Also, when an American football player goes down, it is because an opponent, or a gaggle of opponents, has forced him down to stop his advance. When a European football player goes down, it is a dramatic move worthy of a BAFTA award for Best Performance for a Solo Effort. Then there is this http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/..._New_Zealand_A ll_ Black_Sam.jpg or http://tinyurl.com/y8hvl7n4 It looks as though a giant wall is about to descend on the ball carrier. no it doesn't. What do you think those guys are doing in the left of the photograph? playing football. the wall is in the background, unaffected by those guys or anyone else for that matter. |
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 18:51:47 -0400, nospam
wrote: In article , Eric Stevens wrote: Also, when an American football player goes down, it is because an opponent, or a gaggle of opponents, has forced him down to stop his advance. When a European football player goes down, it is a dramatic move worthy of a BAFTA award for Best Performance for a Solo Effort. Then there is this http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/..._New_Zealand_A ll_ Black_Sam.jpg or http://tinyurl.com/y8hvl7n4 It looks as though a giant wall is about to descend on the ball carrier. no it doesn't. What do you think those guys are doing in the left of the photograph? playing football. the wall is in the background, unaffected by those guys or anyone else for that matter. Duh! The wall that is about to descend is composed of the players on the left of the image. The game is Rugby. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: It looks as though a giant wall is about to descend on the ball carrier. no it doesn't. What do you think those guys are doing in the left of the photograph? playing football. the wall is in the background, unaffected by those guys or anyone else for that matter. Duh! The wall that is about to descend is composed of the players on the left of the image. The game is Rugby. that's not a wall. |
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On Oct 27, 2017, nospam wrote
(in ) : In , Eric Stevens wrote: It looks as though a giant wall is about to descend on the ball carrier. no it doesn't. What do you think those guys are doing in the left of the photograph? playing football. the wall is in the background, unaffected by those guys or anyone else for that matter. Duh! The wall that is about to descend is composed of the players on the left of the image. The game is Rugby. that's not a wall. It is a figurative wall much like a gridiron scrimmage line could be considered a figurative wall, not a literal brick wall. You are being a bit too obtuse in pressing your POV. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Savageduck wrote: It looks as though a giant wall is about to descend on the ball carrier. no it doesn't. What do you think those guys are doing in the left of the photograph? playing football. the wall is in the background, unaffected by those guys or anyone else for that matter. Duh! The wall that is about to descend is composed of the players on the left of the image. The game is Rugby. that's not a wall. It is a figurative wall much like a gridiron scrimmage line could be considered a figurative wall, not a literal brick wall. normally called a line of scrimmage, not a wall of scrimmage. You are being a bit too obtuse in pressing your POV. i would not call the players in that photo a wall. |
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On Oct 27, 2017, nospam wrote
(in ) : In iganews.com, Savageduck wrote: It looks as though a giant wall is about to descend on the ball carrier. no it doesn't. What do you think those guys are doing in the left of the photograph? playing football. the wall is in the background, unaffected by those guys or anyone else for that matter. Duh! The wall that is about to descend is composed of the players on the left of the image. The game is Rugby. that's not a wall. It is a figurative wall much like a gridiron scrimmage line could be considered a figurative wall, not a literal brick wall. normally called a line of scrimmage, not a wall of scrimmage. You are being a bit too obtuse in pressing your POV. i would not call the players in that photo a wall. As I was saying, a bit too obtuse. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 00:06:27 -0400, nospam
wrote: In article .com, Savageduck wrote: It looks as though a giant wall is about to descend on the ball carrier. no it doesn't. What do you think those guys are doing in the left of the photograph? playing football. the wall is in the background, unaffected by those guys or anyone else for that matter. Duh! The wall that is about to descend is composed of the players on the left of the image. The game is Rugby. that's not a wall. It is a figurative wall much like a gridiron scrimmage line could be considered a figurative wall, not a literal brick wall. normally called a line of scrimmage, not a wall of scrimmage. You are being a bit too obtuse in pressing your POV. i would not call the players in that photo a wall. All you need to do is break through them while carrying the ball. You would be taken off in a stretcher. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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On 10/27/2017 11:25 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On Oct 27, 2017, nospam wrote (in ) : In , Eric Stevens wrote: It looks as though a giant wall is about to descend on the ball carrier. no it doesn't. What do you think those guys are doing in the left of the photograph? playing football. the wall is in the background, unaffected by those guys or anyone else for that matter. Duh! The wall that is about to descend is composed of the players on the left of the image. The game is Rugby. that's not a wall. It is a figurative wall much like a gridiron scrimmage line could be considered a figurative wall, not a literal brick wall. You are being a bit too obtuse in pressing your POV. Is obtuse the correct word? -- PeterN |
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On Oct 28, 2017, PeterN wrote
(in article ): On 10/27/2017 11:25 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Oct 27, 2017, nospam wrote (in ) : In , Eric Stevens wrote: It looks as though a giant wall is about to descend on the ball carrier. no it doesn't. What do you think those guys are doing in the left of the photograph? playing football. the wall is in the background, unaffected by those guys or anyone else for that matter. Duh! The wall that is about to descend is composed of the players on the left of the image. The game is Rugby. that's not a wall. It is a figurative wall much like a gridiron scrimmage line could be considered a figurative wall, not a literal brick wall. You are being a bit too obtuse in pressing your POV. Is obtuse the correct word? Obtuse is the perfect word for this individual. OBTUSE əbˈt(y)o͞osäbˈt(y)o͞os adjective 1 annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand: he wondered if the doctor was being deliberately obtuse. •difficult to understand: some of the lyrics are a bit obtuse. ORIGIN late Middle English(in the sense ‘blunt’): from Latin obtusus, past participle of obtundere ‘beat against’. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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In article , Tony Cooper
wrote: It looks as though a giant wall is about to descend on the ball carrier. no it doesn't. What do you think those guys are doing in the left of the photograph? playing football. the wall is in the background, unaffected by those guys or anyone else for that matter. Duh! The wall that is about to descend is composed of the players on the left of the image. The game is Rugby. that's not a wall. It is a figurative wall much like a gridiron scrimmage line could be considered a figurative wall, not a literal brick wall. You are being a bit too obtuse in pressing your POV. Is obtuse the correct word? Well, he is being obtuse in that he doesn't show any sign of understanding the metaphorical use of "wall". now i do, but not when he initially said 'a giant wall is about to descend'. not everyone plays rugby and knows what the terminology is. Anyone should be quite familiar with that type of use. We speak of a wall of water in a flash flood or tidal wave, a wall of obstruction by the opposing political party, a "Chinese wall" where information deliberately isn't shared, long distance runners hitting the wall, and many other types of walls that are not physical constructions. he used the word wall without a descriptor ('a wall is about to descend'), versus your examples (wall of water, chinese wall). you bash me for not being clear (even when what i write is clear as can be) yet you give a free pass when others are not. You might also say he's being excessively literal in ignoring that the word "wall" can be used metaphorically or allegorically (a symbolic representation). But, I would think that Eric would know by now that nospam enters threads with the sole intent to argue based on a pathetic need to be noticed and paid attention to. Any response to nospam gets a response from nospam, so he is always the last to comment on anything. He'll keep anything going to maintain face time here. absolute utter nonsense. you are *delusional* if you think that. your post here is nothing more than an opportunity to bash and the *only* reason you posted what you did. your other posts completely twist what i say just to argue, including when you know absolutely nothing about the topic, as was the case with the dcc subthread, showing just how incredibly stupid you really are. |
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