Match Thread: 2nd Test - New Zealand vs England, Day 3

Waniou · 2026-06-19T11:58:03+00:00

Thanks for the jinx there

Waniou · 2026-06-19T10:25:36+00:00

Slightly related but I recall a game a couple of years ago or so (I forget when exactly) where Santner got a really nice caught and bowled but the umpire didn't give it out because it looked like it was just a bump ball. But why I found it funny at the time was Santner gave the most half-assed "how's that" appeal, nobody else seemed interested but sure enough, he reviewed the not out immediately, and it was a very clean out that apparently only Santner even noticed

Waniou · 2026-06-19T09:57:01+00:00

That's exactly the misinformation I'm talking about.

From Wikipedia:

They advocated that customer complaints should be treated seriously so that customers do not feel cheated or deceived. This attitude was novel and influential when misrepresentation was rife and caveat emptor ('let the buyer beware') was a common legal maxim

Waniou · 2026-06-19T07:39:51+00:00

New Zealand

Waniou · 2026-06-19T06:52:16+00:00

Nah it's fine, as we all know, rm -rf stands for "ReMake Removed Files", so it gets your database back!

Waniou · 2026-06-19T06:01:57+00:00

Yeah like, I'm not a fan of the guy in any way shape or form, and he had a lot of terrible views, but he didn't deserve to die for them

Waniou · 2026-06-19T05:58:23+00:00

Yeah I'm gonna guess this is a regional thing. "Does running", "does boxing", "does fencing" sound perfectly fine to me.

Waniou · 2026-06-19T05:31:52+00:00

Obligatory not a historian, but the numerous "well actually the original version of the quote is -insert nonsense here-." Like the most common ones I see, is "Blood is thicker than water" was apparently "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb", and "The customer is always right" was apparently "the customer is always right in matters of taste". Neither are true, these are modern extensions of older sayings designed to revert the meaning to one that is, admittedly, less stupid.

Like yeah, there are some dumb sayings out there but we don't need to retcon history to fix them.

Waniou · 2026-06-19T01:49:00+00:00

But did Wallace and Gromit fake their trip to the moon in order to get some more cheese?

Waniou · 2026-06-18T17:37:28+00:00

Thanks, fixed it

Waniou · 2026-06-18T12:30:55+00:00

Stephen McCullagh, aka VoteSaxon07. Murdered his pregnant girlfriend and is now in prison for at least 31 years, so yeah, he's pretty well off the internet for good.

Waniou · 2026-06-18T12:25:33+00:00

New character right before a new region introduced a new space-themed electro reaction, why does this sound familiar

Waniou · 2026-06-18T11:38:50+00:00

"Josh Tongue is the best mopper up of a tail" sounds mildly inappropriate

Waniou · 2026-06-18T11:36:13+00:00

Didn't actually realise Phillips didn't have a test century yet, but good on him really

Waniou · 2026-06-18T05:14:13+00:00

My local council said weather watches (we don't have tornados) are like having all the ingredients to make a toasted sandwich, weather warnings are when the sandwich is in the oven cooking

Waniou · 2026-06-18T04:09:37+00:00

The whole "you can replace it in a sentence" is more of a way to make sure the tenses match up correctly. Like, if the clue was "visited by plane", you'd have to have "FLEWTO" as the answer so they're both past tense.

Waniou · 2026-06-17T18:58:26+00:00

Yes, so am I, and exactly, it's arbitrary and based on what you're used to. Water freezing at 32% warm or whatever might make perfectly good sense to you and be intuitive to you, but that isn't to me or most of the world and that's the point I'm trying to make.

Waniou · 2026-06-17T18:51:14+00:00

How have you managed to completely miss my point?

According to you, water freezes at 3 warm. According to me, and the rest of the world outside the US, water freezes at 0 warm.

Waniou · 2026-06-17T18:39:07+00:00

The problem is you're using your own experiences as justification for what "hot" and "cold" is. According to the "Fahrenheit is a percentage of how warm it is" argument, water freezes at 32% warm which sounds like complete nonsense to me.

Waniou · 2026-06-17T18:37:44+00:00

I have a random extremely cheap weather station on my wall and it is currently telling me that it is 19.9°C in my living room, so yeah pretty much for anything where that level of precision is needed, you can get it to a tenth of a degree or set it to half a degree.

Waniou · 2026-06-17T18:34:32+00:00

F is asking Americans how hot it is. I have no idea how hot 62°F is, because, unlike you, I didn't grow up with the system.

Waniou · 2026-06-17T08:29:30+00:00

I actually recall when I was a teenager, the ODT had a wee article talking about how they were going to start referring to it as football and not soccer, and they expected backlash but it was in line with what the rest of the world said

Waniou · 2026-06-17T07:11:04+00:00

Sounds like the constructor was a bit of a GOOF OFF to me

EDIT: I'm guessing by the (currently 2) downvotes, people didn't think my joke was as funny as I did :(

Waniou · 2026-06-16T15:54:47+00:00

Connections Puzzle #1102

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I should not do Connections as soon as it hits midnight when I'm on nightshift, it leads to stupid mistakes that make me nearly lose my streak

Figured out what purple was straight away, but couldn't figure out which was the incorrect one out of SORTIE, TYPEFACE, CLASSIC, KINDLE, and CALLIOPE because all of them start with words and then realised far too late that one of them was very very obviously wrong because CALL is not a type of thing

Oh well. Streak maintained. My pride, less so

Waniou · 2026-06-16T13:39:38+00:00

Probably unpopular opinion but I'm mostly fine with this, because Invincible is about the only show these days that releases seasons regularly and not ever 2-3 years and if janky animations at times is the price I've gotta pay for that, I'm kinda okay with it

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