Re: UKSF XI. Match on.


"Michael Cunningham" <superman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> You know, I think I'm going to have to break the habit of a lifetime
> and agree with Paul here. I thought the .pdf was a thing of beauty
> and we should embrace such advancements.

DWTWP. Well, it might have been a thing of beauty in it's own right, but I
stand by my assertion that Newsgroup Football should be played in the
newsgroup. Not, as Paul seems to think, because it's always been done that
way, but because I've thought a bit about it and think that it's still the
_best_ way to play it. Maybe not the newest, but newest doesn't equal
bestest by default.

Now, if the team *** had been posted in UKSF with all the text, _and_
available to download as a PDF file with pictures and everything as a nice
little bonus for those who could be arsed, I'd feel differently. Making
newsgroup football unavailable through the medium of newsreaders and
ungoogleabale in years to come, though, is just wrong.

If plain text is so 20th Century, why bother with it at all? Because words
can be beautiful in their own right. Sentences can rock. Paragraphs can be
unseated. And if there's one thing UKSF does pretty much as well,
collectively, as any other collective in the known world IMHO, it's
words'n'***. Just read some of the finer works of (*spit*) Cypher,
(*spit*), they didn't need fucking pictures to make them great and you
certainly didn't need to open up an otherwise redundant and unused program
from your HDD to see them. Would the SBL be better if it was all on PDF
files and you had to run Acrobat Reader to place a bet***? Would Chopsy's
WSC's be better if they were on PDF files? Would, to take yours and Paul's
webs to their logical conclusion, UKSF be better if _everything_ was on PDF
files and Word docs and spreadshits and webpages, and all that was posted in
the newsgroup was a series of links?

Is all music made on computers better, by definition, than music made on
guitars and drums and singing'n'***? No, I don't think it is, and I _very_
much doubt that Paul does either. Technological advancement and subsequent
complication of process increases our options but doesn't necessarily make
things better by default.

What wondrous threads might (or might not, of course) have ensued from the
admittedly amusing text on Paul's ghey bloat, if it'd been in the newsgroup
instead? Look back through previous teamsheets posted by previous managers
(they're all available on Google) and see how many of them have sparked
furious debate about player selections, club politics, horsecocks and the
suchlike, often with hilarious consequences. The UKSF forms a magnificent
part of this NewGay's proud history, and I'd hate to think of a future where
newcomers could only ever research it up as far as 2005, at which point it
all went techno and transient.

Pictures are great, I love pictures, and I love seeing what cunts in Youksef
have done in this and other mediums. I'd hate for people to stop posting
links to their various projects'n'***. But the main reason I come here is
to see what you intelligent, hilarious, free-thinking and often staggeringly
insightful fuckers, and Kullrad, have to say, and to see what I have to say
in reply, and to see what you (and Kullrad) have to say in reply to that.
And so on.

In my life there are films, music, sex, food, ProEvo and all sorts of other
wonderful things, but UKSF supplies me with something none of those do.
Turn it into an amateur art gallery and I can't say I'll need it anymore.

Oh, and one more thing, would you or Paul advocate replacing all books with
some higher-tech medium, or is there still (and will there always be) some
value to the simple purity of words on a page with your mind doing the rest?

Here endeth my web.

> In fact, the next
> team*** should be an interactive wall chart. That'd be cool.

Ah, now, that's different. Interactive wallcharts always rock, and I'm in
favour of them eventually replacing _everything_. Imagine if, for instace,
instead of a wife, people had Interactive Wallcharts of wives. You can't
tell me that wouldn't be the best thing ever in the world.


--
Joe

(Poleson for manager)





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