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Re: Just general surfing stuff

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Wyre » Thu Jul 14, 2022 10:07 pm

Haha! Pumping though. GSTQ would be ripping out there
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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Beanpole » Thu Jul 14, 2022 10:17 pm

Kellysboards look jittery. Italo was insane and Jack Robinson too. What’s with the bleached hair?
Funny for an introvert. Works for someone like Italo.
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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by channels » Fri Jul 15, 2022 9:47 pm

Jbay is so stupidly good.

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Beanpole » Fri Jul 15, 2022 10:14 pm

Great to see Ethan win. Plus an all AussieFinal.
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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Thud » Sat Jul 16, 2022 8:08 am

Nice, but they aren’t representing Australia. It’s like professional tennis. Can’t get too jingoistic about pro surfing but, I’m sure we’ll try to fly the Aussie Battler flag, sing We Are Australia and recite Bango Patterson none the less
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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by steve shearer » Sat Jul 16, 2022 8:39 am

I agree Thud.
Jingoism in pro surfing is just weird.
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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Thud » Sat Jul 16, 2022 9:18 am

Enjoyed your point break article in SN. 3 points of note here always chokers.
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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Beanpole » Sat Jul 16, 2022 9:23 am

Thud wrote:
Sat Jul 16, 2022 8:08 am
Nice, but they aren’t representing Australia. It’s like professional tennis. Can’t get too jingoistic about pro surfing but, I’m sure we’ll try to fly the Aussie Battler flag, sing We Are Australia and recite Bango Patterson none the less
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I agree Thud.
Jingoism in pro surfing is just weird.
Well, yeah, but it’s part of the whole thing and obviously part of marketing. No more than tennis. I struggle with Jack Robbos attitude a bit and have a bit SE Queensland pride in Ethan doing okay.
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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Thud » Sat Jul 16, 2022 9:43 am

Is it part of it? The Brazzers carry on but, that’s boarding on weird. It’s a us vs. everyone else.

Fair point on SEQ.
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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by buddy » Sat Jul 16, 2022 12:50 pm

Nice name drop, Steve :lol:
I ain't got a jingoistic bone in my body but it wasn't possible to watch that Final without something like nationalistic pride thudding in my throat.

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by alakaboo » Sat Jul 16, 2022 1:32 pm

You better change your password then Steve, someone with your login has been making a goose of themselves in the NRL thread.

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by steve shearer » Sat Jul 16, 2022 1:33 pm

OK, I'll give Thuddy that one.
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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by steve shearer » Sat Jul 16, 2022 1:34 pm

alakaboo wrote:
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You better change your password then Steve, someone with your login has been making a goose of themselves in the NRL thread.
Oh, that's QLD parochialism.

Different fish, no?
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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by alakaboo » Sat Jul 16, 2022 1:35 pm

Different geography, same nonsense from where I'm sitting.

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by steve shearer » Sat Jul 16, 2022 1:41 pm

yes.

I have a potent counter-argument to that relying on Nassim Nicholas Taleb's theories on localism/regionalism.

But I'll keep it shelved for now.

Leej would likely get exercised and see casual racism in the view.
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Re: Just general surfing stuff

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Cranked » Sat Jul 16, 2022 2:49 pm

steve shearer wrote:
Sat Jul 16, 2022 1:41 pm
yes.

I have a potent counter-argument to that relying on Nassim Nicholas Taleb's theories on localism/regionalism.

But I'll keep it shelved for now.

Leej would likely get exercised and see casual racism in the view.
You've definitely piqued my interest:

"Taleb has described his main challenge as mapping his ideas of "robustification" and "antifragility", that is, how to live and act in a world we do not understand and build robustness to black swan events. Taleb introduced the idea of the "fourth quadrant" in the exposure domain.[69] One of its applications is in his definition of the most effective (that is, least fragile) risk management approach: what he calls the "barbell strategy" which is based on avoiding the middle in favor of linear combination of extremes, across all domains from politics to economics to one's personal life. These are deemed by Taleb to be more robust to estimation errors. For instance, he suggests that investing money in 'medium risk' investments is pointless, because risk is difficult, if not impossible to compute. His preferred strategy is to be both hyper-conservative and hyper-aggressive at the same time. For example, an investor might put 80 to 90% of their money in extremely safe instruments, such as treasury bills, with the remainder going into highly risky and diversified speculative bets. An alternative suggestion is to engage in highly speculative bets with a limited downside."
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