GIMH

Hey mate, you're up for another couple of picks in the ICC sim draft. Round 9 will begin in roughly 12 hours, so if the round has started by the time you log on, pick thrice my friend.

Happy New Year GIMH!

Hey mate, just letting you know you're due a couple of picks in the Cricket Captain draft.

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heads up you're in the non cricketers draft if you sant

check maf thread

how you travelling brother.

we suck eh

Huddersfield aren't playing Bolton mate. Can't let FJ win it by default, he's a Yorkshire fan.

He's looked a bit shaky, missed a clearance in the run up to Hamilton'd goal last week. Other games have been against dross in the League Cup where I could have strolled it at centre half for all the threat the opposition caused.

Got tore a new one by Andre Gray in the Burnley game but that's not really relevant as he won't play against anyone that good. I'd have him as firmly third choice but I reckon ge's been signed as a good experienced head who'll mentor and guide the centre halves on the training ground and off field as much as anything.

Hey mate, no I didn't. I emailed them several times too and nothing

And I quote: "I fear you're prediction isn't far off. Please be gentle with the Avatar. 6 months was it?"

And here I've been with Ellen DeGeneres in my avatar for an extra 6 months.

Back to Sooty we go!

**** off Sledger

I dunno, maybe that makes no sense but as a child I noticed people looked different physiologically than most of the people I was used to seeing everyday (I lived in a white AF town so people who weren't white stood out quite a lot). I didn't think any better or worse of any other race until I started noticing the cultural attitudes towards people who didn't look like I did. Until then, they were simply people who didn't look like me or my family or people around me.

I mean, people will be naturally fearful or disliking of people based on experience, minus other information. If I'm waiting in line in a bank and a guy in a blue shirt cuts in line ahead of me. I think he was a dick. if later on a guy in a blue shirt nearly runs me over as I'm crossing the street I'd think that guy was a dick. If I got bad customer service from an employee wearing a blue shirt, I'd think he was a dick. After enough bad experiences with guys who wear bad shirts I'd start to think all guys who wear blue shirts are dicks. If this is reinforced culturally by media or friends and relatives who depict blue shirt wearing men as dicks, the feeling would become stronger and validated in some way. But have I met all guys who wear a blue shirt in the world? No, so my deduction would be flawed, as is all racist thought process.

I think a lot of racism is learned from other people and from certain experiences. Example: Asian people are bad drivers. Asian migrants are often bad drivers in a Western sense because of the different road culture they come from (from how cars operate on the road, like in the madness of dense Chinese cities, iIndia etc) as well as different licence testing regulations etc. However, children of Asian migrants who learnt to drive by driving schools in Aus and NZ have been, in my experience, no better or worse than other drivers who learnt to drive in the Aus/NZ system. But if a persons experience is mostly bad migrant drivers, then they'd buy into the stereotype that 'all Asians are bad drivers', which implies it's somehow biological, when it's entirely cultural.

Naturally racist? I don't think so. Unless I'm mistaken in what I think race is, if kids didn't know that there were different "races" they couldn't be racist per se. I mean, they would obviously notice that certain people have different physical attributes to them and other people but without being told why I wouldn't think they'd question it? I mean, if they do question it and are told "well this person is from [x] country and in that part of the world they all share these attributes" etc then they'd be aware of race, and if they decided they didn't like that race or bought into what people said about that race, they'd become racist. I mean I'm speaking hypothetically in the 'not naturally racist' sense, if somehow we had children brought up in a vacuum from birth where they weren't told anything about race etc.

Indeed - alarm is set!

Best of luck tomorrow bb. Should be good fun. <3