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The Funniest Bits of (My Time on) #nssport

Note: All times are UK time. I first joined #nssport on the 14th of March 2017. Where editing has been done, this is to remove irrelevant information. You might not find some bits "funny", these are just for historical purposes or the stuff that really made me think. But mostly funny stuff.
Other Vaguely Memorable IRC Moments, Long and Short (as captured by other NS Sports regulars):


20/03/2017
17:49 Juvencus I can revive aguazul
17:49 Juvencus I'm gonna name it Azulagua
17:49 Damukuni lolwat Juvencus
17:49 tinhampton ^^^^^^
17:49 Juvencus Azulagua sounds Aztec
17:49 Juvencus See?
17:49 Juvencus Not Aztec
17:49 Damukuni What kind of Aztec are you speaking?
17:49 Juvencus Inca
17:49 Juvencus Gg

22/03/2017
00:01 Gregoryisgodistan Llama!
00:01 Gregoryisgodistan Oh Mama, It's Llama!
00:01 drawk Oh damn, it's Gregoryisgodistan!
00:02 Gregoryisgodistan Bloody c*ck, it's drawk.
00:02 Electrum Hello
00:02 drawk Ho hum, it's Electrum!
00:02 Electrum No humming
00:02 Electrum I'm in a lecture
00:03 llama Keep it mum, it's Electrum!
00:03 Electrum that's more like it
00:05 *** Astograth joined #nssport
00:06 Astograth Yo
00:06 Gregoryisgodistan Do the math, it's Astograth!
00:06 credo hey Electrum
00:07 drawk beedo beedo, it's credo!
00:07 credo hmm, I gotta add RP Permissions later
00:07 Astograth It's-a me
00:07 credo that doesn't make any sense drawk
00:08 Nephara oh lookephara it's nephara
00:08 Nephara see i'm a poet
00:08 Audio No si credo! It's Cre.do!
00:08 credo lol
00:08 Audio with an added dot!
00:08 drawk Ay yo, it's Audio!
00:08 Gregoryisgodistan Oh wow. Cre.do is a Polish web design site.
00:08 credo better talk, it's drawk!
00:08 Audio Non si cre.do
00:09 drawk yeeeee
00:09 drawk o rawra iss nephara
00:10 Gregoryisgodistan Don't let your excitement, wane, because guess what, it's Ethane!
00:10 Nephara this is getting painful

22/03/2017 (again)
21:30 *** Nehparra joined #nssport
21:30 Nehparra er
21:30 Nehparra oh well
21:30 Nehparra it is i, the knockoff nephara
21:31 *** Nephara quit (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)
21:31 credo lol
21:32 *** Nehparra is now known as Nephara
21:32 drawk GG

24/03/2017
22:02 Damukuni If you can see this, you have X-ray vision

28/03/2017
15:57 tinhampton What did I miss?
15:58 credo Rin incinerating everyone
15:59 Rin incinerates credo
16:02 credo incinerates Tinhampton for Rin
16:02 *** tinhampton is now known as tinhampton|BURNING
16:02 Rin Thank you kindly
16:02 Rin incinerates credo for his good work
16:03 tinhampton|BURNING incinerates Rin
16:03 Rin is immune to incineration
16:04 tinhampton|BURNING *out*cinerates Rin
16:10 drawk Rincinerates Rin
16:10 Rin drowns drawk in his own blood
16:10 drawk Wrong
16:11 Voltaire Yup, you missed that
16:12 credo sends drawk to the TLE
16:13 Rin sends credo to Antarctica
16:13 credo forces Rin to force drawk to work on the league
16:15 Rin threatens drawk with a Paul Ryan mannequin
16:15 tumbra sends volts through Voltaire
16:15 credo sends tumbra to la tumba
16:16 drawk sends Tumbra to Mike Pence
16:16 Rin sends Tumbra to yishun
16:26 credo sends Rin to Donald Trump
16:26 Rin sends credo to Steve Bannon
16:26 credo punts Steve Bannon to Rin
16:27 Rin punts Newt Gingrich to credo
16:27 credo punts Newt Gingrich to tinhampton|BURNING
16:28 tumbra mike pences everyone

05/04/2017
22:07 tinhampton THE ALPHABET OF NS SPORT: A is for AO (or Annulment, if you follow e issues world closely enough), B is for Blexit,. There, done.
22:07 Damukuni B"l"exit
22:07 tinhampton Sorry about that. Will get a fuller version of The Alphabet of NS Sports up sooner or later.
22:08 Damukuni Well, A is for AO, E is for Esportiva, F is for Futurnia, R is for Rushmore, V is for The Person Who Canonised An Entire Region For The Purpose Of Sport, and W is... for a lot of things.
22:09 Damukuni Would there be sporting regions without Vilita and Turori?
22:10 Rin v.v
22:12 Damukuni ?.?
22:14 *** Farf quit (Ping timeout: 180 seconds)
22:15 --- EastfieldLodge is back
22:15 EastfieldLodge Damukuni: In much better shape?
22:16 Damukuni Huh?
22:16 EastfieldLodge ... Completely misread your question.
22:17 EastfieldLodge Read it as "Where would the sporting regions be..."
22:19 tinhampton THE ALPHABET OF NS SPORT 2 - "WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIEND": A is for AO (or Annulment, if you follow issue effects closely enough), B is for Blexit, C is for commerceheights, D is for Damukuni, E is for Esportiva, F is for Futurnia, G is for the Globe Cup, H is for Hodori, I is for the Independents Cup, J is for JUD|KRZ,
22:20 tinhampton K is for Krytenia (see also W and U), L is for Luckofthedraw, M is for Margaret (not to be confused with Q), N is for Newmanistan, O is for ONLY RUSHMORE, P is for PeoplewhydontyoucheckoutmylatestdraftofCommendTHE, Q is for Queen Margaret (not to be confused with M), R is for Rushmore, S is for Starblaydia (see also W), T is for Turori (see also V),
22:20 tinhampton U is for United Provinces (see also K and W), V is for Vilita (see also T), W is for West Starblaydia (see also K, S and U), X is for Xrayorsomethinglikethat, Y is for Yesmynationmadeittotheworldcup, Z is for Zebedeethezebrasaysthatthisalphabetisfinally over! See, I did it! (but not *THAT* quickly)
22:20 Damukuni Shame on you tinhampton
22:20 Damukuni You didn't mention COCANEFA at all
22:21 tinhampton
22:22 tinhampton You see, I only had time to include one thing per letter, which meant I is for Ireallywaspushingtheboundaries.
22:25 Damukuni I is for International Basketball Championships!
22:26 tinhampton I is for I-phone!
22:26 Damukuni Ew
22:26 EastfieldLodge R is for Reaching?
22:27 Damukuni Don't ever mention the i****e in here again
22:27 ESF V is for Vanorian Victory
22:27 EastfieldLodge The ish*te, damukuni?
22:27 tinhampton I is for IRC, then!
22:27 Damukuni U is for the United States of Damukuni, btw. tinhampton
22:28 Damukuni It's our full name, and calling us the United States is not only accepted but fairly common
22:28 tinhampton U is for Usefultidbitijustlearned
22:29 Damukuni EastfieldLodge: Yes, the iSh*te.
22:29 Damukuni takes his seat in the Apple Haters' Club
22:30 Damukuni But Damukuni is how we're referred to in the World Cup and other sporting events, which is equally as fine. It's like calling the United States "America".
22:31 Damukuni Except we're the "United States" officially in IRL sporting events, so distinction here is in order.
22:31 Mercedini I is for I never gave you permission to control my players, I control my
22:32 Damukuni M is for Mercedini is overly controlling
22:32 tinhampton H is for Howaboutwesettlethisthrougha"friendly"?
22:33 Damukuni S is for 7-1 over a team overwhelmingly better than you

10/04/2017:
02:40 ANG|IRN Btw on the subject of club football Eura has some metal team names
02:40 ANG|IRN 'Bastion, Revolutionaries, Spartangrad'
02:41 tinhampton And who could forget 95X's Twentytwo Cacti?
02:41 ANG|IRN At least a cacti is just a plant

11/04/2017:
20:05 *** drawk quit (Quit: Connection closed for inactivity)
20:06 *** drawk joined #nssport
20:06 drawk Whoops
20:06 Eshan|RP sah
20:07 Kushleesi FAS, drawk
20:07 tinhampton FAS?
20:07 Ethane FAS
20:07 Eshan|RP FAS
20:07 Astograth Alianza
20:07 Eshan|RP /kick Astograth
20:08 Ethane /die Astograth :P
20:08 Kushleesi offers hell to Astograth for refusing FAS as the common belief :P
NOTE: Val|WI, aka Valladares, soon announced a new rule that stated that anybody mentioning Alianza or FAS would be kicked from the channel; so far, despite various mentions of the entities, nobody has been kicked so far.

12/04/2017
00:22 Krytenia Jermaine Orange. $8 caps, 47 goals, and no b***ers heard of him
00:22 Krytenia 48 caps
00:23 PIS no, well.
00:23 myt $8 caps makes for a radically different RP
00:23 PIS is he a krytie?
00:23 PIS that'll be why
00:23 PIS hahahaha myt
00:23 PIS "We should look at this player, coach."
00:23 Krytenia Pre-burnout Krytie
00:23 PIS "Is he good? How many international caps does he have?"
00:23 PIS "$8"
00:23 myt xD
00:23 PIS "...eh"

12/04/2017 (again)
15:57 *** tinhampton joined #nssport
15:59 tinhampton Hey, there. Food for thought: Why are THE GAMBIA and ZIMBABWE considered safer for tourists than the UK? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-4404900/Finland-named-world-s-safest-country.html
16:12 Mercedini Probability of a terrorist attack is a lot higher in the Uk than in The Gambia or zimbabwe
16:16 commerceheights tourists in those countries face a much lower risk of encountering the Daily Mail
16:32 credo LOL
16:34 AmtrakGGS LOL
16:38 drawk GOT EM
16:38 AmtrakGGS What did you do, drawk?
16:45 drawk I was referring to commerceheights' comment
16:46 AmtrakGGS oh

12/04/2017 (I seem to be on to something here...)
17:20 drawk (AVN) Westport United 2–1 Danubio FC (VLD) 2–1 0–0
17:20 drawk YEEEEE
17:20 AmtrakGGS Promotion to what league?
17:20 commerceheights from Northern Counties East Football League Division One (level 10) to the Premier Divsion (level 9)
17:21 credo lol

13/04/2017
13:44 Electrum EastfieldLodge> To whoever uses a sort function on the Free Transfers page, the Filter exists for a reason.
13:46 Electrum oh well
13:46 Electrum I avoid the page like the plague
13:46 Electrum credo does the rosters for me xD
13:46 Sem awwwwww
13:46 Sem cuties
13:49 drawk buys out Electrum
13:51 Electrum builds a wall against drawk
13:57 drawk sends the Avonian military to invade Electrum
13:58 drawk watches a dude on a small patrol boat try killing people with a pistol from the deck of his boat

15/04/2017:
15:56 *** SouthYerfilag joined #nssport
15:57 SouthYerfilag Audio: My liege and overlord!
15:57 Audio \o/
15:57 *** SouthYerfilag is now known as flicks
15:58 flicks flicks to TNL on DSN 5 in tribute
15:58 *** Damukuni quit (Ping timeout: 200 seconds)
15:58 *** flicks is now known as Damukuni
15:58 Damukuni flicks to TNL on DSN 5 in tribute
15:58 Damukuni Lol
15:59 Damukuni In a moment I'll be in a huge no service area
15:59 Damukuni See you later
16:02 *** Damukuni quit (Ping timeout: 180 seconds)
16:11 --- tinhampton is away (Auto away)
16:12 *** Damukuni joined #nssport
16:13 tinhampton Welcome back, Damukuni. You missed nothing.
16:13 --- tinhampton is back
16:13 Damukuni So once again, honours to Audioslavia, our new Puppet Detection Sniffer
16:13 Damukuni Lol, I didn't need *you* to tell me that
16:15 goluta Welcome back, Damukuni. You missed nothing.
16:16 tinhampton Welcome back, Damukuni. You missed nothing.
16:16 Damukuni SNIPES! goluta and tinhampton

16/04/2017
17:45 Tumbra ADVANTAGE FERRARI AS VETTEL WINS BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX
17:47 Tumbra 1 VET 2 HAM 3 BOT 4 RAI 5 RIC 6 MAS 7 PER 8 GRO 9 HUL 10 OCO 11 WEH 12 KVY 13 PAL --- RET: ALO ERI SAI STR VER MAG VAN
17:53 Audio So the top ten was Vetinarian, Ham, Bottle, Raider, Rice, Mash, Per, Gross, Hulk, O'Connor. Got it.
.......
19:39 Audio I am going to watch this thread and quietly put my mod hat on
19:39 Audio just in case
19:39 Audio It doesn't fit yet
NOTE: Audio, aka Audioslavia, had been baptised as a moderator the previous morning.

18/04/2017
23:15 commerceheights to be fair, Spain’s RPs have been a lot better than most this season
23:15 commerceheights the extra drama of Real Madrid having a game in hand has been a nice touch
23:16 Val|WI I've found France to be far more exciting this season
23:16 Qas Woo PSG
23:16 Val|WI Sadly that doesn't seem to have been rewarded by RP bonus
23:17 Val|WI <Qas> Boo PSG <--- FIX!ed
23:17 Val|WI Also boo Nice
23:17 Audio they just base the entire league on two sides, one from the capital and one from the east coast where they speak a different language, who win it year after year, with the occasional upset. Total bullsh*t.
23:18 Audio Never catch me doing that
23:18 EastfieldLodge England's league's are underrated, IMO.
23:18 Nephara i swear to god he tanked sevilla's ranking midway through the season
23:18 commerceheights yeah, but compare it to that total n00b Scotland
23:18 EastfieldLodge True.
23:18 Val|WI #burn
23:18 Nephara scotland was decent once
23:19 Nephara then stopped putting the effort in
23:19 EastfieldLodge Although relegating Rangers was a master-stroke.
23:19 Val|WI Not anymore
23:19 Nephara and also decided to tank one of their two sides
23:19 Audio I don't know why Scotland doesn't do more with that Hibernian team
23:19 Audio best kit, sexiest fans
23:19 EastfieldLodge Because the capital is sh*t at football.
23:20 Audio constantly getting gubbed in the UEFA CL and EL
23:20 Val|WI Can't we just merge Scotland with anyone else? Say....the Faroe Islands? :P
23:20 Audio What, Dane's puppet?
23:20 commerceheights I guess England doesn’t have the time to put the effort into her puppet, she should probably just drop it
23:20 EastfieldLodge Nah, I think England should be forced to reduce the number of puppets.
23:20 EastfieldLodge Combine them all into one league, á la Eastfield Lodge
23:20 Audio over. the. line.
23:21 Nephara and then it's like
23:21 Val|WI It's not like Wales or Northern Ireland do anything of note, tbf
23:21 Nephara yeah
23:21 Nephara they get like
23:21 Nephara a sentence
23:21 EastfieldLodge Exactly Val|WI
23:21 Nephara and all the welsh teams she likes, she put in england anyway?
23:21 Val|WI TNS? :P
23:21 Nephara like swansea (haha how imaginitive, swans, of the sea, smh)
23:21 Audio Didn't TNS used to be called 'Total Network Solutions'? You can't just change your mind halfway through
23:21 EastfieldLodge And Cardiff.
23:21 Nephara well, she realised how stupid it sounded, probably.
23:22 Audio 'Oh, they're 'The New Saints' now'. B***er off
23:22 Nephara i can't believe they ripped off the Nepharim international leftback Esther Cardiff's name and named a club after it. smh
23:22 Nephara like have some -standards-
23:22 Val|WI <Audio> Didn't TNS used to be called 'Total Network Solutions'? You can't just change your mind halfway through <--- Yes, them
23:23 EastfieldLodge Isn't there someone called Wrexham as well? And Newport?
23:23 Nephara yeah
23:23 Audio And that Northern Ireland puppet. Total joke. First of all, you can't just name a puppet after someone else's nation
23:23 EastfieldLodge Newport is such a common team name, tbh.
23:23 Audio secondly, have you seen the teams?
23:23 Audio 'Distillery'
23:23 Audio like what?
(EastfieldLodge concurs with Nephara about how "'Crusaders' is wasted on such a sh*thole puppet". The following snippets were recorded by EFL, who says that the 23:28 comment about tennis was the conclusion of that before it basically turned into a public two-way conversation between EFL and drawk)
23:24 Audio El Salvador is a f*cken joke too.
23:24 Audio They're Guayabalense teams
23:24 EastfieldLodge Yep.
23:24 Audio just word for word
23:24 Audio FAS are way underpowered too
23:24 Val|WI And Alianza too overrated
NOTE: I assume that Val|WI's Alianza/FAS moratorium appears to no longer be active.
23:24 commerceheights what do you expect, North, Central America and Caribbean is a total n00bfest
23:25 commerceheights rubbish name too
23:25 EastfieldLodge What about Germany though?
23:25 Audio Germany's cool
23:25 Audio Now.
23:25 EastfieldLodge I mean, great RP'ing, but please, nerf Bayern Munich for the love of god.
23:25 commerceheights the region name’s 1093 characters long but then they have a nation that’s just “USA”
23:25 EastfieldLodge They're clearly modelled after RGS, aren't they?
23:25 commerceheights literally, the name is just the trigram
23:25 Val|WI But their puppets are boring
23:26 EastfieldLodge Germany's puppets?
23:26 Val|WI For example that joint puppet with France and Italy
23:26 Audio I wouldn't call Colombia boring
23:26 Audio oh, you were talking about Germany
23:26 Audio yes. Switzerland is a snooze fest
23:27 Audio 'hey we're multicultural and we protect the RL Pope'
23:27 Audio 'using these knives'
23:27 Audio *produce mess*
23:27 Audio great
23:28 EastfieldLodge I don't get Switzerland.
23:28 EastfieldLodge Why is that nation so neutral in literally everything?
23:28 EastfieldLodge Surprisingly good at tennis, though.
.......
23:30 *** tinhampton joined #nssport
23:30 tinhampton What did I miss from after EFL wrote "They're taking a leaf out of Krytenia's book"?
23:30 drawk Does USA even submit their league? They obviously put a lot more of their RPing effort to the other sports
23:31 EastfieldLodge drawk: They do, it just gets buried in their newswire.
23:31 tinhampton REEEEEEEEEEEe
23:31 tinhampton ljakfhbmdi;[fsijpdzk;o[p
23:31 *** tinhampton left #nssport
NOTE: Apologies for the behaviour here.
23:31 commerceheights he tried once but he obviously doesn’t understand the sport
23:31 commerceheights he had RPs with the clock counting *down*!
(EastfieldLodge provided me their pastebin of the conversation... a bit too late)
23:32 drawk That's true, their newswire is massive
23:32 EastfieldLodge ...
23:32 Sem he left
23:32 EastfieldLodge I saw.
23:32 Sem Just confirming it!
23:32 EastfieldLodge Fair.
.......
23:32 *** tinhampton joined #nssport
(EastfieldLodge provided me their pastebin of the conversation)
23:33 drawk Also, taking their name and adding "football" to the end and calling it a new sport
23:33 drawk Gimme a break
23:33 EastfieldLodge Australia aren't much better tbh.
23:33 drawk 0 originality
23:33 drawk True
23:34 drawk Why's everybody copying Babbage?
23:36 EastfieldLodge Actually, we do have gridiron, it's just been renamed.
23:36 EastfieldLodge The World Bowl does exist.
23:37 EastfieldLodge But yeah, it's weird how only USA RPs it. Same with Ice Hockey and Baseball to a lesser extent
23:37 EastfieldLodge Even cricket is more popular worldwide than gridiron.
.......
23:41 Audio try logging in now, guys
23:41 Audio the forum is apparently back online
NOTE: the forum has become inaccessible for a while between 22:30-ish and 23:40-ish due to server gremlins. Audio and EastfieldLodge were the two IRCers out of about 22 able to make it onto the forums then.
23:42 drawk Working for me! Woo!

19/04/2017 (yes, I am fully aware that this is a meta-log)
00:17 tinhampton If you want to check out my latest additions to my IRC log of logs...

Note: All times are UK time. I first joined #nssport on the 14th of March 2017. Where editing has been done, this is to remove irrelevant information. You might not find some bits "funny", these are just for historical purposes or the stuff that really made me think. But mostly funny stuff.
Other Vaguely Memorable IRC Moments, Long and Short (as captured by other NS Sports regulars):


20/03/2017
17:49 Juvencus I can revive aguazul
17:49 Juvencus I'm gonna name it Azulagua
17:49 Damukuni lolwat Juvencus
17:49 tinhampton ^^^^^^
17:49 Juvencus Azulagua sounds Aztec
17:49 Juvencus See?
17:49 Juvencus Not Aztec
17:49 Damukuni What kind of Aztec are you speaking?
17:49 Juvencus Inca
17:49 Juvencus Gg

22/03/2017
00:01 Gregoryisgodistan Llama!
00:01 Gregoryisgodistan Oh Mama, It's Llama!
00:01 drawk Oh damn, it's Gregoryisgodistan!
00:02 Gregoryisgodistan Bloody c*ck, it's drawk.
00:02 Electrum Hello
00:02 drawk Ho hum, it's Electrum!
00:02 Electrum No humming
00:02 Electrum I'm in a lecture
00:03 llama Keep it mum, it's Electrum!
00:03 Electrum that's more like it
00:05 *** Astograth joined #nssport
00:06 Astograth Yo
00:06 Gregoryisgodistan Do the math, it's Astograth!
00:06 credo hey Electrum
00:07 drawk beedo beedo, it's credo!
00:07 credo hmm, I gotta add RP Permissions later
00:07 Astograth It's-a me
00:07 credo that doesn't make any sense drawk
00:08 Nephara oh lookephara it's nephara
00:08 Nephara see i'm a poet
00:08 Audio No si credo! It's Cre.do!
00:08 credo lol
00:08 Audio with an added dot!
00:08 drawk Ay yo, it's Audio!
00:08 Gregoryisgodistan Oh wow. Cre.do is a Polish web design site.
00:08 credo better talk, it's drawk!
00:08 Audio Non si cre.do
00:09 drawk yeeeee
00:09 drawk o rawra iss nephara
00:10 Gregoryisgodistan Don't let your excitement, wane, because guess what, it's Ethane!
00:10 Nephara this is getting painful

22/03/2017 (again)
21:30 *** Nehparra joined #nssport
21:30 Nehparra er
21:30 Nehparra oh well
21:30 Nehparra it is i, the knockoff nephara
21:31 *** Nephara quit (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)
21:31 credo lol
21:32 *** Nehparra is now known as Nephara
21:32 drawk GG

24/03/2017
22:02 Damukuni If you can see this, you have X-ray vision

28/03/2017
15:57 tinhampton What did I miss?
15:58 credo Rin incinerating everyone
15:59 Rin incinerates credo
16:02 credo incinerates Tinhampton for Rin
16:02 *** tinhampton is now known as tinhampton|BURNING
16:02 Rin Thank you kindly
16:02 Rin incinerates credo for his good work
16:03 tinhampton|BURNING incinerates Rin
16:03 Rin is immune to incineration
16:04 tinhampton|BURNING *out*cinerates Rin
16:10 drawk Rincinerates Rin
16:10 Rin drowns drawk in his own blood
16:10 drawk Wrong
16:11 Voltaire Yup, you missed that
16:12 credo sends drawk to the TLE
16:13 Rin sends credo to Antarctica
16:13 credo forces Rin to force drawk to work on the league
16:15 Rin threatens drawk with a Paul Ryan mannequin
16:15 tumbra sends volts through Voltaire
16:15 credo sends tumbra to la tumba
16:16 drawk sends Tumbra to Mike Pence
16:16 Rin sends Tumbra to yishun
16:26 credo sends Rin to Donald Trump
16:26 Rin sends credo to Steve Bannon
16:26 credo punts Steve Bannon to Rin
16:27 Rin punts Newt Gingrich to credo
16:27 credo punts Newt Gingrich to tinhampton|BURNING
16:28 tumbra mike pences everyone

05/04/2017
22:07 tinhampton THE ALPHABET OF NS SPORT: A is for AO (or Annulment, if you follow e issues world closely enough), B is for Blexit,. There, done.
22:07 Damukuni B"l"exit
22:07 tinhampton Sorry about that. Will get a fuller version of The Alphabet of NS Sports up sooner or later.
22:08 Damukuni Well, A is for AO, E is for Esportiva, F is for Futurnia, R is for Rushmore, V is for The Person Who Canonised An Entire Region For The Purpose Of Sport, and W is... for a lot of things.
22:09 Damukuni Would there be sporting regions without Vilita and Turori?
22:10 Rin v.v
22:12 Damukuni ?.?
22:14 *** Farf quit (Ping timeout: 180 seconds)
22:15 --- EastfieldLodge is back
22:15 EastfieldLodge Damukuni: In much better shape?
22:16 Damukuni Huh?
22:16 EastfieldLodge ... Completely misread your question.
22:17 EastfieldLodge Read it as "Where would the sporting regions be..."
22:19 tinhampton THE ALPHABET OF NS SPORT 2 - "WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIEND": A is for AO (or Annulment, if you follow issue effects closely enough), B is for Blexit, C is for commerceheights, D is for Damukuni, E is for Esportiva, F is for Futurnia, G is for the Globe Cup, H is for Hodori, I is for the Independents Cup, J is for JUD|KRZ,
22:20 tinhampton K is for Krytenia (see also W and U), L is for Luckofthedraw, M is for Margaret (not to be confused with Q), N is for Newmanistan, O is for ONLY RUSHMORE, P is for PeoplewhydontyoucheckoutmylatestdraftofCommendTHE, Q is for Queen Margaret (not to be confused with M), R is for Rushmore, S is for Starblaydia (see also W), T is for Turori (see also V),
22:20 tinhampton U is for United Provinces (see also K and W), V is for Vilita (see also T), W is for West Starblaydia (see also K, S and U), X is for Xrayorsomethinglikethat, Y is for Yesmynationmadeittotheworldcup, Z is for Zebedeethezebrasaysthatthisalphabetisfinally over! See, I did it! (but not *THAT* quickly)
22:20 Damukuni Shame on you tinhampton
22:20 Damukuni You didn't mention COCANEFA at all
22:21 tinhampton
22:22 tinhampton You see, I only had time to include one thing per letter, which meant I is for Ireallywaspushingtheboundaries.
22:25 Damukuni I is for International Basketball Championships!
22:26 tinhampton I is for I-phone!
22:26 Damukuni Ew
22:26 EastfieldLodge R is for Reaching?
22:27 Damukuni Don't ever mention the i****e in here again
22:27 ESF V is for Vanorian Victory
22:27 EastfieldLodge The ish*te, damukuni?
22:27 tinhampton I is for IRC, then!
22:27 Damukuni U is for the United States of Damukuni, btw. tinhampton
22:28 Damukuni It's our full name, and calling us the United States is not only accepted but fairly common
22:28 tinhampton U is for Usefultidbitijustlearned
22:29 Damukuni EastfieldLodge: Yes, the iSh*te.
22:29 Damukuni takes his seat in the Apple Haters' Club
22:30 Damukuni But Damukuni is how we're referred to in the World Cup and other sporting events, which is equally as fine. It's like calling the United States "America".
22:31 Damukuni Except we're the "United States" officially in IRL sporting events, so distinction here is in order.
22:31 Mercedini I is for I never gave you permission to control my players, I control my
22:32 Damukuni M is for Mercedini is overly controlling
22:32 tinhampton H is for Howaboutwesettlethisthrougha"friendly"?
22:33 Damukuni S is for 7-1 over a team overwhelmingly better than you

10/04/2017:
02:40 ANG|IRN Btw on the subject of club football Eura has some metal team names
02:40 ANG|IRN 'Bastion, Revolutionaries, Spartangrad'
02:41 tinhampton And who could forget 95X's Twentytwo Cacti?
02:41 ANG|IRN At least a cacti is just a plant

11/04/2017:
20:05 *** drawk quit (Quit: Connection closed for inactivity)
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20:06 drawk Whoops
20:06 Eshan|RP sah
20:07 Kushleesi FAS, drawk
20:07 tinhampton FAS?
20:07 Ethane FAS
20:07 Eshan|RP FAS
20:07 Astograth Alianza
20:07 Eshan|RP /kick Astograth
20:08 Ethane /die Astograth :P
20:08 Kushleesi offers hell to Astograth for refusing FAS as the common belief :P
NOTE: Val|WI, aka Valladares, soon announced a new rule that stated that anybody mentioning Alianza or FAS would be kicked from the channel; so far, despite various mentions of the entities, nobody has been kicked so far.

12/04/2017
00:22 Krytenia Jermaine Orange. $8 caps, 47 goals, and no b***ers heard of him
00:22 Krytenia 48 caps
00:23 PIS no, well.
00:23 myt $8 caps makes for a radically different RP
00:23 PIS is he a krytie?
00:23 PIS that'll be why
00:23 PIS hahahaha myt
00:23 PIS "We should look at this player, coach."
00:23 Krytenia Pre-burnout Krytie
00:23 PIS "Is he good? How many international caps does he have?"
00:23 PIS "$8"
00:23 myt xD
00:23 PIS "...eh"

12/04/2017 (again)
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15:59 tinhampton Hey, there. Food for thought: Why are THE GAMBIA and ZIMBABWE considered safer for tourists than the UK? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-4404900/Finland-named-world-s-safest-country.html
16:12 Mercedini Probability of a terrorist attack is a lot higher in the Uk than in The Gambia or zimbabwe
16:16 commerceheights tourists in those countries face a much lower risk of encountering the Daily Mail
16:32 credo LOL
16:34 AmtrakGGS LOL
16:38 drawk GOT EM
16:38 AmtrakGGS What did you do, drawk?
16:45 drawk I was referring to commerceheights' comment
16:46 AmtrakGGS oh

12/04/2017 (I seem to be on to something here...)
17:20 drawk (AVN) Westport United 2–1 Danubio FC (VLD) 2–1 0–0
17:20 drawk YEEEEE
17:20 AmtrakGGS Promotion to what league?
17:20 commerceheights from Northern Counties East Football League Division One (level 10) to the Premier Divsion (level 9)
17:21 credo lol

13/04/2017
13:44 Electrum EastfieldLodge> To whoever uses a sort function on the Free Transfers page, the Filter exists for a reason.
13:46 Electrum oh well
13:46 Electrum I avoid the page like the plague
13:46 Electrum credo does the rosters for me xD
13:46 Sem awwwwww
13:46 Sem cuties
13:49 drawk buys out Electrum
13:51 Electrum builds a wall against drawk
13:57 drawk sends the Avonian military to invade Electrum
13:58 drawk watches a dude on a small patrol boat try killing people with a pistol from the deck of his boat

15/04/2017:
15:56 *** SouthYerfilag joined #nssport
15:57 SouthYerfilag Audio: My liege and overlord!
15:57 Audio \o/
15:57 *** SouthYerfilag is now known as flicks
15:58 flicks flicks to TNL on DSN 5 in tribute
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15:58 *** flicks is now known as Damukuni
15:58 Damukuni flicks to TNL on DSN 5 in tribute
15:58 Damukuni Lol
15:59 Damukuni In a moment I'll be in a huge no service area
15:59 Damukuni See you later
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16:11 --- tinhampton is away (Auto away)
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16:13 tinhampton Welcome back, Damukuni. You missed nothing.
16:13 --- tinhampton is back
16:13 Damukuni So once again, honours to Audioslavia, our new Puppet Detection Sniffer
16:13 Damukuni Lol, I didn't need *you* to tell me that
16:15 goluta Welcome back, Damukuni. You missed nothing.
16:16 tinhampton Welcome back, Damukuni. You missed nothing.
16:16 Damukuni SNIPES! goluta and tinhampton

16/04/2017
17:45 Tumbra ADVANTAGE FERRARI AS VETTEL WINS BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX
17:47 Tumbra 1 VET 2 HAM 3 BOT 4 RAI 5 RIC 6 MAS 7 PER 8 GRO 9 HUL 10 OCO 11 WEH 12 KVY 13 PAL --- RET: ALO ERI SAI STR VER MAG VAN
17:53 Audio So the top ten was Vetinarian, Ham, Bottle, Raider, Rice, Mash, Per, Gross, Hulk, O'Connor. Got it.
.......
19:39 Audio I am going to watch this thread and quietly put my mod hat on
19:39 Audio just in case
19:39 Audio It doesn't fit yet
NOTE: Audio, aka Audioslavia, had been baptised as a moderator the previous morning.

18/04/2017
23:15 commerceheights to be fair, Spain’s RPs have been a lot better than most this season
23:15 commerceheights the extra drama of Real Madrid having a game in hand has been a nice touch
23:16 Val|WI I've found France to be far more exciting this season
23:16 Qas Woo PSG
23:16 Val|WI Sadly that doesn't seem to have been rewarded by RP bonus
23:17 Val|WI <Qas> Boo PSG <--- FIX!ed
23:17 Val|WI Also boo Nice
23:17 Audio they just base the entire league on two sides, one from the capital and one from the east coast where they speak a different language, who win it year after year, with the occasional upset. Total bullsh*t.
23:18 Audio Never catch me doing that
23:18 EastfieldLodge England's league's are underrated, IMO.
23:18 Nephara i swear to god he tanked sevilla's ranking midway through the season
23:18 commerceheights yeah, but compare it to that total n00b Scotland
23:18 EastfieldLodge True.
23:18 Val|WI #burn
23:18 Nephara scotland was decent once
23:19 Nephara then stopped putting the effort in
23:19 EastfieldLodge Although relegating Rangers was a master-stroke.
23:19 Val|WI Not anymore
23:19 Nephara and also decided to tank one of their two sides
23:19 Audio I don't know why Scotland doesn't do more with that Hibernian team
23:19 Audio best kit, sexiest fans
23:19 EastfieldLodge Because the capital is sh*t at football.
23:20 Audio constantly getting gubbed in the UEFA CL and EL
23:20 Val|WI Can't we just merge Scotland with anyone else? Say....the Faroe Islands? :P
23:20 Audio What, Dane's puppet?
23:20 commerceheights I guess England doesn’t have the time to put the effort into her puppet, she should probably just drop it
23:20 EastfieldLodge Nah, I think England should be forced to reduce the number of puppets.
23:20 EastfieldLodge Combine them all into one league, á la Eastfield Lodge
23:20 Audio over. the. line.
23:21 Nephara and then it's like
23:21 Val|WI It's not like Wales or Northern Ireland do anything of note, tbf
23:21 Nephara yeah
23:21 Nephara they get like
23:21 Nephara a sentence
23:21 EastfieldLodge Exactly Val|WI
23:21 Nephara and all the welsh teams she likes, she put in england anyway?
23:21 Val|WI TNS? :P
23:21 Nephara like swansea (haha how imaginitive, swans, of the sea, smh)
23:21 Audio Didn't TNS used to be called 'Total Network Solutions'? You can't just change your mind halfway through
23:21 EastfieldLodge And Cardiff.
23:21 Nephara well, she realised how stupid it sounded, probably.
23:22 Audio 'Oh, they're 'The New Saints' now'. B***er off
23:22 Nephara i can't believe they ripped off the Nepharim international leftback Esther Cardiff's name and named a club after it. smh
23:22 Nephara like have some -standards-
23:22 Val|WI <Audio> Didn't TNS used to be called 'Total Network Solutions'? You can't just change your mind halfway through <--- Yes, them
23:23 EastfieldLodge Isn't there someone called Wrexham as well? And Newport?
23:23 Nephara yeah
23:23 Audio And that Northern Ireland puppet. Total joke. First of all, you can't just name a puppet after someone else's nation
23:23 EastfieldLodge Newport is such a common team name, tbh.
23:23 Audio secondly, have you seen the teams?
23:23 Audio 'Distillery'
23:23 Audio like what?
(EastfieldLodge concurs with Nephara about how "'Crusaders' is wasted on such a sh*thole puppet". The following snippets were recorded by EFL, who says that the 23:28 comment about tennis was the conclusion of that before it basically turned into a public two-way conversation between EFL and drawk)
23:24 Audio El Salvador is a f*cken joke too.
23:24 Audio They're Guayabalense teams
23:24 EastfieldLodge Yep.
23:24 Audio just word for word
23:24 Audio FAS are way underpowered too
23:24 Val|WI And Alianza too overrated
NOTE: I assume that Val|WI's Alianza/FAS moratorium appears to no longer be active.
23:24 commerceheights what do you expect, North, Central America and Caribbean is a total n00bfest
23:25 commerceheights rubbish name too
23:25 EastfieldLodge What about Germany though?
23:25 Audio Germany's cool
23:25 Audio Now.
23:25 EastfieldLodge I mean, great RP'ing, but please, nerf Bayern Munich for the love of god.
23:25 commerceheights the region name’s 1093 characters long but then they have a nation that’s just “USA”
23:25 EastfieldLodge They're clearly modelled after RGS, aren't they?
23:25 commerceheights literally, the name is just the trigram
23:25 Val|WI But their puppets are boring
23:26 EastfieldLodge Germany's puppets?
23:26 Val|WI For example that joint puppet with France and Italy
23:26 Audio I wouldn't call Colombia boring
23:26 Audio oh, you were talking about Germany
23:26 Audio yes. Switzerland is a snooze fest
23:27 Audio 'hey we're multicultural and we protect the RL Pope'
23:27 Audio 'using these knives'
23:27 Audio *produce mess*
23:27 Audio great
23:28 EastfieldLodge I don't get Switzerland.
23:28 EastfieldLodge Why is that nation so neutral in literally everything?
23:28 EastfieldLodge Surprisingly good at tennis, though.
.......
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23:30 tinhampton What did I miss from after EFL wrote "They're taking a leaf out of Krytenia's book"?
23:30 drawk Does USA even submit their league? They obviously put a lot more of their RPing effort to the other sports
23:31 EastfieldLodge drawk: They do, it just gets buried in their newswire.
23:31 tinhampton REEEEEEEEEEEe
23:31 tinhampton ljakfhbmdi;[fsijpdzk;o[p
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NOTE: Apologies for the behaviour here.
23:31 commerceheights he tried once but he obviously doesn’t understand the sport
23:31 commerceheights he had RPs with the clock counting *down*!
(EastfieldLodge provided me their pastebin of the conversation... a bit too late)
23:32 drawk That's true, their newswire is massive
23:32 EastfieldLodge ...
23:32 Sem he left
23:32 EastfieldLodge I saw.
23:32 Sem Just confirming it!
23:32 EastfieldLodge Fair.
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(EastfieldLodge provided me their pastebin of the conversation)
23:33 drawk Also, taking their name and adding "football" to the end and calling it a new sport
23:33 drawk Gimme a break
23:33 EastfieldLodge Australia aren't much better tbh.
23:33 drawk 0 originality
23:33 drawk True
23:34 drawk Why's everybody copying Babbage?
23:36 EastfieldLodge Actually, we do have gridiron, it's just been renamed.
23:36 EastfieldLodge The World Bowl does exist.
23:37 EastfieldLodge But yeah, it's weird how only USA RPs it. Same with Ice Hockey and Baseball to a lesser extent
23:37 EastfieldLodge Even cricket is more popular worldwide than gridiron.
.......
23:41 Audio try logging in now, guys
23:41 Audio the forum is apparently back online
NOTE: the forum has become inaccessible for a while between 22:30-ish and 23:40-ish due to server gremlins. Audio and EastfieldLodge were the two IRCers out of about 22 able to make it onto the forums then.
23:42 drawk Working for me! Woo!

19/04/2017 (yes, I am fully aware that this is a meta-log)
00:17 tinhampton If you want to check out my latest additions to my IRC log of logs... page=dispatch/id=791514
00:19 Qas Cue
00:20 EastfieldLodge tinhampton, half of your logs are barely complete
00:20 tinhampton 00:20 EastfieldLodge tinhampton, half of your logs are barely complete <<< I know. These are just snippets I have found quite hilarious on my time here.
00:22 Audio [01:20] EastfieldLodge tinhampton, half of your logs are barely complete <-- much better like that
00:22 Audio leave out the in-betweeny-bits
00:23 EastfieldLodge Barely complete as in they're missing tons of context/extra stuff. Like that bit about credo filling Electrum's rosters, it goes on to credo being Electrum's b*tch.
00:23 drawk Comedy
00:24 Nephara 1
00:24 Electrum xD
00:24 EastfieldLodge 1
00:24 Electrum We all have our defined area of responsibility tyvm
00:24 Audio the funny thing is the gap between those two conversations is, like, probably forty seconds

20/04/2017
See: Doing A Joke To Death: A poem by the #nssport IRC channel - 20th April 2017. Reaction to the poem:
21:05 tinhampton The aforementioned, erm, "poem" has now been factbookified for your reading pleasure: nation=tinhampton/detail=factbook/id=807960
21:05 PIS|necromancing D:
21:06 PIS|necromancing hahaha, thanks tinhampton
21:06 *** PIS|necromancing is now known as PIS
21:06 Goluta I am now a published author
21:06 Sem|24 i'm famous!

21/04/2017
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19:39 Aels oh. huh. today is retirement day for the D-Stock trains on the District Line
19:39 PIS knew i circled the date on the calendar for some reason
19:40 PIS if this was an american cop movie, someone would have shot them yesterday
19:40 PIS and other such quips.
19:40 PIS i'm in a helpful mood.
19:40 Astograth You're a loose cannon, PIS!
19:40 *** NorthernSunrise joined #nssport
19:40 Astograth Hand over your badge
19:41 Astograth And gun
19:41 NorthernSunrise ...
19:41 Astograth Hey NorthernSunrise
19:41 NorthernSunrise Dude, I don't even have either

27/04/2017
21:04 tinhampton ...and on The Talk Show Where We Take NS Stats Way Too Seriously, we ask: How many years must a Damukunian live until they get annoyed after being called a royalist by another Damukunian? In other news, we discuss how dangerous Valladar cars are to your driveway, and we moan about Tinhampton's pre-approved shopping list for welfare recipients. #TTSWWTNSSWTS
21:04 tinhampton :P
21:05 credo makes tinhampton join the Rent is Too Damn High Party
21:05 tinhampton complains that the Rent Is 3 Damn High
21:05 credo that's actually a thing :P
21:06 Damukuni (1) Green, (2) Never get a car with onboard electronics from Triangle Électronique, and (3) the shopping list purchases are mandatory even if you have a surplus of one or more items, tinhampton ... film at 11 on DBS News!
21:07 tinhampton In case you're wondering, Rent Is 3 Damn High finished 6th (out of 8 and 9) in their two World Cup qualification campaigns, WC56 and WC57. The second campaign was not too shabby, given that Rent Is 3 Damn High had CTEd two weeks before scorination...

28/04/2017
16:24 tinhampton When did abanhfleft deCommunistify?
16:24 abanhfleft what exactly do you mean by that?
16:25 tinhampton The more astute viewers among y'all will have noted that the hammer-and-sickle has been ditched from abanhfleft's flag. Why was this?
16:26 abanhfleft a little history lesson then
16:27 abanhfleft in 2008, Abanhfleft was engulfed in a civil war instigated by a mad cardinal so it was called the Holy Catholic Revolution
16:27 abanhfleft Loyalists from the Democratic and Communist Parties eventually led the government to victory over the Catholic rebels
16:28 abanhfleft As a result when the new Fleftic state was created the Democratic and Communist Parties decided that they should both be represented on the flag
16:28 abanhfleft Blue, orange, and green are the traditional Fleftic colors and the hammer and sickle is obviously Communist
16:29 abanhfleft The first post-revolution government was a majority made by combining the Democrats and Communists
16:29 abanhfleft now the Democrats hold the clear majority in government and the president himself wrote the bill to remove the hammer and sickle from the flag
16:29 abanhfleft and that's how the hammer and sickle vanished from Abanhfleft's flag
16:31 Ngol interesting.
16:31 Ngol Great Fleftic history lesson.
16:31 abanhfleft * bows head
.......
17:02 abanhfleft hey Ngol what was that you asked me about sending some communist volunteers your way?
17:02 tinhampton How did Turori get hold of the Karelan Shield?
17:02 Ngol oh, um, for this: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=235405
17:03 tinhampton 17:02 Ngol oh, um, for this: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=235405 <<< I don't recall reading anything about the Karelan Shield here :P
17:05 abanhfleft and Ngol, who are you in NS?
17:07 Ngol I'm many people, but in this instance, The Cardwith Islands is my puppet.
17:07 abanhfleft uh huh, okay, I'll go with that
17:07 Ngol many nations rather.
17:07 Ngol Neu Engollon probably being my most famous.
17:09 abanhfleft The Communist Party is a political party in my country but I guess some guys who have military training (service is mandatory here in Abanhfleft after all) might drop in and fight
17:09 abanhfleft but I'm not sure I can RP them reliably
17:09 Ngol well, here's the thing abanhfleft, as a whole full organized group in your nation, they might not be militaristic, but there might be some that are in that group, and want to fight for the world Marxist cause, so they wouldn't be officially sanctioned, but...
17:11 abanhfleft I should have recognized you then, the flag looks like Hutanjia
17:12 Ngol The Cardwiths are the arch nemesis of Hutanjia
17:12 Ngol They broke off from Hutanjia.
17:13 abanhfleft well one of the flags used in the OP looks like the Hutanjia flag to me but I understand where you went with it
17:14 Ngol the palm circle came from the Hutanjian flag, but they'd never use yellow stars, they're far too right wing for that.
17:15 abanhfleft uh huh
17:17 Ngol another in the series of NS Sports nations flag histories
17:17 Ngol put it in the book.
17:18 Ngol abanhfleft, this might interest you: nation=hutanjia/detail=factbook/id=116583
17:19 abanhfleft Cheers Ngol, I'll take a look at that

28/04/2017 (again - much of the day missed the cut, but it was still a great day on IRC)
20:16 *** Farf joined #nssport
20:16 Farf Hello everyone
20:17 tinlimbless Hey, Farf. You missed out on VilTur saying that "a loss for farf = a win for viltur always".
20:17 Farf Well, yes, that was true at one point
20:17 Farf Nowadays I'm not so sure, since he beat me in WC 76
20:18 drawk I mean
20:18 Schottia Hey Farf
20:18 drawk That was literally true then
20:18 tinlimbless 20:17 Farf Nowadays I'm not so sure, since he beat me in WC 76 <<< Loss for Farf, win for VilTur. Doesn't Vilita's Theorem hold true?
20:19 drawk ^ my point exactly
20:21 Farf No, no, you two don't get it
20:22 Farf VilTur wants to win
20:22 *** tinlimbless is now known as tinhampton
NOTE: Anthology: Cosumar arrived. Foodporn shot Cosumar. I TINcineratedTM Foodporn (TINcinerationTM: Like Rincineration, only Tinhampton-ier). Foodporn beheaded me. I wrote without being able to see. Foodporn cut off my limbs. I eventually returned to normal. You are probably confused about what happened.
20:22 Farf VilTur nowadays will always beat me, as the Reversed Curse Theorem holds true
20:22 Farf Therefore, if I lose before facing him, he's missing out on a guaranteed win
20:22 Farf In the past, if I lost, he'd avoid having to face me and losing no matter what he did
20:22 Farf That's why a loss for me used to be a win for him
20:23 Farf Because when the time came for us to face each other, I'd win
20:23 tinhampton That is some d*mn fine rapping we're seeing from Farf here. :P

28/04/2017 yet again
22:10 Eshan jfc
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22:11 tinhampton jfc?
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22:11 tinhampton sah Eshan|Mobile
22:11 Qas Just forgot chicken?
22:11 Astograth Jersey Fried Chicken
22:12 Eshan|Mobile Yes
22:12 tinhampton Yes?
22:12 Qas You easily salamander?
22:13 EastfieldLodge ;p;
22:13 EastfieldLodge lol
22:14 Qas Yellow Eel Sushi

29/04/2017
01:30 EFL|WGPC We only have 9 teams atm, anything will do.
NOTE: This refers to the Beach Cup.
01:30 EFL|WGPC Gregoryisgodistan: Beach Slaves please?
01:31 Gregoryisgodistan Link?
01:32 Qas Beach Slaves, Beach Corps, Beach...Eagles?
01:32 EFL|WGPC Eagles?
01:33 Spaam Beagles?
01:33 Gregoryisgodistan All our teams are called the X Slaves. It's like New Zealand and Blacks. All Blacks, Tall Blacks, Black Bats, etc. Except their soccer team is the All Whites. We still have Slaves.
01:35 Gregoryisgodistan Foot Slaves, Ice Slaves, Bat Slaves, Net Slaves, Stick Slaves, Broom Slaves, Soft Slaves, Beach Slaves, 'Sal Slaves, Grid Slaves, Rug Slaves, Seven Slaves, Sevens Slaves, etc.
01:35 Gregoryisgodistan The Seven Slaves play 7ball, the Sevens Slaves play rugby sevens.
01:35 EFL|WGPC 'Sal?
01:35 Gregoryisgodistan Futsal
01:35 EFL|WGPC Ah.
01:36 EFL|WGPC drawk, you signing up?
01:36 Qas Archery Slaves?
01:36 Gregoryisgodistan Archery's not a team sport.
01:36 Gregoryisgodistan Sure, you can have a bunch of individuals competing on the same team, but they're still competing as individuals.
01:37 Gregoryisgodistan They're not functioning as one unit like in conventional team sports.
01:37 EFL|WGPC Curl Slaves?
01:37 Gregoryisgodistan Broom Slaves.
01:37 EFL|WGPC So what's Quidditch then?
01:37 Gregoryisgodistan We don'
01:37 Gregoryisgodistan We don't have a Quidditch team.
01:37 EFL|WGPC Fair.
01:38 Gregoryisgodistan But if we did, I guess they'd be the Quid Slaves.
01:38 Qas Wizard Slaves
01:38 Gregoryisgodistan Oh, I forgot the Tall Slaves.
01:38 Gregoryisgodistan And the Lax Slaves.
01:38 EFL|WGPC I was about to say basketball.
01:38 EFL|WGPC Lax?
01:38 Gregoryisgodistan Lacrosse.
01:38 EFL|WGPC Ultimate?
01:38 Qas What about.... Tax Slaves?
01:38 Gregoryisgodistan I forget. Let me check.
01:40 Gregoryisgodistan Apparently we never gave them a nickname, so I'm calling them the Fris Slaves because the inaugural team featured two actors trying out for the title role in the then-upcoming movie Frisbeeteria.
01:40 EFL|WGPC lol
01:40 Gregoryisgodistan Frisbeeteria was a moderator on RLStates who found that DEATing users deleted them in real life after DEATing "New Korn" for being an idiot.
01:40 Gregoryisgodistan Or something like that.
01:41 Gregoryisgodistan And then decides to DEAT his Ultimate opponents so he wins.
01:41 EFL|WGPC ...Nice.
01:41 Qas Racing Slaves?
01:41 Gregoryisgodistan We don't have a Racing Team. And again, same principle - it's individual competitors, not a cohesive unit, so it wouldn't get a nickname.
01:42 Qas *-*

30/04/2017
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01:39 tinhampton Hey, Electrum and Eshan. Another TBS graphics test. This is how the WC58 final would have looked like on TBS before the penalty shootout: https://s30.postimg.org/do7zmyyht/test2.png
01:40 Nephara why does aguazul switch to indigo in the penalty box?
01:40 tinhampton Nephara: Blame it on the fact that TBS use gradients for normal-time, but flat colours for penalties.
01:41 Nephara right but it's like the penalty colour is indigo and the normal colour is cyan
01:41 Eshan idgaf
01:41 Nephara unlike krytenia's which is sky blue in both
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01:41 drawk damn boi
01:41 tinhampton And based on Aguazul's final RP ( viewtopic.php?p=8583577#p8583577 ), here's what it would have looked like afterwards: https://s2.postimg.org/ao4ui79x5/test2a.png
01:43 Audio I'm sending this pic to Kry
01:44 NorthernSunrise Honestly, if I ever did something like that, I'd probably use flags/crests instead
01:44 Zwangzug jajaja
01:44 NorthernSunrise But just because nobody else ever did that
01:44 tinhampton Basically, the colours used /are/ based on flag colours.
01:45 Nephara not kit colours?
01:45 Audio I have sent Kry this picture
01:45 Audio he has seen it
01:45 Audio presumably due to not having muted his phone while sleeping
01:45 Audio which is even better
01:46 Audio he has replied
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01:46 Audio "AGUAZUUUUUUUUUUL"
01:46 NorthernSunrise lol
01:46 drawk Comedy
01:46 Zwangzug lol
01:46 drawk Has Krytenia ever won a World Cup?
01:46 Zwangzug (mostly at the not muting his phone part)
01:46 drawk (I haven't cared to remember)
01:46 Audio of course they f*cking haven't
01:46 Audio I'm still here, arent't I?
01:46 drawk LOL
01:47 NorthernSunrise He did win the AOCAF
01:47 drawk rigs the Cup so that Krytenia wins
01:47 Audio he knocked me out of the AOCAF Cup in the quarter final in three successive cycles, which is bad enough
01:48 Audio PIS P*ssed himelf at that
01:48 Audio himself*
01:48 tinhampton 01:47 drawk rigs the Cup so that Krytenia wins <<< Krytenia won AOCAF LIII (i.e. the edition before last). Your Argument Is Invalid (TM). :P
01:50 drawk The World Cup, that is
01:53 NorthernSunrise To be fair, that AOCAF win was messed up
01:53 NorthernSunrise We all know Western Sunrise should've won it just for sh*ts and giggles
NOTE: And then SJG (aka San jose guayabal came in, and it was showed to him. And he found it "Cool". An earlier test (https://s4.postimg.org/emh4q4b6l/test.png) was also praised by NorthernSunrise, Nephara, Audio, and EastfieldLodge. I hope to get this rolled out by TBS soon, hopefully by WC78.
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01:49 Audio well hello thar
01:50 drawk if(team1.name="Krytenia"){team1.goals=team2.goals+1;}if(team2.name="Krytenia"){team2.goals=team1.goals+1;}
01:52 SJG if(team1.name="Audioslavia")
01:52 SJG score=score+1
01:53 SJG :P
01:53 SJG score being what the second team has :P
01:57 Audio Is it too early for me to make a THEscore=THEscore+5 joke?
01:57 drawk TOO SOOOOOOON
01:57 SJG Lol
01:58 NorthernSunrise I think it'll be too soon for a good while, won't it?
01:58 drawk mfw THE originally scores -5 goals
01:58 Chrom it will always bee too late
01:58 Chrom *too soon
01:59 Farf lol

30/04/2017 (again)
15:56 credo Rincinerates Tinhampton
16:00 tinhampton TINcinerates credo
16:00 --- tinhampton is back
16:00 tinhampton TINcinerate (TM): Like Rincineration, only Tinhampton-ier.
16:01 Eshan no
16:02 Ethane Please leave now.
16:02 abanhfleft who should leave and why?
16:03 Eshan slaps abanhfleft around for a bit with a large trout
16:03 Ethane TINcinerate (TM): Like Rincineration, only Tinhampton-ier.
16:03 Ethane I'm not sure it needs any further explanation.
16:04 Rin your rip-off is bad and you should feel bad
16:04 Rin :P
16:04 credo ^
16:05 abanhfleft why the trout?
16:06 Eshan slaps abanhfleft around for a bit with a large trout
16:06 Eshan stop asking so many questions
16:06 Eshan just go with it
16:06 credo where did drawk go :(
16:06 Eshan RIP
16:06 Rin slaps Eshan around a bit with a bluefin tuna
16:06 Eshan RIP
16:06 Eshan :P
16:06 Eshan slaps Kylo Rin around for a bit with a large great white
16:07 Electrum hits Rin with a bluefin tuna
16:07 Rin hits Electrum with a live monkfish
16:08 Electrum hits Rin with an umbrella
16:08 Rin smacks Electrum with a walking stick
16:08 Ethane notices the target went quiet
16:09 Ethane thinks we succeeded
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16:12 abanhfleft bye farf
16:12 Tumbra bit late fleft
16:13 Gregoryisgodistan nukes Electrum
16:13 Electrum uses antinuke shield
16:14 abanhfleft * gets hit in the face by the fallout

30/04/2017 (this third hilarious IRC conversation of the day brought to you by the May Day Bank Holiday)
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21:33 Foodporn Hey all
21:34 tinhampton Hey, Foodporn. Have you checked out my Sports Graphics Tests yet? nation=tinhampton/detail=factbook/id=814749
21:35 drawk Check the link, Qas, you have a few more points than I iirc
21:35 Foodporn I don't use RKQ in anything tinhampton
21:37 --- Astograth is back
21:37 Astograth Nice logo, Qas
21:40 Foodporn tinhampton : Won't accept it as legit unless it's switched to QUE. I never use RKQ in anything
21:56 tinhampton The Tinhampton Broadcasting Service is, erm, pleased to announce that, after dialogue with the necessary (Quebecois/Royal Kingdom of Quebecian) organisations, the latest trigramme for the Royal Kingdom of Quebec has now been modified to QUE. Consider that these graphics tests are entirely that - tests - until World Cup 78 at the earliest.
21:57 Goluta boy i can't wait for people to get my trigramme wrong
21:57 tinhampton IN OTHER WORDS: QUE sera sera, whatever will be, will be...
21:58 tinhampton Why join a line when you can enter the QUEue?
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21:59 tinhampton Right on QUE. QUE the music. Snooker QUEs. Don't QUEll your appetite! QUEricosity killed the cat. Kings and QUEens.
21:59 tinhampton only the toppest of keks for ANG|IRN
21:59 ANG|IRN Hey timhampton
21:59 Goluta how do quebecois laugh? Quequequeque
22:00 tinhampton Why not check out the latest Sports Graphics Tests? Now with added QUE! nation=tinhampton/detail=factbook/id=814749
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22:01 Foodporn Good
22:01 tinhampton EURASTRONK (trademark of the Euran Ministry for Trade and Investment). I assume that you've seen the Sports Graphics Tests - now with added QUE! nation=tinhampton/detail=factbook/id=814749
22:02 Qas You sound like one of those click bait ads now
22:05 Mercedini Top 10 sports trigramme graphics!!! You won't believe what's at number 7!!!
22:06 tinhampton QUE the laughter...
22:06 Foodporn F*ck off
22:09 tinhampton Why koranate when you can x-koranate?
22:11 Qas 10 tournaments you shouldn't enter. (Number 5 will shock you!)
NOTE: Compare trigram blocks old and new:

06/05/2017 ('twas the Kentucky Derby that day)
22:25 tinhampton Thank f*ck KFC don't serve any horses on the menu.
22:27 Qas They're gonna buy out the losing horses tinhampton
22:28 tinhampton In which case, I'm taking my custom to MFRC (Margaret Fried Rubber Chicken).
22:29 Qas *Marleen Fried Rubber Chicken
22:29 tinhampton Marleen?
22:30 Qas My sport god. Y'all have Margaret/Maggie, elf has Elune, I mashed them together and now I have Marleen
22:30 Qas Or Marlene, if you prefer that spelling
22:31 Nephara nephara doesn't have a sportgod
22:31 Nephara there's only the Narrative
22:32 Qas Neph is sport atheist
22:32 tinhampton Of course, how can we have a conversation about sportgods without mentioning Lord Almighty Gregory, the god-ruler of the imaginatively-named Gregoryisgodistan?
22:33 Qas Marlene's sorta like a Kitsune goddess, in ancient Qad history
22:34 Nephara because greg isn't a god
22:34 Nephara simple
22:34 Nephara problem solved
22:35 Gregoryisgodistan Blasphemy
22:35 Nephara well, no, since he isn't actually a god
22:35 Nephara it's lese-majestie
22:36 Nephara smh
22:36 Qas He's a demigod
22:37 Qas There's a weird cult in Parodys that worships him and performs routine terrorist attacks in the rural counties
22:40 drawk Alright, confirmed
22:40 drawk My RPs this cycle will be about the main Drawkian religion
22:41 tinhampton What's the Narrative?
22:41 EastfieldLodge It;s the thing that governs life in NS. All events come from the Narrative.
22:42 EastfieldLodge The Narrative determines when countries rise and fall. When people come together and are driven apart.
22:42 Nephara nods sagely
22:42 Nephara preach it, brother
22:43 tinhampton Atheistic predetermination?
22:43 EastfieldLodge I think of it more like the Matrix.
22:44 EastfieldLodge To those inside the matrix, there lives seem in their own control, but they work within a set of guidelines determined by the computer. That's how I see the Narrative.
22:44 EastfieldLodge And occasionally, the machines decide to guide events in the Matrix more closely, and program lives as such.
22:45 drawk eats the Narrative
22:51 tinhampton Here, Nephara. Have this bucket of MFRC I bought a short while ago. Make of it what you will. If necessary, guard it from apex predators including (but not limited to) drawk, Waterdrawk, sharks, lions, hippopotami, and that guy living about 20 miles off the coast of Polar Islandstates that looks suspiciously like Deputy Mayor John Price. :P
22:53 tinhampton And so we go full circle again...

10/05/2017
21:04 Audio Welp. I just reached out and tossed an olive branch in front of Vangaziland. Lets see how that goes. I'm now going out for a wee run. Let me know if someone delivers a burning olive branch with the phrase 'YOU REMAIN A CORRUPT BAST*RD' seared into it.
.......
22:24 Awaydio I made up with Vangaziland. Door is open for them come WGPC16.
22:24 *** Awaydio is now known as Audio
22:24 Aels Audio: that's a joke, yes?
22:24 Audio nope
22:24 Aels because they're not acting like it's been resolved
22:24 Audio we both sent a couple of TGs to each other
22:24 Audio within the last hour
22:25 tinhampton Did they involve any "burning olive branch[es] with the phrase 'YOU REMAIN A CORRUPT BAST*RD' seared into [them]"?
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22:27 Audio nope
22:27 NorthernSunrise I haven't even asked anything yet

12/05/2017
23:09 Gregoryisgodistan howdy
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23:10 Ethane hey Greg o/
23:10 Ethane hey VilTur o/
23:10 VilTur fires back at the hostile welcome
23:10 VilTur try to attack me with a rock rolling down a hill, dare you!
23:10 Ethane :')
23:10 Ethane I'm sorry
23:11 Ethane I'll just get an avalanche next time.
23:11 Eshan Marten Cornelius never forget
23:11 PIS \o
23:11 Ethane o/ o/ o/ o/ o/ o/ o/ o/ o/ o/ o/ o/
23:11 PIS could alwayss roll it down the other side of the hill
23:11 Ethane \o \o \o \o \o \o \o \o \o \o \o \o
23:11 PIS if you're trying to get rid of rocks, i mean
23:12 Ethane That's a lot of rocks now
23:12 Nation95X sends VilTur to DC to lobby Ajit Pai to ban internet browsers on phones. :P
23:12 Ethane Watch out land of nssports
23:12 PIS because, as we all know, you can't stop the rock, can't stop the rock you can't stop, the rock, can't stop the rock you can't.
23:12 VilTur lol
23:12 Nation95X LOL, that song. :P

18/05/2017
18:44 *** Tumbra is now known as DJT
18:44 *** DJT is now known as MRP
18:44 *** MRP is now known as ORRIN
18:44 *** ORRIN is now known as MITCH
18:45 *** MITCH is now known as PAUL
18:51 *** PAUL is now known as Tumbra

30/05/2017
15:50 VilTur hah, wenger resigned
15:50 VilTur funny.
15:51 Merc thought he signed a two year extension
15:52 Eshan ^
15:52 Eshan A few hours ago right
15:54 Starblaydia ??
15:55 tinhampton VilTur: WHERE'S THE LAMB SOURCE?
15:55 VilTur re-signed*
15:55 Eshan looooool hahahaha
15:56 Starblaydia loldoh
15:56 Merc oooooohhhh

30/05/2017 again (yet it feels like a couple of days...)
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23:19 Yttribia Hello all
23:19 tinhampton Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyytribia!
23:19 tinhampton AY YO! ES TA AUDIO!
23:20 Audio ma non parlo spagnolo, che scemo sei
23:20 tinhampton NO ES ITALIO! ES NS SPORT-ESE!
23:20 Yttribia je ne parle français
23:20 Audio ma dai pero
23:21 Nephara voulez vous coucher avec moi
23:21 Yttribia ich finde dieses Chat lacherlich
23:22 Audio bork
23:22 Qas|AFK dois
23:24 Astograth cazzo
23:24 Yttribia kurwa
23:25 Audio minchiate
23:25 Yttribia yahtzee
23:26 Qas|AFK royal flush
23:26 Yttribia bidet

08/06/2017 (UK elections! w00t! will be edited every 20-30 minutes or so. I think.)
22:06 Qas puts a coin on the table
22:06 Eshan steals it
22:07 Qas reveals that the coin is cursed
22:10 Merc Conservatives short of a majority by 12 according to exit poll
22:10 EastfieldLodge Yep.
22:10 EastfieldLodge Down 17.
22:10 EastfieldLodge Labour up to 266.
22:11 EastfieldLodge So, in other words, Tory majority of about 20 seats at the end of the night.
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22:42 Nephara hi
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22:43 NorthernSunrise Hey, Neph
22:45 Qas Hi Sun
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22:47 Eura evening all
22:47 Nephara hey eura
22:48 tinhampton|Election2017 EURASTRONK
22:48 Nephara heard that the UK's projected for a hung parliament
22:48 EastfieldLodge Just in time Eura.
22:48 Nephara furthermore, ritter's getting a recall to the nepharim national team
22:48 EastfieldLodge You heard right, Nephara.
22:48 tinhampton|Election2017 I'm calling bullcr*p on Theresa May's claims that "If we lose six seats, I'm resigning and Corbyn's becoming PM". Surely she can solder on with a minority... or can she?
22:49 NorthernSunrise Hi, Qasden, Eura
22:55 EastfieldLodge Nephara: You mean Reiter?
22:56 Nephara no
22:56 Nephara kieran ritter
22:58 Nephara though if you think ther'es any young eastfield-based brenecians/nepharim i may have overlooked give me a shout
22:58 Nephara (petratos and urquhart are both being called up)
22:58 Yttribia welcome back Eura
22:58 EastfieldLodge Don't think there are any others at the higher level. Young Brenecians/Nepharim at a good level are a rare find.
22:58 Yttribia and hello all
22:59 NorthernSunrise hi Ytt
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23:07 NorthernSunrise So, I was playing FIFA 14 in the player career for once
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23:07 NorthernSunrise Started out as this crazy talented rookie at Fluminense
23:08 tinhampton|Election2017 At least when Lord Almighty Gregory makes his speeches, the sound quality isn't as sh*t as it is in Houghton and Sunderland South
23:08 NorthernSunrise The team's manager, ignoring my sheer talent for goals, puts me for loan
23:08 Nephara i played one game in fifa 11's career mode
23:08 NorthernSunrise So fine, I keep playing and waiting for the transfer window
23:09 Nephara i was a goalkeeper.
23:09 Nephara there was a pre-season friendly.
23:09 NorthernSunrise ...pffft
23:09 NorthernSunrise XD
23:09 Nephara i did not touch the ball one (1) time.
23:09 Nephara i quit.
23:09 NorthernSunrise I'm surprised
23:09 Yttribia only did manager mode on FIFA12 mobile
23:09 Yttribia was the best manager
23:09 NorthernSunrise FIFA 14 is the other way around apparently
23:10 NorthernSunrise Or at least on Fluminense, the defense was unnaturally awful
23:10 NorthernSunrise Cavalieri, the team's keeper was the best though
23:10 Nephara man
23:11 Nephara nsi
23:11 Nephara brazil plays australia in like four days
23:11 NorthernSunrise I know
23:11 Nephara i'm scared.
23:11 tinhampton|Election2017 Meanwhile, in TNP... "*Clears throat* *Reads word by word from notecards in a clear, mundane voice devoid of emotion* Join the Holy Reich of Bunicken today, or more specifically, the "House"(similar to political parties) of Mori. As this system is new we have a clean slate to build on and rise to power. Participate in roleplay, regional government, and..."
23:11 tinhampton|Election2017 "politics. Telegram me, The Sovereignty Nation of The Sorcerer Kingdom to join and complain about this spam (which, for clarification, will only happen every 24 hours or 10 posts, as in compliance with the game rules). Now excuse me as I move on to the annoy other people."
NOTE: Recruit puppet put out this message every once in a while in contemporary TNP.
23:11 Nephara if we put out this worthless 3-6-1
23:11 Nephara we'll be pumped
23:11 Nephara if we put out a not worthless 4-3-3/4-2-3-1, we... well
23:11 NorthernSunrise I saw an ad for the game against Argentina tomorrow morning
23:11 NorthernSunrise Like *really early* morning
23:11 Nephara we may still be pumped, but only because brazil are very good at football these days.
23:12 NorthernSunrise If it makes you feel better about it
23:12 NorthernSunrise We're playing our reserves and CSL stink-ups
23:12 tinhampton|Election2017 The message I just quoted is literally what Recruit Puppet ([sarcasm]such an imaginative name![/sarcasm]) puts up in TNP every now and then
23:12 NorthernSunrise Thiago Silva is on the squad, I think
23:12 Nephara why are brazil/argentina even playing a friendly, anyway
23:12 Nephara it's like
23:12 Nephara you already have to play each other twice in actual qualifiers
23:13 NorthernSunrise Neither have anything better to do
23:13 Nephara well like
23:13 NorthernSunrise Either that or we wanted to take our chances and beat them while they're down
23:13 Nephara even Tite was saying directly
23:13 Nephara 'we'd prefer to play a team from another confederation'
23:13 Nephara which is understandable, i'd think!
23:13 NorthernSunrise CBF rubbing someone's backs is possibly a thing as well
23:14 NorthernSunrise Or maybe it's their plan of broadcasting the game by themselves
23:14 NorthernSunrise Hence why we're not getting the game at Globo
23:14 NorthernSunrise This game would be the first game ever that CBF broadcasts on their own
23:14 NorthernSunrise So maybe the fact that the game is against Brazil's most relevant rival makes sense
23:15 NorthernSunrise ...Then again, it's at 6:30 AM, who the f*ck is waking up to watch that
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23:15 Nephara it makes a lot of sense commercially, for sure
23:15 Nephara 6.30 isn't bad
23:15 NorthernSunrise Kind of is
23:16 NorthernSunrise If it was between that and midnight one could stay up to watch
23:16 Nephara you just have to wake up like... not even early
23:16 NorthernSunrise I honestly don't really see people waking up to watch the game so much as wake up to have breakfast and leave for work
23:16 Nephara that's a good point - it's not on a weekend?
23:17 NorthernSunrise Think not
23:17 NorthernSunrise I heard it being on Friday
23:17 Nephara okay then yeah that's really stupid.
23:17 NorthernSunrise So Friday morning
23:20 NorthernSunrise I've also noticed a thing that might be worth noting over why we're facing Argentina
23:20 NorthernSunrise It's supposedly a Superclásico de las Américas
23:21 NorthernSunrise ...which is surprising since we didn't have one of those for the past two years?
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23:26 NorthernSunrise anyway
23:26 NorthernSunrise See, the thing was
23:26 NorthernSunrise back in Fluminense, I earned a fair $3,000 per week
23:26 NorthernSunrise so, come my first loan offer
23:26 NorthernSunrise [NOTE: image showed $45,000-per-week contract offer from 1860 Munich]
23:27 Nephara n i c e
23:27 NorthernSunrise *For Loan* and *2. Bundesliga*
23:27 NorthernSunrise All that
23:28 NorthernSunrise So yeah, now I think I'm with 1860 Munich for a season
23:29 NorthernSunrise Unless Fluminense pulls a cheeky move and calls me back
23:29 NorthernSunrise Given how the manager sold a bunch of people for no reason, I'm thinking it will happen
23:32 Nephara https://www.theguardian.com/football/these-football-times/2017/jun/08/vitor-oliveira-manager-won-promotion-seasons-portugal-portimonense
23:32 Gregoryisgodistan hi
23:32 tinhampton|Election2017 Hey, Greg. Posted this earlier:
23:32 tinhampton|Election2017 23:08 tinhampton|Election2017 At least when Lord Almighty Gregory makes his speeches, the sound quality isn't as sh*t as it is in Houghton and Sunderland South
23:32 tinhampton|Election2017 (those Brits among you should get that reference)
23:37 Gregoryisgodistan I saw
23:37 Gregoryisgodistan I'm watching the British election now on BBC World News
NOTE: After some IRC direct-messages (and remembering the doxxing controversy of April 2016 - you know, DLN and Reppy?), I got GGS' permission to put the above quote on.
23:40 Gregoryisgodistan Britain still counts ballots by hand?
23:41 Eura yes
23:41 Gregoryisgodistan Why?
23:42 tinhampton|Election2017 Hey, Kush.
23:42 Tumbra no haxx0rs
23:42 NorthernSunrise "He's had more clubs than women I've dated. Not sure if I should be jealous"
23:42 NorthernSunrise No Russian hackers
23:42 NorthernSunrise =P
23:42 Merc The Russians can't hack a piece of paper
23:44 Kushleesi "He's had more clubs than women I've dated. Not sure if I should be jealous" <- lol
23:44 Kushleesi How are British Elections looking like today?
23:45 Tumbra Tory largest party in hung parl
23:45 Kushleesi They're not crushing everybody else tho, right?
23:45 Nephara like he said
23:45 Nephara 'largest party in hung parliament'
23:46 NorthernSunrise *chuckles*
23:46 NorthernSunrise That's their name? Hung Parliament?
23:46 Kushleesi like he said <- You don't need to retelling same sh*t, Neph
23:46 Nephara he answered your question
23:47 Kushleesi Idk how many seats each party has =p
23:47 Nephara a hung parliament is when there's no single majority party, nsi
23:47 Nephara well so far labour has two and nobody else has any, it's very early in the count
23:47 Kushleesi Meh
23:47 Kushleesi You're not getting my point
23:47 Gregoryisgodistan Labour just got a third
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23:47 Nephara exit polls are suggesting-
23:47 Nephara okay
23:47 Nephara lol
23:47 Merc Labour currently have the only 3 declarations thus far. Although the swing is a lot better for the Conservatives than the exit poll shows
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23:48 Nephara welcome... back... ?
23:48 *** Kushleesi left #nssport
23:48 Nephara ???
23:48 Nephara 'are the tories stomping everyone' 'it's a hung parliament' 'yeah but are they stomping everyone tho' 'it's a hung parliament' 'oh my god i'm so misunderstood'
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23:49 NorthernSunrise ...hahahahah
23:49 Nephara hi llama
23:49 Merc On the current evidence, the Conservatives *could* nick a majority
23:49 Nephara yeah, they could
23:50 Nephara but it's definitely not a stomping
23:50 Qas I just realized there are nearly 90 Pokémon leagues in Texas alone.
23:50 Nephara at least, not thus far
23:50 llama|wbcrp Hey Neph
23:50 Qas immediately thinks of Emperor's New Groove after seeing llama.
23:51 tinhampton|Election2017 23:50 Qas immediately thinks of Emperor's New Groove after seeing llama. <<< The Emperor's New Clothes, but with added disco? :P
23:51 Tumbra KUZCO'S POISON
23:51 Nephara the poison for kuzco
23:51 Gregoryisgodistan The one where the Emperor got turned into a llama for being evil
23:51 tinhampton|Election2017 23:51 Gregoryisgodistan The one where the Emperor got turned into a llama for being evil <<< Tell us more.
23:52 Gregoryisgodistan It was a while since I saw it.
23:52 Gregoryisgodistan And he may or may not have killed a baby llama to earn the punishment. I might be mixing it up with another movie.
23:52 Damukuni Pull the lever Kronk!
23:52 Nephara https://gyazo.com/33326559c47f92bb38bba489ecba0279 things heating up in the election
23:53 Gregoryisgodistan No wait, he killed the Mama Llama and then befriended the baby llama without telling him he killed his mother.
23:53 Gregoryisgodistan I think. That might have been a different movie with some other animal.
23:53 NataniansandNosts That was the one with a bear.
23:53 Gregoryisgodistan Oh
23:53 tinhampton|Election2017 Never before has making logs been so good!
23:53 Yttribia I truly appreciate the fact Fishfinger is wearing cufflinks along with his beautiful costume, Nephara
23:54 Yttribia like you think someone in a costume like that would be more casually dressed
23:54 Yttribia but nope
23:54 Gregoryisgodistan Who's Fishfinger?
23:55 tinhampton|Election2017 23:54 Gregoryisgodistan Who's Fishfinger? <<< Mr Fishfinger, unlikely challenger to Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat leader) in his home constituency, Westmorland and Lonsdale.
23:55 Gregoryisgodistan That's his real name?
23:55 Nephara you don't need to quote it when you're clearly directly answering the message directly above you
23:56 Nephara https://gyazo.com/2aecfebf207be7f5266e946ad0ba8329
23:56 Merc Looks like labour have a fourth
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23:56 Nephara hey ceni!
23:57 credo hello Neph
23:57 credo anything special going on?
23:57 Merc First for the conservatives
23:57 Yttribia UK general election
23:58 Yttribia neph has taken over as this election's aels :P

09/06/2017 (the UK election results, as ever, run over into the Friday! more w00t!)
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00:00 tinhampton|Election2017 EURA_STRONK
00:00 Nephara i was going to make some kind of text prelude to linking good morning
00:00 Nephara some unnecessary graduation pun that everyone gets anyway
00:00 Nephara but
00:00 Nephara whatever
00:00 Nephara wow the blurring over swearing is actually almost not horribly jarring!!
00:01 Nephara there aren't just words missing!!!
00:01 Yttribia there's something about graduating on a football field under...flashing lights
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00:04 credo sorry about Islana, Qas
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00:05 Qas Eh. I procrastinated terribly
00:05 credo hallo Eura
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00:07 Qas Just don't let Barunia win, aight?
00:07 credo Barunia's in the BoF?
00:09 tinhampton|Election2017 00:07 credo Barunia's in the BoF? <<< Yes, as Kyrjasmark
00:09 llama|wbcrp ...wait why did i try to sign my puppet up for the BoF, it's started already
00:09 llama|wbcrp lmao
00:09 *** llama|wbcrp is now known as llama
00:10 Qas lel
00:10 CocoMeal LOL
00:12 Qas puts
00:12 Qas Frik
00:13 CocoMeal lol
00:13 Qas puts on Acapais jersey and waves Kel Assuk pennant
00:15 tinhampton|Election2017 Just to let y'all know that I'll be up until about 0200 BST (1800 PST, 2000 MST, 2100 EST).
00:17 NorthernSunrise Good for ya
00:17 NorthernSunrise =P
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00:24 tinhampton|Election2017 (some comment on the Daily Mail that seems triumphalistic for the leftists, in a more pro-EU way) <<< Meanwhile, in the Daily Mail comments...
00:24 Gregoryisgodistan What happens if they can't make a coalition?
00:26 Gregoryisgodistan I thought the Daily Mail loved UKIP
00:26 tinhampton|Election2017 (another Daily Mail comment) It gets crazier. "SNP MUST be awarded all seats in Scotland! They're Scotland's seats!"
00:26 tinhampton|Election2017 Gregoryisgodistan: You're thinking of the Daily Express. The Mail prefer the Tories.
00:27 Gregoryisgodistan Yeah, but that guy doesn't like the Tories either.
00:28 Gregoryisgodistan Which one's the one that's like the British Fox News? That's the Mail, right?
00:29 Tumbra Mail's a tabloid
00:29 Gregoryisgodistan I know.
00:29 Gregoryisgodistan I meant in terms of political leaning and accuracy.
00:33 Eura err
00:33 Eura probably the mail, yes

20/06/2017 (just before the #worldcup78 draw; esper.net IRC with layout adapted for consistency here)
17:08 *** binhampton joined #worldcup78
17:08 *** Merc joined #worldcup78
17:08 binhampton HAI.
17:08 Merc fuk u I post anyway
17:08 binhampton FUKU!!!!!!!! <<< the official war cry of those that dwell within #worldcup78
17:24 VilTur|Footstar why would that be?
17:24 VilTur|Footstar it makes no sense
17:24 VilTur|Footstar the official war cry of those that dwell in #worldcup78 is actually " "
17:24 VilTur|Footstar ie: Silence. As there shouldn't be any interupttions/discussions when the draw is ongoing
17:25 Starblaydia hence being in a separate channel
17:25 EFL|WGP2 One may as well mute the chat.
17:25 VilTur|Footstar indeed
17:25 EFL|WGP2 Stop the temptation
17:25 Starblaydia possible
17:26 Starblaydia do all the comment and banter in the regular channel
17:26 VilTur|Footstar agreed

04/07/2017
18:54 EastfieldLodge QAAM vs ChromPox
18:55 tinhampton ChromPo---what again?
18:55 EastfieldLodge Apox/Chromatika CoH bid.
18:56 *** Mriin quit (Quit: Going offline, see ya! (www.adiirc.com))
18:56 Qas I call it Chrox, like the mammal and/or shoe
18:57 EastfieldLodge That's a good one as well.
18:57 SJG Chromox
18:58 Qas Apomatika
18:58 tinhampton For some reason, feel like throwing a joke bid into the mix. For some reason.
18:59 Qas Oxychrom
18:59 EastfieldLodge Oxychrom wins it all.
19:00 EastfieldLodge Sounds like a bleach you'd use to clean car wheels.
19:00 *** tinhampton is now known as DemocraticYaradan
19:01 DemocraticYaradan DemYara is an OOC dictatorship puppet, IC sovereign state I have stowed away in Psychotic Dictatorships, which should leave significant doubts as to the nation's government system
19:01 Qas Nellie Mays here with Oxychrom Car Cleaner!
19:02 EastfieldLodge used Oxychrom to bleach out Barry Scott sound-effects
19:04 DemocraticYaradan Oxychrom will be useless in getting this dratted religious holy oil out of my water and MAKING RECREATIONAL DRUG USE MORE THAN 515 AGAIN!
19:05 DemocraticYaradan (but don't worry, maybe some day. Set to come no earlier than March 2042...)
19:06 Qas But wait! There's more! Got nuked? Oxychrom also cleans radiation burns on any surface!

07/07/2017
17:03 *** ConquerorOfTheBulls joined #nssport
17:04 ConquerorOfTheBulls So... yeah. Tinhampton here. Just beat Audioslavia 1-0, hence my current nick.
17:05 Eshan how’s it going drawkkkkkk
17:06 *** Astograth is now known as DrawerOfYttribians
17:07 *** Starblaydia is now known as DoubledByCorsairs
17:07 ConquerorOfTheBulls Audioslavia, THE, Nephara, DoubledByCorsairs and Valladares all lost today. A good day for an upset.
17:09 *** EastfieldLodge is now known as RulerOfAustralians
17:10 RulerOfAustralians Colonial Australia vs rest of group: 0-0-10 12GF-33GA
17:11 Eshan lmfaoooo
17:11 RulerOfAustralians Colonial Australia vs me: 0-1-1 0GF-1GA
17:11 RulerOfAustralians F**k that
17:13 Eshan deaddddddd

09/07/2017
17:35 Starblaydia 187 in nssport
17:36 EastfieldLodge ?
17:36 Starblaydia 187 being the police code in the US for a murder
17:37 Starblaydia and, COINCIDENTALLY ENOUGH, the international dialling code for Starblaydia
17:37 EastfieldLodge Ah.
17:37 EastfieldLodge viewtopic.php?p=32103926#p32103926 <<< Someone's been playing too much Plague Inc
17:37 drawk Uhmm
17:38 Starblaydia Or it's California code, at least
17:38 SJG reports a 187 over Val|WI.
17:39 Starblaydia doubts Arch is a Plague Inc player, dunno why
17:39 EastfieldLodge arrests SJG, sentences him to death and executes him on the spot
17:39 Starblaydia sets mode +MegaCityJudge for EastfieldLodge
17:39 EastfieldLodge Yay, I haz POWAH!
17:39 EastfieldLodge INFIN8 POWAH!!!
17:40 SJG sentences EastfieldLodge to death
17:40 EastfieldLodge executes Order 66 on SJG
17:40 SJG drowns EastfieldLodge
17:41 EastfieldLodge comes back as Martian Water Zombie
17:44 drawk That episode was f**king creepy
17:44 EastfieldLodge Yay, someone gets it!
17:44 drawk Makes me want to kms whenever our fridge's water filter needs replacing
17:44 EastfieldLodge XD
17:53 Val|WI reports a 984 over SJG
17:54 Val|WI 984 is the new #nssport kick code I'm going to start using for cases like this
17:54 SJG Oh s**t, I'm fearing a lot
17:54 SJG S**t, I need medical treatment
17:54 SJG I'm in shock, I'll fain
17:55 Starblaydia a 983 is the WTF, obvs
17:55 SJG faint
17:55 SJG ???
.......
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21:46 tinhampton Zwangzug!
21:46 Farf Zwang!
21:46 tinhampton Zw!
21:47 Zwangzug !

11/07/2017
20:51 Gregoryisgodistan Damn ohrkdleedr
20:51 Gregoryisgodistan Autocoredf*
20:51 Gregoryisgodistan Autocorredt**
20:52 Gregoryisgodistan Autocorrext***
20:52 Gregoryisgodistan Autocorrect

15/07/2017
See: The Almost Unabridged #WorldCup78 IRC group draw - 15th July 2017.

19/07/2017
21:26 tinhampton Your daily reminder that Margaret hates me!
21:26 *** Eshan is now known as Eshan|RP
21:30 EastfieldLodge Oh please tinhampton, get on my level before you can claim that.
21:33 tinhampton I lost to you in the CoH. If anything, this is definitive proof that I am - at the /minimum/ - Margaret's third-least-favourite Brit (or third, depending on how much Krytenia's past failures count when compared to now).
21:34 VilTur tinhampton: Come back in 6 years and see if you still feel the same :P
21:35 tinhampton Six. SIX. That'ld be WC102, then. I'll see to that /then/
21:35 VilTur well, i started in world cup 13 and we're on 78 now
21:36 VilTur so 102 doesn't seem far off
21:36 VilTur the question is, who should host WC100
21:36 ESF THE and Valanora
21:36 ESF the immortal empires
21:36 VilTur i'd be fine with that
21:36 Farf Get on with the times tinhampton
21:37 Farf Now it's 3 WCs per year, not 4
21:37 VilTur i want to host WC 101, solo, with dice
21:37 VilTur as an homage to WC1
21:37 Farf I'll host WC 100 with an avant-garde system: Only RP, no other Rs
21:37 Farf NSWC: Writing Competition Edition
21:37 Farf Pros: No more Jeru
21:38 Farf Cons: All the other things, I guess
21:38 Qas What about World Cup 111

26/08/2017
02:54 Electrum who here likes logic puzzles
02:55 *** Cosumar joined #nssport
02:55 +++ ChanServ has given op to NorthernSunrise
02:55 Qas Pends on the puzzle, Ele
02:55 NorthernSunrise In any case, Qas, I dunno
02:55 Qas Hi Cos, Sun
02:55 Cosumar Hi
02:55 credoTLW heyo Cos
02:57 Electrum Qas here it is if you're interested: ([url]https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/Vw9WMwxm/Screen%20Shot%202017-08-26%20at%2011.57.28%20am.png[/url])
02:58 Electrum It's a fun one to figure out
02:59 NorthernSunrise Easy
02:59 NorthernSunrise they both get nothing, because the Batman doesn't need any money
02:59 Electrum xD
02:59 Electrum they're short on cash
02:59 NorthernSunrise Superman is Superman, he doesn't need money
02:59 ReadingCoconuts Yup
03:02 Spaam Batman gets $1
03:06 Electrum close, it is $0
03:06 tinhampton The money is taken by a man bearing vague resemblances to Mike Atherton, under the pretences of "sporting development for external purposes". Outside, there is a time machine with the date "30 MAR 1994" displayed.
03:07 Spaam No, $1
03:07 Spaam Superman turns down the first offer
03:07 NorthernSunrise It's clearly $0
03:07 NorthernSunrise Neither of them need the money
03:07 commerceheights is glad Google Translate was upgraded last year with neural networks so it can produce much more creative mistranslations than ever before
03:07 NorthernSunrise Plus Superman would insist on donating it to charity
03:07 Electrum If its indifferent they will accept, so if you offer $0 on the final round, B will accept no matter what
03:07 Spaam He now needs to offer Batman more than $0, because otherwise Batman will turn down the offer
03:08 Nephara agreed, batman gets $1
03:08 Spaam Batman will screw over Superman if he offers $0
03:08 Qas The answer is simple
03:08 commerceheights translating a Japanese Wikipedia article on a telecommunications company, it had a warning box which said “It is a buddhist description”, which linked to a guideline apparently titled “Wikipedia: Do not make big words” which begins, “In Wikipedia's article avoid the bloody expressions [1] .”
03:08 Qas Shoot both several times with kryptonite-laced bullets and take the money
03:08 commerceheights all three of those sentences were using the same phrase in Japanese :P
03:08 Nephara that or they just.
03:08 Nephara get $5000 each.
03:08 Spaam Lol ch
03:09 Nephara but i guess then superman has the leverage
03:09 Nephara or whatever
03:09 Nephara anyway i think the answer is a 9999:1 split.
03:09 NorthernSunrise I remember doing some research in mons for flags
03:09 NorthernSunrise And then I'd get stuff like
03:10 NorthernSunrise "He was the thirty-first secretary of Numb God Thunder Okajima"
03:10 tinhampton Bloody expressions... :P
03:10 commerceheights I’ve also had issues recently with it translating numbers into different numbers
03:12 NorthernSunrise It is possible
(NOTE: And thus started a completely different discussion about the non-existent netball culture of NSS, Hurricane Harvey's impendent arrival, etc.)

30/08/2017
01:52 Electrum Wish I had your luck Mriin
01:52 Mriin haha
01:52 Mriin ha
01:52 Electrum
01:53 Electrum I am sooooo unlucky
01:53 Electrum Margie hates me
01:53 Chrom you won the last WC Electrum that's pretty lucky
01:53 Electrum nah that was skill surely
01:53 Electrum It's luck when I lose, skill when I win
01:53 bojik Does anyone want another kitmaker around NSS now that Meski is a bit less active and Kirola, etc, are gone?
01:54 bojik asking for a friend
01:54 Electrum No not really I'm afraid
01:55 bojik I was thinking about it for club kits because I have a number of IC references to Smoke Sports, I was wondering if I should make it a real thing
01:55 bojik but yeah, there has to be demand for it
02:00 Mriin I'm pretty sure demand for kits has always outpaced supply
02:02 Mriin Even if people are sated on NT kits (which I'm not sure is true now) kitting out the clubs in domestic leagues is a huge undetaking
02:16 Kushleesi checks his pressure
02:23 *** Tumbra quit (Quit: Connection closed for inactivity)
02:27 Qas buys everyone stock
02:27 Mriin makes soup with the stock
02:28 Qas is amazed at what Mriin can do with a digital certificate saying he has one share of Burger King
02:28 Mriin that's some good beef stock right there
02:28 Mriin flame-grilled
02:31 Kushleesi grills Mriin alive, offers the meat to Qas for flood relief
02:32 Qas gives the meat to one of the shelters
02:32 Kushleesi applauds the decision
02:33 Qas The worse case scenario for me is going insane from cabin fever, nothing compared to those downtown
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02:36 Qas Hi llama
02:36 Qas gives lllama some stock
02:37 Llama hey
02:37 Gregoryisgodistan Oh mama, it's llama!
02:37 Llama hi everyone
02:37 ESF throws cat nip on Qas
02:37 Val|WI sets the entire channel on fire
02:37 Qas Save the stock!
02:38 Qas shouts as he's intoxicated with catnip
02:38 Gregoryisgodistan Oh wow, pony's here
02:38 Gregoryisgodistan puts pony and llama in a petting zoo
02:38 Llama i'm okay
02:39 Kushleesi rides Llama
02:39 Kushleesi Giddyap horsie! Giddyap
02:39 Gregoryisgodistan Llama's a llama. Pony's the horsie.
02:40 Kushleesi noms the Llama then
02:45 Qas downgrades Kushleesi's stock
02:45 Kushleesi rides Qas
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15/04/2018
00:50 *** tinhampton joined #nssport
00:53 EastfieldLodge Who?
00:53 tinhampton Who's who?
00:53 Damukuni Who's whose who?
00:54 drawk whom
00:55 Damukuni Whom whose who has whosed who's who...

Owing to the abandonment of IRC, this document is unlikely ever to be updated. Please check below for updates of conflict and disagreement:
page=dispatch/id=1089077

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00:19 Qas Cue
00:20 EastfieldLodge tinhampton, half of your logs are barely complete
00:20 tinhampton 00:20 EastfieldLodge tinhampton, half of your logs are barely complete <<< I know. These are just snippets I have found quite hilarious on my time here.
00:22 Audio [01:20] EastfieldLodge tinhampton, half of your logs are barely complete <-- much better like that
00:22 Audio leave out the in-betweeny-bits
00:23 EastfieldLodge Barely complete as in they're missing tons of context/extra stuff. Like that bit about credo filling Electrum's rosters, it goes on to credo being Electrum's b*tch.
00:23 drawk Comedy
00:24 Nephara 1
00:24 Electrum xD
00:24 EastfieldLodge 1
00:24 Electrum We all have our defined area of responsibility tyvm
00:24 Audio the funny thing is the gap between those two conversations is, like, probably forty seconds

20/04/2017
See: Doing A Joke To Death: A poem by the #nssport IRC channel - 20th April 2017. Reaction to the poem:
21:05 tinhampton The aforementioned, erm, "poem" has now been factbookified for your reading pleasure:

20:52 *** Sem joined #nssport
20:55 PIS|necromancing WHAT a goal by Dortmund
20:56 tinhampton What - a goal by Dortmund?
20:56 PIS|necromancing A goal by Dortmund. What?
20:57 Sem Goal? What by Dortmund?
20:57 tinhampton What goal by Dortmund?
20:57 Goluta What a goal, by Dortmund.
20:57 PIS|necromancing A poem. By #nssport
20:57 *** Sem is now known as Sem|24
20:57 Sem|24 By Dortmund? What a goal!
20:58 tinhampton By what a Dortmund goal?
20:58 EastfieldLodge What a Dortmund, by Goal!
20:58 Sem|24 What a goal? By Dortmund?
20:58 tinhampton Goal by Dortmund- a what?
20:59 EastfieldLodge A goal by what? Dortmund?
20:59 tinhampton What? A Dortmund goal by?
21:00 Eshan Dortmund, goal by?
21:00 PIS|necromancing i think the name of this poem should be "doing a joke to death"
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21:05 PIS|necromancing D:
21:06 PIS|necromancing hahaha, thanks tinhampton
21:06 *** PIS|necromancing is now known as PIS
21:06 Goluta I am now a published author
21:06 Sem|24 i'm famous!

21/04/2017
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19:39 Aels oh. huh. today is retirement day for the D-Stock trains on the District Line
19:39 PIS knew i circled the date on the calendar for some reason
19:40 PIS if this was an american cop movie, someone would have shot them yesterday
19:40 PIS and other such quips.
19:40 PIS i'm in a helpful mood.
19:40 Astograth You're a loose cannon, PIS!
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19:40 Astograth Hand over your badge
19:41 Astograth And gun
19:41 NorthernSunrise ...
19:41 Astograth Hey NorthernSunrise
19:41 NorthernSunrise Dude, I don't even have either

27/04/2017
21:04 tinhampton ...and on The Talk Show Where We Take NS Stats Way Too Seriously, we ask: How many years must a Damukunian live until they get annoyed after being called a royalist by another Damukunian? In other news, we discuss how dangerous Valladar cars are to your driveway, and we moan about Tinhampton's pre-approved shopping list for welfare recipients. #TTSWWTNSSWTS
21:04 tinhampton :P
21:05 credo makes tinhampton join the Rent is Too Damn High Party
21:05 tinhampton complains that the Rent Is 3 Damn High
21:05 credo that's actually a thing :P
21:06 Damukuni (1) Green, (2) Never get a car with onboard electronics from Triangle Électronique, and (3) the shopping list purchases are mandatory even if you have a surplus of one or more items, tinhampton ... film at 11 on DBS News!
21:07 tinhampton In case you're wondering, Rent Is 3 Damn High finished 6th (out of 8 and 9) in their two World Cup qualification campaigns, WC56 and WC57. The second campaign was not too shabby, given that Rent Is 3 Damn High had CTEd two weeks before scorination...

28/04/2017
16:24 tinhampton When did abanhfleft deCommunistify?
16:24 abanhfleft what exactly do you mean by that?
16:25 tinhampton The more astute viewers among y'all will have noted that the hammer-and-sickle has been ditched from abanhfleft's flag. Why was this?
16:26 abanhfleft a little history lesson then
16:27 abanhfleft in 2008, Abanhfleft was engulfed in a civil war instigated by a mad cardinal so it was called the Holy Catholic Revolution
16:27 abanhfleft Loyalists from the Democratic and Communist Parties eventually led the government to victory over the Catholic rebels
16:28 abanhfleft As a result when the new Fleftic state was created the Democratic and Communist Parties decided that they should both be represented on the flag
16:28 abanhfleft Blue, orange, and green are the traditional Fleftic colors and the hammer and sickle is obviously Communist
16:29 abanhfleft The first post-revolution government was a majority made by combining the Democrats and Communists
16:29 abanhfleft now the Democrats hold the clear majority in government and the president himself wrote the bill to remove the hammer and sickle from the flag
16:29 abanhfleft and that's how the hammer and sickle vanished from Abanhfleft's flag
16:31 Ngol interesting.
16:31 Ngol Great Fleftic history lesson.
16:31 abanhfleft * bows head
.......
17:02 abanhfleft hey Ngol what was that you asked me about sending some communist volunteers your way?
17:02 tinhampton How did Turori get hold of the Karelan Shield?
17:02 Ngol oh, um, for this: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=235405
17:03 tinhampton 17:02 Ngol oh, um, for this: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=235405 <<< I don't recall reading anything about the Karelan Shield here :P
17:05 abanhfleft and Ngol, who are you in NS?
17:07 Ngol I'm many people, but in this instance, The Cardwith Islands is my puppet.
17:07 abanhfleft uh huh, okay, I'll go with that
17:07 Ngol many nations rather.
17:07 Ngol Neu Engollon probably being my most famous.
17:09 abanhfleft The Communist Party is a political party in my country but I guess some guys who have military training (service is mandatory here in Abanhfleft after all) might drop in and fight
17:09 abanhfleft but I'm not sure I can RP them reliably
17:09 Ngol well, here's the thing abanhfleft, as a whole full organized group in your nation, they might not be militaristic, but there might be some that are in that group, and want to fight for the world Marxist cause, so they wouldn't be officially sanctioned, but...
17:11 abanhfleft I should have recognized you then, the flag looks like Hutanjia
17:12 Ngol The Cardwiths are the arch nemesis of Hutanjia
17:12 Ngol They broke off from Hutanjia.
17:13 abanhfleft well one of the flags used in the OP looks like the Hutanjia flag to me but I understand where you went with it
17:14 Ngol the palm circle came from the Hutanjian flag, but they'd never use yellow stars, they're far too right wing for that.
17:15 abanhfleft uh huh
17:17 Ngol another in the series of NS Sports nations flag histories
17:17 Ngol put it in the book.
17:18 Ngol abanhfleft, this might interest you:

Gaulic Colony of Hutanjia 1747 - 1815

Frankenlischian Colony of Greater Hutanjia 1815 - 1930

Frankenlischian Territory of Greater Hutanjia 1930 - 1951

Kingdom of Hutanjia 1951 - 2012

Hutanjian Naval Ensign 1951 - Present

Rebellion/UFF of Hutanjia 1963 - Present

Republic of Hutanjia 2013 - Present

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17:19 abanhfleft Cheers Ngol, I'll take a look at that

28/04/2017 (again - much of the day missed the cut, but it was still a great day on IRC)
20:16 *** Farf joined #nssport
20:16 Farf Hello everyone
20:17 tinlimbless Hey, Farf. You missed out on VilTur saying that "a loss for farf = a win for viltur always".
20:17 Farf Well, yes, that was true at one point
20:17 Farf Nowadays I'm not so sure, since he beat me in WC 76
20:18 drawk I mean
20:18 Schottia Hey Farf
20:18 drawk That was literally true then
20:18 tinlimbless 20:17 Farf Nowadays I'm not so sure, since he beat me in WC 76 <<< Loss for Farf, win for VilTur. Doesn't Vilita's Theorem hold true?
20:19 drawk ^ my point exactly
20:21 Farf No, no, you two don't get it
20:22 Farf VilTur wants to win
20:22 *** tinlimbless is now known as tinhampton
NOTE: Anthology: Cosumar arrived. Foodporn shot Cosumar. I TINcineratedTM Foodporn (TINcinerationTM: Like Rincineration, only Tinhampton-ier). Foodporn beheaded me. I wrote without being able to see. Foodporn cut off my limbs. I eventually returned to normal. You are probably confused about what happened.
20:22 Farf VilTur nowadays will always beat me, as the Reversed Curse Theorem holds true
20:22 Farf Therefore, if I lose before facing him, he's missing out on a guaranteed win
20:22 Farf In the past, if I lost, he'd avoid having to face me and losing no matter what he did
20:22 Farf That's why a loss for me used to be a win for him
20:23 Farf Because when the time came for us to face each other, I'd win
20:23 tinhampton That is some d*mn fine rapping we're seeing from Farf here. :P

28/04/2017 yet again
22:10 Eshan jfc
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22:11 tinhampton jfc?
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22:11 tinhampton sah Eshan|Mobile
22:11 Qas Just forgot chicken?
22:11 Astograth Jersey Fried Chicken
22:12 Eshan|Mobile Yes
22:12 tinhampton Yes?
22:12 Qas You easily salamander?
22:13 EastfieldLodge ;p;
22:13 EastfieldLodge lol
22:14 Qas Yellow Eel Sushi

29/04/2017
01:30 EFL|WGPC We only have 9 teams atm, anything will do.
NOTE: This refers to the Beach Cup.
01:30 EFL|WGPC Gregoryisgodistan: Beach Slaves please?
01:31 Gregoryisgodistan Link?
01:32 Qas Beach Slaves, Beach Corps, Beach...Eagles?
01:32 EFL|WGPC Eagles?
01:33 Spaam Beagles?
01:33 Gregoryisgodistan All our teams are called the X Slaves. It's like New Zealand and Blacks. All Blacks, Tall Blacks, Black Bats, etc. Except their soccer team is the All Whites. We still have Slaves.
01:35 Gregoryisgodistan Foot Slaves, Ice Slaves, Bat Slaves, Net Slaves, Stick Slaves, Broom Slaves, Soft Slaves, Beach Slaves, 'Sal Slaves, Grid Slaves, Rug Slaves, Seven Slaves, Sevens Slaves, etc.
01:35 Gregoryisgodistan The Seven Slaves play 7ball, the Sevens Slaves play rugby sevens.
01:35 EFL|WGPC 'Sal?
01:35 Gregoryisgodistan Futsal
01:35 EFL|WGPC Ah.
01:36 EFL|WGPC drawk, you signing up?
01:36 Qas Archery Slaves?
01:36 Gregoryisgodistan Archery's not a team sport.
01:36 Gregoryisgodistan Sure, you can have a bunch of individuals competing on the same team, but they're still competing as individuals.
01:37 Gregoryisgodistan They're not functioning as one unit like in conventional team sports.
01:37 EFL|WGPC Curl Slaves?
01:37 Gregoryisgodistan Broom Slaves.
01:37 EFL|WGPC So what's Quidditch then?
01:37 Gregoryisgodistan We don'
01:37 Gregoryisgodistan We don't have a Quidditch team.
01:37 EFL|WGPC Fair.
01:38 Gregoryisgodistan But if we did, I guess they'd be the Quid Slaves.
01:38 Qas Wizard Slaves
01:38 Gregoryisgodistan Oh, I forgot the Tall Slaves.
01:38 Gregoryisgodistan And the Lax Slaves.
01:38 EFL|WGPC I was about to say basketball.
01:38 EFL|WGPC Lax?
01:38 Gregoryisgodistan Lacrosse.
01:38 EFL|WGPC Ultimate?
01:38 Qas What about.... Tax Slaves?
01:38 Gregoryisgodistan I forget. Let me check.
01:40 Gregoryisgodistan Apparently we never gave them a nickname, so I'm calling them the Fris Slaves because the inaugural team featured two actors trying out for the title role in the then-upcoming movie Frisbeeteria.
01:40 EFL|WGPC lol
01:40 Gregoryisgodistan Frisbeeteria was a moderator on RLStates who found that DEATing users deleted them in real life after DEATing "New Korn" for being an idiot.
01:40 Gregoryisgodistan Or something like that.
01:41 Gregoryisgodistan And then decides to DEAT his Ultimate opponents so he wins.
01:41 EFL|WGPC ...Nice.
01:41 Qas Racing Slaves?
01:41 Gregoryisgodistan We don't have a Racing Team. And again, same principle - it's individual competitors, not a cohesive unit, so it wouldn't get a nickname.
01:42 Qas *-*

30/04/2017
01:33 *** Electrum joined #nssport
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01:39 tinhampton Hey, Electrum and Eshan. Another TBS graphics test. This is how the WC58 final would have looked like on TBS before the penalty shootout: https://s30.postimg.org/do7zmyyht/test2.png
01:40 Nephara why does aguazul switch to indigo in the penalty box?
01:40 tinhampton Nephara: Blame it on the fact that TBS use gradients for normal-time, but flat colours for penalties.
01:41 Nephara right but it's like the penalty colour is indigo and the normal colour is cyan
01:41 Eshan idgaf
01:41 Nephara unlike krytenia's which is sky blue in both
01:41 *** Eshan quit (Quit: sah)
01:41 drawk damn boi
01:41 tinhampton And based on Aguazul's final RP ( viewtopic.php?p=8583577#p8583577 ), here's what it would have looked like afterwards: https://s2.postimg.org/ao4ui79x5/test2a.png
01:43 Audio I'm sending this pic to Kry
01:44 NorthernSunrise Honestly, if I ever did something like that, I'd probably use flags/crests instead
01:44 Zwangzug jajaja
01:44 NorthernSunrise But just because nobody else ever did that
01:44 tinhampton Basically, the colours used /are/ based on flag colours.
01:45 Nephara not kit colours?
01:45 Audio I have sent Kry this picture
01:45 Audio he has seen it
01:45 Audio presumably due to not having muted his phone while sleeping
01:45 Audio which is even better
01:46 Audio he has replied
01:46 *** Mercedini quit (Quit: Connection closed for inactivity)
01:46 Audio "AGUAZUUUUUUUUUUL"
01:46 NorthernSunrise lol
01:46 drawk Comedy
01:46 Zwangzug lol
01:46 drawk Has Krytenia ever won a World Cup?
01:46 Zwangzug (mostly at the not muting his phone part)
01:46 drawk (I haven't cared to remember)
01:46 Audio of course they f*cking haven't
01:46 Audio I'm still here, arent't I?
01:46 drawk LOL
01:47 NorthernSunrise He did win the AOCAF
01:47 drawk rigs the Cup so that Krytenia wins
01:47 Audio he knocked me out of the AOCAF Cup in the quarter final in three successive cycles, which is bad enough
01:48 Audio PIS P*ssed himelf at that
01:48 Audio himself*
01:48 tinhampton 01:47 drawk rigs the Cup so that Krytenia wins <<< Krytenia won AOCAF LIII (i.e. the edition before last). Your Argument Is Invalid (TM). :P
01:50 drawk The World Cup, that is
01:53 NorthernSunrise To be fair, that AOCAF win was messed up
01:53 NorthernSunrise We all know Western Sunrise should've won it just for sh*ts and giggles
NOTE: And then SJG (aka San jose guayabal came in, and it was showed to him. And he found it "Cool". An earlier test (https://s4.postimg.org/emh4q4b6l/test.png) was also praised by NorthernSunrise, Nephara, Audio, and EastfieldLodge. I hope to get this rolled out by TBS soon, hopefully by WC78.
.......
01:48 *** SJG joined #nssport
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01:49 Audio well hello thar
01:50 drawk if(team1.name="Krytenia"){team1.goals=team2.goals+1;}if(team2.name="Krytenia"){team2.goals=team1.goals+1;}
01:52 SJG if(team1.name="Audioslavia")
01:52 SJG score=score+1
01:53 SJG :P
01:53 SJG score being what the second team has :P
01:57 Audio Is it too early for me to make a THEscore=THEscore+5 joke?
01:57 drawk TOO SOOOOOOON
01:57 SJG Lol
01:58 NorthernSunrise I think it'll be too soon for a good while, won't it?
01:58 drawk mfw THE originally scores -5 goals
01:58 Chrom it will always bee too late
01:58 Chrom *too soon
01:59 Farf lol

30/04/2017 (again)
15:56 credo Rincinerates Tinhampton
16:00 tinhampton TINcinerates credo
16:00 --- tinhampton is back
16:00 tinhampton TINcinerate (TM): Like Rincineration, only Tinhampton-ier.
16:01 Eshan no
16:02 Ethane Please leave now.
16:02 abanhfleft who should leave and why?
16:03 Eshan slaps abanhfleft around for a bit with a large trout
16:03 Ethane TINcinerate (TM): Like Rincineration, only Tinhampton-ier.
16:03 Ethane I'm not sure it needs any further explanation.
16:04 Rin your rip-off is bad and you should feel bad
16:04 Rin :P
16:04 credo ^
16:05 abanhfleft why the trout?
16:06 Eshan slaps abanhfleft around for a bit with a large trout
16:06 Eshan stop asking so many questions
16:06 Eshan just go with it
16:06 credo where did drawk go :(
16:06 Eshan RIP
16:06 Rin slaps Eshan around a bit with a bluefin tuna
16:06 Eshan RIP
16:06 Eshan :P
16:06 Eshan slaps Kylo Rin around for a bit with a large great white
16:07 Electrum hits Rin with a bluefin tuna
16:07 Rin hits Electrum with a live monkfish
16:08 Electrum hits Rin with an umbrella
16:08 Rin smacks Electrum with a walking stick
16:08 Ethane notices the target went quiet
16:09 Ethane thinks we succeeded
16:11 *** Farf quit (Ping timeout: 180 seconds)
16:12 abanhfleft bye farf
16:12 Tumbra bit late fleft
16:13 Gregoryisgodistan nukes Electrum
16:13 Electrum uses antinuke shield
16:14 abanhfleft * gets hit in the face by the fallout

30/04/2017 (this third hilarious IRC conversation of the day brought to you by the May Day Bank Holiday)
21:32 *** Foodporn joined #nssport
21:33 Foodporn Hey all
21:34 tinhampton Hey, Foodporn. Have you checked out my Sports Graphics Tests yet?

The Tinhampton Broadcasting Service (having relied on nicked the graphics of other TV stations in the past. The TBS would like to issue an informal apology, mostly to ENN) is now making tests of trigram blocks - you know, like the ones you see on IRL sports channels? - to be paired with scorelines. Tests of these utilisations are below. We hope to deploy them for the 78th World Cup in mid-June. We think.

Fully-Featured Utilisations of the Graphics

The end of Mercedini's 2-0 win over the Northern Sunrise Islands in the WC75 qualifiers (a prototype from when it still needed some work):

The WC58 Final before the penalty shootout:

The WC58 Final after the penalty shootout, based on Aguazul's roleplay from after the Final:

Trigram Blocks for Sporting Nations

Nation

TBS Trigram Block

Notes

Generic Flag

A placeholder trigram block for a generic nation with the generic/default flag.

Ex-Nation

A placeholder trigram block for a CTEd nation, which carries the Ex-Nation flag.

Regional Blocks

See right

Images based off Tumbra's IGB sig fodder (see Tumbra), and my own flag-ly observations. In case of non-custom flag for a nation in any of the "big three" sporting regions (plus Sonnel and Novapax), will be used:

Northern Sunrise Islands

Back-to-back World Cup winners, before losing the quarterfinals of the next one and calling it quits (arguably at their peak) in April 2017. The greatest nation never to win a regional championship?

Farfadillis

The second-best football team in the world. The best one currently partaking (as of time of writing), due to NSI's departure.

San jose guayabal

The hokey-cokey of the world's football associations: In, out, in, out, back in, shake it all about.

Vilita

Three-time World Cup winners (and defending champions). Also operates Turori, and AOCAF puppet Vilita and Turori. Ranked fourth in the world, however.

Valanora

The World Cup success story: Five World Cup wins, six co-hosted, top in the Spaam Rankings System, behind only The Holy Empire in terms of World Cups proper reached... and that's without Pasarga and Demot!

Audioslavia

Audioslavia is to finals as Krytenia is to semifinals - winning a couple, but losing the rest. A referee now accepting donations so he can afford to buy danishes and coffee to fetch for the other mods!

The royal kingdom of quebec

Co-hosted World Cup 77. Their quarter-final penalty-kicks win over NSI in that tournament turned out to be the last match for NSI and the last win for RKQ (before announcing their retirement from the World Cup).

Valladares

No World Cups won and only a single edition co-hosted. Admittedly an otherwise well-renowned nation.

Nephara

Won World Cup 74, and kicked off a streak that ensured a clean sweep for Esportiva in 2016. Has since redomiciled in Rushmore, and ended up coming third in their first Copa Rushmori. Formerly New sideburn, proof that rebranding works - no WCs before the rebrand, and one afterwards!

Chromatika

Returning user that used to operate Yesopalitha and Falconfar. Came from almost a standing start to make the semifinals of World Cup 76 (and end up 4th in the KPB rankings by the end of it all). Do you have any idea what that white head thingy in the Chromatik flag is? Neither do I.

Schottia

Vying with Bonesea to be crown King of the Independent Nations, at least in football. (i.e. not in the "Big Three"). Has made the quarter-finals of the World Cup and both finals of the Independents Cup (with only one victory, in the first IndyCup final). Formerly of Tyran, but is now a hermit in Mirkford.

Bonesea

Vying with Schottia to be crown King of the Independent Nations, at least in football. (i.e. not in the "Big Three"). Has made the quarter-finals of the World Cup, as well as organising the Independents Cup and winning the Cup of Harmony... against Schottia. Has the upper-hand in the race as of yet. The purple is a reference to the "Purple Generation" and to avoid confusion with Chromatika. Formerly Wight.

Cosumar

One-half of COSTHANE (the hosting pair for CoH 69, not the ship). Author of an issue about metric and imperial units. You know the Gregoryisgodistan RP where the crowd chanted "DEATH TO COSUMAR!"? Yes, that's that Cosumar.

Ceni

Co-host of World Cup 76. AKA The Technical Credo, AKA credo, AKA one half of Credrawk. Currently on hiatus.

Pasarga

Puppet of Valanora. Two-time hosts and one-time winner of the World Cup. Strong in the early 70s (as in World Cup cycles, not the RW period of time).

Eura

Motto as recognised by the World Census: "They see us victorin', they hatin'". Need I say any more?

Gregoryisgodistan

Possibly the most self-explanatory nation name in sporting history. Some say that there are three kinds of sporting nation: The newcomers, the old-but-revived nations, and those on the Gregoryisgodistani Enemy List.

Alasdair I Frosticus

Better known as The Holy Asylum to Wight/Bonesea, The Dreamy Realm to Gregoryisgodistan, The Archregimancy (AIF's mod puppet) to moderators and NSG regulars, Alasdair I Frosticus to those who follow the World Census strictly... and The Holy Empire to the rest of us.

Brenecia

A Nepharim puppet. Could well have won the 66th CoH over Falatulu. For now, however, only three Campionatos Esportiva: Two over Nephara, and one over Red Blackiland.

Barunia

Author of an issue about food behind bars entitled Food Behind Bars, whose protoganist wrote a book entitled "Food Behind Bars", and is depicted in aforementioned issue as eating food behind bars (admittedly, from undisclosed minimum-security bars). Has lost the Cup of Harmony final twice. Also, food behind bars.

Electrum

Former hosts of a World Cup, WorldVision, and two Winter Olympics. Our first opponents - we lost 1-0.

Red blackiland

How Red Blackiland can make the final of the Campionato Esportiva, but not the octofinals of the World Cup, is mostly a mystery (but widely blamed on *INSERT GODDESS HERE* and the high quality of World Cup opposition. And Farvish attacking football). Otherwise famous for the Meski kit store, the last store I am aware of that still produces football kits.

Semarland

Most well-known in the modern era for reviving their government after a lengthy absence to ensure certification for qualification and qualification for the 77th World Cup... and then crashing out in the group stages.

Osarius

An experienced nation that used to have a sizable rivalry with Pasarga. Has been around for ten years, but are less of a potent force than they once were.

Abanhfleft

One of the more interesting geo-political stories of NS Sports - formerly Communist, but now democratic (at least for now). Notable for being poor at baseball, decent at football, and the world's second-best basketball team.

Anglatia

Arguably NS Sports' most extensive and creative roleplayer of recent times. By recent, I literally mean recent - created during the 74th World Cup, made the semi-finals of the Cup of Harmony that corresponded with the 75th, narrowly missed out on the 76th, entered the knock-out rounds of the 77th, and called it quits on the World Cup afterwards.

Damukuni

Well... what can be said? Their mascot won Gregoryisgodistan's Mascot World Cup, Tinhampton once held them to a draw, and they're one of the most notable nations on the NS Cricket stage.

Super-Llamaland

Despite some fame at international football, their most notable successes have come via baseball, winning two World Baseball Classics. Controls Hicanans in exile, a group of Lord Almighty Gregory's least favourite expats.

Turori

Now own the Karelan Shield... and a Cup of Harmony. Have made countless World Cup quarterfinals, but have failed to win a single one. Puppet of Vilita.

Krytenia

Zero-time World Cup winners, one-time AOCAF victors, and multiple-time sporting event host.

Mercedini

Would rank above Krytenia in the WCC rankings if they had just mustered another point from the WC77 qualifiers. Despite this, did prevent NSI from a perfect cycle at WC75.

Ethane

Evewybody's favouwite bunny wabbit. The defending champions of the World Baseball Classic, made their first World Cup at WC77, and the other half of COSTHANE (see Cosumar).
Ethane currently flies the flag of IRL Nepal. TBS thinks this just might stick, given that Ethane's previous flag was mostly a confusing mix of colours. We mean the flag that flew before Israel's.

Flardania

The World Cup's perpetual group-stage-losers (yes, even more perpetual than Red Blackiland).

Port christopher

Puppet of Schottia. A small meta-colony island of about a million who are currently engaging well in the international football stage.

Eastfield Lodge

Have only ever made two World Cups, but more than make up for that with their dedication to the Beach Cup, and their excellent World Census Stats (top ten for safety and pacifism!).

Chiata

An unusual nation, to say the least - founded by a bishop, under one-party rule, and the 25th day of each month is War Day.

Nova Anglicana

One of the best nations to have never played at the World Cup, but have regularly put up a fight in the Cup of Harmony.

Saintland

To be more precise, West Saintland (not to be confused with East Saintland, the female-controlled half that is friendlier to Gregoryisgodistan). Has had a long and controversial relationship with the sporting world, but has since left the World Cup.

Tumbra

Famous on NS for lots of things - (NSG) Senate participation, Cup of Harmony successes, making the "International Geese Brigade - 3rd Place and No Radiation!" sig fodder, etc.

Jeruselem

One of the footballing world's more venerable nations - third in the list of World Cup appearances (and that doesn't even include Jeru FC), but have been the World Cup's "nearly women" as of late.
Apologies for this. Jeruselem's current flag is quite hard to make trigram blocks out of, and any IC flags will have no doubt gone down with the nation's NSWiki article in 2013 (makes you feel old, doesn't it?).

Qasden

Despite being fairly new to the world stage (and, arguably, less renowned then fellow AO southwesterners Farfadillis and Valanora), the Principality have already nabbed hosting rights to the 23rd International Basketball Championships, and are also the defending Cup of Harmony champions.

Eshan


Another sporting nation with some notable achievements, but more well-known for their actions in the (NSG) Senate. The top trigram block was for the former flag (starring Ken Bone); the bottom trigram block represents Eshan's current flag, an adaptation of the one formerly flown by Erathore.

Brigantii
Queer poco el mono ara


Brigantii started in at WC75, nearly making WC77 (but, presumably, hoping to get their own back next time).
QPeMA hosted the 58th World Cup and won the 16th Di Bradini Cup. The same player controls both nations, to my awareness.

Drawkland

To name but some of their achievements: Making the World Cup on their first cycle, founding Sonnel, and writing an issue about a sinking ship. By which we mean a sea-ship, not a space-ship. Even though Drawkland is listed in the World Census as being an Interstellar Empire.

Fluvique

"The World's Feeder" had a successful spell in the mid-70 cycles - making a World Cup, and the semi-finals of a Cup of Harmony - but wound up tanking, and eventually CTEing, after the 77th World Cup.

Revolutionary nordskania

Puppet of Anglatia. Anarchy! Liberty! Football! Anglatia-bankrolled revolutions! What more could you want? A short-lived experiment (WC76/77) that was retired by Anglatia soon afterwards.

Starblaydia

A cult-hero side (five World Cups won, and one of the more dominant teams in the 40 cycles), complete with a cult-hero player (Simeone Di Bradini, assistant manager of The Holy Empire and the inspiration for the naming of the Di Bradini Cup).

Frenline delpha

Controversial, yes, but an otherwise infamous nation (especially concerning baseball).

Sameba

Puppet of Eura. Won the bronze medal at the 26th Copa Rushmori, and nearly made the WC76 playoffs, but are best known for engaging in a war with Eura.

Veldgouwen

Those Without A Proper Nickname. WC77's nearly-men (anybody hoping for their return the following edition would be disappointed), before losing to us at the Cup of Harmony. Neither us nor them qualified. The ones who slipped in? Kitsunia-Deesse...
Veldgouwen flew the flag of IRL Bonaire. If you must know, it was domiciled in Nederland, and its motto was "Down by the sea".

Taeshan

Formerly a successful team - and in the victors' rolls of the CR, DBC, CoH and WBC - but have long since fell away as a global sporting superpower.

Spaam

Golden oldies turned long-time retirees turned shock unranked World Cup qualifiers turned people bidding to co-host the 65th Baptism of Fire with another shock World Cup qualifier from their cycle.

Abaja

Despite various achievements in other sports, Abaja is mostly famous in world basketball, having come third in IBC 23 (which they co-hosted with Qasden).

95x


Formerly an experienced nation (Scottfire was created in Antiquity) with most of their achievements occuring internally (Xi Foureleven is pretty much all that most foreigners will be able to tell you about the nation's football). The trigram block you see before you is as it was (or would have been) originally; below that is also the trigram block that would have been hoisted when 95X hoisted its NSI-memorial flag. Appears to have been retconned in all but name.

Tinhampton

A trigram block of ourselves. "Because why not?" and "Because we have to" are the natural responses here.

Kitsunia-deesse

The Old Enemy (by which I mean the really Old Enemy). Two played, two lost - one in regular time, the other on penalties. I say old, that's because K-D was a puppet of the Northern Sunrise Islands (a since-retired nation).

Union of socialist alpine republics
Pays den haut


What was once a diverse mish-mash of sovereign nations in Europe joined up in 2016 (and provincified) to form the USAR (complete with non-purpose-built national anthem by Paul McCartney). One nation resisted, Pays den haut - self-proclaimed capital of tourism, but actually a Christian dictatorship with widespread regulations.
Pays den haut flies the flag of IRL Asturias.

Kel assuk

A fledgling Arabesque puppet of Ceni, which played in Tinhampton's IndyCup 2 group and is (as of time of writing) leading their Baptism of Fire group.

Eec

Corporatism, department-creation, debate, a high-ranking religious figure from the Archregimancy, and drones for third-string goalkeepers... what could go wrong? A lot, it turned out - despite a quarter-final run in BoF64, they only mustered a win and a draw from their 18 qualifiers. Mind you, they're back for WC78.

Huri de wintre

Winners of WC77's unofficial wooden spoon, with only two draws from eighteen qualifiers (and missing out on BoF signups to boot). A peaceful nation in The Western Isles that has not been seen in the tournament since.

San regada

A nation more famous for roleplay elsewhere on the site, but is starting to nurture their love of football (the national team having made it to the knockouts of SPAWK).

Vilita and turori

The puppet used by Vilita for Atlantian Oceanian competitions. Purports to be an "Unofficial Unrecognised Union".

Free republics

Most famous for making the final of the 68th World Cup on their debut (and they hosted it as well). Capitalist puppet of Saintland, and even more hated by Gregoryisgodistan (Dumpy O'Rumpy, anyone?)

Polar Islandstates

Remember them? Once the World #1 (and still in the top ten when they left the world stage in the first place), and one-time World Cup winners. Infamous for Effed In The FA, Adobe NationBuilder, losing 1-0 to The Weegies, and winning the 65th Baptism of Fire with Amnarei-asud.

Yttribia

Relative old-timers, having hosted a World Cup, Cup of Harmony and Campionato Esportiva, before CTEing, rejoining the region, and then engaging on a belated Esporxit(?) with a few other notable Esportivan nations, this time to Rushmore. (San Jose Guayabal upped sticks to Atlantian Oceania and then a hermit region; Nephara also got towed to the land of geese.)

Zwangzug

Famous for a lot of things - mostly their baseball, at times their football (and, of course, Aguazul - see below), at one point for writing some issue about this Nicholas Condor guy who called for @@NAME@@'s citizens to die... and now in issues-editor gold/brown/whatever, for the ultimate dilemma-processing experience! Still pwning noobs.

Aguazul

At one point, the most dominant football team in the multiverse. To my understanding, a puppet of Zwangzug (who never won the World Cup).

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21:35 drawk Check the link, Qas, you have a few more points than I iirc
21:35 Foodporn I don't use RKQ in anything tinhampton
21:37 --- Astograth is back
21:37 Astograth Nice logo, Qas
21:40 Foodporn tinhampton : Won't accept it as legit unless it's switched to QUE. I never use RKQ in anything
21:56 tinhampton The Tinhampton Broadcasting Service is, erm, pleased to announce that, after dialogue with the necessary (Quebecois/Royal Kingdom of Quebecian) organisations, the latest trigramme for the Royal Kingdom of Quebec has now been modified to QUE. Consider that these graphics tests are entirely that - tests - until World Cup 78 at the earliest.
21:57 Goluta boy i can't wait for people to get my trigramme wrong
21:57 tinhampton IN OTHER WORDS: QUE sera sera, whatever will be, will be...
21:58 tinhampton Why join a line when you can enter the QUEue?
21:59 *** ANG|IRN joined #nssport
21:59 tinhampton Right on QUE. QUE the music. Snooker QUEs. Don't QUEll your appetite! QUEricosity killed the cat. Kings and QUEens.
21:59 tinhampton only the toppest of keks for ANG|IRN
21:59 ANG|IRN Hey timhampton
21:59 Goluta how do quebecois laugh? Quequequeque
22:00 tinhampton Why not check out the latest Sports Graphics Tests? Now with added QUE!

The Tinhampton Broadcasting Service (having relied on nicked the graphics of other TV stations in the past. The TBS would like to issue an informal apology, mostly to ENN) is now making tests of trigram blocks - you know, like the ones you see on IRL sports channels? - to be paired with scorelines. Tests of these utilisations are below. We hope to deploy them for the 78th World Cup in mid-June. We think.

Fully-Featured Utilisations of the Graphics

The end of Mercedini's 2-0 win over the Northern Sunrise Islands in the WC75 qualifiers (a prototype from when it still needed some work):

The WC58 Final before the penalty shootout:

The WC58 Final after the penalty shootout, based on Aguazul's roleplay from after the Final:

Trigram Blocks for Sporting Nations

Nation

TBS Trigram Block

Notes

Generic Flag

A placeholder trigram block for a generic nation with the generic/default flag.

Ex-Nation

A placeholder trigram block for a CTEd nation, which carries the Ex-Nation flag.

Regional Blocks

See right

Images based off Tumbra's IGB sig fodder (see Tumbra), and my own flag-ly observations. In case of non-custom flag for a nation in any of the "big three" sporting regions (plus Sonnel and Novapax), will be used:

Northern Sunrise Islands

Back-to-back World Cup winners, before losing the quarterfinals of the next one and calling it quits (arguably at their peak) in April 2017. The greatest nation never to win a regional championship?

Farfadillis

The second-best football team in the world. The best one currently partaking (as of time of writing), due to NSI's departure.

San jose guayabal

The hokey-cokey of the world's football associations: In, out, in, out, back in, shake it all about.

Vilita

Three-time World Cup winners (and defending champions). Also operates Turori, and AOCAF puppet Vilita and Turori. Ranked fourth in the world, however.

Valanora

The World Cup success story: Five World Cup wins, six co-hosted, top in the Spaam Rankings System, behind only The Holy Empire in terms of World Cups proper reached... and that's without Pasarga and Demot!

Audioslavia

Audioslavia is to finals as Krytenia is to semifinals - winning a couple, but losing the rest. A referee now accepting donations so he can afford to buy danishes and coffee to fetch for the other mods!

The royal kingdom of quebec

Co-hosted World Cup 77. Their quarter-final penalty-kicks win over NSI in that tournament turned out to be the last match for NSI and the last win for RKQ (before announcing their retirement from the World Cup).

Valladares

No World Cups won and only a single edition co-hosted. Admittedly an otherwise well-renowned nation.

Nephara

Won World Cup 74, and kicked off a streak that ensured a clean sweep for Esportiva in 2016. Has since redomiciled in Rushmore, and ended up coming third in their first Copa Rushmori. Formerly New sideburn, proof that rebranding works - no WCs before the rebrand, and one afterwards!

Chromatika

Returning user that used to operate Yesopalitha and Falconfar. Came from almost a standing start to make the semifinals of World Cup 76 (and end up 4th in the KPB rankings by the end of it all). Do you have any idea what that white head thingy in the Chromatik flag is? Neither do I.

Schottia

Vying with Bonesea to be crown King of the Independent Nations, at least in football. (i.e. not in the "Big Three"). Has made the quarter-finals of the World Cup and both finals of the Independents Cup (with only one victory, in the first IndyCup final). Formerly of Tyran, but is now a hermit in Mirkford.

Bonesea

Vying with Schottia to be crown King of the Independent Nations, at least in football. (i.e. not in the "Big Three"). Has made the quarter-finals of the World Cup, as well as organising the Independents Cup and winning the Cup of Harmony... against Schottia. Has the upper-hand in the race as of yet. The purple is a reference to the "Purple Generation" and to avoid confusion with Chromatika. Formerly Wight.

Cosumar

One-half of COSTHANE (the hosting pair for CoH 69, not the ship). Author of an issue about metric and imperial units. You know the Gregoryisgodistan RP where the crowd chanted "DEATH TO COSUMAR!"? Yes, that's that Cosumar.

Ceni

Co-host of World Cup 76. AKA The Technical Credo, AKA credo, AKA one half of Credrawk. Currently on hiatus.

Pasarga

Puppet of Valanora. Two-time hosts and one-time winner of the World Cup. Strong in the early 70s (as in World Cup cycles, not the RW period of time).

Eura

Motto as recognised by the World Census: "They see us victorin', they hatin'". Need I say any more?

Gregoryisgodistan

Possibly the most self-explanatory nation name in sporting history. Some say that there are three kinds of sporting nation: The newcomers, the old-but-revived nations, and those on the Gregoryisgodistani Enemy List.

Alasdair I Frosticus

Better known as The Holy Asylum to Wight/Bonesea, The Dreamy Realm to Gregoryisgodistan, The Archregimancy (AIF's mod puppet) to moderators and NSG regulars, Alasdair I Frosticus to those who follow the World Census strictly... and The Holy Empire to the rest of us.

Brenecia

A Nepharim puppet. Could well have won the 66th CoH over Falatulu. For now, however, only three Campionatos Esportiva: Two over Nephara, and one over Red Blackiland.

Barunia

Author of an issue about food behind bars entitled Food Behind Bars, whose protoganist wrote a book entitled "Food Behind Bars", and is depicted in aforementioned issue as eating food behind bars (admittedly, from undisclosed minimum-security bars). Has lost the Cup of Harmony final twice. Also, food behind bars.

Electrum

Former hosts of a World Cup, WorldVision, and two Winter Olympics. Our first opponents - we lost 1-0.

Red blackiland

How Red Blackiland can make the final of the Campionato Esportiva, but not the octofinals of the World Cup, is mostly a mystery (but widely blamed on *INSERT GODDESS HERE* and the high quality of World Cup opposition. And Farvish attacking football). Otherwise famous for the Meski kit store, the last store I am aware of that still produces football kits.

Semarland

Most well-known in the modern era for reviving their government after a lengthy absence to ensure certification for qualification and qualification for the 77th World Cup... and then crashing out in the group stages.

Osarius

An experienced nation that used to have a sizable rivalry with Pasarga. Has been around for ten years, but are less of a potent force than they once were.

Abanhfleft

One of the more interesting geo-political stories of NS Sports - formerly Communist, but now democratic (at least for now). Notable for being poor at baseball, decent at football, and the world's second-best basketball team.

Anglatia

Arguably NS Sports' most extensive and creative roleplayer of recent times. By recent, I literally mean recent - created during the 74th World Cup, made the semi-finals of the Cup of Harmony that corresponded with the 75th, narrowly missed out on the 76th, entered the knock-out rounds of the 77th, and called it quits on the World Cup afterwards.

Damukuni

Well... what can be said? Their mascot won Gregoryisgodistan's Mascot World Cup, Tinhampton once held them to a draw, and they're one of the most notable nations on the NS Cricket stage.

Super-Llamaland

Despite some fame at international football, their most notable successes have come via baseball, winning two World Baseball Classics. Controls Hicanans in exile, a group of Lord Almighty Gregory's least favourite expats.

Turori

Now own the Karelan Shield... and a Cup of Harmony. Have made countless World Cup quarterfinals, but have failed to win a single one. Puppet of Vilita.

Krytenia

Zero-time World Cup winners, one-time AOCAF victors, and multiple-time sporting event host.

Mercedini

Would rank above Krytenia in the WCC rankings if they had just mustered another point from the WC77 qualifiers. Despite this, did prevent NSI from a perfect cycle at WC75.

Ethane

Evewybody's favouwite bunny wabbit. The defending champions of the World Baseball Classic, made their first World Cup at WC77, and the other half of COSTHANE (see Cosumar).
Ethane currently flies the flag of IRL Nepal. TBS thinks this just might stick, given that Ethane's previous flag was mostly a confusing mix of colours. We mean the flag that flew before Israel's.

Flardania

The World Cup's perpetual group-stage-losers (yes, even more perpetual than Red Blackiland).

Port christopher

Puppet of Schottia. A small meta-colony island of about a million who are currently engaging well in the international football stage.

Eastfield Lodge

Have only ever made two World Cups, but more than make up for that with their dedication to the Beach Cup, and their excellent World Census Stats (top ten for safety and pacifism!).

Chiata

An unusual nation, to say the least - founded by a bishop, under one-party rule, and the 25th day of each month is War Day.

Nova Anglicana

One of the best nations to have never played at the World Cup, but have regularly put up a fight in the Cup of Harmony.

Saintland

To be more precise, West Saintland (not to be confused with East Saintland, the female-controlled half that is friendlier to Gregoryisgodistan). Has had a long and controversial relationship with the sporting world, but has since left the World Cup.

Tumbra

Famous on NS for lots of things - (NSG) Senate participation, Cup of Harmony successes, making the "International Geese Brigade - 3rd Place and No Radiation!" sig fodder, etc.

Jeruselem

One of the footballing world's more venerable nations - third in the list of World Cup appearances (and that doesn't even include Jeru FC), but have been the World Cup's "nearly women" as of late.
Apologies for this. Jeruselem's current flag is quite hard to make trigram blocks out of, and any IC flags will have no doubt gone down with the nation's NSWiki article in 2013 (makes you feel old, doesn't it?).

Qasden

Despite being fairly new to the world stage (and, arguably, less renowned then fellow AO southwesterners Farfadillis and Valanora), the Principality have already nabbed hosting rights to the 23rd International Basketball Championships, and are also the defending Cup of Harmony champions.

Eshan


Another sporting nation with some notable achievements, but more well-known for their actions in the (NSG) Senate. The top trigram block was for the former flag (starring Ken Bone); the bottom trigram block represents Eshan's current flag, an adaptation of the one formerly flown by Erathore.

Brigantii
Queer poco el mono ara


Brigantii started in at WC75, nearly making WC77 (but, presumably, hoping to get their own back next time).
QPeMA hosted the 58th World Cup and won the 16th Di Bradini Cup. The same player controls both nations, to my awareness.

Drawkland

To name but some of their achievements: Making the World Cup on their first cycle, founding Sonnel, and writing an issue about a sinking ship. By which we mean a sea-ship, not a space-ship. Even though Drawkland is listed in the World Census as being an Interstellar Empire.

Fluvique

"The World's Feeder" had a successful spell in the mid-70 cycles - making a World Cup, and the semi-finals of a Cup of Harmony - but wound up tanking, and eventually CTEing, after the 77th World Cup.

Revolutionary nordskania

Puppet of Anglatia. Anarchy! Liberty! Football! Anglatia-bankrolled revolutions! What more could you want? A short-lived experiment (WC76/77) that was retired by Anglatia soon afterwards.

Starblaydia

A cult-hero side (five World Cups won, and one of the more dominant teams in the 40 cycles), complete with a cult-hero player (Simeone Di Bradini, assistant manager of The Holy Empire and the inspiration for the naming of the Di Bradini Cup).

Frenline delpha

Controversial, yes, but an otherwise infamous nation (especially concerning baseball).

Sameba

Puppet of Eura. Won the bronze medal at the 26th Copa Rushmori, and nearly made the WC76 playoffs, but are best known for engaging in a war with Eura.

Veldgouwen

Those Without A Proper Nickname. WC77's nearly-men (anybody hoping for their return the following edition would be disappointed), before losing to us at the Cup of Harmony. Neither us nor them qualified. The ones who slipped in? Kitsunia-Deesse...
Veldgouwen flew the flag of IRL Bonaire. If you must know, it was domiciled in Nederland, and its motto was "Down by the sea".

Taeshan

Formerly a successful team - and in the victors' rolls of the CR, DBC, CoH and WBC - but have long since fell away as a global sporting superpower.

Spaam

Golden oldies turned long-time retirees turned shock unranked World Cup qualifiers turned people bidding to co-host the 65th Baptism of Fire with another shock World Cup qualifier from their cycle.

Abaja

Despite various achievements in other sports, Abaja is mostly famous in world basketball, having come third in IBC 23 (which they co-hosted with Qasden).

95x


Formerly an experienced nation (Scottfire was created in Antiquity) with most of their achievements occuring internally (Xi Foureleven is pretty much all that most foreigners will be able to tell you about the nation's football). The trigram block you see before you is as it was (or would have been) originally; below that is also the trigram block that would have been hoisted when 95X hoisted its NSI-memorial flag. Appears to have been retconned in all but name.

Tinhampton

A trigram block of ourselves. "Because why not?" and "Because we have to" are the natural responses here.

Kitsunia-deesse

The Old Enemy (by which I mean the really Old Enemy). Two played, two lost - one in regular time, the other on penalties. I say old, that's because K-D was a puppet of the Northern Sunrise Islands (a since-retired nation).

Union of socialist alpine republics
Pays den haut


What was once a diverse mish-mash of sovereign nations in Europe joined up in 2016 (and provincified) to form the USAR (complete with non-purpose-built national anthem by Paul McCartney). One nation resisted, Pays den haut - self-proclaimed capital of tourism, but actually a Christian dictatorship with widespread regulations.
Pays den haut flies the flag of IRL Asturias.

Kel assuk

A fledgling Arabesque puppet of Ceni, which played in Tinhampton's IndyCup 2 group and is (as of time of writing) leading their Baptism of Fire group.

Eec

Corporatism, department-creation, debate, a high-ranking religious figure from the Archregimancy, and drones for third-string goalkeepers... what could go wrong? A lot, it turned out - despite a quarter-final run in BoF64, they only mustered a win and a draw from their 18 qualifiers. Mind you, they're back for WC78.

Huri de wintre

Winners of WC77's unofficial wooden spoon, with only two draws from eighteen qualifiers (and missing out on BoF signups to boot). A peaceful nation in The Western Isles that has not been seen in the tournament since.

San regada

A nation more famous for roleplay elsewhere on the site, but is starting to nurture their love of football (the national team having made it to the knockouts of SPAWK).

Vilita and turori

The puppet used by Vilita for Atlantian Oceanian competitions. Purports to be an "Unofficial Unrecognised Union".

Free republics

Most famous for making the final of the 68th World Cup on their debut (and they hosted it as well). Capitalist puppet of Saintland, and even more hated by Gregoryisgodistan (Dumpy O'Rumpy, anyone?)

Polar Islandstates

Remember them? Once the World #1 (and still in the top ten when they left the world stage in the first place), and one-time World Cup winners. Infamous for Effed In The FA, Adobe NationBuilder, losing 1-0 to The Weegies, and winning the 65th Baptism of Fire with Amnarei-asud.

Yttribia

Relative old-timers, having hosted a World Cup, Cup of Harmony and Campionato Esportiva, before CTEing, rejoining the region, and then engaging on a belated Esporxit(?) with a few other notable Esportivan nations, this time to Rushmore. (San Jose Guayabal upped sticks to Atlantian Oceania and then a hermit region; Nephara also got towed to the land of geese.)

Zwangzug

Famous for a lot of things - mostly their baseball, at times their football (and, of course, Aguazul - see below), at one point for writing some issue about this Nicholas Condor guy who called for @@NAME@@'s citizens to die... and now in issues-editor gold/brown/whatever, for the ultimate dilemma-processing experience! Still pwning noobs.

Aguazul

At one point, the most dominant football team in the multiverse. To my understanding, a puppet of Zwangzug (who never won the World Cup).

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22:00 *** Eura joined #nssport
22:01 Foodporn Good
22:01 tinhampton EURASTRONK (trademark of the Euran Ministry for Trade and Investment). I assume that you've seen the Sports Graphics Tests - now with added QUE!

The Tinhampton Broadcasting Service (having relied on nicked the graphics of other TV stations in the past. The TBS would like to issue an informal apology, mostly to ENN) is now making tests of trigram blocks - you know, like the ones you see on IRL sports channels? - to be paired with scorelines. Tests of these utilisations are below. We hope to deploy them for the 78th World Cup in mid-June. We think.

Fully-Featured Utilisations of the Graphics

The end of Mercedini's 2-0 win over the Northern Sunrise Islands in the WC75 qualifiers (a prototype from when it still needed some work):

The WC58 Final before the penalty shootout:

The WC58 Final after the penalty shootout, based on Aguazul's roleplay from after the Final:

Trigram Blocks for Sporting Nations

Nation

TBS Trigram Block

Notes

Generic Flag

A placeholder trigram block for a generic nation with the generic/default flag.

Ex-Nation

A placeholder trigram block for a CTEd nation, which carries the Ex-Nation flag.

Regional Blocks

See right

Images based off Tumbra's IGB sig fodder (see Tumbra), and my own flag-ly observations. In case of non-custom flag for a nation in any of the "big three" sporting regions (plus Sonnel and Novapax), will be used:

Northern Sunrise Islands

Back-to-back World Cup winners, before losing the quarterfinals of the next one and calling it quits (arguably at their peak) in April 2017. The greatest nation never to win a regional championship?

Farfadillis

The second-best football team in the world. The best one currently partaking (as of time of writing), due to NSI's departure.

San jose guayabal

The hokey-cokey of the world's football associations: In, out, in, out, back in, shake it all about.

Vilita

Three-time World Cup winners (and defending champions). Also operates Turori, and AOCAF puppet Vilita and Turori. Ranked fourth in the world, however.

Valanora

The World Cup success story: Five World Cup wins, six co-hosted, top in the Spaam Rankings System, behind only The Holy Empire in terms of World Cups proper reached... and that's without Pasarga and Demot!

Audioslavia

Audioslavia is to finals as Krytenia is to semifinals - winning a couple, but losing the rest. A referee now accepting donations so he can afford to buy danishes and coffee to fetch for the other mods!

The royal kingdom of quebec

Co-hosted World Cup 77. Their quarter-final penalty-kicks win over NSI in that tournament turned out to be the last match for NSI and the last win for RKQ (before announcing their retirement from the World Cup).

Valladares

No World Cups won and only a single edition co-hosted. Admittedly an otherwise well-renowned nation.

Nephara

Won World Cup 74, and kicked off a streak that ensured a clean sweep for Esportiva in 2016. Has since redomiciled in Rushmore, and ended up coming third in their first Copa Rushmori. Formerly New sideburn, proof that rebranding works - no WCs before the rebrand, and one afterwards!

Chromatika

Returning user that used to operate Yesopalitha and Falconfar. Came from almost a standing start to make the semifinals of World Cup 76 (and end up 4th in the KPB rankings by the end of it all). Do you have any idea what that white head thingy in the Chromatik flag is? Neither do I.

Schottia

Vying with Bonesea to be crown King of the Independent Nations, at least in football. (i.e. not in the "Big Three"). Has made the quarter-finals of the World Cup and both finals of the Independents Cup (with only one victory, in the first IndyCup final). Formerly of Tyran, but is now a hermit in Mirkford.

Bonesea

Vying with Schottia to be crown King of the Independent Nations, at least in football. (i.e. not in the "Big Three"). Has made the quarter-finals of the World Cup, as well as organising the Independents Cup and winning the Cup of Harmony... against Schottia. Has the upper-hand in the race as of yet. The purple is a reference to the "Purple Generation" and to avoid confusion with Chromatika. Formerly Wight.

Cosumar

One-half of COSTHANE (the hosting pair for CoH 69, not the ship). Author of an issue about metric and imperial units. You know the Gregoryisgodistan RP where the crowd chanted "DEATH TO COSUMAR!"? Yes, that's that Cosumar.

Ceni

Co-host of World Cup 76. AKA The Technical Credo, AKA credo, AKA one half of Credrawk. Currently on hiatus.

Pasarga

Puppet of Valanora. Two-time hosts and one-time winner of the World Cup. Strong in the early 70s (as in World Cup cycles, not the RW period of time).

Eura

Motto as recognised by the World Census: "They see us victorin', they hatin'". Need I say any more?

Gregoryisgodistan

Possibly the most self-explanatory nation name in sporting history. Some say that there are three kinds of sporting nation: The newcomers, the old-but-revived nations, and those on the Gregoryisgodistani Enemy List.

Alasdair I Frosticus

Better known as The Holy Asylum to Wight/Bonesea, The Dreamy Realm to Gregoryisgodistan, The Archregimancy (AIF's mod puppet) to moderators and NSG regulars, Alasdair I Frosticus to those who follow the World Census strictly... and The Holy Empire to the rest of us.

Brenecia

A Nepharim puppet. Could well have won the 66th CoH over Falatulu. For now, however, only three Campionatos Esportiva: Two over Nephara, and one over Red Blackiland.

Barunia

Author of an issue about food behind bars entitled Food Behind Bars, whose protoganist wrote a book entitled "Food Behind Bars", and is depicted in aforementioned issue as eating food behind bars (admittedly, from undisclosed minimum-security bars). Has lost the Cup of Harmony final twice. Also, food behind bars.

Electrum

Former hosts of a World Cup, WorldVision, and two Winter Olympics. Our first opponents - we lost 1-0.

Red blackiland

How Red Blackiland can make the final of the Campionato Esportiva, but not the octofinals of the World Cup, is mostly a mystery (but widely blamed on *INSERT GODDESS HERE* and the high quality of World Cup opposition. And Farvish attacking football). Otherwise famous for the Meski kit store, the last store I am aware of that still produces football kits.

Semarland

Most well-known in the modern era for reviving their government after a lengthy absence to ensure certification for qualification and qualification for the 77th World Cup... and then crashing out in the group stages.

Osarius

An experienced nation that used to have a sizable rivalry with Pasarga. Has been around for ten years, but are less of a potent force than they once were.

Abanhfleft

One of the more interesting geo-political stories of NS Sports - formerly Communist, but now democratic (at least for now). Notable for being poor at baseball, decent at football, and the world's second-best basketball team.

Anglatia

Arguably NS Sports' most extensive and creative roleplayer of recent times. By recent, I literally mean recent - created during the 74th World Cup, made the semi-finals of the Cup of Harmony that corresponded with the 75th, narrowly missed out on the 76th, entered the knock-out rounds of the 77th, and called it quits on the World Cup afterwards.

Damukuni

Well... what can be said? Their mascot won Gregoryisgodistan's Mascot World Cup, Tinhampton once held them to a draw, and they're one of the most notable nations on the NS Cricket stage.

Super-Llamaland

Despite some fame at international football, their most notable successes have come via baseball, winning two World Baseball Classics. Controls Hicanans in exile, a group of Lord Almighty Gregory's least favourite expats.

Turori

Now own the Karelan Shield... and a Cup of Harmony. Have made countless World Cup quarterfinals, but have failed to win a single one. Puppet of Vilita.

Krytenia

Zero-time World Cup winners, one-time AOCAF victors, and multiple-time sporting event host.

Mercedini

Would rank above Krytenia in the WCC rankings if they had just mustered another point from the WC77 qualifiers. Despite this, did prevent NSI from a perfect cycle at WC75.

Ethane

Evewybody's favouwite bunny wabbit. The defending champions of the World Baseball Classic, made their first World Cup at WC77, and the other half of COSTHANE (see Cosumar).
Ethane currently flies the flag of IRL Nepal. TBS thinks this just might stick, given that Ethane's previous flag was mostly a confusing mix of colours. We mean the flag that flew before Israel's.

Flardania

The World Cup's perpetual group-stage-losers (yes, even more perpetual than Red Blackiland).

Port christopher

Puppet of Schottia. A small meta-colony island of about a million who are currently engaging well in the international football stage.

Eastfield Lodge

Have only ever made two World Cups, but more than make up for that with their dedication to the Beach Cup, and their excellent World Census Stats (top ten for safety and pacifism!).

Chiata

An unusual nation, to say the least - founded by a bishop, under one-party rule, and the 25th day of each month is War Day.

Nova Anglicana

One of the best nations to have never played at the World Cup, but have regularly put up a fight in the Cup of Harmony.

Saintland

To be more precise, West Saintland (not to be confused with East Saintland, the female-controlled half that is friendlier to Gregoryisgodistan). Has had a long and controversial relationship with the sporting world, but has since left the World Cup.

Tumbra

Famous on NS for lots of things - (NSG) Senate participation, Cup of Harmony successes, making the "International Geese Brigade - 3rd Place and No Radiation!" sig fodder, etc.

Jeruselem

One of the footballing world's more venerable nations - third in the list of World Cup appearances (and that doesn't even include Jeru FC), but have been the World Cup's "nearly women" as of late.
Apologies for this. Jeruselem's current flag is quite hard to make trigram blocks out of, and any IC flags will have no doubt gone down with the nation's NSWiki article in 2013 (makes you feel old, doesn't it?).

Qasden

Despite being fairly new to the world stage (and, arguably, less renowned then fellow AO southwesterners Farfadillis and Valanora), the Principality have already nabbed hosting rights to the 23rd International Basketball Championships, and are also the defending Cup of Harmony champions.

Eshan


Another sporting nation with some notable achievements, but more well-known for their actions in the (NSG) Senate. The top trigram block was for the former flag (starring Ken Bone); the bottom trigram block represents Eshan's current flag, an adaptation of the one formerly flown by Erathore.

Brigantii
Queer poco el mono ara


Brigantii started in at WC75, nearly making WC77 (but, presumably, hoping to get their own back next time).
QPeMA hosted the 58th World Cup and won the 16th Di Bradini Cup. The same player controls both nations, to my awareness.

Drawkland

To name but some of their achievements: Making the World Cup on their first cycle, founding Sonnel, and writing an issue about a sinking ship. By which we mean a sea-ship, not a space-ship. Even though Drawkland is listed in the World Census as being an Interstellar Empire.

Fluvique

"The World's Feeder" had a successful spell in the mid-70 cycles - making a World Cup, and the semi-finals of a Cup of Harmony - but wound up tanking, and eventually CTEing, after the 77th World Cup.

Revolutionary nordskania

Puppet of Anglatia. Anarchy! Liberty! Football! Anglatia-bankrolled revolutions! What more could you want? A short-lived experiment (WC76/77) that was retired by Anglatia soon afterwards.

Starblaydia

A cult-hero side (five World Cups won, and one of the more dominant teams in the 40 cycles), complete with a cult-hero player (Simeone Di Bradini, assistant manager of The Holy Empire and the inspiration for the naming of the Di Bradini Cup).

Frenline delpha

Controversial, yes, but an otherwise infamous nation (especially concerning baseball).

Sameba

Puppet of Eura. Won the bronze medal at the 26th Copa Rushmori, and nearly made the WC76 playoffs, but are best known for engaging in a war with Eura.

Veldgouwen

Those Without A Proper Nickname. WC77's nearly-men (anybody hoping for their return the following edition would be disappointed), before losing to us at the Cup of Harmony. Neither us nor them qualified. The ones who slipped in? Kitsunia-Deesse...
Veldgouwen flew the flag of IRL Bonaire. If you must know, it was domiciled in Nederland, and its motto was "Down by the sea".

Taeshan

Formerly a successful team - and in the victors' rolls of the CR, DBC, CoH and WBC - but have long since fell away as a global sporting superpower.

Spaam

Golden oldies turned long-time retirees turned shock unranked World Cup qualifiers turned people bidding to co-host the 65th Baptism of Fire with another shock World Cup qualifier from their cycle.

Abaja

Despite various achievements in other sports, Abaja is mostly famous in world basketball, having come third in IBC 23 (which they co-hosted with Qasden).

95x


Formerly an experienced nation (Scottfire was created in Antiquity) with most of their achievements occuring internally (Xi Foureleven is pretty much all that most foreigners will be able to tell you about the nation's football). The trigram block you see before you is as it was (or would have been) originally; below that is also the trigram block that would have been hoisted when 95X hoisted its NSI-memorial flag. Appears to have been retconned in all but name.

Tinhampton

A trigram block of ourselves. "Because why not?" and "Because we have to" are the natural responses here.

Kitsunia-deesse

The Old Enemy (by which I mean the really Old Enemy). Two played, two lost - one in regular time, the other on penalties. I say old, that's because K-D was a puppet of the Northern Sunrise Islands (a since-retired nation).

Union of socialist alpine republics
Pays den haut


What was once a diverse mish-mash of sovereign nations in Europe joined up in 2016 (and provincified) to form the USAR (complete with non-purpose-built national anthem by Paul McCartney). One nation resisted, Pays den haut - self-proclaimed capital of tourism, but actually a Christian dictatorship with widespread regulations.
Pays den haut flies the flag of IRL Asturias.

Kel assuk

A fledgling Arabesque puppet of Ceni, which played in Tinhampton's IndyCup 2 group and is (as of time of writing) leading their Baptism of Fire group.

Eec

Corporatism, department-creation, debate, a high-ranking religious figure from the Archregimancy, and drones for third-string goalkeepers... what could go wrong? A lot, it turned out - despite a quarter-final run in BoF64, they only mustered a win and a draw from their 18 qualifiers. Mind you, they're back for WC78.

Huri de wintre

Winners of WC77's unofficial wooden spoon, with only two draws from eighteen qualifiers (and missing out on BoF signups to boot). A peaceful nation in The Western Isles that has not been seen in the tournament since.

San regada

A nation more famous for roleplay elsewhere on the site, but is starting to nurture their love of football (the national team having made it to the knockouts of SPAWK).

Vilita and turori

The puppet used by Vilita for Atlantian Oceanian competitions. Purports to be an "Unofficial Unrecognised Union".

Free republics

Most famous for making the final of the 68th World Cup on their debut (and they hosted it as well). Capitalist puppet of Saintland, and even more hated by Gregoryisgodistan (Dumpy O'Rumpy, anyone?)

Polar Islandstates

Remember them? Once the World #1 (and still in the top ten when they left the world stage in the first place), and one-time World Cup winners. Infamous for Effed In The FA, Adobe NationBuilder, losing 1-0 to The Weegies, and winning the 65th Baptism of Fire with Amnarei-asud.

Yttribia

Relative old-timers, having hosted a World Cup, Cup of Harmony and Campionato Esportiva, before CTEing, rejoining the region, and then engaging on a belated Esporxit(?) with a few other notable Esportivan nations, this time to Rushmore. (San Jose Guayabal upped sticks to Atlantian Oceania and then a hermit region; Nephara also got towed to the land of geese.)

Zwangzug

Famous for a lot of things - mostly their baseball, at times their football (and, of course, Aguazul - see below), at one point for writing some issue about this Nicholas Condor guy who called for @@NAME@@'s citizens to die... and now in issues-editor gold/brown/whatever, for the ultimate dilemma-processing experience! Still pwning noobs.

Aguazul

At one point, the most dominant football team in the multiverse. To my understanding, a puppet of Zwangzug (who never won the World Cup).

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22:02 Qas You sound like one of those click bait ads now
22:05 Mercedini Top 10 sports trigramme graphics!!! You won't believe what's at number 7!!!
22:06 tinhampton QUE the laughter...
22:06 Foodporn F*ck off
22:09 tinhampton Why koranate when you can x-koranate?
22:11 Qas 10 tournaments you shouldn't enter. (Number 5 will shock you!)
NOTE: Compare trigram blocks old and new:

06/05/2017 ('twas the Kentucky Derby that day)
22:25 tinhampton Thank f*ck KFC don't serve any horses on the menu.
22:27 Qas They're gonna buy out the losing horses tinhampton
22:28 tinhampton In which case, I'm taking my custom to MFRC (Margaret Fried Rubber Chicken).
22:29 Qas *Marleen Fried Rubber Chicken
22:29 tinhampton Marleen?
22:30 Qas My sport god. Y'all have Margaret/Maggie, elf has Elune, I mashed them together and now I have Marleen
22:30 Qas Or Marlene, if you prefer that spelling
22:31 Nephara nephara doesn't have a sportgod
22:31 Nephara there's only the Narrative
22:32 Qas Neph is sport atheist
22:32 tinhampton Of course, how can we have a conversation about sportgods without mentioning Lord Almighty Gregory, the god-ruler of the imaginatively-named Gregoryisgodistan?
22:33 Qas Marlene's sorta like a Kitsune goddess, in ancient Qad history
22:34 Nephara because greg isn't a god
22:34 Nephara simple
22:34 Nephara problem solved
22:35 Gregoryisgodistan Blasphemy
22:35 Nephara well, no, since he isn't actually a god
22:35 Nephara it's lese-majestie
22:36 Nephara smh
22:36 Qas He's a demigod
22:37 Qas There's a weird cult in Parodys that worships him and performs routine terrorist attacks in the rural counties
22:40 drawk Alright, confirmed
22:40 drawk My RPs this cycle will be about the main Drawkian religion
22:41 tinhampton What's the Narrative?
22:41 EastfieldLodge It;s the thing that governs life in NS. All events come from the Narrative.
22:42 EastfieldLodge The Narrative determines when countries rise and fall. When people come together and are driven apart.
22:42 Nephara nods sagely
22:42 Nephara preach it, brother
22:43 tinhampton Atheistic predetermination?
22:43 EastfieldLodge I think of it more like the Matrix.
22:44 EastfieldLodge To those inside the matrix, there lives seem in their own control, but they work within a set of guidelines determined by the computer. That's how I see the Narrative.
22:44 EastfieldLodge And occasionally, the machines decide to guide events in the Matrix more closely, and program lives as such.
22:45 drawk eats the Narrative
22:51 tinhampton Here, Nephara. Have this bucket of MFRC I bought a short while ago. Make of it what you will. If necessary, guard it from apex predators including (but not limited to) drawk, Waterdrawk, sharks, lions, hippopotami, and that guy living about 20 miles off the coast of Polar Islandstates that looks suspiciously like Deputy Mayor John Price. :P
22:53 tinhampton And so we go full circle again...

10/05/2017
21:04 Audio Welp. I just reached out and tossed an olive branch in front of Vangaziland. Lets see how that goes. I'm now going out for a wee run. Let me know if someone delivers a burning olive branch with the phrase 'YOU REMAIN A CORRUPT BAST*RD' seared into it.
.......
22:24 Awaydio I made up with Vangaziland. Door is open for them come WGPC16.
22:24 *** Awaydio is now known as Audio
22:24 Aels Audio: that's a joke, yes?
22:24 Audio nope
22:24 Aels because they're not acting like it's been resolved
22:24 Audio we both sent a couple of TGs to each other
22:24 Audio within the last hour
22:25 tinhampton Did they involve any "burning olive branch[es] with the phrase 'YOU REMAIN A CORRUPT BAST*RD' seared into [them]"?
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22:27 Audio nope
22:27 NorthernSunrise I haven't even asked anything yet

12/05/2017
23:09 Gregoryisgodistan howdy
23:10 *** VilTur joined #nssport
23:10 Ethane hey Greg o/
23:10 Ethane hey VilTur o/
23:10 VilTur fires back at the hostile welcome
23:10 VilTur try to attack me with a rock rolling down a hill, dare you!
23:10 Ethane :')
23:10 Ethane I'm sorry
23:11 Ethane I'll just get an avalanche next time.
23:11 Eshan Marten Cornelius never forget
23:11 PIS \o
23:11 Ethane o/ o/ o/ o/ o/ o/ o/ o/ o/ o/ o/ o/
23:11 PIS could alwayss roll it down the other side of the hill
23:11 Ethane \o \o \o \o \o \o \o \o \o \o \o \o
23:11 PIS if you're trying to get rid of rocks, i mean
23:12 Ethane That's a lot of rocks now
23:12 Nation95X sends VilTur to DC to lobby Ajit Pai to ban internet browsers on phones. :P
23:12 Ethane Watch out land of nssports
23:12 PIS because, as we all know, you can't stop the rock, can't stop the rock you can't stop, the rock, can't stop the rock you can't.
23:12 VilTur lol
23:12 Nation95X LOL, that song. :P

18/05/2017
18:44 *** Tumbra is now known as DJT
18:44 *** DJT is now known as MRP
18:44 *** MRP is now known as ORRIN
18:44 *** ORRIN is now known as MITCH
18:45 *** MITCH is now known as PAUL
18:51 *** PAUL is now known as Tumbra

30/05/2017
15:50 VilTur hah, wenger resigned
15:50 VilTur funny.
15:51 Merc thought he signed a two year extension
15:52 Eshan ^
15:52 Eshan A few hours ago right
15:54 Starblaydia ??
15:55 tinhampton VilTur: WHERE'S THE LAMB SOURCE?
15:55 VilTur re-signed*
15:55 Eshan looooool hahahaha
15:56 Starblaydia loldoh
15:56 Merc oooooohhhh

30/05/2017 again (yet it feels like a couple of days...)
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23:19 Yttribia Hello all
23:19 tinhampton Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyytribia!
23:19 tinhampton AY YO! ES TA AUDIO!
23:20 Audio ma non parlo spagnolo, che scemo sei
23:20 tinhampton NO ES ITALIO! ES NS SPORT-ESE!
23:20 Yttribia je ne parle français
23:20 Audio ma dai pero
23:21 Nephara voulez vous coucher avec moi
23:21 Yttribia ich finde dieses Chat lacherlich
23:22 Audio bork
23:22 Qas|AFK dois
23:24 Astograth cazzo
23:24 Yttribia kurwa
23:25 Audio minchiate
23:25 Yttribia yahtzee
23:26 Qas|AFK royal flush
23:26 Yttribia bidet

08/06/2017 (UK elections! w00t! will be edited every 20-30 minutes or so. I think.)
22:06 Qas puts a coin on the table
22:06 Eshan steals it
22:07 Qas reveals that the coin is cursed
22:10 Merc Conservatives short of a majority by 12 according to exit poll
22:10 EastfieldLodge Yep.
22:10 EastfieldLodge Down 17.
22:10 EastfieldLodge Labour up to 266.
22:11 EastfieldLodge So, in other words, Tory majority of about 20 seats at the end of the night.
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22:42 Nephara hi
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22:43 NorthernSunrise Hey, Neph
22:45 Qas Hi Sun
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22:47 Eura evening all
22:47 Nephara hey eura
22:48 tinhampton|Election2017 EURASTRONK
22:48 Nephara heard that the UK's projected for a hung parliament
22:48 EastfieldLodge Just in time Eura.
22:48 Nephara furthermore, ritter's getting a recall to the nepharim national team
22:48 EastfieldLodge You heard right, Nephara.
22:48 tinhampton|Election2017 I'm calling bullcr*p on Theresa May's claims that "If we lose six seats, I'm resigning and Corbyn's becoming PM". Surely she can solder on with a minority... or can she?
22:49 NorthernSunrise Hi, Qasden, Eura
22:55 EastfieldLodge Nephara: You mean Reiter?
22:56 Nephara no
22:56 Nephara kieran ritter
22:58 Nephara though if you think ther'es any young eastfield-based brenecians/nepharim i may have overlooked give me a shout
22:58 Nephara (petratos and urquhart are both being called up)
22:58 Yttribia welcome back Eura
22:58 EastfieldLodge Don't think there are any others at the higher level. Young Brenecians/Nepharim at a good level are a rare find.
22:58 Yttribia and hello all
22:59 NorthernSunrise hi Ytt
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23:07 NorthernSunrise So, I was playing FIFA 14 in the player career for once
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23:07 NorthernSunrise Started out as this crazy talented rookie at Fluminense
23:08 tinhampton|Election2017 At least when Lord Almighty Gregory makes his speeches, the sound quality isn't as sh*t as it is in Houghton and Sunderland South
23:08 NorthernSunrise The team's manager, ignoring my sheer talent for goals, puts me for loan
23:08 Nephara i played one game in fifa 11's career mode
23:08 NorthernSunrise So fine, I keep playing and waiting for the transfer window
23:09 Nephara i was a goalkeeper.
23:09 Nephara there was a pre-season friendly.
23:09 NorthernSunrise ...pffft
23:09 NorthernSunrise XD
23:09 Nephara i did not touch the ball one (1) time.
23:09 Nephara i quit.
23:09 NorthernSunrise I'm surprised
23:09 Yttribia only did manager mode on FIFA12 mobile
23:09 Yttribia was the best manager
23:09 NorthernSunrise FIFA 14 is the other way around apparently
23:10 NorthernSunrise Or at least on Fluminense, the defense was unnaturally awful
23:10 NorthernSunrise Cavalieri, the team's keeper was the best though
23:10 Nephara man
23:11 Nephara nsi
23:11 Nephara brazil plays australia in like four days
23:11 NorthernSunrise I know
23:11 Nephara i'm scared.
23:11 tinhampton|Election2017 Meanwhile, in TNP... "*Clears throat* *Reads word by word from notecards in a clear, mundane voice devoid of emotion* Join the Holy Reich of Bunicken today, or more specifically, the "House"(similar to political parties) of Mori. As this system is new we have a clean slate to build on and rise to power. Participate in roleplay, regional government, and..."
23:11 tinhampton|Election2017 "politics. Telegram me, The Sovereignty Nation of The Sorcerer Kingdom to join and complain about this spam (which, for clarification, will only happen every 24 hours or 10 posts, as in compliance with the game rules). Now excuse me as I move on to the annoy other people."
NOTE: Recruit puppet put out this message every once in a while in contemporary TNP.
23:11 Nephara if we put out this worthless 3-6-1
23:11 Nephara we'll be pumped
23:11 Nephara if we put out a not worthless 4-3-3/4-2-3-1, we... well
23:11 NorthernSunrise I saw an ad for the game against Argentina tomorrow morning
23:11 NorthernSunrise Like *really early* morning
23:11 Nephara we may still be pumped, but only because brazil are very good at football these days.
23:12 NorthernSunrise If it makes you feel better about it
23:12 NorthernSunrise We're playing our reserves and CSL stink-ups
23:12 tinhampton|Election2017 The message I just quoted is literally what Recruit Puppet ([sarcasm]such an imaginative name![/sarcasm]) puts up in TNP every now and then
23:12 NorthernSunrise Thiago Silva is on the squad, I think
23:12 Nephara why are brazil/argentina even playing a friendly, anyway
23:12 Nephara it's like
23:12 Nephara you already have to play each other twice in actual qualifiers
23:13 NorthernSunrise Neither have anything better to do
23:13 Nephara well like
23:13 NorthernSunrise Either that or we wanted to take our chances and beat them while they're down
23:13 Nephara even Tite was saying directly
23:13 Nephara 'we'd prefer to play a team from another confederation'
23:13 Nephara which is understandable, i'd think!
23:13 NorthernSunrise CBF rubbing someone's backs is possibly a thing as well
23:14 NorthernSunrise Or maybe it's their plan of broadcasting the game by themselves
23:14 NorthernSunrise Hence why we're not getting the game at Globo
23:14 NorthernSunrise This game would be the first game ever that CBF broadcasts on their own
23:14 NorthernSunrise So maybe the fact that the game is against Brazil's most relevant rival makes sense
23:15 NorthernSunrise ...Then again, it's at 6:30 AM, who the f*ck is waking up to watch that
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23:15 Nephara it makes a lot of sense commercially, for sure
23:15 Nephara 6.30 isn't bad
23:15 NorthernSunrise Kind of is
23:16 NorthernSunrise If it was between that and midnight one could stay up to watch
23:16 Nephara you just have to wake up like... not even early
23:16 NorthernSunrise I honestly don't really see people waking up to watch the game so much as wake up to have breakfast and leave for work
23:16 Nephara that's a good point - it's not on a weekend?
23:17 NorthernSunrise Think not
23:17 NorthernSunrise I heard it being on Friday
23:17 Nephara okay then yeah that's really stupid.
23:17 NorthernSunrise So Friday morning
23:20 NorthernSunrise I've also noticed a thing that might be worth noting over why we're facing Argentina
23:20 NorthernSunrise It's supposedly a Superclásico de las Américas
23:21 NorthernSunrise ...which is surprising since we didn't have one of those for the past two years?
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23:26 NorthernSunrise anyway
23:26 NorthernSunrise See, the thing was
23:26 NorthernSunrise back in Fluminense, I earned a fair $3,000 per week
23:26 NorthernSunrise so, come my first loan offer
23:26 NorthernSunrise [NOTE: image showed $45,000-per-week contract offer from 1860 Munich]
23:27 Nephara n i c e
23:27 NorthernSunrise *For Loan* and *2. Bundesliga*
23:27 NorthernSunrise All that
23:28 NorthernSunrise So yeah, now I think I'm with 1860 Munich for a season
23:29 NorthernSunrise Unless Fluminense pulls a cheeky move and calls me back
23:29 NorthernSunrise Given how the manager sold a bunch of people for no reason, I'm thinking it will happen
23:32 Nephara https://www.theguardian.com/football/these-football-times/2017/jun/08/vitor-oliveira-manager-won-promotion-seasons-portugal-portimonense
23:32 Gregoryisgodistan hi
23:32 tinhampton|Election2017 Hey, Greg. Posted this earlier:
23:32 tinhampton|Election2017 23:08 tinhampton|Election2017 At least when Lord Almighty Gregory makes his speeches, the sound quality isn't as sh*t as it is in Houghton and Sunderland South
23:32 tinhampton|Election2017 (those Brits among you should get that reference)
23:37 Gregoryisgodistan I saw
23:37 Gregoryisgodistan I'm watching the British election now on BBC World News
NOTE: After some IRC direct-messages (and remembering the doxxing controversy of April 2016 - you know, DLN and Reppy?), I got GGS' permission to put the above quote on.
23:40 Gregoryisgodistan Britain still counts ballots by hand?
23:41 Eura yes
23:41 Gregoryisgodistan Why?
23:42 tinhampton|Election2017 Hey, Kush.
23:42 Tumbra no haxx0rs
23:42 NorthernSunrise "He's had more clubs than women I've dated. Not sure if I should be jealous"
23:42 NorthernSunrise No Russian hackers
23:42 NorthernSunrise =P
23:42 Merc The Russians can't hack a piece of paper
23:44 Kushleesi "He's had more clubs than women I've dated. Not sure if I should be jealous" <- lol
23:44 Kushleesi How are British Elections looking like today?
23:45 Tumbra Tory largest party in hung parl
23:45 Kushleesi They're not crushing everybody else tho, right?
23:45 Nephara like he said
23:45 Nephara 'largest party in hung parliament'
23:46 NorthernSunrise *chuckles*
23:46 NorthernSunrise That's their name? Hung Parliament?
23:46 Kushleesi like he said <- You don't need to retelling same sh*t, Neph
23:46 Nephara he answered your question
23:47 Kushleesi Idk how many seats each party has =p
23:47 Nephara a hung parliament is when there's no single majority party, nsi
23:47 Nephara well so far labour has two and nobody else has any, it's very early in the count
23:47 Kushleesi Meh
23:47 Kushleesi You're not getting my point
23:47 Gregoryisgodistan Labour just got a third
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23:47 Nephara exit polls are suggesting-
23:47 Nephara okay
23:47 Nephara lol
23:47 Merc Labour currently have the only 3 declarations thus far. Although the swing is a lot better for the Conservatives than the exit poll shows
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23:48 Nephara welcome... back... ?
23:48 *** Kushleesi left #nssport
23:48 Nephara ???
23:48 Nephara 'are the tories stomping everyone' 'it's a hung parliament' 'yeah but are they stomping everyone tho' 'it's a hung parliament' 'oh my god i'm so misunderstood'
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23:49 NorthernSunrise ...hahahahah
23:49 Nephara hi llama
23:49 Merc On the current evidence, the Conservatives *could* nick a majority
23:49 Nephara yeah, they could
23:50 Nephara but it's definitely not a stomping
23:50 Qas I just realized there are nearly 90 Pokémon leagues in Texas alone.
23:50 Nephara at least, not thus far
23:50 llama|wbcrp Hey Neph
23:50 Qas immediately thinks of Emperor's New Groove after seeing llama.
23:51 tinhampton|Election2017 23:50 Qas immediately thinks of Emperor's New Groove after seeing llama. <<< The Emperor's New Clothes, but with added disco? :P
23:51 Tumbra KUZCO'S POISON
23:51 Nephara the poison for kuzco
23:51 Gregoryisgodistan The one where the Emperor got turned into a llama for being evil
23:51 tinhampton|Election2017 23:51 Gregoryisgodistan The one where the Emperor got turned into a llama for being evil <<< Tell us more.
23:52 Gregoryisgodistan It was a while since I saw it.
23:52 Gregoryisgodistan And he may or may not have killed a baby llama to earn the punishment. I might be mixing it up with another movie.
23:52 Damukuni Pull the lever Kronk!
23:52 Nephara https://gyazo.com/33326559c47f92bb38bba489ecba0279 things heating up in the election
23:53 Gregoryisgodistan No wait, he killed the Mama Llama and then befriended the baby llama without telling him he killed his mother.
23:53 Gregoryisgodistan I think. That might have been a different movie with some other animal.
23:53 NataniansandNosts That was the one with a bear.
23:53 Gregoryisgodistan Oh
23:53 tinhampton|Election2017 Never before has making logs been so good!
23:53 Yttribia I truly appreciate the fact Fishfinger is wearing cufflinks along with his beautiful costume, Nephara
23:54 Yttribia like you think someone in a costume like that would be more casually dressed
23:54 Yttribia but nope
23:54 Gregoryisgodistan Who's Fishfinger?
23:55 tinhampton|Election2017 23:54 Gregoryisgodistan Who's Fishfinger? <<< Mr Fishfinger, unlikely challenger to Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat leader) in his home constituency, Westmorland and Lonsdale.
23:55 Gregoryisgodistan That's his real name?
23:55 Nephara you don't need to quote it when you're clearly directly answering the message directly above you
23:56 Nephara https://gyazo.com/2aecfebf207be7f5266e946ad0ba8329
23:56 Merc Looks like labour have a fourth
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23:56 Nephara hey ceni!
23:57 credo hello Neph
23:57 credo anything special going on?
23:57 Merc First for the conservatives
23:57 Yttribia UK general election
23:58 Yttribia neph has taken over as this election's aels :P

09/06/2017 (the UK election results, as ever, run over into the Friday! more w00t!)
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00:00 tinhampton|Election2017 EURA_STRONK
00:00 Nephara i was going to make some kind of text prelude to linking good morning
00:00 Nephara some unnecessary graduation pun that everyone gets anyway
00:00 Nephara but
00:00 Nephara whatever
00:00 Nephara wow the blurring over swearing is actually almost not horribly jarring!!
00:01 Nephara there aren't just words missing!!!
00:01 Yttribia there's something about graduating on a football field under...flashing lights
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00:04 credo sorry about Islana, Qas
00:05 *** Eura joined #nssport
00:05 Qas Eh. I procrastinated terribly
00:05 credo hallo Eura
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00:07 Qas Just don't let Barunia win, aight?
00:07 credo Barunia's in the BoF?
00:09 tinhampton|Election2017 00:07 credo Barunia's in the BoF? <<< Yes, as Kyrjasmark
00:09 llama|wbcrp ...wait why did i try to sign my puppet up for the BoF, it's started already
00:09 llama|wbcrp lmao
00:09 *** llama|wbcrp is now known as llama
00:10 Qas lel
00:10 CocoMeal LOL
00:12 Qas puts
00:12 Qas Frik
00:13 CocoMeal lol
00:13 Qas puts on Acapais jersey and waves Kel Assuk pennant
00:15 tinhampton|Election2017 Just to let y'all know that I'll be up until about 0200 BST (1800 PST, 2000 MST, 2100 EST).
00:17 NorthernSunrise Good for ya
00:17 NorthernSunrise =P
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00:24 tinhampton|Election2017 (some comment on the Daily Mail that seems triumphalistic for the leftists, in a more pro-EU way) <<< Meanwhile, in the Daily Mail comments...
00:24 Gregoryisgodistan What happens if they can't make a coalition?
00:26 Gregoryisgodistan I thought the Daily Mail loved UKIP
00:26 tinhampton|Election2017 (another Daily Mail comment) It gets crazier. "SNP MUST be awarded all seats in Scotland! They're Scotland's seats!"
00:26 tinhampton|Election2017 Gregoryisgodistan: You're thinking of the Daily Express. The Mail prefer the Tories.
00:27 Gregoryisgodistan Yeah, but that guy doesn't like the Tories either.
00:28 Gregoryisgodistan Which one's the one that's like the British Fox News? That's the Mail, right?
00:29 Tumbra Mail's a tabloid
00:29 Gregoryisgodistan I know.
00:29 Gregoryisgodistan I meant in terms of political leaning and accuracy.
00:33 Eura err
00:33 Eura probably the mail, yes

20/06/2017 (just before the #worldcup78 draw; esper.net IRC with layout adapted for consistency here)
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17:08 binhampton HAI.
17:08 Merc fuk u I post anyway
17:08 binhampton FUKU!!!!!!!! <<< the official war cry of those that dwell within #worldcup78
17:24 VilTur|Footstar why would that be?
17:24 VilTur|Footstar it makes no sense
17:24 VilTur|Footstar the official war cry of those that dwell in #worldcup78 is actually " "
17:24 VilTur|Footstar ie: Silence. As there shouldn't be any interupttions/discussions when the draw is ongoing
17:25 Starblaydia hence being in a separate channel
17:25 EFL|WGP2 One may as well mute the chat.
17:25 VilTur|Footstar indeed
17:25 EFL|WGP2 Stop the temptation
17:25 Starblaydia possible
17:26 Starblaydia do all the comment and banter in the regular channel
17:26 VilTur|Footstar agreed

04/07/2017
18:54 EastfieldLodge QAAM vs ChromPox
18:55 tinhampton ChromPo---what again?
18:55 EastfieldLodge Apox/Chromatika CoH bid.
18:56 *** Mriin quit (Quit: Going offline, see ya! (www.adiirc.com))
18:56 Qas I call it Chrox, like the mammal and/or shoe
18:57 EastfieldLodge That's a good one as well.
18:57 SJG Chromox
18:58 Qas Apomatika
18:58 tinhampton For some reason, feel like throwing a joke bid into the mix. For some reason.
18:59 Qas Oxychrom
18:59 EastfieldLodge Oxychrom wins it all.
19:00 EastfieldLodge Sounds like a bleach you'd use to clean car wheels.
19:00 *** tinhampton is now known as DemocraticYaradan
19:01 DemocraticYaradan DemYara is an OOC dictatorship puppet, IC sovereign state I have stowed away in Psychotic Dictatorships, which should leave significant doubts as to the nation's government system
19:01 Qas Nellie Mays here with Oxychrom Car Cleaner!
19:02 EastfieldLodge used Oxychrom to bleach out Barry Scott sound-effects
19:04 DemocraticYaradan Oxychrom will be useless in getting this dratted religious holy oil out of my water and MAKING RECREATIONAL DRUG USE MORE THAN 515 AGAIN!
19:05 DemocraticYaradan (but don't worry, maybe some day. Set to come no earlier than March 2042...)
19:06 Qas But wait! There's more! Got nuked? Oxychrom also cleans radiation burns on any surface!

07/07/2017
17:03 *** ConquerorOfTheBulls joined #nssport
17:04 ConquerorOfTheBulls So... yeah. Tinhampton here. Just beat Audioslavia 1-0, hence my current nick.
17:05 Eshan how’s it going drawkkkkkk
17:06 *** Astograth is now known as DrawerOfYttribians
17:07 *** Starblaydia is now known as DoubledByCorsairs
17:07 ConquerorOfTheBulls Audioslavia, THE, Nephara, DoubledByCorsairs and Valladares all lost today. A good day for an upset.
17:09 *** EastfieldLodge is now known as RulerOfAustralians
17:10 RulerOfAustralians Colonial Australia vs rest of group: 0-0-10 12GF-33GA
17:11 Eshan lmfaoooo
17:11 RulerOfAustralians Colonial Australia vs me: 0-1-1 0GF-1GA
17:11 RulerOfAustralians F**k that
17:13 Eshan deaddddddd

09/07/2017
17:35 Starblaydia 187 in nssport
17:36 EastfieldLodge ?
17:36 Starblaydia 187 being the police code in the US for a murder
17:37 Starblaydia and, COINCIDENTALLY ENOUGH, the international dialling code for Starblaydia
17:37 EastfieldLodge Ah.
17:37 EastfieldLodge viewtopic.php?p=32103926#p32103926 <<< Someone's been playing too much Plague Inc
17:37 drawk Uhmm
17:38 Starblaydia Or it's California code, at least
17:38 SJG reports a 187 over Val|WI.
17:39 Starblaydia doubts Arch is a Plague Inc player, dunno why
17:39 EastfieldLodge arrests SJG, sentences him to death and executes him on the spot
17:39 Starblaydia sets mode +MegaCityJudge for EastfieldLodge
17:39 EastfieldLodge Yay, I haz POWAH!
17:39 EastfieldLodge INFIN8 POWAH!!!
17:40 SJG sentences EastfieldLodge to death
17:40 EastfieldLodge executes Order 66 on SJG
17:40 SJG drowns EastfieldLodge
17:41 EastfieldLodge comes back as Martian Water Zombie
17:44 drawk That episode was f**king creepy
17:44 EastfieldLodge Yay, someone gets it!
17:44 drawk Makes me want to kms whenever our fridge's water filter needs replacing
17:44 EastfieldLodge XD
17:53 Val|WI reports a 984 over SJG
17:54 Val|WI 984 is the new #nssport kick code I'm going to start using for cases like this
17:54 SJG Oh s**t, I'm fearing a lot
17:54 SJG S**t, I need medical treatment
17:54 SJG I'm in shock, I'll fain
17:55 Starblaydia a 983 is the WTF, obvs
17:55 SJG faint
17:55 SJG ???
.......
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21:46 tinhampton Zwangzug!
21:46 Farf Zwang!
21:46 tinhampton Zw!
21:47 Zwangzug !

11/07/2017
20:51 Gregoryisgodistan Damn ohrkdleedr
20:51 Gregoryisgodistan Autocoredf*
20:51 Gregoryisgodistan Autocorredt**
20:52 Gregoryisgodistan Autocorrext***
20:52 Gregoryisgodistan Autocorrect

15/07/2017
See: The Almost Unabridged #WorldCup78 IRC group draw - 15th July 2017.

19/07/2017
21:26 tinhampton Your daily reminder that Margaret hates me!
21:26 *** Eshan is now known as Eshan|RP
21:30 EastfieldLodge Oh please tinhampton, get on my level before you can claim that.
21:33 tinhampton I lost to you in the CoH. If anything, this is definitive proof that I am - at the /minimum/ - Margaret's third-least-favourite Brit (or third, depending on how much Krytenia's past failures count when compared to now).
21:34 VilTur tinhampton: Come back in 6 years and see if you still feel the same :P
21:35 tinhampton Six. SIX. That'ld be WC102, then. I'll see to that /then/
21:35 VilTur well, i started in world cup 13 and we're on 78 now
21:36 VilTur so 102 doesn't seem far off
21:36 VilTur the question is, who should host WC100
21:36 ESF THE and Valanora
21:36 ESF the immortal empires
21:36 VilTur i'd be fine with that
21:36 Farf Get on with the times tinhampton
21:37 Farf Now it's 3 WCs per year, not 4
21:37 VilTur i want to host WC 101, solo, with dice
21:37 VilTur as an homage to WC1
21:37 Farf I'll host WC 100 with an avant-garde system: Only RP, no other Rs
21:37 Farf NSWC: Writing Competition Edition
21:37 Farf Pros: No more Jeru
21:38 Farf Cons: All the other things, I guess
21:38 Qas What about World Cup 111

26/08/2017
02:54 Electrum who here likes logic puzzles
02:55 *** Cosumar joined #nssport
02:55 +++ ChanServ has given op to NorthernSunrise
02:55 Qas Pends on the puzzle, Ele
02:55 NorthernSunrise In any case, Qas, I dunno
02:55 Qas Hi Cos, Sun
02:55 Cosumar Hi
02:55 credoTLW heyo Cos
02:57 Electrum Qas here it is if you're interested: ([url]https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/Vw9WMwxm/Screen%20Shot%202017-08-26%20at%2011.57.28%20am.png[/url])
02:58 Electrum It's a fun one to figure out
02:59 NorthernSunrise Easy
02:59 NorthernSunrise they both get nothing, because the Batman doesn't need any money
02:59 Electrum xD
02:59 Electrum they're short on cash
02:59 NorthernSunrise Superman is Superman, he doesn't need money
02:59 ReadingCoconuts Yup
03:02 Spaam Batman gets $1
03:06 Electrum close, it is $0
03:06 tinhampton The money is taken by a man bearing vague resemblances to Mike Atherton, under the pretences of "sporting development for external purposes". Outside, there is a time machine with the date "30 MAR 1994" displayed.
03:07 Spaam No, $1
03:07 Spaam Superman turns down the first offer
03:07 NorthernSunrise It's clearly $0
03:07 NorthernSunrise Neither of them need the money
03:07 commerceheights is glad Google Translate was upgraded last year with neural networks so it can produce much more creative mistranslations than ever before
03:07 NorthernSunrise Plus Superman would insist on donating it to charity
03:07 Electrum If its indifferent they will accept, so if you offer $0 on the final round, B will accept no matter what
03:07 Spaam He now needs to offer Batman more than $0, because otherwise Batman will turn down the offer
03:08 Nephara agreed, batman gets $1
03:08 Spaam Batman will screw over Superman if he offers $0
03:08 Qas The answer is simple
03:08 commerceheights translating a Japanese Wikipedia article on a telecommunications company, it had a warning box which said “It is a buddhist description”, which linked to a guideline apparently titled “Wikipedia: Do not make big words” which begins, “In Wikipedia's article avoid the bloody expressions [1] .”
03:08 Qas Shoot both several times with kryptonite-laced bullets and take the money
03:08 commerceheights all three of those sentences were using the same phrase in Japanese :P
03:08 Nephara that or they just.
03:08 Nephara get $5000 each.
03:08 Spaam Lol ch
03:09 Nephara but i guess then superman has the leverage
03:09 Nephara or whatever
03:09 Nephara anyway i think the answer is a 9999:1 split.
03:09 NorthernSunrise I remember doing some research in mons for flags
03:09 NorthernSunrise And then I'd get stuff like
03:10 NorthernSunrise "He was the thirty-first secretary of Numb God Thunder Okajima"
03:10 tinhampton Bloody expressions... :P
03:10 commerceheights I’ve also had issues recently with it translating numbers into different numbers
03:12 NorthernSunrise It is possible
(NOTE: And thus started a completely different discussion about the non-existent netball culture of NSS, Hurricane Harvey's impendent arrival, etc.)

30/08/2017
01:52 Electrum Wish I had your luck Mriin
01:52 Mriin haha
01:52 Mriin ha
01:52 Electrum
01:53 Electrum I am sooooo unlucky
01:53 Electrum Margie hates me
01:53 Chrom you won the last WC Electrum that's pretty lucky
01:53 Electrum nah that was skill surely
01:53 Electrum It's luck when I lose, skill when I win
01:53 bojik Does anyone want another kitmaker around NSS now that Meski is a bit less active and Kirola, etc, are gone?
01:54 bojik asking for a friend
01:54 Electrum No not really I'm afraid
01:55 bojik I was thinking about it for club kits because I have a number of IC references to Smoke Sports, I was wondering if I should make it a real thing
01:55 bojik but yeah, there has to be demand for it
02:00 Mriin I'm pretty sure demand for kits has always outpaced supply
02:02 Mriin Even if people are sated on NT kits (which I'm not sure is true now) kitting out the clubs in domestic leagues is a huge undetaking
02:16 Kushleesi checks his pressure
02:23 *** Tumbra quit (Quit: Connection closed for inactivity)
02:27 Qas buys everyone stock
02:27 Mriin makes soup with the stock
02:28 Qas is amazed at what Mriin can do with a digital certificate saying he has one share of Burger King
02:28 Mriin that's some good beef stock right there
02:28 Mriin flame-grilled
02:31 Kushleesi grills Mriin alive, offers the meat to Qas for flood relief
02:32 Qas gives the meat to one of the shelters
02:32 Kushleesi applauds the decision
02:33 Qas The worse case scenario for me is going insane from cabin fever, nothing compared to those downtown
02:36 *** Llama joined #nssport
02:36 Qas Hi llama
02:36 Qas gives lllama some stock
02:37 Llama hey
02:37 Gregoryisgodistan Oh mama, it's llama!
02:37 Llama hi everyone
02:37 ESF throws cat nip on Qas
02:37 Val|WI sets the entire channel on fire
02:37 Qas Save the stock!
02:38 Qas shouts as he's intoxicated with catnip
02:38 Gregoryisgodistan Oh wow, pony's here
02:38 Gregoryisgodistan puts pony and llama in a petting zoo
02:38 Llama i'm okay
02:39 Kushleesi rides Llama
02:39 Kushleesi Giddyap horsie! Giddyap
02:39 Gregoryisgodistan Llama's a llama. Pony's the horsie.
02:40 Kushleesi noms the Llama then
02:45 Qas downgrades Kushleesi's stock
02:45 Kushleesi rides Qas
02:47 *** Llama quit (Ping timeout: 180 seconds)

15/04/2018
00:50 *** tinhampton joined #nssport
00:53 EastfieldLodge Who?
00:53 tinhampton Who's who?
00:53 Damukuni Who's whose who?
00:54 drawk whom
00:55 Damukuni Whom whose who has whosed who's who...

Owing to the abandonment of IRC, this document is unlikely ever to be updated. Please check below for updates of conflict and disagreement:

Note: All times are UK time. I'm still not sure as to when I joined the NSSport Discord server, but most of the population appears to have abandoned good ole #nssport some time in the year before I created this dispatch. Where editing has been done, this is to remove irrelevant information (or to replace "naughty words" as determined by the Factbook Auto-Censorship Office with an ellipsis). You might not find some bits "funny", these are just for historical purposes or the stuff that really made me think. But mostly funny stuff.
06/09/2018
23:29 South Covello: Mmmm, pizza on its way.
23:30 South Covello: But will any of the elevators in my building by then, or will the poor pizza guy have to walk up eight flights of steps? One's undergoing renovation, two have broken in the past four hours, there's just one left.
23:32 Krytenia: It's time for another exciting round of "Will The Dough Rise" with South Covello!
23:32 South Covello: LOL, Krytie

07/09/2018
19:58 Aels: the GCF rankings, designed by TBI, are based on the same formula as the RL ICC ones
19:59 Rakivland: I hate acronyms lol.
19:59 Krytenia: IKR

22/09/2018
19:50 Plough Islands: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=448533&p=34665755#p34665755
19:51 Mriin: I mean, they're not wrong.
19:55 Sherpa: Very insightful post
19:58 Tinhampton: I mean, that roleplay got the guy as close to the World Cup as I did...
20:10 Tinhampton: (but if we ever do get there, the entire city is going to hate Rachel Coltfield for failing to take Tinhampton to the CoH)
20:19 Ko-oren: it's better than some RP's I've seen in the past
20:19 Ko-oren: I'm sure it's better than some stuff I wrote in the past too
20:23 KitKat [SOL|OME]: It is certainly relevant
20:39 Hinode: I think we just reached like a milestone
20:40 Hinode: It could very much so be the template of RPs for the future
20:40 Tinhampton: Indeed. The era of overtly-lengthy "INDUSSE WINS"-style writing is coming to an end, as we usher in a new era of creativity!
20:40 Plough Islands: it could be
20:40 Plough Islands: you could attach several of these one-word RPs end to end in the same post
20:40 Plough Islands: potentially up to several thousand
20:41 Plough Islands: and link the words together in some way
20:42 KitKat [SOL|OME]: Silly boy, that’s too easy
20:42 KitKat [SOL|OME]: :rattata:
20:45 Hinode: I mean, god forbid, can you imagine if we ever reach the day where RPs are just a blown image and... uh... nevermind.
20:53 Ko-oren: it's redefining what an RP is, it's convinced me we're living in a post-RP world, and it's challenging my mental picture of what an RP should be
20:54 Ko-oren: it's quintessentially the modern art of RPing
20:54 Ko-oren: hmm yes quite
20:57 Starblaydia: It's very insightful
20:58 Starblaydia: A meaningful and thought-provoking deconstruction of the very nature of football RP
20:59 Starblaydia: On quite another intellectual plain than our own workaday interpretations of the NSWC's culture of permanently chasing the mythical RP 'bonus'
21:00 Plough Islands: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/247025014308601856/493149610068410368/unknown.png?width=282&height=300
21:04 Starblaydia: Yes
21:04 Hinode: You could, technically, call it the RP Bonus Brass Rings.
21:05 Starblaydia: Grab it!
NOTE: In response to a post by Taliostia in the WC81 RP thread that simply read "Football"

23/09/2018
19:07 Farf: viewtopic.php?p=34667621#p34667621
19:07 Farf: Uhhhh
19:08 Farf: Just saw the other RP
19:08 Qas: “If he wins it is utter cheating and it contradicts the NS sport law of roleplay.”
19:09 Farf: Just "Uhhhh"
19:11 Qas: face palm
19:13 Tinhampton: almost cheated against Turori on the last day of World Cup 79 qualifying... s**t
19:16 Mumau Atla-Siioai: was seen bribing WCC voters with chocolatey delectables in return for votes
19:16 Mumau Atla-Siioai: scandal ensued
19:20 Tinhampton: wonders what happens if you give a cocoabo a chocolate-topped Cocoa-bo
19:20 Tinhampton: We know the effects on murderous fluffy bunnies already :P
19:24 Mumau Atla-Siioai: indeed :smile:
NOTE: Indusse needs no introduction.

24/09/2018
16:38 South Toronto: I swear anybody who isn't my friend who tries to set a bang will get a swift one right back in their face.
16:40 EFL: Ew
16:42 South Toronto: Ah you might not be familiar with the South London vocabulary, if you are talking to me
16:42 South Toronto: Bang= Punch
16:42 South Toronto: And set=give
16:45 Osarius: man a get a magnum tump if unu waan fi come war wid badman
16:46 Osarius: a nuh play play ting mi deal wid. a di general fi step inna yuh bumboclaat face and tek wife from man who flex chess size like bra and pantie
16:46 Starblaydia: Bonus points for bumboclaat
16:46 Osarius: lmao
16:47 Starblaydia: Always do love a good regional variation on that
16:47 Osarius: i have to catch myself before i say it in front of some people
16:47 Osarius: so ill be like "a weh di bu...ju banton?!"
16:48 Starblaydia: Wait
16:48 Starblaydia: Banton? Pato Banton?
16:49 Osarius: buju banton a nuh pato banton bredda
16:50 Starblaydia: Ohhh cool mon
16:51 Starblaydia: Mi wer tinkin Baby Com Back Banton
16:51 Osarius: fun fact: banton refers to one who is an excellent storyteller, which hints at the roots of toasting (the precursor to rap) as being in the old west african griot tradition.
16:51 Starblaydia: ... that 100% makes sense
16:51 Osarius: pato is local iirc
16:51 Osarius: buju is a bonafide jamaican ghetto dancehall dude
16:52 Starblaydia: Rather than some brummie who guested on UB40's most mainstream track
16:52 Starblaydia: Of the 90s, at least
16:53 Osarius: but yeah, rap originated among the caribbean communities of new york as an extension of the jamaican tradition of toasting, which itself was a continuation of old storytelling traditions from africa. which is why i get particularly defensive when people talk s...t about rap as an art form.

27-28/09/2018, in the wake of the shenanigans that was N-Day3
23:45 Tinhampton: Regrettably, some in UPPERCUT are still HUEing at us for failing to strike a Non-Aggression Pact with them: https://i.imgur.com/VoS7PqL.jpg . I thought we weren't a gameplay region and that UPPERCUT only targetted us because reasons? (Yes, that is AO's flag on the far-left there)
00:03 Qusmo: Also, what does HUE even mean?
00:19 Hinode: Hue is a Brazilian laugh from the Internet. Usually used by griefers and whatnot.
00:19 Hinode: It's the secondary meaning, to be fair, the original one is just some color setting. Y'know, the one on your TV and whatnot.

14/10/2018, at the height of the DDOS Attack on NationStates
01:51 Tinhampton Leaked results from Banija: Vilita You are not authorised to read this scorecard-You are not authorised to read this scorecard Turori
01:52 MYT|PRH spoiler: VilTur wins
01:52 VilTur sounds about right
01:52 VilTur spoiler: VilTur loses
01:52 VilTur :stuck_out_tongue:
01:52 MYT|PRH exactement :stuck_out_tongue:
01:52 Tinhampton gives VilTur 33 places at WC82
01:52 VilTur accepts
01:53 VilTur we'll get to see where the magic number of nations to properly RP is
01:53 VilTur my suspicion is that we will find that 33 is too many.
01:55 Qasket, but Evil “And in Group C we have Vilita, Turori, Vilita & Turori, and the power team, Tropicorp”
01:55 Tinhampton inb4 cocoabo forest wins the world cup
01:55 MYT|PRH ah, ffs Tin you ruined my joke
01:55 MYT|PRH angry face
01:56 Tinhampton You are not authorised to read this response to Mytanija's comment by Tinhampton
01:56 MYT|PRH hahah
01:56 Qasket, but Evil Rop
01:56 Qasket, but Evil Rip
01:57 MYT|PRH Rop x
01:57 Qasket, but Evil Rest on pizza
01:58 MYT|PRH rest of* pizza
01:58 MYT|PRH as in
01:58 MYT|PRH I get to eat it all
02:00 Tinhampton Cruel utilitarianism: You should always do what brings the greatest amount of pizza to the greatest amount of players behind nations called Mytanija in any given situation
02:00 Tinhampton ;P
[...]
02:11 Qusmo Intense, long, certain, speedy, fruitful, pure -
02:12 Qusmo Such marks in pleasures & in pains endure.
02:12 Qusmo Such pleasures seek if private be thy end:
02:12 Qusmo If it be public, wide let them extend
02:12 Qusmo Such pains avoid, whichever be thy view:
02:12 Qusmo If pains must come, let them extend to few.
02:13 Qusmo & if pizza be the result
02:13 Qusmo Let thee join the NS Sport cult.
02:13 MYT|PRH bravo, Qusmo
02:14 Qusmo I couldn't've done it without Jeremy Bentham, of course.
02:14 Qusmo He's the real MVP.
02:14 Qusmo (Most Valuable Philosopher.)

17/10/2018
00:35 Aels in today's episode of 'Let's rip off RL news and pass it off as NS news without changing the names of RL people/things': viewtopic.php?p=34777213#p34777213
00:37 Eura quick, tell them catalonia isn't a real country!
00:37 Eura that'll get em
00:38 Eura (as a side note - dividing up spain on EUIV is very difficult)
00:38 Eura (bloody aragon always roll over and let castille tickle their belly)
00:43 Aels #CataluñaEsEspaña
00:46 Eura 1588 worst year of my life

27/10/2018
00:53 Night of the Liven Dead viewtopic.php?p=34821151#p34821151 lol
00:53 Night of the Liven Dead "I will produce results based on how they state what position they are in."
00:53 Night of the Liven Dead that is…
00:54 Night of the Liven Dead um, that's quite an impressive answer, for the wrong reasons
00:54 KitKat, but Good cool, I’ll have Générique Oméricain win every race :stuck_out_tongue:
00:54 Qusno "In a remarkable result today, all nineteen competitors in the Train Racing League finished tied for first."
00:55 Tinhampton "Mayor Saffron Howard has been suspended pending investigations into claims she personally ordered the stacking of almost twenty trains in yesterday's Train Racing League race..."
01:01 KitKat, but Good "Officials in Romainbourg are denying allegations that metro trains were deliberately halted in the Omerican leg of the Train Racing League"
01:08 Plough Islands "There was uproar in the People's Assembly as the member for Waterfalls, Cde Peter Brindley, referred to the Train Racing League as "a stupid giant Scalextric set for people with huge wallets and tiny willies", leading to afternoon tea being postponed by nearly two minutes."
01:12 KitKat, but Good ¡the horror! :scream:
01:13 KitKat, but Good How shall we ever survive such a tragedy? :cry:

24/06/2019
21:31 Tinhampton https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-man-ordered-pay-15-million-lottery-winnings-ex-wife-n1020536 <<<

Defendant [who was seeking a divorce] spent $1.00 to purchase the winning lottery ticket, however the dollar spent was arguably marital money and, as such, a joint investment
21:39 KitKat [OME|SAL]
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
22:23 Hinode
The story so far:
Tinhampton posted on the wrong channel again.
I probably should ping her to post on the proper channel.
Dunno why the f...k I'm typing this instead.

29/07/2019
00:18 South Covello:

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=464076&start=200#p35997112
Technically if Ouna gets zero points this cycle, couldn't they participate in the next BoF?
00:18 FFR:
ii) A nation must have zero KPB points at the beginning of the World Cup cycle
00:19 FFR: I didn't realize this was the language but yes it seems like a team that loses all of their WC qualifying matches as an unranked would be BoF eligible
00:20 drawk: lmao
00:20 drawk: new strats
00:20 FFR: but of course the odds of getting 0 points in a WCQ are extremely low, especially in the 18 match marathon qualifying
00:20 drawk: I feel like going undefeated is easier
00:20 drawk: than getting 0
00:20 FFR: or if SQIS is used or if NSFS is used and there's another no rank, no RP, no roster in your group
00:40 Damukuni: <drawk> I feel like going undefeated is easier
00:40 Damukuni: It is
00:40 Damukuni: I dominated the WBC until the semifinal
00:41 Damukuni: after which I beat South Covello (then Gregoryisgodistan) in the Third-Place Series
00:41 Damukuni: Don’t remember losing a single match in the WBC that time around
00:41 Damukuni: Maybe 1
00:55 FFR: Super-Llamaland went undefeated in a WBC once because it used the xkoranate baseball scorinator
00:55 South Covello: Well, drawkie, 15-3-0 is undefeated, so yeah, of course it's easier. Hell, I think there was one year I went something like 7-7-0 in qualifying and scored 12 goals, yet somehow won my group and advanced. But if you're a zero rank team and don't RP or rosterfy, it could happen.
00:55 drawk: you know what I mean
00:56 FFR: Llama won 30 games in the group stage and then swept the playoffs. He was #1 ranked and RPing iirc but that shouldn't have happened regardless.
00:57 FFR: That scorinator hasn't been used in the WBC since (and the other one that comes with xkoranate hasn't been used in a long time since it is too random)
00:57 South Covello: I mean, there's a happy medium. As I recall, Jeck, who was #2, won all his games except the ones against Llama.
01:30 Xanneria: Wait what is used for Scorinating WBC?
01:42 Eshan: FIFA 13
01:42 PaddingtonBear: Dazzanator1093
01:43 Damukuni: You mean NHL 2K, right?
01:43 Hinode: Tekken 4
01:44 Damukuni: MK11!
01:48 Xanneria: Oh God I just remembered someone once used Super Mario Strikers as a Scorinater once
01:48 Xanneria: or the time I had no access to a computer and a puppet of mine ended up winning the Cherry Cup
01:53 Hinode: this is f...king brilliant
01:53 Damukuni: Hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhaha soi soi soi soi rofl rofl rofl rofl!
01:56 South Covello: Here's how you scorinate the WBC.... Ride your llama down your street. Whatever street number it stops at to use the toilet, that's the home team's score. Get off the llama and take your goat for a walk. Whichever mailbox he eats first, that's the away team's score.
01:57 South Covello: Except in my case all the street numbers are in the 6000s and because [where I live] numbers streets uniformly in a grid across the county regardless of where the street starts and ends, there are no single or double digit street numbers anywhere near me.
01:59 Xanneria: @Hinode which one?
02:08 Hinode: the Super Mario Strikers one
02:09 Damukuni: 69 to 43. Rrrrrrrrright.
02:10 Xanneria: @Hinode The best part is it may have been a Cherry Cup they did that on
02:10 Xanneria: I wanna say it was Rorysville
NOTE: The WBC is the World Baseball Classic, the foremost international baseball tournament.

30/07/2019
01:41 Qusmo: Is U6 football the ultimate example of gegenpressing?

02/08/2019
20:50 tinhampton: What in the good name of Louise Nurding is a Corgislakia and what's it supposed to do? Apart from "raise awareness of Corgislakia?" If current trends of convergence and singularity-ing carry on like this, then the only Corgislakia we'll be Corgislakiaing about Corgislakia Corgislakia Corgislakia
21:08 Plough Islands: why do I know who that is
21:19 tinhampton: adds the Insecurity Council to her list of Bad Places
21:20 Plough Islands: I have a permanent membership of the insecurity council XD
21:20 Plough Islands: I meant Louise Nurding
21:21 Osarius: Because eternal were a pretty good girl group for while
21:23 tinhampton: Nurding then became Redknapp for a while after marrying Harry's son for a while, who she then divorced - the girl is still officially Louise Redknapp but some promotional materials for her new musical thingies simply refer to her as "Louise" (which is - to my awareness - the one thing she has in common with Cheryl Cole and the original, fat Ronaldo)
21:29 tinhampton: Speaking of divorced women, if you take a taxi in New York this week, you'll probably get some realtor called Ann Cutbill Lenane telling you that she wants to hook up with a divorced dad. Thirty seconds, seven thousand cabs, $5,000 - you could get five million telegram stamps
21:34 Plough Islands: ...is this a reference that's whooshing
21:34 Aels: I see tin is in one of her random rants again
21:36 tinhampton:

I see tin is in one of her random rants again
<<< That's the correct answer. Speaking of women who are perilously close to marriage, until getting a Porsche for her latest birthday, Jenny from the Block hasn't driven since Athers of the Block was still playing for England (and Wales, if that needs any more clarification. Even though he represented Lancashire and read History at Cambridge.)
21:37 Plough Islands: I believe that in a previous life she was the Oracle of Delphi
21:37 Plough Islands: and Athenian statesmen and citizens alike were baffled thoroughly
21:38 tinhampton: On second thoughts, my grumblings are not random - they are meticulously planned as to maximise your risk of thinking that NSSport's resident tincan is off on some tangent. Unfortunately, I have yet to meet The Circle... although I do have a husband, which brings us full circle :P

12/08/2019
05:32 Banija: Banijans managing in the international game have 1 draw and 14 losses
05:32 Banija: A proud history of our stunning lack of ability to coach :stuck_out_tongue:
05:41 tinhampton: looks suspiciously at the Road Transit Company :P
05:46 Banija: It's called the Regional Transit Company, thank you very much :stuck_out_tongue:
05:47 Banija: We build excellent bus systems, subways, trams, sky movers, etc...
05:47 Banija: We don't produce soccer coaches
05:47 Banija: We all have a flaw, eh? :stuck_out_tongue:
05:47 Nephara: club phones up the banijan FA, asks for their best coach
05:48 Nephara: is very confused to be presented with a long-haul bus
05:55 Banija: LOL
05:56 Banija: Tbh yea
05:56 Banija: That's what would happen most likely

14/08/2019
04:17 EQS: CUTOFF
04:20 Banija: rolls the drums
04:28 Qasbestos: drums the rolls
04:29 Mriin: tolls dhe rrums
04:33 Audio: drolls the rums

16/08/2019
02:58 South Covello: @Aels but he said FM Manager, which would be Football Manager Manager, so it's obviously a game where you design a bot that plays Football Manager for you.

17/08/2019
06:14 Mriin: "which Rushmori imperial power are you under again?" "oh one of the terranean ones, it's always them"
07:40 Electrum: The Eurans are land grabbing imperalists!
07:42 Eura: No we're not
07:43 Eura: You're land grabbing imperialists who exist on historic Euran conqu- I mean homeland
07:48 Electrum: :thinking:
07:49 Electrum: :sulsuthink:
10:41 Electrum: We will be suing you at the Common Rushmori Community Court of Justice @Eura and we will claim back what is rightfully ours
11:35 Aels: I don't think the CRC Court exists yet sorry
11:36 Nephara: We demand an investigation into the replacement of CRC Court and its departure at a difficult time in such an important dispute. We ask for an examination of the borders that were not suitable for the Electrum nation, while Euran lawyers seem to be wearing shoes that cling to the courtroom floor, so we saw Electrum lawyers fall during the court case, while Eura's lawyers are steady.
11:52 Electrum: We will be retaining the services of Eshan as our lawyer to make sure those dastardly Eurans pay their due!
11:52 PaddingtonBear: Lol
15:12 Eshan: My client is innocent!
15:53 Damusaurus Rex: Oh look, the CRC is our version of the United States of Europe
17:08 Sajnur: Nah, Electrum is really a nation of electric plectrums

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