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Re: Rate and Slate Rate: Today is my Friday! Slate: I woke up with another mosquito bite, this time on my left palm. This is just perfect because it will surely make playing guitar easy...stupid insects! Also, I get to dig two large and deep holes in my front yard in order to fix our water mane...It's going to be a long weekend.

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Re: Rate and Slate Rating: Iron Maiden was fucking great last night. The setlist was fantastic, highlights were Aces High, The Clairvoyant, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, The Trooper, 2 Minutes to Midnight, Iron Maiden, Phantom of the Opera, The Prisoner, and Running Free. The rest of the Seventh Son songs sounded pretty good as well, as did Wasted Years and the other Number of the Beast tracks, though the Fear of the Dark tracks were a bit weak. Still, the performance was tight and Bruce's voice actually held up pretty well, he sounded much better than recent live recordings I've seen of them. EDIT: Got into the rating side of the post and forgot to slate. Slating: My bigger customer didn't scan in their items from their other locations, so about 50 of their 200 shipments were messed up and I had to waste an hour of my morning correcting the problem. Idiots.

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His vocals got better with time. They were pretty annoying pre-Nevermore. Rate: Just under an hour to go. Slate: I'm out of food.
His vocals got lower over time, but he has progressively lost the ability to sustain his pitch, resulting in notes frequently going sharp and/or flat, in addition to him singing out of tune with the music. I think I understand your point, that his tone may sound a bit more pleasant when he's actually matching up correctly with the music, but in no way did his vocals get better over time. Rating: Less problems today Slating: Not enough sleep
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Why is it always the coach. If the players are shite they should be sacked.
The general concept that people are conditioned by their surroundings means that 'society is to blame' gets cross-applied to everything. Ultimately, you'll notice that well near every single problem in society gets blamed on big corporations.
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Re: Rate and Slate Satan I agree, the problem was always with the players, Primus was given two years to take a team with the least talented list of any club in the AFL and make it a great team and that is simply not possible, what makes his sacking worse is the way it was done, they never told him "ok Primus if we lose this game you're fired" he's simply been made the scapegoat because the board can't accept that radical changes need to occur in terms of list management, talent scouting and public relations, firing the coach won't make all the problems disappear

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Re: Rate and Slate rating - today is the start of an independant review of the Port Adelaide Football Club, the review will analyze in detail every aspect of the club and will result in large scale reforms to player development, list management, public relations, game plan and many other aspects of the club, this is what needed to happen LAST YEAR, additionally the club president announced he would be stepping down at the end of the season for the good of the club, and it's about time he couldn't make the hard calls that needed to be made much much sooner

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