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The Great British Baking Show winner 2015

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JRStern

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Mar 2, 2015, 11:54:14 AM3/2/15
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Nancy!

And no second place announced.

J.

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JRStern

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Mar 2, 2015, 8:51:19 PM3/2/15
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On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:06:17 -0400, lucreti...@fl.it wrote:

>On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:54:20 -0800, JRStern <JRS...@foobar.invalid>
>wrote:
>I was surprised, I thought one of the two men would be it.

I was surprised how quickly they wrapped it up, without analyzing what
the men had done wrong or what Nancy had done right, but then like
most reality shows (in the US) they never showed internal scoring.

Not that it matters, really.

J.

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JRStern

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Mar 3, 2015, 4:12:58 PM3/3/15
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On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 08:10:13 -0400, lucreti...@fl.it wrote:

>On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:51:26 -0800, JRStern <JRS...@foobar.invalid>
>I felt it was kind to announce a winner and then party. The only
>reason I started watching it was because it was on running up to
>Downton and I was so surprised to see a show like this not containing
>people yelling and screaming at each other and just being generally
>abusive.
>
>It was soooo British lol I went to one of their schools as a kid and
>it was drummed into us "It's not whether you win or lose, but how you
>play the game" - I have often received compliments playing bridge
>(serious bridge, not social) that I never lose my cool and would never
>dream of dissing my partner. It goes against the grain and I think
>that is why I liked the Bake Off.

Ha, back when I played bridge I was always very formal about it too,
that was half the fun.

J.

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Doris Night

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Mar 3, 2015, 7:14:53 PM3/3/15
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On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:40:43 -0400, lucreti...@fl.it wrote:

>On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 13:12:54 -0800, JRStern <JRS...@foobar.invalid>
>wrote:

>>Ha, back when I played bridge I was always very formal about it too,
>>that was half the fun.
>>
>>J.
>
>I feel embarrassed for them when people throw a fit and I feel there
>should be a law that married couples can't play together. I know many
>who do but only one couple who do it (in my opinion) successfully.

Back when DH and I played a bit of kitchen table bridge with his
parents, it was *always* girls against boys. The result was that my
MIL and I got our asses handed to us every time, because my FIL and my
DH were very good players. But there were no fights.

Doris
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JRStern

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Mar 3, 2015, 8:16:25 PM3/3/15
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On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:33:56 -0400, lucreti...@fl.it wrote:
>When we played kitchen bridge at the cottage with our good friends,
>husbands partnered and wives partnered. We were the better players
>but they got all the best hands, they said no, but my friend was an
>accountant and for awhile she kept a record and proved it :)
>
>That problem is solved though playing duplicate bridge, but still some
>can argue.

I meant duplicate, which I mostly played back in college, party bridge
is another thing entirely, lol, for one thing a lot less sober!

J.


graham

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Mar 3, 2015, 8:53:51 PM3/3/15
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On 03/03/2015 5:33 PM, lucreti...@fl.it wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:14:56 -0500, Doris Night
> When we played kitchen bridge at the cottage with our good friends,
> husbands partnered and wives partnered. We were the better players
> but they got all the best hands, they said no, but my friend was an
> accountant and for awhile she kept a record and proved it :)
>
> That problem is solved though playing duplicate bridge, but still some
> can argue.
>
I last played bridge as an undergraduate - gawd, that's ~50 years ago,
and I remember that the "analysis" of the hand took as long as playing it!
Graham

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And let my liver rather heat with wine,
than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
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JRStern

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Mar 4, 2015, 10:59:14 AM3/4/15
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On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 06:45:23 -0400, lucreti...@fl.it wrote:

>On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:53:50 -0700, graham <gst...@shaw.ca> wrote:
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>>>
>>I last played bridge as an undergraduate - gawd, that's ~50 years ago,
>>and I remember that the "analysis" of the hand took as long as playing it!
>>Graham
>
>Non social bridge doesn't work that way. These days there is a little
>machine on the table and North puts in the score of each hand, West
>verifies it and it goes by wi-fi to the main computer. They allow 7
>minutes per board or you lose the board, average minus.
>
>It's slick now, no need to wait around to see overall winners etc at
>the end, it's complete the minute the last score goes in. I usually
>don't bother waiting even that long, by the time I get home, the
>scores are waiting in my in box with a hand analysis.
>
>It's a great game for keeping the brain cells functioning :)

I haven't played any bridge for umpty years, but there must be bridge
"advisor" apps, too, which I assume are banned at duplicate matches?

J.


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JRStern

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Mar 4, 2015, 7:41:18 PM3/4/15
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On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:56:12 -0400, lucreti...@fl.it wrote:

>On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 07:59:12 -0800, JRStern <JRS...@foobar.invalid>
>wrote:
>You can play on line, http://www.bridgebase.com/index.php - it's free
>and was started by Bill Gates. He took up bridge a few years back,
>paid a world class player to accompany him to the tournament in
>Montreal but still came last :) Too funny. I don't play online
>because I was a devotee of MSN Zone bridge which suddenly vanished
>while they said it was just to revamp it, it wasn't, the change was
>Gates buying MSN and intending to start bridgebase.
>
>I imagine you could be using an app and playing at bridgebase, the odd
>person/pair would cheat even in Zone days. I was playing against a
>couple of men one night and became convinced they knew what I had in
>my hand. I challenged them and they thought it was hilarious, they
>had a laptop beside them and were kibbutzing our table so they could
>see our hands. I don't understand that, where does the challenge and
>fun lie doing that?

Oh, it kills the boredom to cheat ostentatiously now and then, like
scratching your head to show your hand to your partner. Amazing how
often you can get away with that, as long as your partner doesn't
burst out laughing.

J.


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