Interesting interview from 2015
https://chesspro.ru/interview/kramnik_levin_interview
Boris Levin: Forty… Previously in chess that was the peak of a career, while now sporting life is so compressed that it’s already time to reflect on the finish line, especially since you’ve mentioned this age as critical on a few occasions yourself.
Vladimir Kramnik: I never said the moment I turn forty I’ll quit on the spot. It’s more of a milestone after which it really is worth stopping to think. What I can say is that I’m definitely not planning on playing on into old age, since I really don’t want to experience what it is to descend to a lower and lower level after having been at the very top. It’s also about quality of play. As long as I can maintain my standards I’ll keep on playing, then I’ll quit.
After all, it’s also important to enjoy the process, although pleasure perhaps isn’t entirely the right word, since chess today is a very tough job. However, one way or another you should have drive and interest. The moment they start to disappear I’ll stop immediately, since I don’t play chess for money but because I realise I’m still capable of something.
Who do you feel closer to: Kasparov, who ended his career at 42, or Anand, who won a World Championship match at 43 and continues to achieve great results?
A lot depends on physiology. Anand is a man with a clearly defined Buddhist approach to life, implying a reasoned expenditure of energy and a smooth flow of events. Plus I don’t think anyone else has Vishy’s capacity for recovery. In that regard I’m closer to Kasparov – much more emotional. I use up more energy. And I saw how he played his last tournament in Linares – it really was tough for the guy, with sweat just streaming down his face.
In that case it was probably also down to his very energy-intensive style of play?
Probably, but that’s not the main thing. Someone very rightly said that age isn’t the number of years you’ve lived but the number you’ve experienced. The intensity of a life and career, all these World Championship matches… Boris Spassky once remarked a World Championship match takes three years off your life. If I played four of them, then it turns out I’m 52, not 40! (smiles)
In general, I think I’ll definitely play for two or three more years, but I wouldn’t want to look any further ahead. Geller once said that years are basically n
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It really does, I swear!
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
They’re on standbi
Buenosdillas
Pilot on me!!
Sometimes no one cares when a child goes missing.
Maybe that child was a “bad” kid — so the police assume he ran away and the family is more relieved that he is gone than they are worried by his absence. Maybe he was always skipping school, always finding his way to trouble somehow, so running away was just one more thing on a list of bad behaviors. Why would a family go looking for someone that they’re better off without?
Predators know that children like this exist — children who are supposedly a burden to their parents and not a joy — so they go looking for them, even when no one else is.
The monsters among us seek out those who we as a society have cast out. The runaways, the sex workers, and the addicts have all deliberately lived lives that expose them to danger, so why should we care when that danger finds them? Why should their families care? We have already judged them so why does it matter who the jury and the executioner are?
Nicholas Barclay was thirteen years old when he disappeared on June 10, 1994. His family reported him missing three days later, on June 13, 1994, one day before Nicholas had a family court date to determine whether or not he would be sent to a group home.
Nicholas’s teachers had noticed some unexplained bruises on the boy and had reported their suspicions of abuse to Child Protective Services just before he went missing, but when he went missing he was assumed to be a runaway and no foul play was suspected.
Nicholas was a “bad” boy — he had stolen a pair of tennis shoes, he had skipped school on a regular basis, he’d allowed his friends to unhygienically and amateurishly tattoo him, and he probably even used swear words — so, of course, he had run away.
Investigators focused on the fact that Nicholas was BAD instead of focusing on the fact that he was a thirteen-year-old BOY, just as they too often focus on a missing woman being a sex worker instead of being a missing woman. The labels of our society might as well be tags tied on the toe of a corpse headed to the morgue — once the label is fixed, so too is your fate.
But Nicholas Barclay got lucky, in a sense, because someone did notice that he was gone.
In October of 1997, Nicholas’s mother and sister were contacted by the FBI. There was a boy in Linares, Spain who had told authorities there that he was the missing child, Nicholas Barclay. Carey Gibson, Nicholas’s half-sister, spoke to the teenager on the phone, as did his mother, Beverly Dollarhide. T
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Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
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It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Bob
So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."
Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.
Just to clarify, 12345678
Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...
Notices there's only 2;
Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."
I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.
I was just sitting there doing nothing.
“BOOM”?!
When I got home, they were still there.
