Slitherine

Something just occurred to me.......

At some point, will there be someone sitting all of us non-Brits down and explaining to us exactly what 'naff' is?
Preferably with laser-pointers, flow-charts and other visual aids.

I can make an educated guess based on context, but on the other hand.......
This could be an elaborate ruse, part of a convoluted BBC reality-show, to see which one of us first figures out that 'naff' is actually a made-up word.

And before you say "Don't be preposterous!", just consider this:
These are Brits....The inventors of cricket......
I rest my case.

CheerfullyInsane wrote:Something just occurred to me.......

At some point, will there be someone sitting all of us non-Brits down and explaining to us exactly what 'naff' is?
Preferably with laser-pointers, flow-charts and other visual aids.

I can make an educated guess based on context, but on the other hand.......
This could be an elaborate ruse, part of a convoluted BBC reality-show, to see which one of us first figures out that 'naff' is actually a made-up word.

And before you say "Don't be preposterous!", just consider this:
These are Brits....The inventors of cricket......
I rest my case.

Take your pick from here, Lars. Basically, it means the same as "crap" i.e. useless, although there are other meanings to the word.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Naff

Im a Brit and Naff means to me that something or someone is no good

Set the challenges for Tom but he has not picked them up yet.

Supervark wrote:Set the challenges for Tom but he has not picked them up yet.

OK Supervark. Perhaps he is busy. I need to get these two games played quite quickly really so I am going to take the challenge instead.

No problem Stockwellpete. Will not be able to play them today should be able to start sunday afternoon or evening. Am traveling to a new job, but will try to get them done quickly

stockwellpete wrote:

Supervark wrote:Set the challenges for Tom but he has not picked them up yet.

OK Supervark. Perhaps he is busy. I need to get these two games played quite quickly really so I am going to take the challenge instead.

I have been really busy lately - and I've just been checking my PM box, not the NAFF thread - 'pologies. Now I can start checking both again.

Tom

zumHeuriger wrote: I have been really busy lately - and I've just been checking my PM box, not the NAFF thread - 'pologies. Now I can start checking both again.

Tom

Don't worry, Tom. I will play Supervark now and I will put you down for a match in the EE final against raizer.

Latest scores: semi-finals Eternal Empire qualifying event

Byzantine Epiros (middle army) v Later Bulgarian 2-0
Match 1 stockwellpete v Batesmotel COMPLETED
Match 2 Cheerfully Insane v Fedem IN PROGRESS


Byzantine Morea v Albanian (middle army) 1-1
Match 1 Supervark v stockwellpete IN PROGRESS
Match 2 raizer v The Gray Mouser COMPLETED

raizer wrote:mouser smoked me with both the albanians and the byzs-so those lists went 1-1. that light cav has a huge learning curve !

Do you have the actual scores please, raizer? I may need them for a tie-breaker if it finishes 2-2. Thanks.

raizer alb 60/58
mouser byz 22/51

raizer byz 56/54
mouser alb 44/55

Final scores: semi-finals Eternal Empire qualifying event

Byzantine Epiros (middle army) v Later Bulgarian 3-1 FINAL SCORE
Match 1 stockwellpete v Batesmotel COMPLETED
Match 2 Cheerfully Insane v Fedem COMPLETED


Byzantine Morea v Albanian (middle army) 2-2* FINAL SCORE
Match 1 Supervark v stockwellpete COMPLETED
Match 2 raizer v The Gray Mouser COMPLETED

*Result
stockwellpete (Byzantines) 8/47 beat Supervark (Albanians) 65/58
stockwellpete (Albanians) 32/58 beat Supervark (Byzantines) 52/50

So the Albanians go through to the final as their points aggregate was much worse than the Byzantines over the 4 games.

Eternal Empire Qualifying Final

Later Bulgarians v Albanians (middle army)

Match 1 zumHeuriger or TGM v raizer
Match 2 Cheerfully Insane v frankpowerful
Match 3 stockwellpete v batesmotel

Paired games 500pts, DM and FOW on. I would really like it if we could get these games done by the middle of next week as I want to start the finals on Saturday November 12th. If anybody cannot play over the next few days please let me know so I can arrange a replacement. Thanks.

stockwellpete wrote:Eternal Empire Qualifying Final

Later Bulgarians v Albanians (middle army)

Match 1 zumHeuriger v raizer
Match 2 Cheerfully Insane v frankpowerful
Match 3 stockwellpete v batesmotel

Paired games 500pts, DM and FOW on. I would really like it if we could get these games done by the middle of next week as I want to start the finals on Saturday November 12th. If anybody cannot play over the next few days please let me know so I can arrange a replacement. Thanks.

my challenge is online, pwd Naff

sounds good-tom I can post when I get home from work today

tom both are up
pw is naffy

Geesh, out of power for 5 days and kicked out of the Qualifying Finals .... Oh well, i suppose Ive had my fill of Bulgarians for a while anyhow.

TheGrayMouser wrote:Geesh, out of power for 5 days and kicked out of the Qualifying Finals .... Oh well, i suppose Ive had my fill of Bulgarians for a while anyhow.

Sorry TGM - I am trying to get this qualifying section finished by the middle of next week so we can start the finals next weekend. I wasn't sure when you would be able to play again so that is why I left you out this time. Please sign in the NAFF recruitment thread for the finals though. Are you available for 3+ games?

TheGrayMouser wrote:Geesh, out of power for 5 days and kicked out of the Qualifying Finals .... Oh well, i suppose Ive had my fill of Bulgarians for a while anyhow.

TGM, you can pick up raizer's two challengers above, password "naffy". I have not heard from zumHeuriger so I guess he still must be very busy. So please go ahead and play - I cannot have games sitting about for 3-4 days now because the finals will start on Saturday 12th.

woot! revenge on the mouser!