Comments on: Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007 | Coining a ‘worldwide currency’ for football violence http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/03/jean-baudrillard-1929-2007-coining-a-worldwide-currency-for-football-violence/ Soccer as a second language Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: tam miller http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/03/jean-baudrillard-1929-2007-coining-a-worldwide-currency-for-football-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-42142 tam miller Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:43:50 +0000 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=243#comment-42142 Some more pics and this year's video thanks to the <em>Scotsman</em>. There was a massive interest from press and TV crews this year ... no idea why. Some pics here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7246549.stm Video here: http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Having-a-Ba39-in-Jedburgh.3781198.jp Some more pics and this year’s video thanks to the Scotsman. There was a massive interest from press and TV crews this year … no idea why.

Some pics here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7246549.stm

Video here:
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Having-a-Ba39-in-Jedburgh.3781198.jp

]]> By: The Global Game | Technology | 84 hours of MySQL (My Server Quietly Languished) hell http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/03/jean-baudrillard-1929-2007-coining-a-worldwide-currency-for-football-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-39524 The Global Game | Technology | 84 hours of MySQL (My Server Quietly Languished) hell Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:03:35 +0000 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=243#comment-39524 [...] Until one attempts to enter the labyrinth and pay obeisance to the database’s ultimate authority—to the control that the unreal wields over the real—there is no succor. At the level of the soul, one learns the truth behind Jean Baudrillard’s description of modern technologies as “expulsions of man” (see 12 Mar 07). [...] [...] Until one attempts to enter the labyrinth and pay obeisance to the database’s ultimate authority—to the control that the unreal wields over the real—there is no succor. At the level of the soul, one learns the truth behind Jean Baudrillard’s description of modern technologies as “expulsions of man” (see 12 Mar 07). [...]

]]> By: Jethart Ba' player http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/03/jean-baudrillard-1929-2007-coining-a-worldwide-currency-for-football-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-23752 Jethart Ba' player Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:01:59 +0000 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=243#comment-23752 The Jethart Ba' game may look like carnage to the untrained eye. I'm a local ba' player in Jedburgh, and you will find there is a mutual repect between ba' players and that the game polices itself. Violence is very rare. It looks rough-and-tumble but there are a great deal of tactics, skullduggery and bluffing going on all around you if you know where to look. There is quite a lot of skill involved on the ball-handling side. There are some great photos on the <a href="http://www.scran.ac.uk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Scran Trust</a> website that capture the ba' game, http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/results.php?PHPSESSID=njp0vjcrhii1li9lm0n9q9jsr2&QUICKSEARCH=1&search_term=jedburgh+ba+game. The Jethart Ba’ game may look like carnage to the untrained eye. I’m a local ba’ player in Jedburgh, and you will find there is a mutual repect between ba’ players and that the game polices itself. Violence is very rare.

It looks rough-and-tumble but there are a great deal of tactics, skullduggery and bluffing going on all around you if you know where to look. There is quite a lot of skill involved on the ball-handling side.

There are some great photos on the Scran Trust website that capture the ba’ game, http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/results.php?PHPSESSID=njp0vjcrhii1li9lm0n9q9jsr2&QUICKSEARCH=1&search_term=jedburgh+ba+game.

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