Bear with me, this is probably going to be a long post.
The World Cup craze has infected my work place. My coworkers, who previously were only ever interested in American football, are suddenly obsessed with "soccer"; they're following all the matches, memorizing players names, rushing home after work to watch the games on tv, even listening to them during work on their earbuds. I think some of it may have to do with the fact that online betting is legal in Ohio now, and their interest may mostly be due to trying to find what the best bets are. (I admit, I've bet a few bucks here and there, despite knowing nothing about the sport.)
Anyhow, I had the thought that there are some sports I just don't like. Soccer, basketball, American football, volleyball... they hold absolutely no appeal to me. For some reason, I like sports where you hold some sort of stick that you have to whack the ball with. Baseball, cricket, hockey, hurling, golf, even tennis. I don't know why. But there was one glaring exception to this. Bocce. I like bocce.
I was bored at work, and my meandering mind had the sudden thought: why couldn't you play bocce with a stick? Well, bocce balls are pretty heavy. You'd have to have smaller, lighter balls. What kind of stick? Then croquet mallets popped into my head. Yeah. A cross between bocce and croquet! I figured someone else had already had such an idea, but I Googled it, and as far as I can see, there is no such thing as mallet bocce. I thought maybe I had the makings of a brand new game going on.
Bocce is played on a bocce court, and you can only throw the balls from one direction, like as in bowling. What if you could hit the balls from any direction?
As of this writing, I have yet to figure out rules and have acquired no equipment to try and work them out. Vitxalmour Conductour said that a normal croquet set would probably work, just adding in the little ball, the pallino, from bocce.
But then I thought, part of the fun of bocce is being able to bounce your balls off the side and backboards when making a shot. There would be nothing like that for this new game. What about some kind of obstacle? I then came up with this:
https://ibb.co/xt2VgdR9
A series of bumper pegs surrounding the pallino. (Which would mean that the pallino wouldn't just be randomly tossed, but placed within the bumper circle.) That could make it more challenging.
So, how many balls do the players get? How many turns per match? I imagined a larger, outer circle, from behind which you hit the balls. You could hit them from anywhere outside the outer circle. Hell, this is starting to sound like a cross between not only bocce and croquet, but crokinole as well!
That's all I have. I'm presenting this idea to my fellow Talossans, maybe you could come up with more ideas for rules and whatnot. I'm contemplating getting a croquet set, but, given both our current work schedules, it probably won't be anytime soon that Vitx and I would be able to field test such a game. However, when we do, I'd like to have a few variations of possible game rules and play that we could try out. Right now, I'm puzzling about certain things. If the pallino is knocked out of the circle during the game, how is that handled? How is scoring done? Most importantly...does this even sound like a fun game?
https://ibb.co/nqb9QH1t
I used ChatGpT to create this AI slop picture of what a match might look like. I also came up with a name for the game, Poggio. It's Italian for "hillock". (I don't like the Talossan word for hillock, "cantalour".) If we ever field tested this game, it would likely be in Vitx's backyard, which is fairly hilly. I just like the way the word Poggio sounds. I'm welcome to other ideas.
Anyway, this is the dumb crap I come up with to keep my mind occupied during my dreary and monotonous work day. If anyone has any ideas for it, I'm all ears.

Quote from: Moses Henry Emefiele on Yesterday at 09:01:50 AMI think they are going to send my Certificate of Citizenship to me through my email address. Or by Post Office.

We don't send a physical certificate of citizenship, usually. However, we do send physical IDs. It sounds like you already passed the civics test and applied for one? In which case you will be included in the next batch, I'm sure! They look really nifty!

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Quote from: Moses Henry Emefiele on Yesterday at 08:55:48 AMI Moses Henry Emefiele, i decide to join Progressive Party.

Have you left URL?

I think they are going to send my Certificate of Citizenship to me through my email address. Or by Post Office.

Good day to you. I would like to know which day I will receive my Citizenship?

I have already pass the questioner of the ID Card. And I have apply for ID Card, I would like to know that they will send me both Citizenship Certificate and ID Card to my Address in Nigeria.

I need toward reply immediately. I believe in your contents of your reply will be favorable.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Yours truly,
Moses Henry Emefiele.

I Moses Henry Emefiele, i decide to join Progressive Party.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on July 01, 2026, 12:23:36 PMI agree that there's no big harm done, but I don't think you should intentionally set a bad precedent to try to force the legislature to make changes. I think you should try your best to interpret the law as it seems to mean, or ask for guidance if you're not sure.

"I shouldn't have to intentionally set a bad precedent to try to force the legislature to make changes" is a sentence I would agree with.

QuoteThat said, I do think you are acting in good faith and you're just trying to do your best in a bad situation. Really, the problem is the 11th hour attempt here, frankly. It's not realistic to expect people to be able to give a full and fair review of something in such a short amount of time.

Oh yeah, I think that problem got buried a little in the simplified writeup I ultimately went with. Sending the bill to committee with less than two days to spare, and then asking me to make a decision that will piss someone off either way I rule, is an ungentlemanly gesture to say the least.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on Yesterday at 04:28:57 AMThe Union of Free Reformists Cosă and Senäts delegations will deliver a firm and unanimous CONTRA to this impertinent middle finger to public opinion. This is the kind of behaviour that - should the sex pest unanimously condemned by the Ziu be re-elected - will lead to a swift expulsion by a rightfully-disgusted Cosa supermajority."

Folks, no need to link to the censure resolution. I've helpfully added it to my signature for easy access along with my public apology, which was made just before you decided to go ahead and Clark the censure resolution.

I will be running for the Cosa in the next GE so you will want to prepare your arguments as to why a resolution supporting the Me Too Movement and also linking to your censure resolution on my own allegations is wrong and deserving of expulsion. Especially since the latter was added after consultations in the Hopper.

Okay. I will do. Thanks.

As to 62RZ26   Democracy Act and Amendment, I vote per.

As to 62RZ27   We Have a New-ish King Amendment, I vote per.

As to 62RZ28   Data Protection Act, I vote per.

As to 62RZ29   Citizenship Oath Reform Act, I vote contra.

As to 62RZ30   Citizen Oath Redux Act, I vote per.

As to 62RZ31   Citizenship Oath Deadline and E.7 Untangling Act, I vote per.

As to 62RZ32   Sense of the Ziu: Contributing to Me Too, I vote contra.

As to 62RZ33   Caretaker Clarification Act, I vote contra.