The Top 5 List Thread
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Top 5 fresh plants on my recent shopping lists:
Top 5 snacks:
- Carrot
- Onion
- Tomato
- Cucumber
- Potato
Top 5 snacks:
- Toasted tomato sandwich
- Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
- Nature Valley Fruit & Nut bar with milk
- Salted cucumber
- Canned beans
CiG
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top 5 chess players of all time:
1) gary kasparov
2) bobby fischer
3) josé capablanca
4) emanuel lasker
5) paul morphy
HMs for carlsen, karpov, botvinnik, alekhine and tal
1) gary kasparov
2) bobby fischer
3) josé capablanca
4) emanuel lasker
5) paul morphy
HMs for carlsen, karpov, botvinnik, alekhine and tal
Serjeant Grumbles
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How come Bobby Fischer didn't make #1? Were you paid off by the Jews to bump him down to second place?
Doomguy
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Top 5 beers (I personally couldn't give a fuck if this isn't the beer thread);
1: Founder's Russian Imperial Stout
2: Kremlin Crude Russian Imperial Stout
3: Green Flash Barleywine-Style Ale
4: St. Bernardus Abt. 12
5: Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine-Style Ale
1: Founder's Russian Imperial Stout
2: Kremlin Crude Russian Imperial Stout
3: Green Flash Barleywine-Style Ale
4: St. Bernardus Abt. 12
5: Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine-Style Ale
TechnicalBarbarity
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Doomguy
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Fuck yeah man, I'm hoping to go today to pick a few more up of the top two listed above and hang onto them for a few years. The trick is making sure they last that long, haha.
TechnicalBarbarity
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yeah i usually end up raiding my beer cellar/closet every few months or so. I do have a few Old Raspie's that have been sitting in there since last year.
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haha. if we're talking best 1 or 2 year peak fischer would probably take it, but kasparov was almost as dominant as that for like 20 years, whereas fischer quickly declined ofc lol
Draehl
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Top 5 alcohols (revised)
- Rounded Scotch: Balvenie Doublewood. Would be my intro to Scotch choice if anyone ever asked. Aberlour as a good alternate.
- Peaty Scotch: Lagavulin 16 for my priciest one on the list for special occasions. Tough to justify $100 a bottle. Springbank as a much cheaper alternate as has a unique saline quality unlike any other Scotch I've tried.
- Floral/Herbal Scotch: Glenlivet 12. Where can't you find this? So great in summer too being good with ice unlike most other Scotches
- Tequila: Don Julio Blanco. Just got my first bottle last night and already drank a quarter of the bottle (that's a lot for me. I'm a lightweight). Was hesitant to spend $50 on tequila, but this one is a game changer! For the money Espolon Blanco is still the standard though. A touch harsher with a little less flavor but at $27 a bottle it's a steal!
- Beer: Dos Equis w/ liberal lime wedges/juice. My other summer favorite alongside Glenlivet.
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Nice list, but what makes you put Djokovic above Nadal? And Murray seems questionable.
I've recently seen a few arguments in places that Nadal is a better player than Federer because of their head to head record. This stance is sIlly because it fails to take into account that their head to head has a disproportionate amount of matches played on clay. Nadal is clearly the better player on clay and pretty much undisputibly the greatest clay court player ever. Secondly, it fails to take into account the consistency. Federer simply doesn't go out early in grand slam tournaments which Nadal often does in ones that aren't the French. And really it's kind of foolish logic to say Nadal has beaten Federer more than Federer has beaten him therefore he's the better player. Federer is clearly more well rounded.
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Sirjack
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my post specified post-laver fyi
murray's joint 9th for grand slam finals, 8th for semi finals, 7th for quarter finals (ahead of sampras even), has an all time top 10 win ratio at two of the slams, 9th highest win ratio of all time across all tournaments (3rd on grass behind only fed and mcenroe), 9th against top 10 opponents too, and all that in a strong era, maybe the strongest. the only thing he's lacking is actual championships, but literally every single one of the 8 finals he's lost has been against federer or djokovic, so i don't think those losses can be held against him too much. put him in a weaker era and he probably cleans up a ton of slams. he's destined to be very underrated because of getting overshadowed by the amazing achievements of his contemporaries i think.
comparing djokovic and nadal is hard because nadal is obviously greater on clay than djokovic is on any surface, and djokovic is a greater all-rounder. there really isn't much separating them to my mind, or statistically. djokovic is in the top 4 for win ratio across all three grand slam surfaces though, nobody else across history is even close to doing that. granted, that's probably easier to do these days than it used to be, but even so, pretty amazing. he also held all four slams at once which nadal hasn't done, and has a better overall win ratio against top 10 guys. there are lots of arguments for nadal too though; for starters, obviously nobody in history has dominated a surface or slam like he has. i could easily put them both above borg too - borg retired while still in his prime so it's hard to compare him with others, but he was statistically pretty amazing and was playing in an era when it was much harder to succeed on all surfaces.
murray's joint 9th for grand slam finals, 8th for semi finals, 7th for quarter finals (ahead of sampras even), has an all time top 10 win ratio at two of the slams, 9th highest win ratio of all time across all tournaments (3rd on grass behind only fed and mcenroe), 9th against top 10 opponents too, and all that in a strong era, maybe the strongest. the only thing he's lacking is actual championships, but literally every single one of the 8 finals he's lost has been against federer or djokovic, so i don't think those losses can be held against him too much. put him in a weaker era and he probably cleans up a ton of slams. he's destined to be very underrated because of getting overshadowed by the amazing achievements of his contemporaries i think.
comparing djokovic and nadal is hard because nadal is obviously greater on clay than djokovic is on any surface, and djokovic is a greater all-rounder. there really isn't much separating them to my mind, or statistically. djokovic is in the top 4 for win ratio across all three grand slam surfaces though, nobody else across history is even close to doing that. granted, that's probably easier to do these days than it used to be, but even so, pretty amazing. he also held all four slams at once which nadal hasn't done, and has a better overall win ratio against top 10 guys. there are lots of arguments for nadal too though; for starters, obviously nobody in history has dominated a surface or slam like he has. i could easily put them both above borg too - borg retired while still in his prime so it's hard to compare him with others, but he was statistically pretty amazing and was playing in an era when it was much harder to succeed on all surfaces.
EspaDa
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top 5 football transfers this summer
no order
Kolarov -> Roma
Klaassen -> Everton
Bonucci -> Milan
Calhanoglu -> Milan
Tolisso -> Bayern
no order
Kolarov -> Roma
Klaassen -> Everton
Bonucci -> Milan
Calhanoglu -> Milan
Tolisso -> Bayern
Doomguy
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Interesting man, all of these are both realistic and wise decisions for the clubs involved imo. Kolarov in particular I'd even place a wager on.
Top 5 Bolt Thrower albums:
1: Realm of Chaos
2: Honour Valor Pride
3: War Master
4: The IVth Crusade
5: ...For Victory
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Damage Case
CiG
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
