BS: Not Wimbledon again.......please!

Subject: BS: Not Wimbledon again.......please!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 29 Jun 18 - 05:11 PM

Oh no, not Wimbledon again - not that ridiculous scoring again???

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From: gillymor
Date: 29 Jun 18 - 05:31 PM

Go, Artful Roger!

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From: Jos
Date: 29 Jun 18 - 05:43 PM

I like it when Wimbledon is on - quiet peaceful streets, no queuing at shop tills, as the rest of the population are indoors, glued to their seats in front of their television sets.

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From: Senoufou
Date: 29 Jun 18 - 05:43 PM

My parents were ace tennis players, but I've always hated watching it, especially Wimbledon. Plink plonk plink plonk. YAWN....

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From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Jun 18 - 08:15 PM

It amuses me every summer to see the Guardian straining to find either action crotch shots or action nipple shots of what they regard as the lustiest of the girl tennis players. I mean, I'm right with 'em on that, but the actual sport itself is the resort of Tosspots Incorporated.

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From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 18 - 08:52 PM

Tennis is the KING of the racquetball, badminton and croquet sports. Frankly for a sport of 'hit it where they are not' tennis would be a far more exciting quick paced game as a team sport with seven players on each side.


Are they going to prop up an aged Royal to present a trophy again?

As for the outfits they are all relatively modest. There should be an optional G string and topless tournament if revenues are truly valued.

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From: Senoufou
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 03:25 AM

I hate it so much, I actually enjoyed Cliff Richard singing that rainy year, in preference to watching the blooming boring tennis. That should say it all...

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From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 03:39 AM

Just about the most pretentious sport on the planet, with the British taliban in charge of Wimbledon!

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From: Senoufou
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 04:13 AM

The thing is, my parents weren't in the least 'posh'. They didn't grunt every time they hit the ball, or chuck their rackets on the ground, or bellow, "You can not be serious!" etc.

They played in several teams when I was a child, and were really very good. But it was a sport not a status symbol (just after the War). No strawberries and cream, no designer outfits, just cheap Dunlop plimsolls and whatever white clothes they could muster.

My father also played in a Norfolk badminton team in his seventies, and it kept him busy after my mother died.

I was a swimmer, horse-rider and ice-skater, and played hockey for my school. But tennis - nah.

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From: Raedwulf
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 04:17 AM

I'm afraid I must disagree, Don. Tennis is bloody Dullsville, compared with badminton, real tennis and, most especially, squash. Tennis is too much about physical advantage, for a start (you'll never serve an ace against a decent player in the others), too much about power (tennis players seem to spend most of their time hitting the ball as hard as they can, or near as dammit), and I've yet to hear players of any of the other variations routinely & noisily grunting & groaning (or shrieking) their way through a match.

I don't mind watching a bit of tennis, don't get me wrong, but it is the runt of the litter. A 100m sprint stretched out to marathon length. With lots of stops for a rest. Endless dull baseline rallies. An almost complete lack of subtlety & strategy - overpower your opponent, or wait for them to make a mistake. Quite why it's the richest & most popular of the main four racquet sports is beyond me. And don't get me started on tennis & the Olympics!

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From: DMcG
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 04:24 AM

I am no fan of Wimbledon, but at school tennis was my favourite sport, followed by cricket.

We were often allowed to choose which of a several sports we wanted and all the skivers like me went for tennis. So we had dozens more people waiting than the two courts could accommodate, so naturally we generously always let the people who actually wanted to play go first. We could go the whole season without actually playing at all.

Cricket was nearly as good. Half the time you were not playing, and the other half by picking the right fielding spot you didn't play either.

Subject: RE: BS: Not Wimbledon again.......please!
From: Jos
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 04:30 AM

"I hate it so much, I actually enjoyed Cliff Richard singing that rainy year"

I can't help wondering, 'If you hate it that much, why were you watching it?' I only knew about Cliff Richard singing because it was an item in the News later on.

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From: Senoufou
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 04:39 AM

Hahaha Jos. Exactly! But I was round a friend's house (she was very ill, and sadly died a few months later) She enjoyed Wimbledon and had the TV on while I was there day after day. It was ghastly, but she was rapt. However the rain fell like anything and Cliff sang instead, much to my secret relief! Bless her heart, she was a lovely friend to me.

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From: Jim Carroll
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 04:42 AM

What - and miss all those wonderful bare legs - and the women aren't too bad either!!
Jim Carroll

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From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 04:52 AM

My favourite spectator sport is polo, which we used to watch regularly at Kenney Jones's Hurtwood Park Polo Club - incidentally his recently released book "Let the good times roll" is a great read, with nice big print for tired eyes!

We hope to get there again this summer for Sunday lunch (always excellent) and a polo match. We just drive up to the touch line and put out the chairs, and my wife can put her legs up as she wishes.

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From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 05:00 AM

here in the UK the time is about tennish.




I'll get my Wilson raquet bag

Subject: RE: BS: Not Wimbledon again.......please!
From: Jos
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 05:48 AM

Ah. now I understand about watching the tennis - in the circumstances I, too, would have suffered it gladly.

The only sport I very occasionally watch is dressage - horses dancing - though I couldn't care less who wins.
When they do it to music, often it is just horses dancing and some indifferent music that happens to be going on at the same time, but sometimes the horse really does move in time to the music, and then it seems quite magical.

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From: MikeL2
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 06:10 AM

Hi Sen

Whoo you are a sporty one. !!!

I tried horse riding and fell off and broke my shoulder at my first outing. I had similar accident whilst ice skating.

I played in several sports too. Football; Rugby mainly Union but did play League as well. In the summer Cricket was my game. I also played Basketball while I was in the Air Force. I was also a good smimmer but not competitively I swam across Lake Windemere at it's widest point.
It was for charity and we were all covered by marshalls in canoes. Brrrrrrr !! very cold. Tried cycling but saddle soreness was a roblem.

Regards Mike

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From: Raedwulf
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 06:16 AM

Mr Red - Booooo! ;-)

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From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 09:35 AM

I heard it as "When does Sean Connery to go Wimbledon?"

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From: Senoufou
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 09:47 AM

Haha Mike, this was eons ago, when I was very thin(!), young and active.
I lived, ate and slept horses. When not in school I wore my trusty pair of very smelly jodhpurs and a yellow polo-neck jumper with a horse's head knitted into the front (knitted it myself) My local riding school entered me in many gymkhanas, on my favourite horse called...er...Nigger. (Oh dear... very un-PC nowadays!)

I went ice-skating a lot when I lived in Edinburgh (Murrayfield ice rink) I was so thin that when I played left inner for the hockey team I could dart in amongst the big beefy girls almost unseen.

As for swimming, I was quite good at that too.

But I weighed only 7 stone for years, and had long thick hair almost down to my knees. I think being skinny makes one quite nippy and agile.
My parents were very disappointed that I loathed tennis. :)

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From: Raedwulf
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 12:06 PM

Nothing wrong with the n-word, Sen, if the context is understood. Which means 'carefully explained & carefully listened to'. These days, there seem few that can do either, let alone both. It isn't a word I'd use (except to explain why it shouldn't be used), but Guy Gibson VC, of Dambusters fame, had a dog called Nigger. I doubt he meant anything by it.

There are only two words in English I'd call 'beyond the pale'. The other is the c-word, despite its honourable antecedents (the same 'cun' as in 'cunning' & 'cyning', the A/S root of 'king' & all the Germanic language variants thereof). You can get away with pretty much anything else, but the c & the n... Use 'em very sparingly & very carefully! ;-)

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From: Senoufou
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 02:32 PM

I'm very lucky Raedwulf having a husband who is jet black, as it exonerates me from any accusations of racism.
He often calls himself a 'nigger' just to make people squirm; he's very naughty. And he delights in shouting, at the front door, "'Ello my 'onky! Your nigger is 'ome!" when he gets back from work. The neighbours must cringe.

I totally agree with your views on the 'c' word. Quite unnecessary and very uncouth!

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From: Jos
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 02:43 PM

Your husband sounds fun, Eliza. If I ever come to Norfolk I shall be looking out for you both.

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From: Senoufou
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 03:42 PM

He is indeed fun, Jos. He often makes me giggle. And his remarks are even funnier in his lovely French/African accent.

We're going to be at the Sheringham Potty Festival next weekend. So if you see an attractive African chap in a traditional, colourful Ivorian outfit and a rather plump old lady with grey hair watching the Morris dancing, please come and speak to us!

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From: Backwoodsman
Date: 01 Jul 18 - 03:16 AM

Good grief, I find myself in complete agreement with Bonz and Sen! No surprise I agree with Sen, she and I are pretty much on the same page about everything. But Bonz?

Who'da thunk it?

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From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 01 Jul 18 - 06:32 AM

Juice - that's what it sounds like!!!!!!!!!!

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From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 01 Jul 18 - 05:18 PM

And no Andy Murray either......."with heavy heart".......

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From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 01 Jul 18 - 05:53 PM

Good

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From: Backwoodsman
Date: 01 Jul 18 - 11:09 PM

Oh, AM can't be all bad, Tattie - he's got two Border Terriers! Makes him a decent chap in my and my wife's books. :-)

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From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 02:38 AM

What ? no Andy Murray ? oh dear how sad never mind.

Dave H

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From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 06:29 PM

No, really, I AM sorry there's no AM: I wasn't agreeing with the tennisophobes. I do like it, tho I gave up playing after my son, aged 14 then, beat me hollow after never having had a lesson in his life!

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From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 06:56 PM

Come on, Tim!

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From: David Carter (UK)
Date: 04 Jul 18 - 03:02 AM

Tennis is the most boring sport imaginable. Marginally below darts. We have one, if not two channels devoted to Wimbledon, and at the same time we have a cricket series against the top team in the world and there is no coverage. Ok, thats at least in part the fault of the England and Wales Cricket Board for selling out to Sky.

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From: gillymor
Date: 14 Jul 18 - 10:50 AM

No Joke prevails over Rafa in an incredibly exciting match over the course of 2 days. Yee Haw!

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From: Nick
Date: 14 Jul 18 - 11:21 AM

The scoring is very simple

123 game

Once you get to 3 the next point wins it or goes back to 2

The rest is just a naming convention overlaid

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From: gillymor
Date: 14 Jul 18 - 11:59 AM

Just to add to the confusion we've taken some of the sheen off of the traditional nomenclature over here in casual and rec league Tennis, substituting O (Oh)for Love, 5 for 15, 3 for 30, 4 for 40 but retaining Deuce and Ad.

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From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 15 Jul 18 - 07:19 AM

Come on Kevin! Allez France!
Can't say I watched every minute of that marathon match against Isner, but the final set held me!
Gonna be out this afternoon playing music so no Wimbledon or World Cup.

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From: KarenH
Date: 15 Jul 18 - 07:48 AM

Odd that posts to a thread on a 'folk' web site express dislike of old-fashioned relic like tennis scoring?


At least, unlike the offside rule, one can get to understand tennis scoring without lengthy sleep-inducing explanations and demonstrations.


And I have often thought that if it hasn't got a darts board it shouldn't call itself a pub, though I know I am in a minority here.

On cricket, the Monty Python 'live' clip with 'action replay' said it all for me. In neither the live clip nor the action replay did the batsman move even a fraction of an inch.

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From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 15 Jul 18 - 05:15 PM

This is one of those BS threads - general discussion, Karen. Doesn't have to be about music.

As for most boring games: definitely not tennis: cricket or golf for me. My dad played cricket, and as kids, we got dragged off to the most god-forsaken old country cricket pitches in the land every weekend: put me off for life!
Then both parents played golf and my sister and I got the dubious pleasure of dragging their golf bags around from hole to hole.

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From: gillymor
Date: 15 Jul 18 - 05:59 PM

I've got nothing against traditional scoring, it just seems easier to shorthand it.
No Joke is back in straight sets against Anderson who may have been feeling the effects of that epic match against Isner. After those two semis the final was a bit anticlimactic.

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From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 17 Jul 18 - 03:09 AM

Nothing compares with the excitement of polo.

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From: Will Fly
Date: 17 Jul 18 - 04:00 AM

I haven't had a Polo in years - I always enjoyed sticking my tongue in the central hole.

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From: gillymor
Date: 17 Jul 18 - 06:12 AM

I'll bet some of those polo ponies could do with a little less "excitement".