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Robert Roaldi

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What's in a name.
« on: July 05, 2019, 12:55:24 pm »

One of the riders in the women's Giro Rosa that started today is called Potokina.
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Re: What's in a name.
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2019, 08:53:18 pm »

She could be from Potemkin village.
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Re: What's in a name.
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2019, 03:53:41 am »

Tour de France starts today. I love it.
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Re: What's in a name.
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2019, 05:55:39 am »

Tour de France starts today. I love it.

And I thought Formula 1 was boring!

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« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2019, 06:08:46 am »

And I thought Formula 1 was boring!

;-)

For me that title goes to football. I loved the guy that said if he wanted to watch 22 men trying to score for 90 minutes he would go down the pub and watch his mates trying to pick up woman. 
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Rob C

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Re: What's in a name.
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2019, 06:17:08 am »

For me that title goes to football. I loved the guy that said if he wanted to watch 22 men trying to score for 90 minutes he would go down the pub and watch his mates trying to pick up woman.

Worse would be having to hear their version of accounts later on.

Seriously though, my main concerns are for those gentlemen who love contact sports such as rugby and American football. I can understand it could have attractions if it were mixed, as in mixed doubles in tennis, but dear me, all that virile bonding! One could go quite faint all over.

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« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2019, 06:20:18 am »

Yes rugby. I like the game. Wasn’t any good at it but had to play at school and a few games in the military. No getting out of that in my generation in South Africa. It’s can be a bit intimate that’s a fact. But mostly it’s just unbelievable brutal.
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« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2019, 07:04:34 am »

Yes rugby. I like the game. Wasn’t any good at it but had to play at school and a few games in the military. No getting out of that in my generation in South Africa. It’s can be a bit intimate that’s a fact. But mostly it’s just unbelievable brutal.

I did not have any aptitude for any sports except swimming, which seemed to make sense. I learned to swim in the Bay of Bengal with the sharks. Rugby I came to with a change of school where soccer had been the norm. The first problem with rugby was that I couldn't fathom any rules or system, because every time I came anywhere near the ball object of the chase, they blew whistles at me. It wasn't much of an incentive. Fortunately, I was ripidly relegated to the secondary class of pupil who was allowed to go swimming instead.

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Re: What's in a name.
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2019, 08:59:29 am »

And I thought Formula 1 was boring!

;-)

Obviously you haven't seen run with mounted twin Vickers...


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Re: What's in a name.
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2019, 11:00:03 am »

And I thought Formula 1 was boring!

How can you not be fascinated by competitive commuting, Rob?

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Re: What's in a name.
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2019, 11:11:55 am »

Mea culpa, Jeremy; something about processions gets to me and reminds me of the local caterpillars. They make nests on pine trees and get shot down with shotguns, reasonably enough. At least the cars are of differing colours, but often, not at the front.

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Re: What's in a name.
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2019, 10:25:17 am »

All sports are pointless and silly to those who are not interested in them. And everyone thinks that the sport they are interested in is far more interesting than anyone else's.

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Re: What's in a name.
« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2019, 03:14:09 pm »

Well, I hit a 18 to 1 shot win at the horse races yesterday.  That's exciting!  Sport of kings.   

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« Reply #14 on: July 20, 2019, 03:20:03 pm »

All sports are pointless and silly to those who are not interested in them. And everyone thinks that the sport they are interested in is far more interesting than anyone else's.

Which is a rounabout way of telling me that everybody has feet of clay. Best keep out of the puddles!

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« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2019, 02:23:17 pm »

Which is a rounabout way of telling me that everybody has feet of clay. Best keep out of the puddles!

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Nah, I'm just saying it's a big world, room enough for everyone.
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