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Re: Tennis

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:46 pm
by Gravid
The way the camera kept on zooming in on a guy in the crowd I know from work at the end there during the speeches added to the feeling this is all just a weird fever dream.

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:53 pm
by richschnauzer
The best bit was how excited being interviewed by Tim Henman she seemed to be

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:54 pm
by blombluss
She was outstanding. Utterly marvellous!

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:56 pm
by blombluss
richschnauzer wrote: Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:53 pm The best bit was how excited being interviewed by Tim Henman she seemed to be
Well, he has got a hill named after him, I mean, who wouldn't be excited by talking to someone with a hill named after them? :)

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:56 pm
by blombluss
Gravid wrote: Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:46 pm The way the camera kept on zooming in on a guy in the crowd I know from work at the end there during the speeches added to the feeling this is all just a weird fever dream.
Excellent!

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:02 am
by richschnauzer
Gravid wrote: Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:46 pm The way the camera kept on zooming in on a guy in the crowd I know from work at the end there during the speeches added to the feeling this is all just a weird fever dream.
Was that one of the weird guys with the upside down 🇬🇧 flag?

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 11:56 am
by vom
it was very good. hooray for tennis

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 2:18 pm
by An Unicorn
richschnauzer wrote: Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:02 am with the upside down 🇬🇧 flag?
Wait, how would you tell?

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 2:48 pm
by endar
look at the red diagonal stripes

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 3:02 pm
by dng
but i don't want to

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 3:20 pm
by endar
LOOK AT IT

stand up, face it, put your hand on your heart (left breast) and sing to the glory of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 4:48 pm
by An Unicorn
endar wrote: Sun Sep 12, 2021 3:20 pm(left breast)
Lewd!!!

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 6:49 pm
by endar
it's not my fault patriotism leads to anatomical confusion

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 6:52 pm
by An Unicorn
I thought you were supposed to lie down and think of the Queen until it subsides.

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 8:03 pm
by blombluss
It drew 9 million viewers on Channel 4! What a lovely, albeit all too rare, shared television event.

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 8:04 pm
by Gravid
richschnauzer wrote: Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:02 am
Gravid wrote: Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:46 pm The way the camera kept on zooming in on a guy in the crowd I know from work at the end there during the speeches added to the feeling this is all just a weird fever dream.
Was that one of the weird guys with the upside down 🇬🇧 flag?
I think so, yes.

I say it’s a guy I know but he’s a senior manager type who probably wouldn’t know who I was.

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 8:07 pm
by dng
The best sort of guy to know from work

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:34 pm
by vom
also Djokovic lost

hooray!

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:37 pm
by Bruce Sato
VES

The microphone-headed, notbread-eating, antivaxxer piece of shit.

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:49 pm
by dng
Djokovic and the us open crowd are the joint worst things in all of tennis

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:49 pm
by dng
Even beyond inverdale in utter contemptuousness

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:50 pm
by dng
So about seven million hurrahs for lovely medvedev

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 11:17 pm
by Bruce Sato
Lovely Medvedev and his incipient bald

At least Inverdale has the amusement value of looking like a corpse that someone has propped up in a chair and filled with animatronics

Re: Tennis

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2022 12:26 pm
by Bruce Sato

Re: Tennis

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2022 2:30 am
by blombluss
He's a good man, a Serb man.

Re: Tennis

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2022 2:04 pm
by dng
tennis is shite

Re: Tennis

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2022 7:48 pm
by blombluss
The Austalans are having second thoughts...

Re: Tennis

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2022 8:38 pm
by dng
A real life ruse out of some comic book. Now they can lock him in the basement forever

Re: Tennis

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2022 9:35 pm
by Bruce Sato

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2022 1:46 pm
by blombluss
It's all going SOOOO well, isn't it, for both Djokovic, Tennis Australia, state and federal governments!!!!

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2022 1:56 pm
by richschnauzer
Bruce Sato wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 9:35 pm DJOKOVIC IS {s}DEAD{/s}DEPORTED, GIVE ITEMS TO WHO?

Excellent
clive james wrote:the problem with Australians isn't that so many of them are descended from convicts, but that so many are descended from prison officers

Re: Tennis

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 2:44 am
by blombluss
I, for one, look forward to the Serbian-Australian war.

Re: Tennis

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:14 pm
by dng
boooooo

Re: Tennis

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 4:07 pm
by blombluss
'Nice' to see Farage getting involved, also. :(

Re: Tennis

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 12:25 pm
by Bruce Sato
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Re: Tennis

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:46 pm
by dng
I'm still not sure he's actually dead yet

Re: Tennis

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 4:37 pm
by Bruce Sato
If he somehow gets to play on Monday, I suspect the crowd will come in with halfbricks.

Re: Tennis

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:48 pm
by blombluss
If I were Australian, I'd steer clear of Serbia for a while.

Re: Tennis

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:55 pm
by blombluss
Oh noes Murray and Raducanu. :(

Re: Tennis

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:55 pm
by blombluss
I balem Djokovic

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 11:31 am
by Bruce Sato
Hooray for Barty yesterday

This Nadal-Medvedev match is quite exciting, Baldvedev coming back from 5-4 and set point down to win the second set in a tiebreak

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 12:31 pm
by dng
Nadal's still going to win though, isn't he

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 1:05 pm
by Bruce Sato
Ves

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:15 pm
by Bruce Sato
Better Nadal than Djokovic, but still: PISS

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 3:13 pm
by dng
Making them play until 2 in the morning is such stupid scheduling

Re: Tennis

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 3:14 pm
by dng
If they at least put it on at a proper time I wouldn't have to listen to it because it'd have finished hours ago

Re: Tennis

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2022 4:36 pm
by dng
oh no boris what have you done now

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61043018

Re: Tennis

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2022 7:53 pm
by blombluss
I'd still rather have that Boris as PM. :)

Re: Tennis

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2022 3:21 pm
by dng

Re: Tennis

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2022 4:27 pm
by Bruce Sato
Weep