Non Footy Chat Thread II

[Poupou Escobar]

Anyone seen Alan Joyce in the past week.

6 qantas flights in the past week have had mechanical issues.

Yet no one from qantas management has come out and addressed the issue.

Heaven help if a major incident happens.

This is a fairly predictable outcome of the existential threat posed to the air travel industry by the Covid response. To stay alive companies needed to cut costs, and one area that can occur is in risk management, which includes the management of safety risks.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Do you think ‘only rich people play tennis’?

I think poor people don’t. Do you think only giants play basketball?

 

[Noise]

I think poor people don’t. Do you think only giants play basketball?

A yes or no is all that is required.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

You must be out of your f**king mind to think I’d let you reframe the discussion with a leading question like that. Do better.

 

[Noise]

You must be out of your f**king mind to think I’d let you reframe the discussion with a leading question like that. Do better.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Oh right, YouTube. Incidentally where I get all my vaccine research from.

 

[Happy MEel]

Do you think ‘only rich people play tennis’?

A quick google search indicates quite a few top tier tennis players grew up relatively poor. The Williams sisters for starters, Agassi, Novak, Sharapova. There’d be plenty of Eastern European tennis players that originally came from very humble beginnings. I could have searched longer but didn’t feel it necessary. It was a silly comment.

 

[Noise]

Oh right, YouTube. Incidentally where I get all my vaccine research from.

I’m sure you have a better idea of Novaks familys past than Novak himself.

 

[hineyrulz]

Real dick of a storm off the coast tonight

 

[Incorrect]

Real dick of a storm off the coast tonight

Somewhere in the yellow part is the eye of the storm I'd wager....

 

[hindy111]

I think poor people don’t. Do you think only giants play basketball?

I reckon at a low level sure. But to get any good at tennis you need coaching. And that's expensive. It is a well know sport for wealthier crowd. Basketball is a street kids game.

 

[hindy111]

Real dick of a storm off the coast tonight

It's moving towards the hole inland.

 

[hindy111]

Throughout its history, tennis has had a reputation for being an expensive sport. Only in the last few decades has the sport started to shed its country club image as a sport only for the rich. It’s still a sport that people with limited resources find difficult to play consistently, but it’s opening up a little.

Why Is Tennis So Expensive? - The Costs of Playing Tennis

Throughout its history, tennis has had a reputation for being an expensive sport. Only in the last few decades has the sport started to shed its country

tennispredict.com

 

[Happy MEel]

Throughout its history, tennis has had a reputation for being an expensive sport. Only in the last few decades has the sport started to shed its country club image as a sport only for the rich. It’s still a sport that people with limited resources find difficult to play consistently, but it’s opening up a little.

Why Is Tennis So Expensive? - The Costs of Playing Tennis

Throughout its history, tennis has had a reputation for being an expensive sport. Only in the last few decades has the sport started to shed its country

tennispredict.com

I’d say it’s opening up quite a bit, particularly in Eastern Europe. Regardless, I think what you’re forgetting that they are vastly different sports and competitions and I don’t think you can claim it’s easier to dominate in tennis than the NBA so nonchalantly. The “superstars” in the NBA have plenty of off games in a season with so many games in the season. Being a team sport, these quite games can be offset by the rest of the team and a strong side will definitely help a superstar dominate.

In tennis, most competitions are knock outs so you play one bad game and that’s the end of it. It’s also an individual sport so there’s no-one to cover an off day (with the exception of doubles).

 

[84 Baby]

Sounds like someone wants to marry tennis

 

[Gary Gutful]

Or was it Mike Mitchell??

Bingo!

Pushed through a glass door after either a game or a training session from memory.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Name some good short tennis players who are men. They are all a certain height.

Pete Sampras was 4'11''

 

[Gary Gutful]

Real dick of a storm off the coast tonight

Evans Head reported 120mm of semen.

 

[the phantom menace]

I read a review of The Man Shake which said that it tasted like semen?

I've only tried the Choc Mint flavour, but if all semen tastes as good as that...

 

[Gary Gutful]

I read a review of The Man Shake which said that it tasted like semen?

I've only tried the Choc Mint flavour, but if all semen tastes as good as that...

I've never pictured you as fat over all of these years but I did have my suspicion that you ingested semen.