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Offline gillianren

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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
« Reply #120 on: June 01, 2012, 01:54:04 PM »
Sadly, about the only sport I will sit and watch is curling.  For one, I love any sport with co-ed teams, and that pretty much leaves you curling.
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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
« Reply #121 on: June 01, 2012, 02:28:52 PM »
Would pairs figure skating and ice dancing count as sports with co-ed teams?
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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
« Reply #122 on: June 01, 2012, 02:37:56 PM »
Mixed doubles tennis, anyone?
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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
« Reply #123 on: June 01, 2012, 02:46:46 PM »
Sadly, about the only sport I will sit and watch is curling.

That was the hot ticket at the 2002 Winter Games here.  Wow.
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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
« Reply #124 on: June 01, 2012, 02:48:45 PM »
So the biathlon combines target shooting and cross-country skiing, which I guess is important if you want to be in the Swiss army.  And not just to get the knife.

I advocate combining other sports, such as figure skating with fencing, and high-dive with archery.  I'd definitely watch more sports if that happened.
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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
« Reply #125 on: June 01, 2012, 03:03:16 PM »
Oh, I would totally watch fencing on skates. 
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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
« Reply #126 on: June 01, 2012, 03:35:42 PM »
We probably have actually jumped the shark now.

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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
« Reply #127 on: June 01, 2012, 03:49:19 PM »
Ice hockey is just boxing on ice. Maybe a shark in at the deep end would speed things up in swimming, not so much combining sports, but tweaking them.

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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
« Reply #128 on: June 01, 2012, 03:53:55 PM »
Only one shape for a sports ball and that is egg shaped, and only one game, that is rugby....... ;)

50,000 Welsh persons on song in one stadium when the old enemy are at bay...... shivers down your spine....


Note to non rugby fans: Old enemy is tongue in cheek, with any luck it will not get bitten off.

Bloody Six Nations was on pretty late in the evening here :(

Which part of the world? You have probably said.

It was a good year for the boyos. Some good matches and these are on terrestrial TV, not sure if there was a web option at the same time.

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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
« Reply #129 on: June 01, 2012, 04:47:49 PM »
We probably have actually jumped the shark now.
What a great new sports idea!
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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
« Reply #130 on: June 01, 2012, 06:25:20 PM »
Ice hockey is just boxing on ice. Maybe a shark in at the deep end would speed things up in swimming, not so much combining sports, but tweaking them.

Only if the sharks have frickin lasers...

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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
« Reply #131 on: June 01, 2012, 07:37:40 PM »
Chess-Boxing has been invented already.

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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
« Reply #133 on: June 02, 2012, 02:03:28 PM »
Good, because I've been to Australia.  It's real.  Not like Canada.

Hey!  ;D

Oh, come on.  A country larger than China, but with only 2.5% of the population, most of whom are lumberjacks, which has both English and French as official languages, where the football teams have twelve players who have only three downs to advance the ball, and the police look like this?



Next you'll be telling us that moose are real  ::)
I don't know of any lumberjacks, but I hear they still exist out in the wilds.
Canada invented "american" football in 1861.
And mounties only wear that when some important Brit or Yank comes to town.
In my home province of Newfoundland there are more moose than people I think.
BTW in high school I loved rugby. So much purer compared to football.

oh, and Australia often reminds me of Canada!
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Re: TOO MUCH EDUCATION
« Reply #134 on: June 02, 2012, 03:58:54 PM »
oh, and Australia often reminds me of Canada!

Yes, Australia is a lot like Canada.  Only real  ;D
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