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Anyone forTennis.......Wimbledon 2013
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Originally posted by Mr Pee View PostWomen would deserve equal prize money if they played an equal number of sets. Simple.
I enjoy more women's matches than I enjoy men's matches because there are more rallies If as many people turn up to watch women's matches as they do for men's matches, and if the ticket prices are the same, then surely the case for equal prize money is clear
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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostMurray grunts, Hewitt grunts, lots of men grunt but not many people complain - is that because male grunting is heard as 'effortful' and female grunting is heard as 'excessive'? Dissertation topic- "Sexism and gender-based grunting in tennis"
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostPoint of order: watched match between Johansson and Radwanska: not a grunt to be heard. Conclusion: grunting is not a physiological sine qua non of hitting a tennis ball with power, but a cynical ploy hatched up to put off opponents. Anyone who watched Sharapova and her opponent would have seen large sections of the crowd barely able to contain their mirth as both parties appeared to engage in a spontaneous attempt to audition for a seventies porn movie with their sound effects.
Oddly enough, I can enjoy watching the tennis with the commentary volume turned right down while there is play, turning it up only to catch the informed comments of McEnroe et al in the intervals..
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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostI asserted that many men grunted, something I have observed. I bow to you superior knowledge re seventies porn movies.
Oddly enough, I can enjoy watching the tennis with the commentary volume turned right down while there is play, turning it up only to catch the informed comments of McEnroe et al in the intervals..
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Anna
I see Laura Robson is through - which is good, but Andy Murray is still playing and likely to get through. I wonder why people don't like him, is it because he's Scottish and dour or that he's not a glamourous pretty boy (like, was it Agassi that had everyone swooning back in the day?)
As to the grunting, I've never seen a 1970s porn movie but if I did watch tennis I'd just turn the sound of grunts off. I think Ams' thesis on gender based grunting is basically very sound.
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Well done Laura, not least for refraining from squealing, but more for a convincing win in straight sets!
Anna, please use your influence with Caliban to discourage him from using multiple threads simultaneously; and when you have him in appropriately receptive listening mode, remind him that that name is Rafferty. Sean Rafferty.
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Originally posted by Padraig View PostAnna, please use your influence with Caliban to discourage him from using multiple threads simultaneously; and when you have him in appropriately receptive listening mode, remind him that that name is Rafferty. Sean Rafferty.
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Originally posted by Anna View PostI have no influence over Rumpole - Oh, I've tried, I've tried .......... but he just goes his own sweet way, he's a bit of a blithe spirit, a grasshopper flitting from thread to thread, a dragonfly hovering, now you see his iridescent darkness - now you don't!
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Originally posted by Padraig View PostWell done Laura, not least for refraining from squealing, but more for a convincing win in straight sets!
Anna, please use your influence with Caliban to discourage him from using multiple threads simultaneously; and when you have him in appropriately receptive listening mode, remind him that that name is Rafferty. Sean Rafferty.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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