The Retirement Thread

[Tenkaykev]

From the Faroe Islands 😉

Jesus Mary and Joseph, and the wee donkey, what is happening with my forum replies inserting random bits of other posts? 🤔

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Saw an article this morning about an interview with Andre Aggasi - and when he played Boris Becker

Apparently he was totally unable to cope with Becker's serve at the start so they studied the footage of his server in detail
and discovered that there was a tell - Becker always put the tip of his tongue out for a split second just before tossing the ball up
If he put it out in the middle the ball would go down the middle or to the body
If it went to the side the server would go to the tram line side
Aggasi had to train himself to only watch for this on critical points otherwise it would become suspicious and Becker might reverse the process nd discover the 'tell'

So - this shows why I was always rubbish at tennis
other people (such as my friend who played for Cheshire and could have gone further) had good enough eyesight to see a tongue at the far end of the court
I would only just be able to see if they had a ball in their hand or not
even now with my glasses on - I would have no chance of seeing that well at that distance!

 

[ColinJ]

Wyoming is 99k sq miles, much like Britain. At the end of my career with Social Security I was in charge of all five offices. When I made visits to them all the trip was about 1500 miles. The larger towns are at least 140 miles apart. When growing up in New Mexico I learned to love the austere beauty of the high desert and Wyoming is a tad wetter and much, much colder. Most of New Mexico, Wyoming and Colorado is a mile above sea level. For us, rain, little pockets of green and trees are much appreciated. I have often thought most any place would have its own beauty if no one lived there.

I just took a look on Wikipedia and discovered that your state has 35 peaks over 13,000 ft i.e. about triple the height of Ben Nevis, our highest peak!

 

[GM]

Evening all...I got a very early delivery this morning from Royal Mail at 7.30, the dog flew down the stairs barking at the postman waking everybody up. Was my new Joe Blow Track pump I ordered from the nice people at High On Bikes. My boy broke my last one that I got from Aldi trying to pump up a paddling pool last summer. Then more excitement, I got a text from the Covid test centre saying I'm negative, so all go for tomorrow for my Endoscopy at UCLH.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Saw an article this morning about an interview with Andre Aggasi - and when he played Boris Becker

Apparently he was totally unable to cope with Becker's serve at the start so they studied the footage of his server in detail
and discovered that there was a tell - Becker always put the tip of his tongue out for a split second just before tossing the ball up
If he put it out in the middle the ball would go down the middle or to the body
If it went to the side the server would go to the tram line side
Aggasi had to train himself to only watch for this on critical points otherwise it would become suspicious and Becker might reverse the process nd discover the 'tell'

So - this shows why I was always rubbish at tennis
other people (such as my friend who played for Cheshire and could have gone further) had good enough eyesight to see a tongue at the far end of the court
I would only just be able to see if they had a ball in their hand or not
even now with my glasses on - I would have no chance of seeing that well at that distance!

I remember reading that the time it takes for a cricket ball bowled by one of the top fast bowlers to leave the bowlers hand and reach where it’s going to pitch on the wicket is too short for the batsman’s brain to fully analyse and decide what stroke to play. There’s probably a lot of subconscious analysis going on in the batsman’s brain during the run up.

 

[Dirk]

Bit early for new spuds!

We bought some Jersey Mids last week.

 

[Dirk]

Now we know where Dirk makes his money.

Teddy smuggling?

 

[Tenkaykev]

This is exciting, the retirement thread page count is ticking over towards 5000! It’s rumoured that the first person to post on page 5000 wins a bottle of Penderyn and a pair of Welshies bloomers !

 

[Dirk]

This is exciting, the retirement thread page count is ticking over towards 5000!

Well.....I wasn't expecting that!

 

[classic33]

Evening all...I got a very early delivery this morning from Royal Mail at 7.30, the dog flew down the stairs barking at the postman waking everybody up. Was my new Joe Blow Track pump I ordered from the nice people at High On Bikes. My boy broke my last one that I got from Aldi trying to pump up a paddling pool last summer. Then more excitement, I got a text from the Covid test centre saying I'm negative, so all go for tomorrow for my Endoscopy at UCLH.

Why'd the postman wake everyone up, parcel delivery, signed for letter?

 

[PaulSB]

Jesus Mary and Joseph, and the wee donkey, what is happening with my forum replies inserting random bits of other posts? 🤔

OK Ted? How have you been?

 

[12boy]

And here I was thinking a bubble pal was a Covidian friends with benefits thing.
Never did go for a ride and instead cleaned the filthy, smelly muck out of my water feature, which required a shower after. Mrs 12 did enjoy our expedition to the plant nurseries where she got some hard to find stuff and I a green grape vine. The grape vine lady reminded me a lot of Charlie Dimmock.
I was allowed to make dinner tonight which was steamed sticky rice with a stirfry of pork, carrots, crimini mushrooms, scallions, garlic and baby bok choi, dressed with a little soy and chili sesame oil. Wasn't too bad.
Hasta luego.

 

[ColinJ]

The grape vine lady reminded me a lot of Charlie Dimmock.

I'm quite surprised that you know who Charlie Dimmock is!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Good morning people.

 

[numbnuts]

morning bloody cold here -2c as yesterday I'm going back to bed after me