Let’s talk about BBC

[First Aspect]

Its a jolly spiffing day out quaffing champagne with strawberries and cream whilst watching the chaps and ladies have a knock about on Centre court

I'm not into tennis, but have been lucky enough to get Centre Court tickets for next week again

Jolly good and Henley is coming up soon too.

 

[spen666]

If you leave early, remember to "drop" your tickets so one of the students litter-picking can pop in for a watch ;-)

It was considered a top perk when I was at Uni - you did the litter picking job and checked for useful court tickets :-)

I never left until about 1030pm last year.

 

[spen666]

Jolly good and Henley is coming up soon too.

Nah - I#m not a wet bod - will be in the members enclosure at Lords

 

[Rusty Nails]

I used to love tennis when it was played with wooden bats and not these oversized plastic monstrosities. They've made the game too easy and led to too much baseline play.

 

[briantrumpet]

I used to love tennis when it was played with wooden bats and not these oversized plastic monstrosities. They've made the game too easy and led to too much baseline play.

It could be a completely different game... look at the way Rod Laver follows *every* service in.

 

[Rusty Nails]

It could be a completely different game... look at the way Rod Laver follows *every* service in.

He and Ken Rosewall were my heroes as a schoolkid. I started off playing with those old wooden rackets, a Dunlop Maxply Fort and moved via a steel racket to carbon rackets. So much easier to play with the lighter carbon rackets with the big heads, but they certainly changed the game. I am not sure for the better

 

[Beebo]

Wimbledon used to sell the used balls. My dad bought a set one year in the early 80s and i remember they were white.
Apparently Wimbledon didn’t change you yellow balls until 1986.

 

[Dorset Boy]

Wimbledon is bad enough, but Henley really is an awful day out - it is just dull. There really is minimal enjoyment watching 2 boats go past you.
At least Olympic rowing has 8 lanes of boats.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Wimbledon is bad enough, but Henley really is an awful day out - it is just dull. There really is minimal enjoyment watching 2 boats go past you.
At least Olympic rowing has 8 lanes of boats.

It’s just an excuse to get pissed on Pimms while dressed like a complete tool.

 

[briantrumpet]

It’s just an excuse to get pissed on Pimms while dressed like a complete tool.

Hey, that's no way to talk about @First Aspect! I think his Clangers outfit is really quite fetching, showing off his athletic build (...carry on in Trump mode...)

 

[First Aspect]

Hey, that's no way to talk about @First Aspect! I think his Clangers outfit is really quite fetching, showing off his athletic build (...carry on in Trump mode...)

Never actually been to the HRR. I didn't go to private school, Oxford Colleges rarely enter, nowhere near any uni crews and the one I did row for later only sent crews after I had left. I also have not been in a rowing club for about 20 years and the whole striped pastel coloured blazer thing was not really me anyway.

 

[BoldonLad]

I think the BBC has missed it's vocation:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clye9zn0y1ro

looks like the licence fee is better value than the budget for Border Force and The Police Force.

 

[icowden]

I think the BBC has missed it's vocation:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clye9zn0y1ro

looks like the licence fee is better value than the budget for Border Force and The Police Force.

And we've found a new Brexit benefit - we can house people traffickers without knowing it!

 

[BoldonLad]

And we've found a new Brexit benefit - we can house people traffickers without knowing it!

I wonder what he is using as the basis for his Asylum Claim, being persecuted and having his freedom curtailed in France perhaps? 😂

 

[Stevo 666]

And we've found a new Brexit benefit - we can house people traffickers without knowing it!

Surely you'd want to let the poor bloke stay in the UK - after all, he's fleeing persecution in France and his only crime was to help refugees get to the country of their choice?