The Guardian liveblogger is a STAR.
Seems like everyone's got a tale to tell.
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Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jun 23, 2010 9:55:47 am PDT #8514 of 30001
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Polter-Cow - Jun 23, 2010 9:55:59 am PDT #8515 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Someone explain to me what these numbers mean and why no one has won yet.
aurelia - Jun 23, 2010 9:56:36 am PDT #8516 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
"Everyone is entitled to their opinion"!
Sure, but if you don't use discretion in when, where, and how you express that opinion, you should be prepared for it to bite you in the ass.
You being the proverbial you.
Okay, packing now.
Dana - Jun 23, 2010 9:57:17 am PDT #8517 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
why no one has won yet.
You have to win by two games, and they've been trading back and forth for the last hundred games. And in Wimbledon, you can't play a tiebreaker in the last set.
Polter-Cow - Jun 23, 2010 10:01:13 am PDT #8518 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Aha. And each game is that 0-15-30-40 scoring, right?
And in Wimbledon, you can't play a tiebreaker in the last set.
I'm getting confused on the game-set-match distinction now.
tommyrot - Jun 23, 2010 10:01:40 am PDT #8519 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Happy Birthday, Tep!
tommyrot - Jun 23, 2010 10:04:55 am PDT #8520 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So I woke up this morning to discover my cat had thrown up on the floor and defecated in the bathtub. There was blood in her feces. So I took her to the vet - she seems OK. The vet thinks she may have an infection in her intestines or something, so he prescribed pills for that. Her stool sample was fine. I'll find the results of the blood test tomorrow.
And she has a broken canine that's abscessed. Now I feel bad for not noticing that. She'll get that tooth removed in two weeks.
Back at work now.
Dana - Jun 23, 2010 10:05:11 am PDT #8521 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Match is the whole thing. You win the match, you move on.
A match consists of the best of five sets.
In a normal set, if you get to 6-6, you play a tiebreaker, which is just scored 1-2-3, and so on, rather than 15-30-40. A tiebreaker is the first person who gets to 7 and wins by two points.
In Wimbledon, there is no tiebreaker in the last set, so they've been trading 15-30-40 games for the last, oh, five hours. First person who gets up by two games wins.
Jessica - Jun 23, 2010 10:05:15 am PDT #8522 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
McChrystal is completely entitled to his opinion. He is not, however, entitled to his job. From what I can tell, his right to have an opinion has not been impacted in any way whatsoever.
Dana - Jun 23, 2010 10:06:16 am PDT #8523 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I know, I just made tennis sound insane.