Don't follow tennis, but Bartoli is quite attractive and really badass-looking, imo. By which I mean to say, I don't get where any of those comments could come from.
Wild monkey love or tender Sarah McLachlan love?
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Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Juliebird - Jul 08, 2013 6:30:20 am PDT #28466 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Jesse - Jul 08, 2013 6:34:53 am PDT #28467 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
People are the worst. seriously.
§ ita § - Jul 08, 2013 6:35:21 am PDT #28468 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What I've said to Megan is "You're never going to be a Williams sister--you're never going to be taller than five foot one. But DAT ASS."
No, we do actually tell her that. It's the ass of a sprinter, and that accounts for her ability to cover the court without the advantage of a foot more height--that and her "happy feet". Because the speech they give, if you take out the "looker" bit, and the dodgy use of Sharapova as the comparison (valid, but leading), is a decent "the game got tall and you didn't" speech.
But, like Dana alludes, nobody's in the top 100 without being a dogged determined fighter. It's the price of admission to the big leagues. And nobody wins anything without having been consistently the doggedest fuck out there all week.
Laura - Jul 08, 2013 7:11:31 am PDT #28469 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
The part that caught my attention was I expected an unattractive person when I heard the controversy, and she isn't. Yes, tall is a legitimate issue, but it isn't the only factor for success in the game. Perceived attractiveness of course is not a factor at all. People!
Dana - Jul 08, 2013 7:14:16 am PDT #28470 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It's so stupid. Of course Bartoli is attractive, but there are so many other more interesting things to talk about with her. Like the fact that the French wouldn't let her play in the Olympics last year. Which were held at Wimbledon.
le nubian - Jul 08, 2013 7:14:26 am PDT #28471 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita, fyi I put details of my bra-fitting in Bitches yesterday. Two thumbs up for your Intimacy recommendation.
msbelle - Jul 08, 2013 7:22:32 am PDT #28472 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
cute overload isn't even really helping. people just suck.
Laura - Jul 08, 2013 7:24:49 am PDT #28473 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
but there are so many other more interesting things to talk about with her
Exactly, the discussion of her looks now dominates the media instead of something interesting or important.
Jesse - Jul 08, 2013 7:25:47 am PDT #28474 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The problem with Twitter is it lets you aggregate all of the horrifying conversations that would have been going on anyway. We just wouldn't have been able to hear them all ten years ago!
msbelle - Jul 08, 2013 7:32:11 am PDT #28475 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
The problem is that so many people suck donkey balls.