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Look, you know, our draws are not rigged they are just unlikely. (pt2)

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New chat thread! That last one went by so quick!!
 
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It's very easy to talk about it, say the right things.

He handles the pressure well on the junior circuit. Being a favourite in every match he plays obviously suits him a lot. It's so different playing futures tournaments in front of no people compared to playing at Wimbledon or Flushing Meadows. Yes, even when he plays the junior slams, not that many people watch, they are more interested in the seniors, but at least they have a full set of line judges, ball kids and whatnot. On the futures tour, they have an umpire and that's it. Nobody watches, everyone is so motivated and add that to plenty of experience, and it gets tough for somebody who is young, and quite lightweight.

That's my worry, bigger and more powerful players are going to bully him around, and maybe deep down, without the encouragement of a crowd, the belief might not be there to dig himself out of holes.

Let's see what happens, though. His ranking is already quite good. Half a dozen good results in futures tournaments between now summer next year will put him in a great position.
 
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Qualifying is slightly different. You have to win matches in the qualifying tournaments to get into the main draw, hence acquire a deserved pay cheque.

Players ranked 70-100 who gain main draw places automatically but often get routined in the first round of slams do not deserve €25k just for showing up. For instance, this year at Wimbledon, Filippo Volandri won one game at Wimbledon in his loss to Jeremy Chardy, and earnt £15k for that effort.

I know it's easy to cherry pick to try and open holes in the argument, but that's certainly not money that is deserved.
 
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She is ok :dance: or someone is posting on twitter with her account.

I took a nap :p I didn't sleep much. Also my manager wanted me to attempt to get to work to see if there was damage :rolleyes: So I drove until I hit a road closure and was like "SORRY LADY CANT." and then came home and took the nap. Good day.


Trees are super overrated. Easy to lose love for them when one comes crashing through your roof.
Yup. There are two down at the one neighbors, and then 1.5 down at the other neighbor across the street. For some reason no trees on my side of the street fell. Another one fell at the corner where my childhood friend lived. Here all that happened is like.. we had a wooden playhouse thing we are keeping til our old neighbors move to their final destination, that got knocked over, but it looks fine. Then we had this super heavy wooden chair swing thing on our lower deck in the back, that just got knocked over also.



I forgot to watch TV news this morning. I think most Americans are aware Manhattan is an island. We hear it all the time on the news and other programs Maybe Europeans aren't as aware. Some chickie poo on the news was lamenting over the bridges and tunnels being closed by saying, "now, we're an island." Sweetie, you were already an island.
Yeah I'm always not sure because a lot of people always used to tell me how great it was that Syracuse was close to NYC (or IN NYC :lol: ) so I tend to doubt if anyone from here or abroad knows much about the geography of New York :lol: Better to be safe than sorry and have people say, "We're not stupid! Everyone knows that!" :p
 
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Wont say names but noticed two people were talking on twtier that they dislike GM on MTF and both of them tehn said they dislike Nole forum tooocuz we are stupid here and bad fans :lol: I say Hello to them if they read this
You should have asked them why we are bad fans. I am really curious now. Like really, really.

Why are we bad fans? :8 This bothers me. People are mean. And people read what I write. :lol: :facepalm:
 
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In my head, only we read what we write here. By we, I mean star, lee, Jess, Dom, Hana, cinny, Jade and all the fans who show up every once in while. But then I remember why we have George now. :lol: :p

Other people read. :( I guess I have this naive idea because I don't lurk at all. :shrug:
 
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Of course people lurk. It's like a child sneaking out of bed at night. You know you shouldn't be going there, I'm not a Djokovic fan, but it's tempting to go and have a peek just because what's inside might be interesting.

As for these people on twitter. Firstly, who doesn't dislike GM? Secondly, why does it matter in the slightest if they think you are bad fans. Should you care if they think that? Errrrrrr, no.

They most likely are girls, and they are most likely yards of the worst kind, like proper stalkers.
 
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Us? Bad Nole fans? :rolls:

I wonder if it's the people that used to post here who used to hate me? :D I believe in being a fan of a player but still seeing their faults... if something Nole says or does is stupid, I will say so :shrug:
 
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You mock me.

I'm listening to a book about Europe in the aftermath of WWII. I dunno. We always think of the war ending. Everybody is happy except for the women getting *****, and then there's clean up and then everyone who lives happily ever after except for the eastern europeans who don't. Also the jews are so distraught about the treatment from the Germans, they left the continent.

Turns out so much different when you listen to the actual details. Some of it is difficult because it destroys myths that we all have in our minds. U.S. soldiers were responsible for 17,000 ****s. more or less. That's not counting the ones who paid for sex with a can of c-rations or a bar of chocolate. And of course, the Americans weren't the most prolific ****rs, but since it's my country, it's hard to hear. Also the German POWs died in greater rates in the U.S. internment camps than in U.K. internment. Just the levels of violence after the war are horrific. Of course, it was worse in the areas where the occupation had been more brutal. The sad thing is the horrible attacks on the surviving jews returning to their homes. And in Norway, the children born to women who had sex with German soldiers were treated horribly. Shocking really. At first the government intended to round them up and ship them out of the country, but that proved intractable. Lots of them were put in institutions for the mentally handicapped because they were considered the off spring of two mentally disabled people.

Really, it's terrible what sustained violence does to the mental well being to everyone.

Even in countries where there was no fighting or occupation, there was a higher incidence of ****.
 
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First of all, when did I ever mock you? :( You know I love you more than internet allows me too. :lol: :hug:

Now about the book. We have to consider one fact: sex was very different 70 years ago. The whole approach was very different. The roles of women and men when it came to sex were very different. I have to believe that such a thing would never happen today. Right? What do you think?
 
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About Nole. I do understand that some people may find him annoying, or even dislike him. But even those people, they have to agree that Nole can be very gentle, fair and nice, also the best loser and very sweet to his fans and everyone in general (++ children). People who don't see this must be blind.
 
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I don't think it's enough to say "no rules apply." What is it that drives men to **** women? And **** repeatedly?

Most men in war, won't shoot a non-combant man because that's not considered to be ok -- although it happened too often -- so some rules are observed. Yet women were repeatedly ***** and and some killed during the ****s.

I do think that most men think that **** is a repulsive horrible crime. Surely nearly as bad as beating an innocent helpless person. I understand that with some of the Russians vengeance was a motivated, but that's not so much the case with the americans.
 
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I don't like Murray's roars either, but his are especially bad because he opens his mouth so wide.

I am obliged to like Andy, though, because he is from Great Britain and he plays great tennis. However I'll openly admit that he has more faults than Djokovic, on a non-tennis level.
 
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