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The 2012 Olympics
blanktom:
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--- Quote from: jwhouk on 28 Jul 2012, 09:27 ---No fair, you have the home-field advantage. :P
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And my degree is in Engineering, so he's a bit of a worship figure for me. And my wife said that if we had been able to have a child, she would have called him Isambard, just for the pleasure of shouting that name in the park!
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Completely unrelated to the thread, but I'm currently dating a girl who is maternally descended from Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and she couldn't understand why I thought that was so awesome.
Carl-E:
How the hell did that come up? If she didn't understand it's awesomeness, why did she even mention it?
Skaltura:
I really liked the men's sabre fighting yesterday. While épée and foil can be a bit slow and cautious, Sabre is all about ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK!. Really cool.
There was also a hilarious joke by the German commentator, Romanian fencer Rareș Dumitrescu (4th place) did this weird twirling thing with his weapon, and this defensively useless technique was dubbed the "Romanian windmill". :D
Patrick:
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--- Quote from: pwhodges on 29 Jul 2012, 11:46 ---
--- Quote from: tuathal on 29 Jul 2012, 03:58 ---Wait, I forget. Did he write Bohemian Rhapsody or Mull of Kintyre?
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Scrambled Eggs (working title...)
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I'm so glad I get that one.
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Oh my baby how I love your legs.
Lupercal:
So apparently GBR have a rivalry with Argentina.
Good thing we're smashing them at hockey right now.
(Travel Update: my regular trains are less busy than normal, fewer people at the stations themselves. That's actually quite nice, can't help but think there was a lot of media scaremongering suggesting we weren't going to be able to breathe on the Tube)
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