[Keeping It Simple]

Originally Posted by knox

have you guys noticed when KIS posts, "UK" appears, on average, once every five words?

would this suggest it's time for a holiday abroad?

Why go out for hamburger when I have steak at home?

[knox]

I guess that's your way of saying you've never been abroad?

[tesla69]

an appropriate location

"Asked how she wanted to lose her virginity, the teen agreed the best idea would be to book a room at the Canal Court Hotel..."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...r-1878268.html

[Keeping It Simple]

Originally Posted by knox

I guess that's your way of saying you've never been abroad?

If you bothered to read my others posts, in other threads, you'd know I've been abroad.

[Keeping It Simple]

Originally Posted by tesla69

an appropriate location

"Asked how she wanted to lose her virginity, the teen agreed the best idea would be to book a room at the Canal Court Hotel..."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...r-1878268.html

She's middle class. That's all that needs to be said on the matter.

[knox]

Originally Posted by Keeping It Simple

If you bothered to read my others posts, in other threads, you'd know I've been abroad.

well i usually don't bother.
i didn't even read that one, i just saw uk uk uk uk all over the place.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Keeping It Simple

Tennis in the UK is a steaming heap of shit because of it's class prejudice. We get the occasional half-decent player, like Andy Murray, but on the whole, the UK is a laughing stock. If you want to join a tennis club in the UK, you have to be at least middle class. It's that odious snobby attitude that's been stultifying the UK's chances of winning any major tennis tournaments for decades.

The painful irony of it is the last great British tennis player was Fred Perry, a working class lad from Stockport. He's one of only six men in history to have won all four Grand Slam events. He was the World No.1 player for five years. Some consider him to have been one of the greatest male players to have ever played the game. It pains me to think that if Fred Perry was alive today, his working class roots would've prevented him from being admitted to a tennis club. That's why I hate tennis in the UK SO much.

It's true that tennis in the uk is an overwhelmingly middle class sport. However I don't believe that a working class player would be prevented from joining any decent tennis club here just because of their class. Britain's working classes don't play tennis largely because they've managed to convince themselves that it isn't for them.

[knox]

it's the same everywhere.

it could be that coaching, the clubs and all that crap cost a lot.

it could be that its a boring sport.

i dont know.

other sports are easier to play without the appropriate location and equipment etc.

[demonrail666]

It probably does cost a lot but I do think its a cultural issue more than a financial one. Besides, working class people will spend outrageous amounts of money on all manner of bollocks. It's just that when it comes to a sport like tennis they've managed to convince themselves that it simply isn't for them - rather like going to the theatre, or eating asparagus.

[knox]

well, do you really wanna play tennis, go to the theatre and eat aspargus?

i might take the aspargus once in a while, but thats it.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by knox

well, do you really wanna play tennis, go to the theatre and eat aspargus?

no, because I'm working class. I'd rather save my money and get a new plasma screen tv and a state of the art mobile.

[SONIC GAIL]

I like tennis. I suck at it, but it is awesome cardio. We have tennis courts in nearly every public park or apartment complexes. So you really don't have to join up with a club or anything. You just need someone on the otherside of the net. Asparagus however is nasty.

[tesla69]

Originally Posted by knox

i might take the aspargus once in a while, but thats it.

makes yr pee smell different - just a few spears!

[Rob Instigator]

eat as much asparagus as you can

then hold your pee until you really really really got to go. 2 hours after eating the ASSparagus is best\

Then go take a piss, and marvel at the INSANE putresecence of youyr urine stream and the ridiculous aroma of rotten asparagus.

[floatingslowly]

Originally Posted by phoenix

wow is far less ridiculous than tennis.

for you, perhaps. yr not left trying to figure out if that hot pally is really a guy or not (note: she is).

with tennis, it's sometimes easier to tell. sometimes. hello, Penis Williams, I'm looking at you.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

It's true that tennis in the uk is an overwhelmingly middle class sport.

It isn't, at all. I used to play at county level (girls and booze put paid to that) and it's only true that tennis is a middle-class sport in middle-class areas. I'm not from a middle-class area so joining a tennis club wasn't a problem, or exorbitantly expensive. The better clubs are more expensive, but there's always been grants and so on available to those from poorer backgrounds.

Having said that, you're in London, where tennis clubs are largely the domain of the middle-class (and often the toffier side of that). But that's far from the case across the country.

What is true is that there's a perception that tennis is middle-class, but that's like the perception of classical music, which is overwhelmingly cheaper than the more 'prole-friendly' rock concert.

I think the reason we're shit at tennis is because there isn't really the room in the curriculum to support it as one of our national sports. The US funds plenty of academies to pick up and support people from poorer backgrounds. The finances of this don't really concern me, but it does mean that as a sporting culture they do better than us in a great many sports. I used to know some semi-professional gymnasts, and they've all kicked it on the head because it's just impossible to finance in this country. There's a total of about £3.50 to support gymnasts in this country, and it's just not tenable for the majority of people. This is pretty much true of tennis as well, but there's a world of (financial) difference between the average person joining a tennis club and the average person getting support to become professional.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by knox

well, do you really wanna play tennis, go to the theatre and eat aspargus?

i might take the aspargus once in a while, but thats it.

Interestingly, of the three, I'd say that the person eating asparagus was the middle-class one.

[gualbert]

Asparagus ain't good.
I pity those who have to eat them due to their social status.

[knox]

Originally Posted by tesla69

makes yr pee smell different - just a few spears!

it happens with rice crispies too, doesn't bother me.

[knox]

Originally Posted by Glice

Interestingly, of the three, I'd say that the person eating asparagus was the middle-class one.

there's nothing wrong with eating aspargus to pretend you're rich once in a while.