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    • thanks rc!! genius lyrics which i know pretty much by heart along with most of the hissing of summer lawns and court and spark…
      do you like blood on the tracks by bd?? more genius…..

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  6. I was plunged into such deep depression after the Brexit result was confirmed I couldn’t even raise the energy to check the tennis results let alone take any interest in the Wimby draw 🙁

    The prospects for ex-pats like myself living in France and my sister in Spain are worrying and the thought that the buffoon Boris Johnson looks set to be the next Prime Minister is cause for even greater concern.

    Marina Hyde sums up the situation eloquently in The Guardian

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/24/leavers-take-control

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    • I’m only now trying to understand Brexit fully, ed. My attention has been on the sickening political situation with it’s implications here and the lack of options – it’s futility that I feel the most if I dig deep. But I’m catching on as I read and learn more. Boris Johnson is eerily, vaguely comically your version of Donald Trump? Anyway, the news is shocking at the moment and I’m struggling to absorb what just happened and what the hell will happen next.

      It does make Wimbledon seem insignificant. But I’ll take a break and try to clear the nausea I feel – try to find a cool, dark place to listen to some music and then tackle the bracket puzzles for distraction.

      Heartfelt sympathy to you from Oregon. Margot is also understandably very upset.

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        • Ratcliff

          The twitter cartoon managed to make me giggle for a few minutes but the thought two of the most influential nations on the world stage could conceivably be governed by Boris and Donald makes the blood run cold. Let’s hope Brexit serves as a salutary reminder to America before it’s too late.

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    • ed,

      I share your sentiments as an American across the pond. I was quite horrified to see the result. The reckless disregard for the impact on not only the UK economy, but the global economy, was especially troubling. Sometimes one should think carefully before casting a protest vote.

      The stick market tumbled mightily in the US. It’s scary and disturbing. I am also concerned about what voters were told and not told about the consequences of this vote. I don’t think the Prime Minuster should have ever given the voters this referendum. It’s too important to trust to voting emotionally. Now some people wish they could change their vote. Too late!

      I really don’t like how cable news in the states is trying to draw a parallel between this vote and our presidential election. I don’t think American voters will make the same mistake if drinking the kool aid and buying the crazy from Trump.

      I don’t like the guy who will be the next UK Prime Minister.

      This was a colossal mistake made by people who did not take a breath and think seriously about the consequences of this vote.

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      • NNY: My last comment was not up when you posted the above. I hope for America’s sake, and the rest of the world, the voters will come to their senses in time.

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        • ed,

          I just read a good article on CNN.com about the key differences between our presidential election and a popular referendum. I think some in cable news are comparing apples to oranges.

          We have the electoral college and while many consider it antiquated, it does serve a purpose. It favors the Democratic Party and also makes sure that it’s not just about the popular vote. We are electing a president and not just voting yes or no on one issue. Real questions have been raised about trump’s fitness to be president.

          While immigration is an issue that trump has used to fire up a portion of the electorate, there are other equally important issues to be considered.

          I believe that Trump is the most dangerous person ever to run for president of the US. He is appealing to the basest instincts of people. He seems to be using some of the tactics of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazt propaganda minister, as well as a little of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s baiting and defaming tactics that were used in the 1950’s when he was looking for imaginary communists in our government.

          I take the threat of Trump as president very seriously. But things are now coming out about his dirty business practices and unpreparedness to be president.

          I hope that Americans do keep this disastrous result in the UK in mind as we proceed through our election process. We cannot afford to be manipulated and lied to by someone like Trump.

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  10. Have taken a break from wall to wall tennis and been watching the Tour de France. Sad to see Cavendish leave early to prepare for the OGs and Froome came close to losing the Maillot Jaune when he took a nasty fall descending a lethal downhill stretch in the pouring rain this afternoon.

    Allez the Brits.

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    • ed,

      You are just finally realizing this? Imagine living through this insanity here in the states in a presidential election!

      Not only is he certifiably insane, he is an ignoramus who knows nothing

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  14. tinhathawkeye has developed straw man argument to a fine art. By the way, why do you and vr insist on calling me ritb?
    I feel flattered so that’s not good (for you). ritb has already been driven off. Whom are you going to hound and harass?
    I have a brilliant suggestion. You can allege I am native. I will be unhappy. So that’s good ( for you). You can harass native and run her off this site. Then she can return with a new moniker. When she left NY , she called herself NNY. Recently she left LA so she can call herself LA Native. Short, perfect with a touch of the foreign! And we can all celebrate the Return of the Native!

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    • “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

      – John Lennon

      One more thing me and Rafa have in common (besides OCD according to someone here). Haha!

      Thanks rc.

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  20. ok this thread seems to have moved from the rafa page….a good thing too as it didn’t belong there…
    vr if you come on site do look on the rafa page as i left birthday greetings for both you and hawks there..
    so just to say that i hope you both have a great birthday and that the year to come brings you all good things…
    and thanks to vr and hawks for being such great posters here…seems fitting you both have the same birthday

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    • hi amy, from a post of yours on Rafa’s page I read the big new: VR’s and Hawk’s bd’s, and couldn’t resist, thanks.

      And I agree with you about VR and Hawks: both expert tennis minds and it’s a cool cosmic coincidence for them to share the same birthday! Let’s see what gives from an internet search:

      VIRGO HOROSCOPE: TODAY
      Tuesday 08/23/2016
      No one has ever seen a giraffe swimming. This would be a time to celebrate life on planet Earth, and you would do so if only you weren’t obsessed with work every second of the day. Even though you’ll have some additional pressure in days to come, this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t find time to read about giraffes with your morning coffee.
      Don’t underestimate your emotional states at the moment. The important thing to do is find balance of reason and emotion, instead of constantly choosing sides.

      VIRGO TRAITS
      Strengths: Loyal, analytical, kind, hardworking, practical
      Weaknesses: Shyness, worry, overly critical of self and others, all work and no play
      Virgo likes: Animals, healthy food, books, nature, cleanliness
      Virgo dislikes: Rudeness, asking for help, taking center stage

      The Virgo Man
      Virgos are always paying attention to smallest details and their deep sense of humanity makes them one of the most careful signs of the zodiac. Their methodical approach to life ensures that nothing is left to chance. Virgos are often tender but also very careful.
      RC’s Translation: OCD 😀

      Virgo is an Earth sign, which prefers conservative and organized things, and those dependent on them. People born under the Virgo sign have very organized life, and even if they are very messy, their goals and dreams are put on strictly defined points in their mind.
      RC’s Translation: Single-minded, stubborn, lol…

      Since Mercury is the ruling planet of Virgo, this sign has a well-developed sense of speech and writing, as well as all other forms of communication. Many Virgos may choose to pursue a career as a writer or journalist.
      RC’s Translation: VR and Hawkstradamus ?

      Virgo is often misunderstood, because of the symbolism of the name of this sign. Virgo experiences everything for the first time.
      RC’s Translation: huh? ?

      Virgos want to serve and please others, so they often choose to work as caregivers.?

      http://www.astrology-zodiac-signs.com/man/virgo/

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        • ha! i did think the golden duo’s bday was on monday as was the day after cinci final last year. remember vr saying it was his birthday on that sunday ie day of the final….

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          • scoretracker was the fedfan equivalent of a lovechild between “Mar(ITB)y” and augusta from a galaxy far, far away.

            (To be compared to deucey can only be considered to be a complement – never a single nasty word from her mouth. She was a great and friendly poster like you, VR, rc and all but a couple of self-proclaimed rafan posters here.)

          • i know who deucey is hawks as i read tennis-x where i know she posts as margot. most posters on here refer to her as margot so it wasn’t exactly difficult to work out who she was. i agree that it is very odd to troll someone by saying they are margot…although according to mary she led a ‘lynch-mob’ of trolls on tennistalk ie you, nny, chloro!!!
            apparently scoretracker was a special victim of your’s. (real loony-toons stuff…)

          • Hawkeye knows amy is deuce. deuce brazenly pretends that hawkeye is pretending he thinks she is deuce. and she will pretend that he knows. hawkeye decides to accept new troll storyline.
            So it is now hawkeye pretends that amy pretends that hawkeye pretends….so on
            Hilarious! hawkeye and deuce serving up a troll FRACTAL. Only devious cunning troll brains can create designs within designs ( all evil, of course)

          • Anyone can go look in the archives for TT and see for themselves who said what. There was one person who did call out another poster for supposedly being a Murray fan pretending to be a Rafa fan. The exact same garbage that is being regurgitated and recycled here by someone posting under another user name. Oh and it wasn’t RITB! Just check it out and you will see that it’s the same nonsensical conspiracy theories thrown around here yet one more time.

            Deucey/Margot never pretended to be anyone other than a Murray fan and she was the nicest poster on TT. Her posts are there in the archives for everyone to see.

            It’s the person who is making all these bizarre accusations who should be under scrutiny. Why keep accusing others of pretending to be a fan of Rafa? Maybe it’s the one throwing around the accusations who is really pretending! Think about it!

            Scoretracker was the most notorious troll in TT. I cannot imagine anyone defending someone who disrupted that site with epic length essays ranting and raving incoherently all the time.

          • oh hahahahaha i hadn’t seen this mary classic at 4.10 am…
            have you seen it hawks?…
            this is getting comic

          • Nativenewyorker (AT 4:15),
            If I may ask why don’t you react when hawk and vr are spreading a nonsensical conspiracy theory that RITB (who hasn’t written on GS for months) is now writing under another user name on GS. Hawk and vr have been making these bizarre accusations for months.

          • amy, I only respond to Mar(itb)y’s posts when they show a fraction of creativity which is rare.

            Mary and RITB’s writing style and views are identical. It is obvious who she is on Tennis-X (senorita) the odd time she posts there for the same reasons. She only stopped posting as RITB when it was pointed out that both would suddenly appear and disappear together.

            She is more than aware that amy and deuce are not the same but she thinks that she is being cute by doing so to make a point.

            If it didn’t bother her so much, she wouldn’t spend so much energy on it LOL. She probably feels bad about abandoning her moniker RafaIsTheBest. He still is in my mind because of what he has achieved and how he defines success.

            And nny is right that deuce was bullied away by a tinfoil heavy pot and kettle social media regurgitator whose only opinions are on other posters and has never expressed a single opinion of her own on tennis.

          • AT 7:24 PM says: “And nny is right that deuce was bullied away …”

            REUSABLE
            [augusta08 AUGUST 12, 2016 AT 9:03 AM]
            She seems to make the same “significant contributions” also on other site(s).
            An example of he contribution on Grandstand:
            deucy APRIL 20, 2014 AT 8:38 AM says:
            “…I can’t stand Uncle T. I think he is a bully…”
            h ttp://tenngrand.com/2014/04/18/monte-carlo-sf-previews-and-picks-djokovic-vs-federer-wawrinka-vs-ferrer/comment-page-4/#comment-23268
            .
            I typed the same her sentence in Google Search and found this:
            Margot Says:
            “…Re: Uncle Toni. I think he is a bully…”
            March 22nd, 2015 at 2:09 pm
            h ttp://www.tennis-x.com/xblog/2015-03-21/18811.php#comment-589707
            ?
            She is probably doing well in environments that are hostile towards Rafa and uncle Toni.
            https://tenngrand.com/2016/08/10/olympics-r3-previews-predictions-nadal-vs-simon-murray-vs-fognini/comment-page-1/#comment-135667

          • mine too rc…am aries so get on with other fire signs…
            are there any toons about people born under leo? can’t think of any – if any exist you will know!

          • deucey was on tenngrand. She did not enjoy being deucey as none of her fellow Muzzfans except ed were here who was also a part time Rafa fan ( the horror of it! eek as deuce would say). So she left to return as amy.
            deuce was on tennistalk and she was a 100% troll and part of the lynch mob style attacks on scoretracker.
            Two guys vr and hawkeye revved up by a deuce!!!!

          • amy what does it matter whether I am ritb or holdserve? Both are Rafa fans. but definitely amy dear you shouldn’t be posting under false pretenses. I know you are deuce. I do not want to go into tedious detail because that is not my style. Also vulgarity and viciousness have never been there in my posts. I rely on wit.

          • oh amy am I giving you an inferiority complex because of my erudition? Ha ha. Poor you. You were out of your depth when I talked of fractals . It must have hurt. As for native, I never expected her to tax her brain with fractals any more than I would expect her to understand theory of relativity. But I guess she doesn’t know that she doesn’t know so embarrasses herself by making remarks like this did not make sense to me, did it make sense to others. I am sure there are plenty of things which make no sense to you native but make a lot of sense to others.

          • ah, fractals. I remember that.

            Most likely holdserv after all then.

            (Doubt RITB would remember that reference as a divergence – so massive apologies to RITB – I doubt that she would forgive me but I would still put it out there.)

          • Does the post @ 4:10 make any sense to anyone? The accusations and conspiracy theories are getting stranger every day! An overactive imagination perhaps?

            But there is a familiar refrain to these accusations. Hmmm. Just check out the archives on TT and all will be revealed!

            Some seem to forget that there is a past history that can be accessed. These exact same accusations about pretending to be a Rafa fan while really being a Murray fan, were posted regularly on TT.

          • a word to the wise. the poster 2016 who attacked me viciously for no reason in december used exactly the same language, style of expression, fake learning/erudition that are mary’s trademark. i clicked on the avatar for 2016 as i had found out by chance that if you do so you can sometimes see the information tree behind the user name. the real original name attached to 2016’s avatar was holdserve19.
            so it is not supposition but fact that someone who used to post here ie holdserve19 has been posting here under a different name. does beg a number of questions no?

          • there was a poster who came on with the name 2016 in december. 3 people – myself, you and nny thought that he/she was mary because he/she wrote exactly like her. i clicked on the gravatar for 2016 and it gave the name holdserve19. i told this to nny who said that holdserve had a grudge against her so that would explain a lot.
            you did write that you thought 2016 was mary if you remember? and 2016 is holdserve – that’s a fact.
            obviously it is hard for me to comment on a lot of this because i have only been on site since last may (approx)
            maybe holdserve just mysteriously sounded like mary for those posts but it’s a big coincidence.

          • to be a bit clearer. if you click on a gravatar you can see details of the name changes and holdserve19 had ‘become’ 2016…all the details were there..

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