Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BeH Newsgroups: alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup Subject: Re: Ry Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:51:00 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 69 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 12:51:00 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b029671e05629a2e1b754eee724eae69"; logging-data="3477031"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19QMmnMCz1zl8ytz09YDuFtfI+v22/j3Ms=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:AVWYCp9Di4DnIWGQ4AyG7tAah9A= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup:6285 On 13.08.2023 23.28, Merlyne wrote: > BeH wrote in news:ub3nfl$hbbg$2@dont-email.me: > >> On 09.08.2023 14.19, Merlyne wrote: >>> BeH wrote in >>> news:uanmcn$25mk8$5@dont-email.me: >>> >>>> On 01.08.2023 13.32, Merlyne wrote: >>>>> BeH wrote in >>>>> news:ua396v$2kvhc$4@dont-email.me: >>>>> >>>>>> On 27.07.2023 15.32, Merlyne wrote: >>>>>>> BeH wrote in >>>>>>> news:u9o9u1$13h4r$3@dont-email.me: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 22.07.2023 17.21, Merlyne wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> [Inferior sports removed] >>>>> [I thought you loved soccer] >>>> [Football!!1! I am. That's why that bit wasn't removed.] >>> [Soccer!!!2!!!] >> [FOOT BALL ! ! 3 ! !] > [SOCCER !!4!! !! [Football! FOOTBALL!! F O O T B A L L !!!!5!!!!] >>>>>>>>>> You are also (maybe) getting a pro women's football team in >>>>>>>>>> (maybe) 2025... >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Really? >>>>>>>>> They had an international women's basketball tournament >>>>>>>>> recently in Toronto. I think they might be starting a league. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> There are quite a few Canadian women playing in top leagues in >>>>>>>>>> England and France. I doubt a (maybe) national league (in >>>>>>>>>> 2025) will be able to afford those, though. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> We have a national soccer team that is at the women's FIFA >>>>>>>>> thing in Australia. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Which is some accomplishment, I guess, with no non-college >>>>>>>> league of your own, and a lot of players going to US colleges or >>>>>>>> to pro clubs. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Our national team is there too - won their first game against >>>>>>>> China. For utterly nefarious reasons (CAPITALISM!) I can't see >>>>>>>> the games because some foreign satellite station won the >>>>>>>> broadcast rights. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> People always post links to feeds in Reddit. >>>>>> I don't use Reddit. Also I understand it is on a trajectory >>>>>> similar to twitter^W 'X' lately. >>>>>> Also from earlier experience with less authorised streams of >>>>>> cycling, it's a struggle I'm not up to at that time of day... >>>>>>> The games are early here. I think the final round robin one is at >>>>>>> 5 am. I'm up, but a lot of people aren't. >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > -- BeH " We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words." - Niels Bohr