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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2015-10-15 20:03, wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:58:56 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2015-10-15 19:12, wrote:
>>> On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:02:01 -0700, "Cheri" >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Wll... the fact is that there are some people who come in here and
>>>>> intentionally ask really bloody stupid questions, often just to generate
>>>>> some attention for themselves. Then there are a number of people who are
>>>>> too thick to see the idiotic questions as the childish attention seeking
>>>>> behaviour that it is.
>>>>
>>>> Sort of like the way some people (YOU) respond a hundred times or so a day
>>>> to every subject under the sun? You mean like that sad cry for attention?
>>>>
>>>> Cheri
>>>
>>> Funny it was passing through my mind that he labours under a massive
>>> weight of superiority, in his opinion.
>>
>> It is not to hard to feel a sense of superiority when dealing with
>> people like Cheri, who has trouble distinguishing between 10 and 100,
>> and people like you who jump to bizarre conclusions. When you have
>> trouble rebutting my comments you have to resort to lies and confused ad
>> homenum.
>>>
> Is ad homenum something you eat ?
>
> I repeat to you, I don't lie. You accused me of lying about a man in
> his forties playing soccer in NS, come to find out there is an over 45
> League with a couple of players in their 60s! So explain where the
> lie in that was ? You reckoned I made it up, meeting a forty year old
> player.
>

To set the record straight....
>
>
> I hate to disappoint you, but I am not a big fan of team sports. I
> appreciate that they are good way to keep kids active, but it is hard to
> keep up into adulthood. My son had a friend who wanted to include my son
> in tennis lessons. This guy had played professional football but later
> on lost interest in team sports in favour of what he called "sports for
> life", the sorts of things you could pursue in later years without
> having to deal witha bunch of people's schedules. All you need for
> tennis is to get one or three other people to meet for a few games.
> Things like bicycling, canoeing, kayaking, hiking. You can do them in
> groups or individually.
>
>
Totally incorrect - many play soccer well into their forties. I met
one of our ex soccer boys recently in a mall, still playing and
heading fifty now.