Maybe. That Jacobs team is pretty 'buff' --and their alternate did get a 2 year ban for a steroid infraction last year; Canadian curler Matt Dumontelle suspended for doping - The Globe and Mail
Canadian Club and/or VO and/or Crown Royal are not considered dopants.
Ouch -- Spanador cycled another 9 km with a fractured tibia!
Ouch -- Spanador cycled another 9 km with a fractured tibia!
That is hilarious. Hooda thunk they would test? I mean why?
Let's face it, using steroids to enhance your curling game is like putting a new coat of paint on your demolition derby car. Like Ross Rebagliati improving his snowboarding skills by puffing a fatty before the race. Why would they even have a rule against it when it wouldn't enhance his abilities. They should test them for caffeine and alcohol. Oh wait, without those two there would be no curling.
We use scrubbers not brushes but I know what you're saying. Yes you can actually stay warm that way.
hehe.
Tour de farce!
Will never waste time watching it. Better go and ride the bicycle myself
Last edited:
In which case the lingua franca is english as it is in most cases these days as it is the easiest language to learn and the whole computer thing made english even more ubiquitous.
Lingua franca merely means the language used in a conversation in which the protagonists do not speak each others mother tongue.
Not at all.
My mother tongue is german and I tried to learn english, portuguese, italian, shona, dutch, latin and russian.
I failed at all, even dutch, except english in which I became fluent long before I moved to the UK.
My mother tongue is german and I tried to learn english, portuguese, italian, shona, dutch, latin and russian.
I failed at all, even dutch, except english in which I became fluent long before I moved to the UK.
Jacco, I have to side with you on this one. I pity the fool that has to learn English. With all we have taken from other languages etc., it's pretty hard to have rules.
The when and how behind long vowels for example.
Punctuation is another. ('s) can be possessive or an abbreviation.
Can't tell you how many pronunciations for 'augh' there is, I mean are.
Good, better, best? WTF, make it easy - Good, gooder, goodest, it's simple but nooooooo, not English.
All the exceptions and weird spellings and restrictive word order in english are still way easier than the genders and adjective endings in many other languages.... Even if you learn to speak/read everyday german well, there is still the konjunktiv 1 verb tense used for reporting things...and then there are all the local dialects, which are often like another language in themselves...
- Status
- Not open for further replies.