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Old 09-10-2011, 10:08 AM
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bathurst 1000 as well as rugby - big day today

i should have square eyes by tonight - bathurst is about to start and have the rugby on this arvo as well.....
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Old 09-10-2011, 10:10 AM
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You forgot F1 as well
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Old 09-10-2011, 10:29 AM
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oh yeah my bad
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Old 09-10-2011, 12:12 PM
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ho hum......
I just don't get it. It's like watching tennis or golf or cricket.
It's just cars going around and around.
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Old 09-10-2011, 01:11 PM
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ho hum......
I just don't get it. It's like watching tennis or golf or cricket.
It's just cars going around and around.
No worse than those bored nerdy clowns who get excited about a faint fuzzy blob through an eyepiece

...although I agree with you regading the car racing

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Old 09-10-2011, 01:22 PM
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oooh, my secret shame... on bathurst weekend, i can normally be found parked squarely in front of the telly, doing some sewing hahaha
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Old 09-10-2011, 01:33 PM
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No worse than those bored nerdy clowns who get excited about a faint fuzzy blob through an eyepiece
What are these "eyepiece" things you speak of??
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Old 09-10-2011, 01:33 PM
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oooh, my secret shame... on bathurst weekend, i can normally be found parked squarely in front of the telly, doing some sewing hahaha
That's a very "Blokey" thing to do mate.
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Old 09-10-2011, 01:37 PM
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thanks, mate, just need a little metrosexual respite from all the beer drinking and lookin' at the ladies we do on site...
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Old 09-10-2011, 01:45 PM
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what are these "eyepiece" things you speak of??
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