Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

Most of the great fell runners were farmers

or punks ...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/15/gary-devine-punk-fell-runner-leeds-interview

His lifestyle of cider, Mars bars, parties, “a lot of curry and a bit of pasta” wasn’t exactly the stuff of sports science, but back then fell running’s drinking culture was all part of the camaraderie. “Before races, we’d all pile into a van, all chatting and drinking, with a cassette player playing punk stuff like Discharge or Chron Gen,” he remembers. “We’d get to the race site, put the tents up and go to the pub. If it was a normal race you could easily have four cans of cider in the van and then another four pints in the pub the night before. If it was an important race, I’d just have two or three, but most of us drank the night before races then, so it was a level playing field.”

I imagine there's a spectrum. Best to keep sport & politics separate where possible I guess.

Rugby League.

"Rugby union is Great Britain’s most “Conservative” and most privileged team sport, while rugby league is the most “Labour” and most deprived, new data analysis has revealed."

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/uk-sport-news/rugby-union-tory-football-labour-17211596

The Chair of my cycling club is a former rugby player which seems to prove your point.

Poaching? Is that a sport?

If you can afford to take time for sport, or looking after your health, you're a tory.

Bike polo obviously.

Carling, plz...

Given all the conservation work he did he’s surely a green no?

Chron Gen

Haven't heard them mentioned for a loooooong time.

Haha legend.

Keep the cider though.

Not that grass shit.

I’ve got a Trek and a BMW

did my ACL skiing on a glacier in Switzerland

I’ve got a Trek and a BMW

TBF that’s hardly uncommon, BMWs are cheap to buy second hand.

Maybe similar to the ridiculous price of Brooklyns then
😅

Poaching? Is that a sport?

No. That's just shooting to eat something.

Gamekeeping is shooting for money. However it is a Sport because you don't eat it.

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I have 4 pairs of grensons and 3 pairs of trickers plus a pair of cleverleys

Just under 1000 tonnes of gold at today's price.

Ha!

literally what I asked in our etape whatsapp group

I only came back after 7 years away to get quoted in this thread.
Stoked to have achieved that so quickly.

In reserve I had a post for the bespoke suit thread about the shirt I had made by my tailor with an extra cm in the L/H cuff for a watch.

Cool story bro etc...