Rip Curl Pro Portugal 2017
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- Huey's Right Hand
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Re: Rip Curl Pro Portugal 2017
fcuk! it has become a weird scene. Never before has it felt so divorced from the actual surfing experience. More than near divorced -- actually embracing its strangeness, willingly hurtling down a track entirely of its own devising, removed from any other impetus either surf-cultural or market driven.
so the global economy is beginning a real movement upward now. Will this be enough to convince some corpo lunatic to get on board this mad train?
so the global economy is beginning a real movement upward now. Will this be enough to convince some corpo lunatic to get on board this mad train?
- The Mighty Sunbird
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Surfers seems such a heterogenous bunch that reference to a some sort of homogeneous surf culture seems delusory.
(which is possibly not what you implied, Nick, but I just felt like typing something because I'm drinking wine)
(which is possibly not what you implied, Nick, but I just felt like typing something because I'm drinking wine)
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Well I'm drinking wine and feel like typing something too! "The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths." It's from Pushkin but I read it in a Chekhov story the other day after seeing a Facebook friend's post about the gooseberry pie she cooked and took a picture of. It's probably relevant to the discussion we're having here.
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Finals and waves are craptacular.
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Looks like the title race is going to Pipe.
- steve shearer
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fcuk these closeouts and fcuk everybody happy to see "relatable" conditions.
I want Nightclub Dwight dead in his grave I want the nice-nice up in blazes
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If this was Rio with identical waves, everyone would be whinging about it.
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Just for once, I'd like to hear one of them say, "it's actually really shit out there, we shouldn't have to compete in that", rather than "it's pretty tricky out there".
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i switch over to "a current affair"
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oh dear, no.. that's off.
The crickets in the garden now have my full attention.
The crickets in the garden now have my full attention.
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It's getting worse. Now massive rips are going through the line-up. Put a screen around this comp and put a bullet in her, she's done.
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- That's Not Believable
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Re: Rip Curl Pro Portugal 2017
steve shearer wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:02 pmfcuk these closeouts and fcuk everybody happy to see "relatable" conditions.
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
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It's so shit
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Can someone remind Julian that surfing contests actually require you to catch waves, not just sit and watch them?
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And now the final in progress with Julian scoring a 1.00 while Medina has caught 10 waves including a 0.2 (just how bad is that)
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