Your hobbies

Evans wrote: BaldFriede wrote: Reading books, playing bridge. Jean and I are an excellent pair, though we currently don't have that much time for practicing. About 3 years ago we were really top and would have feared no-one in the world, and I mean it. We need to practice more. Bridge, by the way, is NOT a pastime for old ladies, mas it is usually depicted in movies. On the contrary, it is more like chess. In bridge tournaments the element of card luck is totally eliminated; it all relies on skills. Bridge is, as far as I know, the only card game for which this is true. Not to forget playing music, of course. Very true. I had a teacher in high school who was totally obsessed with the game, and once he heard he was, we asked him to show us. We ended up having almost no real classes for the rest of the year, he was always up for a game of bridge, and that second term was one with a lot of freedom to do "whatever we wanted, as long as it was done by dead line". Unfourtunately, you need to be four people (or three, but that's not real bridge) at all times you want to play, so it was hard to keep up, and it is very complicated to learn, so when interest dwindled (also due to the fact that we didn't always have recess at the same time) i lost what little knowledge i had of the game. And he also told us about that tournament thing, as i understood it, every team (pair...) plays the same hand and the one who handles it the best wins the round, so to speak. Yep. It's a pretty cool game.

Exactly. And in team tournaments, where 2 teams (A and B) made of two pairs each play against each other, it is done like this: Pair 1 of team plays against pair 2 of team B in one room, and the other 2 pairs in the other room, and the cards are simply swapped between the teams. So that pair 1 of team A will hold exactly the same cards as pair 1 of team B and pair 2 of team A will hold the cards of pair 2 of team B. This kind of comparison is even easier than the comparison in pair tournaments.

My forum profile pretty much sums it all up

With a name like Bellringer.........campanology!

Jim Garten wrote: YesFan72 wrote: I crochet. Ah yes - Asimov's less successful sequel to I Robot

Edited by Heavyfreight - January 09 2008 at 18:46

I fart a lot and eat shoelaces. I sometimes sniff walls.

I make clay animated reproductions of Max Ernst having breakfast in different islands.

The Doctor wrote: Does internet porn count as a hobby?    What about power drinking?

Geck0 wrote: Please guys, keep it clean (or it'll stick to your underwear...).

I think you could be right, Fanny

Heavyfreight wrote: I run a preserved railway as a hobby; although it is more like a full time job now!

In a couple of weeks, you can restart your old hobby of thrashing me at scrabble & swearing at me over the backgammon board.

Geck0 wrote: Speaking of which, Jim, when do you want me to pop round?  We'll have to arrange something.