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#21 User is offline   hrothgar 

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Posted 2009-November-05, 11:03

I once tried the following

"Listen lady, I'm sick of you and your god damn whining.
Sit down, shut up, and play the %&$#* card"

This was not received well.
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Posted 2009-November-05, 11:13

hrothgar, on Nov 5 2009, 12:03 PM, said:

I once tried the following

"Listen lady, I'm sick of you and your god damn whining.
Sit down, shut up, and play the %&$#* card"

This was not received well.

And she said, just because I'm your mother doesn't give you the right to talk this way :P
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Posted 2009-November-05, 12:34

"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil."

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Posted 2009-November-05, 18:46

barmar, on Nov 5 2009, 07:12 AM, said:

I doubt there's much that can be done about card snappers. Most of the people I see doing it are elderly (of course, that's true of bridge players in general...), and I figure they've been doing it all their lives. I don't harbor any expectation that my reaction will change a longstanding habit like this.

The main person that does this that I'm thinking of is under 40 (I think) but is still among the oldest at the bridge club where we play.
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Posted 2009-November-06, 08:02

Card snapping I just ignore. Whatever they think they are accomplishing, I just let them keep thinking it.

Facial expressions I use to my advantage. Usually I find I am reading more from it than his/her partner.
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Posted 2009-November-06, 08:16

Fluffy, on Nov 5 2009, 08:44 AM, said:

I tried to tell partner: I love you. It didn't work, it started another stupid arguing itself ;)

There are also collateral effects to that.

I know one chap who calls his partner Lieber to try to get the game going without further ado.

Now the other day they happen to appear as our opps at a tournament, and during the round intermission my partner who was not aware I knew the 2 of them said:

--These two, these two, they are online lovers.

-- how do you know that?, I asked.

-- Because of the way they speak to each other, AND, because they traveled to a regional game the other day without their spouses.

ahem.......

View PostFree, on 2011-May-10, 03:57, said:

Babalu just wanted a shoulder to cry on, is that too much to ask for?
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