Fencing, F1, football, TV and fic
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redfiona99I've just started fencing again, and managed to get myself talked into going to a competition. My mantra, which I will undoubtedly forget in the heat of battle, is 'I have not fenced competitively for a year, I do not expect this to go well. I will not be disheartened when I lose.'
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Sebastian Vettel continues to be a sweetheart. Apparently he offers people pieces of his Toblerone when he's eating them. Also, he apparently has a stupidly sweet tooth, much to the annoyance of David Coulthard, who still hates Michael Schumacher with an unholy glee.
I love that when they interview Felipe Massa about how he views the track, Massa brings Rob Smedley with him.
Jake Humphries looks like Gulliver in Liliput. The BBC nearly knocked over Bernie.
I love that Kobyashi isn't sure how many cars are in the GP. He plans to overtake them all though.
Mark Webber is also love. But this is something that is well known.
F1, a multimillion dollar sport, uses paper towels to mop up petrol.
Dear BBC, there's a point where one ceases to be a young, up and coming driver. It's when they win the world title. Vettel is here, he is not the coming man.
The boys in the pits were once again the heroes of the hour last GP. I <3 that Nico Rosberg remembered that a few of the Mercedes engineering team are women.
I can (mostly) understand Vettel in German. This makes me happy.
Oh poor Timo Glock!
The side by side qualifying lap bit was really interesting.
Before any of the Hispania lot complain about Kobyashi getting to race despite not registering a time, it's because his team mate did so they knew it's not that the car can't get within 107% of Red Bull.
Vitali, stop hitting people.
David Coulthard just made me swear at the TV. Can he just be banned from talking about Schumacher because he's more biased than is entirely reasonable.
My guess is that Mark Webber's KERS button has broken again.
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Football
The BBC did their end of season montage to one of Elbow's tunes (will find out who it is), it was awesome. And something I hadn't noticed, one of the Wigan staff apologised to Avram Grant at the end. Dear Wigan Athletic, know this comes from someone who occasionally plots your sister club's demise, but some of your coaching staff are good people.
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TV
Everyone in the Shadow Line is creepy (with the continuing exception of Joseph Bede). I have my suspicions about Gatehouse . I think he's the hitman and that he was working for Glickman. Either that or the pardon had nothing to do with the import and export and the government wanted Wratten dead for some other reason. Either way Gatehouse has too many powers.
Gabriel's inner arsehole is showing again. I want to know what he was like before the accident and they're doing a good job of showing not telling but I want more detail.
Evil cliffhanger this time.
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Title: The Race
Disclaimer: Not mine, all Paramount's. No money is being made from this piece of fiction.
Fandom: Star Trek: XI
Characters: James Kirk, the rest of the crew and various aliens.
Rating: U
Summary: For some reason, the admiral is not buying 'the aliens made us do it' as an excuse.
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"Are you really trying to tell me that the Rigellian High Council demanded that you take part in the race, as part of the negotiations?"
"Yes." The admiral didn't look impressed. The Enterprise winning the Rigellian Sun Festival race in the impulse speed class hadn't caused a diplomatic incident, and indeed the Rigellians looked to be quite happy in the video that Kirk had attached with the report he'd sent, but it was more that Kirk had once again gone off doing something wild without checking if it was a reasonable thing to do.
"Listen Kirk, I don't believe you, because I have met you, and I have met your Chief Engineer, and I recognise the dread technological hand of Montgomery Scott when I see it writ large in a report. However," and this appeared to be Kirk's speciality, "it all seems to have worked out for the best. I'm not even going to bother telling you not to do it again, because you'll somehow find a situation where it's vital, all I ask, is that you make your final report to Starfleet more convincing. Getting something from the Rigellians to the effect of them encouraging your participation would be a start. Hawkins out."
That had gone better than Kirk was expecting. He was pleased that Starfleet seemed to be willing to go with 'the aliens made us do it' as an excuse for the Enterprise taking part in the race. It had been a toss-up between going with that as the reason in the report, or that it was a team building exercise. He'd decided, on balance, to blame diplomacy, as it was very early on in the communication process between the Federation and the Rigellians.
It wasn't exactly a lie, no matter what McCoy said about there being a special Starfleet file for his mission logs called 'The Greatest Lies James Kirk Ever Told'. Yes, they'd finished the negotiations when Sariva, the leader of the Rigellian council tasked with alien matters, had said that as they were here, they really ought to stay for the Festival. Then someone else had said something and word got round and Scotty heard about the race, so Scotty had asked the Rigellians's permission for the Enterprise to enter. Sariva had said 'go for it'.
Jim was pleased that the Enterprise had won, she really was the best ship Starfleet had and it made a good impression on people (also, and he knew this to be truer than true, she was the best ship in the whole quadrant, no matter what). Honest competition brought out the best in people; they'd had far more useful talks with the representatives of lots of different planets after the race than they'd had before.
He thinks that's why Spock isn't too concerned with him bending the truth about why they did it. They'd got letters of introduction to three warp capable planets previously entirely unknown to Starfleet, and access to some interesting new cosmological data.
It had been very successful all in all, if Kirk had gone down the team building path, he could have pointed out that everyone had been cheering on the engineering and operations crew as they got the Enterprise round the tricky, twisting course in twelve minutes less than their nearest rival. Scotty was presently passing around the fruits of their victory (really, it had been fruit, great purple things that looked like melons and tasted not quite like pears) with a few glasses of his best home brew.
The comms team, Uhura especially, were over the moon with some of the new information they'd got about the region and the Rigellians had been happy enough to upload some of their national library onto the data banks. Comms were happily twittering away to each other using more technical jargon that the engineers normally did.
The entire crew were happy and healthy and together, his ship had just won a major race, and he now had an official reason to beam back down and visit Sariva, who had said they both might enjoy it if he went to see her afterwards.
It had been a very good week indeed.
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Sebastian Vettel continues to be a sweetheart. Apparently he offers people pieces of his Toblerone when he's eating them. Also, he apparently has a stupidly sweet tooth, much to the annoyance of David Coulthard, who still hates Michael Schumacher with an unholy glee.
I love that when they interview Felipe Massa about how he views the track, Massa brings Rob Smedley with him.
Jake Humphries looks like Gulliver in Liliput. The BBC nearly knocked over Bernie.
I love that Kobyashi isn't sure how many cars are in the GP. He plans to overtake them all though.
Mark Webber is also love. But this is something that is well known.
F1, a multimillion dollar sport, uses paper towels to mop up petrol.
Dear BBC, there's a point where one ceases to be a young, up and coming driver. It's when they win the world title. Vettel is here, he is not the coming man.
The boys in the pits were once again the heroes of the hour last GP. I <3 that Nico Rosberg remembered that a few of the Mercedes engineering team are women.
I can (mostly) understand Vettel in German. This makes me happy.
Oh poor Timo Glock!
The side by side qualifying lap bit was really interesting.
Before any of the Hispania lot complain about Kobyashi getting to race despite not registering a time, it's because his team mate did so they knew it's not that the car can't get within 107% of Red Bull.
Vitali, stop hitting people.
David Coulthard just made me swear at the TV. Can he just be banned from talking about Schumacher because he's more biased than is entirely reasonable.
My guess is that Mark Webber's KERS button has broken again.
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Football
The BBC did their end of season montage to one of Elbow's tunes (will find out who it is), it was awesome. And something I hadn't noticed, one of the Wigan staff apologised to Avram Grant at the end. Dear Wigan Athletic, know this comes from someone who occasionally plots your sister club's demise, but some of your coaching staff are good people.
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TV
Everyone in the Shadow Line is creepy (with the continuing exception of Joseph Bede). I have my suspicions about Gatehouse . I think he's the hitman and that he was working for Glickman. Either that or the pardon had nothing to do with the import and export and the government wanted Wratten dead for some other reason. Either way Gatehouse has too many powers.
Gabriel's inner arsehole is showing again. I want to know what he was like before the accident and they're doing a good job of showing not telling but I want more detail.
Evil cliffhanger this time.
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For
chronometricTitle: The Race
Disclaimer: Not mine, all Paramount's. No money is being made from this piece of fiction.
Fandom: Star Trek: XI
Characters: James Kirk, the rest of the crew and various aliens.
Rating: U
Summary: For some reason, the admiral is not buying 'the aliens made us do it' as an excuse.
~~~~
"Are you really trying to tell me that the Rigellian High Council demanded that you take part in the race, as part of the negotiations?"
"Yes." The admiral didn't look impressed. The Enterprise winning the Rigellian Sun Festival race in the impulse speed class hadn't caused a diplomatic incident, and indeed the Rigellians looked to be quite happy in the video that Kirk had attached with the report he'd sent, but it was more that Kirk had once again gone off doing something wild without checking if it was a reasonable thing to do.
"Listen Kirk, I don't believe you, because I have met you, and I have met your Chief Engineer, and I recognise the dread technological hand of Montgomery Scott when I see it writ large in a report. However," and this appeared to be Kirk's speciality, "it all seems to have worked out for the best. I'm not even going to bother telling you not to do it again, because you'll somehow find a situation where it's vital, all I ask, is that you make your final report to Starfleet more convincing. Getting something from the Rigellians to the effect of them encouraging your participation would be a start. Hawkins out."
That had gone better than Kirk was expecting. He was pleased that Starfleet seemed to be willing to go with 'the aliens made us do it' as an excuse for the Enterprise taking part in the race. It had been a toss-up between going with that as the reason in the report, or that it was a team building exercise. He'd decided, on balance, to blame diplomacy, as it was very early on in the communication process between the Federation and the Rigellians.
It wasn't exactly a lie, no matter what McCoy said about there being a special Starfleet file for his mission logs called 'The Greatest Lies James Kirk Ever Told'. Yes, they'd finished the negotiations when Sariva, the leader of the Rigellian council tasked with alien matters, had said that as they were here, they really ought to stay for the Festival. Then someone else had said something and word got round and Scotty heard about the race, so Scotty had asked the Rigellians's permission for the Enterprise to enter. Sariva had said 'go for it'.
Jim was pleased that the Enterprise had won, she really was the best ship Starfleet had and it made a good impression on people (also, and he knew this to be truer than true, she was the best ship in the whole quadrant, no matter what). Honest competition brought out the best in people; they'd had far more useful talks with the representatives of lots of different planets after the race than they'd had before.
He thinks that's why Spock isn't too concerned with him bending the truth about why they did it. They'd got letters of introduction to three warp capable planets previously entirely unknown to Starfleet, and access to some interesting new cosmological data.
It had been very successful all in all, if Kirk had gone down the team building path, he could have pointed out that everyone had been cheering on the engineering and operations crew as they got the Enterprise round the tricky, twisting course in twelve minutes less than their nearest rival. Scotty was presently passing around the fruits of their victory (really, it had been fruit, great purple things that looked like melons and tasted not quite like pears) with a few glasses of his best home brew.
The comms team, Uhura especially, were over the moon with some of the new information they'd got about the region and the Rigellians had been happy enough to upload some of their national library onto the data banks. Comms were happily twittering away to each other using more technical jargon that the engineers normally did.
The entire crew were happy and healthy and together, his ship had just won a major race, and he now had an official reason to beam back down and visit Sariva, who had said they both might enjoy it if he went to see her afterwards.
It had been a very good week indeed.
