I was good at sports - soccer, rugby, cricket, softball, athletics - even tennis.
Rugby in the open weight grades at university though was tough and even though I was fast I wasn't big enough to shrug off the tackles of the Neanderthals who were at least half my weight again and invariably I was injured with sprains, concussions and once with a split nose that required many stitches.
I gave up after two years of under 19 and under 20 rugby.
In recent years my sports activity is golf and tennis but I seem to be able to get injured playing these.
See: GOLF IS DANGEROUS
Today it seems that tennis is a rough contact sport as well. In a lively rally my partner, Karen smashed a return while I was closer to the net than her and unfortunately I turned my head to watch her shot. The shot went astray and hit me full on in the face.
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Damn it hurt. It made my eyes water so bad I couldn't see and had to stop playing briefly. I was worried that my now was broken - my nose being a significant feature of my visage - but fortunately it wasn't. It wasn't bleeding either which was a relief as I take blood thinner medication and might have emptied out over the tennis court.
Bloody tennis!
I might have to take up some more sedentary pursuits like croquet but, with my luck. some old dame might scone me with a mallet.
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A relief that your now wasn't broken.
Thanks but it might have given me that rugged look that attracts the ladies and scares off the bad guys.
"Visage" a person's facial expression! I know Richard can move his ears up and down, but try as I might I can not do anything with my nose apart from enlarging the nostrils.
"Visage - a person's face, with reference to the form or proportions of the features."
Robert, I don't know why you always try this sort of thing on.
Your reading and comprehension abilities often are at a primary school level which might of course explain your acceptance of the nonsense in The Catechism.
OK, it took a while but I've now noticed the typo 'now' instead of 'nose'.
I should have picked up on this on Richard's comment where he appeared to not make fun of my sore nose.
I suppow he thinks that's funny.
Proofreading could have saved that little embarrassment.
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