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sounds good mastershredder, get in touch with a date/time. anything you can teach me in return?

thanks for the load offer dfp, but a proper kit is just too loud for a terraced house.

that studio sounds good though - £5 is bang on.

week off? la-di-dah...

i'll be going out for a long ride on monday - could head out together?

offer extends to you pistaboy, of course. i may go and demo some electric kits at shops around town...

it's supposed to get milder this week - is everyone on for polo, weds 7.30 as usual?

i've been offline due to moving house, but it's all set up now.

i blame the lack of polo - the 6-10 regular players must have been on here almost daily to check events and often had to sign in to respond to polls and organise games.

seems milder this week - hope polo happens on wednesday!

i played the drums for about 5 years but knocked it on the head when i moved into a flat. it's probably the easiest instrument to get moderately good on, but requires a massive amount of effort to get really good.

i'd be happy to give you a lesson/demo if you can find a kit/place to play, i'm out of practice but can still whack out a beat or threee.

i've been considering purchasing an electric kit, as it seems prices have dropped massively and you can get a mesh-head kit for around £500 now. i'm not sure if most of the enjoyment comes from the 'feel' of real drums/cymbals though...

merci for the update herr allah - can't wait for this flipping snow and ice to go so we can resume poloing!

i said i wouldn't be there unless 6 people confirmed! i think too many people were doing too many family things. it was especially beautiful today, and man do i miss polo...

i've got a special polo bike brewing for the new year - going to join blowieben and most of the bestest international players in the freewheel mafia.

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Apologies for starting yet another new thread just for a game of polo, but i get the impression more people look/respond to separate threads.

Question is in the title, although i'm not really bothered about the time, it just would be nice to play for a few hours in daylight. Weather looks like it may be nice:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/wm/birmingham_forecast_weather.html

Add your name to mine - if there's less than 6, i for one won't be there!

i don't know if anyone else is up for it anyway, but i won't be at polo on wednesday. hopefully there'll be a thaw in january...

i'm going to walk out on a brittle and flimsy limb and say i don't understand the point.

i've tried a few times, but i still don't get it.

i've got it in toronto - it had a fun/freewheelin'/liberal/carnival/hippyish vibe which you could either love or loathe. also, having around 200 people show up helps.

in brum i it's too slow and antagonistic - drivers see 20-30 cyclists deliberately annoying them as they leave work late on a friday night, compounding their already bad mood. not a good way to tempt people over to an alternative mode of transport. in fact, if this is the aim, i think it has a negative effect ie: "cyclists are self-righteous wankers, i'd prefer to drive, even motorists are more accepted than asshole cyclists".

i propose either speeding up and properly dominating a lane of traffic (as a car would), or making it more of a party atmosphere so at least some of the motorists can get along with it...

i spent the last week fretting and sweating that i was too old and suddenly there's a person, place or famous thing called 'Burns' who may or may not have to go, and that i have no opinion either way and am trapped in ignorance.

then someone posts something about sideburns and i understand right away.

then i get all self-righteous and wish dfp had adhered to grammatical rules when positing the question and used an apostrophe to signal abbreviation: 'should the 'burns go?'.

and i would respond: either go with brave and weird 'burns, or no 'burns at all.

'diagonal chainline' - the straightness of my chain is beyond refute.

'big fella' - all muscle.

private messages would work fine i think. probably send to hyper as the bastion of polo morality. still need to hear back from the aforementioned hyper, new new new dan, and chris.

oooh, nasty. i don't understand how chains snap... never seems to happen to me, perhaps i'm not pushing hard enough.

the roads are well dodgy out there today - be careful!

i was out on a nice relaxing countryside ride this morning, around 10am, 'safe' in the knowledge that it was above freezing all night long. unfortunately, the weather tells you air temperatures and doesn't take account of wind either, any patch of road that was exposed to the wind had a nice coating of ice on the top. i had several scary moments and wound up on my side in the middle of a national speed limit road before i had a change to take my hands off the bars!

at least when it happens that fast you can't get your arms out and hurt your wrist/collar bones.

i can see myself driving to work and using the peasant wagon a fair bit over the next few months - it just isn't worth going under the wheels of a car/bus/lorry.

i was going to suggest us each making individual lists of all the players interested - the more votes, the more balanced. also, if we just do top three we might not learn too much...

yeah - i'm totally in favour of the names in a hat approach, but it depends on getting all seven people in the same place at the same time. which could be difficult. i think our best bet is to do it at polo one night/day.

also 7 x 6 votes each = 42, which should be plenty to get a clear idea of where everyone is in the scheme of things...

the seven interested players - other people don't really know about who is better week in/week out. also, the vote won't affect them.

don't know how to do the vote though - i think it should be anonymous, but i can't figure out how to do a poll that would be anonymous and mean we can't vote for ourselves.

my thoughts are that it's unfair for me, fin and chris to just keep representing birmingham at tournaments. if we all anoymously vote for who we think is best - ie seed the players who have declared interest in geneva, we'll have a ranking which we can use to choose who goes.

for example, if seed 1 doesn't want to go, or can't, seed two gets the next option, and so on until we have 3 players. also, this will help us to make 'a' and 'b' teams for smaller/national tournaments when we can probably send two teams but it might be a shame to split the small talent pool between two teams...

in order to allow people to progress, we can hold votes before the bigger tournaments, or not, if people want to stay in the teams they're alread in.

i can't think of any better way of organising it. we potentially have 7 people who want to play in the euros, but we can only really send one team...

i can't do sunday - family lunch fun i'm afraid. and way too wet tonight.

yeah - met office says rain. i'll check on here again closer to the time.

just a test to see if a poll would work - don't think it would.