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Can you take sport too seriously?
by PeterCS Sun 07 Oct 2012, 14:53
Wood loses testicle in Grand Final
Warrington's Paul Wood lost a testicle after sustaining an agonising injury in the [English] Super League Grand Final.
Remarkably, the prop played on after rupturing a testicle early in the second half of the match, which Warrington lost 26-18 to Leeds at Old Trafford.
Wood even conducted media interviews after the game before going to hospital where he was operated on. He tweeted late on Saturday night to fellow rugby league star Leon Pryce: "Ruptured my right testicle mate, got a knee 1 minute into the second half, had to have it removed tonight."
He joked on Sunday: "Just coming out the hospital to go home... Seriously feel like I've left something???"
(source: Eurosport)
Warrington's Paul Wood lost a testicle after sustaining an agonising injury in the [English] Super League Grand Final.
Remarkably, the prop played on after rupturing a testicle early in the second half of the match, which Warrington lost 26-18 to Leeds at Old Trafford.
Wood even conducted media interviews after the game before going to hospital where he was operated on. He tweeted late on Saturday night to fellow rugby league star Leon Pryce: "Ruptured my right testicle mate, got a knee 1 minute into the second half, had to have it removed tonight."
He joked on Sunday: "Just coming out the hospital to go home... Seriously feel like I've left something???"
(source: Eurosport)
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Re: Can you take sport too seriously?
by tricycle Sun 07 Oct 2012, 17:46
Wondered where Woody had been.
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Re: Can you take sport too seriously?
by Brass Monkey Sun 07 Oct 2012, 18:48
Jebus f*cking Christ. That's quite a story. He should get a VC or something.
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by tricycle Sun 07 Oct 2012, 19:02
Happened to a Sydney player some years ago, and he played the whole match too.
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by mynah Sun 07 Oct 2012, 19:15
And you can't even credit him with having the balls to finish the match!
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by Brass Monkey Sun 07 Oct 2012, 19:17
Well fair play to both of them. I'd probably be tanking the whiskey and sobbing.
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Re: Can you take sport too seriously?
by Henry Mon 08 Oct 2012, 01:27
Wasn't Justin Langer told in 2006 that if he received another blow to his head (he had recently been hit two times) that he would likely die? And then you've got rugby players like Martin Johnson who have to live the rest of their lives with horrible looking 'cauliflower ears' because they refused to wear headgear when playing rugby.
Considering a lot of these guys have young families, it's surprising that they don't think more about their lives after they have retired from professional sport.
I'd say the same thing about al the young people these days getting tattoos. In 40 years there will be a generation of ageing people deeply regretting the ink that adorns their wrinkly, sagging skin.
Considering a lot of these guys have young families, it's surprising that they don't think more about their lives after they have retired from professional sport.
I'd say the same thing about al the young people these days getting tattoos. In 40 years there will be a generation of ageing people deeply regretting the ink that adorns their wrinkly, sagging skin.
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by skully Mon 08 Oct 2012, 01:41
Lordy - busted a nut!! That brings tears to the eyes. 
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by Big Dog Mon 08 Oct 2012, 07:38
Henry wrote:Wasn't Justin Langer told in 2006 that if he received another blow to his head (he had recently been hit two times) that he would likely die? And then you've got rugby players like Martin Johnson who have to live the rest of their lives with horrible looking 'cauliflower ears' because they refused to wear headgear when playing rugby.
Considering a lot of these guys have young families, it's surprising that they don't think more about their lives after they have retired from professional sport.
I'd say the same thing about al the young people these days getting tattoos. In 40 years there will be a generation of ageing people deeply regretting the ink that adorns their wrinkly, sagging skin.
Phurt!! Cauliflower ears are a badge of courage for Rugby forwards.
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by mynah Mon 08 Oct 2012, 08:22
I'd say the same thing about al the young people these days getting tattoos. In 40 years there will be a generation of ageing people deeply regretting the ink that adorns their wrinkly, sagging skin.
How will a guy explain to his grandson that, 40 years before, the tortoise on his biceps started out life as a dragon?
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by JGK Mon 08 Oct 2012, 08:26
mynah wrote:I'd say the same thing about al the young people these days getting tattoos. In 40 years there will be a generation of ageing people deeply regretting the ink that adorns their wrinkly, sagging skin.
How will a guy explain to his grandson that, 40 years before, the tortoise on his biceps started out life as a dragon?
You've reminded me of this article I read recently. You sort of have to agree with the view that tattoo removal is a future boom business - particularly in moderately affluent areas:
http://www.themonthly.com.au/business-tattoo-removal-tatts-lotto-fiona-harari-5855
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by JGK Mon 08 Oct 2012, 08:28
JGK wrote:mynah wrote:I'd say the same thing about al the young people these days getting tattoos. In 40 years there will be a generation of ageing people deeply regretting the ink that adorns their wrinkly, sagging skin.
How will a guy explain to his grandson that, 40 years before, the tortoise on his biceps started out life as a dragon?
You've reminded me of this article I read recently. You sort of have to agree with the view that tattoo removal is a future boom business - particularly in moderately affluent areas:
http://www.themonthly.com.au/business-tattoo-removal-tatts-lotto-fiona-harari-5855
Full article if interested
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A laser crackles like an electronic fly zapper as Darren Speight begins to attack the outline of a dolphin inked on to Antoinette Higgins’ right breast. Eighteen years ago, at 16, Higgins had the animal tattooed high enough to be displayed while wearing a bikini but low enough to escape her mother’s eye. “Mum always said ‘don’t’,” she says, grimacing, as a dull grey crust forms around the dolphin’s snout. “So I did.”
For several years she loved the result – a simple etching, mostly black, with patches of aqua in the background. Come adulthood she started to feel ambivalent. In a few more years she had taken to covering up. “Around the early 30s mark I didn’t want to look at it anymore. It was a stupid tattoo, a dodgy tattoo, in old-school colours – just horrible.”
As Higgins lies squirming, already agitated from recently quitting smoking, Speight wields a blower emitting numbing, frigid air in one hand, a pronged laser in the other, and slowly works over the surface of the fading drawing. The searing process takes perhaps five minutes and leaves Higgins with a slightly less noticeable image on a patch of sore, red skin. She pays $150 for the session – her second of an expected seven rounds of treatment before she is finally dolphin-free.
Tattoos are meant to be forever, but not every love affair endures. “When people get [a tattoo] they think, I am going to want this for the rest of my life. It’s not until five or ten years down the track that it no longer means what they thought it would,” says Speight, who, at 42, clean-cut and tattoo-free, is embarking on an unlikely new career. “I don’t look at it so much as taking away people’s art as taking away people’s regrets.”
Speight spent a decade working in risk management. Last year, after a surf at his local beach, he and a friend noted the passing parade of tattooed bodies – an increasing and increasingly middle-class phenomenon – and wondered about the money to be made from people changing their minds: “No one gets a T-shirt for that long.” So Speight and his wife Carol, a primary school teacher, decided to retrain as laser technicians. They opened their new tattoo-removal business in November. “We now deal in happiness,” he says.
The path to happiness leads through a busy shopping centre on Sydney’s northern beaches, past families pushing prams and trolleys, up two floors and down a hallway to a pristine white desk fronting a suite of minimalist rooms. “A cross between a doctor’s surgery and a day spa” is the vibe Speight is after.
Regrets tackled so far have included the names of former partners, new tattoos that no longer seem quite so desirable in the harsh light of sobriety, and a spate of Southern Crosses that, Speight says, have not carried the same cachet since the Cronulla riots of 2005. One client, a businessman, is removing his daughters’ names because he’s no longer fond of the childlike font he let them choose.
Seventy per cent of his clients are female. “My theory is that all throughout their lives women are happy to go out and change the things they don’t like about themselves,” says Speight. “They will change their hair, they will change their clothes. Men have got too much ego to say, ‘I don’t like that.’”
Among the clients this morning is Patrick Annis-Brown, a quiet 29 year old who works in banking. The bearer of several other tattoos, he thought it would be nice to add an image of his girlfriend to his bicep, along with some English and Korean text and, just above his elbow, a sizeable cupid. To his amazement, his girlfriend was not impressed with the cartoonish sketch, so he covered it up with another tattoo, a large green and purple flower, which took two hours to apply. But it was not what he wanted for his upper arm.
His treatment begins with a test shot; there is an audible crack and almost immediately a small patch of black outline has disappeared. “It feels like a rubber band snapping against your skin,” says Annis-Brown, unflinching, his eyes shielded by goggles. He faces ten, possibly more, laser treatments to remove all the layers of ink. The process is slower than normal because of the unusual colours; the laser has to work harder to smash the green and purple particles to a size that might be expelled by his body.
After 25 minutes the entire surface of the flower is raised and crackled. The session costs $450 and Annis-Brown leaves with his bicep slathered in antiseptic cream. For at least another nine sessions, his declaration of love will be known as “the treatment area”.
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Re: Can you take sport too seriously?
by skully Mon 08 Oct 2012, 08:33
You know something's not right when the industry that boomed more than most in the wake of Krudd's $950 stimulus was the tattoo industry. The Hells Angels salute you, Kruddy.
The idiocy of youf.
The idiocy of youf.
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by mynah Mon 08 Oct 2012, 08:50
I'd say a dolphin is an unfortunate choice anyway. Once the muscle tone goes, it is sure to turn into a shark.A laser crackles like an electronic fly zapper as Darren Speight begins to attack the outline of a dolphin inked on to Antoinette Higgins’ right breast. Eighteen years ago, at 16, Higgins had the animal tattooed high enough to be displayed while wearing a bikini but low enough to escape her mother’s eye. “Mum always said ‘don’t’,” she says, grimacing, as a dull grey crust forms around the dolphin’s snout. “So I did.”
I remember a guy I worked with who had had a huge eagle done on his arm when he was a sailor. He covered it up successfully until one day when his sleeve slipped up, and all was revealed. B-a-a-d timing, as he had just been promoted to a position just below that of the boss...
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Re: Can you take sport too seriously?
by lardbucket Mon 08 Oct 2012, 21:31
Worst tattoo I have seen ... an RAN veteran, blood group tattooed on his R shoulder. Unfortunately, it was wrong. Not so bad ... if you're not a transplant patient, which he was.
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