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[LENA]

I know Deniz if you dont know how to play that game luck is not going to help you much but if you do then luck can help a lot.

Look here young lady, 'the presence or absence of luck in a game of Tavli between good players is the salt and pepper of the game. Thats the beauty of it. Are you challenging me then?

I mean real game at some point Deniz...not on line words but yes you can take that as a challenge!

[phoenix]

Monopoly, when the rules are bent is ace!

Looks like you're stuck in "Jail"

Nah, i always pick up the get of jail card

Then why are you still behind bars in your avatar?
Use your "Get Out of Jail Free" card . . . what are you saving it for?. . .
You can't trade it in real life

[denizaksulu]

I know Deniz if you dont know how to play that game luck is not going to help you much but if you do then luck can help a lot.

Look here young lady, 'the presence or absence of luck in a game of Tavli between good players is the salt and pepper of the game. Thats the beauty of it. Are you challenging me then?

I mean real game at some point Deniz...not on line words but yes you can take that as a challenge!

Ok then. My place or yours? Sorry. have to go. Wifey just called me to bed. Some other time.

[Get Real!]

Allow me to withdraw from board games I last played in the early seventies... I can't even remember what the game looks like!

Finally showing your age then GR? No special wrist action for the throwing of the dice then? ...or was that Phoenix attribute?

Aside from Chess I've yet to come across any board game worth playing, so no…I don't have the Tavli fever as I don't find games of luck challenging.

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Too macho for you? Too Cypriot perhaps? Cypriots love taking chances and trying their luck. There is also more to it than luck.

Err, too dumb is a better description for Tavli as the game relies 100% on luck... there's no skill whatsoever involved as the dice constantly determine your limited options. It's not by accident that it was popular among the old and uneducated peasants in coffee shops.

[Niki]

The wanting to look like a real man came from you and the reluctance to drink wine with other men GR.

I can take you to dozens of pubs, clubs, and other joints and I'll bet you won't find a single all-male table sharing a bottle of wine here in Cyprus! It's just the way it is here... men on their own always go for beers, Scotch, or Zivania but never wine.

Phoenix how can you possibly think this man is a Grandmaster??? Methinks you like the idea of skimpy jello wrestle for GR? I'm afraid you'll have to get another partner, my jello wrestling days are over!

I do apologize Niki, I often forget your conservative tendencies so may I suggest a crochet stitching competition for you in your raincoat and Wellington boots?

Don't forget my 1000 denier tights.

I like men who know good wines. My male Cypriot neighbour has been converted to good red wines since he started socialising with us. He also loves whiskey, he has about 100 types in his bar. I like good malt whiskey but it makes me fell really awful in the morning so I steer clear.

[denizaksulu]

Allow me to withdraw from board games I last played in the early seventies... I can't even remember what the game looks like!

Finally showing your age then GR? No special wrist action for the throwing of the dice then? ...or was that Phoenix attribute?

Aside from Chess I've yet to come across any board game worth playing, so no…I don't have the Tavli fever as I don't find games of luck challenging.

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Too macho for you? Too Cypriot perhaps? Cypriots love taking chances and trying their luck. There is also more to it than luck.

Err, too dumb is a better description for Tavli as the game relies 100% on luck... there's no skill whatsoever involved as the dice constantly determine your limited options. It's not by accident that it was popular among the old and uneducated peasants in coffee shops.

Eerr! Does too dumb, define your typical Cypriot then? This wonderful game is played all over the world by lots of old and uneducated men? Get out a bit GR. You live in your little blinkered world of so called 'super intellectuals'. Its the young who play this game and cary it on till old age.

I admit chance takes part in this game , but combined with tactics and strategies, and the good/bad/ luck element, makes this game a winner.
To see some great strategist loose the game at a throw of the dice, is worth enjoying. That is imho.

[phoenix]

Don't forget my 1000 denier tights.

Niki . . . I can go worse than that. I'm wearing woolly tights (it's cold here) from Marks & Spencer. The only saving grace is they're black!

. . . . and this morning, at the school gates, I was swapping "Victoria Sponge" recipe tips with a lady from the "Women's Institute" (Actually the "sponge" reference is an acceptable euphemism for what we really discussed . . . but you get the picture )

And this is all after freeing myself of the "blue stocking" label . . .
. . . surely it can't degenerate further?

Do you remember the cartoon Andy Capp, and his wife with the stockings rolled down to her knees? and the cigarette hanging from her lip . . . Yuck!

We're on a slippery slope . . .

[denizaksulu]

Don't forget my 1000 denier tights.

Niki . . . I can go worse than that. I'm wearing woolly tights (it's cold here) from Marks & Spencer. The only saving grace is their black!

. . . . and this morning, at the school gates, I was swapping "Victoria Sponge" recipe tips with a lady from the "Women's Institute" (Actually the "sponge" reference is an acceptable euphemism for what we really discussed . . . but you get the picture )

And this is all after freeing myself of the "blue stocking" label . . .
. . . surely it can't degenerate further?

Do you remember the cartoon Andy Capp, and his wife with the stockings rolled down to her knees? and the cigarette hanging from her lip . . . Yuck!

We're on a slippery slope . . .

I get the picture, so you are a Norah Batty lookalike?

[Get Real!]

I do apologize Niki, I often forget your conservative tendencies so may I suggest a crochet stitching competition for you in your raincoat and Wellington boots?

Don't forget my 1000 denier tights.

Tights? You said "stockings" back then!

So much for the horny story, I might as well watch Robin Hood...

[Niki]

Don't forget my 1000 denier tights.

Niki . . . I can go worse than that. I'm wearing woolly tights (it's cold here) from Marks & Spencer. The only saving grace is they're black!

. . . . and this morning, at the school gates, I was swapping "Victoria Sponge" recipe tips with a lady from the "Women's Institute" (Actually the "sponge" reference is an acceptable euphemism for what we really discussed . . . but you get the picture )

And this is all after freeing myself of the "blue stocking" label . . .
. . . surely it can't degenerate further?

Do you remember the cartoon Andy Capp, and his wife with the stockings rolled down to her knees? and the cigarette hanging from her lip . . . Yuck!

We're on a slippery slope . . .

It's what happens.... you can't escape the inevitable blue rinse and comfy cardigans with fluffy slippers!

I do scrub up just about ok on a night out though!