Bury the hatchet.
Ask T to join you in a synchronised diving team.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Tue 4 May 2010, 14:59, 1 reply)

Good thinking.
but we were too different in style and body type to have made it work. Plus my synchro partner and I ruled!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Tue 4 May 2010, 15:11, closed)

Go for a drink with him then.
You'd probably have a lot to talk about. you must both be pretty passionate about what you do.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Tue 4 May 2010, 15:14, closed)

That's a nice idea,
Chances are I'll meet him at one of the 'do's'. I don't think there's any animosity between us, it was more a case of competitiveness with myself.
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Tue 4 May 2010, 15:21, closed)

A nemesis of sorts
but he didn't do anything like, pull your shorts down before an important dive, pull the plug at the deep end and giggle while you landed on hard concrete. (yes i know pools don't have plugs)

I'm with the others on this one, sounds more like a potential mate than a nemesis, especially as you have no real probs with his personality etc...
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 4 May 2010, 16:39, closed)

Ah, but it was always me see?
In my mind's eye he was the one I both aspired to and hated for beating me. It was years of this that finally made me bite the bullet and do something I'd never have done otherwise.
Well, it's as close to pertinant as I'm going to get this week!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Tue 4 May 2010, 16:46, closed)

Also
I imagine there might be an intensely homoerotic charge crackling beneath this rivarly, just waiting to be ignited. Tell him he's been on your thoughts for a decade, which is nicely ambiguous - gives you the opportunity to back down while letting him know you're available. Assuming you are, of course!
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Wed 5 May 2010, 10:44, closed)

Biglol's!
Wow, I'm gay? I never knew. Thanks Internet, you teach me something new every day!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Wed 5 May 2010, 11:29, closed)

Sorry!
I put two and two together and came up with five. Haven't you ever been tempted? I tried being gay for a while - mostly as an image thing, you know - but it just didn't work out.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Wed 5 May 2010, 11:59, closed)

I've only ever wondered if...
It would be less of a grievous rapport. But seeing my gay friends, perhaps not.
If there were some chap out there who floated my boat I'm sure I would. Hasn't happened yet!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Wed 5 May 2010, 13:05, closed)

That's the thing...
...and without wishing to offend any of my very dear gay friends on B3ta, of which of course I have MANY (not to mention the veritable avalanche of lesbian chums), I just couldn't get the hang of it. I've always wanted to be an Oscar Wilde-style dandy with rapier wit and sort of assumed man-lust came with the territory...

But when it was time to put my money where my mouth was, so to speak, I just ...couldn't. There was zero arousal factor. Most annoying. Now of course I'm married and grateful if I get any action at all. Perhaps I should have persisted - stuffed my face on that pillow and thought of England - Hurrah!
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Wed 5 May 2010, 14:24, closed)

Ha!
I've no doubt there'd be more action if we were actually gay, I just find the chat up lines I've had tried on me a tad weird! (Not to mention the whole (hole?) arousal thing!)
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Wed 5 May 2010, 14:38, closed)