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What kind of sport are you watching?
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If I was at home at the moment, I'd possibly watch some of the curling in the Winter Olympics, as I rather like the quirkiness of that sport.
I can send you a video of me mopping the kitchen floor if you like. Virtually the same thing!
I can send you a video of me mopping the kitchen floor if you like. Virtually the same thing!
Not quite, @Apple fanboy, not quite.
There is a wonderful fusion of concentration, precision and utter absurdity, which marks curling out almost as a parody; you get the sense that the players actually enjoy it - rather than indulging in that ferocious, joyless intensity that so many other athletes bring to sports - and, besides, I like its authentic historic folk roots, and the idea that it looks like something a half decent pub team could think about pursuing with some (slight perhaps) local success.
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MotoGP. Best racing there is.
Used to watch the NFL from the mid-70’s until around 2000. Was a big 49ers fan during the Montana, Rice and Young years.
Used to watch the NFL from the mid-70’s until around 2000. Was a big 49ers fan during the Montana, Rice and Young years.
It certainly is a strange sport.
A fusion of bowels, ice skating and cleaning!
There are few sports I actually enjoy watching: Watching Arsenal is - or has reverted to being - pure agony - Nick Hornby got that right - actually, I met him once at a literary festival - but curling brings a grin to my face; I just like its antiquity, folk roots, absolute absurdity, and sense of fun.
Moreover, I like the fact that the players look more like human beings than genetically altered robots, and they look as though they have a life and could enjoy a glass or two of beer or wine.
Well I’d catch some figure skating live or otherwise during this Olympian year if I had a TV and/or the time to spend on hunting up videos, probably. I don’t know how some of the pairs skaters have the nerve to mix extremely difficult acrobatics with the portable knives on their partners’ feet.
Short of that, most recently it’s been interesting to watch some of last year’s white tailed fawns learn how to dance the samba --or whatever steps they end up emulating with four feet apiece-- in the driveway after one of our rollercoaster weather weeks, where snow melts by day and freezes at nightfall. They come down to cross the road for water when it’s warm enough for the creeks to have thawed or have thin ice. I’m amazed they don’t break a leg when unable to scramble out of an actual fall, but they seem to land on their butts trying to get both back feet under their weight again.
And I admit to keeping an eye on baseball, since the first full slate games of MLB 2018 spring training are upon us the end of this week. I appear to have forgotten to burn my Indians hat after all, through some oversight or poor judgment.
Short of that, most recently it’s been interesting to watch some of last year’s white tailed fawns learn how to dance the samba --or whatever steps they end up emulating with four feet apiece-- in the driveway after one of our rollercoaster weather weeks, where snow melts by day and freezes at nightfall. They come down to cross the road for water when it’s warm enough for the creeks to have thawed or have thin ice. I’m amazed they don’t break a leg when unable to scramble out of an actual fall, but they seem to land on their butts trying to get both back feet under their weight again.
And I admit to keeping an eye on baseball, since the first full slate games of MLB 2018 spring training are upon us the end of this week. I appear to have forgotten to burn my Indians hat after all, through some oversight or poor judgment.
Currently watching Wigan playing out of their skin keeping Man City at bay in the FA Cup.
That's Footballs oldest competition for the uneducated.
That's Footballs oldest competition for the uneducated.
Talk about "No guts, no Glory!"
Watching some of the Winter Olympics. Bobsled & Skeleton was good for my sofa adrenalin rushes.
Speed skating is great — and the figure skating I have to admit is a bit of a guilty pleasure. So tacky. So incredibly skilful… yet… sooo tacky.
Winter?
Rugby (Both Union and League) for me.
Summer?
Definitely Cricket. (Preferably at the ground with a well stocked hamper of food and drink.)
Personally I cannot stand Football, though all my upwardly mobile middle class friends swear by it… Desperately trying to show their "working class" cred. *snort*
On the scale of boring sports I'd rather watch Golf.
That is very funny.
I'll be honest, I rarely watch it, too, but I do read about it; when I was teaching, it was a great way of connecting with young male (and some female) students and - surprisingly often - you can obtain an oblique insight into a country's (or region's) culture, history, politics, economics - by peering through the lens afforded by football.
As for the - your - upwardly mobile middle class friends swearing by football, well, what can I say, other than point an accusing finger at Nick Hornby (whom I have met, by the way, at a literary festival)?
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Currently just F1. But the Premier League (football) kicks off in two and a half weeks.
Can't wait!
Can't wait!
I watch a kittycat (which belongs to a neighbor) "sneak" into my yard and sit near my bird feeders, his stunningly all-black self parked in the snowy lawn six feet away from the feeders, and his brilliant cat-brain doubtless wondering why no birds have shown up since he came through the hedgerow.
"Camouflage, you're doin' it wrong..."
Ah what a great post!
Yep, watching young cats is a favorite of mine too. My young Dougie is about 7 months old and is driving my other three cats crazy. 12yo grumpy Groucho really can't stand him, and I have to say that after a few attempts Dougie learned to stay far from him although at times the little guy can't resist. 8yo Buttercup has always been somewhat scared by everything so she either hides or lets Dougie do whatever he want to her which includes being suddenly woke up to a some form of neck restraint. 3yo Meeple is playful enough to play with him... but not as often as Dougie would like to.
