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Post by Spike-X on Jun 13, 2014 21:04:07 GMT -5
I'm not sure it's possible for anyone to have less interest in soccer than I have. It most certainly is, my friend. |
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Post by Spike-X on Jun 13, 2014 21:05:02 GMT -5
I could not give two shakes of a lamb's fluffy little rear end about soccer. Both of my daughters play it and I of course go to their games and root for them, but I secretly pray they will both give it up and play softball at some point. So you can at least get in a decent nap during the game? |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 13, 2014 21:28:38 GMT -5
Well I'm giving my pipe a try. There's much more to learn smoking a pipe then lighting a square or cigar. But even with the fairly inexpensive tobacco I bought, it's far more satisfying. Maybe it's the intensity of the absorption into the body. It's no snuff (which after 5 years I will still never touch as it's more addictive than anything I've ever used) but it's more aromatic and tasteful than squares (cigarettes, pardon my regional slang).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2014 21:46:13 GMT -5
"Golf is a good walk spoiled."
-Mark Twain
Let's hit a ball, chase after it only to hit it again so we can chase it some more...that's something my dog thinks is a good idea and her definition of fun, me it seems like an utter waste of time and effort.
Watching golf is only slightly more exciting than watching pain dry ind it it were possible someone might get thwacked by a ball or a club while the paint was drying, it would be the more exciting activity hands down.
-M
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 13, 2014 21:52:31 GMT -5
"Golf is a good walk spoiled." -Mark Twain Let's hit a ball, chase after it only to hit it again so we can chase it some more...that's something my dog thinks is a good idea and her definition of fun, me it seems like an utter waste of time and effort. Watching golf is only slightly more exciting than watching pain dry ind it it were possible someone might get thwacked by a ball or a club while the paint was drying, it would be the more exciting activity hands down. -M And I play seventy rounds a year. I don't know if it's a bigger waste of time and money than buying and reading comics books, but it's close. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2014 21:57:41 GMT -5
"Golf is a good walk spoiled." -Mark Twain Let's hit a ball, chase after it only to hit it again so we can chase it some more...that's something my dog thinks is a good idea and her definition of fun, me it seems like an utter waste of time and effort. Watching golf is only slightly more exciting than watching pain dry ind it it were possible someone might get thwacked by a ball or a club while the paint was drying, it would be the more exciting activity hands down. -M And I play seventy rounds a year. I don't know if it's a bigger waste of time and money than buying and reading comics books, but it's close. If you don't count mini-golf (which the first time I played when I was three I broke my mother's nose on the backswing), I have played exactly one round of golf, and that was only to shut up a friend who kept whining how do you know you won't like it if you never tired it? After that round, he never asked me to golf again.... -M |
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Post by Ozymandias on Jun 14, 2014 3:38:49 GMT -5
The United States Of America was founded by people fleeing the oppression of soccer and the metric system Oh yes, the Mars Climate Orbiter is forever a testament of that  |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jun 14, 2014 4:01:29 GMT -5
Is anyone else here besides me not following the World Cup? Not following the World Cup. Soccer just doesn't do it for me. Typical non-interested American I suppose. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 10:09:03 GMT -5
IMHO, baseball is pretty much the only legitimate sport.
Basketball would join it, but corrupt &/or incompetent officiating is a tough obstacle to overcome.
Football is basically a cesspool of gambling, chemically induced physical freakishness & (till recently) shrugged-off brain damage cases.
Hockey is probably somewhat interesting if you're from the Frozen North. I'm not. The fact that the players generally look like slack-jawed, slope-browed morons, given their mullets & gaps where their teeth should be, should be embraced in the Deep South, I suppose.
Soccer is a bunch of prima-donnas running up & down a field & falling down if someone exhales within 20 yards of their precious, preening little selves. If someone scores, the players run around & jump up & down like a bunch of little girls at a New Direction (or whatever that boy band is called) concert.
Golf is basically something rich people do between drinks at the country club.
Tennis is something rich people's children do while their parents are over at the country club drinking.
Track & field isn't a sport; it's recreation.
NASCAR isn't a sport, it's transportation.
Boxing isn't a sport, it's brutality.
Horse-racing isn't a sport, it's something horses do, albeit as forced by greedy, boorish humans & bet on by other greedy, boorish humans.
The end.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 14, 2014 10:13:13 GMT -5
IMHO, baseball is pretty much the only legitimate sport. Basketball would join it, but corrupt &/or incompetent officiating is a tough obstacle to overcome. Football is basically a cesspool of gambling, chemically induced physical freakishness & (till recently) shrugged-off brain damage cases. Hockey is probably interesting if you're from the Frozen North. I'm not. Soccer is a bunch of prima-donnas running up & down a field & falling down if someone exhales within 20 yards. If someone socres, they run around & jump up & down like a bunch of little girls at a New Direction (or whatever that boy band is called) concert. Golf is basicaly something rich people do between drinks at the country club. Tennis is someting rich people's children do while their parents are over at the country club dirnking. Track & field isn't a sport; it's recreation. NASCAR isn't a sport, it's transportation. The end. This. This times a googolplex. Cei-U! I like hockey, though not enough to watch it! |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 14, 2014 10:27:02 GMT -5
Baseball's lore and history has always been far more interesting to me than the actual game. It's fun as hell to play, but it's one of my least favorite sports to watch on TV. It's simply not a sport that made the transition to TV. Even with the low scores of hockey and soccer, there is constant movement, which as silly as it sounds, makes a huge difference.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 14, 2014 10:28:30 GMT -5
Is bowling a sport?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 10:31:54 GMT -5
Baseball's lore and history has always been far more interesting to me than the actual game. It's fun as hell to play, but it's one of my least favorite sports to watch on TV. That's pretty much the case for me as well, except for the TV part (simply because it's been years since I watched any sports on TV, lacking cable ... though happily I didn't cut that cord till early '04, which means I got to watch the Red Sox win the World Series the previous October). If not for fantasy baseball, in which I've been participating for the last 22 years (minus, I believe, one year off in 2002) my interest would be as minimal as it was from roughly '78-'91. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 10:32:47 GMT -5
Of course not. It's the blue(ish)-collar equivalent of golf. (I should probably note that I never set foot in a bowling alley till I was probably in my mid-40s. My bowling game, sad to say, echoes my basketball game -- if I'm not hot, which periods are few & far between & pitifully short-lived besides, I'm cold as ice.) |
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Post by coke & comics on Jun 14, 2014 10:36:58 GMT -5
IMHO, baseball is pretty much the only legitimate sport. Basketball would join it, but corrupt &/or incompetent officiating is a tough obstacle to overcome. Football is basically a cesspool of gambling, chemically induced physical freakishness & (till recently) shrugged-off brain damage cases. Hockey is probably interesting if you're from the Frozen North. I'm not. Soccer is a bunch of prima-donnas running up & down a field & falling down if someone exhales within 20 yards. If someone socres, they run around & jump up & down like a bunch of little girls at a New Direction (or whatever that boy band is called) concert. Golf is basicaly something rich people do between drinks at the country club. Tennis is someting rich people's children do while their parents are over at the country club dirnking. Track & field isn't a sport; it's recreation. NASCAR isn't a sport, it's transportation. The end. This. This times a googolplex. Cei-U! I like hockey, though not enough to watch it! While I will never be a sports guy, I went to my first two hockey games recently and enjoyed them. I appreciate how, as say opposed to football, the clock keeps ticking and the pace keeps up. It seems less built around advertisers' needs than other American pro sports. |
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