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  • cloughie
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    • Dec 2011
    • 22183

    The Premier League!

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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12937

      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
      The Premier League!
      ...professional football.

      I mean, for the kiddies, jumpers for goalposts - fine.

      But grown ups keen on playing? Watching?? Caring about it????

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      • Serial_Apologist
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 37820

        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
        ...professional football.

        I mean, for the kiddies, jumpers for goalposts - fine.

        But grown ups keen on playing? Watching?? Caring about it????
        Sport as a spectacle in general. I mean, why don't people just get on with it without needing to have audiences which have much better things to do like making the world a better place, having sex etc? There's nothing onlookers can do about sport, other than make it another pretext for getting overexcited/triumphalist/defeatist/depressed about results, overpaid exhibitionists, WAGs, etc etc etc.

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26574

          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
          The Premier League!
          Formula 1...
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • Beef Oven!
            Ex-member
            • Sep 2013
            • 18147

            Tennis

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            • Beef Oven!
              Ex-member
              • Sep 2013
              • 18147

              Snooker

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              • Beef Oven!
                Ex-member
                • Sep 2013
                • 18147

                Arm wrestling

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                • Beef Oven!
                  Ex-member
                  • Sep 2013
                  • 18147

                  Dominoes

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                  • Beef Oven!
                    Ex-member
                    • Sep 2013
                    • 18147

                    Billiards

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                    • vinteuil
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12937

                      .

                      ... and so many more.

                      The conclusion - ball games in general, and other kiddies' games indulged in by so-called adults, are not what they're cracked up to be.

                      Bit like English music, really ....







                      .
                      Last edited by vinteuil; 29-05-16, 20:45.

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                      • Demetrius
                        Full Member
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 276

                        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                        .

                        ... and so many more.

                        The conclusion - ball games in general, and other kiddies' games indulged in by so-called adults, are not what they're cracked up to be.

                        Like English music, really ....
                        In fact, anyone above the age of 12 who does sports of any kind should do something productive instead, like paving roads in Reading.

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                        • jayne lee wilson
                          Banned
                          • Jul 2011
                          • 10711

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          Formula 1...
                          So you didn't see the brilliant Monaco GP today? Starting behind the safety car in a downpour, then became a demolition derby on the damp track, then on lap 23 leader Ricciardo comes in for tyres - and they're still in their bags - handing the lead to Hamilton, who barely held him off for the rest of the race...
                          And what about that Prost/Senna style collision by both Mercs in Catalunya last time out? Helping 18-year old Verstappen to his first win!

                          After a dull coupla years five or six cars have a chance now, give it another go...!
                          Life wouldn't be life without the Monaco Grand Prix. Champagne breakfast optional.

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37820

                            Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
                            So you didn't see the brilliant Monaco GP today? Starting behind the safety car in a downpour, then became a demolition derby on the damp track, then on lap 23 leader Ricciardo comes in for tyres - and they're still in their bags - handing the lead to Hamilton, who barely held him off for the rest of the race...
                            And what about that Prost/Senna style collision by both Mercs in Catalunya last time out? Helping 18-year old Verstappen to his first win!

                            After a dull coupla years five or six cars have a chance now, give it another go...!
                            Life wouldn't be life without the Monaco Grand Prix. Champagne breakfast optional.


                            People only watch motor racing because they want to see crashes happening.

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                            • jayne lee wilson
                              Banned
                              • Jul 2011
                              • 10711

                              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                              OK - next year, have the champagne before you watch it. (Don't worry darling, Sainsburys will do....) Then it really will be a ​craic...

                              (as for that old thing about crashes...
                              http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2016/0...ll-or-ferrari/
                              Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 29-05-16, 21:36.

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                              • Richard Barrett
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                                • Jan 2016
                                • 6259

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                                Formula 1...
                                God yes. I used to have an interest in that kind of thing but when puberty set in I rapidly lost it. Anyway...

                                Earl Grey.
                                Cocaine.
                                MP3s.
                                Almond milk.

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