Public service announcement

So tell him to tape it, shag her ragged, then crack open a beer and put the
match on...

 

Surely, judging by the rest of this thread, it was the missus going to
the supermarket to do some gay-watching?

 

And some people have things to do when the game is on, and use the
radio, you know.

 

Sounds like a laugh. Might give it a whirl. Though I'm a crap gamer.
I bought that one about driving around London (The Getaway?) and I
tried for about half an hour. Every time I could up with the fuckers
who kidnapped my kid the killed me. So I gave up.

BTW, that IOM TT game should be out soon. Their marketing guy said
he'd shoot me an email and remind me.

 

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=self-deprecation&x=21&y=8

hth

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

I don't see how that improves matters.

 

Ben Blaney says...

My pleasure, and it was...hic!

 

That's always puzzled me.

Football is a game where 22 men with muscly thighs run around in shorts for
90 minutes getting all hot and sweaty. They then all go and have a bath
together.

What exactly is gay about *not* being interested in that?

 

Well I would. And I have not watched a single minute of the football and
don't intend to. I haven't even seen the goals on the news.

Just to alter your perception of the world for a moment - there are
those of us who are perfectly normal, who are not saddos and who cannot
abide football.

HTH

 

Yes, of course you should in SteveH world. After all the Sun newspaper
has said you have to. Don't you know anything?

 

Yes, I know exactly where it's readers, or journalists for that matter,
can stick the sun newspaper if they try that little routine on me.

 

<round of applause>

 

You were doing really well there, right up until you tried to describe
yourself as perfectly normal

 

Oh snap. That's the only place I've been to see a live football match -
with a friend many years back.

I'll give Mr Blaney the atmosphere and see the whole game aspect. I
still don't find the game remotely interesting though but I can, at
least, claim to have experienced the real thing and then reviewed my
like / dislike decision after having done so. Nothing that has happened
to the game of football since that time has given me cause to change my
opinion of it and the people within it.

 

Is it my imagination or has no one, apart from SteveH, suggested anything
about watching football? Every time football comes up in this NG- or
(bizarrely) motogp for that matter, albeit to a slightly lesser extent- all
you anti -football types fall over yourselves trying to claim the crown of
Most Hater of Football Ever.

It seems the majority of ukrmers don't watch football. OK, point made. But
it's sounding more and more as if, rather than not caring about it, you care
about it very much indeed.

Does it really matter?

 

Yes. We need a way of demonstrating our uniqueness and our higher powers
of intellect by unanimously declaring our distaste for the common game.

Either that or we're like the special needs children who deliberately
shit themselves for attention.

 

Good point

IME, women tend to prefer watching Rugby. Tho mebbe that's cos of the
part of the world I live in (dunno where the nearest Premiership side
is from here, but I reckon it's a fair old drive).

 

Good point. Here's my take on it - the world is full of things I
don't like. Mostly I can ignore them fairly easily. The problem (for
me) with football is the grip it's got on the national culture now.
*This* is the thing I hate - I'm fairly indifferent about the game
itself.

 

We're OK for 'top up' shopping - ie. branded grocery deals, frozen
stuff, but there's a lot of things we either don't do, or just dabble in
- fresh meat/fish and produce being the main ones. Waitrose also do
pretty damned good fresh pasta and sauces.

 

So what? Most people are tossers. Let them go half crazy with their mass
psychosis. Their self-imposed depression when we get kicked out of the comp
will surely be recompense enough.