General Chat

Let's see...football...grown men spitting non stop and play acting often......snooker....dark room...coughing...sticks and balls....swimming....nothing left to the imagination from all angles theses days....bowls.....grass looks nice....horsey things might make someone muddy.....yep watching on telly not the most thrilling thing.... :-D

Can't think of a sport that I don't find boring.

RUF international matches are okish, but there are too many of them in a series/competition. If the TV is on for someone who wants to watch all of those, that's when it gets boring.

Rugy league football is played in the land of David Storey by hard men with a background in steel making and mining.

South of Watling Street the oval ball game is known as rugger being soft enough for the gurls to play. Leeds Rhinos have a lot of female fans but no women's section. Yorkshire girls are probably too tough to be allowed on the pitch.

In the land of Oz rugby football means Australian Rules. Rugby and soccer are for Poms.

Early sherbet today!

I saw what must be one of the most boring sports imaginable when he got the remote at the time of the Olympics.

A man was riding his moped along, minding his own business when a crowd of yobs on bicycles mobbed him and chased him at the slow speed he was doing. Mocking as they went,no doubt.

The poor man was forced to swerve off the road and they all went off at speed, oly to find they were going round in a circle. Serves them right I say!

Classic! :-D

TBH, I can't understand why people want to go and watch road races. Having 'observed' one (just because), you wait for ages then they pass you in the blink of an eye.

:-D :-D

The reason is obvious all that live lycra on the move... Wild lycra on the Yorkshire moors is better than the velodrome roundabout.

Woof woof

If only they had a female version in the New Forest the delays might be less irritating.

Sherbets working then.

Just like watching a dog chasing a motorbike. Couldn't ride it if he caught it.

What?

How original.

try Archery, now thats skilfull..............prone shooting is boring, unless you know whats going on!!!

Are prones shot for the pot?

"Prone" means lying face down while shooting,using ones elbows to support the rifle, as opposed to standing, or kneeling


Pitted Prones usually come in cans........

LOL

No!?

I always wondered where they came from.

Attitudes towards the sport of prone shooting tell us a lot about the attitude of the British ruling class towards the rank and file. At the time of Waterloo rows of men on both sides stood in rows shooting at each other in an upright position. This tactic ensured a highbrate of attrition.

By the time of the Boer wars the Boers had worked out that shooting in a prone position wearing camouflage was a good bet. The British high command condemned this sneeky and unmanly way of fighting. It was of course not unmanly to corral tens of thousands of women and children into concentration camps where they died.

In 1914 the Bosche right from the get go used machine guns shooting from the prone position. The Brits for the most part used rifles and whatever cover they could find. By 1915 the greater part of pros and volunteers were dead so conscription was brought in. Trenches helped a bit but not as much as keeping yr head down ie firing from a prone position.

So now firing from a prone position is a sport for Richard Hannay types but the ruling class still shoot at their main enemies, grouse and pheasants, standing up. The birds prefer the prone position but are encouraged to fly into the guns by members of the lower orders known as beaters.