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Curmudgeons' Corner 3. I blame it on the scapegoat🐐

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Ah (please don’t take offence at this ((Hugs))  ) but sports psychologists would say that you are actually so competitive that you can’t even allow the possibility that you might fail so you would rather not try ... if you don’t try you cant fail.

    This  is why the superbly talented Australian Nick Kyrgios will not train as hard as other tennis players and won’t take matches seriously ... he couldn’t bear to really try his hardest and be beaten ... the frustrating thing for tennis fans is that he is so talented that he can succeed to quite a high level without even trying ... if he really tried he could he one of the greats. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    edited July 2019
    Interesting point that, @Dovefromabove. When l was watching, l was asking myself why he was putting himself through it. He was getting no enjoyment from it, grumbling and chuntering (and yes, l know he was getting paid a large amount of money for being there). He must have enough money by now to give up and go and do something that he does enjoy,  like going to the pub every night  ;)
    That explanation makes sense - still makes me feel curmudgeonly though and shout "Just grow up !" at the TV.
    Speaking of growing up, l do worry about the pressure on young Coco Gauff at such a young age. Although her parents seem very sensible and she is a credit to them, it's still a lot for a young woman of that age to deal with.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Possibly. I've never thought of it that way. I'm not sure I'm happy being compared to the chap who spits on the tennis court.😉
     I'm going to Google him to see what he looks like.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I thought John McEnroe was interesting last night when asked if she could win Wimbledon he said she could but for her sake I hope she won’t ... or words to that effect.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @B3 ... I recognise that ‘syndrome’ so well because I’m aware that for a significant period of my life it applied to me 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Clearly i am out of synch with most on here, I love sport, nearly all sport, but I do pay a lot extra for the privilege of watching what I want.
    I hate anything with the title celebrity in it, which clearly puts me at odds with most of the population, although maybe not most on here.
    I agree that arts coverage is very poor on the terrestrial TV, although there is some reasonable coverage on SKY.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Yes.  I like the format of Master of Photography on Sky because the approach to the tasks and the critiques are informative but can't cope with the Beeb's coverage of the RA exhibition which is rubbish IMHO.

    I can cope with opera one song at a time and, in my experience, there is just one good song per 2 hour or more opera.  Nessun Dorma, Hebrew Slaves' Chorus......

    OH will watch any sport except synchronised swimming.   I enjoy the Xmas horsey stuff at Olympia but that's it.  Two TVs and the record option sorts that out.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited July 2019
    Golf amazes me. You see a bloke whacking a ball with a stick. Then you see a picture of the sky. Then you see the ball on a bit of grass with a hole in it. Then you see a the man nudge the ball into the hole. He picks it out of the hole and hands the stick to a man with a bag of sticks and then gets into a noddy car.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Yep ... I don’t get golf either ... or F1, cycling or synchronised swimming đŸŠâ€â™€ïžÂ 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Then there's racing cars meeeaawww, meeeeaaww, meeeeaawww. Cars going round and round. About as interesting as scalextric 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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