4th vote here,I used to play cricket, squash, badminton oh and full contact karate,but can't stand watching sports.Oldman used to love boxing now it's motor racing formula one
Last week the news was all Phillip. This week it's all football. As I don't watch TV much the amount of sport doesn't really bother me. It's the saturation on the news channels and web pages that peeves me. One page with links would have been enough for either.
Nothing standstill, nothing remains the same. The only issue 'now' is the rate of change. For millennia man had nothing but a horse and cart and maybe a knowledge of writing. A single century has changed that.
Heard this morning that the Bank of England is thinking of launching it's own virtual currency (and there's me thinking all currencies were virtual anyway)...
I love the fact that you can now get a degree in virtual sports and people watch people play virtual sport. So even if the SL never materialises, we have that to look forward to anyway.....a virtual game played in front of a virtual audience brought to you securely from a virtual server via a VPN that you pay for with a virtual currency.
Tell me again that I'm not Duane (Dwayne?) Dibbley.
My Latin teacher had a nice trick of grabbing you by the sideboards (or those 13 year old wisps of hair in front of your ears whatever they were called) and then pulling you down slowly, before changing direction rapidly .... and never pronouncing a V - weni, widi, wici..... I managed a grade 9 at O Level (10 was getting your name right at the top of the paper) after getting average course work of a 3.... How that may have changed my life eh?
The thing is, what’s being discussed with this super league stuff isn’t about sport, it’s about the power of avaricious big business to ride roughshod over people and even over governments ... everyone should take notice of what’s going on .., it’s what happens elsewhere writ large, and intelligent people should not turn their heads away thinking it doesn’t affect them.
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My Latin teacher had a nice trick of grabbing you by the sideboards (or those 13 year old wisps of hair in front of your ears whatever they were called) and then pulling you down slowly, before changing direction rapidly .... and never pronouncing a V - weni, widi, wici..... I managed a grade 9 at O Level (10 was getting your name right at the top of the paper) after getting average course work of a 3.... How that may have changed my life eh?
Wow... you people are posh. Latin Teachers. I should coco. I once had a Teacher from Greece does that count?
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
If you went to grammar school before the rise of comprehensives there was always a Latin stream so not posh at all, just good brain exercise.
Possum went to secondary school in a small Belgian town from the late noughties. Latin and Greek were offered all the way up to Bacc level for those who were capable and interested. They also had streams offering mechanics, carpentry, retail service and display and everything academic and/or practical in between. Normal.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Perfectly said, Dove. I am not an avid sports fan so certainly would not want to pay £600 a year to subscribe to a sports channel but Match of the Day suits me perfectly and I love watching big events like the Olympics and the World Cup.
I have no sympathy that every two to four years these grandstand events dominate the mainstream TV channels for about three weeks. Those who are not interested in sport can still look at dozens of other channels and a massive catalogue of programmes on the catch up services.
I do not agree with the idea that sport should be separated on its own specialist channel. To create such a channel would cost the BBC money which would drain money away from its other services, or would have to be created by a commercial company who want paying for their provision. Indeed, such channels exist and though I suppose I could afford the subscription there must be millions in this country who would struggle to meet such a cost.
But it's not " every two to four years" it's several times EVERY year. Wimbledon, FA cup, cricket, golf,snooker, world Athletics, European Athletics, six nations rugby, world cup rugby, olympics, commonwealth. Where is the balance? Where is the Arts coverage?
Posh?! Good grief no. My mum worked as a dinner lady at a really rough Brighton school, and my dad was a long distance lorry driver. But my dad passed his 'scholarship' (11+) but his parents couldn't afford the uniform (for the grammar school) - so he swore that if we (me and my two siblings) passed, we would go... and we wore uniforms that we would 'grow into' as we couldn't afford new uniforms each year.
I got Latin lessons (to O level) at my comprehensive school. No choice about it if you were in that stream. If I remember rightly A-level was offered but I never knew of anyone taking it.
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Eheu fugaces labuntur anni, my Latin teacher used to say so frequently. How right he was.
As I don't watch TV much the amount of sport doesn't really bother me.
It's the saturation on the news channels and web pages that peeves me.
One page with links would have been enough for either.
thinking it doesn’t affect them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wow... you people are posh. Latin Teachers. I should coco. I once had a Teacher from Greece does that count?
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
Possum went to secondary school in a small Belgian town from the late noughties. Latin and Greek were offered all the way up to Bacc level for those who were capable and interested. They also had streams offering mechanics, carpentry, retail service and display and everything academic and/or practical in between. Normal.
Wimbledon, FA cup, cricket, golf,snooker, world Athletics, European Athletics, six nations rugby, world cup rugby, olympics, commonwealth.
Where is the balance? Where is the Arts coverage?