The "I Hate rugby" thread

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Anyone who enjoys sport sits there screaming at the TV, eating snacks and thinking they are a part of it all. That isn't retarded. That's sport! Live in your world play in ours :D
 
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Sport isn't a waste of time - those guys are rich, have huge houses, and marry hot women (some even go off to the side and get a mistress too)

Watching Sport is a waste of time.

Can you honestly tell me you have nothing better to do than watch guys trying to run past other guys?

Nothing more exciting to do than watch an umpire and his sunny sunscreen throwing funky signs to some guy with a Bat?

all that, weekend after weekend, after weekend? no ways dude, get a life!
 
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Sport isn't a waste of time - those guys are rich, have huge houses, and marry hot women (some even go off to the side and get a mistress too)

Watching Sport is a waste of time.

Can you honestly tell me you have nothing better to do than watch guys trying to run past other guys?

Nothing more exciting to do than watch an umpire and his sunny sunscreen throwing funky signs to some guy with a Bat?

all that, weekend after weekend, after weekend? no ways dude, get a life!
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While i tend to agree i hate all main stream sports, those being soccer, rugby, F1, etc.. i just really don't have the fascination with watching them. Participating in them would be an entirely different thing.

Like my dad and her gf they will scream while watching the rugby then i go to them and say 'You know they cant hear you right?, that you are doing this in vein that you are going to have a hoarse voice tomorrow for nothing?"

Which they land up do having, stupid.
 
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While i tend to agree i hate all main stream sports, those being soccer, rugby, F1, etc.. i just really don't have the fascination with watching them. Participating in them would be an entirely different thing.
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Mmmm so you like those lumberjack games? Or maybe extreme ironing?

Ps I ask again:

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Ever watch a movies or TV? Play a friendly game of chess? Read a comic strip?
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Everything barring basic human necessities could be seen as stupid and a waste of time as much as watching sport ;)
 
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I just love to watch the people do this, Semaphore

on the end of the game everybody hugs each other and says "We played good hey? jeez, I almost thought we were gonna lose, but we didn't, and we won!" (I'm actually talking about the viewers here, not the players)

As if *anything* about *anything* will change about your life - why the hugs, tears and so much joy? you didn't win anything?
 
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I just love to watch the people do this, Semaphore

on the end of the game everybody hugs each other and says "We played good hey? jeez, I almost thought we were gonna lose, but we didn't, and we won!" (I'm actually talking about the viewers here, not the players)

As if *anything* about *anything* will change about your life - why the hugs, tears and so much joy? you didn't win anything?
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Sorry for quoting this but could you please answer this as I think we turned the page before you could read it.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showpost.php?p=2819643&postcount=44

Ps I do agree people who make it a life or death thing are silly.
 
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It is the same as people running around shooting each other with paint balls. Hardly a basic human necessity is it? Yet i would bet my last cup of coffee that you don't find this a waste of time or particularly stupid?
 
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Sport isn't a waste of time - those guys are rich, have huge houses, and marry hot women (some even go off to the side and get a mistress too)

Watching Sport is a waste of time.

Can you honestly tell me you have nothing better to do than watch guys trying to run past other guys?

Nothing more exciting to do than watch an umpire and his sunny sunscreen throwing funky signs to some guy with a Bat?

all that, weekend after weekend, after weekend? no ways dude, get a life!
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Oh please. You watch it for the skill, effort, pain, exhilaration, tactics, teamwork......

That guy just passing the ball to you is in fact the result of 1) The backroom staff studying the opposition's game during the week before 2) Devising a their own plan to exploit that team's weakness 3) Using the skills of their players that has taken years of effort and sacrifice to hone and to implement the plan on the training pitch 5) and finally the players on the pitch pulling it off under real match conditions.

So it's a lot more than that and I for one enjoy watching all that pay off in front my eyes on the T.V or at the game.
 
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very easy question Devil, and I think I speak for a lot of people when I say this:

- When you play Chess, you are IN the game - getting better can turn you into a pro, and into something. Watching more rugby is only gonna make you dumber, fatter, and waste your life away - there is no achievement you get

this guy died at 85, and was Pro chess player.
this guy died at 85, and watched a lot of Rugby on TV.

...which sounds better.

Ok, as for movies, the same - you get something out of it - you learn of a true story - see what it could of been like at pearl harbor, learn of novels, and interesting things.

now I ask you - what the hell, can you learn from watch rugby every weekend? huh? how to throw a ball better? how to kick a ball? that seems like kiddie stuff to me.

movies are always new, rugby is the same **** over and over.
 
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very easy question Devil, and I think I speak for a lot of people when I say this:

- When you play Chess, you are IN the game - getting better can turn you into a pro, and into something. Watching more rugby is only gonna make you dumber, fatter, and waste your life away - there is no achievement you get

this guy died at 85, and was Pro chess player.
this guy died at 85, and watched a lot of Rugby on TV.

...which sounds better.

Ok, as for movies, the same - you get something out of it - you learn of a true story - see what it could of been like at pearl harbor, learn of novels, and interesting things.

now I ask you - what the hell, can you learn from watch rugby every weekend? huh? how to throw a ball better? how to kick a ball? that seems like kiddie stuff to me.

movies are always new, rugby is the same **** over and over.
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Yes because I am sure those are how the events unfolded :rolleyes:

Transformers and all that must teach us about physics then? The Mummy about history and all that..

I ruby you see that play that makes you go "Wow!" or you see a man play for 80 mins and not stand back an inch for a guy twice his size, it is in a way the modern way of war... You learn about grit bravery and endurance in rugby and in many other sports.
 
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I just love to watch the people do this, Semaphore

on the end of the game everybody hugs each other and says "We played good hey? jeez, I almost thought we were gonna lose, but we didn't, and we won!" (I'm actually talking about the viewers here, not the players)

As if *anything* about *anything* will change about your life - why the hugs, tears and so much joy? you didn't win anything?
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You do know that this is the base psychology of all sports right? You align yourself with your team (why its called supporters), and you support your team, if your team won you celebrate cause you supported the winning side, if the side lost, you blame the ref and move on.

This is really all common sense, and actually the foundation and building block of sports since its inception. Uhm back then it was not about looking good or strutting your stuff in the gym, it was the us against them philosophy, one village against another.

But then again, its also just as important as someone that thinks his opinion on how much he hates rugby in the sport section will actually matter
 
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Yes because I am sure those are how the events unfolded :rolleyes:

Transformers and all that must teach us about physics then? The Mummy about history and all that..

I ruby you see that play that makes you go "Wow!" or you see a man play for 80 mins and not stand back an inch for a guy twice his size, it is in a way the modern way of war... You learn about grit bravery and endurance in rugby and in many other sports.
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There is no such thing a Hollywood movie from which you can learn "a true story".

In a film you see fake emotions, That's why you call it acting. In sport you see the real thing. Diving footballers are the exception lol
 
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Not to mention the unification that sport brings about. People who wouldn't usually associate with one another now find themselves supporting the same team. Wearing the same shirt. There's something inspiring about that!
 
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lets switch this around a bit - I wanna hear your opinions.

Ok, so if guys compete to a frisbee throwing contest, you also see the real thing - all those months of training, blood sweat and tears for victory. teams vs teams, they got names like the "bisons" and the blue team "blou blasies" and they even have guys wearing shorty shorts.

Doesn't this get boring after competition event #163 ?
What does screaming at the TV achieve ?
Does wearing a "blou blasie" T-shirt make you cool ?
Will it help my life if i've spent 50% of my free time on watch frisbee contests? (Including all 28 events of the oh so Spectacular double whopper champs of champs frisbee SOLO contest in japan)
 
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