Sports you do not "get"

[The Camel]

Test cricket, Rugby Union, Pub games and fishing as a spectator, MMA, Baseball, Polo

I understand the attraction of UFC.

But it is the only sport I actively despise.

[theprawnidentity]

golf

[The Camel]

Sailing as a spectator sport seems pretty brutal, when I have watched at the olympics. Though I am not sure anyone really watches it, so presumably the vast majority don't get it.

If you haven't seen this, well worth a watch.

[TightEnd]

golf

Mr tomtomclub, you have to explain why, as illogically and cantakerously as possible. ty

[anthonyl]

American football. Just find it boring to watch, but partly due to the fact I do not understand the rules.

[TightEnd]

American football. Just find it boring to watch, but partly due to the fact I do not understand the rules.

Never stopped you with football.

[AndrewT]

Deal or no deal (ok, I'm expanding here) its a game that should take 5 minutes that last for 45 and nobody ever finishes the game properly, they just call it off halfway round when it suits  and then everyone claps and opens the unopened boxes.

Eastenders (ok, I'm expanding here) - it's a game where a load of Cockneys just shout at each other every night. I can't work out the scoring or when it's supposed to finish - this game seems to have been going on for over 20 years and nearly everyone has been substituted at some point. There do seem to be rolling subs though - the player Sharon Mitchell seems to be brought on every now and then as an impact substitute.

[anthonyl]

American football. Just find it boring to watch, but partly due to the fact I do not understand the rules.

Never stopped you with football.

Yeah, just followed what my dad has only ever watched which is why. I.e. football, cricket, golf, tennis etc...

[bobby1]

Deal or no deal (ok, I'm expanding here) its a game that should take 5 minutes that last for 45 and nobody ever finishes the game properly, they just call it off halfway round when it suits  and then everyone claps and opens the unopened boxes.

Eastenders (ok, I'm expanding here) - it's a game where a load of Cockneys just shout at each other every night. I can't work out the scoring or when it's supposed to finish - this game seems to have been going on for over 20 years and nearly everyone has been substituted at some point. There do seem to be rolling subs though - the player Sharon Mitchell seems to be brought on every now and then as an impact substitute.

She appears to have taken he Steven Gerrard role of going down too easily to create controversy, tbf they have both had a long career on the back of it.

[TightEnd]

New Tricks

James Bolam did his bassett hound face for years and Dennis Waterman still yearns for Minder theme tunes whilst Amanda Redman simpers in the least convincing portrayal of a police officer in celluloid history. After 60 minutes the person everyone least expects to have done it has done it and each time

There's no psychological profiling here, or crime-scene investigation – it's about hunches and leads, plodding along, working it out with a pencil, and making Lego boats.

It gets 9m viewers who presumably don't realise that the whodunnit is done to a set formula each week

[bobby1]

New Tricks

James Bolam did his bassett hound face for years and Dennis Waterman still yearns for Minder theme tunes whilst Amanda Redman simpers in the least convincing portrayal of a police officer in celluloid history. After 60 minutes the person everyone least expects to have done it has done it and each time

There's no psychological profiling here, or crime-scene investigation – it's about hunches and leads, plodding along, working it out with a pencil, and making Lego boats.

It gets 9m viewers who presumably don't realise that the whodunnit is done to a set formula each week

haha

My fav show of the week( until a touch of cloth started again that is) but it does have more red herrings than a John West factory

[theprawnidentity]

golf

Mr tomtomclub, you have to explain why, as illogically and cantakerously as possible. ty

Man hits ball with stick towards hole, man walks after ball, man hits ball with stick again, and so it goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on...........  Any prize money is then spent on ridiculous trousers, more sticks and a man to carry sticks.  Oh, and occasionally hookers, of which I approve, obvs.

[Dubai]

Great thread. F1 for me- maybe because I went through a period of laying people who just made all everytime but I just am not that bothered about it. Went Silverstone on hospitality freebie and bet the winner who overtook to hit the lead in front of me and was still underwhelmed. It's odd because my Dad loved it, he even went every year to Le Mans and had mates round each week to watch the Indy racing on sky the era when Mansell was in it

[Dubai]

Although Monte Carlo Grand Prix was amazing when went and defo in a bucket list of sporting stuff to do

[The Camel]

Ok if we are expanding it -

Poetry.

Why try and describe something, whether it be a place or an emotion, in forced rhyming couplets when you can do a far better job with prose.

And my Mrs has had her poetry published! (hope she doesn't see this post).