March Madness

[GeminiBrian]

I wish it were, I'd like it an awful lot more, not to mention be able to understand the attraction for other people...

I was made to play the dammed game at school - believe me, the only attraction is the communal shower afterwards

[Cruella]

That explains quite a few things actually...

[Nono]

Yeah, even if one sat out the whole game on the bench one can still get ruggered in the showers.

[GeminiBrian]

That explains quite a few things actually...

I know - you could say I'm a fully-fledged Rugger Bugger...

ps. on second thoughts, best scrap the 'rugger' bit...

[GeminiBrian]

Yeah, even if you sat out the whole game on the bench one can still get ruggered in the showers.

I'd best not answer that - you'll only set Jack on to me again.

[Nono]

The operative word here is "one", which one uses to avoid the impression that one is speaking of oneself, which if one is me one is most definitely not.

[GeminiBrian]

The operative word here is "one", which one uses to avoid the impression that one is speaking of oneself, which if one is me one is most definitely not.

That necessitated a nifty self-edit on one's part, what? (see the discrepancy in wording
as captured above - 'you' suddenly becomes 'one').

ps. In Britain sportsmen fight their own battles - it's considered more manly.

[Nono]

Well precisely. I'm dissociating myself entirely from the context. That means what it means. Best take that on board.

[GeminiBrian]

Well precisely. I'm dissociating myself entirely from the context.

But you're not though, are you nono - you couldn't resist joining in with a clear allusion to my sexuality - that could be seen as provocative - and it was.

A game is not really played with one-sided rules in my book... but I won't go crying to a mod about it.

[Nono]

I always thought of rugby as a no-hold-barred homo-erotic romp with lots of slippery mud.

(...) you could say I'm a fully-fledged Rugger Bugger...

ps. on second thoughts, best scrap the 'rugger' bit...

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[Cruella]

Absolutely none of this is disproving my point that rugby is stoopid, and anything associated with it is stoopid too.

[Nono]

No, the thread was derailed for the purpose of bitching and point-scoring, among other things.

Hell, any activity involving the conveyance of a ball around a field could be described as stooopid. The thing with rugger is that you have all these lunatics charging around ill-dressed for the meteorological conditions and acting incredibly violent with each other.

Meanwhile off-stage is a baying crowd of frequently inebriated dingbats egging them on.
It's all rather sordid what.

I would, if I may, like to put in a good word for baseball, which involves a ball it's true but is almost entirely a game of skill and a matter of considerable athletic grace.

It's also an inexhaustible mine of statistics, which endlessly gladdens the hearts of any number of harmless nerds such as my friend Mark, who could no doubt tell you, for example, when the last time was that a lefthanded pitcher in the American League under the age of 28 threw a seven-hit game when the temperature in the stadium was over 90 and the third-base coach had had to temporarily give up chewin' tabaki on account of dental work.