BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics

Subject: RE: BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics
From: Will Fly
Date: 12 Feb 18 - 11:42 AM

Sen - crumpets are most certainly allowed.

Sorry about the sheep...

Subject: RE: BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Feb 18 - 11:34 AM

I'm not! I'm not!

Subject: RE: BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 12 Feb 18 - 11:21 AM

I don't watch them, either.

Subject: RE: BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics
From: Senoufou
Date: 12 Feb 18 - 11:19 AM

Right, Will Fly, I've made my selection from your list:-

Reading the books
Eating copious amounts of cheese. (Are crumpets allowed too?)
And I've selected my sheep, but he doesn't fancy me I'm afraid.

Subject: RE: BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics
From: Greg F.
Date: 12 Feb 18 - 11:16 AM

How about some suggested activities to replace the Olympics.......

Subject: RE: BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics
From: Will Fly
Date: 12 Feb 18 - 10:30 AM

Suggestions for activities which take the place of TV:

Play the guitar - or any instrument of choice - even the banjo...
Learn a new song or tune
Research your family tree
Read several good or bad books
Watch a DVD - or Netflix - or a download from iTunes
Quarrel on Mudcat
Listen to music
Go to the pub
Have hot sex with the man/woman/sheep of your choice
Cross-dress and parade in front of a tall mirror
Eat copious amounts of cheese
Bake bread

Or even several of these at the same time - pick'n mix...

Subject: RE: BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics
From: DMcG
Date: 12 Feb 18 - 10:18 AM

I don't think I have watched any sport since the 1966 world cup. And that was under duress.

When i was first married and hard up we rented a tv rather than buying. Come the summer there was so much sport we sent it back. The TV licencing people were baffled. They could cope with people who had never had a tv but getting rid of one was beyond them.

Subject: RE: BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 12 Feb 18 - 03:16 AM

What olympics ?

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics
From: Senoufou
Date: 12 Feb 18 - 03:07 AM

Exactly, lefthanded. As if we haven't enough blooming ice and frost. I want programmes about tropical paradises and hot sunny beaches. (The Bondi beach rescue series are really interesting.)
Last night there was the Six Nations rugby, rotten old football, the Winter Olympics and Dancing on Ice. Or, just to cheer oneself up, endless programmes about Police catching burglars and rounding up drunks, who are usually vomiting copiously or bellowing, swearing and thumping each other. Riveting.
Nearly every programme on TV these days is a repeat. I'm word perfect in them all.
I usually read, while husband enjoys all the sporting events in his study.

Subject: RE: BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics
From: JennieG
Date: 11 Feb 18 - 11:23 PM

Trying my darndest to avoid it......not too hard, as we don't get as much coverage here in Oz. We have some winter sports athletes, but on the whole we aren't a winter sport nation.

Summer games are a different matter, talk about saturation coverage.....

Subject: RE: BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics
From: Greg F.
Date: 11 Feb 18 - 09:17 PM

Wouldn't watch at gunpoint.

The Olympics as currently constituted are a scam. Follow the money.

Subject: RE: BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Feb 18 - 09:05 PM

Not watching.

Subject: RE: BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Feb 18 - 08:58 PM

I know what you mean, and I take no interest to start with. But I think that, without any effort whatsoever on my part, one or two events may fire my imagination. It'll never be skiing, but ice skating might just do it.

Subject: BS: Is anyone else not watching the Olympics
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 11 Feb 18 - 08:13 PM

Are there any other non sports fans out there who
are not watching what seems like 40 days and nights
of coverage of these unrelenting events? I know they
deliberately schedule these in the most miserable month
of the year -February- b/c they figure I m too tired,
weary and exhausted by the dismal weather
to do anything than lie in the couch and watch
tv. And if I m not sick enough of snow, slush and ice,
we get to see even more of it as contestants ski, skate,
slide, trip and tumble through it.

I m trying to fill up the time in other more
productive ways- today I went out to eat with
pals, went shopping and cooked up a sausage
onions and pepper meal for tomorrow (I haven!t
cooked so much since I made that two ton turkey
last Thanksgiving) and listened to the Hank
Williams songbook (wonderful timeless writer
and performer imho) on YouTube. And now it s barely
8 pm and I have hours to fill before my
bedtime.

Suggestions catters? Should I take up
a new hobby. Organize my shelves?
Adopt a turtle? If there are fellows-in-misery
who have found a way to circumvent these
ice bound circles of boredom, sign in
with solutions, alternatives, jokes,
recipes and/or cat videos. Can be
music videos or real cats - I don't care-
anything but the luge!