Things We Hate

[BlueBee]

Alcohol shits. Burrrrrn.

 

[Skinner]

Alcohol shits. Burrrrrn.

Mixed in with last nights zinger burger from KFC

 

[BlueBee]

I regret everything last night.

 

[silkyman]

Made up American shit in order to fit another meal in, the fat bastards.

Apart from it being the opposite of that. And an English invention anyway.

Isn't everything that exsists in the world 'made up'? At which point it became a thing that exsists?

But apart from that...

 

[blade1889]

People who hate Katie Hopkins and petition sites that spam me.

Got an email today from change.org trying to get me to sign a petition to stop Katie Hopkins doing her thing in The Sun. 1) I sign petitions that I want, not just cos you've emailed me so please stop spamming the heck out of me! 2) if you don't like Katie Hopkins then stop fucking complaining cos you're genuinely just giving her what she wants...shes a professional WUM, have you not noticed yet?


And whilst I'm on one, people that sing really loudly all the time. Have a housemate that I can hear now singing completely out of tune, like a screaming cat after you've trodden on its tail with football boots. And he does it all the time. Just Shut Up, I'm trying to watch TV!

 

[RavenBish]

We had a thing at school where we'd sign each other up for newsletters and stuff using each other's school emails, it slowly escalated from climate change stuff to stuff more sinister like homosexual societies and then someone went too far, as is always the case, and It all ended in us being asked to explain why the iT blokes were getting alerts for Islamic extremists emails hitting our inboxes. Worrying if not for the fact I went to a school with only one Asian lad and one black lad in the entire year. Hardly a hotbed.

 

[SALTIRE]

This is on the PC mate, my internet connection is to blame.

Ah yeah PC installs can take years, I remember I got a dodgy copy of GTA 4 on the PC and I think it took about 6 hours to install without downloading - even then it didn't work right!

 

[MSB92]

Baseball and its awful long season.

 

[JaseTheVillain]

American sports in general I find utterly shite... Only thing I'd really watch by choice would be Ice Hockey, and that's more Canadian.

 

[RavenBish]

Baseball and Basketball are certainly diluted by the length of their seasons and the effect it has on the importance of each game during the regular season but both respective play-offs are fascinating viewing - the whole 'best of' structure makes for memorable series and rivalries. Baseball also obviously suffers from the 'cricket factor' in that some people just find it boring, as is their right.

NFL is a different, and bigger, beast.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Dilution isn't the right word, it's immersion, which is its own mode of intensification. It becomes part of the wallpaper, the warp and woof of the seasons (and other high flown stuff that Roger Angell would rhapsodise about). I spend more hours per year in the company of Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy than anyone else (which is not altogether a good thing, or even at all a good thing).

It's all increasingly quaint, now, since everything is for TV, and thus has to fit into a 2 hour prime time broadcast block (and even better if it can be disassembled into half a dozen Vine-length highlights for the SportsCenter Top 10), but there is something about that sort of sport... the 3 week grand tours in cycling, test match cricket, and so on. Something ever present, long enough to develop its own internal rhythms and wotnot, the ebb and flow, a routine that's not routine, the slow agglomeration of small pieces that can appear insignificant individually, but are not.

Can one find that experience anywhere else, in anything, culture wise? 600 year long John Cage pieces? Soap operas? Actual real life for those not resigned to getting their ever diminishing thrills via vicarious time sinks buttressed by cod-philosophical justifications? I dunno.

 

[MSB92]

I have nothing against the NFL. It's a fantastic sport and one that I enjoy watching and would love if I could learn about it more. My hate for baseball other than that I find it boring to watch and get into, is that whenever there's a Red Sox game the trains get so crowded here in Boston that it feels like I'm in a sardine can.

 

[MSB92]

And basketball is another fun sport to watch as well.

 

[Mustard]

I don't mind weed but I can't stand weed culture.

420 fuck off.

 

[T.A]

Weed culture?

 

[Saddlerrad]

Baseball is a good American sport and Ice Hockey, I can handle. Not a fan of NFL though. The lack of fluidity in the game just makes it feel kind of strange to me.. the fact that the ball is generally only in play for a few seconds, then we have a breaks, gatherings, talks, chats, referee bullshit for about 10 minutes in between just really makes me struggle to get stuck into it properly. It would definetely help if I spent time actually getting used to the rules, but there's no incentive really. If I lived in the US, I would stick to my Baseball.

 

[mnb089mnb]

Baseball is a good American sport and Ice Hockey, I can handle. Not a fan of NFL though. The lack of fluidity in the game just makes it feel kind of strange to me.. the fact that the ball is generally only in play for a few seconds, then we have a breaks, gatherings, talks, chats, referee bullshit for about 10 minutes in between just really makes me struggle to get stuck into it properly. It would definetely help if I spent time actually getting used to the rules, but there's no incentive really. If I lived in the US, I would stick to my Baseball.

And how long is the ball in play during a game of baseball?

 

[Saddlerrad]

But an action or play in the game as such, actually moves the game visibly forward. 3 seconds of play in NFL feels like nothing has occured, unless there's a touchdown. It's just to stop starty and hard to get into unless you either play it, or have been a fan for a long time.

 

[Mustard]

Weed culture?

Just the whole scene around it, particularly those people who think it's cool to sit around all day blazing rather than get a job/do work. I've met a fair few of those kinds of people at uni, and whilst they are almost always nice enough, some people smoke way too much and lose all their drive. And they make sure you know they smoke weed with all their stories about when they got high, and their cannabis leaf t-shirt/flat cap. I don't mind if people want to smoke weed but I don't think it's something that people should be shouting about either. It's the same with people who brag about how much they drank that one time, who cares. There needs to be a balance.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Weed culture?

(Mostly) bad music, bad fashion/aesthetics, bad philosophy. Maaaaaaaaan.

And I spent my early 20s reading Robert Anton Wilson and listening to Fu Manchu. So I'm allowed to say it.

 

[MSB92]

But an action or play in the game as such, actually moves the game visibly forward. 3 seconds of play in NFL feels like nothing has occured, unless there's a touchdown. It's just to stop starty and hard to get into unless you either play it, or have been a fan for a long time.

To me baseball is a lot slower than the NFL. In the NFL, the team must gain yards in each play to get to the touchdown line.
I think the problem with all American sports is the amount of ads that they try and cram in a game. It just takes your mind out of the game.

 

[Veggie Legs]

I was reading an interesting discussion on Reddit earlier comparing the action and attitudes to different sports, especially football v American football. Stems from this diagram:

 

[spireite]

I think right there is the reason I like NHL, but no other North American sport. It's possible to play an entire period without a break in play (highly unlikely of course, but possible) the same as in football. Forcing breaks for the sake of wedging in extra TV ads loses me as a customer. If I'm watching a sport, I want to WATCH the sport, not be force-fed commercial crap every few minutes (literally). We don't get addicted to statistics the same way Americans do so we find the pauses in play just irritating, on the whole

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Ever watched a test match?

And in the UK we are force fed commerial crap none stop (literally). Our teams are walking bill boards for pay day lenders and online bookies. The pitch is surrounded by animated hoardings hawking footware. Portions of our great and sainted football pyramid are prostituted by actually having a bank, another online bookie, and below that an online van emporium (!) in the title.

 

[Mr Elmo]

Yes but at least here during gameplay during sports like football etc you don't have adverts pop up so you miss part of the game.

Unless you're ITV of course.

 

[Veggie Legs]

I watched a game on TV in Italy the other week (the Italy v England friendly) and they showed adverts while substitutions were being made. Obviously you don't miss any action but it's still during the match.

 

[Red]

Just the whole scene around it, particularly those people who think it's cool to sit around all day blazing rather than get a job/do work. I've met a fair few of those kinds of people at uni, and whilst they are almost always nice enough, some people smoke way too much and lose all their drive. And they make sure you know they smoke weed with all their stories about when they got high, and their cannabis leaf t-shirt/flat cap. I don't mind if people want to smoke weed but I don't think it's something that people should be shouting about either. It's the same with people who brag about how much they drank that one time, who cares. There needs to be a balance.

Been there years ago and did the whole sartorial weed thing. I look back on it as being embarrassing now.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Willie Thorne

 

[Steady]

That does sound pretty painful to be fair.

 

[blade1889]

Silent Discos. Wtf is the point?