Pet Peeves

[Snare]

Basketball is awful shite.

That's fighting talk that! Hard to beat basketball, especially when Timmy McCarthy is commentating. That's what I look forward to the most at every Olympics.

Got into basketball in the glory days of the 80's, it was my main sport at school, my kids play with 2 different clubs, and we attend as many Super League Games as possible for different clubs down here.
Got to love final days in the National Basketball Arena as well. I wanted to hit the internationals there last weekend but a trip to Kerry won out...

So no, I'd have to strongly disagree that basketball is shite, but each to their own obviously!

[Ollkiller]

Basketball is a great sport to play. It'll get you fit in no time as there's no let up.

[mickO)))]

Hurling, Gaelic, Golf, Snooker etc. all shite but Basketball is at least one of the very few decent sports.

[astfgyl]

Hurling is not shite, although the GAA can be quite stomach turning.

[Caomhaoin]

Hurling is the best of the best! Home for a few days, first thing I did was organise tickets for a club match to show the wife.

[Caomhaoin]

Basketball is awful shite.

That's fighting talk that! Hard to beat basketball, especially when Timmy McCarthy is commentating. That's what I look forward to the most at every Olympics.

Got into basketball in the glory days of the 80's, it was my main sport at school, my kids play with 2 different clubs, and we attend as many Super League Games as possible for different clubs down here.
Got to love final days in the National Basketball Arena as well. I wanted to hit the internationals there last weekend but a trip to Kerry won out...

So no, I'd have to strongly disagree that basketball is shite, but each to their own obviously!

If you've never been Brian, I highly recommend going to see a Red Star Belgrade gane in their home arena at some stage. Most explosive atmosphere I've ever experienced in any match in any sport. Deafening.

[Giggles]

Hurling, Gaelic, Golf, Snooker etc. all shite but Basketball is at least one of the very few decent sports.

I have zero interest in any of those sports, but I'd hardly call them shite.


Sports related peeve: comments section on YouTube for extreme sports videos being flooded with safety nazis. "Should be wearing a helmet", "Darwin award will come too soon", "Gonna get injured and put a strain on emergency services etc." Fuck off and enjoy the videos for what they are - entertainment!

[Anvil]

My old PE teacher put me off basketball for life with his insistence of teaching us and always making us play zone defence... We didn't even have a school team, and fuck me was it boring. 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

After some Olympics exposure, I'd have to stick to saying water polo is the worst of all "sports"

[Anvil]

Do they still do the gymnastics with the ribbons and balls?   That and walking were always the ones I could never watch. 

[The Heretic]

Why the fuck does everyone else look effortlessly cool and relaxed and non sweaty on holidays while my every second thought is fuck this heat I should have stayed at home for the 2 weeks...

[Ducky]

Big dopes wearing noise-cancelling headphones while cycling.

Bigger dopes wearing noise-cancelling headphones while cycling on a footpath past a crowded venue with people filtering out.

Biggest dopes wearing noise-cancelling headphones while cycling against the flow of traffic on a one-way road.

[The Great Cull]

Muscle spasms. Have a doozy of one in my back since Monday and even with Valium and strong painkillers it's still hurting like fuck.

[Eoin McLove]

I looked into getting my son into karate a few months ago. I started filling out the form but stopped halfway through for some reason and forgot to complete the form for two or three weeks. In the meantime I started to receive texts and emails by the dozen from the club, everything from promoting their values to classes to telling me that even just considering sending my son to karate classes makes me a good parent, even if I don't follow through with it. Weird. What do you even make of such a meaningless statement??

I finally got to it, signed him up and we were away. The slew of emails and texts continued throughout, with titles that bizarrely ended in "LOL", and were all incredibly encouraging... overly- encouraging. Mildly strange and annoying.

The young lad was sick a few weeks back and missed a class. The next week we brought him along but he was hungry and tired after creche and didn't take part. We bailed after ten minutes.

I got a call a few days later from the dude asking if Lugh was ok and why he wasn't in class the past two weeks. Is everything alright at home he asks! A bit over the line methinks but yeah yeah he's grand, cheers for the call.

The following week he didn't want to go because he said he found it boring. He loved the classes when he was there but the mind of a five year old... What are you going to do. We compromise with him and say to do one more class before deciding one way or another,  so we had along, he gets stuck in and has a blast but after he says nah, not into it. It's boring. Grand, I cancel the classes.

Then this morning I get another call from the dude. Hi, is everything ok at home, is he ok, why hasn't he been in! I begin to tell him that the interest is gone so we cancelled the class blah blah blah. I stop talking and realise I'm talking to myself! He has hung up or got cut off. I wait a minute for him to call me back. No. I ring back. No answer. Nothing. Double fucking  weird. I feel on one hand like I have just been ghosted while on the other I'm wondering if this fucking karate place is sponsored by the church of Scientology. I wonder if this is the end of it or the cunt will ring me back again 

[Bürggermeister]

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