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Forget Russian aggression. Forget Brexit. Forget social injustice, the environmental crisis, and Donald Trump.

Is there anything more silly than basketball?

Preternaturally tall people running back and forth on a small court, leaning over to sink alternating baskets until the clock runs out, with whomever sunk the last basket being the winner in a match score of 120-118.

And don't even get me started about the kit. Goofiest looking stuff in all sport.

It's Friday. 😉


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 1:45 pm
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Grown men in tight lycra.. riding round on roads as fast as they can to beat other grown mens times. Fastest one across certain sections gets the honour of being a King.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 1:49 pm
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You're in Wales aren't you?  You've probably never seen morris dancers


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 1:49 pm
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Bog snorkelling.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 1:51 pm
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Football.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 1:52 pm
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22 men running around a field for 90 minutes, pretending to be nearly fatally injured, and writhing in agony if they trip over near someone wearing the other team's kit.

And then the score is still 0-0.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 1:54 pm
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Access laws in England and Wales


 
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Posted : 05/04/2019 1:58 pm
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Rugby? WTF is that all about?


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:01 pm
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Oh come on, cricket surely.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:06 pm
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Cricket, slightest hint of rain and they go running for cover like acid is falling from the sky

F1, where silly looking cars have more and more bits put on them every year to try and flatten the car against the impossibly smooth tarmac


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:10 pm
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Ice Hockey.
Bunch of violent chancers that were too short to play basketball.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:21 pm
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I demand we remove curling from the list immediately, its the best thing at the winter games!

I suggest tennis in its place.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:27 pm
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Car racing, it’s just driving round in circles


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:27 pm
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Got to be Luge.... rocketing down an icy slide on a tea tray?

Or Modern Pentathlon, think how hard they must train to do Swimming, CX running, pistol shooting, fencing and show jumping, only for 99% of people not to have a clue what it is they do?


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:27 pm
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I suggest tennis in its place.

Tennis on ice might be fun to watch.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:30 pm
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Walking races.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:31 pm
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Walking football. Although I gather it's good for old people and those with limited mobility.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:33 pm
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swim swim


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:35 pm
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Aunt Sally.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:37 pm
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Football.

+1 million

I wonder what the percentage of brexit voters would be amongst the football supporters that are keen enough to actually go to the stadiums to watch the game ?

Judging by the train last week when portsmouth were playing sunderland, I reckon it's pretty high.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:38 pm
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Walking football. Although I gather it’s good for old people and those with limited mobility

Ebike football ?


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:39 pm
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Driving for hours, to ride a bicycle in a circle *back to the car*. InArmour!

Did I miss the point! 😉


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:41 pm
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was thinking young girls on hobby horses :

but grown men on hobby horses beats it :


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:42 pm
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Ice Hockey.
Bunch of violent chancers that were too short to play basketball.

Whoa there! Say that again and I'll punch 'cha.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:52 pm
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All American sports are bizarre.


 
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22 men running around a field for 90 minutes, pretending to be nearly fatally injured, and writhing in agony if they trip over near someone wearing the other team’s kit.

And then the score is still 0-0


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 2:55 pm
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F1.

Go to your nearest roundabout, with 2 lane feed, far more exciting, more overtaking, and way more incidents.


 
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Baseball...it's just rounders with a bigger stick


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 3:00 pm
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It's the same as every sport ever invented.

If you're into it and understand the nuances of the game and its tactics then it's brilliant. if you're not and you don't then it's nonsense.

OR as it's friday.

Ice hockey, as a spectator the puck is too small to follow, you have to wait for the electronic indicator to go off before you know for sure if anyones scored, the biggest star of most games is the bloke that drives the Zamboni at half time and the players seem to forget all about the game every so often for a playground fight


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 3:05 pm
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Any sport where the team has a place name  first and then some sort of rufty tufty name second.

Brisbane Broncos etc.

I dread the day when west ham become the London hammers.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 3:14 pm
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Using the word "Preternaturally" when un-natural would have done.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 3:15 pm
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Baseball. A sport where the 'World Series' is just America.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 3:20 pm
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English Sorry, non-American people pretending to like, or understand, this nonsense.


 
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Kabaddi FTW


 
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This isn't meant as a cheap dig but...

... religion is full on silly.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 3:35 pm
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All American sports are bizarre.

FTFY.

@DezB - I am English and understand American Football.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 4:05 pm
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Using the word “Preternaturally” when un-natural would have done.

Except that they're not the same thing. "Preternatural" implies an extended nature - that is, something that goes beyond what one expects. "Unnatural" clearly suggests something antithetical to nature.

So there.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 4:06 pm
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Don't be silly.

[i]nothing like 200m travel for the admiral or good game.[/i]
What means this?


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 4:07 pm
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 its the best thing at the winter games!

Winter Olympics should be renamed the Slidey games...


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 4:11 pm
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Baseball. A bunch of slightly portly men in pyjamas a few sizes too small for them playing a game designed for Victorian school girls.

I don't think sports are silly at all..generally. A far better time for people to be spending their time over sat in cars in traffic jams heading to jobs they hate that are slowly killing them due to stress. Far more productive to be playing sensible games that challenge the body and mind....so yeah, rules out Amercan sports/games/marginally active pursuits.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 4:17 pm
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Basketball, baseball, American "football, ice hockey.

All American sports seem pointless copies of good games that the yanks couldn't win so they changed the rules and only allow themselves to enter.

So many World Series are confined to N America.


 
Posted : 05/04/2019 4:29 pm
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Basketball, baseball, American “football, ice hockey.

All American sports

2 Canadian, 2 Briitsh. The ones they didn't steal outright they just changed enough from the original to make them "theirs"


 
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