Watching sports just bores me, tennis is no exception. Rugby is the only sport I can think of that doesn't bore me dumb, and even then, I only really watch it when I have to.
How can tennis bore you?! It's being held in Sochi, Russia. Got a couple of years to wait for that. I think the roof is good. It ensures that matches can still be played and helps with managing the schedule. I'm not sure if they have figured out enough when it's okay to use the roof or not, what with it being supposed to be an outdoor tournament. But they've made good decisions with the roof so far, apart from that one time when they kept the roof on all day despite it being sunny outside.
Speaking only for myself I just can't get emotionally attracted and invested in any one team or player. I just wasn't build that way, and tribalism people point to when they explain why they like something like football will always remain a total mystery to me. Now, don't get me wrong, I enjoy playing sports, and I can be quite competitive, but watching sports with the emotional investment needed to make it more than just watching a game, a game you could be playing yourself, is something I honestly can't do. This might reflect poorly on me though but another sport I enjoy watching is boxing. I like the fast pace, energy and aggression. There is something primal about it.
Sorry, to me the "sport" of boxing is every bit as senseless as the participant who has taken far too many punches. You want primal, watch a lion ripping a gazelle into bloody strips.
I'd rather watch a boxing match between two consenting people, and with rules, over something being killed for food. Sure, boxing not the most civilized sport, but it is what it is. And considering boxing teaches controlled aggression, and an awareness of the damage you can physically do to another. It's surprising how rare it is for people I know who practice some form of combat, especially martial arts, to get into fights. And even then it's only when absolutely necessarily because they know about the damage they can do.
I have trained in a few forms of martial arts. Mostly what I have learned is how to avoid a fight, and to stop one with minimal damage.
This is what everyone I know who has martial arts training says too. You're trained in self defense and not to go around getting into fights. As for boxing, I don't watch it, but the way I see it is that it's more legit than wrestling. As in WWF wresting. I pretty much steer clear of that stuff. If I want to see a good fight, I'll watch hockey.
Exactly. Boxing at a professional level is not about battering seven shades out of someone, but about controlling aggression. In reality it's little more than an organized fight, with rules, between two consenting people. I don't see what is exactly wrong with that. While boxing itself isn't particularly civilized, watching it is fun because it is violent, and part of me likes that. I won't make an apology for it, because I can't exactly apologize for something I can't help. But the sport too and the training required also has merit. Besides, what is sport, particularly extreme sports, if not a way to reach something primal? People box for much the same reasons they bungee jump.
To me, the likes of Wladimir Klitschko, Dwayne Johnson, et al., who can not only take a physical pummelling but laugh about it afterwards, are more 'civilised' than million-pound-a-match footballers who complain about 'slavery,' cry like babies at being tapped on the shins, and shout and scream at refs whenever they make a decision they don't like.
Tennis is a decent enough sport, but watching it really is just watching a ball go back and forth. Anyone who has ever had to amuse a small child will be familiar with such a monotonous form of entertainment; that being said, I really enjoy watching Tennis because when a good rally is going, it's easy to appreciate skill and the athleticism in it. If you don't agree, try playing it again sometime. That sport will kick the average person's petunias. Mostly I try and stick to sports that are about strategy and brainpower versus raw aggression. It's hard to be entertained by mindless brutality (for me), so it's nice when I see that those big football players on the screen actually have to have an idea or they're going to get pancaked.
Hola everyone. Urgh. I'm just typing up some edits I did on paper for my novel, working my way back through the whole thing, and at page 16 my eyes are already tired. This is such a drag. -_- This is the 3rd novel I've ever edited and it still isn't easy. I've got the method right, but it's still tiring.
I'm currently working on a novella, the longest thing I've ever done, and yeah, editing takes a long time. I like doing it, but it's still tiring. Edit: I love the fact that Northumberland in Hollow Crown's King Henry IV part 1 has a Cramlington accent.
Ooooh I like novellas! How long do you estimate it will end up being? Any ideas where you might be sending it for publishing? *Has never heard of Cramlington but really enjoys the name*
I'll not be, I'll be putting this novella on to Fictionpress - which I've started using more and more for the odd piece. Usually stuff that isn't very serious but I wanted to write anyway. With this I wanted to get some sense of what it would be like writing stuff that is a bit longer than my usual 1,000 to 4,000 short stories. I have the first chapter of it done, of a planned 6, at just under 3,500 words, and hopefully it's coming out alright. That first chapter is already on Fictionpress. Cramlington is a town north of Newcastle, and is within the Northumbrian boarders. I just like it that they got an actor from the right area of the north to play that character because Richard II's Northumberland didn't have an accent at all.
As far as aggression and sport goes, Dota 2 gets me hyped up. LMAOFF. I spent all night looking up WOW famous players fat. And WOW player girls. They are all the same. The game sucks your every braincell. Any gamers? Some serious feminists play WOW(world of warcraft). Tennis excited me until RPGS vids.
Editing is a pain. Usually I enjoy it but sometimes it's just so tiresome. Wimbledon finishes today so tomorrow I have no excuse but to get on with my novel. I read my first 8,000 words of it yesterday and ohdearlord, half of it I like and half of it I don't. The half I like is where all the drama, sadness and stuff is, maybe I'll just write those parts and then concentrate on the lead up to it... I'm not sure. I don't make things easy for myself considering the structure and storyline. Sigh.
I want to spam one of you with pix of cute cats. I'm in the mood. I don't think I'll get to stay here very long.... Shame Edit: if i do that. I won't stay if I do that. As in, they'll cut me off. Edit: THEY. the man.
Well, the BBC have really outdone themselves with these Shakespeare adaptations. The Hollow Crown series has been fantastic so far. Richard II was brilliant, and I think if anything Henry VI Part I was better. A brilliant cast of actors, and they've really got the atmosphere right. I bloody love Shakespeare.
It was excellent. As a whole I prefer Richard II over King Henry IV part 1, I just think the former is the better play, but that adaptation of King Henry was excellent. Next week it's King Henry IV part 2, a play I'm ashamed to say I haven't read.
Nor have I, which makes me anticipate it all the more. I really think Hiddleston was perfect as Hal. And the fight between him and Percy was an excellent piece of choreography. Gritty, clumsy, and realistic.
Agreed. And Jeremy Irons playing King Henry/Bolingbroke - I was unsure how it would work, considering the change in actors between it and Richard II. I thought they would go the route of the BBC adaptions from the 1970s, and have the same actors reprise roles between plays. But as I started watching this uncertainty disappeared really quickly.
^ I saw a trailer for part two yesterday and it actually looked pretty good. Bit annoyed with myself that I haven't been watching the adaptations. Oh well, I'm sure BBC will repeat them at some point. Today, I have been baking. Only bad side of having an electric range cooker is waiting for it to go down in temperature so I can put the cake in. Sigh.
^They'll be on iplayer soon I imagine. Just got back from a job interview with a bar near me, applying for bar staff position. I was so nervous, and I keep replaying parts of it over and over in my head and thinking 'I could have said something better there' ... honestly, to hell with nerves! What I find strange is I found my last university exam less nerve-racking.
