It's over now. I am watching the Rugby international Wales vs. England - a rivalry that makes the Civil War pale by comparison. And Wales have just scored!
This is turning out to be an interesting afternoon.
It's rather like American football - large men with odd-shaped balls, as they say - except that they do not wear protection. Wales still lead, and it's quite a show.
And to complete this - Wales have WON, at the very last minute! (I support Italy, which does not stand a ghost of a chance anyway, so I don't mind if England lose.) Cardiff is going to be a pretty lively place tonight, lads and ladies.
Quite excellent. You talk of rugby as a father of a friend talks about cricket. I understand nothing, but competition is the same across every medium. =)
I love most sports, except for golf (only a Scotsman could conceive such an insane idea), fishing (I don't like the final product) and gymnastics (abuses children). The thing is, Cardiff's National Stadium is the largest in Britain, and today it was full of 70,000 and more Welsh fans, who will by now still be dancing in the streets along with the rest of the city's population. Wales had not beaten England in years, and England are the world champions right now, so this victory must taste like a kind of double-concentrated honey.
The Welsh are on crack! I'm not surprised. I myself somewhat disapprove of the American football frenzy which is holding captive the city of Boston tomorrow.
This is just one of the many advantages to not taking an interest in sport and not watching TV unless I'm feeling really lazy. No tough channel-hopping decisions; no terrible feeling of disappointment when you forget to tape your favourite show; no trying to figure out what the hell happened in the episode you missed... and fianlly, no fighting with family members over what to watch. (And as an added bonus, since one of the shows I used to watch was Queer as Folk, no constantly looking over your shoulder in fear of being caught watching it. Not that it's that naughty/raunchy/whatever, but my parents are the sort to automatically assume that if I'm watching a show about gay people, I must be a lesbian.)
Ah, but channel-hopping is such fun... And at any rate, it's much better than the normal Saturday afternoon when there's bloody nothing to watch at all.
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