What's more boring: Formula 1 or Association Football?

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Originally posted by living in lancs yearning for yorks:
Mike, you're quite right that it is "only" my opinion that footy is boring. It is "only" your opinion that it is not - and you do come across as being rather self-important with your response.

You are right; I was in a bit of a hurry and only had time to post the briefest reply. My pomposity alert failed to kick in...

Regards

Mike

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Originally posted by Deane F:
This is because I do not post on this forum for the purposes of personal development.

No; you post to raise Important Issues, and start Debate.

Did you open a bottle of wine and listen to some choice toons with the wife?

Hi Mike

No, I didn't open a bottle of wine wif da wife.

I don't do soft drugs like alcohol.

Deane

Deane

If you ever decide to support a football team, undoubtedly, Manchester United would be the team for you. You definitely have the right credentials.

fatcat

Manchester United? Didn't they have that cross-dressing Spice Boy play for them once?

Deane

Those weren't the credentials I had in mind.

More the fact you live thousands of miles from Old Trafford and know nothing about football.

Fatcat

It seems Mike Lacey is a Manchester United supporter. What are his credentials?

Deane

Evasion; how unexpected.

I've also been there, Deane, to watch them play.

While its flattering to note that I am some kind of talisman or standard in your life by which you judge ecents and validate opinion, I think you are becoming obsessed with me.

It was an attempt at humour, Mike. I thought you'd take it light-heartedly, as it was meant.

I do not take Ferrari as seriously as some people seem to take football. Fights get started in pubs here about rugby teams though, so I guess I should have known.

Over my head, Deane.

I live some hundreds of miles from Old Trafford ( home of MUFC ) and its very hard to get hold of tickets but I do get up there now and again.

Regards

Mike

Mike

So why Manchester United?

I started liking Ferrari when they were getting nowhere year after year. They had/have such a great history; but at the time I started following them they were a very average team indeed and I didn't expect anything of them. So the Schumacher years were great.

Now I worry every time they take the grid.

Deane

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Originally posted by Deane F:
Mike

So why Manchester United?

I started liking Ferrari when they were getting nowhere year after year. They had/have such a great history; but at the time I started following them they were a very average team indeed and I didn't expect anything of them.

It was much the same with Man United through the seventies and eighties, Deane. After the Busby glory years they only won the odd FA Cup until Alex Ferguson came along and turned them into the club they now are.

When I was a kid the glory hunters supported Liverpool or Leeds.

Regards

Mark

Does anybody here like Heinz Baked Beans with Pork Sausages, offered for sale at various outlets, all in the same can?

I certainly do. They are more exciting than Football and Ef1.

That's just my opinion though.

Parp

I hate 'em, but I prefer 'em to footie! Fredrik

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
I hate 'em, but I prefer 'em to footie! Fredrik

There is one on this forum who prefers watching paint dry to footie!

Dear Mark,

I don't hate sport. Football or any other. But because I always had terrible eyes I was always with the duffers at school, so I enjoyed running which within the limitations of being very small all through childhood, I was good at - long distance where stamina counts more than a fast sprint finish. I used to be competitive with people far more obviously suited! I also enjoyed gym, but the master hated me...

I adore tennis and cricket though I was banned from cricket because I was fearless, and had two bad accidents with catches. I became scorer.

Essentially sport is most fun when you take part, I reckon, and really the sad thing about the London Olympics is that the money would definately be better spent improving sports facilities and tuition in schools, in my view.

ATB from Fredrik

Ah but Sir Fredrik, I would put one english pound on betting that you are an accomplished chef...

I wish I was, but alas I cannot face the prospect of doing the washing up. I'm quite tall you know and doing the washing up gives me very bad back pain if I engage in the activity for any more than 2 minutes. My mother and father however used to see this as merely an excuse to get out of this common household chore. I wasn't lying! Honest!

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Essentially sport is most fun when you take part,

Dear Fredrik

I agree. I used to play football at school and every available waking moment of the day! My dad used to come and drag me home as I would still be in the school playground playing football long after the sun had gone down and any chance of actually seeing the ball remained! I was captain of the school football team and also in the school athletics and cricket teams. I love most forms of sport, although I must admit that watching American Football for me is like watching 'soccer' for Acad (drying paint!).

These days I mostly watch, although the chance to play football is one I never turn down.

Best Regards

Mark

I must be out of the loop.
Can anyone tell me why the black arm bands at both semi finals?

Bob

Anniversary of Hillsborough.

Regards

Mark

Dear Dave,

I am a more than fair cook, and enjoy producing food for others though it is a proper chore to cook for one. I am more than passable at washing up. Mostly I like to do simple things well, and have one or two sppecials which will not ne found in any cook book.

My best one is a rare sort of bolognaise type thing, which lasts two days. It goes with pototo in all forms except chips, which I never cook, rice or spagetti. Firstly section mushrooms and gently brown [in lard, I am sorry to say, but only enough to stop them sticking] in an iron pan, then add about four [roughly] diced onions, or two if they are large. Add about two pounds [about 800 grams] of mince, beef or lamb, and keep it going gently adding tinned tomatoes or about four or five fesh ones sectioned, and some tomato concentrate. Season with salt, rough Black Perper, Oregano, Basil, and Marjoram. Cook till ready with a lid on for a while, stiring from time to time. This will feed two for two days or four for one. If it goes to the second day, I do an alternate to the pototes, rice or spagetti, to add variety. Next day in rehashing it, two tins of mixed beans add to a new sort of taste. Depending how dry I want it on day two, I either wash the beans out of their tinned juice or use it, and cook with or without a lid.

Mainly I do farmhouse cooking, of the staple English foods. I never make a pudding, but would rather cook a few more potatoes or whatever as this is easier and more healthy!

One favourite I like to do if I can get good smoked Salmon, which is always better in Norway in my view, is a very special but simple recipe of serving decently think slices of the Salmon, which a special almost scambled egg additon with chives... Ummm! A nice but usually inexpensive Orvietto Classico goes well with this, and a good steak goes very nicely afterwards, with a Bordeaux! After that no one want a pudding!!! Then a proper coffee...

Dear Mark,

The one sport I find is quite fun to ridicule [if one has a captive US American!] is Baseball. I love to point out that in England this a game is generally played by small school girls!

The only things that upsets me about high level sports is the occasional corruption scandal, and bad behavior by the participants. Drugs and corruption should be very strictly dealt with, but it seems that sometimes these issues are not really addressed successfully. For this reason I have less than no interest in cycling at the level of the Tour de France or whatever.

All the best from Fredrik