• Home
• Journeys
• 80 Days
• Pole to Pole
• Full Circle
• Hemingway
• Sahara
• Himalaya
• New Europe
• 80 Days Revisited
• Brazil
• Photography
• Photo Gallery
• Search Facilities
• Keyword Search
• Photo Search
• Palin's Guides
• Geography
• Accommodation
• Activity
• History
• Nature
• Person
• Transport
• Advanced Search
• Community
• The Chatter Box
• Chat Room
• Competition
• Polls
• Register
• Bookshop
• Bibliography
• Links
• Using the Site
• Instructions
•  
• 

Forgotten password?

THE CHATTER BOX

	The Chatter Box : Blathering On
	Let's NOT get emotional about it by Lounge Trekker on 6 February 2009 1:50am   The big thing on Canadian TV, maybe it's just the sports guys (I don't really notice any of the other pap), but it is often...every game, that someone says something like, "But the emotions, tsk, thethe guyth really care" or some other garbage. I watch sports so I don't have to see old ladies made up like teenagers, weeping profusely trying to, what, grab me by the heart? Maybe they're trying to enlargen the female sports-viewing audience. Gag me with a TV antenna. Nielson Trekker   Re: Let's NOT get emotional about it by Ken Dunn on 6 February 2009 5:02am   You've reminded me of the 'emotional rollercoaster' that some people manage to get on!?   Re: Let's NOT get emotional about it by kazzzz on 6 February 2009 6:11am   Yes well in the words of Robert Smith, (The Cure) Boy's Don't Cry.   Re: Let's NOT get emotional about it by mrsthing on 6 February 2009 1:13pm   "fag-boy"? Pete??!! Did somebody hijack your user account? The "emotional" sports stuff doesn't interest me any more than anything else does, so they haven't won me over to watching endless displays of boys beating each other up.   Re: Let's NOT get emotional about it by canaveralgumby on 6 February 2009 5:04pm   Pete, I agree 100%. If you watched the Super Bowl pre-game, you got the long, drawn-out story about the Cardinals' star player and how he was estranged from his mother, she died, he never told he loved her. And I thought, "Don't care don't care DON'T CARE." It was a NON-story and had nothing to do with anything. When I want human interest stories I'll watch them. When I want SPORT I want SPORT!   Re: Let's NOT get emotional about it by mrsthing on 6 February 2009 5:41pm   I have to agree, Cori. All those "Olympic Moments" got so tiresom. Life's tough, you made good, good for you. Now GET ON WITH IT! It's hard to feel sorry for someone who's biggest "tragedy" is that he was hyperactive as a child and some kids didn't like him (Phelps). I don't watch much in the way of sports--just the Olympics, and an occasional tournament game.   Re: Let's NOT get emotional about it by mrsteabag on 6 February 2009 7:51pm   The only athlete who I felt deserved emotional hype was Oksana Bayiul. If anyone had the right to plead dysfunction (father abandoning her, mother dying of cancer, coach who'd adopted her more or less dying of cancer, and a couple of other tragedies that escape me as well as growing up in the former USSR), it was her. I liked Tonya Harding until she got mixed up with the loser ex-husband. I badly wanted her to win--chopping firewood to earn the money to pay for expenses was such a refreshing change from the princess skaters.   Re: Let's NOT get emotional about it by mrsthing on 7 February 2009 2:12am   Yes, but then Oksana went and messed up her life and behaved very badly for awhile. She lived her in CT before she slipped into obscurity. She was in the news a lot, usually for drunk driving. Too bad--she was a gifted skater. I just don't get this trend in sob stories--they do it on the talent shows, too. What happens if you didn't grow up in the 'hood dodging drug dealers' bullets, or lose your parents at an early age, or against all odds overcome some crippling illness or handicap? What if you're just a talented person with a dream of making it big? That doesn't count?   Re: Let's NOT get emotional about it by mrsthing on 7 February 2009 2:16am   Oh--I'm getting all emotional about it, aren't I? Missing the point entirely, aren't I? Hee hee! Here, for all of you who don't know how to be emo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9onvD6CkCvc About 5 minutes--these kids are SO funny!   Re: Let's NOT get emotional about it by geordiegirl on 9 February 2009 3:47pm   I sympathise, Pete. Modern Life an'all that, eh? Why should you have tears injected into your sports appreciation? I can't do public emotionalism myself, and I deplore sportspeople and ESPECIALLY actors at award ceremonies who do(Kate Winslet, looking at you).
	Reply to this post:
Username        Password            Register here

INSTRUCTIONS

Select a discussion theme.
Register (or log in if you have not yet done so).

To start a new discussion topic:

Write the name of the topic in the 'Subject' box.
Type your message in the larger box to contribute.
Click 'Submit'.

To join a discussion topic:

Click on the discussion topic of your choice.
Type your message in the larger box to contribute.
Click 'Submit'.

To edit your message:

You can edit a message at any time after posting it as long as you're signed in.
Click on the 'Edit your message' link above the message.
Make your desired changes.
Click 'Submit'.

If you find you don't want to change the message after all, click on 'Return without changes'.

To set a chatmark:

Register (or log in if you have not yet done so).
Click on the "Set chatmark" link on the Chatter Box pages. This will set the time at which you have logged in.
Click on the "Go to chatmark" link to see all messages posted since you set your chatmark.

You can set your chatmark at any time and as often as you like.