Sports that are not acceptable for men to play

[Turkish]

Tennis is one, played by toffs who are up their own arse, check out the members of tennis bit of the hampshire tennis and health club for an example, all the blokes think they are something special with birds in tow, admitedly some are quite fit but i dont want to play sport with my women, sport and women should be kept seperate. Badminton is out too, any man that plays a game which involves playing with a **** has got to be questionable. Hockey is a bit of a nancy boys sport. Any others?

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

Tennis is one, played by toffs who are up their own arse, check out the members of tennis bit of the hampshire tennis and health club for an example, all the blokes think they are something special with birds in tow, admitedly some are quite fit but i dont want to play sport with my women, sport and women should be kept seperate. Badminton is out too, any man that plays a game which involves playing with a **** has got to be questionable. Hockey is a bit of a nancy boys sport. Any others?

 

Rugby, any game where you practically have to grab another mans **** in a 'scrum' of sweaty blokes is out of the question. ANY sport invented by Americans also.

[Turkish]

Rugby, any game where you practically have to grab another mans **** in a 'scrum' of sweaty blokes is out of the question. ANY sport invented by Americans also.

 

Amen to that, baseball, a glorified form of rounders which is a sport for kids who weren't good enough to play football or cricket. American Football, just a **** game and Basketball is just utter nonsense.

[Ponty]

Anything involving horses and those velvet peaked caps.

[St Landrew]

Amen to that, baseball, a glorified form of rounders which is a sport for kids who weren't good enough to play football or cricket. American Football, just a **** game and Basketball is just utter nonsense.

 

As far as I know, Basketball and Netball are the only games invented in the USA. I believe that every other major game they play was invented elsewhere.

 

I played Badminton to schools representative level. It didn't feel like I was a bit iffy, when I was out thinking an opponent, when he was quite clearly a technically better and more powerful player than I was. It certainly isn't for the unfit, although it isn't heart attack territory like Squash either. I played rounders for my junior school and Rugby Union for the school in my teens.

 

Played quite a few sports back then.

[latter day saint]

Anything involving horses and those velvet peaked caps.

agree! riding horses is for women to get all excited about,wot with all that pumping muscle between their legs

i nominate Volleyball.should only be played by fit amazonians , on the beach, while wearing skimpy attire. not lanky men in tight shorts

[Turkish]

As far as I know, Basketball and Netball are the only games invented in the USA. I believe that every other major game they play was invented elsewhere.

 

I played Badminton to schools representative level. It didn't feel like I was a bit iffy, when I was out thinking an opponent, when he was quite clearly a technically better and more powerful player than I was. It certainly isn't for the unfit, although it isn't heart attack territory like Squash either. I played rounders for my junior school and Rugby Union for the school in my teens.

 

Played quite a few sports back then.

 

I am not surprised at Netball, another **** sport. Did they not invent Baseball? I know its big in Cuba, maybe it came from there?

[skintsaint]

American Football? they not invent that?

[CB Saint]

Gymnastics, Ice skating, ping pong

[badgerx16]

I am not surprised at Netball, another **** sport. Did they not invent Baseball? I know its big in Cuba, maybe it came from there?

Baseball / rounders were invented in good old Blighty, hence Derby playing at the Baseball Ground.

[St Landrew]

Baseball / rounders were invented in good old Blighty, hence Derby playing at the Baseball Ground.

 

To be fair, most major modern games were invented by the British, either in the UK, or wherever they happened to be ruling on the globe at some particular point. Unless, of course a game was invented by the Chinese first and then lost in the mists of time.

 

Skiing..! The British didn't invent that, but surprisingly were heavily involved in the development of alpine skiing as a sport. You wouldn't think it. But then again, that's becoming the way of football now.

[chrisobee]

Anything involving horses and those velvet peaked caps.

 

Oh boy, showjumping etc; What a bore.

Horse Racing, now that is not for the faint hearted. Jump jockeys in particular need to be made of stern stuff.

[chrisobee]

To be fair, most major modern games were invented by the British, either in the UK, or wherever they happened to be ruling on the globe at some particular point. Unless, of course a game was invented by the Chinese first and then lost in the mists of time.

 

Skiing..! The British didn't invent that, but surprisingly were heavily involved in the development of alpine skiing as a sport. You wouldn't think it. But then again, that's becoming the way of football now.

 

I thought Eddie The Eagle invented skiing

[chrisobee]

Baseball / rounders were invented in good old Blighty, hence Derby playing at the Baseball Ground.

 

T'is true, sometime in the 18th century and then on to North America where it became ( bizarrely IMO) the national sport of the USA.

[St Landrew]

T'is true, sometime in the 18th century and then on to North America where it became ( bizarrely IMO) the national sport of the USA.

 

Tell you what, if you're a farmer in a field, in Iowa, and a voice whispers... if you build it, he will come... you'd want to give it up and get yourself armed with a baseball bat.

[St Landrew]

I thought Eddie The Eagle invented skiing

 

That's ski jumping. Where you jump over a line of skis. Do try to keep up.

[chrisobee]

That's ski jumping. Where you jump over a line of skis. Do try to keep up.

 

Boy, if I'm behind you then I'm either going senile or the heat is too much:lol:

[St Landrew]

Boy, if I'm behind you then I'm either going senile or the heat is too much:lol:

 

Cheek..! You didn't even spot the sarcasm. If I'm a tad slow it's because I'm lazy, plus I do have a headache. A touch of neuralgia like pain, I've always been a bit susceptible to in summer month weather. I'm medicating it with red wine at this moment.

[chrisobee]

Cheek..! You didn't even spot the sarcasm. If I'm a tad slow it's because I'm lazy, plus I do have a headache. A touch of neuralgia like pain, I've always been a bit susceptible to in summer month weather. I'm medicating it with red wine at this moment.

 

Oh I spotted the sarcasm but chose to ignore it

If you think you're in a bad way the furthest I have been in the last 4 days is 50 yards to my very local pharmacy for just about every medication for flu/viruses they have. Plus gallons of lucozade, can't eat, it's the heat:cry: I hate hot weather, give me a freezing cold winter's day anytime.

[St Landrew]

Oh I spotted the sarcasm but chose to ignore it

If you think you're in a bad way the furthest I have been in the last 4 days is 50 yards to my very local pharmacy for just about every medication for flu/viruses they have. Plus gallons of lucozade, can't eat, it's the heat:cry: I hate hot weather, give me a freezing cold winter's day anytime.

 

Oh really..? Are you the curled up in the armchair type, while reading a good book of ghost stories, with a great roaring fire, or do you like winter sports [and not watching but participating]..?

[chrisobee]

Oh really..? Are you the curled up in the armchair type, while reading a good book of ghost stories, with a great roaring fire, or do you like winter sports [and not watching but participating]..?

 

Oi, you illiterate loiterer I'll have you know I have played many sports so desist this sarcasm NOW

[St Landrew]

Oi, you illiterate loiterer I'll have you know I have played many sports so desist this sarcasm NOW

 

Genuine question..! Are you active in the winter or passive. I used to ski, but did my back in, so now I prefer the book of ghost stories, roaring fire and whisky. [

[chrisobee]

Genuine question..! Are you active in the winter or passive. I used to ski, but did my back in, so now I prefer the book of ghost stories, roaring fire and whisky. [

 

I'm always changing the font though normally to Comic Sans. I can't ski, can't skate but I can ( still) play football which really is a "winter sport" isn't it ?

Anyway last time I played the pitch was frozen, one player broke his arm and with the score 0-0 and with an open goal beckoning I slipped and missed the ball:cry:

That's wintry enough for me !

[St Landrew]

Last time I tried, which was about 30 years ago [no hang on, 35], I could skate upto speed and then do a stop where you shower everyone in ice. I could do that pretty regularly too. Interest waned afterwards and I stopped going. I think other people were pleased about that.

[chrisobee]

I did try ice skating once as well, also about 30 years ago. I was Ok for a while but once I went above a snail's pace I kept falling over so wisely I think gave up !

[St Landrew]

As to football being a winter sport, I believe these overpaid Premier League superstars want a winter break so they can recharge their batteries. Basically, they want to cut out the only remaining hardship they have, which screws up their Christmas and New Year for the sake of sport. I'm not for it, myself.

[chrisobee]

As to football being a winter sport, I believe these overpaid Premier League superstars want a winter break so they can recharge their batteries. Basically, they want to cut out the only remaining hardship they have, which is to screw up their Christmas and New Year for the sake of sport. I'm not for it, myself.

 

Me neither, the football season goes on long enough without a winter break. But seriously don't you have any sympathy for those poor PL players who often have to play TWO games in a week, what a bind that must be

[St Landrew]

Not one iotum.

[OttawaSaint]

basketball was invented by Canadians, probably as a drinking game, USA stole that one too..

[chrisobee]

Not one iotum.

 

Quite right, I don't know if you played much football as a nipper but I remember playing for my school team on a Saturday, Sunday League U16 next day and then another school game on the Monday. Ok, you simply cannot compare the intensity but then we would not have had the luxury of so much free time or the time to train. I would have played every day if I could !

[chrisobee]

basketball was invented by Canadians, probably as a drinking game, USA stole that one too..

 

I think you'll find that though a Canadian invented the game the first games were played at US colleges,

[St Landrew]

Quite right, I don't know if you played much football as a nipper but I remember playing for my school team on a Saturday, Sunday League U16 next day and then another school game on the Monday. Ok, you simply cannot compare the intensity but then we would not have had the luxury of so much free time or the time to train. I would have played every day if I could !

 

Yep. Played for 4 years for my junior/middle school. Came into the side as a regular substitute in my 2nd year and then played the remaining years. David Stamp was my team captain in my first year, after which I played in every position except LB and GK. I wasn't ultra quick but I had a touch of the Teddy Sheringham's about me. Not that I was thin and lanky either. In my last year I mainly played right-side/central midfield, or Right Half as it was properly called back then.

 

EDIT: Oops forgot. Played for Taranto Terriers [they were awful] so ended up playing for Brendon [bombers] for a while too.

 

I think you'll find that though a Canadian invented the game the first games were played at US colleges,

 

I thought that there was a specific U.S. university that Basketball was invented in. Of course, I'm not remotely interested in Basketball, and so any recent knowledge I may have picked up of the sport is probably courtesy of QI. Perhaps the lecturer/coach was Canadian..?

Edited 3 July, 2010 by St Landrew

[chrisobee]

Yep. Played for 4 years for my junior/middle school. Came into the side as a regular substitute in my 2nd year and then played the remaining years. David Stamp was my team captain in my first year, after which I played in every position except LB and GK. I wasn't ultra quick but I had a touch of the Teddy Sheringham's about me. Not that I was thin and lanky either. In my last year I mainly played right-side/central midfield, or Right Half as it was properly called back then.

 

EDIT: Oops forgot. Played for Taranto Terriers [they were awful] so ended up playing for Brendon [bombers] for a while too.

 

 

I thought that there was a specific U.S. university that Basketball was invented in. Of course, I'm not remotely interested in Basketball, and so any recent knowledge I may have picked up of the sport is probably courtesy of QI. Perhaps the lecturer/coach was Canadian..?

 

Oh, the Brendon Bombers, I'm sure I played against them, won 6-2 I think and I scored my only ever hat trick, ah the memories. Was played on the Common. I did play against Manny Andruszewski in my final year at school, just a few months older than me. By then I had converted from a right winger into a midfield player after a year out following a foot operation which suited my free spirit !

Basketball was invented and first played at Springfield College in the US though it was the aforementioned Canadian ( Naismith I think) who was the person at that college who invented the game.

 

Edit : I have played in EVERY position in my time including GK, scored a penalty as we were leading 7-2 and I only volunteered to play in goal as the only other person who was willing was frankly awful, it was a works team and we or rather they ( I was unavailable due to chess commitments ) lost 18-2 v a team we had previously drawn 2-2 against, I played right back in that game and our opponents said we were the best team in our own 6 yard box they had ever played. Fair point, we cleared a fair few off the line and WITHOUT using our hands, even our goalie never used his hands:lol:

Edited 4 July, 2010 by chrisobee

[St Landrew]

Oh, the Brendon Bombers, I'm sure I played against them, won 6-2 I think and I scored my only ever hat trick, ah the memories. Was played on the Common. I did play against Manny Andruszewski in my final year at school, just a few months older than me. By then I had converted from a right winger into a midfield player after a year out following a foot operation which suited my free spirit !

Basketball was invented and first played at Springfield College in the US though it was the aforementioned Canadian ( Naismith I think) who was the person at that college who invented the game.

 

Well good for you.

[chrisobee]

Well good for you.

 

Lol, I should have added whatever team it was they only had 9 players, that though was usually our problem !

[St Landrew]

Lol, I should have added whatever team it was they only had 9 players, that though was usually our problem !

 

Very good. I spluttered a bit.

[chrisobee]

Very good. I spluttered a bit.

 

Note to self: must try harder !

[St Landrew]

Note to self: must try harder !

 

I recommend Sailing. That'll make you try harder.

 

Plus [to get this thread back on course] it certainly isn't a sport where blokes are out of place. In fact, it's a very blokey type sport. Even the women are blokes.

[chrisobee]

I recommend Sailing. That'll make you try harder.

 

Plus [to get this thread back on course] it certainly isn't a sport where blokes are out of place. In fact, it's a very blokey type sport. Even the women are blokes.

 

Sailing is one very tough sport, great to watch at the Olympics. Ben Ainslie in particular is awesome.

However, this is TMS so going off topic is the norm isn't it ? I rarely frequent this place ( apart from very quick posts on Word Association) so being here is kind of odd !

[St Landrew]

Sailing is one very tough sport, great to watch at the Olympics. Ben Ainslie in particular is awesome.

However, this is TMS so going off topic is the norm isn't it ? I rarely frequent this place ( apart from very quick posts on Word Association) so being here is kind of odd !

 

Ah, now Ben Ainslie is one of a kind. I consider myself a seat-of-the-pants sailor, in that I have an instinct to do the right thing. There are manufactured sailors who couldn't do the right thing unless they'd been taught it and remembered the lesson. But Ben Ainslie... has almost got webbed feet. He was born to be in a sailboat.

[chrisobee]

Ah, now Ben Ainslie is one of a kind. I consider myself a seat-of-the-pants sailor, in that I have an instinct to do the right thing. There are manufactured sailors who couldn't do the right thing unless they'd been taught it and remembered the lesson. But Ben Ainslie... has almost got webbed feet. He was born to be in a sailboat.

 

More at home at sea than on land I'd say. The classic race was in Sydney 2000 when he won an epic duel against Brazilian nemesis Robert Scheidt to win gold .Going into the final race, Scheidt only needed to finish in the top 20 to secure gold but Ainslie took the fight to the Brazilian and enmeshed him in a private head-to-head at the back of the fleet.

He forced Scheidt into an error ( he needed to pass Ainslie to get into the top 20) which led to his disqualification.Sheer genius, nobody else could have done that I believe

[St Landrew]

More at home at sea than on land I'd say. The classic race was in Sydney 2000 when he won an epic duel against Brazilian nemesis Robert Scheidt to win gold .Going into the final race, Scheidt only needed to finish in the top 20 to secure gold but Ainslie took the fight to the Brazilian and enmeshed him in a private head-to-head at the back of the fleet.

He forced Scheidt into an error ( he needed to pass Ainslie to get into the top 20) which led to his disqualification.Sheer genius, nobody else could have done that I believe

 

I'm not up on the detail, but his technique is undeniable. He knows when to be aggressive and when to be cautious. He seems to know what's possible, and what to protect. He reads the wind and water on a level I can't get near. At least I can appreciate the fact though, which is something.

 

I passed him in The Solent one day. His boat was 'hove to'.

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