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threemonkeysSo the Super 14 started this weekend and I've just watched the Crusaders beat the Highlanders. Usually at this time of year it's almost obligatory to say that it seems to early for rugby. But not this year - perhaps it's the lack of summer that does it. That doesn't stop me planning to appreciate another month of cricket though.
I say this in the knowledge that as an SF fan in this country, that puts me in a significant minority. I'm not sure why that is, It doesn't seem to be so much the case across the Tasman. One thing you do see here from time to time is the vocally dismissive fan. The SF fan who makes disparaging remarks about sport that pretty much mirror the dismissive remarks that the same fan would so hate about their own interests. Serious hypocrisy there. But luckily most non sporty fans just seem to regard my sport interests as a mildly harmless eccentricity. Oddly paralleling the way my SF fandom is regarded in the the non fannish world.
So in full self awareness, I say, please don't try to engage me about the Winter Olympics. Here is this huge sporting event and yet I have absolutely no interest in any of the events - not one. Actually, I have similar lack of interest in the Summer games too. As per the above, I'm cool if you are interested, but I really don't want to hear about it.
And don't even get me started about the America's cup.
In return I promise not to talk rugby at you unless you are actually interested too.
I say this in the knowledge that as an SF fan in this country, that puts me in a significant minority. I'm not sure why that is, It doesn't seem to be so much the case across the Tasman. One thing you do see here from time to time is the vocally dismissive fan. The SF fan who makes disparaging remarks about sport that pretty much mirror the dismissive remarks that the same fan would so hate about their own interests. Serious hypocrisy there. But luckily most non sporty fans just seem to regard my sport interests as a mildly harmless eccentricity. Oddly paralleling the way my SF fandom is regarded in the the non fannish world.
So in full self awareness, I say, please don't try to engage me about the Winter Olympics. Here is this huge sporting event and yet I have absolutely no interest in any of the events - not one. Actually, I have similar lack of interest in the Summer games too. As per the above, I'm cool if you are interested, but I really don't want to hear about it.
And don't even get me started about the America's cup.
In return I promise not to talk rugby at you unless you are actually interested too.