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« Reply #2505 on: 16:45:33, 23-02-2008 » |
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Being the only female in this family that consisted of husband, sons, and grandsons - I've lived with sport for many years. The boys have all been good all-rounders at sports, loved their football, rugby, basketball - tennis/squash/golf - you name it. They also love to compete against each other in a friendly way of course. I understand why it matters to them who wins and why they support their chosen teams. I think it would be a poorer world without it. I'm enjoying watching the rugby myself. At the moment Wales are beating Italy 47-8. Hooray!!!!!!!  Little 'un is no exception. Last week was half-term and he played football every day at the local YMCA from 10 a.m. till 3 p.m., taking a packed lunch. This was his own choice. I told him he didn't need to go every day if he didn't want to, but he really loves it. Today he's been swimming from 12 - 3 p.m., tomorrow morning, football again and then a swimming birthday party in the afternoon. I'm all for it. Sports are so good for both boys and girls and of course, they learn to operate as a team member and to compete. It keeps them fit too. None of mine have got an ounce of spare weight, but they're lean and muscular. Life has its fair share of competition as we all know so it's a good learning base. Left to myself and just for me, it would have been just ballet/tap/any sort of dance you can think of, but I'm really glad the boys have all been so active and still are. No couch potatoes in Millyland. |
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Sounds pretty good MJ! My son is studying Sports Science at uni at the moment. It all depends on the person you are. I expect my my team are losing at this moment I will check on the BBC Sports thingey and check.
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« Reply #2507 on: 17:59:06, 23-02-2008 » |
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Sounds pretty good MJ! My son is studying Sports Science at uni at the moment. It all depends on the person you are. I expect my my team are losing at this moment I will check on the BBC Sports thingey and check.
What is your team then? My mum has supported Brighton & Hove Albion ever since she was small (and, I believe, went out with a few of the players when she was a teenager). I have a very sporty family but I'm not. |
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« Reply #2508 on: 18:03:21, 23-02-2008 » |
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Re. sports, with me, it's been more a situation of "if you can't beat them join them". I would have been very left out had I not taken an interest. In return, my husband used to take me to ballets and concerts, so it was a team effort all round. I think our lives were definitely the richer for sharing our interests. I don't have a sporting bone in my body personally, but our experiences were widened by embracing each others' interests. The only activity we had in common was playing cards. Everything else was an adventure. That's a happy marriage for you, give and take.  |
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« Reply #2509 on: 18:04:45, 23-02-2008 » |
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Boys can do ballet and tap! See "Biily Elliot".
I'm the only female too. None of the men in my family has/had more than a passing interest in sport. One son rowed at University, they both swim, and neither is fat!
The problem for me is that sport is associated with the awful macho prejudices that result in the ludicrous "boys don't sing" attitudes seen in the programme on BBC 2 about trying to get a choir going in a boys' school. Obviously that's not the case in many schools, but it's all too common, and prejudice seems to me to be getting worse.
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« Reply #2510 on: 18:07:00, 23-02-2008 » |
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Boys can do ballet and tap! See "Biily Elliot".
I'm the only female too. None of the men in my family has/had more than a passing interest in sport. One son rowed at University, they both swim, and neither is fat!
The problem for me is that sport is associated with the awful macho prejudices that result in the ludicrous "boys don't sing" attitudes seen in the programme on BBC 2 about trying to get a choir going in a boys' school. Obviously that's not the case in many schools, but it's all too common, and prejudice seems to me to be getting worse.
I'll put the message in now!  I know boys do ballet and all sorts of dance and I'd have been delighted if any of mine had taken it up. They did have the opportunity but none took to it. Incidentally I wasn't at all impressed with Billy Elliott. I thought his dancing was awful. Mine come from a long line of footballers you see. Little 'un's great-grandfather used to be a professional. He played for Stoke in the days of Stanley Matthews and it just went down from there. I do realise also that you don't have to be sporty not to be overweight, but obviously it really helps to be very active. It doesn't really matter what you do in the way of physical exercise, provided that you do something. |
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« Reply #2511 on: 18:30:16, 23-02-2008 » |
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I loathed sport at school and being forced out on to cold wet fields half clothed on dreary winter afternoons. I associated it, unfairly perhaps, with the sort of boys most likely to bully me.
I can be more tolerant about it now, and if people enjoy it, fine.
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« Reply #2512 on: 18:42:25, 23-02-2008 » |
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I had ballet lessons when I was younger (it was the only way they could get my sister to go - they weren't forcing her, it was just that she wanted to go but was scared) but I was awful. Everyone (including me and the instructor) were relieved when it was quietly dropped.
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« Reply #2513 on: 18:47:34, 23-02-2008 » |
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l put the message in now! I know boys do ballet and all sorts of dance and I'd have been delighted if any of mine had taken it up. They did have the opportunity but none took to it. Incidentally I wasn't at all impressed with Billy Elliott. I thought his dancing was awful. Mine didn't either. Quite true about Billy Elliot. He wasn't wonderful, but I meant the story rather than the actual boy in the film. |
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« Reply #2514 on: 18:58:17, 23-02-2008 » |
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OMIGOD. I meant to cook between the Wales and the Ireland Match but didn't due to over excitement and the mounting excitement about England v France
Spicey lentil soup it is then <sigh>
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« Reply #2515 on: 20:07:16, 23-02-2008 » |
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It never occurred to me that football matches generated so much heat!
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« Reply #2516 on: 20:16:11, 23-02-2008 » |
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It never occurred to me that football matches generated so much heat!
KITTY! GASP! NEVER EVER use the word football when referring to rugby!!  Indeed, they both involve balls (stoppit Tommo and Martle!) but the two games are very different. Apparently. <awfullybigyawnemoticon> |
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« Reply #2517 on: 20:49:44, 23-02-2008 » |
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It never occurred to me that football matches generated so much heat!
KITTY! GASP! NEVER EVER use the word football when referring to rugby!! Indeed, they both involve balls (stoppit Tommo and Martle!) but the two games are very different. Apparently. <awfullybigyawnemoticon> "both"? I can count four games, off hand, that one might referred to as 'football'. |
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« Reply #2518 on: 21:04:04, 23-02-2008 » |
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It never occurred to me that football matches generated so much heat!
KITTY! GASP! NEVER EVER use the word football when referring to rugby!! Indeed, they both involve balls (stoppit Tommo and Martle!) but the two games are very different. Apparently. <awfullybigyawnemoticon> "both"? I can count four games, off hand, that one might referred to as 'football'. Hmm, well, contributing as someone not greatly fond of team sports, I can think of Rugby Football (Union and League), Association Football, Irish Football, Australian Rules Football and American Football. I am sure there are others, but Rugby Football (the Union variety) is the real game, of course. |
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« Reply #2519 on: 21:42:28, 23-02-2008 » |
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It never occurred to me that football matches generated so much heat!
KITTY! GASP! NEVER EVER use the word football when referring to rugby!! Indeed, they both involve balls (stoppit Tommo and Martle!) but the two games are very different. Apparently. <awfullybigyawnemoticon> "both"? I can count four games, off hand, that one might referred to as 'football'. Hmm, well, contributing as someone not greatly fond of team sports, I can think of Rugby Football (Union and League), Association Football, Irish Football, Australian Rules Football and American Football. I am sure there are others, but Rugby Football (the Union variety) is the real game, of course. Ah, I see that I have much to learn. Now, what type of bat do they use?  |
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