i can't really stand hockey to be honest... mind you i never played it... i did other sports (football, rugby, soccer) and prefer watching those sometimes, but in general i'm not too into televised or professional sports.
i think they get paid too much to do something that does not really benefit society in any specific way... i mean they get paid more than people who save lives for chasing rubber down a patch of ice.
i also think the sport is overly violent... basically bareknuckle boxing when the fight, and a bit moronic.
I understand your disdain for the sport. I played tennis a fair amount as a kid, and so I relate to watching it on TV. I never got American football. And British football, or soccer as we like to call it here, is also kind of boring to watch without any closeups. Just a bunch of hooligans chasing a ball around a field (or is it the fans that are the hooligans?). Maybe it's different being there at a match. Though I liked playing - and therefore watching -baseball in my youth. Never really got into much else
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I find most sports very dull. I tried soccer when I was a child, but ended up chatting more than running. I went to baseball camp and nearly fell asleep on the bench every day.
Also I think sports stopped being sports like a hundered years ago. When they started paying the players. No sport in that.
On top of that, the commercialization surrounding sports is extremely annoying. So are the fanatics.
The funny thing about The Real Thing is that it reminded me of New Order as soon as I heard it. At first I thought it was such a rip-off, but now it all makes sense.
It's probably just something about the hockey channel and a laundromat. :) As long as I can remember, when I used to live back downtown and we went to a 'mat to do our clothes, there was a TV and hockey was on it.
It creates a certain air. A certain je ne c'est quoi. I'm not French. They just go together. It's a law of nature. Plain and simple. :)
That's like saying that herring and whip cream go together. I just don't get it. You go to a laundromat to do your laundry, not to watch hockey. What's wrong with this picture? If you want to watch hockey, go to a sports bar! There are certainly enough of them in downtown Toronto.
What a laundromat really needs nowadays is an internet hook-up. Yeah, a wireless connection is what I mean. Bring your Powerbook and surf for free. Anyone know of any such laundromat in the Annex?
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as for the laundry itself, you can't go naked, right? lol
you are a good writer, i particularly liked the passage where you described walking in the leaves.
by the way... on nekkidness... you COULD go naked, therefore abandoning laundry, but, wouldn't it be a tad too cold way up North? lol
be well and have a nice weekend!
:)
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i can't really stand hockey to be honest... mind you i never played it... i did other sports (football, rugby, soccer) and prefer watching those sometimes, but in general i'm not too into televised or professional sports.
i think they get paid too much to do something that does not really benefit society in any specific way... i mean they get paid more than people who save lives for chasing rubber down a patch of ice.
i also think the sport is overly violent... basically bareknuckle boxing when the fight, and a bit moronic.
but hey that's me heh.
i still like beer and porn though!
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Also I think sports stopped being sports like a hundered years ago. When they started paying the players. No sport in that.
On top of that, the commercialization surrounding sports is extremely annoying. So are the fanatics.
PS: Peter Hook plays bass on The Real Thing.
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It creates a certain air. A certain je ne c'est quoi. I'm not French. They just go together. It's a law of nature. Plain and simple. :)
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What a laundromat really needs nowadays is an internet hook-up. Yeah, a wireless connection is what I mean. Bring your Powerbook and surf for free. Anyone know of any such laundromat in the Annex?
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