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Is it wrong to hate a certain race?

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  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,911
    Stone said:

    what about that Tour de France? Just a load of blokes on push-bikes...........

    What I don't understand is why hundreds of thousands of punters turn up to watch. Presumably they travel for miles to stand by the roadside, watch a bunch of cyclists flash past, then pack up and go home again. Utterly baffling.

  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,265
    edited July 2013
    Viewfinder said:

    Stone said:

    what about that Tour de France? Just a load of blokes on push-bikes...........

    What I don't understand is why hundreds of thousands of punters turn up to watch. Presumably they travel for miles to stand by the roadside, watch a bunch of cyclists flash past, then pack up and go home again. Utterly baffling.

    This, but for rally racing, stand in a muddy ditch for hours just to see a shit encrusted hatchback either go flying past caking you in shit, or go flying towards you as they crash. And you have to do it all in a remote wood in Wales, and you don't know who won the rally until ages afterwards when you get home!
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,911
    sam3110 said:

    Viewfinder said:

    Stone said:

    what about that Tour de France? Just a load of blokes on push-bikes...........

    What I don't understand is why hundreds of thousands of punters turn up to watch. Presumably they travel for miles to stand by the roadside, watch a bunch of cyclists flash past, then pack up and go home again. Utterly baffling.

    This, but for rally racing, stand in a muddy ditch for hours just to see a shit encrusted hatchback either go flying past caking you in shit, or go flying towards you as they crash. And you have to do it all in a remote wood in Wales, and you don't know who won the rally until ages afterwards when you get home!
    Ha ha! Lovely!

  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,087
    Viewfinder said:

    Stone said:

    what about that Tour de France? Just a load of blokes on push-bikes...........

    What I don't understand is why hundreds of thousands of punters turn up to watch. Presumably they travel for miles to stand by the roadside, watch a bunch of cyclists flash past, then pack up and go home again. Utterly baffling.

    The lack of security means you can push them off! Also it's on TV...

    That being said it is the world's best race.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Viewfinder said:

    sam3110 said:

    Viewfinder said:

    Stone said:

    what about that Tour de France? Just a load of blokes on push-bikes...........

    What I don't understand is why hundreds of thousands of punters turn up to watch. Presumably they travel for miles to stand by the roadside, watch a bunch of cyclists flash past, then pack up and go home again. Utterly baffling.

    This, but for rally racing, stand in a muddy ditch for hours just to see a shit encrusted hatchback either go flying past caking you in shit, or go flying towards you as they crash. And you have to do it all in a remote wood in Wales, and you don't know who won the rally until ages afterwards when you get home!
    Ha ha! Lovely!

    I'd say the same about F1 - blink and the car is 100 or so metres down the road.
  • Eddie Firmani
    Eddie Firmani Posts: 650
    Speedway.
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,911
    BlackForestReds said:

    Viewfinder said:

    sam3110 said:

    Viewfinder said:

    Stone said:

    what about that Tour de France? Just a load of blokes on push-bikes...........

    What I don't understand is why hundreds of thousands of punters turn up to watch. Presumably they travel for miles to stand by the roadside, watch a bunch of cyclists flash past, then pack up and go home again. Utterly baffling.

    This, but for rally racing, stand in a muddy ditch for hours just to see a shit encrusted hatchback either go flying past caking you in shit, or go flying towards you as they crash. And you have to do it all in a remote wood in Wales, and you don't know who won the rally until ages afterwards when you get home!
    Ha ha! Lovely!

    I'd say the same about F1 - blink and the car is 100 or so metres down the road.
    Oh, I agree with that, too. A quarter of a million punters pitch up at Hockenheim to watch a load of identical-looking cars with no aesthetic merit and emblazoned with corporate logos whizz past every few minutes. What's that all about? I simply don't get it.

  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    I can't stand to look at Alan Pardew's boat race, does that count?
  • southamptonaddick
    southamptonaddick Posts: 4,054
    Exiled_Addick said:

    I can't stand to look at Alan Pardew's boat race, does that count?

    Plus one.

    He's such a smarmy looking cnut.
  • Yorkshireaddick
    Yorkshireaddick Posts: 511
    Boat race. Same two teams every year? What's that all about?
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  • JorgeCosta
    JorgeCosta Posts: 1,035
    Rat Race is my least favourite Specials track.
  • SE7toSG3
    SE7toSG3 Posts: 3,140
    Roy Race and anyone in a Melchester Rovers shirt, they were the Palace of the comic book world
  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,596

    Yes.
  • DeeBee
    DeeBee Posts: 1,033
    I find any form of NASCAR racing unbearable.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Viewfinder said:

    Stone said:

    what about that Tour de France? Just a load of blokes on push-bikes...........

    What I don't understand is why hundreds of thousands of punters turn up to watch. Presumably they travel for miles to stand by the roadside, watch a bunch of cyclists flash past, then pack up and go home again. Utterly baffling.

    Aah, but there's also the free tat that gets thrown at spectators by the sponsors as they whizz past in their vehicles...
  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,529
    The dad race at primary school sports day, my dad buckled over, embarrassing to say the least.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    edited July 2013
    Viewfinder said:

    Stone said:

    what about that Tour de France? Just a load of blokes on push-bikes...........

    What I don't understand is why hundreds of thousands of punters turn up to watch. Presumably they travel for miles to stand by the roadside, watch a bunch of cyclists flash past, then pack up and go home again. Utterly baffling.

    Why, there's nothing more exhilirating than standing on the top of the Pyrenees in a mankini, sporting a devils mask, and trident, waiting half day in the freezing cold just to run for half a mile to see if you can keep up with the peloton, before one of them smashes you in the face, or chucks a plastic bottle at you as they ride past.

    Don't knock it 'til you've tried it :-)))

  • Jarman
    Jarman Posts: 1,851
    Just a thought;
    If you took this thead and stuck it on a millwa*k forum, how would the users react?!
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    edited July 2013
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  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    masicat said:

    I hate South Africans !

    What about Belgians and Moroccans?
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  • Mosscat
    Mosscat Posts: 197
    I was in the obstacle race at junior school, got my watch stuck in the net I was crawling under.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,208
    Snail racing....what...?
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,008
    The Red Robin said:

    masicat said:

    I hate South Africans !

    What about Belgians and Moroccans?
    Stalker !
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,761
    I remember the year, at junior school, when I won my race and my sister, my dad and my mum all won theirs! If only I could run like that now!

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