AMJ Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 This is an area for you to have a groan about the fact that on the TV there is only football or Tennis on. We were spoilt last week as BBC4 had a few programmes that were not sport. They re-ran the three Gerry Troyna "Hill Railways of India" progs so I watched the Darjeeling and Nilgiri again. Ah bliss as I was in Darj in January this year (again). The Nilgiri is a great line with 0-8-2T locos that look like they should be 0-10-2T's as there is a gap in the wheelbase for the ABT cogs. 4 outside cylinders 2 for adhesion and 2 for rack. See http://andrewjohnson.fotopic.net/c1188365.html for some photos I took in 2007. All we need now is Michael Palin visiting Tipong in the Himalaya series and the North West Frountier Railway - but then that series has been on Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted June 27, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2010 Easy answer... don't have a TV! Andi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 Just spent an hour fighting with the Tesco home delivery system that didn't seem to like the "Verified by Visa" thing, now am going to start looking at my OO stuff for sale and hopefully fund further expansion of the O gauge project. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike at C&M Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 England seem to be doing very well! I am following the 3rd One Day Cricket International against Australia on www.cricinfo.com . I have a feeling that we are not doing well in South Africa, Nigel is shouting at the telly next door! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenton Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 This is an area for you to have a groan about the fact that on the TV there is only football or Tennis on. Cannot stand football or tennis - I have to say it has nothing to do with either as a sporting game and far more to the mindless compulsion the respective fans drone on and on about their chosen sport. I also have to say that many other sports like Rugby, athletics, golf (is that really a sport?) are not much better. I will have to admit catching a few minutes of the Grand Prix to see the replay of Webber's attempt to fly with the tiny wings on his car ... but even that spectacular would have been covered as a news item. It is not that I don't care what the result of an international event is, it is just that I find the accumulated single brain cell repetative analysis and argument over ever tiny move to be too much torture. Still I suppose the game of football was designed to give the masses something to do on a Saturday once we realised that wars were not such a productive sport. The greatest function on the tv is the off button ... sadly I rarely get my hands on it. I wish I could say that I am using the time more productively modelling - sadly, these days, I seem to be spending most of my time clearing up after the builders/plumbers/decorators and their associated professionals architects/designers/colour specialists.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteScR Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 Seems the linesman isnt watching the football either Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 27, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2010 Apart from some of the winter sports the only sports (if they can be called that) I like watching on tv are F1 and snooker. In fact when I think about I find all the sports involving a ball a big turn-off, be they taking place in a field or on a tv screen and am totally unable to understand the fuss and blathering they seem to create. And if it wasn't so hot up in the attic I suspect I might divert my attention from sorting various printed ephemera to looking at a slim down of my older loco fleet such as thos with 'Mainline' on their boxes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 27, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2010 No-one has ever satisfactorily explained why I should want to watch football. In my yoof I was taken to senior games, but by the time I was 18 I'd seen through the whole thing and haven't taken any interest since. Very disappointed to note that the Grand Prix this afternoon was overlaid with soccer references right, left and centre, and the much-vaunted BBC red button thing after the race mysteriously failed, so the techs and the pundits could watch Engerland! 22 young blokes running round a field? Why would that be interesting? 22 ladies might just be another matter, mind.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steadfast Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 ...left and centre, and the much-vaunted BBC red button thing after the race mysteriously failed, so the techs and the pundits could watch Engerland! Twitter feed from Jake and co at bbc.co.uk/f1 says the compound has suffered a power cut, all broadcasters affected. They will make the Forum later, and put it on the website and iPlayer as usual HTH jo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisf Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 I've been summoning up the courage to fish out my favourite T shirt, which some might think a tad tactless. The slogan is "eat football, drink football, talk sh!te". Meanwhile I've just been watching "Carry On Up The Khyber" on Channel 4. Dead cultural! Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bigcheeseplant Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 I went shopping earlier but I should have waited till 3 as I guess it may have been less busy. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Simon Lee Posted June 27, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 27, 2010 No-one has ever satisfactorily explained why I should want to watch football. Back in 2002, we were having a discussion with some "experts" that we should get my then 8 y/o son who has autisum, interested in football. The reason being "all boys like football". So not wishing to offend I sat and watched a game with James, carefully trying to explain what it was all about and that the team that scored the most goals won, the classic reply as only a child can was..... WHY ? Why do they do that?!! Needless to say the "experts" never mentioned football again !!!! Regards Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pointstaken Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 22 ladies might just be another matter, mind.... With you in HOT pursuit ?? As someone put it, 22 bags of wind in pursuit of another bag of wind. Thank heavens for the mute button, turns off the so-called experts pontificating on any sport. Not as visually appealing as a large gobstopper superglued in their jaws, but more effective. Dennis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 27, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2010 With you in HOT pursuit ?? Sheesh! At 61 I might have trouble catching many of them - and then have insufficient puff left to - er - chat 'em up! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted June 27, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2010 Remember lads we are grown men who play with toy trains. 'People in glass houses etc...' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Dayz Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 I watched England - therefore I didn't watch football Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 27, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2010 Twitter feed from Jake and co at bbc.co.uk/f1 says the compound has suffered a power cut, all broadcasters affected. They will make the Forum later, and put it on the website and iPlayer as usual HTH Yes, thanks for that - ok BBC, I apologise. Don't do social things like Twitter, and my wife assures me that streaming stuff won't work with our satellite feed etc. Never mind, there's always Pitpass.com for news. Thanks for the thought! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted June 27, 2010 Author Share Posted June 27, 2010 Talking about 22 ladies reminds me that a friend was a player at a ladies Rugby club in Yorkshire and they took a leaf out of the WI's book and did a naked calendar. Now that is a sport. Your chase sounds rather Benny Hill esque. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted June 27, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2010 and did a naked calendar. Now that is a sport. You've convinced me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 27, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2010 Remember lads we are grown men who play with toy trains. 'People in glass houses etc...' True enough - but our hobby has not spawned the yob culture and anti-social behaviour now endemic in society which I trace directly to the England win in the 1966 World Cup. Football in the '50s was a sport, but in the '60s that changed, and it became the modern equivalent of the mediaeval tiltyard, with violence and cynical play on the pitch soon being aped on the terraces. The gutter press hardly helps, either. By and large, modellers are not partisan - which is quite different from having your favourites. Show me a handsome model and I will appreciate it, whatever its prototype. That said, I do know a well-respected online historical forum where mere mention of the Great Western is cited in the written constitution as beyond the pale, and there have been remarks about actually disliking certain Southern locomotives on RMWeb, so perhaps I'm in cloud-cuckoo land about that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted June 27, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2010 but our hobby has not spawned the yob culture and anti-social behaviour now endemic in society Are you forgetting the great unwashed rucksack brigade at exhibitions? :D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 27, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2010 Are you forgetting the great unwashed rucksack brigade at exhibitions? :D Not entirely - a decent layout at an exhibition can be surrounded by quite a bunfight, and we all need the rucksack to hide the purchased contraband from 'er indoors, but at least I never feel I'm gonna be mugged for liking Southern! Anyway, as we all suspect, and you can no doubt confirm, running the original motive power in 12" to 1 foot scale can also be a fairly sweaty - not to say steamy - experience! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted June 27, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2010 Not entirely - a decent layout at an exhibition can be surrounded by quite a bunfight, and we all need the rucksack to hide the purchased contraband from 'er indoors, but at least I never feel I'm gonna be mugged for liking Southern! Anyway, as we all suspect, and you can no doubt confirm, running the original motive power in 12" to 1 foot scale can also be a fairly sweaty - not to say steamy - experience! Ain't that the truth - I don't allow rucksacks on the footplate though! (I also take a shower occasionally as well) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammer Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 Are you forgetting the great unwashed rucksack brigade at exhibitions? :D We also confine our hobby to specialist publications instead of saturating the media with it, of if only that was the case for sports. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenton Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 Remember lads we are grown men who play with toy trains. 'People in glass houses etc...' That st least makes it a participant sport If everyone actually participated in football rather than the endless replay and dumb analysis or just went to a match and sat/stood and watched the game in a civil manner then I could understand the emotions .. as for 22 young ladies ... there is already women's football ... its comparatively poor following perhaps says more about the male spectators than anything. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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