Northerner
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I'm not keen on many sports but I've no reason to deride those who are. Some people may think that I'm daft for struggling to climb to the top of a mountain but that's because they've never experienced the satisfaction of conquering something or achieving your own personal goals. It's the competitive spirit that has driven mankind's evolution from the caves to what we are now. It's the same competitive spirit that fuels the great inventors and entrepreneurs without whom our lives would be much less richer.
Sport was always one way that ancient civilisations avoided war by competing on the sports field rather than the battlefield. Friends of mine, who know my personal circumstances, cannot understand why I go on holiday in a tin box instead of flying off to a glitzy holiday resort and staying in a five-star hotel, or going on a luxurious cruise. But I do hope that they don't hate motorhomers, just because it doesn't appeal to them.
I suspect that those who profess a 'hatred' of sport are in a tiny minority, and that taking part in sport and, when you're unable to do that, enjoying watching it, applies to most people in the U.K. and everywhere else for that matter.
It would be a very sad and unpleasant world if everyone hated things that simply do not appeal to them. Some of the most intelligent people I know are avid football fans, or runners or climbers or anglers, who's to say that they're wrong for enjoying these pursuits?
Sport was always one way that ancient civilisations avoided war by competing on the sports field rather than the battlefield. Friends of mine, who know my personal circumstances, cannot understand why I go on holiday in a tin box instead of flying off to a glitzy holiday resort and staying in a five-star hotel, or going on a luxurious cruise. But I do hope that they don't hate motorhomers, just because it doesn't appeal to them.
I suspect that those who profess a 'hatred' of sport are in a tiny minority, and that taking part in sport and, when you're unable to do that, enjoying watching it, applies to most people in the U.K. and everywhere else for that matter.
It would be a very sad and unpleasant world if everyone hated things that simply do not appeal to them. Some of the most intelligent people I know are avid football fans, or runners or climbers or anglers, who's to say that they're wrong for enjoying these pursuits?
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