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dont think rugby

get out on the pitch and think WWE, you'll be a forward in no time

lots of after the match

then, when your place is secure you can start worrying about the rules and how to play

You´re cleverer than me, then. Goalie on school footie, I never caught it with my hands but stopped penalties with what used to look like a face before. I hated football.

The spectator sees more of the game.

Iago, you're incorrigible.

Clive, anoraks talking sports is a bit like the pope ruling sex. This is a thread about religion after all.

I'm a bit weird with rugby: when I'm with my straight mates I can sit and drink pints and appreciate a good game and be able to talk about all the technical stuff. As a game of skill and physical prowess, I find it far superior to footie which, as a Scouser, I'm legally obliged to follow.

But if I'm watching it with gay mates, it's all about the ice-cream and the homoeroticism. Those ads helped with that last part rather a lot.

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Oh come on, the only thing gayer than a rugby match is a Catholic priest handing out ice creams.

I'm just thinking back to the rugby world cup. All the group matches and quarter/semi finals were spent with my straight mates and it was all very blokey. Final I was with my sort-of ex, we'd hiked 15 miles and spent most of the match eating Hagen-Daaz and talking about how tasty they all were.

Usually when it comes to sports I'm either a fan (cycling, footie) or just a perv (swimming, rowing). With rugby I'm both and its a bit strange.

brings an new understanding to the term 'rugger bugger'

There's another meaning for rugger bugger?

that took a long time to reply

15 mins. for 6 words???

I've been distracted. By rugger buggers - Google Dieux De Stade.

sorry no google at work

this is a bit off for a thread titled atheist

shall we take it to the bar and have a over at prof.s????

I dunno: at the first mention of homos, warner usually starts running. We might get rid of him.

he's not here his eyes are closed

Just because we can't see him doesn't mean he can't see us... omnipitant and all that
Rugby is alright... but Cricket is a proper* sport... you spend most the time sitting down, drinking tea, eating cucumber and smoked salmon sandwichs, can smoke whilst your on the playing surface, and afterwards just go to the pub...actaully I've known players/teams where we went to the pub part way through the match once they were 'out' and before their fielding started...
Snooker is like a proper sport too now I think of it... and darts...
I'm trying to get the olympic comitee to accept 'power hoovering' as an offical sport for the 2012 olympics...
Anyhow I don't relaly get sport... not football and stuff. too... I dunno...

I love Cricket. Not understanding the game means one can´t get enthusiastic and start shouting.

I blame 2legs, of course.

"1. I don't have to justify myself to any god/book/leader, so I can do what I like.
2. I don't have a god/book/leader to make decisions for me, so I must think about them hard and make respectable, decent decisions based on fact.
Most people go with 2. smiley"

I used to feel that way and have recently returned to "being religious". The atheist perspective of "no gods, no masters" is really kind of silly. When You consider that science is proving that we understand less and less about reality it leaves open the option of G-d. I mean that we are all "solid" yet somethings may pass through us, that at a sub-atomic level we do not have a "unified theory" that works. Science at best, when described honestly, is nothing more than a "working model". Let me just say that a lawyer learns to apply the law from books and professors. Professors and the authors of law books learn from other professors and law books. Poorly described. There is enough uncertainty in "fact" or "science" to allow for G-d. Your hard thought does not originate from your effort of thought but is based on everything you have been taught/learned. You are not alone soley responsible for these decisions and even people looking to thier good book have to think about how their decisions relate to thier world view. All religious texts are tainted by the hand of man! But even so they are not less valid for this! They still have more weight than the thoughts of one indivual! So I hope I haven't come across as attacking you! I just wanted to pitch it out there that religion is not diametrically opposed to science and logic. I hear all to often with out being asked why people oppose religion.