Workplace Sport "Pundits" (Metro/Herald AM Recycling)

consultech

Does this happen to/get on anyone elses mammaries?

I am sick to the back teeth of having to endure the exact same conversation about the weekend's sport with 4/5 different people every Monday, and listening to their "opinion" - recycled verbatim from the sports pages of the Metro/Herald AM. Have these people forgot that we all read the exact same paper in the morning???

Grrrr. :mad:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

You can have the guy I used to work with.

Nice guy, but spent a lot of time trying to convince us that AC Milan threw the 2005 Champions League finally, having gotten a 'phone-call' from a gambling syndicate at half-time.

(Man U fan of course....)

phasers

If you were in the kitchen where you should be you wouldn't hear it

Danbo!

Yeah, worked in a place a few years back where a couple of the lads followed the NFL and NHL through USA Today, which we got a couple of copies of everyday just for them. The manager was a nice bloke but always had an opinion on everyones interests, and tried to chat away like he knew what was goin on.

One morning, one of the lads who followed american football came in to be greeted by the manager with 'Jesus, I see Pittsburgh beat Washington last night, great game it was too', which he had obviously known from a quick glance of USA Today. So your man replies, 'Oh I haven't been watching sport as much recently, which sport was that?'. Cue a confused/embarassed look towards the floor.

BaconZombie

Why not write into the Letters section of the Metro and complain, at least then you will hit your target audience.....

consultech wrote: »

Does this happen to/get on anyone elses mammaries?

I am sick to the back teeth of having to endure the exact same conversation about the weekend's sport with 4/5 different people every Monday, and listening to their "opinion" - recycled verbatim from the sports pages of the Metro/Herald AM. Have these people forgot that we all read the exact same paper in the morning???

Grrrr. :mad:

connundrum

Wear earphones. No one will talk to you then and you'll live the quiet life you've always wanted.

I work with a guy who's only line every Monday morning was -

'Jaysus, that Kilkenny are some team huh!'

Sanjuro

Reminds me of this... obviously without the end bit-

funk-you

OP, it's not that bad. Try having to tell workmates/taxi drivers/randomers who try to talk to you on the street that "No, I haven't seen the game. I don't know who was playing or what sport. I'm, not into watching sports".

You get looked at like you're about to steal their mothers because you don't share their interests and find it a bit boring really.

-Funk

biko

consultech wrote: »

Have these people forgot that we all read the exact same paper in the morning???

Big Jugs doesn't have a sports section. What paper are you on about?

stovelid

They're having conversations with each other on topics of mutual interest.

So you are effectively moaning on a public board that you don't agree with topics of private conversation that you are eavesdropping on.

If they are talking to you. just say I don't really follow that stuff. Simple.

consultech

stovelid wrote: »

They're having conversations with each other on topics of mutual interest.

So you are effectively moaning on a public board that you don't agree with topics of private conversation that you are eavesdropping on.

If they are talking to you. just say I don't really follow that stuff. Simple.

I do "follow that stuff" though, and they know it. I'd be all to happy to have a discussion if it had an ounce of independant opinion about it, but alas. They're still militant about initiating conversation with me with the same opener each one of them are using. It's uncanny.

stovelid

consultech wrote: »

I do "follow that stuff" though, and they know it. I'd be all to happy to have a discussion if it had an ounce of independant opinion about it, but alas. They're still militant about initiating conversation with me with the same opener each one of them are using. It's uncanny.

Sounds to me like they have pegged out as a football nut, and they're trying to be friendly and engage you on topics that they think will interest you.

My old boss used to try and chat to me about football sometimes, and he knew next to nothing about it, but I just thought it was nice of him to try and show interest in my weekend.