How can we survive without sport?

Mantis Toboggan

I'm having serious withdrawal symptoms already and we're only a few days in. Almost everything cancelled. Stuck in the house all day and no sport on TV.

Might have to start watching re runs of epic sporting events.

Anyone recommend anything?

TuringBot47

Broadening your interests ?

Salary Negotiator

I’m borrowing a dog and going for a hike up the mountains.

Youtube videos clips of waterford hurling

The Tetrarch

Broaden you interests and watch C list celebrities cooking, dancing, and buying antiques.
It will be such fun.

Bobblehats

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Might have to start watching re runs of epic sporting events.

may as well play video games you already cleared

If its not live it’s dead - make no mistake; that’s the real casualty rate here.

Hande hoche!

Develop a benzos addicton Clean your room.

I love watching sport but it’s not important at this time. I have no idea what I’m going to do myself. I’ve an XBox I never found a game I like for and I can’t find a thing I want to watch on Netflix. Still though, sitting staring at a wall for weeks is better than the alternatives.

pgj2015

football manager? its a game you cant finish, it will keep you busy for a good while.

alchemist33

I'm going to count how many envelopes I can seal in an hour. Then try to break my record.

gifted

Salary Negotiator wrote: »

I’m borrowing a dog and going for a hike up the mountains.

You gonna put a saddle on the dog?









Apologies...I'll get my coat ...lol lol

Mantis Toboggan

TuringBot47 wrote: »

Broadening your interests ?

Any suggestions?

Rufeo

Watch all the old matches / legendary sporting moments on the internet.

Loafing Oaf

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I love watching sport but it’s not important at this time.

I wonder will a lot of people come to the realisation that it's not truly important at any time, and never rediscover their passion for it again?

Thinking about getting an Oculus Quest and spending the next few months exploring the limitless world of VR...

Mantis Toboggan

pgj2015 wrote: »

football manager? its a game you cant finish, it will keep you busy for a good while.

Great shout!

Hande hoche!

Rufeo wrote: »

Watch all the old matches / legendary sporting moments on the internet.

That what I assumed would happen. Channels broadcasting best of clip shows, past finals and the ten funniest moments in professional darts.

biko

On my own list:
Do a deep clean of the house.
Gardening.
Go through the attic and remove old junk.

Loafing Oaf

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

I wonder will a lot of people come to the realisation that it's not truly important at any time, and never rediscover their passion for it again?

Thinking about getting an Oculus Quest and spending the next few months exploring the limitless world of VR...

Don’t you need a computer worth about 5 grand to run one of them?

Loafing Oaf

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Don’t you need a computer worth about 5 grand to run one of them?

Nope, you can get standalone ones now that do pretty much everything the dearer PC-tethered ones do...
https://www.oculus.com/quest/?locale=en_US

Loafing Oaf

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Nope, you can get standalone ones now that do pretty much everything the dearer PC-tethered ones do...
https://www.oculus.com/quest/?locale=en_US

That would be good. My only experience was a Gear VR around the time of the S7 and I presume it’s come on in leaps and bounds since then.

The Tetrarch

I have a four hour Isle Of Man TT DVD unopened.
And I have not watched my Wrong Way Round Charley Boorman / Ewen McGregor DVD in about ten years.
That will be a start. I moved house in 2018 and could not find my DVDs, but found them all recently.

If thing get really bad I can get the VHS player, and my 1990, 1994 soccer World Cup tapes. I taped every match (not just Ireland games).
And I subscribed to a monthly international horse racing tape for a few years in the 1990s. Plenty there.

Bobblehats

I’d need a serious bout of amnesia to revisit something I’d already been through

rob316

I bought a guitar last month with the intention of finally learning to play so I'm going to hit that.

Loafing Oaf

My dad plays whist 4/5 nights a week, I'd imagine that'll have to stop pretty soon. Wonder would it be possible to host the games online?

whisky_galore

We can survive without sport if we can survive without correct sentence structure.

TuringBot47

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Any suggestions?

Computer games probably appeal to your competitive side.
Painting/sketching
Creative writing
Go out and photograph the world

Huge amount of nerdy things on the computer

If you have a computer scanner you can scan in old family photos and restore them with a bit of patience using a free photo editor like "Gimp" https://www.gimp.org/
I've had great success restoring old photos, ones with cracks and folds in the paper, etc.
Patience and good careful use of the "Clone brush tool" means you can manually colour in the blemishs with pixels/nearby parts of the image.

Plenty of online courses to learn a new skill/technology, learn to program etc.
Bargain alert thread for free Udemy courses: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057198335&page=296

Create a blog site about something you have knowledge of.

Set up some sort of neighbourhood watch/WhatsApp group for your street.

Gardening.

Spring cleaning house.

Check out those "50 films to watch before you die" type of lists and force yourself to watch one you wouldn't normally watch.

Greyfox

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Any suggestions?

Lots of great movies and tv series you haven't seen yet
Lots of great computer games and music you haven't experienced. Loads of documentaries, podcasts and so many good books.

Hiking, walking, salsa dancing, improv comedy, creative writing, archery, rock climbing, darts, snooker

Try get into a fitness buzz with the gym or one of the many other ways to keep fit. Learn a new skill.

Strumms

Salary Negotiator wrote: »

I’m borrowing a dog and going for a hike up the mountains.

A dog is borrowing me and we will hit the park.

Otherwise...

Netflix
TV
Ps4
Guitar
Exercise bike
Weight training
Board games
Reading

BeerWolf

I've managed for decades np.

Happy4all

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Any suggestions?

Improve your English.

briany

Greyfox wrote: »

Lots of great movies and tv series you haven't seen yet
Lots of great computer games and music you haven't experienced. Loads of documentaries, podcasts and so many good books.

Hiking, walking, salsa dancing, improv comedy, creative writing, archery, rock climbing, darts, snooker

Try get into a fitness buzz with the gym or one of the many other ways to keep fit. Learn a new skill.

Charades.

Film.
One word.
Goldfinger.

Strumms

Actually might need to get a couple of ps4 games when I hit the shops, haven’t bought new games in about 2 years... might help alleviate the boredom.

Loafing Oaf

briany wrote: »

Charades.

Film.
One word.

RikkFlair

The Tetrarch wrote: »

And I have not watched my Wrong Way Round Charley Boorman / Ewen McGregor DVD in about ten years.

Just finished watching it, hadn't seen it in years and forgotten most of it. A truly incredible adventure, I dream of recreating their journey on a touring bike :P

Revisiting Long Way Down tonight, then Charley Boormans By Any Means, love those shows.

Bobblehats

Strumms wrote: »

Actually might need to get a couple of ps4 games when I hit the shops, haven’t bought new games in about 2 years... might help alleviate the boredom.

I’d gladly sacrifice ray treacy for some ray tracing right now.

alchemist33

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Don’t you need a computer worth about 5 grand to run one of them?

I got one at Christmas for 400€. Its a great job

TuringBot47

Fitness/exercise, especially cardio to help increase your lung capacity.

Must be a few Yoga videos on Youtube to help increase your flexibility too.

Meditation.

Reading.
Maybe finding the paperback books of your favourite films and reading them.

Fashioning crude weapons and securing your doors and windows for the breakdown of society.

Loafing Oaf

Greyfox wrote: »

Lots of great movies and tv series you haven't seen yet

Contagion, Walking Dead, 28 Days Later...

Mrs OBumble

Sing from your balcony: https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2020/0314/1123223-italians-sing-from-balconies-lockdown/

Achasanai

Salary Negotiator wrote: »

I’m borrowing a dog and going for a hike up the mountains.

Where do you borrow a dog? From a neighbour or sign up online?

Looptheloop30

Fear not, the Russian Premier League is still up and running.
A dodgy stream somewhere will get you Zenit v Ural at 1.30pm with Arsenal Tila v Rubin Kazan rounding off a super Saturday this evening

Lewis_Benson

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

I'm having serious withdrawal symptoms already and we're only a few days in. Almost everything cancelled. Stuck in the house all day and no sport on TV.

Might have to start watching re runs of epic sporting events.

Anyone recommend anything?

Do something else ..

Potential-Monke

I've been surviving without sport for well over a decade now. Easily done.

I've also unknowingly being planning for something like this. Everyone laughing at me as I am a shut in gamer in my 30's. Who's laughing now?! MUAHAHAHAH! Locked indoors for weeks at a time is a gamers dream!

You could get a hurley and sliotar and relive your childhood by hopping the sliotar off the side of the house for a few hours a day. If there's anyone else in the house, they'll be overjoyed with the dull thud heard and reverberated throughout the house with each contact of the sliotar on the wall.

Bobblehats

Looptheloop30 wrote: »

Fear not, the Russian Premier League is still up and running.
A dodgy stream somewhere will get you Zenit v Ural at 1.30pm with Arsenal Tila v Rubin Kazan rounding off a super Saturday this evening

It’s all going off in South America too plenty action for fans of Liverpool (Fùtbol Club) and Everton (de Viña del Mar). Might be an Arsenal or two in there and all

Still waters

There's friends of mine who do nothing every weekend only watch sports, I've always thought you'd have to be lazy/slightly retarded/boring/souless/socially impotent wannabees or just one useless bollox to give your life over to sport on your days off, find a hobby or go for a walk or do something but waste away on the couch or pub taking part in WhatsApp groups fantasizing about one team beating another, i just don't get it but each to their own i suppose

Bobblehats

Football Focus is still on

Grueller Baby

Choke the chicken

Bobblehats

briany

How will we be able to go on without knowing whether the titans of Ipswitch will triumph over the giants of Portsmouth in a game that could only be described as 'on this weekend'?

The Tetrarch

RikkFlair wrote: »

Just finished watching it, hadn't seen it in years and forgotten most of it. A truly incredible adventure, I dream of recreating their journey on a touring bike :P

Revisiting Long Way Down tonight, then Charley Boormans By Any Means, love those shows.

Let me know if Long Way Down and By Any Means are a good watch. I might buy.

JohnnyFlash

Buy a huge bag of cans and crack one open good and early.