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Dont like Snooker

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Thegoatliesdownonbroadway · 24/11/2024 19:46

I don't understand why the BBC needs to tie up so many channels to show it right now.
I do like sport, but snooker isn't sport, is it?

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Giggorata · 24/11/2024 23:29

I have watched it since Pot Black on monochrome TV and I still love it.
I find it very soothing, the hushed commentary, the gentle click of the balls.
Very happy that the the latest tournament coincides with my post op convalescence!
i used to think that it wasn't exactly a sport too, but the players disagree, citing the hours that they are on their feet for the longer matches, saying they need to be fit to be able to do it.

VegTrug · 24/11/2024 23:12

My DD when she was a toddler, would stand in front of the tv and giggle her socks off at snooker! She had an infatuation with balls of any & all kinds so snooker was both fascinating and hilarious to her!

ExtraOnions · 24/11/2024 22:18

Snooker is very relaxing ..

BBC show allsorts.. Bowls, Boat Race, Football, Cycling, Rugby (the proper sort .. and Union), occasional cricket, gymnastics, athletics etc .. each to their own

OonaStubbs · 24/11/2024 21:56

There are many TV channels nowadays and snooker is only on one of them.

Edingril · 24/11/2024 21:50

CrushingOnRubies · 24/11/2024 21:23

Snooker is essential nap time viewing

Something about the clonk of the balls which send me off to sleep

I have heard it called it a lot of things that is a new one😁

The same could be said for any sport on tv like the Olympics Wimbledon or whatever

There is lots of channels

twentysevendresses · 24/11/2024 21:47

I hadn't even noticed it was on...there are hundreds of other channels to choose from 🤷‍♀️

CrushingOnRubies · 24/11/2024 21:23

Snooker is essential nap time viewing

Something about the clonk of the balls which send me off to sleep

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 24/11/2024 21:14

I've been watching it for years in the forlorn hope that someone tears the green baize. It still hasn't happened.

So this year I'm be looking forward to 'Celebrity Pin the Tail on the Donkey'
or
'Speed Tile Grouting'
or
'Chasing Ants with a Magnifying Glsss - with Declan Donnelly'
or
'Wheely Bin Racing'

JudgeJ · 24/11/2024 20:44

LoveTheDarts · 24/11/2024 20:29

I love it, I've been dual screening darts and snooker today and at one point also had the football on. Perfect Sunday. 🎯🎱 ⚽️

Roll on the 15th Dec and Darts World Championship on every day 😍

I recall once getting keen on watching crown green bowls.

JudgeJ · 24/11/2024 20:43

Invisablepanic · 24/11/2024 20:06

I used to love watching the snooker but only after I'd watched enough to understand what was going on and appreciate good shots.

The real skill used to be to watch it in black and white yet be able to recognise all the colours from their shade of grey as my dear late Dad could before colour TV!

JudgeJ · 24/11/2024 20:40

Littletreefrog · 24/11/2024 19:47

And different people like different things so all you have to do is not watch it if you don't like it.

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That's true but snooker occupies the TV for weeks a few times a year, similarly with darts which isn't even a spectator sport!

bifurCAT · 24/11/2024 20:37

Try watching a 147 from Ronnie on YouTube. You still might not like it, but I think you'll appreciate just how much skill is involved.

LoveTheDarts · 24/11/2024 20:29

I love it, I've been dual screening darts and snooker today and at one point also had the football on. Perfect Sunday. 🎯🎱 ⚽️

Roll on the 15th Dec and Darts World Championship on every day 😍

BibbityBobbityToo · 24/11/2024 20:19

If only there was a way to watch a different channel 🤔

Thevelvelletes · 24/11/2024 20:16

serendipity70 · 24/11/2024 20:08

Ugh the most boring thing ever - I would rather watch paint dry!

I'll buy the paint and we can watch it dry together.. you beat me with your comment exactly my thoughts.

serendipity70 · 24/11/2024 20:08

Ugh the most boring thing ever - I would rather watch paint dry!

Mudflaps · 24/11/2024 20:07

I've never been interested in watching it, we didn't have snooker clubs or the likes in rural Ireland growing up
(enjoyed playing it and pool in the pubs when I was a lot younger) but it makes me very sentimental when I see it on tv. My Grandaunt loved it, when we'd visit as children she'd fill us with sweets as long as we stayed quiet when the snooker was on, when I started driving and would go to visit her (three hours drive) I'd have to make sure there was no snooker on because she was so into watching it I might as well not be there. She's gone from us a good few years now but anytime I see a game being played I'm straight back on the banks of
Calloughs Lough waiting for her to prise herself out of her chair by the open fire and say 'we'll have a cup of tae now afore we go shopping', that's when you knew the snooker was over for the day but best of all memories is that she watched it all on a black and white telly!! Thank you for making me smile and reminisce tonight.

Invisablepanic · 24/11/2024 20:06

I used to love watching the snooker but only after I'd watched enough to understand what was going on and appreciate good shots.

friendconcern · 24/11/2024 20:02

Thegoatliesdownonbroadway · 24/11/2024 19:48

It goes on for weeks. Why not best of 3 frames and get over and done within a couple of days?

I feel like this about football, give everyone a ball and go home.

(I’ve pinched that from someone and can’t remember who)

SnowyPetals · 24/11/2024 20:01

There are so many options for watching TV these days that I don't think it really has as much impact when they show live sports that I'm not interested in. I generally record things so just watch those, or delve into iplayer. There is choice, OP, you're not tied to live terrestrial TV any more.

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Thegoatliesdownonbroadway · 24/11/2024 20:00

I will stop moaning, Wolf Hall on at 9pm

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RubberyChicken · 24/11/2024 19:58

I agree, there should be more programmes with people dancing, cooking meals and baking cakes, ideally all at once

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Thegoatliesdownonbroadway · 24/11/2024 19:57

Something for everyone, so the BBC says.

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Middlemarch123 · 24/11/2024 19:51

I love it, find it very relaxing. It’s not on every channel OP, there’s always a choice.

TheChosenTwo · 24/11/2024 19:51

I got really into the snooker when heavily pregnant with dc1, dh had gone out and the controller wasn’t in my rach and he had left the snooker on before going out. I don’t watch it now but if it’s on its one of the least offensive and obnoxious sports to have to listen to on tv so it gets my vote to stay on tv for as long as it is 😂

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