oh for fuck's sake, AIBU to hate football?

[CakeBump]

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Ok, some background info - I'm in Germany, DP is German and apparently Germany are doing quite well in this Euro thingummy footie competition.

But I HATE it, it's STUPID!! They set off fireworks after every goal and at the end of the match, thus I am stuck in the house with a terrified dog who is desperately trying to hide behind me and shaking uncontrollably with fear. I've got bloody Randy Newman on full volume but this does appear to be helping DDog.

DP has buggered off to watch it with all his mates. Again. Last time he got in at 2am utterly spannered and I had to get up (14 weeks pg), help him get undressed, put him to bed on the sofa and get a bucket.

He promised he'd be back half an hour ago - he was staying out a bit longer to "keep an eye on his dad", well his dad got in ages ago and is now in bed, but no sign of DP.

DP will snore like a freight train, to which I usually kick him out of bed onto the sofa bed, but his parents are staying on that tonight so I'll have to spend the night listening to him grunting and snuffling except a million times louder....

AIBU to hate football?
WIBU to make DP sleep in the bathtub?

Blame fireworks and blame your DH for not being able to handle his drink.

But don't blame football Lol!

But I do blame football Worra!!

The fairies throwing themselves on the ground! The boredom! The aimless kicking the ball about for minutes on end! The whole silly scarf wavingness of it all! The "We" won-ness! You didn't win! You didn't do anything! You just got drunk and watched the telly! You weren't even there !

Yabu!! Well done for beating Greece though!

That's the other thing, everyone here seems incapable of separating a silly game which little children play from world economics.... there's been so much stuff about Germany stuffing Greece as some sort of payback for the bailout, its ridiculous

YANBU

Well, its not so much the game of football that I detest, its footballers. The throwing themselves down and wailing like babies gives me the rage. The indignity of it all, aside from anything else. Have they no pride? Argggh

Ok but if your DH got pissed and fireworks got let off, scaring your dog due to...

Tennis
Darts
Snooker
Rugby
Swimming

Would you hate those sports too?

Or would you just hate the fact your DH can't seem to handle alcohol and the dog doesn't like loud bangs?

YADNBU, It has stopped Coronation Street, it has stopped meanignful converstion in my house and it has irritated me to the extent that i am online all the time, whcih annoys dh which in turn annoys me because i wouldn't be if it wasn't for the fucking football and who decides that the entire country turns into moron central and wants to watch nothing esle for two weeks or however long these sodding tournaments are on nd it's never off! ther is no 'closed season' any more. It's always on. Gahhhhhhhhh

Exactly Treacle give me rugby players any day of the week

THREE WEEKS, sweary !!!! THREE!!!! :(

I agree with you re the we-won stuff. I just don't get it. Don't hate football I just don't get it, or any sport rugby is kind of ok

Oh ffs!

and then the 'boys' in my house have the nerve to tell me wimbledon is boring!!!!

I'm giving him til half past then I'm going to get him. I don't give a fuck if I look like a fishwife....

I have to laugh at the people moaning that a tournament that only happens for 3 weeks every 2 years is disturbing the Soaps that seem to be on 24 fucking 7!

They even dominate Christmas TV ffs, unlike football.

actually sweary I think Wimbledon is REALLY boring!

I hate soaps too.

I should probably point out at this point that I don't own a TV, so find most of it boring/irritating

It's only coronation street i care about, cos that's, you know, real

Anything that stops Corrie....grr

YANBU

Then get a TV and that'll keep him out of the pub

Sorted!

heh heh worth thinking about worra! Unfortunately the lure of the plasma screen across the road and 50 of his drinking buddies nearest and dearest may mean it will not be able to compete....

I'm going to humiliate fetch him.... :)

I'm just bored of the whole thing. And I quite like football in small doses.

And if I complain about watching football he suggests that we watch blooming Pointless instead. As if that makes it better.

this football won't go away. i'm sick of it and i haven't watched even a minute.

i find the idea of being married to a german man strangely intriguing [wheras i think the average person would think, 'oh, right' and think no more about it]. of course, i'm weird. i watch documentaries about ww2 just so i can hear people speaking german...

but any man who comes home drunk and needs a bucket deserves what my aunt used to give my uncle - when he collapsed drunk at the bottom of the stairs every friday night she'd give him a few sharp kicks to the chest...

No, YANBU and in fact, while I'm on the case, we are obsessive as a human race. Just recently, the Jubilee (OK some of it) then the football and of course not forgetting the undercurrent of the Olfuckinglympics going on all the time. 'Who can throw/run/dive etc the furthest/heaviest' etc - Sorry I don't care. Team games are ok but people throwing a discuss and then a long pointy thing (please stop) are just weird. It's like 'Who's the biggest freak?!' ENOUGH already.

< ducks head under the parapet >

SO no, YANBU. Footballers may be skilled but they're not worth their pay packets.
Football is a game for gentlemen played by (and attracting) thugs, who sometimes act like wimps,- whilst rugby is a game for thugs played by gentlemen.

< crouches into ball waiting for barrage of abuse >

Cakebump, good luck with the rest of your pregnancy and I hope all goes well tonight. The bath tub can be quite comfortable with a blanket in it I have heard.

ha ha lovebunny it has crossed my mind...!

But have you heard the old German saying?

"Kick a drunken German husband to be in the chest and......" well you can make up your own ending....

I think being married to a German guy is much the same as being married to an English guy, except they're harder to understand when pissed :)

Creative I have a work colleague (primary school teacher) who insists on referring to the Olympics as "Grown Up Sports Day". It makes me

High jumper: "I can jump higher than you"
me: "Bully for you"