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To think that shouting out when football is on tv is just not on?

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TheHouseOnTheLane · 18/09/2015 13:51

I come from a very un-sporty family....football and all that was never part of my life growing up.

Now DH and I are in his country and his Mother sits yelling at the football ....it's so aggressive sounding!

"RUBBISH! RUBBISH!" over and bloody over!

And more and worse. What's that all about then? I'm just not used to it!

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SellFridges · 18/09/2015 18:19

Yeah, very normal. I'm more sweary than DH though. But I support a crap, lower league club and he supports Everton so generally they give him less sweary moments.

We only got Sky Sports recently though. We used to rely on hearing the lads next door shouting when something exciting happened. Th Then we'd check the score. I liked it.

Oysterbabe · 18/09/2015 18:21

Oh we like a good shout at the football, especially when we go to a match but will happily shout at the TV too.

We watched an old cup final from the 60s on TV the other day. When there was a dodgy decision the crowd chanted "Oh my, what a referee" It's almost sad how much innocence we've lost in a relatively short space of time. Grin

vvviola · 18/09/2015 18:24

Every time the rugby is on, DD2 will ask DH "Is Mummy going to jump up and down and scream?" may have got a little over excited during the last game of the 6 Nations for the past 2 years

I have also been known to shout at the radio when having to listen to the game instead of watch it.

We are an Irish-Kiwi household. Rugby (well, any sport really, we've been known to get over excited at netball too) is a religion. Shouting is our praying (although we do keep the actually swearing to a minimum)

I don't shout at the orchestra when I go to the symphony (I may pause for half a second before applauding just to show my displeasure that once again the viola section only had to play the same 3 notes over and over Hmm).

Shakey15000 · 18/09/2015 18:24

YABU though I couldn't get passionate about football, unless Wales was in the final of the World Cup for example.

Rugby thighs on the other hand, the louder the better! Dewch yma dynion!!!!

OhFuckWhatHaveIDone · 18/09/2015 18:30

YANBU, our neighbour upstairs does it and sometimes invites friends over to do it. But it's not just shouting, it's utterly mental shrieking, and then he either slams something down on the table repeatedly or stomps around on the floor, and sometimes walks over to the open window and directs his shouting and shrieking that way (or so it seems). He took to doing it a lot one really hot summer with the balcony doors wide open so it echoed off all the buildings. We sent a passive aggressive note. Smile

OhFuckWhatHaveIDone · 18/09/2015 18:31

We've also established that sometimes he and his GF invite one of the friends to stay overnight for other activities but we'll not get into that

Spilose · 18/09/2015 19:22

Random shouting at the TV drives me mad. BIL does it when people can be in the middle of a conversation, I find it so rude

2rebecca · 18/09/2015 19:35

Having a conversation when the TV is on is rude...

kali110 · 18/09/2015 19:57

My partner and i detest football but i still think yabu.
People get passionate about sports ( i may not be one of them!) but i don't think it's abnormal or makes them crazed sports fans Hmm

You can also be bought up with sport ( still don't like it!) and theatre and music.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 18/09/2015 20:14

vvviola - I think the violas are the second altos of the orchestra. I am a second alto and I once had a whole page of the same note - and we almost never get a crack at the tune/being the most important part. Everyone else does - first basses, second basses, first and second tenors - the sopranos get the lion's share of the best bits, even the first altos get a go sometimes, but the second altos? Nope. We get the notes no-one else wants. Not that I am bitter.

BertrandRussell · 18/09/2015 20:49

Dp and ds are watching the rugby. The dog, who always watches TV with ds has come out and put herself sadly to bed. It was too noisy for her.

BertrandRussell · 18/09/2015 20:50

I know a good joke about double basses- but I would have to sing it.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 18/09/2015 20:54

I know lots of musician jokes - wanna hear some?

msgrinch · 18/09/2015 20:55

Yabu if my neighbours moaned about us shouting at the TV, whilst watching England tonight I'd tell the get a life. Luckily I can hear them to.

BertrandRussell · 18/09/2015 21:07

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To think that shouting out when football is on tv is just not on?
SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 18/09/2015 21:13

What's the difference between percussionists and terrorists?

Terrorists have sympathisers.

What's the difference between a violin and a viola?

A viola burns for longer.

The conductor walks into the orchestra pit and finds the viola player in tears, so he asks him what the matter is. The viola player tells him that the first violinist has detained one of the strings on his viola. "Well - just tune it again" says the conductor. "I can't - they won't tell me which string it was" sobs the viola player.

Btw - all my viola player jokes came from my late MIL - a viola player.

MissFitt68 · 18/09/2015 21:14

Oh my god. Which country are you actually from then?

vvviola · 18/09/2015 22:21

SDTG If you get lost in a forest, who do you ask for directions - a good viola player, a bad viola player or a pink elephant? The bad viola player, the other two are figments of your imagination. Grin

I know loads of viola jokes. I am/was a viola player (hence the name Grin). I am also an alto. Have never been in a choir big enough to have second altos, but I did get bumped down to support the tenors once.... Hmm

GiddyOnZackHunt · 18/09/2015 22:29
goblinhat · 18/09/2015 22:47

One of the many things that attracted me to my OH was his lack of interest in football, or any sport.

We also have teenage kids who have no interest in football-

Bliss.

cremeeggboycotter · 18/09/2015 23:41

YANBU, but I hate loud noises- especially sudden surprising ones.

slicedfinger · 18/09/2015 23:50

We even shout at Bake Off in this house. Grin

AmazeMe · 18/09/2015 23:55

I've found my people. The ones telling viola jokes, not the football fans. We are a divided household. I loathe football, DH both works in football and is fanatic about it. It has been my fate in the past to sit reading a novel in ear defenders at the kind of PL games that are discussed in reverent whispers decades afterwards by fans. I've been to lots of games in lots of countries. I have a nodding acquaintance with quite a few footballers. (Not conversationalists...) its not that I haven't been exposed to it. It's still not interesting.

AmazeMe · 18/09/2015 23:58

Goblin, I fell in love with my husband despite the appalling impediment of his liking for football, but I agree with you that a lack of interest in it is a mist attractive feature in a man.

Fortunately our pre-schooler is enormously bored by it. Any newspaper image or footage of a match he designates 'Daddy's workplace'.

BackforGood · 19/09/2015 00:02

YABU, and - with your references to music and theatre - certainly sound as if you are trying to come across as somewhat superior Hmm

Nowt wrong with a bit of passion.
Would it make you feel better if it were during Wimbledon fortnight? Or at the World Athletics Championship? I know the Rugby World Cup has just started - not a game I watch generally, but there's something exciting about watching your National Team competing at a high level, so yes, I'll be leaping out of my chair and yelling at the TV over the next few weeks.
If you follow a team (any sport) then it is pretty usual to be fairly passionate about it. You do seem to have lived a pretty sheltered life if this is news to you.