I, for one, do not give two shits about the America’s Cup. It’s a boring-ass rich man’s sport being paid for by the taxpayer for some reason. The fact that it’s on free-to-air TV at all tells you all you need to know – nobody else is stupid enough pay far it. Would it be a better watch from Auckland, land of the JAFA? Maybe it would. I don’t live there though, and pity those who do. Awful place.
I resent seeing the yachting on to news too, mainly because it’s so utterly inaccessible to most people. When what you need to go yachting is a yacht and some servants to operate it, it’s out of bounds to pretty much everyone. Why, then, does this America’s Cup nonsense shunt the sports of the people out of the news? Buggered if I know.
Also, the yachting goes on for so long. They’ve only just worked out who the first semi-finalist (there are only four sodding teams in the thing) will be, and they’ve been going since before Christmas. And another thing: why the hell is it called the America’s Cup? They lost the last one, and sure as shit sticks to a blanket didn’t invent boats. I’m not having it that they get to have it named after them.
Now for some more anger. They don’t sail in proper boats. Rather, they’re overgrown, wind-powered jet skis. On stilts. Flying boats, they have been called. Load of nonsense. Aeroplanes and helicopters fly. Birds and bats fly. Boats are meant to stay in the water. Ought to all be sailing in galleons if you ask me.
And finally: I’m tired of hearing about how they have to have 101 different courses and can’t sail unless the conditions are right. It’s too windy, it’s too still, the wind is blowing in the wrong direction etc. These are the excuses they come out with and I’m tired of them. They’re piss poor boats if they can’t sail in anything more than a breeze, and the second and third problems can be easily solved:
GET SOME FUCKING OARS OUT!!!
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