On Wed, 02 Jan 2019 23:28:58 -0500, Joy Beeson
wrote:

On Thu, 03 Jan 2019 10:22:52 +0700, John B. Slocomb
wrote:

I've always though that the various reasons for not riding a bicycle
were just excuses not really "reasons". Ohhh it gets my hair all
messy" when the same person will go to the beach and jump in the water
and call it fun.

What baffles me is that people think they *need* excuses. I never
gave anybody an excuse for disliking spectator sports.

Probably because it is, at times, either not polite or (in the U.S.
notably) not politically acceptable to say what one actually thinks.
Comedians even make jokes about "questions you should never ask your
spouse". If one's wife should ask, "do you think these pants make my
butt look too big?" most husbands have learned not to say "YES!"


Well, when I was in college I once said that the reason I had to go
back to the dorm was that my feet were cold. I probably wouldn't have
noticed that they were cold if I hadn't been so *bored*.

But I never said "Oh, I love to watch football games, but I haven't
got snow boots, so I never go."

cheers,

John B.