[following a conversation about soccer teams, in which it was established that Arsenal is the only team for which is it unacceptable to barrack]

lauredhel: I watch other TV crap
lauredhel: (though rather more deprecated TVcrap than sports, interestingly)

tigtog: Now I watch rugby sometimes, tennis – I still like gymnastics and skating

lauredhel: (probably because it’s “women’s tv”).
lauredhel: oh, I like the Olympics, esp gymnastics and diving/swimming

tigtog: oh yeah, unrealistically identifying with elite athletes is so much less trivial than unrealisitically identify with the professional beauties on TV as they go through their dramas

lauredhel: Of course it is.
lauredhel: Well, most TV is about soppy stuff like relationships and talking to each other, whereas most sports is about ritualised warfare

tigtog: broom brooms are so much more important than fashion etc etc

lauredhel: and I’m genetically programmed to prefer relationships, dontcha know
lauredhel: This is a well known fact from studies on toads.

tigtog: course you are
tigtog: and the studies on ocelots simply confirmed it

lauredhel: Though the differences in ocelots are rather less clear-cut

tigtog: of course they are – they use the spots for camouflage

lauredhel: boom boom.

tigtog: makes life hard for the researchers
tigtog: spots before their eyes

lauredhel: They had to rely on footprints and scat for their data.
lauredhel: In a zoo.
lauredhel: And it was actually only one ocelot.

tigtog: and he had a wooden leg

lauredhel: And a bowel condition.

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