Bridge ??? Silly season story

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:19 pm

A High Court judge has been asked to decide whether or not bridge is a sport.

Seriously ? What is this all about ?

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 2:57 pm

What about Monopoly, Whist, dominoes, snakes and ladders, pontoon, draughts ????? one could fill this page with potential 'sitting down' games. Sport, surely, involves a certain amount of physical input. I think it was a bit daft to say that certain games that involved mental ability could be included as a 'sport' because those games did, in fact, excercise the brain ! I suppose Chess, draughts, cribbage etc. could be called sports as they did not rely on luck, but were totally dependent on the players' skill.

But I would not have thought for one moment that any card game could ever be called a sport. Even Bridge involves a certain amount of luck doesn't it ? Card games have cards dealt to each player and that involves luck. Skill is involved during the game by the players doing the best they can with what cards they are dealt, so it is not wholly skillful is it.

I suppose gambling clubs will be putting in for sports funding at some stage too !!! Are people totally barmy ? :rolleyes:

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G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:01 pm

I've just had a thinky thought !!!! It's not April 1st is it ? .................................. just askin' :-3

Post by **spot** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:03 pm

I'm not sure whether you've tried playing 32 hands in an evening, or 64 hands on a tournament day, but it's a marathon of sorts. One has to get a move on.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:21 pm

spot;1486639 wrote: I'm not sure whether you've tried playing 32 hands in an evening, or 64 hands on a tournament day, but it's a marathon of sorts. One has to get a move on.

I have had a few hard games of draughts.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:27 pm

I remember playing a tiddleywink tournament on our sitting room floor, when I was in my 20's which lasted several hours into the wee small hours of the morning. I lost ! ............................. I remember, too, that I had flat knees for about 2 days afterwards ! ........ boohoo

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:01 am

Whack-a-Mole (very energetic).

Blow football (requires high level of breath control - and uses a ball).

Pinball (very energetic & very skilled).

Operation (skilled delicate motor control).

All of these fall within the conditions required to class as "Sports".

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:17 am

Bruv;1486643 wrote: I have had a few hard games of draughts.

I now suffer carpal tunnel syndrome as a result of constant slamming of the table while playing snap.

I wont even go into how I'm suffering in later life because a fondness for Twister as a kid

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:19 am

Snowfire;1486667 wrote: I now suffer carpal tunnel syndrome as a result of constant slamming of the table while playing snap.

I wont even go into how I'm suffering in later life because a fondness for Twister as a kid

Twister - now there's a sport if ever I heard of one.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 2:31 pm

It was The Twist done my back in.

tude dog · Post by **tude dog** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 2:16 pm

Does sounding silly but when money is concerned.

The EBU argues that it is being unfairly excluded from special VAT exemptions for sporting competitions, worth about £100,000 a year in total to event organisers.

Consider:

"When ruling on what constituted a sport in the 2011 Charities Act, Parliament specifically included 'mind sports', stating that sport comprised 'activities which promote health involving physical or mental skill or exertion'."

The Telegraph

I never played bridge but from what little I know of it, mental would qualify.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 2:19 pm

By that definition, singing in my choirs could be classed as a sport. It's a communal physical activity, with multiple mental & physical health benefits.

Post by **spot** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 12:15 am

I'll put a grant application in - administering a discussion forum's a right sport, I can tell you.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 8:16 am

spot;1486750 wrote: I'll put a grant application in - administering a discussion forum's a right sport, I can tell you.

*Cough* I think you will find you may need to up your game and be more.........um......endearing.