What's the taste in music got to do with anything?
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Quote: zooo @ June 14 2010, 1:44 PM BSTYes! They are a really odd strand of humanity/society.
Their world is very male-centric. Maybe that's what the whole world would be like if it was all men.
If you accept the world at face value, want kids and a nice house and define the development of your own powers within the bounds of material acquisition then being a WAG is a living fairytale. From the media obsession with such people it's clear that many people crave this waking dream.
Footballers have lots of money, are esteemed in society, dress exceptionally well (an accidental consequence of spending £500 on a shirt) and are very fit and healthy (in the true sense of the word). Crucially for women they have well defined thigh and hip muscles and no gut. They are genuinely fantasy men to perhaps even the majority of women.
Substitute the childlike footballer's brain with a quirky, individualistic brain and you probably even have Zoo's dream man too. Though you'd have to change your name to something more WAGgy.
He used to play for the Wolves ! Great winger .
Quote: Godot Taxis @ June 15 2010, 3:12 PM BSTIf you accept the world at face value, want kids and a nice house and define the development of your own powers within the bounds of material acquisition then being a WAG is a living fairytale. From the media obsession with such people it's clear that many people crave this waking dream.
Footballers have lots of money, are esteemed in society, dress exceptionally well (an accidental consequence of spending £500 on a shirt) and are very fit and healthy (in the true sense of the word). Crucially for women they have well defined thigh and hip muscles and no gut. They are genuinely fantasy men to perhaps even the majority of women.
Substitute the childlike footballer's brain with a quirky, individualistic brain and you probably even have Zoo's dream man too. Though you'd have to change your name to something more WAGgy.
Nope. 
It's not just the brains of the typical footballer I find unattractive.
They dress terribly in my opinion!
And I don't find their bodies attractive either. Most of them look quite freakish.
And they are only highly esteemed by other idiots, to my view. Hardly anyone I respect or like tends to give a crap about football or sports.
I admire footballers to a certain point. They love the game, they grew up going to matches with their pop and they are living their dream. But every other aspect can bugger off. 
It worries me that everyone top sportsperson has had to spend a lot of their life obsessed with sport to the point of insanity, because in any other activity, such an obsession would actually be called insanity. Of course, if the aim is wealth, then that would be more understandable, but for many or most of them (especially the Olympiads) they pursue their obsession to the detriment of anything like a normal life, and very often sustain debilitating physical conditions; and then are lauded by society as fine examples! We should pity them, not applaud them. We certainly shouldn't fund them to indulge their obsession, that's just cruel!
Quote: zooo @ June 15 2010, 3:46 PM BSTNope.
It's not just the brains of the typical footballer I find unattractive.
They dress terribly in my opinion!
And I don't find their bodies attractive either. Most of them look quite freakish.
And they are only highly esteemed by other idiots, to my view. Hardly anyone I respect or like tends to give a crap about football or sports.
Okay.
I have to disagree with you about how they dress. They most definitely do not dress terribly. You only have to compare a panel of sports pundits with a newsnight panel. The footballers are often wearing the most exquisite tailoring. Of course it is entirely accidental. If a velour and polyurethane tracksuit cost £20,000 they would be wearing that, but nevertheless, they almost uniformly dress well.
As for their bodies looking 'freakish' I think you are trying too hard here. they clearly have very healthy and desirable physiques. You may prefer wand-thin sun dodgers or belly-slapping chubsters but most women don't. The only 'freakish' aspect I can perhaps think of is the waxing off of chest hair.
I don't do or follow much sport but I don't think people who do are idiots. I said 'esteemed in society'. More people in our society would recognise a photograph of Cesc Fabr agas over Noam Chomsky. People who do sport live longer - if 'idiotic' - lives.
I only responded because you namechecked me! Who I'm attracted to is unaffected by what society thinks of them.
Of course I'm not talking for any other women.
For freakish, see Cristiano Ronaldo(sp?) and his ilk. Orange, hairless as you said, and extremely weirdly shaped.
(Which, I suppose, pretty much describes their WAGs too. Made for each other...)
Quote: Godot Taxis @ June 15 2010, 4:49 PM BSTPeople who do sport live longer
Only if they do moderate amounts. Top athletes can drive themselves into early graves; look how early Tour de France riders typically die.
Quote: Leevil @ June 14 2010, 9:50 PM BSTWhat's the taste in music got to do with anything?
It basically means they've got no imagination and just follow the crowd.
Quote: Chappers @ June 15 2010, 5:55 PM BSTIt basically means they've got no imagination and just follow the crowd.
So there's no chance of a band having more than one fan?
Quote: Chappers @ June 14 2010, 9:24 PM BSTEnglish footballers do seem a bit of a cliche though. Like (c)rap music and bling and over made up tarts.
There are notable exceptions. Pat Nevin was an intelligent bloke and liked indie music. Apparently Rob Green (yes that Rob Green)'s favourite book is the Iliad.
Wasn't Steve McManaman a Bob dylan fan?
I saw a little girk in a Wag In Training T-shirt today. I wanted to punch her mom.
Quote: chipolata @ June 16 2010, 12:42 PM BSTI saw a little girk in a Wag In Training T-shirt today. I wanted to punch her mom.
The progeny of a Girka?
Quote: john lucas 101 @ June 16 2010, 12:55 PM BSTThe progeny of a Girka?
No.