Things you have lost interest in over the years.

Semper aggressus said:
International football, for some time now I’ve grown less and less interested to the point where I don’t even know when the Euros start this year.

And football in general, apart from City. With the rise of the clear anti-City agenda in the media I find myself hating all our rival teams now, whereas a few years ago I’d be quite excited to watch a game like Spurs v Liverpool on TV as a neutral. Now I hate them all so much I only watch City.

Modern music. I used to go to so many gigs at uni and afterwards at the Academy ‘til about ten years ago, loved hearing new bands on 6Music. Now I’ve completely lost touch and just listen to stuff I’ve had for years on Spotify. Got to say, the best era was the mid/late 90s though, proper bands with real instruments in some sweaty venue.

I guess I’m just getting old.
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Wish I had written that, you literally read my mind.
 
No interest in watching England games in a massive venue, everyone decked out in St George hats and shirts singing "Football's Coming Home" when in fact the tournament is in Germany, and then throwing their shit beer everywhere when a goal is scored because the beer is so undrinkable anyway, and then getting all aggressive when England lose.
 
City Hobgoblin said:
No interest in watching England games in a massive venue, everyone decked out in St George hats and shirts singing "Football's Coming Home" when in fact the tournament is in Germany, and then throwing their shit beer everywhere when a goal is scored because the beer is so undrinkable anyway, and then getting all aggressive when England lose.
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BlueHammer85 will be giving that a like, I'm guessing.

;-)
 
J.G.Blue. said:
Sadly I really miss riding my motorbike, I dont think I will ever understand why, when your young, you couldnt give a toss about your own safety, you feel invincible & bad things will never happen to you & yet when you get old you only see all the dangers involved, worry about this that & the fuc#ing other when it doesn't really matter because you only have a few years left anyway?
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I'm the same.
 
Semper aggressus said:
International football, for some time now I’ve grown less and less interested to the point where I don’t even know when the Euros start this year.

And football in general, apart from City. With the rise of the clear anti-City agenda in the media I find myself hating all our rival teams now, whereas a few years ago I’d be quite excited to watch a game like Spurs v Liverpool on TV as a neutral. Now I hate them all so much I only watch City.

Modern music. I used to go to so many gigs at uni and afterwards at the Academy ‘til about ten years ago, loved hearing new bands on 6Music. Now I’ve completely lost touch and just listen to stuff I’ve had for years on Spotify. Got to say, the best era was the mid/late 90s though, proper bands with real instruments in some sweaty venue.

I guess I’m just getting old.
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This apart from the music decade.
For me it was the 60s.
 
Crooked_rain said:
There's just as many great fighters as there was always was. People look at the past with nostalgia and think it was better but all sports things have improved over the years and boxing is no different, it's just there's no way to measure it like sprinting or something, but it would be naive to think sports have moved on so much but boxing hasn't.

The likes of Crawford, Inoue, Bivol, Beterbiev, Usyk, Fury, Lomachenko, Golovkin, Canelo etc etc would have been very good fighters in any era. Only people clinging onto the past think otherwise.

The only thing better in the past was there wasn't so many things in the way preventing fights as much, like promoters that don't work with each other, broadcasting deals and things like that... but that seems to be changing now with the Saudi money in boxing and we are getting the fights that should be made.

I do think boxers were held in higher regard in the past and are seen as titans, but a lot of it was because boxing was held in better esteem because there wasn't as much frustration around it with boxing politics. The fighters themselves are just as good as ever. In reality, fighters like Crawford would match up very well with Ray Leonard and whatnot.

Also Tyson Fury is a fantastic boxer, skill wise. Just because he just lost a fight to another great fighter doesn't change that, many great fighters lose. Boxing has never seen anyone like Fury, a massive man that size that can box inside, outside, orthodox, southpaw, forwards or backwards, high ring iq. Anyone who knows the art of boxing knows he's a tremendous talent, he just lost to another tremendous talent. Both of those guys would be good in any era.

But as I always say, people only cling to the past in sports with no definitive measurement. In sports where things can be proven, records have improved over time generally. That means athletes get better over time, so it'd be silly to think football or boxing hasn't either.
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Fair enough. I bow to your superior knowledge of the sport.
 
burning blue soul said:
Nostalgia.
The older I get the less I understand hankering for a time gone by that wasn't as good as people say.
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Got to say that the majority of my friends and ex colleagues are stuck in the past. Their musical tastes haven't moved on for 30 years and they are constantly reminiscing about the past.
I try to enjoy and embrace the present. I'm still seeking out new bands, trying to visit new places, trying new food and drink and experiencing new activities.
 
staffsblue said:
Got to say that the majority of my friends and ex colleagues are stuck in the past. Their musical tastes haven't moved on for 30 years and they are constantly reminiscing about the past.
I try to enjoy and embrace the present. I'm still seeking out new bands, trying to visit new places, trying new food and drink and experiencing new activities.
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Same here. Back in the day I had fun times, but I also remember the downsides.
Folk just skip over the shitty stuff and remember times like it was halcyon days.
I look forward, not back. I can go forward, I can't go back!
 
The Champions League. I was so excited when we qualified for the first time but now don’t care about it too much. It was the first cup scheme I dropped too as the whole thing is an overrated circus.
 
MCFC Wirral said:
The Champions League. I was so excited when we qualified for the first time but now don’t care about it too much. It was the first cup scheme I dropped too as the whole thing is an overrated circus.
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Apart from our games, I seldom bothered with the group stage games. In September, most people would have pretty much the same 16 to go through. Yes; you get the occasional Copenhagen (LOL), but not very often, let's be honest. Will the new format improve things? Hmm; we'll see.
 
staffsblue said:
Got to say that the majority of my friends and ex colleagues are stuck in the past. Their musical tastes haven't moved on for 30 years and they are constantly reminiscing about the past.
I try to enjoy and embrace the present. I'm still seeking out new bands, trying to visit new places, trying new food and drink and experiencing new activities.
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Agree with all of that, with the exception of new bands. I still love the excitement of hearing a great new tune which I come across now and again, but actual bands, nah, not fussed.
In many ways the album was a poor format back then anyway; you buy it for on average 3 great tracks and another 5 that you could leave or take.
In fact, and I’m pushing it a tad here, but in that sense, bands were actually a format of the past rather than songs which is the format of now.
 
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