Men,sport and television.

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Real multi tasking would be if he played tiddly winks with the Grandchildren at the same time as watching snooker and listening to football.

I think you have a very advanced specimen there Stansgran

MEN ...love em

Stansgran I have a male with exactly that skill but he uses one earphone plugged in, so also has multitasking ears that swivel.

Mine watches a programme on TV and flits into the kitchen on the ad breaks to catch up with Sports Talk this takes place most Sat/Sundays it's a wonder the floor is not worn out.
Mind he has boxing day all sorted for a man's afternoon in with said football and invited both DSs & 4DGSs so no chance for me that day I think.

Mine watches the snooker whilst wearing noise-canceling headphones and then comments really loudly because he can't hear himself speaking! He did this on the plane once as well, much to my embarrassment.

Mine can do that while finishing the crossword in his fishing magazine. The fire then needs a bit of a stoke up so it's clang-a-lang-a-lang with the poker which then gives him a coughing fit.

Boy, it's peaceful in our house on a Saturday afternoon

Mine watches rugby and reads a book

i must admit that I surf the net while watching rugby, nina.

DH is a snooker and F1 fan. I love when these programmes come on......
I get peace and quiet

F1....Peace and quiet, Agus? I cheered when the season came to an end as well as touring cars and super bikes. My whole weekend was filled with the sound of noisy things going round in circles.

I grew up falling asleep on the couch to the sound of football...still do! As you all say...bless um!

The only sport that Mr P is even vaguely interested in is cricket, and that doesn't seem to be on much.

Love that man!

Yes merlot I can close the door to the room he watches them in and can peacefully enjoy a book somewhere else in the house. Perfect

This is very two faced of me, given that I spend all year discussing who will win at Cheltenham, Newmarket or The Derby, but I can't quite get over how many hours were spent on R5Live discussing the World Cup Draw . And, when they were talking about problems with altitude, heat etc I wanted to phone in and say they needed to speak to Andy Murray about his contant urine analysis cause it certainly works for him. Simples.

Yes, mine can multi-task - but only if sport is involved. He can listen to a commentary through his headphones, watch the racing on his laptop and cook dinner on a saturday (his night) all at the same time as checking his twitter friends. He often sits in front of footie or rugby or cricket or racing while any of those will also be on his laptop next to him and he will be discussing another on his phone. But if I dare to say anything unconnected... He switches everything off and says he can't concentrate, lets me finish and then switches it all back on again. Perfectly politely but I find it very odd.

Mine refuses to countenance having any sport on the TV at all. I too have no interest except tennis, which he just about tolerates once a year.

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I left the sitting room to answer the phone and as per usual DH turns the TV over and guess what, we are now watching football, Middlesbrough v Tottenham Hotspur, I'm getting into it but browsing gransnet too ?

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I can certainly relate to this. I rarely listen to the inaccurate commentary on snooker but do enjoy watching it. Find myself often listening to a radio play or something similar at the same time. Certainly never football though!