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VK3DRB:
I have noticed that in all the electronics workplaces I have worked in over the decades (computing, telecoms, satellites, medical, automotive etc), I have come across almost no electronics engineers or technicians who have a passion for football (Aussie Rules Football in Australia, or Soccer in Europe, or "Football" in the USA), or certainly do not carry on about it on a Monday morning after the weekend games. Many electronics workplaces struggle to get people interested in footy tipping competitions. A lot of engineers here were born overseas, but even amongst the Aussies born and bred here few show much interest. This is in contrast to the general population, many of which here are fanatical and treat it like a religion. People from all socioeconomic classes are into football, except us it seems.

Why is it so?

ANTALIFE:
Sports bad, video games good

But in all seriousness, people just have a different set of hobbies. I would imagine those in the more technical positions would have more techincal hobbies, like drone/rc racing, 3D printing, machining, gardening...

shakalnokturn:
I can't stand football, I wouldn't mind the game itself, to me there's just too much fuss and money involved to call it sport.
I associate football talk to political or religious discussion, manipulation of the masses.

"Give them bread and games!"

Ian.M:
No doubt many of us suffered compulsory team sports at school.  As a self-confessed scrawny glasses wearing nerd, that was enough to put me off football and rugby for life.  I found cricket less intolerable apart from my limp, severe hayfever and inability to catch *anything* which led to me frequently spending the afternoon standing in the far outfield wishing to die quickly.  Needless to say I haven't even watched a match of any of the above sports even on TV for my entire adult life.  Sometimes the sports on TV are unavoidable, e.g in the pub, but as I am quite happy to sit with my pint and a good book at the table under the screen that noone else wants, and as I am capable of restraining my urge to comment on the mass insanity surrounding me, no feathers are ruffled.

IMHO even foreign politics are preferable to team sports involving the abuse of pigs bladders or seasoned willow wood.

Electro Detective:

Congrats VK3DRB   :clap: it takes a true blue aussie to say it straight up mate!  :-+

fwiw I had no interest in repetitive childish football games even before getting into electronics
and if dabbling in electronics has some mystic no go Force tied to it that keep me avoiding it,
then the multimeter and soldering iron stay, FOREVER!  ;D

fwiw I didn't mind footy and soccer at school and other sports stuff, but as a later teenager I got put off by the whole thing
after watching ADULTS of all ages carry on like war mongering lunatics, at every game,

and the fights/blues,

morons yelling in your ear with stinking fermenting beer/meat pie/chiko roll death breath,

foul language spiced enough to even send demons packing back to hell  :scared:

dealing with greasy putrid chuck on the shoes back at home (hey, what's that smell? ??? )

tomato sauce stains on clothing from seats and walls,

busting for a pee and copping the state of the mens toilets, that I won't get into, 
and spare the punters here reading, from utter disbelief and disgust  :o

HOURS to get out of uncooperative idiot jammed car parks,   

and the list goes on and on and on...  :palm:
 

The nail in the coffin was seeing neanderthal parent tards at kids local footy matches being sore losers
and or bitching on their kid to rough up other kids, 'do whatever it takes to win or else..' BS


Nowadays it's an eyesore watching steroid pumped tattooed players (heroes?!) littering the field,
and avoiding any idiots talking about it, like it's all oh so Fing serious..   
You'd think these idiots were related to the footy players and trophy wives/GFs,
and own shares in the footy club.. referring to it as 'my team'  ::)


No Thanks, I'd rather sledge a troublesome DUT that's too big and heavy to dropkick into the dumpster

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