Recently, while scrolling through my newsfeed on Twitter I took a momentary break from trolling inept politicians to respond to a Tweet which asked, “What’s something you have never understood the appeal of?”
My immediate reaction was to fire off a list of everyday things that seem to have caught on with the general public for reasons I can’t fathom, which includes: plastic lawns, Masterchef, Michael McIntyre, SUVs, Ed Sheeran, adult scooters, those ‘Rules of the House’ posters and Mrs Brown’s Boys (please, no letters, I’m not Points of View).
“Fact: the only people who should wear white gloves are snooker referees” However, it occurred to me that there are a lot of things in triathlon that appear inexplicably popular as far as I’m concerned, so I wrote a few…