Oh, for Christ's sake, leave it off, you two! Who the feck cares if she isn't saving lives in Outer Bronchospasmania - are YOU, Ian? Is Tony Bloody McCoy, every time he drives himself like an introspected, unsmiling, miserable sonofabitch towards yet another entirely boring, pointless, useless-to-humanity, non-fund-raising Championship?
And, if jockeys weren't such self-indulgent, suicidal, vainglorious idiots, the vital, life-saving, humanitarian ambulance, paramedic, AND the St John Ambulance services wouldn't need to divert services needed by the really ill to attend every single lousy horse race, every meeting, every day, in this entirely money-oriented BUSINESS of horse-racing, in which you, Ian, expect to do rather well, I believe?
This is her JOB - she's a professional sailor. David Beckham doesn't play football because he thinks the shirts are cute - it's his JOB. Muhammad Ali wasn't expected to save the lives of little black babies in Africa every time one of its' many countries had a civil war - he was a professional boxer, for God's sake. And, along with loads and loads of people all over the world, who are the best at their chosen job, they make plenty of money, they achieve often extreme goals, and they feel good about themselves for doing it.
As a matter of FACT, for the couple of you carping about how she should be doing good deeds with her life, she DOES. Perhaps you don't actually bother to find out about these things, because, as you've already said, she doesn't interest you. Well, David Beckham's game doesn't interest me at all, but I believe he has donated rather a fair amount of his time, and money, to working with poor kids. Oh, additionally, of course, her endeavour has given a wodge of work to the building and fitting of the trimaran, to its systems and operators, and ground staff - thus providing incomes for others.
If what she's done and what she does for her income doesn't interest you - so what? Leave it at that. She doesn't have to become Mother Theresa and Save The World, any more than YOU, in your work, and with your income, do, Ian.
