Come on man, the guy's shown he's not bothered by your insulting pictures and even adopted one of them as his new avatar, and all you can do is insult him? Give him a break. I don't think OMGDudeWhat's that bad now. I never did dislike him anyway. At the moment, my suspicious eye is drifting over towards a certain other member of this forum whose short and ambiguous posts have been making me rather uncertain not just now, but for a while. (It's nobody on this thread, by the way.)
Best regards, i_like_1981
Well, I did say that I tip my hat to him!
Call it grudging admiration!
I'm fat and sassy! I love to sing & dance & stomp my feet & really rock your world!
All I want to hear from an ex-jock is "Will that be paper or plastic?" After that he can shut the fuck up!
Heah comes da judge! Heah comes da judge! Order in da court 'cuz heah comes da judge!
i_like_1981 wrote:I respect a person who uses the knowledge they have of our language to come onto a forum with an opposing view and attempt to have a decent discussion. He's trying his best. Defend your points all you want, Fat Man, but it's unfair to insult his English skills when he's not a native speaker and is trying his hardest to communicate with us.
Greetings sniveling,groveling ghouls of pallid complexions,feel free to baske in my divine presence. My name is of unparalleled elegance, and only you few outrageously fortunate(and my pitiful pitiful neighbors) are bestowed with the knowledge that it is Pylar, THE Pylar . Of course you may be slightly steamed at my well deserved fortune skill, and wit. Why, there are those who even chose to proclaim that i am not as pure and superior as I am, audaciously daring to "knock me own a few notches". But, someone of my prestige and charm does not have time to excuse them for their misguided beliefs, as even now, those who do not recognize me as the one who humiliates, eviscerates and assimilates however acute my whim is are already doomed.
Pylar wrote:those who do not recognize me as the one who humiliates, eviscerates and assimilates however acute my whim is are already doomed
How does one eviscerate and then assimilate? That doesn't make any sense. Aren't people easier to assimilate before their bowels have been removed?
If you downed a six pack your whim might be less acute. Does your "whim" manifest itself as a severe pain somewhere on your person, or is it more a case of pure emotion, like bloodlust?
Say, you weren't "Antigone" in a past life were you? Your style sounds awful familiar.
Pylar wrote:Greetings sniveling,groveling ghouls of pallid complexions...
Well, I've read some of your other posts, and you don't appear to be anyone we've met before.
Just some random kid.
Oh well, God knows how you found this site, but your comments look to be fairly predictable and dull. I think I'll just hit IGNORE now and let Earl and Fat Man welcome you to the site.
Well, you got to admit, Pylar does have a rather extensive vocabulary, which can be quit admirable, unlike the monosyllable three word sentences posted by most imbecilic sports fans or jocks!
Really! I'm impressed!
I have to admit, that I do admire his ability to string together so many colorful adjectives.
Even though he is an equine posterior!
I'm fat and sassy! I love to sing & dance & stomp my feet & really rock your world!
All I want to hear from an ex-jock is "Will that be paper or plastic?" After that he can shut the fuck up!
Heah comes da judge! Heah comes da judge! Order in da court 'cuz heah comes da judge!
I suspected he was a spammer at first, because I've known a few of them to take a rather "high" tone in their posts before, trying to sound all grand and eloquent to perhaps take people's minds off their true purposes. Not to mention the fact he didn't make a single comment on the actual forum ideology. I was beginning to ask myself "Where are the links?" before I noticed he'd done more than one post and went to go and check his other ones around the forum. I see I was wrong there. I don't think Pylar, whoever he is, actually meant what he said in the content of his first paragraph. I believe he was trying to point out the fact that he disliked people who were like that, as is emphasised in the second part of his post. Well, whoever he is, pro-sports or anti-sports like ourselves, he makes a favourable alternative to the bloody spammers (another one of which has hit the forum just before I signed in). So welcome, Pylar.
i_like_1981 wrote:whoever he is, pro-sports or anti-sports like ourselves, he makes a favourable alternative to the bloody spammers (another one of which has hit the forum just before I signed in). So welcome, Pylar.
I agree.
Yes, by all means, let's give the new person the benefit of the doubt.
The joke about horse-racing and politics had nothing to do with Pylar, anyway.
Welcome, Pylar.
(I have to admit, the person does have a decent vocabulary. What's good enough for Fat Man ought to be good enough for me.)
Great website! Let me start off by saying a few things. First, I don't hate sports (I like watching NFL, and I'll watch all of the big four local pro teams), but sports are very very far from being my main interest. I like watching games, but sports talk shows, and sports shows in general for that matter, are about as interesting to me as watching paint dry. And fantasy sports are one of the dumbest, most pointless things any idiot has ever dreamed up. I don't know why, but for some reason it irritates me that following sports is the most important thing for almost every guy I know. I live in Boston, in the USA, which is probably the sports capital of the world in terms of percentage of sports fanatics and how fanatic people are about sports. And guess what? My roommate is even an above average sports fan compared to the typical Boston sports guy. So, I often have no choice but to talk sports with him, and sometimes he'll laugh at my "lack of knowledge," which pisses me off. I have better things to do than memorizing stats and closely keeping track of possible trades and other trivial sports bullshit! I don't waste my time watching ESPN sports shows or listening to sports radio. I generally agree with the sentiment of this site, as I too am annoyed that sports are so grotesquely overvalued and overemphasized in this society (especially here in the USA).
One small thing I might disagree with is doing away with mandatory PE in schools. But let me explain. I think it is good to teach kids to exercise and keep in shape from a young age onwards. HOWEVER, they MUST have the option to choose what they do to keep in shape, and amongst the choices must be several non-competitive options. For instance, while others are playing basketball or whatnot, they should be able to opt to jog, ride a bike, lift weights, etc. for 30-40 minutes, or however long the PE session is. Exercise is important for health reasons, and one feels better overall when one exercises. I myself am a fanatic gym rat. I've been lifting weights since I was 13 years old (I'm 33 now), and can't imagine living without it, since it's such a great outlet for my frustration and anger, and it makes me feel good overall. Whenever it gets super busy at work, and I don't have time to exercise for several days, I get more irritable, I don't sleep as well, and I feel like I have less energy. In a nutshell, I think exercise is important, and should be encouraged at an early age, though non-competitive options must be available.
I'm glad this site exists, and I'm glad that there are others out there besides me who are annoyed at the immensely disproportionate importance placed on sports.
I am not a message board guy, so I won't be posting, but I tried to send a letter, and that didn't work, so I'm posting what I had to say here. Keep up the good work! Thanks.
I Hate Stats Junkies wrote:sports are very very far from being my main interest.
Good.
And fantasy sports are one of the dumbest, most pointless things any idiot has ever dreamed up.
They are indeed. I actually used to love all the numbers involved in sports, but only in the context of actual competitions where they meant something. I always thought it was cool when a guy would run for 200 yards in a football game, but I never CHEERED for it to happen rather than cheering for my team to win. To fantasy geeks, only freak statistical anomalies are important, and it distracts them to the point where they no longer care about the outcome of games. Sports are, in my view, a pointless distraction, but fantasy sports are a distraction FROM a distraction. Thus, they are doubly stupid.
Setting lines for Vegas on the other hand ... would totally ROCK ! It would be like running a damn casino.
I don't know why, but for some reason it irritates me that following sports is the most important thing for almost every guy I know.
Maybe ... because it keeps those guys from getting somewhere in life?
One small thing I might disagree with is doing away with mandatory PE in schools. But let me explain. I think it is good to teach kids to exercise and keep in shape from a young age onwards. HOWEVER, they MUST have the option to choose what they do to keep in shape, and amongst the choices must be several non-competitive options. For instance, while others are playing basketball or whatnot, they should be able to opt to jog, ride a bike, lift weights, etc. for 30-40 minutes, or however long the PE session is. Exercise is important for health reasons, and one feels better overall when one exercises. I myself am a fanatic gym rat. I've been lifting weights since I was 13 years old (I'm 33 now), and can't imagine living without it, since it's such a great outlet for my frustration and anger, and it makes me feel good overall. Whenever it gets super busy at work, and I don't have time to exercise for several days, I get more irritable, I don't sleep as well, and I feel like I have less energy. In a nutshell, I think exercise is important, and should be encouraged at an early age, though non-competitive options must be available.
Oh don't worry. Earl will now appear and tell you that you actually agree with him 100% and just don't realise it yet.
I'm glad this site exists, and I'm glad that there are others out there besides me who are annoyed at the immensely disproportionate importance placed on sports. I am not a message board guy, so I won't be posting, but I tried to send a letter, and that didn't work, so I'm posting what I had to say here. Keep up the good work! Thanks.
You're welcome. Hopefully Fat Man will realise at this point that you are an *ally* of this site and not attack you.
Welcome to the forum, I Hate Stats Junkies. I understand that you have indicated in your post that you won't be posting again (at least for now, anyway) but anyways, I like seeing new members round here who AREN'T spammers.
One small thing I might disagree with is doing away with mandatory PE in schools. But let me explain. I think it is good to teach kids to exercise and keep in shape from a young age onwards. HOWEVER, they MUST have the option to choose what they do to keep in shape, and amongst the choices must be several non-competitive options.
This is exactly what I think, and also what one of the forum moderators thinks. PE really is in need of a reform. I would never say do away with it completely and make school focus only on academic subjects, because then some people would never get exercise. But I may go so far as to make PE an optional subject, and those who want to play sports and get fit can, whereas those who want to concentrate on school work will have free periods to do so. However, that will also mean there are several students not doing any exercise in school. The most realistic and beneficial option is, as you said, to allow students a choice as to what they do with their PE sessions - play competitive sports, or build up their fitness in a less competitive and more supportive environment. There will be some students who do want to play competitive sports in their PE lessons, and they should be allowed that, but there is nothing to gain by throwing non-athletic students into a football or rugby game with a load of people who will probably pick on them. That most likely contributes to students becoming unfit in later life, and this is an issue that schools both in the USA and over here in my country, the UK, need to address.
Well, that's all I'll say for now. If you don't return, good luck with life, and if you do, I shall hope to hear more from you.
Welcome to the forum, I Hate Stats Junkie. I'm also a gym rat, although I've been lifting weights for only about two and a half years; but I've gone to the trouble of hiring a personal trainer at a local 24 Hour Fitness health club. I agree with you about the benefits of exercising. So I won't have to repeat myself and bore the other longtime members, please find the topic entitled "Anti-sports movie accepted into D.I.F.F., nominated for MFA" (also in the "Sports Suck!" forum) and scroll down the first page and read the last lengthy post on that page, which was submitted by me. I've gone into detail in that post concerning P.E., and I copied and pasted an online article about an excellent program that should be adopted nationwide. Best regards.
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -- Oscar Wilde
One more thing I feel strongly about that I forgot to mention. Even though phys ed (with an abundance of non-competitive options) should still be mandatory, school sports teams should DEFINITELY be done away with. And I feel this way for various reasons. First of all, it creates absurd social hierarchies within schools (a jock-ocracy, if you will). Since athletic ability is valued above all else in our backwards society (a fact that makes my blood boil just thinking about it) the jocks are always the most popular guys in the school, revered by all their mindless, herd-mentality classmates. If sports teams and school were separated, the problem would probably still be present to some extent, but it would not be nearly as pronounced as it currently is. Both of my parents hail from the same European country, and I have a lot of friends and family in the said country. In this country, the schools do not have teams, and students play soccer in leagues completely separate from school. Often a good amount of the "popular" kids are athletes, but that is more because of the confidence sports build, and the fact that for some reason, people who are good athletes usually tend to have very good social skills (which may go hand in hand with the confidence built up by sports). So while the athletes are usually "popular," there are many non-jocks that are liked and respected as well, and the schools are not ruled by jocks. Another factor may be that in this country, beyond fourth grade (I think) the students split into different schools. The smart ones may go on to a school that prepares them for college, and the others either can go to trade school, or get a general education. And I think that many of the "jocks" opt for one of the latter two. But this is getting off topic. My main point is that they should do away with high school sports teams.
I'm fat and sassy! I love to sing & dance & stomp my feet & really rock your world!
