Not Everyone is a Brain-dead Sports Fan!
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Re-read mine.Fat Man wrote:Brigan please re-read my previous post.
I have done some more editing on it.
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I have!Brigan wrote:Re-read mine.Fat Man wrote:Brigan please re-read my previous post.
I have done some more editing on it.
OK?
Sorry but this is just silly, to get to the Terrorism Level it's a bit exagerated.Fat Man wrote: Sports has inspired acts of terrorism, just like some religions.
Chess, classical music, art, and science has not inspired such bullying! Why is that?
It's because these things appeal to our humanity.
Sports appeals to the primitive within us. Sports appeals to our animal instincts.
No, sports is no longer just games anymore.
Sports has because a dangerous religious cult.
No, I asked you something. I'm yet to see it answered.Fat Man wrote:I have!Brigan wrote:Re-read mine.Fat Man wrote:Brigan please re-read my previous post.
I have done some more editing on it.
OK?
Oh, you're good!Brigan wrote:I can certainly tell you not even Fatman is a judge, he's more like The Inquisitors of the Church.
And you're doing exactly the same thing.Fat Man wrote:Oh, you're good!Brigan wrote:I can certainly tell you not even Fatman is a judge, he's more like The Inquisitors of the Church.
Sports is also like an Inquisition.
When I went to school, back in the 1960s, if you didn't like sports, your masculinity was questioned. Your patriotism was questioned.
People who didn't like sports were automatically judged to pinkos, Commies, queers, and faggots.
Yeah! That sounds like an Inquisition to me!
Well, this reply will be waiting for you when you get up again.Brigan wrote:And you're doing exactly the same thing.Fat Man wrote:Oh, you're good!Brigan wrote:I can certainly tell you not even Fatman is a judge, he's more like The Inquisitors of the Church.
Sports is also like an Inquisition.
When I went to school, back in the 1960s, if you didn't like sports, your masculinity was questioned. Your patriotism was questioned.
People who didn't like sports were automatically judged to pinkos, Commies, queers, and faggots.
Yeah! That sounds like an Inquisition to me!
Now I'm off to bed.
That is a good question, because it hasn't always been this way. I bet if you thumbed through various old novels you would find guys who were into a variety of different hobbies. Back in the old days, no one sat around just passively watching sports, and not every member of the British upper classes went out on fox hunts, I'm sure. I think it was more normal for guys to be into music and dacing as aerobic exercise in those days.i_like_1981 wrote:Why is it considered so abnormal nowadays to not be interested in sports? I mean it, I've often had funny looks in my office and been left out of conversations for being vocal in my disinterest for sports. I just say that "I'm not bothered" and often, I am left aside....They are just a recreational activity and interest for some people. That is what they should be.
I wonder whether it has anything to do with religion, or whether rooting on one's team has replaced patriotism. I have heard many refer to sports as "a moral equivalent of war", and a corollary of that may be that not caring about the latest football results has replaced pacifism as a mark of effeminacy in our culture.i_like_1981 wrote: ...a lot of people consider them to be a social obligation which you have to like to be accepted by the majority. Who died and made sports God?
RF, you've hit on something that's been sort of an epiphany for me recently -- watching sports is one of the most passive activities there is. Think about it: nowadays every game broadcast has a little box or banner on the screen telling you the score, the time remaining, what down it is, what the ball-strike count is, etc. No need to exert any mental energy to keep track of these things on your own. Heck, you don't even have to form an opinion on what's happening -- the announcers are right there to tell you what a good or bad play or coaching decision you just saw!That is a good question, because it hasn't always been this way. I bet if you thumbed through various old novels you would find guys who were into a variety of different hobbies. Back in the old days, no one sat around just passively watching sports, and not every member of the British upper classes went out on fox hunts, I'm sure. I think it was more normal for guys to be into music and dacing as aerobic exercise in those days.
It's ironic that sports would be be considered "patriotic", seeing as they create artificial animosity between groups of people from different cities, states, or even neighborhoods in the case of some school sports. Of course, the fans will tell you "it's all in good fun, blah blah blah", but it still seems like people use up a lot of mental and emotional energy hating on some team of people they've never met. Sports, it seems, divides people more than it brings them together.I wonder whether it has anything to do with religion, or whether rooting on one's team has replaced patriotism. I have heard many refer to sports as "a moral equivalent of war", and a corollary of that may be that not caring about the latest football results has replaced pacifism as a mark of effeminacy in our culture.
What's my bullshit again? Quote me.Fat Man wrote: And I'm calling you out on your bullshit!
Well, it's been this way for as long as I can remember, and certainly longer than I've been alive. I once watched a film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, which was originally written in the mid-1920s, and one line I could remember is when an older bloke gets up from a table to leave and says something like "You young people have got your sports to talk about..." - there was definitely a mention of sports in there somewhere. I know for a fact that soccer has been a popular pastime here in Britain since the late 19th century. So sports have been popular for a long time. And to think that idiot JIM said that all they did back in the old times was "read boring books" and play games like "kick a can". He's even more sports-ignorant than I am, and THAT'S saying something!recovering_fan wrote:That is a good question, because it hasn't always been this way. I bet if you thumbed through various old novels you would find guys who were into a variety of different hobbies.
I think that depends on who watches which games, I can say Golf is pretty much boring :l, but hey that's me, I hope my team scores when I watch a soccer game, If there's a soccer game that has nothing to do with my team. I simply don't watch it.ChrisOH wrote:RF, you've hit on something that's been sort of an epiphany for me recently -- watching sports is one of the most passive activities there is. Think about it: nowadays every game broadcast has a little box or banner on the screen telling you the score, the time remaining, what down it is, what the ball-strike count is, etc. No need to exert any mental energy to keep track of these things on your own. Heck, you don't even have to form an opinion on what's happening -- the announcers are right there to tell you what a good or bad play or coaching decision you just saw!
anything can have groups depending on where they come from, not only sports. and like in every competition there's rivalry. but Sportfans/Sportsmans globalize a large group of people. It's safe to say it's bigger than anything else, Sadly that could be why it holds more of those Barbaric fans out there.ChrisOH wrote:It's ironic that sports would be be considered "patriotic", seeing as they create artificial animosity between groups of people from different cities, states, or even neighborhoods in the case of some school sports. Of course, the fans will tell you "it's all in good fun, blah blah blah", but it still seems like people use up a lot of mental and emotional energy hating on some team of people they've never met. Sports, it seems, divides people more than it brings them together.
OK, I'm just going to say this . . . . .Brigan wrote:What's my bullshit again? Quote me.Fat Man wrote: And I'm calling you out on your bullshit!
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Don't derail on the issue Fatman, Idunno has done nothing So I don't see why others people's action are related to him.