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RE: Get rid of sports
November 19, 2014 at 7:33 pm
(November 19, 2014 at 4:12 am)simplemoss Wrote: Sports sucks
Lol. You sound like a 10 year old who got his popsicle taken away.
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RE: Get rid of sports
November 19, 2014 at 7:35 pm
I love sports.
I used to play touch rugby (until I broke a finger), I surf, and I run.
I'll give almost any sport a try once - except cricket. I hate cricket.
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RE: Get rid of sports
November 19, 2014 at 8:15 pm
I like watching cricket clips on the TV immensely. During my St. Maarten cruise, the T-20 WC was happening, I think, and ESPN Carib. had it on. Great to watch, but way, WAY, too much lingo.
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RE: Get rid of sports
November 19, 2014 at 8:19 pm
I just can't get into cricket. Especially test matches. Five frigging days?
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RE: Get rid of sports
November 19, 2014 at 8:44 pm
(November 19, 2014 at 7:08 pm)professor Wrote: FAF, I was playing on the quote about religion being the opium of the people.
As Drama Queen commented, there are similarities to sports and religion.
There will be sports in Heaven along with other stuff people love to do.
It seems we were designed to overcome things and sports certainly fill the bill.
I gotta agree with you, Prof. My unwarranted passion for the Cleveland Browns, and my claim that "the Steelers suck", is about as close as I'll get to understanding a creationist making claims despite evidence to the contrary.
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RE: Get rid of sports
November 19, 2014 at 9:53 pm
(November 19, 2014 at 8:44 pm)Exian Wrote: I gotta agree with you, Prof. My unwarranted passion for the Cleveland Browns, and my claim that "the Steelers suck", is about as close as I'll get to understanding a creationist making claims despite evidence to the contrary.
Ahem....
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RE: Get rid of sports
November 19, 2014 at 10:00 pm
(November 19, 2014 at 9:53 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: (November 19, 2014 at 8:44 pm)Exian Wrote: I gotta agree with you, Prof. My unwarranted passion for the Cleveland Browns, and my claim that "the Steelers suck", is about as close as I'll get to understanding a creationist making claims despite evidence to the contrary.
Ahem....
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RE: Get rid of sports
November 19, 2014 at 10:20 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2014 at 10:20 pm by Tartarus Sauce.)
I think there is an underlying point hidden underneath the extremeism. Sports have a FUCKTON of money pumped into them; stadiums, contracts, advertising, advertising, advertising, did I mention the advertising? Professional athletes get paid absolute bank and are smothered with loads of undeserved adoration and attention. Sports is one of the many aspects the average layman indulges in to remain uneducated about the fundamental problems affecting society, an all too common symptom in our entertainment obsessed culture.
But to eradicate it entirely due to its hypercommericialized nature is absurd, just reduce its excesses.
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RE: Get rid of sports
November 19, 2014 at 10:36 pm
(November 19, 2014 at 9:53 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: (November 19, 2014 at 8:44 pm)Exian Wrote: I gotta agree with you, Prof. My unwarranted passion for the Cleveland Browns, and my claim that "the Steelers suck", is about as close as I'll get to understanding a creationist making claims despite evidence to the contrary.
Ahem....
That post is the closest I'll get to admitting the Steelers don't suck. I deny rings like a creationist denies the fossil record.
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RE: Get rid of sports
November 19, 2014 at 11:00 pm
Exian, do we have a difference of opinions on teams in play here?
The "Ahem" got my attention.
How can any one team be favored?
Aren't they all the same?
There are lots of franchises out there.
How do you know which one is for you?
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