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xcore posted:Yeah, it's clearly apparant that things are done a lot differently in the US. I don't think it's an accident that we pulled all of those events to our city though, we worked very hard to accomplish that. If your aussie football team or whatever the gently caress you guys play said we're moving to a new city would they have an option of a place to go?
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Veskit posted:If your aussie football team or whatever the gently caress you guys play said we're moving to a new city would they have an option of a place to go? gently caress with us, and we're moving to Broome!
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Veskit posted:If your aussie football team or whatever the gently caress you guys play said we're moving to a new city would they have an option of a place to go? Hey now they have like 3 actual cities! I think one of them is only accessible by air though.
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xcore posted:Yeah, it's clearly apparant that things are done a lot differently in the US. I don't think it's an accident that we pulled all of those events to our city though, we worked very hard to accomplish that. It kinda seems like a Walmart-like situation in the US, where cities are willing to sign a deal that absolutely fucks them for a chance to get a lot of revenue as a result of being noticed by the big guys. Then, if it turns out that a poo poo deal is in fact a poo poo deal and they make little / no / negative money on it, they don't want to let it go, because what will happen to the city if this big presence that brings in tourism and provides jobs were to galt itself away? After all, there are limitless nowheresvilles they could relocate to that will gladly throw money at them, and things will be worse for us than they were before! It doesn't really make sense to me, but the way it ends up is 1) rich people get richer and 2) gently caress you. IRQ posted:Does much time really need to be spent shaming the cursed denizens of Jackshitville? They all know the overwhelmingly crushing shame and despair of living there already, on top of living in Florida, which is already worse than anything but living in New Jersey. Hey, you gotta give Arizona some credit, that's a pretty impressive shithole in its own right. raditts fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Whoopi Goldberg doesn't believe the loving moon landing was real.  The overall episode kinda made me want to give Friday Night Lights another go, I know it's beloved, but like...urgh.
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VagueRant posted:Yeah, that montage was kinda heartbreaking. She's always seemed like a national treasure for the US. THIRTY FOR loving THIRTY
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raditts posted:It kinda seems like a Walmart-like situation in the US, You seem to perfectly capable of understanding how Wal-Mart brings jobs, traffic and economic development to communities. The only thing you can't seem to grasp is raditts posted:1) rich people get richer and 2) gently caress you. because maybe that's not the case? Maybe economic development, jobs and increased traffic to a community is a good thing, and the only thing communities lose is a little tax revenue on the front end in exchange for a whole lot of local benefit and community enrichment on the back end.
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Veskit posted:THIRTY June 17, 1994. Survive and Advance. The U & The U Part II. Broke. SURVIVE AND loving ADVANCE. Big Shot. You Don't Know Bo.
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Irish Joe posted:You seem to perfectly capable of understanding how Wal-Mart brings jobs, traffic and economic development to communities. The only thing you can't seem to grasp is Not when Walmart moves out and leave a giant, empty shell of a building that is useless to everyone else because the location is no longer economically viable to them and they've destroyed every other business in the area. Which it just so happens is also the case when sports teams peace out and leave the stadium they leeched millions to buy that nobody else has any use for. Case in point: http://www.viralforest.com/abandoned-pontiac-silverdome-detroit/ I know this could very well be you being you but I figured I'd give a legitimate response since you just left it out there like that.
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DivisionPost posted:June 17, 1994. Survive and Advance. The U & The U Part II. Broke. SURVIVE AND loving ADVANCE. Big Shot. You Don't Know Bo. OF MIRACLES FOR MEN BAD BOYS THAT lovely ONE WITH MARTINA NARVATOLOVA loving THE TWO ESCOBARS TWO ESCOBARS TWO MOTHERFUCKING ESCOBARS COME ON Also that really sad one where all the soccer fans died
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WHICH ONE OF YOU MONSTERS DOESN"T WANT TO SHED A TEAR WHEN KURT RUSSEL DOES HERB BROOKS SPEECH COME THE gently caress ON COME ON
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thirty for thirty....*tents fingers*....owns but FNL owns harder and if you don't "get" why sports are important or positive influences on their communities in their purest sense after watching it, well
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Toxxupation posted:thirty for thirty....*tents fingers*....owns Counterpoint: The city of Philadelphia
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Toxxupation posted:thirty for thirty....*tents fingers*....owns I couldn't get past season 2 it got too loving much about pregnancies and bad high school romance but that first loving season man.
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Toxxupation posted:but FNL owns harder and if you don't "get" why sports are important or positive influences on their communities in their purest sense after watching it, well You could also read the book and see how they can be a harmful influence.
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Veskit posted:I couldn't get past season 2 it got too loving much about pregnancies and bad high school romance but that first loving season man. season 2 is generally regarded as both the worst season of the show and one of the worst examples of "Terrible season of a fantastic show" personally speaking i find it better than 1 because 1 had the godawfu love triangle which just dominated everything and never knew how to write street but yeah watch FNL dudes, it...owns
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UNDEFEATED DOCUMENTARY WON BEST DOCUMENTARY FROM THE ACADEMY http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1860355/  Toxxupation posted:season 2 is generally regarded as both the worst season of the show and one of the worst examples of "Terrible season of a fantastic show" Can I just skip season 2?
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raditts posted:Counterpoint: The city of Philadelphia that's not fair since philly fans are the worst assholes of anything and i say that as a steelers fan
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Pony Excess was the best 30 for 30. At least the most interesting.
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Toxxupation posted:that's not fair since philly fans are the worst assholes of anything and i say that as a steelers fan The City of Brotherly Love, in the sense of how brothers beat each other up, steal each other's stuff, and drink each other's booze.
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Guys what I'm saying is that if sports documentaries that are phenomenal can't move your heart then you have no loving soul. CLEAR EYES FULL HEARTS
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Veskit posted:CLEAR EYES Might lose? 
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Veskit posted:WHAT WAS THE SUPER COMPELLING ONE ABOUT THE TWO RUSSIANS WHO GO PLAY AMERICAN BASKETBALL AND THAT ONE DUDE GETS TO loving PLAY WITH KOBE AND SHAQ This is already boring me.
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Veskit posted:WHAT WAS THE SUPER COMPELLING ONE ABOUT THE TWO RUSSIANS WHO GO PLAY AMERICAN BASKETBALL AND THAT ONE DUDE GETS TO loving PLAY WITH KOBE AND SHAQ ZzzZzzZzZzzz.... phffhtwhat, did you say something Veskit? I suddenly felt overwhelmingly sleepy there for some reason.
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https://vimeo.com/36827025 BLOW YOUR loving MINDS WITH SPORTS.
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Toxxupation posted:but FNL owns harder and if you don't "get" why sports are important or positive influences on their communities in their purest sense after watching it, well Actually, I get kind of the opposite lesson from Friday Night Lights; despite the efforts of a good man, sports are a poisonous thing that damages the community and undermines everything.
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Veskit posted:Guys what I'm saying is that if sports documentaries that are phenomenal can't move your heart then you have no loving soul. Then I have no soul. I can totally get getting wrapped up in a team sport. I was a high school and college athlete. There were also a few other team actives outside of sports that I was involved with as well. So, I did the whole emotional roller coaster of striving for a goal, winning and losing, catching bad and lucky breaks, and working together and everything. I can also understand getting emotionally involved in a narrative. That said, spectating professional sports does jack loving poo poo for me. Completely and totally nothing. I give less than two shits about what some billionaire owner does with his team of athletic supermen. I cannot get invested in that on an emotional level. At all. It just doesn't work for me.
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CAN I INTEREST YOU IN A SERIES OF SPORTS DOCUMENTARIES THAT ARE ENGINEERED TO BE AS EMOTIONAL AS IS POSSIBLE
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Veskit posted:https://vimeo.com/36827025 *ISIS video* blow your mind with radicalized islam Veskit! See, because I think you're absolutely not interested in that in any way, so obviously GET INTO IT MAN ALL CAPS
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I liked this thread better before the sports-apologos ran up in here, when we were just blabbering about ways to classify people's diddling prefs.
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What the gently caress is up with the idiot all-caps posting up in here
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Back in 2001, Keith Law a former front office guy and pretty well known baseball writer wrote a great column on how funding sports stadiums with public dollars is a terrible deal for cities and municipalities. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=975
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It's weird watching from outside the US because the response to a team saying 'build us a stadium or we'll move' would be utter laughter. Spurs are building a stadium in the middle of London and have to finance, develop, commit arson, and build it themselves. Which is why the London franchise of the NFL will probably play there as well.
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Echo Chamber posted:Looks like Whoopi is backpedaling on her Cosby defense. Kinda hard to maintain it after that deposition came out.
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Our long national nightmare is finally over.
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