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RFC2324 posted:I was going to mention that, with just a few exceptions, sports fans are pretty happy to explain poo poo to you if you just ask. Yeah, but then you have to, like, interact with another human being, and that poo poo's hard.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Yeah, but then you have to, like, interact with another human being, and that poo poo's hard. Aren't you already interacting with them if you are having to deal with them going on about the superbowl?
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RFC2324 posted:Aren't you already interacting with them if you are having to deal with them going on about the superbowl? Seeing memes about football on Twitter and Facebook is really stressful guys.
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To top that off, no one should be getting annoyed when it's the "season finale" of a sport on TV like the Super Bowl. I get somewhat annoyed when it's not one of those and a lot of my friends just post an athlete's name with varying amounts of extraneous exclamation marks, like the other day when everyone was posting "Cespedes!!!!" (I live in NY). But you know what? Other people's Facebook posts aren't geared to what I personally like. I move on with my day.
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cash crab posted:He told me that some guys at work were talking about sports and one of his coworkers very sincerely called him a "loving human being" after my brother said he was more interested in Star Wars than professional sports, so maybe it's dependent on how aggressive other people are about knowing those sorts of things. I imagine they called him that less because he wasn't interested in sports and more because he specifically mentioned being more interested in Star Wars. Like, even if someone is more interested in Star Wars than sports, why in the world would you inform random people of that fact? Normal people would just say "nah I'm not that into football/sports."
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Feb 8, 2016 19:24
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I haven't seen anyone talk about football at all this year, it's really kind of weird.
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Ytlaya posted:I imagine they called him that less because he wasn't interested in sports and more because he specifically mentioned being more interested in Star Wars. Like, even if someone is more interested in Star Wars than sports, why in the world would you inform random people of that fact? Normal people would just say "nah I'm not that into football/sports." That's still a really dumb reason to call someone a human being.
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Henchman of Santa posted:That's still a really dumb reason to call someone a human being. Is there any reason that's not dumb after age 13?
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Henchman of Santa posted:That's still a really dumb reason to call someone a human being. There's really no good reason to do it!
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Brawnfire posted:Weirdly enough, the one guy who tried to talk about football at work was met with a wall of "oh uh I dunno sry" but the topic of Star Wars kept up for a month after the film's release. I always confuse people at work when sports comes up, tbh. I sit and listen intently like I know what they are saying(I actually have a fair amount of knowledge, growing up with 2 football player stepbrothers) but when anything is directed at me I give a response along the lines 'I dunno about sportsball!' Calling hockey sportsball drives hockey fans even more nuts than it does football players, as a side note.
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You could just say "I'm not really a sports fan, sorry"
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RFC2324 posted:I always confuse people at work when sports comes up, tbh. I sit and listen intently like I know what they are saying(I actually have a fair amount of knowledge, growing up with 2 football player stepbrothers) but when anything is directed at me I give a response along the lines 'I dunno about sportsball!' It's you, you're the idiot in social
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zakharov posted:You could just say "I'm not really a sports fan, sorry" I could, but i actually am interested in listening. I also work with nerds, so they get that i am just joking around making fun of my own ignorance of the subject.
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Aesop Poprock posted:These are the type of people who feel proud of not watching sports like it's some counter culture thing at this point as opposed to a hobby or interest you just don't share with a lot of people.
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I'm in RFC's boat, where I can listen pretty patiently to someone speaking on sports, but anything outside of hockey I basically have to say "I don't really follow it, save for Philadelphia's teams, sort of". Most people don't mind, and it lets them talk about something they want to talk about. I usually expect the same sort of response if I talk about a TV show I like, because not everyone watches the same TV. It's just polite to listen sometimes.
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hyperhazard posted:You said it perfectly. I have a friend who's great to hang out with in every other way, but as soon as any team is mentioned, he always jumps in with "I don't do sports, so I don't know what you're talking about." Like the world is divided into People Who Like Sports and People Who Don't Like Sports. What gets me is just how rude that is. I know pretty much nothing about any sport, but my spouse, my sister and lots of my friends are various degrees of involved with following various sports teams. When they talk about it, they're polite to me by not dominating the conversation with something I'm not very interested in, and I'm polite by listening because they're excited and asking questions where I can. That's what you do when someone's passionate about something you don't personally care much about, if you're an adult who lives in a civil society. Why is this hard?! Edit: "Sportsball" is also rude. As dumb as it may seem to those of us who don't follow sports, people who do take them seriously and it's rude not to respect that. You know what the sport is called. Pretending to be more ignorant than you are is almost never clever. Dogfish has a new favorite as of 20:03 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:That's still a really dumb reason to call someone a human being. Oh absolutely (there's obviously never a good reason to use a slur like that), but it's a good reason to think "why the gently caress is this weirdo talking about star wars?" hyperhazard posted:You said it perfectly. I have a friend who's great to hang out with in every other way, but as soon as any team is mentioned, he always jumps in with "I don't do sports, so I don't know what you're talking about." Like the world is divided into People Who Like Sports and People Who Don't Like Sports. I think in some cases this might be a reaction to growing up/living in an environment where there's a high expectation of knowing about stuff like sports. My dad grew up in a very stereotypical southern/redneck small town, and he grew up into the sort of person who is insufferable in the exact way you describe. Like a big part of his sense of self is defined by an opposition to the sort of people he grew up around. Ytlaya has a new favorite as of 20:08 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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Ytlaya posted:I imagine they called him that less because he wasn't interested in sports and more because he specifically mentioned being more interested in Star Wars. Like, even if someone is more interested in Star Wars than sports, why in the world would you inform random people of that fact? Normal people would just say "nah I'm not that into football/sports." Yeah, I worded that weird. The conversation, as he relayed it to me, went something like: Coworker: "Hey, did you catch [game]?" Brother: "Oh, no, sorry. I'm not really into football, to be honest." C: "What? What the hell are you 'into'?" B: "Uhm, I don't know. Like, Star Wars and stuff." C: "loving human being." B: 
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Dogfish posted:What gets me is just how rude that is. I know pretty much nothing about any sport, but my spouse, my sister and lots of my friends are various degrees of involved with following various sports teams. When they talk about it, they're polite to me by not dominating the conversation with something I'm not very interested in, and I'm polite by listening because they're excited and asking questions where I can. That's what you do when someone's passionate about something you don't personally care much about, if you're an adult who lives in a civil society. Why is this hard?! Well I mean a lot of the "sportsball" people are probably used to people not giving a poo poo about their animes/vidya gaems/comics/whatever so it seems like a kind of sour grapes kind of thing. Like, "I don't care that these people think I'm dumb for liking this geek thing, they're dumb for liking this jock thing!" When the best solution is to just like your own thing independent of what jerks think, and maybe find something to enjoy about the other thing if you're unable to avoid it. (I personally can't much get into team sports, but football is a religion here, so I just enjoy watching people lose their poo poo over it and/or the players knocking each other over because ha ha man fall down funny.)
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Here are some comments on an NPR article about the Somali suicide bomber that managed to get only himself killed aboard an airplane.  
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TotalLossBrain posted:Here are some comments on an NPR article about the Somali suicide bomber that managed to get only himself killed aboard an airplane. Wasn't that on a Somali plane?
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Being automatically dismissive about something someone likes is easier than spending five minutes a week keeping track of a random team so you have something to talk to your coworkers and friends about when sportschat comes up, so I can see why wet blankets/the socially inept do it.
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Yes, the posters are discussing Somali immigrants to Michigan.
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IoSM: "Sportsball" is also rude
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Just only follow the Lions so whenever football comes up you can just say "Lions fan" and mime shooting yourself in the head with a handgun. This will never not be the appropriate response. EDIT: In fact you don't actually even need to follow them just pretend that you do and do that you will be correct 100% of the time.
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china bot posted:Public page, under an article about a female prison guard accused of rape Abuse of power is bad, HOWEVER
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Technical rape is the best rape.
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mng posted:Technical rape is the best rape. What if the prison guard was 15? Would they have raped each other and therefore it cancels out?
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If you use the term sportsball or dont like sports because you want to be special and just want to annoy people, you are dumb. If you dont care about sports and you can covey this in a normal way when asked, well done! You are a functioning human being. I thought this was pretty obvious, yet the last few pages made my eyes roll harder than some of the IoSMs that get posted.
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From the lady with the giant 420 forehead tattoo.  The weirdest SU fanart I've ever seen.
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Thatim posted:If you use the term sportsball or dont like sports because you want to be special and just want to annoy people, you are dumb. Yeah, but what if you like some sports and use the word sportsball anyway because 
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china bot posted:Public page, under an article about a female prison guard accused of rape Oh look, it's my favorite argument "You're not allowed to judge a rapist for the rape they committed unless you've never 'made a mistake' before in your life!"
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Parasol Prophet posted:Oh look, it's my favorite argument "You're not allowed to judge a rapist for the rape they committed unless you've never 'made a mistake' before in your life!" let he who is without sin slam the first ho
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J Miracle posted:Just only follow the Lions so whenever football comes up you can just say "Lions fan" and mime shooting yourself in the head with a handgun. This will never not be the appropriate response. Lifelong Lions fan here, can confirm
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Even if you don't follow the sport or know anything about it, it's possible to have a conversation with someone just to be polite: "Oh sorry man, I haven't been following [league]. There are too many games and I just lose track of where things go. How are [team] doing this year, anyway? Is that right? Well that sucks [n.b. it's never "good!"]. I'm sorry to hear it. Did you get to see any games live?"
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Here we are at the internet make-fun forums, providing instruktion on how to be polite when discussing football e: genuinely excited for International Sportsball in December china bot has a new favorite as of 22:18 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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CommonShore posted:Even if you don't follow the sport or know anything about it, it's possible to have a conversation with someone just to be polite: Yeah that'll be satisfying for everyone
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