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Edgar Allen Ho posted:If you’re counting literal criminality as part of “fandom” then nerds have plenty of blood on their hands too. Oh right because if you're not a sports fan you're a nerd, not just a normal person, gotcha. e: Sports fans are actually sports nerds, for any reasonable definition of nerd, by the by.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Yes but their motive is the fanaticism. There are no good fanatics. (Fan is literally short for fanatic you see.) Fair enough but there are a lot of extreme sports fans that channel that into building weird brett favre shrines in their basement or memorizing every statistic ever gathered instead of going on murderous rape sprees. I think the former are mostly ok, just weird.
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Sep 7, 2018 13:57
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Jerry Cotton posted:Oh right because if you're not a sports fan you're a nerd, not just a normal person, gotcha. The argument started with the premise that nerds are worse than the most enthusiastic sports fans. Nobody said those are the only two things.
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Sep 7, 2018 14:00
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Henchman of Santa posted:The argument started with the premise that nerds are worse than the most enthusiastic sports fans. Nobody said those are the only two things. not all nerds. Most nerds are reasonable enough to understand that other people like other things, and things they aren't interested in being extremely popular isn't somehow an attack on them. I mean specifically the nerds who get mad about sports
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Sep 7, 2018 14:16
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Football isn't a sport
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Sep 7, 2018 14:23
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:SA has given gun and ammo tips to at least one murderer 
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Sep 7, 2018 14:25
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Learning how to talk to people that like different things than you should be taught in elementary school. You'd think it would come naturally as you develop as a person, but sometimes it doesn't if people retreat into their own insulated little cliques.
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Sep 7, 2018 15:57
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:If you’re counting literal criminality as part of “fandom” then nerds have plenty of blood on their hands too. It was a Madden tournament though, so do we count him as a gamer or a sports fan?
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Sep 7, 2018 16:01
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Solice Kirsk posted:Learning how to talk to people that like different things than you should be taught in elementary school. You'd think it would come naturally as you develop as a person, but sometimes it doesn't if people retreat into their own insulated little cliques. I think a lot of it has to do with the increasing narcissism in American society, really.
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Sep 7, 2018 16:26
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docbeard posted:Football isn't a sport All four Footballs are sports.
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Sep 7, 2018 17:23
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CrRoMa posted:Boxing and mma are horrible and people who watch them have a real screw loose Boxing I'll grant you, some of the rules and the culture are really artificial and archaic but what's wrong with MMA?
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Sep 7, 2018 18:06
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American football is a better sport but world-football is more entertaining to watch. And less likely to cause debilitating injury.
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Sep 7, 2018 19:03
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American football is a barbaric sport that does hideous things to its players.
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Sep 7, 2018 19:08
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doverhog posted:Boxing I'll grant you, some of the rules and the culture are really artificial and archaic but what's wrong with MMA? I just strongly dislike both because of the violence involved, I don't get the enjoyment of watching 2 people physically beat up each other, if anything it makes me feel a bit nauseous my favourite sport is cricket though so make horses for courses
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Sep 7, 2018 19:10
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doverhog posted:Boxing I'll grant you, some of the rules and the culture are really artificial and archaic but what's wrong with MMA? the rules are what make boxing interesting, mma is just two dudes drooling, bleeding, and dry humping each other
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ToxicSlurpee posted:American football is a barbaric sport that does hideous things to its players. It is pretty wonderful, isn't it?
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CrRoMa posted:I just strongly dislike both because of the violence involved, I don't get the enjoyment of watching 2 people physically beat up each other, if anything it makes me feel a bit nauseous That's a valid feeling to have. hawowanlawow posted:the rules are what make boxing interesting, mma is just two dudes drooling, bleeding, and dry humping each other That's because a true contest of will and physical prowess can end up being about who can drool, bleed, and dry hump harder and longer. See also marathon runners making GBS threads while running, etc. *also sometimes it's two women, prize fighting isn't just for dudes anymore doverhog has a new favorite as of 19:37 on Sep 7, 2018 |
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Sep 7, 2018 19:29
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hawowanlawow posted:the rules are what make boxing interesting, mma is just two dudes drooling, bleeding, and dry humping each other Prude
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Sep 7, 2018 19:34
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I think all sports are dumb.
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doverhog posted:
No poo poo, that's why it sucks. That's like, what I said in my post
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sassassin posted:All four Footballs are sports. Soccer, union, league, and AFL?
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hawowanlawow posted:No poo poo, that's why it sucks. That's like, what I said in my post Yes, but I introduced the concept of a true honest contest, and thus flipped what you said on it's head. I guess you like wrestling, or soccer, or something like that. Dishonest, theatrical.
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doverhog posted:That's a valid feeling to have. Why does it have to be so close to "the line" though? I don't find watching them drool bleed and dry hump even if it takes more physical prowess and will to do that until you are unconscious or give up. If you're going to push it that far why even stop there (I mean, I know why they don't do it to the death obviously, but the push for more eXXXTREME seems kind of silly when there are still limitations)? Boxing to me is just more fun to watch (although most of the modern boxing matches I've watched have been pretty boring), because it's fighting without the super "extreme" pretensions.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Why does it have to be so close to "the line" though? I don't find watching them drool bleed and dry hump even if it takes more physical prowess and will to do that until you are unconscious or give up. If you're going to push it that far why even stop there (I mean, I know why they don't do it to the death obviously, but the push for more eXXXTREME seems kind of silly when there are still limitations)? Boxing to me is just more fun to watch (although most of the modern boxing matches I've watched have been pretty boring), because it's fighting without the super "extreme" pretensions. I don't actually accept the claim that MMA is drooling, bleeding and humping, but thought it would be more effective and less time consuming to just accept that point for the purposes of the post I was making. When you say boxing is more fun to watch, and then say modern boxing is boring, I take that to mean you don't follow boxing and saw it in a movie or something?
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I said the specific matches I saw were boring, not all of it. I will admit to liking movie boxing a lot more but real boxing can be fun too.
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I don't mind boxing but really dislike the rules, like the ref will separate a clinch so you can avoid a fight by just clinching all the time. In MMA if you clinch, you can be kneed or elbowed, or taken down, and the ref is not gonna stop it. doverhog has a new favorite as of 20:27 on Sep 7, 2018 |
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Sports are dumb because humans are supposed to be smart animals (and yes, we're animals. we dont have souls, kids  ). Humans are weak and slow and fragile compared to other animals, we have survived and prospered due to our intelligence and reasoning ability. So whats the point of sports if all the players are the weakest, slowest animals ever? You watch sports to watch the BEST. The strongest, the fastest, the toughest. Humans arent any of those things. LOL at dudes who lift weights hoping to get strong. You aint never gonna be as strong as a silverback gorilla or a grizzly bear, so stop embarressing yourself. Yeah, go ahead and do another set; see how that much that helps, you feeble bitch.
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Blue Star posted:Sports are dumb because humans are supposed to be smart animals (and yes, we're animals. we dont have souls, kids You fundamentally misunderstand the goal, the comparison is not to elephants, not gorillas, nor to eels either. It is to other humans, and ultimately to your best self. doverhog has a new favorite as of 21:24 on Sep 7, 2018 |
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I believe a full grown human man, trained from birth to fight bears, would be able to fight and defeat a bear.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I believe a full grown human man, trained from birth to fight bears, would be able to fight and defeat a bear. Does the human have a gun? Does the bear have a gun?
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Sep 7, 2018 21:38
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His best chance would be seduction, and to bring the bear over to his side.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I believe a full grown human man, trained from birth to fight bears, would be able to fight and defeat a bear. This is more of a hypothesis then an opinion. 
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:This is more of a hypothesis then an opinion. You're right. You go start adoption paperwork for an infant. I'll start breeding "fighting bears." A bright new future awaits us all!
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Are you gonna train the bear to seduce humans? That could make quite a crime fighting team.
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doverhog posted:Are you gonna train the bear to seduce humans? That could make quite a crime fighting team. it's been done 
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doverhog posted:Are you gonna train the bear to seduce humans? That could make quite a crime fighting team. Only if we can call it Bear Force One.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I believe a full grown human man, trained from birth to fight bears, would be able to fight and defeat a bear. i wanna say one of the first sa threads i ever read was about a goon's special optimism for 5 unarmed men triumphing over a grizzly bear in mortal combat - iirc other posters weren't so keen on it, they red texted him after the best scenario he came up with was where 4 men used the 5th man as a kind of living battering ram or 'nerd hammer' as he called it was it wrong to red text him? let the present judge the past
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what about that weird canadian book about the woman that fucks a bear i think its called 'bear'
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I think one trained man could defeat 100 cub bears at the same time. It will look like that Kill Bill scene.
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This is all very amusing but don't forget MMA and boxing are real sports.
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