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The best part of that Mein Kampf thread is Travis McGee using it to hock his own work.
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quote:Try reading a couple of chapters substituting “white male” for “Jew”. I promise you an eerily familiar experience.
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Jan 10, 2014 08:13
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quote:personification of the wimpification Nice work freeper.
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Jan 10, 2014 08:20
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Ocrassus posted:These guys must frickin love Rugby then. No armour, dudes are stacked and literally wrestle the ball off each other.  Seriously though, I would contend that if the USA was in the world cup of football or rugby, FReepers would be beating their chests proudly singing the praises of how awesome the sport is.
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Jan 10, 2014 08:34
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kik2dagroin posted:Much like with soccer, the USA team is terrible at it. Thus it is a sissy sport for faggots that are unworthy of America's contributions to global spectator sports the US is ranked 14th in the world in soccer and has qualified for every world cup since 1990. so im not seeing your point.
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Jan 10, 2014 08:36
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Your Weird Uncle posted:the US is ranked 14th in the world in soccer and has qualified for every world cup since 1990. so im not seeing your point.
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Jan 10, 2014 08:41
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EDIT: ^^^^^ Your Weird Uncle posted:the US is ranked 14th in the world in soccer and has qualified for every world cup since 1990. so im not seeing your point.
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Jan 10, 2014 08:47
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Your Weird Uncle posted:the US is ranked 14th in the world in soccer and has qualified for every world cup since 1990. so im not seeing your point. Also there's women's soccer, but almost nobody seems to think any women's sport counts for anything. I think there's tennis and that's pretty much it.
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Jan 10, 2014 08:50
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cafel posted:Also there's women's soccer, but almost nobody seems to think any women's sport counts for anything. I think there's tennis and that's pretty much it.
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Jan 10, 2014 08:52
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deep space nein posted:America's obsession with "manly" sports results in 6th graders playing through concussions and at least one highschooler/college player a year dying of dehydration because if they're not literally near death in practice they obviously don't want it bad enough. The NFL might be the most brutal because of the size and speed involved but its plain sadistic to watch a 5' tall kid be screamed at to run head first into someone twice his size for the glory of a last place junior high school. Soccer and Rugby are frequently even more brutal than those sports so I'm not exactly sure why you think this is an American only thing.
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Jan 10, 2014 08:59
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RagnarokAngel posted:Soccer and Rugby are frequently even more brutal than those sports so I'm not exactly sure why you think this is an American only thing.
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Jan 10, 2014 09:14
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RagnarokAngel posted:Soccer and Rugby are frequently even more brutal than those sports so I'm not exactly sure why you think this is an American only thing. I'm not trying to get into some kind of 'brutal off', because it manages to be even stupider than masturbatory 'which is better' arguments, but American football is consistently found to have a far higher rate of injury than pretty much any other sport.  I would definitely encourage parents to think about it a little before putting their kids into a league. edit: figure from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1941297/
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Jan 10, 2014 09:15
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RagnarokAngel posted:Soccer and Rugby are frequently even more brutal than those sports so I'm not exactly sure why you think this is an American only thing. Wikipedia posted:Shelford made his Test debut for the All Blacks later that year against France in a 19–7 victory in Toulouse, and then was a notable victim of the infamous "Battle of Nantes" in the second Test. Roughly 20 minutes into the match, he was caught at the bottom of a rather aggressive ruck, and an errant French boot found its way into Shelford's groin, somehow ripping his scrotum and leaving one testicle hanging free. He also lost four teeth in the process. Incredibly, after discovering the injury to his scrotum, he calmly asked the physio to stitch up the tear and returned to the field before a blow to his head left him concussed. Nessus posted:Do school rugby teams become primary profit/scandal centers for foreign schools?
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Jan 10, 2014 09:18
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Zeroisanumber posted:It's a boring book written by a limited mind. And yes, I own a copy. Oh, so do I; it was just funny seeing them try to pin it on everyone else as something nefarious. Just a book, and an important one at that, though not terribly interesting. No shame in owning or reading a book, even a bad one like that if there's something good to be gained from it.
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Jan 10, 2014 09:28
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As far as least-safe sports go, I think hurling looks the most dangerous.
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Jan 10, 2014 09:33
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baw posted:As far as least-safe sports go, I think hurling looks the most dangerous. My mind misinterpreted "hurling" as "curling" for a second and I had a pretty decent  moment there.
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Jan 10, 2014 10:59
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ReidRansom posted:Oh, so do I; it was just funny seeing them try to pin it on everyone else as something nefarious. Just a book, and an important one at that, though not terribly interesting. No shame in owning or reading a book, even a bad one like that if there's something good to be gained from it. The key difference is that we acknowledge the possibility of reading a book without agreeing with it. As far as Freep is concerned, so much as looking at a copy of "Rules for Radicals" makes one an Alinsky disciple. e: drat typos IrritationX fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jan 11, 2014 |
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Jan 10, 2014 11:38
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IrritationX posted:The key difference is that we acknowledge the possibility of reading a book without agreeing with it. As far as Freep is concerned, so much as looking at a copy of "Rukes for Radicals" makes one an Alinsky disciple.
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Jan 10, 2014 11:39
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But first, what does Rush have to say about it?
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Jan 10, 2014 11:50
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cafel posted:I'm not trying to get into some kind of 'brutal off', because it manages to be even stupider than masturbatory 'which is better' arguments, but American football is consistently found to have a far higher rate of injury than pretty much any other sport. 'American football is consistently found to have a higher injury rate in america.' Seriously, you guys don't even play it much, so you can't really balance the statistics like that.
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Jan 10, 2014 13:16
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TetsuoTW posted:Why would you read anything that didn't reinforce your own beliefs and ridicule your enemies? Reading and quoting specific bits of mein Kampf at neo nazis actually becomes a very useful tool for ridiculing them. It's even better when they start frothing at the mouth and accusing you of being the real racist and genocidal.
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Jan 10, 2014 13:18
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cafel posted:Well small if you only count white people.
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Jan 10, 2014 13:51
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If there's one thing hate-reading freep has taught me... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3109814/posts quote:Welcome to Obama’s Department of Justice. The inmates are running the asylum ...it's that the teabaggers hate black people. I mean they hate black people. They really, really, really hate black people. There is probably some way you could theoretically overemphasize the importance of the tea party's hatred of black people in their response to cultural changes and government policies, but you'd have to work really hard to do so. quote:To: Dqban22  hates latinos and gays and Muslims and liberals and lots of other groups too, but none of those hatreds forms such an important part of their identity as does their hatred of black people.
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Jan 10, 2014 14:07
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It's gotta be exhausting to hate so many people.
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Jan 10, 2014 14:56
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PUGGERNAUT posted:It's gotta be exhausting to hate so many people. I think you will find that hating all freepers is actually quite invigorating.
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Jan 10, 2014 15:18
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baw posted:As far as least-safe sports go, I think hurling looks the most dangerous. Changing the rules to require face guard helmets was probably a good idea. I spent two seasons thinking "well, I guess the helmet is good just in case", and then took a vertical axe-chop to the face and was profoundly glad I had a faceguard. It's rambunctious, but not ridiculous. There's no tackling, you can't deliberately hit someone with a stick or perpindiculalry slash another's stick, and it partially avoids huge pile-ups because the field is way bigger than a soccer field and you can slang the ball so far that people need to spread out a lot to cover the to field. If any unguarded guy gets a free second with the ball within 50m of the goal, he's just going to slam it way out and over the crossbar for an unblockable 1-pointer, so covering all men on your side is key. Plus there's no offsides in Irish sports, so the "forwards" are literally up chilling by the goal while folks are scrapping for the ball at midfield. In several seasons of playing hurling, I've never had or seen any bad injuries in my local pickup league, whereas when we play Gaelic football (same basic game as hurling but with a volleyball and hands instead of baseball and stick) I've badly jacked tendons in y hand once and ankle once, and seen a few other bad injuries like ACL tear and one guy getting a finger kicked so it bent back across the back of his hand. I 'm unsure whether the Freep attitude towards hurling would be some kind of Plastic Paddy Irish pride thing and snide comments about this is why the Brits lost Ireland, or whether it'd be "weird heathen Eurotrash sport, why don't they play a normal game with actual popularity like baseball?" Do Freepers hate lacrosse for being too preppie or too Injun, or like it for being America-born and violent? Or do they assume it's a girl- game like field hockey?
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Jan 10, 2014 15:34
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PUGGERNAUT posted:It's gotta be exhausting to hate so many people. When you're life is poo poo, it's consoling to think that you're still better than someone.
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Jan 10, 2014 15:39
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Lizzie Velasquez, Labeled ‘World’s Ugliest Woman,’ Becomes Motivational Speaker (Video) quote:To: Responsibility2nd quote:To: Responsibility2nd quote:To: Responsibility2nd Deeply ugly on the inside or naturally repulsed by FReepers. You decide! quote:To: Responsibility2nd
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Jan 10, 2014 17:40
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Changing the rules to require face guard helmets was probably a good idea. I spent two seasons thinking "well, I guess the helmet is good just in case", and then took a vertical axe-chop to the face and was profoundly glad I had a faceguard. Sweet thanks for all the info, I was just basing my assessment on a few highlights someone showed me.
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Jan 10, 2014 17:55
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StarPilot87 posted:Instead they have things like the Super Bowl and Stanley Cup to crown "International Champions" of sports that most of the world doesn't care about. NHL is an exception. Most of northern hemisphere cares about it and it is popular in Russia, Canada, nordic countries, baltic countries and some balkans. This is also correlated by the amout of players that are outside of North America. In addition, most of the players play olympics and world cups in their nation teams and while both Americans and Canadians do well in those, it's often that Czech, Russians, Swedes or Fins top the rankings.
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Jan 10, 2014 21:31
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kik2dagroin posted:The US has to actually beat everyone else in the world for them to give a poo poo. That's why the World Series is the true sport of manliness. The USA wins every single time  
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Jan 11, 2014 02:48
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VitalSigns posted:That's why the World Series is the true sport of manliness. The USA wins every single time Well, Canada did twice. 
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Jan 11, 2014 02:57
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VitalSigns posted:That's why the World Series is the true sport of manliness. The USA wins every single time Except when the Blue Jays won two years running in 1992-93.
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Jan 11, 2014 03:09
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Georgia Peach posted:Well, Canada did twice. Zeroisanumber posted:Except when the Blue Jays won two years running in 1992-93. Hey, if you think I can't combine ignorance with jingoism in the freep thread, then have I got a lesson for you!
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Jan 11, 2014 03:14
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Zeroisanumber posted:Except when the Blue Jays won two years running in 1992-93. Ouch. My childhood. Joe Carter is a bad bad man.
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Jan 11, 2014 03:28
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VitalSigns posted:Hey, if you think I can't combine ignorance with jingoism in the freep thread, then have I got a lesson for you! Canada's just America's top hat, so you're still right!
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Jan 11, 2014 03:30
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Afraid of Audio posted:Canada's just America's top hat, so you're still right! Are you sure Toronto isn't in Michigan?
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Jan 11, 2014 03:32
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Georgia Peach posted:Well, Canada did twice.
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Jan 11, 2014 04:31
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God, at least the GOP thread has food derails. Sports derails are the worst.
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Wolfsheim posted:God, at least the GOP thread has food derails. Sports derails are the worst. You should hang out in the sports forums more, food derails are common. 
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