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2015/10/01 02:14:00
Subject: US politician "America is not multicultural"
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The Conquerer
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
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 sebster wrote: Grey Templar wrote:Except baseball isn't boring. There is always something of consequence happening. Plus it can be described completely with audio as its more of a set piece where all the players are in designated locations.
Golf has a similar deal. You're trying to find the best swing angle and club to deal with the environmental hazards on the field. I don't find it enjoyable personally but I can see why someone would find it interesting. You can sort of participate by thinking what you would do.
Soccer on the other hand is a bunch of people running around kicking a ball back and forth, and maybe a couple times a game hitting it into a net.
Oh for God’s sake. It’s okay to sometimes admit that another person has a point. Don’t go inventing weird reasons for why some slow sports are okay and others are bad, especially when the best you can come up with is that baseball is okay because the audio is enough to understand the play, and that golf is okay because players can try to figure out what they’d do in that situation (as if that weren’t true of every single sport on earth).
Dude. This is all semantics. My reasons cannot be bad. You may not agree with them, but thats just your opinion. Thats why I find Soccer boring and those other sports not, or I at least can fathom why people like them. Soccer is an anathema to me.
I think you just enjoy putting me down and its getting annoying.
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
MURICA!!! IN SPESS!!! |
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2015/10/01 03:52:51
Subject: Re:US politician "America is not multicultural"
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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I think nearly all sports are pretty weak, but have to say that I find baseball especially boring. Maybe it's because my mom made me go to little league when I was a kid, but man - it's just so slow and uninteresting to me. At least football can be sort of interesting.
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2015/10/01 04:17:37
Subject: US politician "America is not multicultural"
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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Grey Templar wrote:Dude. This is all semantics. My reasons cannot be bad. You may not agree with them, but thats just your opinion. Thats why I find Soccer boring and those other sports not, or I at least can fathom why people like them. Soccer is an anathema to me.
"I don't like soccer" is fine. That's an opinion. I don't like particularly like soccer either.
But that wasn't all you tried to do. You attempted to give reasons for why one slow sport was good, while another was bad. And the reasons you gave didn't make much sense.
I think you just enjoy putting me down and its getting annoying.
No, I don't enjoy putting you down. I just read through the forums, and press quote when I think I have something to say about someone's point, whether it was a good point or a bad point. I've noticed that I've quoted you a lot for bad posts as well, but I'm not sure that's because of anything on my end.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2015/10/01 04:23:53
Subject: US politician "America is not multicultural"
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The Conquerer
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
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sebster wrote: Grey Templar wrote:Dude. This is all semantics. My reasons cannot be bad. You may not agree with them, but thats just your opinion. Thats why I find Soccer boring and those other sports not, or I at least can fathom why people like them. Soccer is an anathema to me.
"I don't like soccer" is fine. That's an opinion. I don't like particularly like soccer either.
But that wasn't all you tried to do. You attempted to give reasons for why one slow sport was good, while another was bad. And the reasons you gave didn't make much sense.
No, I said why its boring. And why some other sport isn't. Its all subjective of course. Stop trying to just contradict for the sake of contradicting.
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
MURICA!!! IN SPESS!!! |
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2015/10/01 05:27:45
Subject: US politician "America is not multicultural"
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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Grey Templar wrote:No, I said why its boring. And why some other sport isn't. Its all subjective of course. Stop trying to just contradict for the sake of contradicting.
Do you actually not understand how this works?
"I think the game is boring" is a personal opinion.
"The game is boring, and these games aren't boring, because of reason x" is trying to claim some kind of objective truth.
You did the latter. If you're backing off from that, fine, but don't try to pretend you said something different.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2015/10/01 06:59:53
Subject: US politician "America is not multicultural"
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Avatar of the Bloody-Handed God
Inside your mind, corrupting the pathways
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It always entertains me when people say that football (proper football) is boring, while American football is super exciting and things are always happening.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406
Personally I don't enjoy watching pretty much any sports on TV but I have to say that I find most "American" sports particularly dull and the commentating/coverage quite contrived.
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2015/10/01 08:31:39
Subject: Re:US politician "America is not multicultural"
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Not as Good as a Minion
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The specifics of why football is or isn't fun is not at all the topic. The playing of football opposed to baseball (as it is currently being discussed) is honestly barely relevant. Stop.
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