thintoast
Mayosapien
As a child, there was one instance where I asked my dad if we could keep it when I came home to a stray cat on the porch. Fucking life lessons, yo.
Ontopic What is it with football and animal abuse?
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Then he brought your religion into it out of the blue trying to set you of f
He can't set me off though. I choose to stay rational and if something does get to me I'll walk away from it completely. Name calling and fighting is ridiculous.
Jimmycrackcorn
abscesschin
that's more of a statement on our society than the athletes themselves. you can't blame them that people idolize or envy them...they are just doing something people are willing to pay them very handsomely to do.
it's not their fault.
you need to look at the situation a bit differently.... The blame shouldn't be on the athlete.
Jimmycrackcorn
abscesschin
it is/was your statement of "the ridiculousness that is professional sports" that I'm trying to figure out
<70 IQ failing student gets faked through college on a full ride and subsequently made a celebrity millionaire 'cause they can trow de ball while the A student works hard, does legitimately well in their studies, aquires a skill that actually benefits society, and graduates $100,000 in debt. What's to figure out?
Not even necessarily that hips everyone should do what they are good at. If someone's talents are playing ball, go for it. If its nuclear physics, go for that. We need physical fitness and activity for our health and sports provide that. It's more the amount of money we spend on things that don't really benefit society and then complain that there isn't enough for what matters. If as much money was invested into education or feeding the starving as we dumped into sports (and I mean by the private person, not through government programs) we wouldn't have those problems. However that won't happen cause sports and celebrities are priorities and the others we just want someone else to fix.
There are fairly average to bright people who can recite volumes of sports stats while having no knowledge of what dark matter is or the significance of Schrodengers Cat.
1st world humanity definitely mixes up priorities.
1st world humanity definitely mixes up priorities.
Jimmycrackcorn
abscesschin
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Not Nearly as Handsome as Advertised.
Fixing this human forsaken planet, for one.
Taking the Stanley Cup to WinnyPeg would be great, but the planet is sick.
Right. If you were offered 10 million to play football you'd be a fool to turn it down. It's the worship thing that gets me. It's not like the kids are idolizing nuclear physicists, they couldn't even name one, but they can tell you in precise detail how many touchdowns somebody made last year.
Nice try. Mission fail. Return to base.