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Radical AC:
Oh, I agree it is a pretty stupid system. I don't care for pro/team sports at all. Of course there are lots of stupid systems in the world, and as far as I can tell the sports machine isn't doing net harm to the world. If my degree is worth that much more, and my facilities are that much better I can't complain.
Bastardous Bassist:
It's a good system in the system of capitalism, because if people didn't spend their money on college sports, that money would not be spent on colleges. The net result is that institutions of higher learning get more money then they would have otherwise, so it would be hard to argue that the college sports machine is doing net harm to the world, to borrow your phrase, dude. It's a bit easier to argue about the professional sports machine, but it's not really doing much more net harm than the movie industry (remember that most of the money in the movie industry is not spent on art).
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 03 Oct 2009, 05:22 ---BB I really don't get what you're blathering on about. For a start, music is a joyous and beautiful thing and sports aren't. Like, I personally cannot even begin to see how a dude catching a ball and a dude playing a song are in any way comparable, aesthetically. For a second, I don't think we have anything like the same definition of what constitutes a bad musician.
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A person playing one note is generally not a joyous thing. A person catching one ball is generally not a joyous thing. It's the collection of how it all fits together. If I spent my entire life up until this point disliking music, then I would have the exact same opinion about music that you do about sports. You have to have the background to appreciate that the people you're watching/listening to are doing something great within the tradition of that activity.
Youre definition of a bad musician doesn't include someone who plays stupid stuff ineptly?
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 03 Oct 2009, 05:22 ---One could argue equally that a love-in thread is as boring as a hate thread.
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One would also argue that we are not discussing how much we love sports in the "love sports" thread. We are rather discussing sports as a whole. If you really want me to leave, though, I will.
KharBevNor:
I really can't tell you where you should and shouldn't be I suppose. I'm just saying that when you come into this thread you seem to make my dislike of sports into a personal attack on yourself.
Also, I personally don't have much love for hollywood or the record industry, so those aren't really comparisons I would care about. Also, higher education in the UK manages to be funded perfectly well without relying on sports teams.
Bastardous Bassist:
Yes, but I haven't seen you go make a thread in either the movies or music forums about how much you hate Hollywood or the record industry. You seem to be content to let them do their thing, and I think that maybe you should do the same with sports.
I never thought you were personally attacking us. You were just actively hating something that we don't believe deserves as much hate as you were directing at it. As such, we are now trying to convince you that sports are not, in fact, the worst thing in the world.
My college did not have a big sports program, and we had enough funding to get by, but any college that has a good sports team has enough money to do some amazing things. I am now at a program at a different University that is strongly focused on research (which is the result of a lot of money long ago) and they have amazing facilities compared to where I got my undergraduate degree. If we want to do really interesting experiments, we don't have to scrounge a piece of equipment, somebody has it (science equipment is freakishly expensive). They get a lot of money through their research, but the results would be quite similar if they got it through sports (I've talked to people who have gone to big sports universities, and they had enough money to do things they wanted).
BrittanyMarie:
I don't think Khar needs to make a thread about how he hates those things because in this forum people mostly agree with him. I don't really understand why people are saying things about that though, as even from like 2004 the dude has been incredibly consistent in his views. He probably has made posts about how terrible they are, just not an entire thread.
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