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jhocking:
ah I didn't realize what deaths you were talking about, wish you'd specified. Yeah that kind of violence is ridiculous. Does the UK have any incidents like here where parents killed each other over arguments because of their kids' little league games? wtf
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 30 Sep 2009, 09:46 ---I haven't ever one seen the TV fantasy of total strangers hugging and dancing and crying together.
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I can't recall having seen this TV fantasy you refer to, but regardless that's not what I was getting at. I'm talking more like people from different socioeconomic classes being comfortable interacting in public. If they don't have any cultural things in common, people tend to fear and hate each other.
Also, this may be a UK specific thing you're railing against, because actually come to think of it it's pretty common for total strangers to laugh and cheer together at sports bars around here. On game days (and remember, I live right next to a major ballpark) I'm a lot more annoyed by the noise levels of people cheering than by violence they commit.
valley_parade:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 30 Sep 2009, 09:46 ---I haven't ever one seen the TV fantasy of total strangers hugging and dancing and crying together. I have seen total strangers getting into heated arguments about signings though.
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I have. I've been in the middle of that giant dancing hugging pile. It was pretty great.
Bastardous Bassist:
I have not hugged, danced and cried with strangers, but that is because I support a team that is consistently terrible. I have, however, made a number of friends where our first point of contact was watching an (American) football game.
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 30 Sep 2009, 08:31 ---I hate that people want to increase sports teaching in school, to teach children to be competitive, to pick on the weak, to be elitist, rather than increase art and music teaching in school, to teach children to be creative and understanding.
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I am an incredibly competitive person due to music. With sports, I always felt like I could play them no matter how good I was and have fun. With music, I needed to be better than everyone else, or I wouldn't be able to do the things that were fun, and later on do the things that paid.
--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 30 Sep 2009, 09:05 ---Personally I think that intelligent people should be able to posit and defend any argument or belief they may have and the best way to be sure of yourself is to be aware of both sides of the debate.
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This is my belief about life.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 30 Sep 2009, 11:04 ---Music is not a competition.
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http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Freestyle-Rap-Battle
Alex C:
--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 30 Sep 2009, 09:05 ---There's patently people on the fence here and have said so.
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Yeah, I like sports and all but it's easy to have misgivings and dislikes. I also think you need to be living in a cave not to have a couple of moral concerns about at least the more physically dangerous sports. Take boxing, for example. On the one hand, I agree that people have the right to do what they want and boxers consent to step in the ring. On the other hand, I'm rather leery about a society that offers men millions of dollars to beat the shit out of each other, particularly since many people (including sports fans) begrudge them their pay. I mean, really, at what point are a couple of men being compensated enough that it's OK for us to encourage them to give each other concussions? Is that really even possible? And that's not even touching the whole "Isn't there something better we could be doing?" angle. Capitalism confuses the hell out of me sometimes.
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