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WE HATE SPORTS
David_Dovey:
OH LOOK THOSE LONG HAIRED GENTLEMEN ARE PLAYING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
OH AND NOW THEY ARE MOVING THEIR HEAD/NECKS AROUND IN A CIRCULAR MOTION CAUSING THEIR HAIR TO MOVE IN AN EXAGGERATED "WINDMILLING" MOTION. SPLENDID!
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Bastardous Bassist:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 30 Sep 2009, 22:22 ---You can talk about every other single thing in the universe apart from sports.
There isn't exactly a shortage of topics.
--- End quote ---
Why are sports so much worse than everything else? Would you rather discuss one of those reality shows? It comes down to what you have in common with other people, and sports happen to be that for a lot of people. Hell, it's one of the only things I can actually talk about for any length of time with most people here. Sad? Maybe a bit, but humans are social creatures and I crave social interaction even with people with whom I have very little in-common. By the way, very few people I know support my sports team, but I can still have enjoyable discussions with them.
KharBevNor:
Sports and reality shows are seriously the only things you can think of to have conversations about?
Like, you just seemed to say that it was a 50/50 choice. I've never even seen any reality shows for more than about fifteen seconds channel surfing. I interact all the time with people I have 'little in common' with quite happily without having to talk about lycra shorted ball manipulators.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 01 Oct 2009, 06:06 ---And to hate people from other communities.
Yay it's all so cuddly and fun!
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Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes not. Sometimes it's communities meeting each other in friendly competition. There's nothing wrong with having a sense of community, just some of the ways that manifests itself.
Bastardous Bassist:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 01 Oct 2009, 08:55 ---Sports and reality shows are seriously the only things you can think of to have conversations about?
Like, you just seemed to say that it was a 50/50 choice. I've never even seen any reality shows for more than about fifteen seconds channel surfing. I interact all the time with people I have 'little in common' with quite happily without having to talk about lycra shorted ball manipulators.
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No, but reality shows fall into the "every other single thing in the universe apart from sports," so I figured that was okay. I've tried to have conversations about other things with the people I know. They tend not to like music (they listen to it, but they don't actually enjoy it). I can't talk about work because nobody understands what I do (including me). I can't talk about philosophy, because nobody I can find has any intelligent opinions about it. Nobody has really read any books, same with movies (with notable exceptions of shitty movies) and television. Do you see what I'm getting at here? If I don't want to have a conversation that consists of me explaining things to them, or them talking about the interaction they had at the lunch counter, it's pretty much sports. Am I happy about that? Hell no. I hate it here. I'd love to have substantial conversations, but I haven't been able to do that since I left Charleston (except with people from Charleston). Sports is one of those non-topics, like the weather that is accessible to a number of people.
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