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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: Trollstormur on 11 Nov 2010, 12:44
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post ITT so I can ban you
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Ambitious, brilliant next-level moderating. Good luck.
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Don't we have a thread to be angry at random people? :mrgreen:
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Not for banning purposes, though.
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I like where this thread is going
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No I saw someone on this forum in my class
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you should've looked for their avatar
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i saw it calling them out is more fun
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You sure it wasn't a comic discussion person? Idaho tends to get the weird people.
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I had to look at a map to remember where Idaho is. I had no idea.
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I had to look at a map to remember where Idaho is. Idunno.
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The only Anthro class I ever took was taught by Dr. House. (Not the cool, sardonic TV personality either) Sorry.
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My only anthro professor was this spindly lady whose name I forgot and reminded me vaguely of some actress I'd seen in a 70's movie somewhere.
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my (http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=6002261) anthro professor is peruvian, stylish and brilliant. she's awesome.
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My anthro professor was a white woman of average build who had a co-worker that was a cross dresser
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My anthro professor was nonexistant.
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my anthro professor is a butch lady with frizzy hair who wears mom jeans and khaki button ups and loves talking about her visits to the Congo to study monkeys (she's also the biological anthropology professor)
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My zoology/evolutionary biology lecturer was pretty musch the same.
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My anthropology professor was in a National Geographic special.
WHAT NOW.
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The more posts we have, the more suspense builds... But then some little old Idaho post will come as a "me" and we'll all miss it.
My anthropology was an apologist.
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Wait, have I been reading a forum filled with only anthropology majors these last three years? :psyduck:
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Shhhhhhhiiiii..
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Yeah dudes what is up with that, people taking anthropology? Like, I have spent four years at uni not meeting anyone who does anthropology and suddenly everybody and their dog does anthropology.
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I have a degree in anthropology!
So far it has got me some hugs and high fives.
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I would hug anyone who a) told me they had a degree in anthropology and b) wished to be hugged.
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I do not have a degree in anthropology nor did I ever take a class in it. I feel left out now.
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I would hug Liz
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I hugged Liz before she even had her degree.
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Yeah dudes what is up with that, people taking anthropology? Like, I have spent four years at uni not meeting anyone who does anthropology and suddenly everybody and their dog does anthropology.
I'm just taking one class to try it out. I love the professor and I find some of the material interesting but overall I do not like anthropology as a discipline. not really that down to talk about the other.
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I took an anthro class once. It was with a French-Algerian woman and an Indian woman teaching it. It was pretty good, also incredibly depressing.
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Suddenly my brother is thinking of switching his degree to anthropology.
But more importantly, this thread made me realise that there is a new Community episode out, so yeah. Thanks dude in dr zikers anthro class!
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Im an anthro major so i have 3
my cultural anthro professor- Is like a slightly toned down Teddy Roosevelt.
my archaeology prof: looks like the lead singer from flogging molly
and my bio anthro prof: is a black lady with dreadlocks.
I love UMD.
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sorry to break it to you all but every single one of you fucked up massively by not majoring in criminology aka obviously the best social science ever
try to enjoy your lame cultural shit anyway i guess, i'll be over here learning about crimes
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I don't even know what anthropology is (I know what it means but how do you study it?) but I am/was taking a criminology class.
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One of my majors is political science. So, I get to study how to get the people you worked so hard to gather evidence against off on a technicality for vastly more money and prestige. (My other major is biochemistry because I hate those people I just described and would rather be a doctor)
The more posts we have, the more suspense builds... But then some little old Idaho post will come as a "me" and we'll all miss it.
I go to the same uni as Troll and know the prof he is talking about. But, it isn't me. Kind of curious if I know them, though...
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social science
Social what now? What-science?
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I would hug Liz
yayyyy
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I don't even know what anthropology is (I know what it means but how do you study it?) but I am/was taking a criminology class.
I would also like to know more about anthropology; it sounds pretty interesting.
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This thread has made me want to take an anthropology course!
Too bad it wouldn't count toward my major.
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I read books about that sorta stuff something?
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PEI is kind of an odd, socially conservative place. My mom was working with a younger nurse at the hospital, probably around my age, who was telling her how she took a course in university that she "didn't believe in but thought it was interesting anyways".
She was talking about an anthropology course.
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I don't even know what anthropology is (I know what it means but how do you study it?) but I am/was taking a criminology class.
I would also like to know more about anthropology; it sounds pretty interesting.
anthropology is the study of humans.
its broken down into 3/4 mediums
cultural anthropology - you study different cultures (like living with tribal people in africa)
archeology - indiana jones or GTFO
bio anthropology - study human remains/evolution (also hunts bigfoot)
and arguably linguistics.
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My anthropology teacher was unremarkable, but my TA was a large goatee'd man who wore punk rock beanies and devoted the majority of the class time to opening our minds to the potentials of lucid dreaming.
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So, which one of you is Bones?
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None of them. They're all too engulfed in pop-culture.
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I am sort of double majoring in Anthropology and Modern Languages and Culture, since my uni doesn't have a Linguistics degree. This means I am basically majoring in cultural anthropology and Spanish, with a minor in German and possibly another in Japanese.
Also I am minoring in Dance, because otherwise I cannot take dance classes at my school.
Next semester my anthro classes will be Forensic Anthropology, the FA lab, and Linguistic Anthropology II. Woo!
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punk rock beanies
I think I know what you mean by this but please feel free to explain further
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Starting in January I am doing a certificate in social sciences and then hopefully studying anthropology at Southampton uni.
What is up with this forum :psyduck:
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Perhaps, in all seriousness, people are more likely to be on a forum like this one due to a genuine interest in people as an amorphous mass and as individuals. Most of what we talk about is daily life and aspects of personality (like what makes us laugh, what we wear, who we hang out with and date). So maybe it is a statistical bias created by the nature of the forum itself? Other forums probably have more natural scientists and mathematicians.
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Well, I am actually only doing Linguistics because it is easy, I am more than 75% finished with my degree, and because I couldn't pass Organic Chem. Otherwise I would be a lab rat somewhere staring at fishies all day, dreaming of deep sea submersibles and Dumbo (http://www.superfunpatrol.net/images/dumboOctopus.jpg).
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i'll probably keep doing this crime shit until i get a phd but only because i can't hold down a real job and i have like zero life skills at all tbh
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I think I know what you mean by this but please feel free to explain further
I guess that was kind of a stupid term. But stuff like this:
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:NTnQzzhDSmuW3M:http://www.headbangersmall.com/ekmps/shops/therockasylum/images/rage-against-the-machine-army-green-cadit-knit-beanie-hat-13272-p.jpg&t=1)
(http://www.8ball.co.uk/tshirts/ramones-rolledbillbeanie_1_109834_black_l.jpg)
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man i was totally imaging military beanie babies. that was way cooler.
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There are military themed beanie baby bears. I find them kinda depressing and jingoistic, really.
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I guess that was kind of a stupid term. But stuff like this:
Oh that was not what I was thinking. Those are ugly as shit and really dumb.
I thought more like:
(http://www.kink.se/wp-content/2007/10/ian-mackaye.jpg)
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I can't believe we've got to two pages and we still haven't found this guy.
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I mean this is the lamest witch hunt in history.
History.
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That's because your doing it wrong. Every single person who has posted in this thread, by the mere act of posting in it, has implicitly suggested that they are the dude.
Burn them all.
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The man is fond of his forehead.
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Why you gotta mess with a guy's hat like that.
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I-is that Ian MacKaye and Thurston Moore?
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Wow I never noticed before that Thurston Moore and John Carmack are just alternate reality versions of each other.
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There are military themed beanie baby bears. I find them kinda depressing and jingoistic, really.
I don't know if you were there when I was linking this shit in meebo but fucking check this out:
http://www.bradford.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/852/XTCsid/463b4aa9b9d8104ac0bd5c1290004065 (http://www.bradford.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/852/XTCsid/463b4aa9b9d8104ac0bd5c1290004065)
'Inspired by the sought-after Defenders of Our Li'Bear'ty collection'
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I can't believe we've got to two pages and we still haven't found this guy.
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I can't believe we've got to two pages and we still haven't found this guy.
Dude maybe Graham should look more closely at the guy's username and not wait for him to damn himself
I mean seriously who's dumb enough to do that
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'Inspired by the sought-after Defenders of Our Li'Bear'ty collection'
That must be like the British version of NASCAR commemorative plates.
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I still hold there is nothing more American than this:
(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a207/Xyljin/DaleJrPlate.png)
Advertisements within advertisements. It's like an Xzibit meme played straight.
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I thought that mods couldn't ban people, only admins?
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Yeah but the dude in Dr. Ziker's anthro class probably doesn't know.
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I still hold there is nothing more American than this:
What is an energy plate, how does it differ from a normal plate and WHERE DO I BUY ONE?
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(preferably without the image of a cube-headed American motorsports figure on it. Also I am quite poor so I wonder if you can buy Energy Plates with reproduction platinum?)
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It's a plate in the shape of a pyramid. You put your food underneath it.
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i actually do kind of want that plate in an entirely unironic way, it is just really fun to look at for a variety of reasons
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I'm thinking it's gonna be my new av in some form or another. It really is something. The best part is the shine around the edges. I think the designer just said "Fuck it" and outsourced the job to blingee.
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It's kind of sad, but I think I know a few people that own that plate.
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My favourite part is putting the black and white version of the same drawing behind the foreground portrait.
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Dude looks disconcertingly like Paul Vautin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vautin):
(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a207/Xyljin/DaleJrPlate.png) (http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2009/05/14/paul_vautin_narrowweb__300x495,0.jpg)
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My favourite part is putting the black and white version of the same drawing behind the foreground portrait.
my favourite part is how the car on its side kind of looks like it is actually really small and perched precariously on the dude's shoulder, about to teeter and fall off at any moment
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where is this motherfucker
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Maybe he is one of the Comic Discussion weirdos.
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I've heard if you say "Comic discussion weirdo" three times in a row one of them appears and starts posting in the good part of the forum.
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Comic discussion weirdo comic discussion weirdo comic discussion weirdo klaatu verata nictu ahahahahahaha your world is DOOMED. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
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I still hold there is nothing more American than this:
What is an energy plate, how does it differ from a normal plate and WHERE DO I BUY ONE?
It's not actually an "energy plate". The sponsor of his race car is Amp energy drink. NASCAR drivers refer to their sponsors in scary amounts during interviews.
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That's because that's how they get paid. It's advertising on a very fast car that just goes in circles for a very long time.
Am I unamerican if I can't stand NASCAR and american football? I mean, I still like baseball, but not enough to pay much attention to it.
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You forgot "soccer's a sport for them pretty boy eye-talians that fall over all the time". That'll cement your American status.
Honestly, I do a terrible job of not liking American football. I own jerseys for New England players, watch their games, and went to a game this year (and enjoyed the fuck out of it).
Really, I don't like it that much. It's very low on my list of favorite sports. But after my dad moved out, we only really saw each other on weekends, so we hung out and watched football. It's a big part of why we're closer now than we were when we lived in the same house.
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is american football actually that huge a deal in america? about half my program consists of americans and they talk about football all the goddamn time. nobody can ever make plans to get together or study on sundays because it's football night. i hate stereotyping as much as the next guy which is part of the reason why this is so bewildering to me. at no point in my life had i ever met literally a single person at all who ever gave a shit about football until now and now it's everywhere. i think it is a ridiculous sport almost beyond comprehension.
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american football is a religion in america
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is american football actually that huge a deal in america? about half my program consists of americans and they talk about football all the goddamn time. nobody can ever make plans to get together or study on sundays because it's football night.
It's a minor religion, Tania.
Btw, American Football the band? Love 'em.
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It partially depends on the demographic you're dealing with. With plenty of people it's just this thing that is sometimes on TV, like Law and Order or Cash Cab. Then there are those like my suite-mates, who, using only basic cable, somehow manage to make sure there is American Football on the TV 24/7. I personally enjoy it more than baseball, simply because it seems like the whole team is needed for a great play.
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Dogg you have never seen a finely executed 5-4-3 double play.
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Ahhh american advertisement. When visiting the US we had a (what we thought was) a all-american day sitting in the hotel room eating twinkies (my god, WHY!) saltwater taffee and watching american televisionshows about pagent-kiddies, which was interrupted with more fabulous american commercials. Its so far from what we're used to, its entertainment in itself.
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American Football is indeed retarded but actual Football is the greatest sport ever created.
Sure, if you are a chronic insomniac and the maximum legal dose of ambien isn't doing it for you.
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we had a (what we thought was) a all-american day sitting in the hotel room eating twinkies (my god, WHY!)
I'm pretty sure I haven't ever had a Twinkie. (Ding Dongs, OTOH, were a not insignificant part of my childhood...)
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American Football is indeed retarded but actual Football is the greatest sport ever created.
Sure, if you are a chronic insomniac and the maximum legal dose of ambien isn't doing it for you.
ban tbh
try and play football for a local 5-a-side team/uni team/whatever, it's brilliant
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we had a (what we thought was) a all-american day sitting in the hotel room eating twinkies (my god, WHY!)
I'm pretty sure I haven't ever had a Twinkie. (Ding Dongs, OTOH, were a not insignificant part of my childhood...)
Not worth the calories. Its not much food I'd utter those foods for, tbh.
But... Twinkies was the way I lured my boyfriend to the US. Twinkies and Dunkin Donuts.
He doesn't ask for much.
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American Football is indeed retarded but actual Football is the greatest sport ever created.
Sure, if you are a chronic insomniac and the maximum legal dose of ambien isn't doing it for you.
ban tbh
try and play football for a local 5-a-side team/uni team/whatever, it's brilliant
Oh, it isn't bad to play, but the same can be said for golf. Still boring as hell to watch.
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football owns tania, watch a rider game this weekend
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try and play football for a local 5-a-side team/uni team/whatever, it's brilliant
Oh, it isn't bad to play, but the same can be said for golf. Still boring as hell to watch.
Eh, I prefer watching a ball that is always moving to a ball that stops every 15 seconds.
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I'd rather watch something that isn't boring.
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god damnit we already have a sports thread for this, you fucks
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you fucks
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actual Football is the greatest sport ever created.
Looks like somebody's forgotten about a little game called sepak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXmjOMUdsPY) takraw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4qmPP7LcAg).
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I'd rather watch something that isn't boring.
man the only reason nfl isn't a total snoozefest is cuz everyone knows those guys go to the bathroom in their trousers
i guess some people have a scat fetish where the actors are on steroids and in skintight leggings
it's fascinating how a culture of millions has arisen from what is essentially a bunch of dudes wrestlin' in their own feces and urea for an hour
there is a system of rules that must be followed involving people who watch where players stand, which means their intelligence is just high enough to prove the existence of a missing link between primates and humans
this is a phenomenon that would normally be discussed in ANTHROPOLOGY CLASS
:mrgreen:
okay so I'm kinda tired. don't actually give two shits about watching any kind of sporting event on television, just sick of hearing 'I'd like it if it wasn't boring' when that phrase can be applied to literally anything ever as a substitute for admitting ignorance when it comes to a specific topic
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I'd take an anthropology class if it wasn't so BORING
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I'm not defending NFL as fun to watch, although I would rather watch NFL than soccer. Probably because I understand the details of the game better.
Does anyone in here know how American football is different than rugby, rules-wise? People can get pretty badly hurt in football, so I'm wondering how it is that people playing what appears to be football minus pads don't get killed or crippled for life.
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I don't know much about the rules of either game (enough to follow if I'm watching, not much more) so I don't know if there's anything helping there, but I'd say the main thing is the lack of hyper-specialisation in rugby. Everybody on the team has to be able to run hard for a long time, so you don't get 300-pound gorillas who exist solely to plow dudes into the ground.
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As much as I generally agree with you (and don't know a ton about rugby)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WciQVqEc8r0&feature=related
Some of those hits are apparently similar in feeling to running into a brick wall which is running back at you.
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I'd take an anthropology class if it wasn't so BORING
I will fight you. And I will win.
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In rugby there's a lot of technique that goes into how to hit people safely, for yourself, while in football it's about getting the other guy to the ground. There's also a lot more scrumming and such which looks intense but is basically just pushing into other guys. I think the ball is actually in play for a total of 20 minutes during a 60 minute game or something like that? The rest it's on the ground while a scrum is happening. That's 20 minutes of running, during which a real tackles only happen once in a while.
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Staedler and Dovey have it right. As I've mentioned before in the Sports thread, the difference really lies in the blocking. The blocking rules changes everything and makes the NFL game as much about raw mass and power as it is about coordination and quickness. As Dovey already pointed out, it leads to specialization. When half the game is about pushing eachother down, it can pay to have huge men on the field. It is a virtual lock that at any given time half of the men on the playing field will weigh in excess of 240 pounds. Anyone under 210 is considered undersized even at the "small" positions. The sheer momentum involved can lead to a helluva lot of injuries. And more than anything else, any player on the field can expect contact whether or not they are a ball carrier, so the sheer volume of hits on a given play significantly ups the potential for injury.
Here's an example. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbzwbtR5sbs) A defensive player gets hit so hard that the announcers don't bother talking about the ball carrier, a man who is hit by at least 2 people and is subsequently piled on.
As much as I generally agree with you (and don't know a ton about rugby)...
Some of those hits are apparently similar in feeling to running into a brick wall which is running back at you.
I don't mean to sound like a pig-headed American here, but a lot of those aren't as nasty as they look. Most of those were wrap ups-- the tackler slows down, opens his hips, and redirects the ball carrier, causing him to lose balance or lifts him off the ground. They can definitely hurt, especially without pads. But it's not as painful as when you get stopped with sheer momentum. In the NFL, for better or worse, you get more stuff like many of the hits seen here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82VbyzWef80&feature=related), in which the players do not make contact with their arms first or otherwise redirect prior to full contact. They just meet shoulder to chest and both get dropped like they'd been shot. Maximum energy transfer. When a guy hits you so hard that you leave the ground and continue to fly backwards through the air, it can really hurt like hell, pads or no pads.
Anyway, with that said, rugby is a rugged sport. After all, despite the rules and tackling style those shoulder-meets-chest plays that are so common in the NFL still happen in rugby, and when they do there's nothing there to mitigate it but a shirt. From what I've seen, however, those hits do not happen at the same frequency as in grid iron. Combine that with the difference in blocking rules and the size issue and I kinda have to laugh when people imply that the NFL is really any less dangerous to play.
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you fucks
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When explained like that (I know barely anything about gridiron or any other kind of football) it makes a lot of sense. But when you put the two games next to each other, Rugby looks to be about as violent as Americal Football (in that they are both games heavily featuring large men running into each other) but without protective gear.
I still prefer to think of football (Australian versions) in a more friendly way: Everyone tries to hug the guy with the ball. The team with the most hugs at the end of the game wins. Extra points for group hugs.
Friendliest. Sport. Ever.
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I still prefer to think of football (Australian versions) in a more friendly way: Everyone tries to hug the guy with the ball. The team with the most hugs at the end of the game wins. Extra points for group hugs.
Friendliest. Sport. Ever.
Aaaaaand new sigquote.
Well-informed words about sports
See that does make a lot of sense. For the record, I'm an American as well and have more experience with football than rugby. In those videos I mostly refer to the hits when a rugby player catches a pitch from a teammate (I honestly don't know the technical terms) and doesn't see the defender until he barrels into him shoulder-first at top speed and the guy with the ball is promptly STOPPED.
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There's also a lot more scrumming and such which looks intense but is basically just pushing into other guys.
Not true at all. The one fact I do know about Rugby (other than it is easily the funnest sport to watch) is that a scrum does the same damage to your spine as a mid-speed car crash.
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The major major MAJOR difference between Rugby (both kinds) and American football is that in Rugby you're not allowed to pass the ball forwards. Ever. EVER.
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I thought everyone already knew that?
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Yeah well I've got a whole load of freshly baked ensaïmadas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensa%C3%AFmada) so there.
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Those look pretty tasty
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I thought everyone already knew that?
I didn't. That is a pretty huge difference.
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In those videos I mostly refer to the hits when a rugby player catches a pitch from a teammate (I honestly don't know the technical terms) and doesn't see the defender until he barrels into him shoulder-first at top speed and the guy with the ball is promptly STOPPED.
Yeah, I made a face when I saw a couple of those. I'm sure there's plenty of days where those guys look like one continuous bruise. Still, I think the pads thing is a double edged sword. Yeah, a lot of collisions will hurt less. But the net result seems to be that the grid iron players act like they're invincible and launch themselves like human missiles.
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I'm wondering how it is that people playing what appears to be football minus pads don't get killed or crippled for life.
I know several people who have been crippled for life in rugby-related accidents; compound fractures, broken backs, legs and even hips, and one guy who got eye-gouged and now one of his eyes is just a scarred up white orb. Plus, have you ever seen what old rugby players noses and ears look like? It's like something out of Brueghel.
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I'm not defending NFL as fun to watch, although I would rather watch NFL than soccer. Probably because I understand the details of the game better.
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THE BALL GOES IN THE NET. What's not to understand?
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Every time one of my 'friends' induces me to try and play some shitty wank-arse football game on the X-Box or whatever ("It's fun lighten up jeez") I can never score, ever, because I am offside, a rule which makes no sense at all on any level which I can even begin to think of, and seems to bear no relation to the apparently simple rules of the game I used to play occasionally in the playground at school.
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Offsides: The ball is played. When your teammate kicks the ball, you're behind the furthest-back defender.
Guy on the sideline points a flag at you.
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See, that doesn't make any sense.
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It prevents a team from sticking a striker in front of the goal at all times and just launching longballs to him.
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Looks like somebody's forgotten about a little game called sepak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXmjOMUdsPY) takraw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4qmPP7LcAg).
Okay, I will never be impressed with the skills of anyone doing any other sport ever again.
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Offside is a rule that often those who've played football (soccer) for years often don't understand either. Often footballclubs don't start teaching the offside rule and tournaments don't start using them until the kids are 15-16 years old, and around here you often start when you're 5-6. Which makes it helluvalot more confusing since the way you were used to playing for the last 10 years suddenly does not compute.
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Looks like somebody's forgotten about a little game called sepak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXmjOMUdsPY) takraw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4qmPP7LcAg).
Okay, I will never be impressed with the skills of anyone doing any other sport ever again.
so basically someone made hackey sack into a competitive team game?
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Football is played in probably every country, certainly on every continent in the world.
All you need is a spherical object, doesn't even have to be a football. Some of the greatest footballers ever learned using other objects such as fruit.
You can't sensibly compare it to any other sport, any argument doesn't stand up to closer scrutiny.
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By football do you mean american football or soccer?
I have a hard time seeing someone play soccer with a tomato or melon...
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I know several people who have been crippled for life in rugby-related accidents; compound fractures, broken backs, legs and even hips, and one guy who got eye-gouged and now one of his eyes is just a scarred up white orb. Plus, have you ever seen what old rugby players noses and ears look like? It's like something out of Brueghel.
my sister played rugby in university and quit after she took a really bad knee to the face which broke her jaw and smashed about eight of her front teeth into crumbs. she has a whole bunch of fancy fake teeth now but at the time i was really young and this was like the scariest nightmare imaginable for me. i guess i should be glad it wasn't worse.
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By football do you mean american football or soccer?
By football I mean football.
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By football do you mean american football or soccer?
I have a hard time seeing someone play soccer with a tomato or melon...
Do you have an easier time seeing someone play american football with a tomato or melon?
Also, Tommy, soccer is originally a British term to differentiate all games played on foot and with a ball from the game that is now thought of as football. So soccer isn't an incorrect term. </pedant>
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There is a hierarchy of ‘metatexts’ which deeply inform how we look at art. The most obvious of these is the title. All formal works of art have a title, without exception. If the artist does not give it one, then it is automatically called ‘untitled’. This is arguably a function of the gallery system, of art criticism, art-history etc.: If works of art did not have titles, they could not be catalogued, talked about, referenced or organised conceptually. The anonymous quotation that something is art “if it's signed and you can't piss in it” (referring to Duchamp’s Fountain) should perhaps be “if it’s got a title and you can’t piss in it”, though in fact the capacity of a work to receive urine is theoretically irrelevant. This granting of a title could be said to actually transform an object into an artwork, in at least as much as we think of art as being something distinct from design, craft, etc.; or at the very least to be a definite mark that such a transformation has taken place. The matter of titles, being pieces of text, is obviously relevant to our discussion in some ways. Lawrence Weiner said that “all artist’s work has a title, titles are my work”, stripping art down to simply the titles, blown up massively on a wall; but even his work has titles, which exist separately to the pieces themselves. Titles are, however, fundamentally different to text actually incorporated into the work. The title of a work of art is separate from it, in the same way that the caption of a photograph in a newspaper is not the photograph itself, or even part of it.
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Do you have an easier time seeing someone play american football with a tomato or melon?
Considering I've never played american football or rugby but spent 10 years playing football/soccer/fotboll/fotball/whatever, yes I do. I suppose its because of the act of throwing something and catching it with your hands is a much softer motion then kicking it.
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But it doesn't have a prefix like Rugby, American or Australian.
It's just football on its own, for a reason.
It does. It's association football.
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Tommy has a lot of pretty charming and adorable but essentially insensate ideas about football and what it means for the world.
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Sorry, come back here when bicycle kicks are a necessity for every single play, rather than just showing off. Sepak Takraw is far more interesting than soc football.
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I don't think it's of any particular importance to the world but I do think it's a fuckload better than any other sport out there.
why?
(Tommy I am openly inviting you to do one of those long posts you like doing where you explain the appeal of things you are passionate about (for what it's worth, you changed my mind about Fugazi and Silkworm with those previously))
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in chicago he forced his so-called best friends into a tgi fridays where we had to eat their shitty food and remain for over two hours so that he could watch football
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johnny c attempted suicide by drinking a pink martini made from melted cotton candy for fuck's sake
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I've often wondered to what extent following sport can be thought of as an addiction. It can obviously have pretty bad consequences for relationships, family life and also financially. It can even lead to criminal activity.
The curious thing is that more than any other thing you might regard as an addiction, the compulsive need to consume sports matches seems to be permissable and even lauded in many societies.
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It's because sport is a substitute for war and fan worship is a substitute for religious worship. Totally tuer dogg, I read about it on the internet.
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You might be right (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdMCAV6Yd0Y).
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What worries me more is that I reread my previous post before posting and saw that I misspelled true and corrected it, but now it's even more wrong.
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normally i don't like american football but today was big game cal vs stanford and i was very shouty
when i think about it, i shout about a whole fuckload of sports, really
i thought i denounced sports watching but man i just like shouting
sports!!!
it's also nice to confuse people when i know my shit and they don't expect me to
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I've often wondered to what extent following sport can be thought of as an addiction. It can obviously have pretty bad consequences for relationships, family life and also financially. It can even lead to criminal activity.
The curious thing is that more than any other thing you might regard as an addiction, the compulsive need to consume sports matches seems to be permissable and even lauded in many societies.
You don't really need a group of people to shoot heroin, but you need a group of people to play soccer and once you have a group it's easy to suck people into getting into it as well since people like being in groups and consensus is a really powerful thing.
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Do you know what else can be considered an addiction with risks of serious damage to friends+family and possibly leading to criminal activity? Posting regularly on an internet forum
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squawk's post pretty much sums up my opinion of watching sport. I don't do it often but damn it is fun to shout at people over whom you have no control.
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Do you know what else can be considered an addiction with risks of serious damage to friends+family and possibly leading to criminal activity? Posting regularly on an internet forum
yeah I should really stop going to stormfront so much
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Do you know what else can be considered an addiction with risks of serious damage to friends+family and possibly leading to criminal activity? Posting regularly on an internet forum
Character of the proposer has no bearing on the quality or truthfulness of the proposal.
Basic rhetorical logic: learn it.
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Just an observation, man. Sorry if I blew yr mind
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Do you know what else can be considered an addiction with risks of serious damage to friends+family and possibly leading to criminal activity? Posting regularly on an internet forum
also, (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,20726.2550.html)
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blew yr mind
You shouldn't have to hedge your bets over whether it's 'your' or 'you're'. It's such a simple rule! You're is a contraction of 'You Are'. You wouldn't say, 'I blew you are mind', so in this case it's 'your'.
'I blew your mind'.
See?
Any time you need any help with any other points of basic english grammar just drop me a line, I'm always fine to help.
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right
I believe the word you're looking for is 'ræit'
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Silly Norwegians. Those aren't even real letters!
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Please tell me that isn't real Norwegian. If it is, I started learning the wrong language.
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It's something we like to call 'Norwenglish', or english spoken/written in a riddikulus Nårvedjæn aksent.
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its håo Heyerdahl vudd hæv vritten iff he vræits laik he spåok.
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It's because sport is a substitute for war and fan worship is a substitute for religious worship. Totally tuer dogg, I read about it on the internet.
Funny how we keep unwittingly returning to the original topic of anthropology.
P.S. psyduck is the best thing to happen to this forum in a long time
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I was here first, goddamnit! RAWR!
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SON, I AM DISAPPOINT
(http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n217/rageaholicdove/jcemoticon.png)
(http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9596/fkntgrws0.png)
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Oh my god I'd forgotten about those!
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Have ye ever been to sea, Billy?
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(http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n217/rageaholicdove/jcemoticon.png)
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I still say that is the best photo of Johnny ever.
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This is handy, cos I've been looking for an excuse to post this again
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a55/ddovey/johnny.jpg)
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This is actually the best photo of Johnny.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i318/tommydski/photo-19.jpg)
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This thread has just become my favourite ever.
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Hey dudes, here is a mnemonic device my friend and I came up with for my Intro to Human Origins class to help keep track of the order of the geological epochs:
Pale Emus Offered Mother Pliers. Please Help!
(Paleocene Eocene Oligocene Miocene Pliocene Pleistocene Holocene)
Hope this is useful to someone.
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Holocene 4 lyfe yo.