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Started by viocjit, July 16, 2019, 09:16:41 PM

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Baruch

Quote from: drunkenshoe on July 19, 2019, 01:07:22 PM
ROFL Everything you complain about your country is directly related that the state(s) in the US; esp. the federal one, are not social states. And you define a more social state structure as socialism. Or perhaps you really have no idea what they both mean?

I am not even sure what does 'social state' mean in English context though. Because the only thing that keeps coming up is Welfare State. Lol. ?


Well I was just corrected on sports in France.  So the A causes B is moot now.  France seems just as capitalist as the US then.  No wonder they have lost their way.
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trdsf

#16
Quote from: Minimalist on July 16, 2019, 10:10:41 PM
I think humanity wastes too much of its time on sports.
Wastes too much money on sports, definitely.  The ability to throw, hit, kick, catch, or bounce a ball is not worth hundreds of millions of dollars, period.
"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." -- Barbara Jordan

Shiranu

Quote from: trdsf on July 20, 2019, 03:45:25 AM
The ability to throw, hit, kick, catch, or bounce a ball is not worth hundreds of millions of dollars, period.

I agree, but these teams only pay their players so much because people are willing to give them even grander sums of money in tickets, merchandise and, most importantly, through corporate sponsorship.

The ridiculous amounts of money in sports has very, very little to do with the sports themselves (or the athletes) and far more with branding and turning what should be, at it's core, an extremely pure human behaviour into something disgustingly emotionally bleached and sterilized.

I love watching the best players in the world compete, but I would give it up in a heartbeat to go back to the "good ol' days" where only those who lived in a major city, or a small team with a prodigy player, could see those talents... which kept fees and wages at reasonable levels. That's what events like the World Cup should be for... to see the greatest players in the world who you otherwise wouldn't get to see.

By giving everyone 24/7 access to the greatest players in the world you strip away some of the mythical aspects of them... which is a shame.
"A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to Him." - Louis Pasteur

Cavebear

Everyone in the World loves a sport until the US starts to play it.  And succeeds...
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Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on July 20, 2019, 04:26:14 AM
Everyone in the World loves a sport until the US starts to play it.  And succeeds...

You will never make us take up Cricket!
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Cavebear

Quote from: Baruch on July 20, 2019, 06:17:02 AM
You will never make us take up Cricket!

And we neither.  But please explain a rugby scrum...
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Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on July 20, 2019, 06:44:18 AM
And we neither.  But please explain a rugby scrum...

Brits can't afford pads/helmets.
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Cavebear

Quote from: Baruch on July 20, 2019, 11:26:27 AM
Brits can't afford pads/helmets.

They drown themselves in beer afterwards.  And it ain't free...
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viocjit

Do you know what is CONIFA World Football Cup ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONIFA_World_Football_Cup
Do you know what are NatWest International Island Games ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Games
Do you know what is Muratti Vase ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muratti_Vase

Baruch

New to me.  But I am sports ignorant ;-)
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Cavebear

Quote from: viocjit on July 25, 2019, 08:03:32 AM
Do you know what is CONIFA World Football Cup ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONIFA_World_Football_Cup
Do you know what are NatWest International Island Games ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Games
Do you know what is Muratti Vase ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muratti_Vase

I watch professional women's soccer, University of Maryland women's basketball, and Ultimate Disk.  I've also enjoyed watching ax-throwing, billiards, bowling, and archery.  Soccer drives me nuts waiting for a score though...
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