Quote from: clum clum on October 13, 2016, 09:50:11 AM

Obviously?

Not obviously, because most people disagree with me, shithead.

Well you would have to be pretty dumb to not see the correlation between intelligence and the complexity of entertainment required to feel enjoyment. Why do dogs find things that we find boring and stupid (rolling around in the grass) infinitely fun?

The fact that you're comparing rolling in the grass to a sport is fucking retarded.

Um, no I wasn't. I'm just saying that intelligence is correlated to what someone finds fun.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying sports. But exceptionally bright minds have a tendency to get bored if they don't have a multitude of things to sate their need for enjoyment.

A lot of the things I like today are the same kind of thing I liked as a kid. I mean I fucking love stuff like DBZ, Gurren Lagann, Power Rangers, Pacific Rim, etc. Doesn't mean I'm stupid, just I'm pretty easily entertained. Some things never change.

I do enjoy deeper stuff too though.

I condemn everything.

Quote of the day.

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It's dumb because what people enjoy does not show how intelligent or wise someone is.

You're doing this thing again where you just say things but you don't actually explain why or how or anything about it.

Do you think I'm just going to take your word for it?

Complicit in what?

The industry. The only reason there's an industry at all is because there are tens of millions of dumb idiot sports fans to support it. If no one watched professional league sports, there would be no sports industry.

Go ahead play and watch and enjoy sports all you want--but it's stupid to build an industry out of it, and it's stupid to support said industry.

I've never seen you do that, but whatever you say.

The point is that there's nothing under the sun that I don't hate. Do you expect me to be the kind of person who's totally cool with the jewelry industry? I don't have to actively condemn it to condemn it in my mind. The reason I don't talk about it is because it's not relevant and no one's interested. The things I rant about on this website are subjects that most people here can sink their teeth into, and we can have a real discussion about it. The jewelry industry? Not so much.

I wish I had more time in my day to devote to all the stupid shit in the world, but I don't.

Do you think I'm going to accept your retarded argument where you call sports stupid when it's blindingly obvious you have no idea what you're talking about?

I know more about everything than you do about anything, and yes, liking the sports industry makes you stupid as all fuck. It doesn't matter who you are. I'm sorry that hurts your feelings, but your feelings have nothing to do with the truth.

I don't even know why I'm continuing this retarded conversation when you think rolling in the grass is equivalent to professional athletes playing a sport.

It accomplishes precisely the same amount of nothing, so they have no meaningful distinction.

You're probably right, though. A dog rolling in the grass is probably more intelligent than playing sports.

I'm not complicit in anything. The industry does very little wrong, this is all in your mind.

Billions of dollars wasted on useless games that don't accomplish anything is worse than basically everything.

It's a sport. People like to play it, people like to play it competitively. It's interesting to watch people play it competitively, and people had the smart idea of making money off it. There's nothing stupid about it.

Everything you described is stupid to the highest degree. Competition is one of the many blights of civilization.

Good for you.

It's not good at all.

Also most sports are pretty complex, it's not just throw the ball get points.

The only people who bash sports are people who are bad at sports. They try to validate themselves by saying sports are dumb.

Basketball is boring tho, and lacrosse, and tennis, and volleyball.

Quote from: Verbatim on October 14, 2016, 04:23:08 AM

You're probably right, though. A dog rolling in the grass is probably more intelligent than playing sports.

Since when did a dog rolling in the grass raise millions of dollars for charity? Or single handily fund a hospital by giving them $10 million dollars? You seem to be forgetting that many players have charities that they play for as well as league wide charities. An example being Stand up 2 Cancer and the MLB.

That's great, but it doesn't change the fact that he shouldn't be making that much money in the first place. If MLB were a wholly non-profit organization and all the money they received went straight to charity, then that would be better. It's not like that, though.

Quote from: TBlocks on October 14, 2016, 08:48:09 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on October 14, 2016, 04:23:08 AM

You're probably right, though. A dog rolling in the grass is probably more intelligent than playing sports.

Since when did a dog rolling in the grass raise millions of dollars for charity? Or single handily fund a hospital by giving them $10 million dollars? You seem to be forgetting that many players have charities that they play for as well as league wide charities. An example being Stand up 2 Cancer and the MLB.

That's great, but it doesn't change the fact that he shouldn't be making that much money in the first place. If MLB were a wholly non-profit organization and all the money they received went straight to charity, then that would be better. It's not like that, though.

There would literally be no point in spending your life training and conditioning yourself to be an athlete. That's why there are softball leagues for middle aged men.