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Post by dupersuper on Feb 5, 2016 17:43:56 GMT -5
Thing is, I love other sports. My wife and I are HUGE baseball fans (had our first date at a Pittsburgh Pirates game), we both like college basketball and NHL hockey, and I watch Premiere League football (soccer) with my daughters. The difference for me is that I can miss a game and not care that I did. There are plenty of times when we watch a movie, catch up on some other TV, go out to dinner or hang out with friends, which causes me to not see an event, and that's fine. I enjoy sports, but I don't revolve my life around them. I don't mind watching sports live, like, going to a game. But tv? No. My husband will only watch if it's on the TV when we go to my dad's house on Sundays. But, we never have to watch these things at home. The last sporting event I went to I had won the tickets for at work. I took friends I knew would enjoy it and a book. The time before was an All Star game I remember nothing about except getting an autograph for my dad. The one before that was a game in Montreal. Many of my friends cared about the game, but I did not. 5 minutes in I was bored to death and we were in the nosebleed section with no seats so I left with another bored friend. He tossed his ticket, but I went to the entry kiosk to see if I could get a refund, and did, leading to the 2 of us wandering around the arena looking for the garbge can he tossed his ticket into. Those are the 3 sporting events of my life, all hockey (Oh Canada). I can't fathom watching any on TV at all. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 5, 2016 18:06:16 GMT -5
And now I will be sticking to only talking about comics and/or music here. I hope that's not on account of me. I was only hoping you might have some tips for me on how to stop my girl from watching the HSN channel. How can anyone watch hours and hours of people droning on and on about skin moisturizers. Anyway, please don't forget coffee and bananas are good subject matters too |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 5, 2016 20:49:40 GMT -5
I don't think anything could ever replace the feeling of going through comic boxes looking for treasure. Digital comics could never give me that feeling.
I said it.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Feb 5, 2016 21:09:57 GMT -5
And now I will be sticking to only talking about comics and/or music here. This makes me incredibly sad... There, I said it. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 5, 2016 21:22:44 GMT -5
Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 6, 2016 2:21:59 GMT -5
Syd Barrett was an overrated, drug-f***ed hack. There. I said it. Drug-addled, certainly. Overrated, yes, if that's your opinion. But there is no way on God's earth that the term "hack" should ever be applied to what Syd Barrett did. His songs were neither commercial or mainstream -- two prerequisites of hack work. On the contrary, his songs were singularly odd, very unconventional and, at times, quite harrowing. Nobody wrote songs like Syd, so that pretty much rules him out from accusations of being a hack. |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 6, 2016 2:56:10 GMT -5
Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is a mediocre novel about terrible people we are inexplicably supposed to admire. Possibly THE most overrated novel of the 20th Century. Cei-U! I summon the iconoclastic outburst! Sure, it doesn't exactly have the greatest plot in the world -- it's not even Kerouac's best -- and many of the characters are unsympathetic (although I'd contend that many of them a pretty likable too), but man, the rhythm of that thing! It barrels along at an incredible Benzedrine-fueled pace, with breathless, passionate zest and the unfettered joy of new faces, new places and "kicks". More importantly, 60ish years after it's initial publication, it still has the ability to inspire young people to shake off the shackles of their home town and get out there and see the world. On the Road is unfocused and, at times, a bit dull -- much like real life, I'd say! But it's the way in which it's written that is important and why it's such an influential novel. It's also the fiction book I've read more times than any other, which must say something. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 6, 2016 17:07:01 GMT -5
Mongo only pawn... in game of life. Continue to rock on. |
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Post by realjla on Feb 6, 2016 17:43:48 GMT -5
Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is a mediocre novel about terrible people we are inexplicably supposed to admire. Possibly THE most overrated novel of the 20th Century. Cei-U! I summon the iconoclastic outburst! Sure, it doesn't exactly have the greatest plot in the world -- it's not even Kerouac's best -- and many of the characters are unsympathetic (although I'd contend that many of them a pretty likable too), but man, the rhythm of that thing! It barrels along at an incredible Benzedrine-fueled pace, with breathless, passionate zest and the unfettered joy of new faces, new places and "kicks". More importantly, 60ish years after it's initial publication, it still has the ability to inspire young people to shake off the shackles of their home town and get out there and see the world. On the Road is unfocused and, at times, a bit dull -- much like real life, I'd say! But it's the way in which it's written that is important and why it's such an influential novel. It's also the fiction book I've read more times than any other, which must say something. Seems to be an argument over semantics: Confessor: "Yes, it sucks; BUT..." Cei-U: "Yes. It sucks butt." |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 7, 2016 12:22:13 GMT -5
Sure, it doesn't exactly have the greatest plot in the world -- it's not even Kerouac's best -- and many of the characters are unsympathetic (although I'd contend that many of them a pretty likable too), but man, the rhythm of that thing! It barrels along at an incredible Benzedrine-fueled pace, with breathless, passionate zest and the unfettered joy of new faces, new places and "kicks". More importantly, 60ish years after it's initial publication, it still has the ability to inspire young people to shake off the shackles of their home town and get out there and see the world. On the Road is unfocused and, at times, a bit dull -- much like real life, I'd say! But it's the way in which it's written that is important and why it's such an influential novel. It's also the fiction book I've read more times than any other, which must say something. Seems to be an argument over semantics: Confessor: "Yes, it sucks; BUT..." Cei-U: "Yes. It sucks butt." Oh, I'd never say it sucks. Ever. Just that it's a flawed masterpiece. But it's a masterpiece nonetheless. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 7, 2016 14:34:32 GMT -5
Without the gambling, Football would be the 3rd best sport in America.
I said it.
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Post by realjla on Feb 7, 2016 16:10:16 GMT -5
Without the gambling, Football would be the 3rd best sport in America. I said it. What are your top two? Without gambling, football might be threatened by 42-man squamish. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 7, 2016 18:29:26 GMT -5
I just don't give a rat's derriere about the Super Bowl.
There. I said it.
Cei-U!
I summon the mindless hype!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2016 18:34:23 GMT -5
I just don't give a rat's derriere about the Super Bowl. There. I said it. Cei-U! I summon the mindless hype! Neither do I. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2016 18:50:19 GMT -5
I just don't give a rat's derriere about the Super Bowl. There. I said it. Cei-U! I summon the mindless hype! Super Bowl...Bah!!! I haven't watched a Super Bowl since 1994 and that's only because the team from my hometown was in it...the Buffalo Bills. Haven't watched or cared since. And I hate all the mindless hype also. There. I said it. |
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