Ignorant and/or dishonest American sports commentators are an insult to the intelligence
This morning I was watching a bit of college football: Baylor University at Oklahoma. Towards the end of the third quarter, during one of the interminable breaks in the game, the commentators drew attention to a picture of a gleaming locker room, after the Army football team had used it the week before. The picture was captioned: “Leave it how you found it.”
This nifty little P.R. exercise by the Army football team had just the effect they no doubt calculated it would have. Any citizen of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, Cuba, Central America, Iraq, Afghanistan would have reflected bitterly that the U.S. Army does anything but leave things how they found them. And any U.S. citizen with an I.Q. above room temperature who was watching that Baylor-Oklahoma game would have thought something similar.
Such scruples didn’t seem to afflict the fellows commentating the game, however. One of them burbled:
“Makes you feel great about the people serving our country, protecting our interests abroad.”
If only the U.S. Army treated everywhere like a stadium locker-room. If only….
Morronissey “with us” are you referring to your other personality ? there is a name for that condition..possibly he’s the cretin that gives you an uptick.
Morrissey
I tried to uptick myself a few years ago, when I first started posting on this estimable site. Sadly, it’s just not possible.
Still, a half-century of downticks is just as good as an equivalent number of upticks. This is a highly partisan arena, and I don’t expect kid glove treatment. (Although Maggy, waikatogirl, and that crazy Catholic woman who posts here occasionally are all welcome to come round to Chez Breen and administer the kid glove treatment at any time…)
Swifty
Sleaze.
Morrissey
Those women need you standing up for them like a fish needs a bicycle. Now fuck off.
Swifty
Dirty little sleazebag.
Morrissey
Which of the three are you referring to, you misogynist fool?
Nookin
What is an estimable site? One capable of estimation? What facets of the site are estimable?
University isn’t the be-all and end-all of life. There is pressure on a lot of teenagers/young adults to pursue university studies straight out of school. For some kids, this isn’t the best choice… especially if they have had a fairly sheltered, safe route through their education.
MrTips
Swarbrook can fuck off. She’s younger than most students and not as intelligent.
Rachael Membery
At least she can describe herself as youth adjacent.
sooty
Unlike Cindy!
Odakyu-sen
Here’s a question about “personal space.”
Sometimes you come across cars with “boom, boom, boom” super-loud rap / reggae music, playing in busy streets where I am sure most people don’t like the disturbance of the peace.
Why do the “boom-boom” boys do that?
– Are they lovers of such sound that want to “spread the love”? – Are they imposing their “mana” onto the surrounding hapless community? – Is it an anti-conformity thing? (Funny how the music is so conformist. Like Harley riders.) – Is it a class thing? – Are they deaf and need to turn the volume up?
What are your thoughts about this phenomenon. From a Japanese perspective it is very selfish and shows a complete lack of empathy for the surrounding community.
holysheet
They are just fuck wits who are giving us the finger.
“Don’t look at me motherfucker or I’ll give youse the bash”
Morrissey
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Swifty
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Morrissey
Nookin
Maggy Wassilieff
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waikatogirl
That’s for you Morrissey, if you were in any doubt
Swifty
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Lucia Maria
stigie
krazykiwi
Maggy Wassilieff
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/367587/stress-becoming-unsustainable-for-many-students-says-green-mp
There is pressure on a lot of teenagers/young adults to pursue university studies straight out of school.
For some kids, this isn’t the best choice… especially if they have had a fairly sheltered, safe route through their education.
MrTips
Rachael Membery
sooty
Odakyu-sen
– Are they imposing their “mana” onto the surrounding hapless community?
– Is it an anti-conformity thing? (Funny how the music is so conformist. Like Harley riders.)
– Is it a class thing?
– Are they deaf and need to turn the volume up?
holysheet