Phrases That Annoy

Hah! American football is just rugby for jessies!

Body armour? Pah!

+++hides+++

Jim Garten wrote: Hah! American football is just rugby for jessies! Body armour? Pah! +++hides+++

There's actually evidence to suggest that football would cause a lot less injuries if, like rugby, they didn't have pads or helmets because then people wouldn't be crashing into each other with their heads. I think you're an idiot to seriously play either of them and I would support eliminating all school teams for them because if you want to destroy yourself, fine join a community team, but the school shouldn't be endorsing it and wasting money subsidizing it.

But unfortunately my hatred of sports makes me a tiny minority of America.

Forgot this one... I don't know if this is just a common term in my corner of the world, but within the last year EVERY gamer began saying things like "That was completely boss!" or "I'm such a boss" or "You just got bossed". That annoys the living daylights out of me! 

I think it may be due to the Saturday Night Live digital short entitled "Like a Boss"...

Henry Plainview wrote: Jim Garten wrote: Hah! American football is just rugby for jessies! Body armour? Pah! +++hides+++ There's actually evidence to suggest that football would cause a lot less injuries if, like rugby, they didn't have pads or helmets because then people wouldn't be crashing into each other with their heads. I think you're an idiot to seriously play either of them and I would support eliminating all school teams for them because if you want to destroy yourself, fine join a community team, but the school shouldn't be endorsing it and wasting money subsidizing it. But unfortunately my hatred of sports makes me a tiny minority of America.

^ Indifference, I get. But hate?

 

Lark the Starless wrote:   How does one hate sports? I find that hard to imagine...

If you want to play sports that don't cause you brain damage, that is fine. I am an in reasonable acceptable shape and I will play casual sports with other people. But my hand-eye coordination his horrible with real objects, possibly due to my being right handed but left-eye dominant and having horrible vision in my left eye. So I don't like that up until you graduate high school you are expected to participate in some form of organized sports.

What I hate is that it's a cultural expectation for every male to sit down for five hours on Superbowl Sunday and watch people talk about and play a game in between the 3 hours of commercials. And of course you have to be emotionally invested in the results of this game between people who have never met and who were probably paid more last year than you will make in your entire life. I play a game every year to see how long I can go not knowing who is playing in the Superbowl and afterwards what the results were. People are always shocked that I am actively opposed to the whole spectacle of the Superbowl and professional athletics, much as my anti-Olympics campaign fell on deaf ears. It's an opinion that is somehow not even considered by people, it is so ingrained into the popular consciousness. Just like normal people can't believe that I could not like rock music. The contrarian in me finds it difficult not to oppose opinions that I'm expected to have...

I always got a lot of pleasure from people at my high school getting upset that the Redskins lost again. They're always going to lose! Why are you letting this ruin your day?


Edited by Henry Plainview - December 09 2010 at 20:14

^I love Superbowl Sunday. It means very little traffic to and from the local ski areas.  But yes, even if someone is a fan of the game, it has completely lost any meaning as a game.

 

Lark the Starless wrote: I wonder, do prog fans not like sports?  I believe people aren't expected to play a sport at school.   There's always the benefits of being healthy by playing football, basketball, etc...it's not being forced down your throat.   I hate sports?!   Blasphemy.

We're I'm from, joining something is all but actually mandated by the administration. I didn't because I'm a rebel, but besides the social pressures, colleges want you to fill up every f**king spare second of your time not spent studying with something "productive". Excuse me, but I think the internet has contributed immensely to my self-development. Probably not positively, but I don't care, the internet is here to keep me warm.

J-Man wrote: Well, like one of those things that like bothers me is when people say "like" all the time. They'll be like "OMG this like is so amazing!" and I'll be like "you're such a n00b at English".

OMG gets on my nerves, Some people have to say it 10 times during a conversation.