why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

don't forget sports talk radio, it is key to the mindset

sports chat is about a half step above when two co-workers pass in the hall and say "hey, how are you?" "good, and youself?". neither of them gives a fuck. sports fills the dead space between people who don't want to be there together. or between people who are excruciatingly boring and have not explored the world beyond what's been handed to them ... and wtf do you want w/ them anyway.

Sports are so incredibly boring unless you are playing them yourself. Televised games function as ambiance for me to take a nap to.

I do care when I ask people how they are! Maybe I'm the only one. If I don't care I just say "hey" or "hi"

Baseball games are great when you treat them like a picnic. Rooting for the Nats during the playoffs was way more stressful and reminded me that I don't actually like getting invested in sports at all.

I like going to this bar where the bartender really knows baseball from having played it. His commentary on the game makes it about twenty times better.

yeah, sports are fun to watch, probably about the same as being a crank. whenever i'm about to get into sports I'm always afraid I'll get -too- into them ... don't know how much people who like sports actually like sports or just can't find anything better to be interested in.

xp is the name of this bar "Cheers?"

jesus christ this is the most internet board nerd back slapping conversation. like straying into "i dont even OWN a tv" levels

I have a pretty sweet tv

I don't even own a tv and it only sucks when I want to watch sports

I don't dislike sports, and I go to my share of baseball games and watch football and b-ball occasionally on TV and whatever, but I'm not INTO SPORTS (esp. football) like these office dudes are. Like I couldn't give fewer shits who is pursuing whom in the draft or whether the offensive coordinator should be doing X or why they're starting Y when he only had 30 rushing yards or w/e. I just want to watch the game.

College sports, though, GTFO. Especially if you didn't even go to the college in question. Like aforementioned dude getting really into Michigan simply because they're the big OSU rival, and he went to Ohio U., so anything that makes OSU fans miserable is now cool and, you know, just stop it.

are you kidding that is the best thing about sports, hating random teams for random reasons

sports are cool but hey keep on trying to connect with people by talking about shitty bands that no one else knows about

ahaha, i'm being a total fucking snob here, ugly quality i know. sports are fun, totally get why people are into it ... more about frustration of being stuck in the mundane and other french film bullshit.

fwiw my WoW server had a fantasy baseball league i was in. so yeah, out nerd that.

haha awesome

Fantasy football is such a weird concept. A friend told me he was into it a few months ago, pausing beforehand to say "This is gonna sound really nerdy". I'm a lifetime videogames scifi movies oldschool nerd so now i'm confronted with this thing that is 'nerdy' in its attention to detail, yet it's all about football, which was always the polar opposite of nerdy in middle/high school. But yeah 'nerdy' getting co-opted what's new?

it's about numbers and stats, which has always been nerdy

I was so disappointed when I found out fantasy football didn't involve valkyries and dragons and stuff.

i stopped giving a shit about sports as soon as i moved away from my cow town high school and was no longer required to pretend to like football

SPORTS JOCKS vs. ART NERDS is such a played-out dichotomy that doesn't really exist anymore and maybe never did

unless you're still in high school maybe

sports nerds are and have always been some of the nerdiest people around. those kids trading baseball cards and memorizing career batting averages were not "cool" or "jocks."

baseball nerds are their own thing really

Sports Nerd:

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Jock:

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n/a, anti-sports is more than just the celebrated jock v. nerd struggle we all know and love. it's about misplaced cultural priorities in our zeitgeist! the amazing cornucopia of life, the infinite gradations of the experience of being alive, the challenges we face as a species, all encased for us in our incredibly short life spans that end in eternal blackness in a flash ... and then we got dudes in tights running around with a ball being chased by other dudes in tights. that's the most important thing we've got, i guess. it's good and everything, i like it personally, but if you looked at our society and talked to people, you'd think that's all there was and ever will be out there.

are you 13?

Dude our SOCIETY is 13.

i feel like i squandered a zingpportunity there :(

"if you looked at our society and talked to people, you'd think that's all there was and ever will be out there." -- bob marley

it's a good thing I'm no longer a mod because the temptation to put in a substitution on certain posters that turns whatever they write into "WAKE UP SHEEPLE" is overwhelming right now

actually I could probably figure out a regex that appended "WAKE UP SHEEPLE" to the end of every post, which would be funnier

I think there are more sports-inclined coworkers I'm going to deal with in the coming year, but I've gone months without really being around people having a sports conversation. Just depends where you go, I guess.

ppppppffffffffffffffff i'm not talking about waking sheeple up or anything, just talking about a perspective in a tongue-in-cheek sorta way. but if that like shocks your square mind, man, that's your deal.

s[</p><p>][WAKE UP SHEEPLE</p><p>]g;
- Bob Marley

LOL great thread

it kind of blew my mind when my sports-nerd office mate and i learned we were both into bay area rap, but of course he's like waaaay nerdier about it and like casually talking about obscure Mac Dre mixtapes from 97 and it's going over my head the same way the last round of MLB trades did

ha! jjjusten, most of these posts have been from people who are kind of into sports.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/walking-sports-database-scorns-walking-scifi-datab,1442/

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some frenchie posted this

haha. they do it in France too???

Start the week off right!

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how can you hug a baby with nuclear arms

Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.

Which of course, would be ridiculous.

where do you think virgins come from?

how can you dance to architecture when dance is architecture

war is terror is mmm

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UNITEDSLAVESOFAMERICA

it's not the most powerful evil in america, but i think all that prisonplanet paranoid truther shit is the most evil thing we have going tbh