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You can recreate the "famous" F1 atmosphere by pulling up a deck chair next to any motorway.

I like hockey and Formula 1 racing. I hate baseball, basketball and (American) football. I don't care about soccer at all.

― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 21 October 2017 22:06 (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

An awful selection, awful

Do you guys know that I’ve been hit by a car twice and once pulled out of the way from a bus at the last possible moment?

The Olympics are cool, though, probably because a lot of the events generally take about 10 minutes instead of three hours. xps

I'm into darts and nout else sports

Darts is great, of course.

I did not know that, treeship. Were you older or younger when it happened?

F1 is perfect for sitting down after a big Sunday lunch, watching the start, napping through the whole race and waking up for the finish, not having missed anything important

The Modern Pentathlon is the best Olympic sport because you can watch people who can't ride horses very well try to do showjumping

Actually Ted Hankey looks enough like a controversial opinion to make his picture worth posting to this thread:

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/624/cpsprodpb/B9A8/production/_87482574_tedhankey.jpg

Phil Taylor is the greatest sportsman since Don Bradman <--- controversial opinion

He's more what you'd call a spartsman

Phil Taylor does have his own very particular intensity, yeah. Find him a lot more captivating than footballers ppl have shown me as an example of what it's all about.

I mean:

http://cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/1/photos/993000/Phil-The-Power-Taylor-retirement-interview-824993.jpg

(Sorry about that, Treesh.)

Darts a game not a sport

my general distaste for dilettantism

there is nothing wrong with dilettantism; no one can be an expert in everything and superficial interests are fine

Otm. People should explore whatever they are interested in and not feel pressured to pretend to be an expert in whatever they’re into.

I got no problem with people not liking sport but they should keep quiet about it like the guiltiest secret

also this

You can recreate the "famous" F1 atmosphere by pulling up a deck chair next to any motorway.

― calzino, Saturday, 21 October 2017 23:15 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

made me IRL lol

feel like starting a "Fuck off, The Clientele" thread even tho I've never knowingly heard them

appreciate that this is probably not v controvers

I got no problem with people not liking sport but they should keep quiet about it like the guiltiest secret

I usually do. This is a thread for confessing controversial opinions.

oh sure wasn't aimed at you Sund4r just my own controp

The day the Yankees are eliminated is always the year's happiest in New York, among the moral and discerning.

feel like starting a "Fuck off, The Clientele" thread even tho I've never knowingly heard them

appreciate that this is probably not v controvers

― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Sunday, October 22, 2017 12:12 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I haven't checked them out because the thread title puts me off so much, like The Smiths are the last good thing that happened to music, fuck that.

The day the Yankees are eliminated is always the year's happiest in New York, among the moral and discerning.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, October 22, 2017 7:39 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not that controversial. I still remember high-fiving a total stranger in an LES pizzeria when the Yankees lost the WS to the Diamondbacks.

I like fun, which is why I hate baseball.

― grawlix (unperson)

i guess this explains my soft spot for baseball. i loathe fun.

PACO: It's okay to not specifically teach To Kill a Mockingbird; it's not censorship. The book is still sitting there in every library.

There's like thousands of really good books (and room for plenty more).

American literature is a broader topic than the 10 or 20 things some old person thinks everybody must read. It's not even like there's a shortage of other things that address race and justice - some of them even do it in fresher ways, that can do at least as good a job of educating people.

Making a culture-war dog-whistle out of that particular book is a distraction. We can respond by enlarging the canon, not by calcifying it.

“Baseball is a thinking man’s game.” -my stoner little league coach

baseball rules

whatcha think about Huckleberry Finn then, Puf?

Doc, I have a degree in English and from Missouri. I think a lot of things about Huckleberry Finn.

I think people with an interest in 19th century American fiction should probably read it. However, I can allow for the possibility that someone else's path through literature might not include it, while remaining an otherwise interesting and robust path.

do you think it’s actually about the particular book and not people interested in crafting the curriculum of public schools to fit their agenda

it’s controversial when you have them drop the first book, more of the same with the second, and next thing you know, you’ll have the power to drop anything, with no fuss, just like those social progressives have done

Literacy isn't for everyone.

yeah the campaign against TKAM isn't about the book in particular, it's about shielding kids from difficult topics and avoiding discussion of (white) america's sins. the point of teaching that book is to expose them to those ideas, not to force them to read a particular book

it's not like the people removing TKAM from the curriculum are suggesting that "between the world and me" be added in its place, lol

Velvet Goldmine is Todd Haynes' best film.

Hashtags are bad, really bad

#notcontroversial

They’re really great for teaching theme to middle schoolers, fwiw

"Darts a game not a sport"

when i see pictures of people playing darts it makes me think of bowling. and that if everyone bowled and played darts a lot there would be about a billion expert dart players and bowlers. maybe that's like the old joke of black people letting white people have hockey to be good at.

i can't think of any sport i wouldn't watch. i think i like every sport. but i don't have cable anymore. so i don't watch sports.

actually, nascar after awhile can get a little tedious. if you are on valium or something it might help.

Barry Lyndon is only watchable on percocet

When people reach the age of...let's say 70, they should be legally restricted from sharing their opinions with anyone under the age of 70.

hmmm, i'd say more like age 30, and instead of sharing opinions we should just not trust anyone over the age of 30. and the contro part is...i invented that all on my own

i keep completing the dot dot dot part of life, which i understand is my responsibility, but the "profit" part never seems to appear

Maybe there should just be a blanket rule that allows you to share your opinions only with other people who are within 10 years of your age.

Cats are better than dogs

controversial but true

Neither

Cats are stupid.