What are your unpopular opinions?
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Shakermaker said:
singlecoil said:
Can you really not think of anything more useful than seeing who can (for instance) run around a track the fastest?
I can think of many more things that are more useful than running around a track. But then we'd just make that into a competition too. Countdown said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
C70R said:
I'll top that one up with the view that boxing and MMA/UFC are among the stupidest 'sports' in the world. How stupid would you need to be to follow or participate in a sport where serious head injury is seen as 'success'.
If it weren't for boxing clubs teaching young boys from inner city areas some discipline (possibly the only discipline they are being taught in their lives) and how to focus their aggression, I suspect there'd be a lot more violent football fans. My youngest goes kickboxing. 90% of the parents are shaven headed tattooed psychopaths (and the dads aren’t much better) who send their kids there so that Little Aidan/Jayden/Kayden can “look after hisself” in the playground.
Anyone with half a brain (which should automatically exclude boxers) knows that repeated concussive impacts to the head are an incredibly bad thing. Yet 50k chavs will fill Wembley (or similar) to watch two other chavs repeatedly try and inflict temporary brain damage on each other.
Boxing is the kind of 'sport' that people with no other skills (sporting, technical or academic) turn to. It's literally their last chance to make a decent living without resorting to crime.
Quite why anyone with a triple-digit IQ thinks that it (or MMA/UFC) is a sport to be celebrated is beyond me.
bristolbaron said:
singlecoil said:
Most of life is a competition, but the competition to discover new antibiotics (for instance) is more useful than the competition (for instance) to jump the highest.
Linford Christie should be held personally account able for not curing cancer, that sort of thing?singlecoil said:
Shakermaker said:
singlecoil said:
Can you really not think of anything more useful than seeing who can (for instance) run around a track the fastest?
I can think of many more things that are more useful than running around a track. But then we'd just make that into a competition too. singlecoil said:
Most of life is a competition, but the competition to discover new antibiotics (for instance) is more useful than the competition (for instance) to jump the highest.
If they do an Olympics style event for pharmaceutical trials and break throughs, I'll probably watch something elseWhy can't we compete at more than one thing though? Isn't it nice that we can have time in our lives to enjoy competing at something which isn't life or death?
Shakermaker said:
singlecoil said:
Most of life is a competition, but the competition to discover new antibiotics (for instance) is more useful than the competition (for instance) to jump the highest.
If they do an Olympics style event for pharmaceutical trials and break throughs, I'll probably watch something elseWhy can't we compete at more than one thing though? Isn't it nice that we can have time in our lives to enjoy competing at something which isn't life or death?
Countdown said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
C70R said:
I'll top that one up with the view that boxing and MMA/UFC are among the stupidest 'sports' in the world. How stupid would you need to be to follow or participate in a sport where serious head injury is seen as 'success'.
If it weren't for boxing clubs teaching young boys from inner city areas some discipline (possibly the only discipline they are being taught in their lives) and how to focus their aggression, I suspect there'd be a lot more violent football fans. My youngest goes kickboxing. 90% of the parents are shaven headed tattooed psychopaths (and the dads aren’t much better) who send their kids there so that Little Aidan/Jayden/Kayden can “look after hisself” in the playground.
Training hurts, you will walk away from it with bruises and that is from people expressly trying not to hurt you. I really, really hope I never have to try it in real life.
If anything, going to a boxing class might bring some positive adult influences into a council kid's life. I've never met a martial arts instructor who's arrogant, aggro and ignorant, so they can show the kid that there is a different way to go through life than how their parents act.
singlecoil said:
Shakermaker said:
singlecoil said:
Can you really not think of anything more useful than seeing who can (for instance) run around a track the fastest?
I can think of many more things that are more useful than running around a track. But then we'd just make that into a competition too. C70R said:
Boxing is the kind of 'sport' that people with no other skills (sporting, technical or academic) turn to. It's literally their last chance to make a decent living without resorting to crime.
You make that sound like a bad thing. I'd far rather the 2 hardest lads on the estate where trying to knock each other out for prize money, than trying to knock my mum for her pension money.. 
Willy Nilly said:
There are a lot of knock on benefits to sport and the science behind it. I genuinely cannot think of a single drawback to participating in sport.
I can think of several... Currently an iliopsoas/obliques injury (12 weeks now); previously torn lateral deltoids, fractured wrist, fractured metatarsal, RC injuries, tendonitis...Still, participating in sport is probably the best thing you can do with your spare time.
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