Originally Posted By ChurroMonster With (1)USC playing (5)Ohio State this Saturday how can anyone even think about politics? USC's only hope is if Beanie Wells is still too hurt to play. And don't forget the UCLA-(14)BYU game. Two upsets in one day! GO BUCKS! PS: SCREW MICHIGAN!
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 This thread is yet another proof that sports fans take for granted that everyone else is, or should be, as vacuous as they are. But who the hell cares which group of pseudo-students beats another in a manufactured, meaningless game? Rah, rah! Go, My Team! We're the best! <<how can anyone even think about politics?>> Do me a favor, sports fans. Calculate how much time you spend watching football games a week. And then spend one-TWENTIETH of that time logging onto a news website and reading about the campaign.
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster Why are you berating football fans for being passionate about it? Get a life.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<Why are you berating football fans for being passionate about it?>> I'm berating the fact that you came into World Events and suggested that the results of college football games are more important than things like US presidential elections... "With (1)USC playing (5)Ohio State this Saturday how can anyone even think about politics?" Take your little "let's get hard over football" thread to General Entertainment, where it belongs.
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster I started this thread as a tongue-in-cheek way to get people off of politics for a second. A lot of people really like to talk about sports and for some people big football games are a big deal. I don't think World Events means only political discussion. But whatever. You've sucked the fun out of it. Congratulations.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<I don't think World Events means only political discussion.>> I agree. As I understand it, World Events can include threads about all kinds of topics that are not necessarily "political." We might talk about developments in the middle-east. About the state of the US economy. About HIV infection rates world-wide. But, as I see it, "World Events" does not invite threads whose purpose is to wish the OSU Buckeyes a successful season.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<Lighten up, for crying out loud.>> Thanks, SPP, for knocking some sense back into me. I'm looking forward to some good "Britney vs. Madonna" threads here in World Events.
Originally Posted By oc_dean I think part of what I-57's is conveying is how some may perceive sports and things like "The Sara Palin Show" as all the same. Just take it all for "fun". Get excited over the "IMAGE" of it all... and pretty much nothing beyond that is important.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "I'm looking forward to some good "Britney vs. Madonna" threads here in World Events." Have a dose of "if you don't like the thread" coupled with a helping of "then quit posting in it" and come back some other time. Meanwhile, go Trojans.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Go 'SC! I will say, though, that politics has become more and more LIKE a long, protracted sporting event. So much more attention is paid to the horserace aspect than to the substance. Long hours spent by pundits discussing the campaigns' strategies rather than, say, comparing how Obama and McCain each propose to fix health care. And sometimes the pundit panels discussing how Palin's play for white working class women may or may not be stopped by sending Hillary out on the stump resemble nothing so much as Howie, Jimmy, and friends discussing how the Eagles' secondary may or may not stop the Cowboys' passing attack.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<Have a dose of "if you don't like the thread" coupled with a helping of "then quit posting in it" and come back some other time.>> All right, I've reviewed the tapes. Maybe I'm guilty of Unnecessary Crankiness.
