by Joe Hillshoist » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:16 pm
Arcadia<br><br>I get what you are saying, and I do agree. On that 2 minute hate level, even in Australia it was becoming offensive at the melbourne commonwealth games. There was heaps of jingoism, but a nasty side to it that i hadn't noticed before.<br><br>I didn't know the Maya played that game with such bloodlust. but then they were a bloodlusty society when they lived in cities. Maybe thats why they don't anymore.<br><br>But I believe that sport has been played in S and C America for a long time, before the maya, (and lets face it even soccer players can get shot in s america today). It was also a dangerous game, due to the fact that the ball was made of solid rubber. a strike on the head may be fatal, and on the foot crippling. That takes nothing from your point tho.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Nowadays, a frisbee does the job just fine..If more people played frisbee and chilled the fuck out, there wouldn't be an NWO, heh..<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Fuck yeah<br><br>Oh BTW Did you get yur moniker from that killing joke song?<br><br>Sport is a mythological process and any cultural technician that wants to turn their society fascist could well do it.<br><br>"For some reason, it was only the guys on teams with numbers on their backs at school who beat me and terrorized me out of school for having hair a little too long."<br><br>I didn't like the jock mentality, thats why I stopped playing Aussie rules, tho I play it now, near 40, and can still do all right. So I have no regrets about not doing it then, tho I sometimes wonder how far I could have gone. Aussie rules is a great game tho, it can be more like riding a motorbike than that experiment in fascist war programming americans call football (WTF is that? Was that sport invented by aliens or did it surface after 1946?). Hugh if Grid Iron put you off football, i suspect you have been the victim of some of that reality programming that being discussed by you and prof. pan.<br><br>BTW I played it for half a season so its not like I have no experience with it. If anyone asks why I stopped - Cos its crap. Football is supposed to be fun to play.<br><br>All the same Hugh, you should have gone back. And you should have hit the first bloke that said or did something and kept hitting until one of you cpouldn't get up.<br><br>Its a sad fact of life that most male humans throughout history have had to risk fighting aand death at one time or another.<br><br>Way back in the day, it was because tribes and cultures needed protection. They still do. And the ones most equipped and expendable were young men.<br><br>Thats just the way we got here, and there is some merit in the attitude that if you haven't got the courage to get hurt then you are weak. That might sound fascist in itself, but every human has fascist tendencies, or the primal motivations that can be their foundations.<br><br>I am a football coach, and so I am interested in hearing what you say, cos I take doing that seriously. just cos its my way of equipping kids to deal with a fucked up world. Or trying, and its fun, and some of the kids I have coached will be playing seniour football in the next year. Some with me, that'll be awesome. Some perhaps with reigning premiers the Sydney Swans. But he's got other options too.<br><br>The kids out here are pretty unique. They get exposed to a lot of amazing stuff. Lucky. Not like the suburbs...<br><br>There used to be a joke...<br><br>Whats the definition of confusion?<br><br>Fathers Day in Nimbin.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>So Fallujah will happen over and over with a new crop of sports- watching young men pulling the trigger against 'the other team.'<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I actually find this pretty wrong. It just doesn't reflect the culture I live in.<br><br>Maybe its a hemispherical thing.<br><br>Maybe it just smacks of this:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> Lippmann's concept of the stereotypethe (sic) "pictures in our heads," as Lippmann put it, through which people are said to deal with the world outside their immediate experience.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Its 3 oclock, Im going to bed<br><br>PS Hi seamus, 0 2 to Brazil. What a bitch, and the ref - now there's a conspiracy, soccer refs -oh well, they had their chances and could have taken them. I reckon Brazil will take us a lot more seriously if we meet again. no Renaldo starting thats for sure.<br><br>even me old man who played soccer for his country was stunned at how well australia played. he rates them in the top 10 in the world. I dunno enough about it to say, well top 10. Thats sounds right.<br><br>see there's no jingoism here<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :b --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":b"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>