Miscellaneous Musings (Limited Edition)

[e0d9n0b5]

i remember when it used to have a top 5 ranking on the forum index

[OkayOkay]

Came in here to post how glad I was that I'm not one of those people who takes professional sports super seriously. I watch baseball and basketball and all, but just passed someone with a Buster Posey personalized license plate...and has 0 relation to him. That shit is weird to me, people get all emotionally invested in a sports team that will never know they exist, and has no impact on their life. Fucking people punching eachother in the face over an athlete they will never meet. It's like the grown man version of being a one direction fan.

[RayRei]

I'm from cleveland and the fans are fucking insufferable. Not to mention Ohio State fans. Nightmares.

[Magsåvningsreserven]

why do people get emotionally invested in films and tv, they're never going to meet the cast and crew

[BRICK DOM]

why do people get emotionally invested in anything? 

[Magsåvningsreserven]

get me

[BRICK DOM]

got you

[Desi]

^was emotionally invested when Hotrod opened the Matrix while inside Unicron.

[CASSAVA PIECE]

Came in here to post how glad I was that I'm not one of those people who takes professional sports super seriously. I watch baseball and basketball and all, but just passed someone with a Buster Posey personalized license plate...and has 0 relation to him. That shit is weird to me, people get all emotionally invested in a sports team that will never know they exist, and has no impact on their life. Fucking people punching eachother in the face over an athlete they will never meet. It's like the grown man version of being a one direction fan.

go home and be a family man

[OkayOkay]

Figured you'd hustle in here to post when you saw me.

[CASSAVA PIECE]

isn't that what you just did? but regardless are you that stupid? your post wasn't even the latest post in this thread when i replied...

[StrangeLove]

Been wearing sandals sock basketball shorts shirt and hat everywhere lately

[ojsimpson]

Came in here to post how glad I was that I'm not one of those people who takes professional sports super seriously. I watch baseball and basketball and all, but just passed someone with a Buster Posey personalized license plate...and has 0 relation to him. That shit is weird to me, people get all emotionally invested in a sports team that will never know they exist, and has no impact on their life. Fucking people punching eachother in the face over an athlete they will never meet. It's like the grown man version of being a one direction fan.

 

youre fucking naive kid

[kH0yA Sw@Gp0o]

why do people get emotionally invested in anything? 

next step is to burn all your jawnz

[okonomi]

then burn yourself

[wrong_move]

 

[CSK]

why do people get emotionally invested in films and tv, they're never going to meet the cast and crew

 

don't know if you're trying to be facetious, but there's a clear difference. sports have a "us vs them" thing going to the point of delusion/fanaticism. i enjoy sports and respect great athletic feats but i don't get people hurting or, for that matter, even fervently arguing each other over real life dudes who don't even contemplate their existence. there are actual people out there willing to do very dumb things with very real ramifications in the name of sports (e.g. dude who recently killed dodgers fan in the bay, etc). shit's pathetic.

 

the emotional investment that comes with something artistic is so obviously different from this.

 

although they can and although the sports world tries to spin many narratives, athletes in general don't represent ideas, themes, etc that warrant emotional investment like great works of literature, cinema, music, fashion...i.e. art. nope. emotional investment in sports usually boils down to "my guy who just happens to play in the city i live in is better than your guy and if you don't agree fuck you."

[hahapete]

My coworker got a budget for a secretary and he hired the corniest white girl ever.

 

I asked him where he found her and he told me, "my daughter just joined a sorority and she sent me a list of recently graduated sisters when she heard I needed a secretary. Four are living in the Bay Area so I got them interviews and this one had some secretarial experience so she was hired."

 

I asked him what sort of secretarial experience she had and he said, "well she listed that she worked for her father's law firm for three weeks on her resume and then wrote that she quit that job to work at a tanning salon for four weeks before quitting to work at cupcake seller for two weeks but now she's here."

 

Incredible. 

 

edited for emphasis

Edited October 15, 2013 by hahapete

[Vampyrvargfesten]

My coworker got a budget for a secretary and he hired the corniest white girl ever.

 

I asked him where he found her and he told me, "my daughter just joined a sorority and she sent me a list of recently graduated sisters when she heard I needed a secretary. Four are living in the Bay Area so I got them interviews and this one had some secretarial experience so she was hired."

 

I asked him what sort of secretarial experience she had and he said, "well she listed that she worked for her father's law firm for three weeks on her resume and then wrote that she quit that job to work at a tanning salon for four weeks before quitting to work at cupcake seller for two weeks but now she's here."

 

Incredible. 

 

edited for emphasis

 

you have less than 3 weeks to film that hardcore office porno before she quits this job

 

time is running out

[wEstSidE]

Been wearing sandals sock basketball shorts shirt and hat everywhere lately

are you a black college student?

[donotfire]

The old guys in my sisters suburban neighborhood occasionally host poker tournaments at their homes. In the three times I've came out to play with them I've hustled them out of a grand. Pretty sure I'm about lose my invite.

[fads]

"sports is a first rate safety valve when you and your value system are brought under friendly but unexpected scrutiny."

[CASSAVA PIECE]

don't know if you're trying to be facetious, but there's a clear difference. sports have a "us vs them" thing going to the point of delusion/fanaticism. i enjoy sports and respect great athletic feats but i don't get people hurting or, for that matter, even fervently arguing each other over real life dudes who don't even contemplate their existence. there are actual people out there willing to do very dumb things with very real ramifications in the name of sports (e.g. dude who recently killed dodgers fan in the bay, etc). shit's pathetic.

 

the emotional investment that comes with something artistic is so obviously different from this.

 

although they can and although the sports world tries to spin many narratives, athletes in general don't represent ideas, themes, etc that warrant emotional investment like great works of literature, cinema, music, fashion...i.e. art. nope. emotional investment in sports usually boils down to "my guy who just happens to play in the city i live in is better than your guy and if you don't agree fuck you."

 

http://gallatin.nyu.edu/academics/courses/detail.SP2012.IDSEM-UG1324.001.html

[philosophiliac]

woogie gets a one week ban. supertrash goes silent

[Layne]

last minute trip to NYC for those "surprise" arcade fire shows this weekend... pretty pumped about it.

[skeetinmynose]

This is opening up close to me and is getting huge media coverage for the (ripped) concept.

 

Magic Restroom Cafe

[bfan]

last minute trip to NYC for those "surprise" arcade fire shows this weekend... pretty pumped about it.

 

wait fuck this is already happening??? I fucking hate myself for not preordering

[yoallanface]

been thinking about selling my raf parachute jacket so i can eat again i hardly wear it these days but i really just cant let it go

[Spaghettini]

^you'll regret it if you do

[CSK]