how football/soccer sounds to people that don't care

[PhoenixAsh]

http://www.tickld.com/x/how-football-sounds-to-people-that-just-dont-care-T




Firstly, imagine every time within a day that football is mentioned by someone else. Secondly, replace it with something that you don't want to hear about every day. Say... Archaeology. Then, think carefully about how an average day would pan out.

So, you awaken to the clock radio. It's 7AM. Just as you awaken, it's time for the news and archaeology already. Not news and other historical investigations, like library restorations or museum openings (unless there's another event happening), but just the news and archaelogy. Malaysian plane is still missing. Pistorius is still on trial. New dig announced in Giza. Ancient Mayan temple discovered. Exciting stuff.

Time for a bite to eat over the morning TV. More news. More archaeology. Yes, you are aware of what is up with the missing plane. Fine. Now the archaeology in video format. Video of people dusting off some skulls and bits of pottery. All well and good, but archaeology isn't your thing. It would be nice to hear about something else.

Even when it isn't archaeology season, the media follow noted archaeologists. They drive fast cars, date beautiful women, advertise fragrances, and sometimes they go to nightclubs and act in the worst possible way. Scandals erupt as the tabloids follow these new celebrities when they're not searching the past for answers. It is entirely possible you can recite the names of certain researchers, even if you don't pay attention to archaeology. You don't know what transfer season is, but you know that someone was transferred to a dig in Peru for a sum of money that could fund the London Underground for two whole days.

Out of the car at 8:55 and into work. What are the colleagues talking about, I wonder? Oh, Jones dropped a 3,890 year old pot and smashed it? What a useless wanker! Someone should do something unpleasant to him. And don't even ask about the unfortunate incident in Athens two years ago - you'll be there all day! Breaking a pillar like that! We don't talk about that here, mate. What? You don't want to discuss the finer points of the prevalence of phallic imagery in Pompeii? Is there something wrong with you?

The drive home from work. Every thirty minutes, no matter the station, someone mentions the archaeology. Best sit in silence. Drive past a huge billboard with a black and white picture of a rakishly handsome archaeologist draped over an impossibly beautiful woman. He's winking at you. Trowel in his left hand, supermodel in the right. Jurassic, by Calvin Klein.

And now the pub. A nice pub with a beer garden. Posters in the windows. LIVE EXCAVATION AT THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS! All of it on a huge TV with the volume up too loud. Drunken people yelling at the screen. "SEND IT FOR CARBON DATING, YOU USELESS ***K!" "WHAT ARE YOU ON, MATE? DUST THE ANCIENT MEDALLION GENTLY! SMELTING METHODS OF THE TIME PRODUCED VERY SOFT AND IMPURE METALS EASILY PRONE TO DISFIGURATION!" All this from two men out of a crowd of twenty. One lousy drunken idiot and his chum ruin the image of other archaeology fans. Carbon dating report from the lab updates on TV, read by a man employed because they've been following the beautiful science since they were a boy. The drunk chimes in again. "WHAT PHARAOH'S REIGN DID YOU SAY? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS SAYS ABOUT THE UNDERPINNINGS OF OUR THEORY OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF 4TH BC EGYPT? GET IN, MATE!" A cheer cascades through the building and you can only wonder why.

Best go home and avoid anyone who might be drinking and singing. You once met a disagreeable chap who threatened to beat you up because you didn't watch the archaeology. "Not a late paleolithic era supporter are you? Think you're better than me? I'll have you, you scrawny tw*t!"

To bed. To repeat the cycle tomorrow. The inescapable, inevitability that wherever you go, someone, somewhere, is just dying to talk to you about the archaeology.

[Rosa Partizan]

soccer is the most awesome thing, don't you make me angry AGAIN :mad:

[PhoenixAsh]

Soccer is counter revolutionary. Here is my proof: two teams competing over scarce resources within a repressing set of rules trying to benefit while the working class is paying for them to continue to do so and a whole bureaucracy is created around it. Soccer is the Stalinism among sports

:mad:

[Sinister Intents]

I feel the exact same way of Football in the USA and basketball, I like soccer a bit better. Also hockey out here is another annoying subject people talk of.

[La Guaneña]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJI0ENzjIlQ

;)

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

You forgot how much of archaeology would be paid for by public money.

[DOOM]

soccer is the most awesome thing, don't you make me angry AGAIN :mad:

"Soccer"
god dammit
call it football. Or do you want the american imperialists to win? DO YOU WANT THAT

[PhoenixAsh]

soccer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0P6p1yAucI ;)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC-H2wXK4T4

[PhoenixAsh]

This one was fun though. We (my company and I) had negotiated with KNVB that for every yellow card or red card an amount of money would be donated to SOS Childrens villages. Then this happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kns7WotXek

[RA89]

But I love football (soccer). :(

If Communism ever took place in my lifetime much of my day would be spent playing it. :o

[Rosa Partizan]

"Soccer"
god dammit
call it football. Or do you want the american imperialists to win? DO YOU WANT THAT

All hail the zionists :frog:

[ComradeOm]

Firstly, imagine every time within a day that football is mentioned by someone else. Secondly, replace it with something that you don't want to hear about every day. Say... Archaeology. Then, think carefully about how an average day would pan out.

So, you awaken to the clock radio. It's 7AM. Just as you awaken, it's time for the news and archaeology already. Not news and other historical investigations, like library restorations or museum openings (unless there's another event happening), but just the news and archaelogy. Malaysian plane is still missing. Pistorius is still on trial. New dig announced in Giza. Ancient Mayan temple discovered. Exciting stuff.

Time for a bite to eat over the morning TV. More news. More archaeology. Yes, you are aware of what is up with the missing plane. Fine. Now the archaeology in video format. Video of people dusting off some skulls and bits of pottery. All well and good, but archaeology isn't your thing. It would be nice to hear about something else.

Even when it isn't archaeology season, the media follow noted archaeologists. They drive fast cars, date beautiful women, advertise fragrances, and sometimes they go to nightclubs and act in the worst possible way. Scandals erupt as the tabloids follow these new celebrities when they're not searching the past for answers. It is entirely possible you can recite the names of certain researchers, even if you don't pay attention to archaeology. You don't know what transfer season is, but you know that someone was transferred to a dig in Peru for a sum of money that could fund the London Underground for two whole days.

Out of the car at 8:55 and into work. What are the colleagues talking about, I wonder? Oh, Jones dropped a 3,890 year old pot and smashed it? What a useless wanker! Someone should do something unpleasant to him. And don't even ask about the unfortunate incident in Athens two years ago - you'll be there all day! Breaking a pillar like that! We don't talk about that here, mate. What? You don't want to discuss the finer points of the prevalence of phallic imagery in Pompeii? Is there something wrong with you?

The drive home from work. Every thirty minutes, no matter the station, someone mentions the archaeology. Best sit in silence. Drive past a huge billboard with a black and white picture of a rakishly handsome archaeologist draped over an impossibly beautiful woman. He's winking at you. Trowel in his left hand, supermodel in the right. Jurassic, by Calvin Klein.

And now the pub. A nice pub with a beer garden. Posters in the windows. LIVE EXCAVATION AT THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS! All of it on a huge TV with the volume up too loud. Drunken people yelling at the screen. "SEND IT FOR CARBON DATING, YOU USELESS ***K!" "WHAT ARE YOU ON, MATE? DUST THE ANCIENT MEDALLION GENTLY! SMELTING METHODS OF THE TIME PRODUCED VERY SOFT AND IMPURE METALS EASILY PRONE TO DISFIGURATION!" All this from two men out of a crowd of twenty. One lousy drunken idiot and his chum ruin the image of other archaeology fans. Carbon dating report from the lab updates on TV, read by a man employed because they've been following the beautiful science since they were a boy. The drunk chimes in again. "WHAT PHARAOH'S REIGN DID YOU SAY? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS SAYS ABOUT THE UNDERPINNINGS OF OUR THEORY OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF 4TH BC EGYPT? GET IN, MATE!" A cheer cascades through the building and you can only wonder why.

Best go home and avoid anyone who might be drinking and singing. You once met a disagreeable chap who threatened to beat you up because you didn't watch the archaeology. "Not a late paleolithic era supporter are you? Think you're better than me? I'll have you, you scrawny tw*t!"

To bed. To repeat the cycle tomorrow. The inescapable, inevitability that wherever you go, someone, somewhere, is just dying to talk to you about the archaeology.How much of this distaste is to do with archaeology and how much of it relates to people who follow archaeology?

[IWantToLearn]

Soccer is counter revolutionary. Here is my proof: two teams competing over scarce resources within a repressing set of rules trying to benefit while the working class is paying for them to continue to do so and a whole bureaucracy is created around it. Soccer is the Stalinism among sports

:mad:

Are not all sports like that?.

[PhoenixAsh]

How much of this distaste is to do with archaeology and how much of it relates to people who follow archaeology?

It would actually sound like a more perfect world if parts of the scenario in the article would come true.

[PhoenixAsh]

Are not all sports like that?.

Nope. Just football. :closedeyes: All other sports represent the working class fighting the bourgeois in an epic struggle for control over the resources.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

the world you described...

it's everything I could want and more

[Futility Personified]

I enjoy football but when people are very much on it non-stop, 24/7 and you're in a bad mood... the article made me laugh.

[Rosa Partizan]

I enjoy football but when people are very much on it non-stop, 24/7 and you're in a bad mood...

then soccer makes you cheer up! :grin: true story!

[MarcusJuniusBrutus]

An archeologically driven media would be EPIC!

[PhoenixAsh]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF_uOgyBK1c

[GiantMonkeyMan]

Nope. Just football. :closedeyes: All other sports represent the working class fighting the bourgeois in an epic struggle for control over the resources.
http://s12.postimg.org/bs39trh65/tradeunioncricket.jpg
;)

[F9]

soccer is the most awesome thing, don't you make me angry AGAIN :mad:


Soccer is counter revolutionary. Here is my proof: two teams competing over scarce resources within a repressing set of rules trying to benefit while the working class is paying for them to continue to do so and a whole bureaucracy is created around it. Soccer is the Stalinism among sports

what is this soccer you are all talking about and why it is included in my forum where i also see you call it a sport?I have no clue of this sport, what is it?
the whole issue with FOOTBALL is ridiculous, just like the article, but it had some funny parts i have to give you that, i smiled a bit :grin:

[Red Economist]

my dad and I have come to some kind of unwritten understanding as I personally don't really care much about football but it saves us from talking about politics; he can talk about football as long as we can laugh at how outrageous the footballers salaries are, how stupid the businessmen/Russian oligarch thats owns the team is for sacking a manager every game they loose and the sheer size of Jose Morino's ego (on a comedy programme they did a spoof of him as 'jose arrogantey' and it's just stuck).

[Lynx]

Is there a behavioral difference between popular culture including certain sports, and subculture?
The internet provides a meeting place for those who share the same interests. I would guess that sites devoted to archaeology exhibit some of the behaviors described in the OP. You just have to be part of that subculture to appreciate it. The rest of us ignore subcultures, just as we tune out those aspects of popular culture that do not interest us.

Trigger warning:

Visual Basic is a real programming language :grin:

[The Intransigent Faction]

http://www.burntweiners.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/17765_10200190125862055_673046812_n.jpg (http://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&docid=bLhjXG_b3Jm9pM&tbnid=10nV0efIF_PzoM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.burntweiners.com%2F2012%2F12% 2F12%2Fnathan-anderson-on-warcraftsports%2F&ei=gqx6U8GVIpefyAShm4L4Cw&bvm=bv.67229260,d.aWw&psig=AFQjCNEEVu5bQk-V7l2sIAgGZNZ_pjrJyA&ust=1400634878562729)

The title made me think of this. Seriously, aside from the nationalist implications, enjoying sports for the sake of enjoying them is just a matter of preference, I suppose.

[PhoenixAsh]

^ It kind of worries me that I not only know what he is talking about, can follow his arguments and kind of agree with him on the Pandaran issue...


..and still, you have to admit, it makes more sense than soccer.

[Ele'ill]

dropping antifa banners and black flags with flares, smoke, and fire, at an NHL game would be fucking weird SWAT would be all over that

[Igor]

guess how people who always just need to bring up how they don't care about sports sound to people who do

yeah fucking annoying thats what

people care about things i don't gubgubgbugubgb

[PhoenixAsh]

There is a huge difference between caring about something and something dominating social conversation and interaction.

Soccer is to social interaction what cat pictures are to facebook

[Igor]

idk i don't talk very much about football with my friends even though some of them and myself are very enthusiastic about it and i can't recall the last time ive seen a cat picture pop up in facebook

so maybe the issue is with your particular group of friends than anything else

[PhoenixAsh]

No no. Seriously it is everywhere: work; grocery store; radio; television. My friends are just a small drop in a bucket full of soccer. Awful.

But admittedly...I am the one posting the cat pictures ;)

[Queen Mab]

Football is a social lubricant. What else do I have to talk to strangers about to build a rapport, apart from the weather?

[PhoenixAsh]

I also found a rare letter from Marx to Engels which unfortunately has now been withdrawn from MIA so I can't link but I swear it is true:




Dear Engels,

Football sucks and is tots bourgeois and needs to be abolished after the revolution.

Love,

Marx.



I think it is very obvious that this is what needs to happen.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Football is a social lubricant. What else do I have to talk to strangers about to build a rapport, apart from the weather?

I don't usually bother to build a rapport with strangers, so I guess you've got me there! :grin:

[F9]

I also found a rare letter from Marx to Engels which unfortunately has now been withdrawn from MIA so I can't link but I swear it is true:



I think it is very obvious that this is what needs to happen.

no revolution for me if it doesnt have football

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Football is a social lubricant. What else do I have to talk to strangers about to build a rapport, apart from the weather?

The falling rate of profit.

Make sure you stare right into their eyes while doing so.