Me like guy in mirror. Him friend….me no care he left handed.

No, men aren’t posing as women to be competitive. That’s nonsense, a lie you morons tell yourselves to excuse your bigotry.

You finally have ONE top of their sport trans athlete to point to, out of around 1/4million high school trans athletes yearly. I thought you claimed to be good at math. Is that statistically significant? (Edit: Hint, trans people make up between 1-2% of the population. Is one upper echelon athlete 2% of all upper echelon atheletes? If not (it’s not), how do you think there is an over representation?)

Yeah. Also one thing awesome about this is the atheletes often dress in whatever is comfortable for them, and will wear glasses that sometimes have sighting lenses. So couple that with the super-customized guns and you get great photos of shooters looking like the pirate captains of some future space ships - http://images.indianexpress.com/2016/07/prakash-nanjappa-759.jpg - Here is the current world champ with his amazing looking pistol- http://www.trbimg.com/img-57ab598f/turbine/la-sp-sn-shooting-oly-2016-rio-20160810/600 - 10 meter air rifle competition is similar, but they wear some protective gear - http://accurateshooter.net/pix/ginwin1601.jpg

Because one is done with the sole intent to cause injury. That's pretty significant. Also, a *real* solid, bare knuckle punch to the face by a large athelete that knows how to throw a punch is an exceptionally dangerous, easily lethal thing. That's why they pull their punches (not to say they aren't hitting each other pretty hard all the same), and what is really the worst aspect of the whole thing. The players are clearly encouraged, if not out right obligated to fight.

As I understand it, long term, ice hockey is actually one of the safer of the full contact sports. While it's hardly safe in the general sense, it's not like the NFL or professional boxing where players can almost as a rule expect chronic traumatic encephalopathy and severe osteoarthritis as a result of their careers.

I don't care how "pansy" You may think this makes "your sport" seem to you now, but the rule was made, and is being enforced, for very good reasons. Sportsmanship should not be an afterthought for any athelete, and a lack of should not be excused for making an amazing play or any athletic prowess.

If you don't think the lack of sportsmanship in highly publicized and idolized public sporting events has been a detrimental force in the USA for the past couple decades (especially!), then you have not talked to a teacher in a long time, or had to deal with the whining mass of sniveling, entitled children this country produces (play a popular competitive game on Xbox live or public queue on League of Legends on PC and observe the communications for an example). Mandating sportsmanship sets an example for the most impressionable in our society, and without requiring that of our "professionals", and setting *real* penalties for behaving this way, the message comes across to our youth and young adults in this country that it is not just acceptable to behave like this in a professional environment, but it is also to be looked up to.

You can look at it any way you want. I'm considered "middle-class" by all terms. I have super cheap rent in one of the most expensive places in the US, that is of my own accord. But I sure as hell can't afford anything. I take public transit, ride my bike, I still eat the best organics in the nation and have the best friends I could have ever met.

I've had many jobs where I've done the work of the higher-ups and seen what they do while making 5X the amount of money I do. I know they know they're lucky, but, I've also seen how they choose to make financial decisions for their own gain - one of those being getting others to do their work for them. Corrupt fucks.

One of my main influences for being more "socially" inclined was my father. A CEO, he wasn't a scumbag or anything - at least not to my knowledge (he did help build prisons) but just the thought of people putting profit before their own lives & family is sickening.

To his credit, he grew up in Philly with a mother who lost her husband (an olympic athelete) early on. She grew up during the depression and only had a 4th grade education. She was one of those cuties that saved huge tin foil balls. I know my father worked hard and felt obligated to but I think and will always think he cared too much about making profit.

He still touts that. Now that I am nearly an old man he admitted while we sipped on some bourbon and smoked a cigar that, "All I ever wanted was to make money." My reply was "yeah." I looked him in his empty eyes and saw a robot. Sure he has a super nice house on a lake system, an amazing wife, nice cars, a speed boat, a golf course... hardly any friends, kids that don't appreciate him... but he has shitloads of money. Good for him! That's amazing. Money really informs people what life is truly about, keeps people focused on what is really important. Paying your taxes, keeping your yard and hair well groomed, going to stiff social events and working. Man, that is just not a life worth living in my opinion.

On the opposite side of the spectrum their are jobs where everyone is paid nearly the same, they buy into their businesses and co-own their businesses and everyone comes out a winner with 30k+ bonuses at the end of the year. The only people that may not think they're winners are people that are greedy fucks that require too much. But, at the same time these people are able to live regular lives that promote interaction, activity & family. Not that I believe in having a family, but when you do not have to take your bullshit job home with you or work many many extra hours the better it is for everyone.

>> ^quantumushroom:

You fellows are buying into something you don't seem to have thought all the way through. If you spread all wealth equally across the board, in a month things would look about the same as they do now, as foolhardy choices were made and the inexperienced gambled their "profits" away.
Communism attempted to eliminate the profit motive. It's been a disaster everywhere it's been tried.
Socialist countries are not only less competitive than capitalist ones, many of them across Europe are now in serious trouble.
You do know most of the American "poor" are well fed, own their own homes, have two vehicles, 3 TVs, cable, computers, appliances, etc?
One other thing. I do not believe for one second that if any of you "revolutionaries" won the lottery, you wouldn't immediately put together a legal team to rival Mr. Burns' on The Simpsons and proceed to exploit every tax shelter and loophole possible.

>> ^highdileeho:

Lomu was the most dominant athelete in all of sport..no debate, and rugby has and always will be the most physical game in the history of sport.


Most physical probably. But I'm sick of hearing Rugby fans talk bad about American Football when they have no idea what the extent of brain injuries and back problems they have. If you want a sport that destroys the human body...it's American Football.

Lomu was the most dominant athelete in all of sport..no debate, and rugby has and always will be the most physical game in the history of sport.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
I disagree. The locations you mention have quotations & images of philosophers, historical figures, poets, authors, actors, atheletes, and public figures of all kinds. Some (not all) of those displays have origins in religion. The historical role of religion in government and law is important. It is part of our culture. For a modern court or school to give a nod & pay homage to that role is not a slap in the face of any particular belief system, nor is it 'advocating' any particular religion.
When a library somewhere puts up a pithy quote from Frued, Nietzsche, or some other sectarian it isn't a big deal to me - even if I disagree with the overall senitment. It doesn't make me want to 'join' an organization that respects the subject. They are just tipping a hat to 'good advice' and great people & events from our shared history. To suggest that some images/quotes/events/displays should be banned because they happen to have their origins in religion is censorship of the worst kind - and people who claim to be 'open minded' should be ashamed to have any part of it.


If a courthouse had a display of a dozen different ancient law codes, and the ten commandments was one of them, I don't think it would be a problem for most atheists. The problem is when that is the ONLY one displayed, especially in the form of a "2.6-ton granite monument".

And if you take another look at the ten commandments, only two of them (murder and theft) are still against the law. Well, two and a half, since bearing false witness is sometimes illegal. If you want to "give a nod" to it, fine, but others try to claim it's the "foundation" of our legal system (as in the article). Twenty five percent congruity is not a foundation, and I doubt there is a religion or philosophy where those actions aren't condemned. So "give a nod" to all of the other ones, too.

And I also think it is highly unlikely that your local library would be able to post "God is dead." on the wall. But I'm glad to hear you would let it slide if they did.

Atheists are the ones saying that there shouldn't be displays of religious beliefs on public property like courthouses, schools, libraries gov't buildings. There's a big difference.

I disagree. The locations you mention have quotations & images of philosophers, historical figures, poets, authors, actors, atheletes, and public figures of all kinds. Some (not all) of those displays have origins in religion. The historical role of religion in government and law is important. It is part of our culture. For a modern court or school to give a nod & pay homage to that role is not a slap in the face of any particular belief system, nor is it 'advocating' any particular religion.

When a library somewhere puts up a pithy quote from Frued, Nietzsche, or some other sectarian it isn't a big deal to me - even if I disagree with the overall senitment. It doesn't make me want to 'join' an organization that respects the subject. They are just tipping a hat to 'good advice' and great people & events from our shared history. To suggest that some images/quotes/events/displays should be banned because they happen to have their origins in religion is censorship of the worst kind - and people who claim to be 'open minded' should be ashamed to have any part of it.

Gorillaman... Jesus Christ... you gotta pick your battles man. Calling people retards for cheering for atheletes from their countries? How do you think people will respond? And c'mon, obviously the US isn't competing, its a goddamn landmass, but usually when you hear a country is competing in the Olympics you kinda assume its citizens are the ones doing the competing. Not exactly a retarded assumption.

ZZZ call me when it stops being embarassingly boring and retarded. Lol, wrestling guys don't seem to understand what people mean when they say "it's fake."

To the wrestling fans: When a person says "It's fake", what they mean is "The outcome is predetermined and so the athleticism is completely boring to me."... What we DON'T mean is "I don't believe that they are skilled atheletes or enduring any pain as a result of all the gymnastics."

Don't be so literal-minded you idiots. We know it's "real", as in it takes place in the physical world and occasionally, as you might expect with steroid-sized men jumping all over each other, there is some pain or an injury. It's still FAKE, boring, and an utterly retarded waste of time.

When I was younger my one friend, who was always pushing wrestling on me, said "well if that's your criteria for disliking wrestling, you should stop watching movies, reading books, just ignore all fiction, because it's all fake and predetermined. You're just being a hypocrite!" Haha dude, whatever floats your boat.

Thanks, Mycroft. I was gonna do that when my points rolled through again...

I know I can't be expected to be impartial, but impartial or not, I'm glad to have my dad be part of the sift.

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Of course it is!

DOH! Sorry dude. that's ironic. This one got through in less than a day. I was shocked to see it jump so high so fast. Anyway,somehow I didn't find yours searching for all the obvious keywords.

aha "athelete" videosift's search engine doesn't guess on miss-spells like that. Anyway, I don't have a save to give it in the end. though I'm still confused how I did search for "lunar rover" and still didn't find you. Well, anyway, the video finally got through so people are see it anyway.

It should be noted that one of the German long-jumpers helped Jesse to get his steps down right on that day.

Jesse still won fair and square - a monumental athelete in his own right.

Just because Hitler preached that "Aryan superiority" bullshit, doesn't mean that all of Germany fell for it.