"Nice app you've got there. It would be a shame if something happened to it." Seriously, I'm certainly not a lawyer, but isn't there some kind of racketeering charge that can be brought against these guys?

Oh grunting man. Grunting man, will you ever cease your grunted proclamation of full body, mind, and soul dedication to each swing of the game of tennis?

During sex grunting man exclaims EAUUUGH EAUUUGH EUGH EEAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGHH with the windows down and everyone in the neighborhood sorta liked it at first but now it's just goddamn annoying. Seriously every time, grunting man?

Damn grunting man. Ahhhh grunting man.

What are you grunting at this time? What are you trying to tell me, boy? Timmy fell down a giant gaping anus filled with sores and fissures? Is that why you grunt every time you swing your racket?

No, no, no -- he was just lifting a bag of grain to carry from the mill down to the grainery. Why grunting man has made a name for himself all over the realm (mostly as grunting man). I remember when he was a wee lad, grunting at anything that moved. Birds, signposts, bidets...

What was I saying? Ahhh... GRUNT GRUNT --

Grunting man to the rescue! Hooray Hooray! He comes to save the daaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy!

One of the things chimps will do is drag tree branches around for use in dominance displays in which they run at rivals, hair on end, screaming, throwing rocks, making as much noise as possible.

Jane Goodall described one of her chimps who discovered he could bang gas cans together to create an enormous racket, and in the use of which artificial aid he rapidly advanced from relatively low status to alpha.

Chimps use tools in other ways such as when 'fishing' for termites, or most incredibly for me, making absorbent sponges from chewed up leaves or moss. They learn these behaviours from each other: some chimp groups use some tools, some use others, some use none, and innovations spread rapidly within groups.

It's a worthless pile of rocks.

As much as it has meaning culturally - it is as a symbol of a tyrant's vanity, purchased with the starvation and travail of his people.

The crime here is that local people are forcibly prevented from redistributing good stone into useful projects by the pimps who run the national prostitution racket of the tourism industry.

Although i know some places in the world (probably everywhere)they play it competitively(pro/amateur) ive never had any exposure to it on television in my entire life. It would not be odd at all for people to think of it as just a back yard game as i did most my life. Until the internet i would have ONLY thought it was played that way. I would have equated it to playing croquet. It was made an Olympic sport in 1992 although i can't recall ever seeing it.

Also like sagemind said ive never seen a badminton set that was any more then a cheapish toy set you would buy at Toys R Us. Also as a kid i did love to hit rocks with the rackets

Hmmm, not sure how to respond to this.
Trust me, I was being completely serious. I honestly didn't know it was played at a competition level.

They sell them in the toy sections of every grocery and department store. It's a game, like lawn darts and bocci ball that we play when family comes to visit or at picnics. And every time we play it, even now, with my kids, we have to find the least broken rackets and the least squashed birdie to play with.

Seeing it played in competition, makes me think of competitive dodge-ball, something I also didn't know was a real sport other than in gym class.

Hold it, What?
People play this as a real sport?

I thought it was only a back-yard game that that you had to re-buy every year because the kids break the net and use the rackets to launch rocks.

FAKE!

Sabot round would go RIGHT THROUGH that tennis racket with barely any deflection.

@lucky760
um...what?
inmates are wild animals?

i guess i could get on board with your opinion if the parameters were exclusively directed toward extremely violent psycho/sociopaths.

otherwise your comment makes no sense.
2.4 million inmates in american prisons.the majority for non-violent offenses (think pot smokers),70% are non-white and to singularly lump them all as somehow being "wild animals" unworthy of participating in normal society,reveals a serious lack of understanding.

the american penal system dehumanizes and has zippo to do with rehabilitation OR corrections.
which is why i referenced the milgram experiment.

treat someone with humanity,even if they are paying a debt to society,and the results will always be a better outcome than what we do to prisoners here in the states.

the american penal system is a racket,a business.it commodifies the poor and those not deemed "of value" and its a travesty.something we should all be ashamed of,not celebrating.

It's funny you call it a racket. The government funding model is the same as the mafia funding model. (That's actually a thing. Not making a joke).

Both rely on a tribute, both have enforcers to make sure you cooperate, and both provide the community with protection from touble makers that would harm productivity.

Heck, in south America, there are mafias that provide public services in places where the government doesn't have a presence. Utilities, policing, welfare, healthcare, etc.

I say this not as a criticism of either government or mafia. Simply pointing out that both work on the same basic principles.

-scheherazade

@scheherazade
bingo!

the courts are a racket.
ideals and principles are all well and good,full of fluffy bunnies and rainbows but the hard facts are that the,ironically named "justice system" ,is simply a money extraction machine.

its business,with little or nothing to do with actual truth or justice.

its a pay to win system.
you have the cash?
well here is your fine and have a nice day.
you're broke?
fuck you...pay me.
no job?
fuck you..pay me.
cant pay?
fine i have a nice little cell where we get a kickback for your time spent and just for a nice,good kick in the balls..we are going to charge you for everything and double it for privileges,because we have a 20 year contract with the local privately owned prison and we guaranteed 90% occupancy.

what did people think was going to happen with all the austerity going around? the roads still need to be maintained.cops need to be paid,schools need to open,water needs to be treated and rich people/corporations sure as fuck dont wanna pay for any of that bullshit..so fuck you poor people!

welcome to the grinding machine that is your local courthouse!

fuck you and have a nice day!

It's not just FIFA itself who are exempt from taxes. It's also everyone associated with them, including construction, merchandising, and sponsoring, from the very second the World Cup was "awarded" to Brazil until they finally fuck off again.

No worries though. FIFA employed a very renowned expert as their chief ethics investigator, none other than Michael Garcia, who did such a crackerjack job when Lehman went belly-up.

And while we're at it, Jerome Valcke, the arrogant wanker at 5:15, is quite a piece of work himself. During his tenure as FIFA's marketing director, he ran a racket with VISA and Mastercard resulting in a penalty to the tune of $90m and was subsequently axed, only to be rehired as general fucking secretary.

These guys are on my roof constantly banging on the metal pipes - Making an awful racket throughout the house. And they don't do it once, they'll sit up there doing it for like 20 minutes. Not so bad in the daytime, but quite a shock at 4:30 - 5:30 in the morning. Not the best wake up call....

<arnold>I need your clothes, your boots, your motorcycle, and your tennis racket. </arnold>

I have an ex which got me involved in this whole "Mystery School" thing and I regret the money dumped into that racket.

Well... no, no, it was a pretty decent experience getting my body felt up by a group of mostly women during "Reiki" sessions and the weird goddess orgies -- not too shabby for an ignorant white boy.