Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 12:16:09 +1300
From: Janskrit Virdee <lorax-AT-inet.net.nz>
Subject: Re: Sports




bakunin-AT-hushmail.com wrote:

> I've been thinking about responing to this thread for a while... I'm on
> a roll here, so what the heck?  First off, I hate sports.  Or to clarify
> a bit, I hate *spectator* sports.  I have nothing against getting together
> with a few friends and engaging in some rule based play.  What I despise
> is assloads of beer-swilling jerkoffs living vicariously by yelling and
> gesticulating in what amounts to nothing more than a petty (and pathetic)
> form of nationalism.  Corporate sponsored distraction, swill Coors while
> they take your money to fund right wing assholes.  Don't like what the government's
> doing?  Don't think about that, go bleat for "Your Team" (tm).  Not enough
> money in the budget to fund programs for the poor?  Don't worry, there's
> plenty of money to build another stadium so some stupid jock can throw a
> ball and date-rape cheerleaders.  Bah.
> Bomb the Fucking Stadiums
>

Not all the spectators are arseholes, because I know quite a few of them.  However,
it is very easy to get that impression, especially if you live across the road from a
stadium like I did a few years ago.
Rugby fans can be fucking horrible.  One time a bunch of them slung racial abuse at
a friend of mine who is ethnically chinese.
"Go home gook"
Little did the dumb arses know that she was a second or third generation
New Zealander.  I also like to be able to sit on my porch without being called a
faggot by the cast of fucking Planet of the Apes.
For those not overly familiar with rugby, imagine gridiron played without any helmets
by cavemen, and there you have it.  It also happens to be New Zealand's national
religion, and you get forced to play it in school, which is not good at all for an
anaemic,
slightly effeminate creature such as myself.  Complaining about or criticizing the
National
Passtime can get you exiled to Antarctica.
Lorax