If I want to get on people’s nerves to the tune of about 20 percent of the population, I can talk about how much I like triathlon, or any of its components, or really any other endurance sport.
If I want to get on the nerves of more like 90 percent of the population, I can talk about how I dislike football. Even if you allow that half the population is about as interested as I am in what people don’t like, that’s a substantial imbalance.
I can understand why, if I did like football, more people would be willing to hear me go on positively about football as opposed to endurance sports: There’s the reasonable expectation that, in my enthusiasm, I might invite someone to go for a run with me, and no threat at all that I’d invite them to play that special American-youth kind of Russian roulette where you see if sudden orthopedic trauma happens soon enough to prevent progressive cerebral trauma. Endurance sports are something you do; football is something other people do FOR you so you can wear clothing that sort of matches theirs. Oops. That was sort of a rant or two I wandered into there.
Anyway, the idea was to continue to ponder why people get so offended when I say I don’t care for football, but I think I just figured it out.
IQTech61 over 7 years ago
There’s always pumpking spice flavored everything. There is no pumpkin in pumpkin spice.
Ceeg22 Premium Member over 7 years ago
I don’t like Fall
matzam Premium Member over 7 years ago
hey football is great if you like 13 minutes of play stretched out over 3 hours
Perkycat over 7 years ago
I wish we could have Fall all Winter long.
Ignatz Premium Member over 7 years ago
It isn’t the game that turns me off. It’s the fact that it IS just a sport, and it’s treated like a religion.
Ignatz Premium Member over 7 years ago
Whoever the PR guy is for Pumpkin Spice, I want that PR guy.
Thomas Thieme over 7 years ago
One of the main reasons our school starts earlier and earlier in August is that coaches want football practice to start earlier.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 7 years ago
γνῶθι σεαυτόν
Daeder over 7 years ago
Fall is the BEST season hands down!…EXCEPT for pumpkin flavored everything.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 7 years ago
I like just a little bit of pumpkin.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 7 years ago
Frazz
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If I want to get on people’s nerves to the tune of about 20 percent of the population, I can talk about how much I like triathlon, or any of its components, or really any other endurance sport.
If I want to get on the nerves of more like 90 percent of the population, I can talk about how I dislike football. Even if you allow that half the population is about as interested as I am in what people don’t like, that’s a substantial imbalance.
I can understand why, if I did like football, more people would be willing to hear me go on positively about football as opposed to endurance sports: There’s the reasonable expectation that, in my enthusiasm, I might invite someone to go for a run with me, and no threat at all that I’d invite them to play that special American-youth kind of Russian roulette where you see if sudden orthopedic trauma happens soon enough to prevent progressive cerebral trauma. Endurance sports are something you do; football is something other people do FOR you so you can wear clothing that sort of matches theirs. Oops. That was sort of a rant or two I wandered into there.
Anyway, the idea was to continue to ponder why people get so offended when I say I don’t care for football, but I think I just figured it out.
Nuliajuk over 7 years ago
I love pumpkin pie! Love autumn too, it has most of the warmth of summer without the stifling heat and humidity.
billdaviswords about 4 years ago
Pumpkin spice lattes, etc., actually DO often contain a small amount of pureed pumpkin… since 2015 or so.
Jhony-Yermo almost 2 years ago
And Pumpkin Spice makes me want to hurl