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[RossP]

Someone close this thread...

[soundian]

Originally Posted by Tam o' Shantie

Well I'm sorry, but the thread was called 'best manager' and when I think of the general use of the term 'manager' I think of someone in a working environment who is of a position in the hierarchy that makes him or her responsible looking after a workforce.

Which is what a football manager is.
Anyway, it was in the sports forum so that was more of a mistake on your part than the original poster.

[Larsen B]

Originally Posted by Stripey

could be talking about band managers, obviously, which makes for more sense in the context of the website.

I find this notion that some people believe that *everyone* is into football or gives a toss about it pretty offensive.

It might be great for these deeply uniniteresting people to have something deeply unininteresting to talk to each other about in their otherwise deeply uninteresting lives, along with what was on the telly last night etc, but not everyone in the world watches Lost or gets excited by watching uneducated guys in shorts kicking a ball around. Not everyone is so weak that they have to cling onto all that crap as a substitute for a true sense of identity.

Anyway, I don't see much point in the general discussion forum itself, letalone splitting it up into subsections.

More specifically the thread about best managers was in the context of a sports thread, so i doubt anybody would expect it to be about band managers. Oh, and footballer Gerry Britton has a politics degree, so they ain't all uneducated. I'm sure you would like to blab on about how degrees are worthless, but that doesn't change the fact that he's educated to what is generally the highest level education that you could expect most people to have. Plus they don't only kick a ball around, the also use head, knee, chest it, and use their bodies in many ways to control or move the ball. In addition football has an interesting tactical side to it, which engages the brain. And we don't watch football as a "substitute for a true sense of identity", we watch because we're a big bunch of gays who get excited by men in shorts.

[soundian]

Originally Posted by Stripey

could be talking about band managers, obviously, which makes for more sense in the context of the website.

Not in the sports forum

Originally Posted by Stripey

I find this notion that some people believe that *everyone* is into football or gives a toss about it pretty offensive.

Who said that, or are you just speaking in general? The only thing I've seen on this thread is the claim that football is the most popular sport in the world, no one has claimed that most people in the world like football

Originally Posted by Stripey

It might be great for these deeply uniniteresting people to have something deeply unininteresting to talk to each other about in their otherwise deeply uninteresting lives, along with what was on the telly last night etc, but not everyone in the world watches Lost or gets excited by watching uneducated guys in shorts kicking a ball around. Not everyone is so weak that they have to cling onto all that crap as a substitute for a true sense of identity.

Maybe they just enjoy it?

Originally Posted by Stripey

Anyway, I don't see much point in the general discussion forum itself, letalone splitting it up into subsections.

As has been proven in the past, without general discussion/the wasteland, people will post unrelated shit in the music forums.

[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by Stripey

It might be great for these deeply uniniteresting people to have something deeply unininteresting to talk to each other about in their otherwise deeply uninteresting lives, along with what was on the telly last night etc, but not everyone in the world watches Lost or gets excited by watching uneducated guys in shorts kicking a ball around. Not everyone is so weak that they have to cling onto all that crap as a substitute for a true sense of identity.
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What's weak about talking about football you arrogant prick? Perhaps weakness in my eyes is repeatedly posting sarcastic, unconstructive comments on message boards as a defensive mechanism so that when nobody likes you you can pretend it was because you acted like a dick *on purpose*.

[Tam o' Shantie]

Originally Posted by soundian

Which is what a football manager is.
Anyway, it was in the sports forum so that was more of a mistake on your part than the original poster.

why is that? is 'sports' synonymous with 'football'? the answer is no, so it could have referred to any sort of manager in the world of sports.

[soundian]

Originally Posted by Tam o' Shantie

why is that? is 'sports' synonymous with 'football'? the answer is no, so it could have referred to any sort of manager in the world of sports.

Yeah, but your original point was that it could have applied to ANY manager.
Sport only seems synonymous with football because that's what the majority of people (better watch how I word this before Stripey feels like I'm lumping him in with all the retards in the world) who like sport, on these forums, want to talk about.

[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by Tam o' Shantie

why is that? is 'sports' synonymous with 'football'? the answer is no, so it could have referred to any sort of manager in the world of sports.

I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make with all the car threads, unless you're trying to prove that more people on the boards are interested in talking about football than about cars, which I'm pretty sure I could have told you anyway since car specs are a pretty 'niche-y' thing.

However, I again simply skimmed through the new posts and read the ones I wanted to read about, which is a tactic that can surely work for everybody without tears and tantrums.

[Tam o' Shantie]

Originally Posted by Brother Elwood

I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make with all the car threads, unless you're trying to prove that more people on the boards are interested in talking about football than about cars, which I'm pretty sure I could have told you anyway since car specs are a pretty 'niche-y' thing.

However, I again simply skimmed through the new posts and read the ones I wanted to read about, which is a tactic that can surely work for everybody without tears and tantrums.

I'm not trying to make any point at all - I just figured that 'general discussion' was the best place to get going with some car threads. I love cars, me.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by RossP

Someone close this thread...

Done. What a complete load of nonsense this thread has turned into.